The combat veteran and oyster farmer has also received more primary votes than all of the Republican gubernatorial candidates combined despite the best primary turnout year for GOP hopefuls since 1994.

President Donald Trump repeatedly called Platner — a Marine Corps veteran and oysterman — "a thug" while Platner pledged to go after "the Epstein class" in Washington.

On average, insurers requested more than 16% increases for individual health plans.

U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner on Tuesday secured the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, withstanding a withering blitz of unflattering revelations and ongoing attempts by Republicans and some Democratic operatives to weaken his candidacy.

Officials estimate Massachusetts is on track to lose nearly $4 billion in federal funds. Those losses create a cascading effect — without proper resources, agencies dedicated to vulnerable populations have a harder time helping those people find a stable job, or housing.

Frank fought for civil rights, affordable housing and women’s rights, Rep. Jim McGovern said at the service. And he fought for gay rights, "not only because he was gay, but because he saw a community that was being persecuted and bullied by people in power, and he could not tolerate a bully.”

The Supreme Court is heading into its crunch time, the part of the year when the justices are racing to finish decisions and dissents in the cases that remain undecided. Here's what's left.

Over the past year, President Trump has sought to scrub national monuments, museums, parks and other historical sites of markers that the administration claims cast the country's "founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light."

Governor Ned Lamont has signed a new Connecticut law that prohibits the sale and importation of pistols that can be easily converted into fully automatic machine guns.

U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner today denied some of the allegations made by former girlfriends in a New York Times story this week, including one charge that he engaged in physically threatening behavior.