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John Kerry clearly intends to stay busy in his post-government life, announcing Wednesday a new affiliation with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The former Secretary of State and Massachusetts senator will serve as the think tank's first-ever "visiting distinguished statesman," a role in which he will work on global environmental problems as well as conflict resolution, according to Carnegie.
It would have been a much clearer path to glory for a couple of Massachusetts Democrats had Hillary Clinton been elected president. If she had she done so she might have rewarded Sen. Elizabeth Warren with a cabinet position, or talked Sen. Eddie Markey into an ambassadorship.
Ca Mau, Vietnam: It could have been 1969 again as US Secretary of State John Kerry stood on the bow of the small boat chugging up the Bay Hap River on Saturday, the wind billowing his sleeves and his eyes darting left and right toward banks shrouded in dark foliage. As a young Navy lieutenant, Kerry commanded a Swift boat along this stretch of churning brown waters in the middle of a free-fire zone.
20, 2016, file photo, Senate Banking Committee member Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questions Wells Fargo Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf on Capitol Hill in Washington. Warren is leading a new eff... .
President-elect Donald Trump this week tapped Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as his secretary of state. If confirmed by the Senate, where opposition is emerging, the move could have broad consequences for U.S. environmental policy and affect the role the U.S. plays in multinational discussions about climate change.
President-elect Donald Trump this week tapped ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as his secretary of state. If confirmed by the Senate, where opposition is emerging, the move could have broad consequences for U.S. environmental policy and affect the role the U.S. plays in multinational discussions about climate change.
Donald Trump's new luxury hotel in Washington D.C. has been attracting foreign envoys, special interest groups - and a bit of controversy. One of the latest groups to book the hotel is the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank whose big donors will gather there Tuesday night for a speech from Vice-President-elect Mike Pence.
Every Voice, a national advocacy group fighting for a democracy that works for all of us, has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Citing Hillary Clinton's comprehensive plan to give everyday people a bigger voice in our elections and Donald Trump's dangerous anti-democratic policies and rhetoric, national money-in-politics reform group Every Voice announced its first-ever presidential endorsement.
A prominent Venezuelan journalist with Boston ties has been arrested amid the antigovernment protests roiling the South American nation, his family and friends said Sunday. Braulio Jatar, director of the Venezuelan news website Reporte Confidencial, was detained early Saturday by Venezuelan police, who later raided his home in eastern Venezuela.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Senator Timothy Kaine of Virginia have emerged as the leading candidates among a longer list of finalists Hillary Clinton is considering to be her vice-presidential running mate, according to interviews with multiple Democrats with knowledge of her deliberations. Although her list is not limited to those two, Clinton has spoken highly of both in recent days to friends and advisers as she closes in on an announcement that could come as soon as Friday.
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
Like my colleague David Atkins, I think a Hillary Clinton-Elizabeth Warren ticket would be a strong one for the national Democratic Party; on MSNBC this morning, Joy Reid also noted Warren's merits as a running mate for Clinton. However, as a Massachusetts native, I cannot dismiss concerns that Warren's departure from the Senate upon becoming Vice President would quickly become a disaster for the state Democratic Party.