As Labor secretary, Walsh would oversee a range of federal laws including minimum wage and overtime securities, as well as anti-discrimination policies and workplace safety regulations.
City Hall Plaza was filled by young entrepreneurs and businesspeople earlier this week as the hub of Boston held the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 summit. Opened by a star-studded concert that featured performers such as Marshmello and Russ, the fifth annual summit also featured discussions by former and current politicians, musicians, activists and CEOs.
Despite giving her an overall approval rating of 57 percent, only 32 percent of Massachusetts residents said they would support Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a run for the U.S. presidency, according to a statewide poll of probable midterm voters released Wednesday.
Change has come, gone away and come again in the realm of U.S. politics. But this moment in Democratic politics seems particularly potent: in state after state, the narrow, ironclad profile of who can run and who can win at the highest levels of politics has been irreversibly expanded.
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More than 200 people gathered in Copley Square Saturday for a candlelight vigil for Syrian refugees, organized by the political group Boston Solidarity.
While the U.S. President...
The acts of terror in Israel Tuesday, in which five people — four of them rabbis and one a police officer — were murdered by two Palestinians in an attack on a West Jerusalem synagogue, have been the...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, a former U.S. Senator for Massachusetts, travelled to Kiev, Ukraine Tuesday to meet with the new Ukrainian government, a decision that could have many economic and...
Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democrat Ed Markey won their party primaries Tuesday night, and will face off in the U.S. special election in June to replace U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s former...
The two Democratic candidates vying to fill Secretary of State John Kerry’s former senate seat, U.S. Reps. Stephen Lynch and Ed Markey, faced off in a debate Monday night at the University of Massachusetts,...
In the first debate to feature candidates from both parties, the three Republican and two Democratic candidates seeking Secretary of State John Kerry’s former senate seat sparred over social issues,...
John Kerry announced Sunday the United States would be extending an additional $250 million in aid to Egypt, marking his first major action as U.S. Secretary of State amid major sequestration cuts for...
