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Obama defends drone strikes but says no cure-all
President Obama today defended America’s controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving US counterterrorism policy.
Markey to release tax returns Friday
An adviser to US Senate candidate Edward J. Markey said that he will release his tax returns publicly on Friday, committing to a date after days of fending off pressure from his Republican opponent.
Gomez, Markey agree to debate on June 5
Democrat Edward J. Markey and Republican Gabriel E. Gomez agreed to participate in a June 5 US Senate debate sponsored by WBZ-TV and the Boston Globe.
Lt. Gov. Tim Murray to quit June 2
Timothy P. Murray has accepted a private-sector post with a Worcester business group and is expected to resign from the administration next month, according to a senior administration official.
Warren finds publisher, editor for new book
Senator Elizabeth Warren has found a publisher two months after the Massachusetts Democrat began shopping her book proposal.
Mass. Senate race focuses 9/11 resolutions, ads
Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democrat Edward Markey continued to clash Tuesday over votes Markey cast against two resolutions honoring the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (5/21/13)
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SEC orders former Cahill aide, Goldman Sachs banker to pay $100,000 civil penalty
The federal Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered Neil M.M. Morrison, a former investment banker at Goldman, Sachs and ex-top state treasury aide to Timothy P. Cahill, to pay a $100,000 civil penalty, citing what the agency said was his role in a pay-to-play campaign fund-raising scheme for Cahill.US Senate candidate Edward J. Markey commits to release tax returns Friday
An adviser to US Senate candidate Edward J. Markey said today that he will release his tax returns publicly on Friday, committing to a date after days of fending off pressure from his Republican opponent.A 16th candidate, Robert Cappucci, says he has gathered enough signatures to run for mayor
Retired police officer Robert Cappucci said Wednesday he has gathered more than 4,000 signatures to support his bid for mayor of Boston, making him the 16th potential candidate. Before joining the police department, Cappucci was elected to two terms on the School Committee and served until 1991. He lost his seat when the committee was changed from an elected body to an appointed board.Senator Elizabeth Warren finds publisher, editor for her new book
Senator Elizabeth Warren, two months after starting to shop a book proposal, has found a publisher. Henry Holt and Company, one of the oldest publishers in the country, announced that it had obtained the rights to publish the book, which it characterized as telling both “Senator Warren’s improbable rise from a working class family in Oklahoma to the United States Senate,” as well as providing “a rousing call for protecting the middle class.”Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray to resign, says controversies had nothing to do with his decision
Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray will resign from the administration next month to run the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, positioning himself as a hometown cheerleader far from Beacon Hill where he saw his reputation tarnished the last few years.National politics: Latest news
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Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. ( 05/23/2013 7:20 PM )
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Mass. Senate candidate Markey to release returns
BOSTON (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Edward Markey agreed Thursday to release his tax returns dating back to 2005, one more year than was previously released by his opponent Gabriel Gomez, in a day of campaigning in which money from outside groups was at issue as well. ( 05/23/2013 6:20 PM )
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Markey, Gomez agree to 2nd Mass. US Senate debate
BOSTON (AP) -- Democrat Edward Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez have agreed to another televised debate in their race for the state's special U.S. Senate election. ( 05/23/2013 6:15 PM )
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