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Minutes after being confirmed as the next secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh held his last news conference as mayor of Boston, occasionally becoming emotional as he reflected on his time in office.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is joining the Biden administration as the secretary of Labor after the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination by a vote of 68-29 on Monday.

The Senate committee held Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s confirmation hearing on Thursday.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh headed to Washington Thursday morning for a Senate confirmation hearing, the next step in becoming President Joe Biden’s labor secretary.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh highlighted his experience as a union leader and Boston mayor as he made his case to be confirmed as the next labor secretary before a Senate committee, Thursday. Appearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Walsh repeatedly stressed his background in unions and track record as Boston’s mayor had prepared him to...

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said he is getting ready to work for the American people as President-elect Joe Biden announced him as his choice for labor secretary.

Sen. Bernie Sanders may have lost the race to be the Democratic nominee for president, but the independent from Vermont was still interested in joining President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet in a role he feels passionate about. Rumors swirled for months that Sanders, who has long advocated for the working class, was jockeying to be secretary of labor, and Biden...

President-elect Joe Biden announced his nominations for key economic seats on his cabinet on Friday, including nominations for Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for commerce secretary, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for labor secretary, Don Graves for deputy commerce secretary, and Isabel Guzman as head of the Small Business Administration.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh accepted the nomination to serve as President-elect Joe Biden’s secretary of labor, saying, “I look forward to working with you to deliver good jobs with dignity, security, prosperity and purpose to all American families.”

Boston City Council President Kim Janey could soon have a new title — mayor.

What does Joe Biden’s pick for Labor Secretary mean for Labor and for Boston? Doug Banks is on the business beat looking at that and why the market hit a new high as the U.S. Capitol came under attack. We also discuss the latest on the pandemic rules and why Haven, which set out to revolutionize healthcare, failed.

President-elect Joe Biden introduced the mayor of Boston and the governor of Rhode Island as members of his economic and jobs team on Friday, the final Biden-Harris Cabinet nominations to be announced. Biden had on Thursday revealed Mayor Marty Walsh as his candidate for labor secretary and Gov. Gina Raimondo as his choice to become commerce secretary. The scale of…

President-elect Joe Biden has picked Boston Mayor to be head of the Labor Department, sources tell NBC News.

President-elect Joe Biden is nominating Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to be secretary of labor, sources told NBC News.

Local politicians were quick to react to the news Thursday that Boston Mayor Walsh had been picked by President-elect Joe Biden to lead the U.S. Department of Labor. Walsh, 53, has yet to release a statement, but he has been rumored to be in the running for the labor post for months. Following reports that the mayor had been selected,…

Gov. Charlie Baker responds to reports of Boston Mayor Walsh being tapped for a cabinet position.

Two New England politicians have been chosen to join the Biden administration: Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for labor secretary and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for commerce secretary.

Kamala Harris bemoaned the influence of the powerful and connected elite last Tuesday when she called on top Justice Department officials to recuse themselves from any matter related to Jeffrey Epstein. She said work done by their former law firm, which represented the financier accused of sexual abuse, “calls into question the integrity of our legal system.” Yet the same...

Jeffrey Epstein has hobnobbed with some of the world’s most powerful people during his jet-setting life. Future President Donald Trump called him a “terrific guy.” Former President Bill Clinton praised his intellect and philanthropic efforts and was a frequent flyer aboard his private jet. The arrest of the billionaire financier on child sex trafficking charges is raising questions about how...

Federal prosecutors in Florida violated the rights of victims by secretly reaching a non-prosecution agreement with a wealthy financier accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, a federal judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra said in a 33-page decision that victims of financier Jeffrey Epstein should have been consulted under federal law about the deal. Marra stopped...