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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate may re-open debate on National Security Agency wire-tapping authority following the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told The Associated Press on Wednesday, a divisive issue already roiling the GOP presidential field. The Kentucky Republican said in an interview in his
Massachusetts
BOSTON — In the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and a mass shooting on Wednesday in California, Gov. Charlie Baker weighed in on an issue that has divided his party's field of president candidates, backing a ban on the sale of guns to anyone of the terror watch
Democrat
CHESTNUT HILL – Some of Massachusetts's top Democratic and Republican women gathered Friday at Boston College Law School to discuss barriers to women in politics, strongly agreeing across party lines that more women need to run for political office. U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Natick), former Massachusetts Governor Jane
Massachusetts
WEYMOUTH — With Republican state Sen. Robert L. Hedlund's mayoral victory in the books, aide Patrick O'Connor confirmed he will run for his boss's Plymouth and Norfolk District seat. "I am running," O'Connor said by phone, moments after the Massachusetts Republican
new hampshire
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two candidates who have been part of each of the prime-time Republican debates so far, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee, have been demoted to next week's undercard event because of low national poll numbers, delivering a major blow to their campaigns. It could be
Democrat
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Candidates who next week start signing up for the New Hampshire primary can do so at the desk of the man who started it all a century ago. In 1913, Rep. Stephen Bullock traveled by horse and buggy from his Richmond farm to Concord to propose
republican
BOULDER, Colo. – A Republican presidential debate billed by host network CNBC as a 10-candidate showdown over economic issues will instead be remembered as a night in which GOP candidates of every stripe took potshots at the media and put the moderators on stage in their crosshairs. "The questions that
Donald Trump
BOULDER, Colo. — Real estate magnate and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took a preemptive swipe at the media ahead of Wednesday night's GOP debate, declaring on his Twitter account that he expects the event on CNBC will be "very unfair."
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