Politics

Six of President-elect Donald Trump’s big-office nominees faced Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday, previewing a parade of policy and political fights that will define his second term.

President Joe Biden, President-elect Donald Trump and both their teams all deserve credit for the work leading to a deal to end the fighting in the Middle East, political commentator Sue O’Connell says.

The federal government is withdrawing proposed rules that would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale. Environmentalists say the move Wednesday, in the waning days of the Biden administration, will leave the endangered North Atlantic right whale vulnerable to extinction as the Trump a...

The president also called for a new constitutional amendment to ensure presidents are not above the law, an apparent reference to President-elect Donald Trump.

The word inauguration is hard enough to say, but what is the point of inauguration day? Kids ask the simple questions and we answered them!

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., asked Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, if she “want[ed] to take this outside” during an argument while debating transgender rights in a House Oversight hearing.

Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, sought to reassure Democratic senators Wednesday that her Justice Department would not prosecute anyone for political purposes but also refused to rule out the potential for investigations into adversaries of the Republican president-elect.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled proposed defense secretary Pete Hegseth over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, asking him if he could name a single member.

The heated exchange took place during a discussion of civil rights and transgender rights at a House Oversight Committee meeting.

The Healey administration filed emergency regulations late Tuesday afternoon to implement the controversial law meant to spur greater housing production, after Massachusetts’ highest court struck down the last pass at drafting those rules. The Supreme Judicial Court upheld the MBTA Communities Act as a constitutional law last week, but said i...

Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, who had been seen as a key Republican skeptic of Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Defense Department, said she will support him after his performance at Tuesday’s confirmation hearing.

The birth of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s third child — her first while leading the city, making history — spurred celebration in a variety of ways.

U.S. flags at President-elect Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club are back to flying at full height. Flags are supposed to fly at half-staff through the end of January out of respect for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29.