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Israel’s attorney general said Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not required to leave office following his indictment on corruption charges, giving a small boost to the embattled leader. Avichai Mandelblit said in a statement that Netanyahu can remain interim prime minister, just days after serving him with charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery. Netanyahu faces calls...

Holly Hunter will star opposite Ted Danson in an upcoming NBC comedy set in the world of local politics. The network said Wednesday that Hunter will play a liberal Los Angeles city councilwoman in the series from writer-producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.

Two high schoolers are testing their fledgling relationship with a day on the town, a classic start to a screen romance. But on Tuesday’s “This Is Us,” the carefree date in Philadelphia belongs to a boy who’s a teenage dad from a blue-collar household and a girl who’s been adopted from foster care into relative affluence.

Twitter is axing political ads from its site, CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday.

A Honduran former mayor and drug trafficker testified Monday that Mexican kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán personally gave $1 million to the brother of Honduras’ president in 2013 for the politician’s presidential campaign. The longtime Sinaloa cartel boss made the payment to be able to smuggle cocaine through Honduras to Guatemala, Amílcar Alexander Ardón alleged in testimony on the fourth...

A Boston institution is closing its doors, and it will be missed by many in the political world and other Bostonians.

Puerto Rico Gov. Rosselló summoned members of his cabinet amid protests that show no sign of dissipating.

Billionaire, politician and iconic Texan, H. Ross Perot, was laid to rest in a private ceremony Tuesday ahead of a public memorial service.

A 2020 presidential hopeful shared a personal story in New Hampshire Monday as she addressed the opioid epidemic. Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota told voters in Nashua that she grew up with an alcoholic father. “He was drunk at graduations, and he wasn’t there at Christmas, or late,” Klobuchar said at the Revive Recovery Center. “I would have to...

Maryland governor Larry Hogan is visiting New Hampshire to test the waters for a 2020 Republican presidential bid. “People have asked me to give this serious consideration and I think I owe it to those people to do just that,” said Hogan.

Over the course of former President Barack Obama’s presidency, artist Rob Pruitt took it upon himself to paint a portrait of the politician within the context of a significant event that transpired that day, every day for eight years while he was in office.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, of Massachusetts, joined striking Stop & Shop workers in Quincy on Monday. Thirty-one thousand workers from more than 200 stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island have been on strike since April 11.

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro is back on the air after a two-week absence following her comments questioning a Muslim congresswoman’s loyalties. “Justice with Judge Jeanine” returned Saturday. The former judge and prosecutor thanked her viewers but didn’t directly discuss her apparent suspension. Pirro asked on-air March 9 whether Rep. Ilhan Omar’s traditional Muslim head covering indicated the Minnesota Democrat...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus still had tears to shed as she said her official farewell to “Veep.” The only problem is she forgot to bring tissues.
Shooting wrapped for the series in December, but those tearful goodbyes were not enough as she and the cast of the HBO comedy series walked the red carpet for the last time Tuesday.

Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo wants the state to regain its status as one of America’s leading culinary destinations.

After a video went viral on Twitter showing a college-age Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing on a Boston University rooftop, the new House representative defended herself from her would-be ridiculers by breaking out a new set of moves. In the original video, Ocasio-Cortez is seen dancing exuberantly alongside other students and wearing a Boston University T-shirt with her hair flowing in the...

Sixteen-year-old Braxton Moral is graduating from a high school in Kansas in May, but he has also been taking Harvard courses remotely and in person during the summer since he was 11. He is on track to graduate from Harvard’s Liberal Arts program and says he wants to head to Harvard Law School next. 

Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis is gearing up to play groundbreaking politician Shirley Chisholm in a film for Amazon Studios. The company said Thursday that Davis has signed on to star in and produce the project about Chisholm, who was the first black woman ever elected to the United States Congress and the first woman to seek the Democratic Party’s presidential...

A New Jersey politician who shared a meme on Facebook during January’s Women’s March in Washington asking whether the protest would be “over in time for them to cook dinner” is eating his words.

A New Hampshire state representative is being accused of starring in an adult film and then assaulting the producer because he was unhappy with the final product. Frank Sapareto has represented Derry for years. When NBC10 Boston’s crew spoke with him Tuesday at his home, he vehemently denied all the accusations against him.