Massachusetts

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents returned to the New Bedford area for a second straight day Tuesday, pushing the two-day arrest total past a dozen and prompting Gov. Maura Healey to join Mayor Jon Mitchell in publicly demanding the administration explain itself. Agents made at least eight arrests Monday in an operation centered on […]

Senator Ed Markey didn’t just survive Tuesday’s primary; he ran away with it. The four-term senator crushed Rep. Seth Moulton in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary, pulling in roughly 65 percent of the vote with just over half of ballots counted when the Associated Press called the race. Moulton, 47, had staked his entire campaign on […]

Massachusetts State Rep. Francisco Paulino, D-Methuen, was arrested Wednesday and taken into federal custody after a grand jury indicted him on 11 charges stemming from an alleged pandemic-era benefits scheme. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Massachusetts and FBI Boston announced the indictment, which includes eight counts of wire fraud and three counts of unlawful monetary […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) threw her support behind Sen. Ed Markey on Thursday, injecting progressive star power into a Massachusetts Senate primary he now leads by nearly 30 points, hours before the candidates' final debate. Ocasio-Cortez cited her legislative "partnership on the Green New Deal" with Markey in a statement from his campaign, backing the […]

Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Monday stripping away Massachusetts' 24-week gestational limit on abortion, making the state one of ten in the country with no cutoff on how late in pregnancy the procedure can be performed. The "Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act" replaces the state's previous statute which required a threat to the mother's […]