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Secretary of State John Kerry's former Senate seat will stay in Democratic hands as longtime Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey handily defeated Republican Gabriel Gomez in Tuesday’s special election.The win is an important one for Democrats who avoided a potential embarrassment and now retain a 54-46 margin in the Senate, with a chance to gain back one more seat in an October special election in New Je...
The IRS could do a better job of policing employees' spending with government credit cards, a Treasury Department watchdog said Tuesday in a report that found that lax oversight allowed a few bad apples to buy romance novels, diet pills and even porn on the taxpayer's dime.The Treasury's inspector general for tax administration — the same agency that brought the hammer down on the IRS for singling...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a lower court order requiring a South Carolina couple to turn over a young girl they had raised since birth to her biological father simply because he was an American Indian. By a 5-4 vote, the court ruled in favor of Matt and Melanie Capobianco, who had been caring for the girl they named Veronica until a family court ordered them to turn her over to he...
It's a sad day on the "Street." Sesame Workshop, makers of the classic children's program "Sesame Street," laid off approximately 10 percent of its employees Tuesday."Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind Sesame Street, is constantly assessing where we must invest for the future in response to today's rapidly changing digital environment," the company said in a statement obtained ...
Massachusetts AFL-CIO President Steven Tolman released the following statement following the election of Congressman Ed Markey to the U.S. Senate (see statement after the jump).
Renee Lafitte walked recently through a field of sickly looking corn. "You can see how the leaves are starting to burn," she said, pointing to a stalk where the long green leaves were tipped with brown. "One of the things we're looking for and thinking about going forward is what we anticipate about climate change. We expect things to get worse."Lafitte is a research fellow with Pioneer Hybrid, th...
