Politics

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark advanced past two left-wing challengers who made Gaza and AIPAC money central issues in the Democratic primary.

Jake Auchincloss advanced against progressive challenger Jason Poulos, who campaigned on Medicare-for-all and ending U.S. military aid to Israel.

Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain and special operations veteran, has led the Department of the Navy for four months as President Trump now seeks Senate confirmation.

Mike Minogue won 70% at the Massachusetts GOP convention and defeated former MBTA executive Brian Shortsleeve to take on Gov. Maura Healey.

Ed Markey defeated Seth Moulton's generational change campaign by leaning into progressive credentials and taking a bold stance on transgender rights in sports.

Ayanna Pressley faces no challengers in the Massachusetts 7th district, but controversies over her husband's federal contract and finances loom large.

Parents whose children were permanently crippled in crashes caused by illegal-immigrant drivers gave impassioned testimony Tuesday on the human cost of deportation-proof "sanctuary" policies at a House Judiciary hearing.

The United Nations' top anti-discrimination body said that states parties to a binding 1965 anti-discrimination treaty are legally obligated to consider reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, escalating a fight that has already landed in a federal courtroom in Illinois.

Defense attorneys seeking to undercut the prosecution's case against alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson said Tuesday the state hasn't proved a motive, but that Kirk "spoke hatefully" against certain people.

The battle over socialism's future in America moved into the House chamber on Tuesday, when Republican lawmakers voted to condemn socialism and the increasingly powerful Democratic Socialists of America.