It's hard to pinpoint any disagreements on policy between the two Democratic candidates in the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, but the incumbent has landed a major endorsement from organized labor.
U.S. Senator Ed Markey, who is being primaried by U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, got endorsed by the Massachusetts Teachers Association over the weekend.
A woman in Maine was killed by a shark attack on Monday.
She was swimming off the coast of Bailey Island around 3:30 p.m. when the attack happened. Two kayakers attempted to help her back to the shore but when an ambulance arrived, she was pronounced dead, as The New York Post reports.