Politics

A teenager in Lawrence, Massachusetts, is proposing a major change to amplify young voices. Julio Mejia, an 18-year-old school committee member for the Greater Lawrence Technical High School, recently became the youngest elected official in city history. Mejia hopes to continue making history by allowing people as young as 16 to vote in city electi...

The man faces felony charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and obstruction of law enforcement, as well as additional misdemeanor offenses.

The shrinking field of Republican presidential hopefuls gathered on a debate stage Wednesday for the fourth time this year, running out of time to shake up a race that’s been dominated by former President Donald Trump.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-California, said Wednesday that he plans to resign from Congress at the end of the year.

President Joe Biden has told campaign donors that he isn’t sure he’d be running for reelection if Donald Trump wasn’t also in the race.

“I know my work is only getting started,” McCarthy, R-Calif., said in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.

President Joe Biden will sign an executive order during a tribal nations summit that aims to make it easier for Native Americans to access federal funding and have greater autonomy over how to invest those funds. White House domestic policy advi

President Joe Biden was joined by legendary singer-songwriter James Taylor Tuesday night at a fundraising event at Boston’s Shubert Theater. It was one of three events in Massachusetts to raise money for Biden’s campaign for reelection. “We’ve got more to do,” Biden told the crowd in a video clip shared with NBC10 Bost...

At issue is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the U.S. government to collect without a warrant the communications of targeted foreigners outside the United States.

A city councilor in Newton, Massachusetts, says a colleague sent her a series of “inappropriate, unwanted and unwelcome” texts. The allegations from City Councilor Brenda Noel against a fellow councilor she is not naming are included in a packet of information for an upcoming subcommittee meeting. Noel says she received the messages dur...

Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that House Republicans are blurring footage from the Capitol attack before releasing it publicly because they don’t want Jan. 6 rioters to be charged with crimes.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said Tuesday he’s ending his blockade of most military nominees, clearing the way for hundreds to be approved.

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Dec. 16, his campaign announced Monday. The event is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 16, at 2 p.m., at The University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore Center Arena. Trump was last in New Hampshire on Nov. 11, one of several visits he’s made to the first-in...