Sean Collier was remembered for his commitment to MIT, his love of country music, and his dedication to his job. The vice president offered words of condolence from the perspective of someone who had also lost a child, before offering a scathing indictment of the Tsarnaev brothers.
Less than two days after it began to draw the ire of, well, pretty much every American taxpayer, the insurer's board met today and decided they wouldn't join a lawsuit against the U.S. government.
If you thought the country's most outspoken big-money watchdog was going to take it easy once she got back to Capitol Hill, you were wrong.
Elizabeth Warren is in, and Scott Brown wants back in, but someone needs to step in for Kerry when he takes over for Hillary Clinton — and then there's going to be a special election. Here's a field guide as the 113th Congress convenes.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was officially named to the Senate Banking Committee, and now anyone who is a Warren fan — or just a fan of Gordon Gekko looking more like the Geicho gecko — is officially excited to see what she does next.
After making her name defending the little guy from the greedy clutches of Wall Street's worst villains, Elizabeth Warren will finally have the chance to grill the country's top bankers on the Senate Banking Committee.
Those expecting to see another night of on-stage fireworks between Massachusetts Senatorial candidates Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren are out of luck.
Today in Poll Watch: An NPR poll shows just how perplexing the presidential race is a week away, it's a dead heat in the Florida Senate race, and a poll today shows Elizabeth Warren up by 7 points over Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
Today in Poll Watch: it's still a tight race for the senate in Massachusetts, polls make small movements in the national race, and another poll makes North Carolina a dead heat.
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown says he doesn't actually care whether Republicans win control of the Senate this year, telling ABC News' Jonathan Karl, "For me it doesn't really matter who's in charge."
Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren met in Springfield, Mass. for the third of four debates on Wednesday night, and for once, they weren't too mean to each other.
John Kerry's dream of becoming America's next top diplomat (i.e. Secretary of State) has become something of a reality show saga in recent weeks as a rotating cast of characters challenge his rise to the top.
Sen. Scott Brown had a hard time hiding his contempt for challenger Elizabeth Warren at their second debate in Lowell, Massachusetts on Monday evening.
Today in Poll Watch: Hey, it looks like this race might be tight again -- Romney's lead is growing among independents, and Elizabeth Warren's ahead in Massachusetts.
In today's Poll Watch: Things aren't looking good for Mitt Romney in Ohio, President Obama's also up in Florida, and the Massachusetts Senate race is tied.
Sen. Scott Brown's staff find it so insensitive that his challenger, Elizabeth Warren, may have mislead people about having Native American heritage that they showed up at one of her campaign rallies to express their outrage with war whoops and tomahawk chops.
Today in Ad Watch: Scott Brown takes on Elizabeth Warren's family tree, President Obama mocks Mitt Romney's "47 percent" tape, and Romney says Obama can't even control Nancy Pelosi.
Romney's take on the 47 percent is is showing up in favorability numbers, the tracking polls are tight, more Wisconsin polls show the state leaning towards Obama, and a poll shows Scott Brown up in what would be a switcheroo for the Massachusetts Senate race. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown has a very important date tonight.
In the latest swing state polls, Obama is up by 8 in Virginia and five in Michigan, and Romey leads by 2 in Colorado and 1 in Florida. While in the Massachusetts Senate, Elizabeth Warren keeps her lead. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Elizabeth Warren has experienced a bounce in the Massachusetts Senate race polls, and Obama has a foreign policy edge on Romney. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Just days after criticizing Elizabeth Warren for mud-slinging, Senator Scott Brown's reelection campaign is reportedly pushing a video from a conservative radio show host who tricked Elizabeth Warren into signing a Native American cookbook.
Today in Ad Watch: Birthers get their very own TV ad, while a pro-President Obama group takes an Olympic shot at Mitt Romney. Plus: Allen West shows his caring side, and Elizabeth Warren says she's fighting for consumers.
All you really need to know from The Boston Globe's exhaustive report on Elizabeth Warren's ethnic identity is this: Warren finally admitted she told Harvard and Penn she was of Native American descent.
Mitt Romney has said if Republicans don't get more popular among Latinos, they're "doomed." So far, he's still not too popular.
Google Alerts didn't exist in 1997, but is it really possible Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren didn't know Harvard Law School was calling her the "first woman of color" it hired?
In today's Ad Watch: President Obama's campaign celebrates his decision to support gay marriage, Massachusetts Republicans attack Elizabeth Warren's ancestry, and a superPAC defends Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Some conservatives argue that it's liberals who are the true racists.
When it comes to being a class warrior, Elizabeth Warren is merely a studio gangster.
Heckled at a campaign meeting in Brockton, Massachusetts on Wednesday night, Elizabeth Warren managed to stay cool and even give her audience-based antagonist some answers, until he called her a "socialist whore."
Check out this photo of a volunteer meeting for the Elizabeth Warren campaign that's being passed around today.
The Senator had retort to Warren's quip about him posing nude for Cosmopolitan
The latest measure of a tight Massachusetts Senate race has the incumbent up 41-38
Public Policy Poling finds the Democrat is basically dead even with Brown
Female White House staffers felt marginalized and that Obama wouldn't do much about it
Former White House adviser to challenge Scott Brown
The challenge to Scott Brown moves forward
Rumors of her potential candidacy are getting hotter and hotter
News comes a week after Obama failed to nominate her to run the agency she created
On far-right terrorism, James Murdoch's fall, and the debt ceiling as Sci-Fi
The Harvard Law professor could be the senate's next "liberal lion"
Elizabeth Warren may have faced strong opposition from Republicans
Leonard Pitts on the violent Bible, The Wall Street Journal on the Consumer Protection Bureau, and more
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