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Scott Brown ran for the Senate vowing to rein in government spending and cut the federal budget deficit. A year later, he is open to increasing the national debt limit so the government can both spend and borrow more.
The governor of Massachusetts has accepted the resignation of five members of the state parole board who voted to release a career criminal who authorities said later killed a police officer in a shootout.
Past and likely future Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrived Sunday in Afghanistan on a weeklong trip to the frontlines of the U.S. war zone and to the Middle East.
Former Massachusetts governor and U.S. ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci (sel-LOO'-chee) has Lou Gehrig's disease.
Gov. Deval Patrick has sworn in the first black chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Governments around the world still cling to secrets and, despite citizen journalism or WikiLeaks document dumps, the mainstream media play a critical role in ferreting out that information and giving it context, the top Associated Press editor said Thursday.
Republican Mitt Romney is finding it hard to avoid comparisons between the Massachusetts health insurance mandate he signed into law and the federal version enacted by President Barack Obama as he weighs another presidential run.
Dan Barber's culinary skills have earned him a James Beard "Outstanding Chef" award. The food at his New York restaurant Blue Hill also was the centerpiece for a Manhattan date night between President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama.
The billboard-sized photo of Vicki Kennedy beside one of the major highways entering Boston is impossible to overlook.
U.S. defense contractor Raytheon announced a series of layoffs Tuesday just days after Gov. Deval Patrick denied asking it to delay terminations until after the state elections.
Vice President Joe Biden made an unscheduled visit to Texas on Saturday to attend a staffer's wedding.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick bucked the anti-incumbent, pro-Republican trend and won a second term Tuesday with the help of some of the political advisers who hope to do the same in two years for his friend President Barack Obama.
Vice President Joe Biden says the Democratic Party isn't dead and will retain not just the Senate but the House on Election Day.
In the congressional district that's home to the Kennedy family compound, a Kennedy public skating rink and a Kennedy museum, the heart of liberalism is beating uneasily.
The head of the Massachusetts Lottery says his staffers did not collude with an independent candidate for governor to run television and radio ads echoing themes from the candidate's campaign.
The four candidates for Massachusetts governor are proposing different strategies to help stem gun violence and street crime.
The state and federal governments may want to place time clocks outside Massachusetts political events in the run-up to Election Day, as staffers punch in and out of their tax-paid jobs on a daily and sometimes hourly basis to campaign for their bosses.
Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, Republican Charles Baker and independent Timothy Cahill had some of their sharpest exchanges yet on Monday during a gubernatorial debate otherwise focused on the state's biotechnology industry.
Massachusetts independent Timothy Cahill filed a lawsuit Thursday against former operatives who recently defected from his campaign, saying they conspired to get his running mate Paul Loscocco to quit the ticket, and were working with national Republicans to pass along confidential information that would undermine his candidacy for governor.
The Democrat who let the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat slip from her grasp now risks losing her day job to an unexpected opponent: A last-minute write-in candidate.
The Republican Governors Association is airing nearly $2 million worth of negative ads in the Massachusetts governor's race against one of President Barack Obama's close Democratic allies, Gov. Deval Patrick.
A former senior official with a major Boston real estate development firm was charged Tuesday with underwriting illegal campaign contributions to an array of local, state and federal candidates, allegedly by encouraging the firm's vendors to make donations and then improperly reimbursing them.
With his broad grin and aw-shucks approach, Bill Burton is a marked contrast with his boss, the always ready-for-battle White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
President Barack Obama had a simple task for his first morning on vacation: shoot over to a Martha's Vineyard bookstore to fill out his daughters' summer reading list and grab himself a novel.
He may be leader of the free world, but President Barack Obama isn't exempt from a summer rainstorm like the one that blew across New England on Monday, swamping his Martha's Vineyard vacation.
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