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If it all goes according to plan on Wednesday, women will be teaming up in droves to celebrate the "day without women" by refusing to shop (except at women or minority-owned businesses) and by, above all, refusing to work. The intent is to send a message, organizers say,
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BOSTON — Attorney General Maura Healey will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate a prominent Hub law firm's track record of paying back its lawyers and spouses for donations made to both Massachusetts and national Democrats after state campaign finance officials directed her office to take up the matter.
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BOSTON – In bitter cold temperatures, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, several members of Congress, and activists rallied Saturday on Boston Common to support Planned Parenthood. The late morning rally at the Parkman Bandstand drew several hundred enthusiastic participants, including Boston city councilor Ayanna Pressley and U.S. Representatives Michael Capuano, Katherine
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BOSTON — A Beacon Hill public finance watchdog has pounced on a recent report indicating that state campaign finance officials plan to direct Attorney General Maura Healey to consider making a criminal case out of a prominent Hub law firm's pattern of reimbursing its lawyers and spouses for donations
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Massachusetts state government will make up for any de-funding of Planned Parenthood in the state by Congress, Governor Charlie Baker announced. An apparent majority in the Republican-led Congress wants to take federal funding away from Planned Parenthood because it provides abortions. The Hyde Amendment ensures that federal money can'
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke arrived on horseback for his first day of work Thursday. The morning after his swearing-in ceremony, the former Montana congressman and Navy SEAL joined the U.S. Park Police at their stables on the National Mall. He rode a 17-year-old Irish sport horse named
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BOSTON –University of Massachusetts-Boston students were instructed Wednesday to be on the lookout for a series of posters and fliers purportedly tacked onto boards and walls inside campus common areas by a white supremacist group. The provost, Winston Langley, in a campus-wide email featuring the subject line "Disturbing Behavior
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CAMBRIDGE — On the same night that a divided Congress saw a firebrand president draw raucous cheers from Republican lawmakers and stone-cold silence from their Democratic colleagues, a panel of five feminist activists held court at Harvard University's Kennedy School to discuss strategies for progressive activism. "I will
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