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Massachusetts Congressman Michael Capuano says it appears orders to subject al-Qaida terror suspects to waterboarding could be traced to former Vice President Dick Cheney's office.

Congressman John Tierney is pushing legislation that would cap credit card interest rates at 16 percent.

Fundraising for Democratic campaign committees is surging, helping the party to extend a winning streak in competitive special elections and giving House Democrats a more than 3-to-1 advantage over Republicans in cash stockpiled for the battles ahead, campaign-finance reports show.

Massachusetts has the highest percentage of Jews outside the tristate New York area, and its Jewish community is known as one of the most politically active in the country.

Several congressional Democrats said on Wednesday they plan to introduce legislation next week to cap credit card interest rates.

A pro-abortion Catholic congressman from Pennsylvania has come to the defense of Rep.

During the first half of 2003, Alan Khazei watched as his life's work skittered toward the edge of a fiscal cliff.

Share + Nov 23, 2009 6:16 pm US/Eastern The three Catholic Democratic candidates for the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat say they disagree with the church on core issues like abortion, but won't let church leaders dictate their policy decisions.

Lawrence Mayor-elect William Lantigua will join a group of community leaders today to endorse the candidacy of state Attorney General Martha Coakley for U.S. Senate.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.There's talk the Kennedy political bloodlines are running thin.

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Representative Louise Slaughter has a consistent record advocating abortion rights.

Democrat Stephen Pagliuca said Thursday the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy would side with him and not political rivals Martha Coakley and Michael Capuano in the nation's health care debate.

The airwaves are filled with feel-good ads about the candidates' backgrounds and beliefs.

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Pets are part of your family, so why shouldn't they have a photo taken with Santa? This weekend, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty at 400 Broadway, is offering do just that.

If you're a kid who loves getting his fingers into pies, the Haverhill YMCA at 81 Winter St.

Boston Herald General Economics Reporter Jay Fitzgerald has been a journalist and blogger for years.

Afghanistan: Troop morale is plummeting as they wait - and wait - for a war policy.

And then there was the time he threatened to kill a dog. On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1993, Michael E. Capuano, then the mayor of Somerville, was tossing fly balls to his 9-year-old son in a Tufts University field while a trio of unleashed dogs - two rottweilers and a golden retriever - romped nearby.