Politics

Republican senators are preparing for a robust vetting of Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department, with a keen interest in details from a House Ethics Committee investigation into the former congressman from Florida.

The plan would also include restarting the policy of detaining parents with their children, known as family detention, which immigration advocates have criticized.

In picking Rep. Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump is looking to install a fierce loyalist who has been seen as divisive even within his own party.

A constellation of transportation planners, elected officials and community groups embarked Wednesday on a campaign to think about a massive project coming into focus on the horizon: replacing the Tobin Bridge. Over the next 18 months, a state working group will examine options to succeed the 74-year-old bridge that connects Chelsea and Boston&#821...

A week after Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly embraced Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s ability to audit the Legislature, Beacon Hill’s top Democrats said Wednesday they are mulling over unspecified potential alterations to the voter law. House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka, who have long resisted DiZoglio’s mis...

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Rep. Matt Gaetz to become the nation’s attorney general was met with shock Wednesday, including from fellow Republicans. Massachusetts’ Democratic attorney general was among those highly critical of the pick. Trump announced Wednesday that Gaetz, a firebrand lawmaker from Florida, was hi...

Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Justice, has previously been investigated in the alleged sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl — though the federal probe ultimately did not yield criminal charges.

It’s a long-awaited goal that’s finally taking a step forward — but Massachusetts lawmakers’ agreement to remove a zoning restriction on a former factory in Everett doesn’t mean a Kraft family-funded stadium for the New England Revolution will crop up tomorrow. State Sen. Sal DiDomenico has long championed the Everett projec...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, said he believes women shouldn’t serve in combat and that he wants to see the military purged of “woke” officials who support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Political analyst Sue O’Connell looks at President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and the announcement that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head a new “Department of Government Efficiency.”

President-elect Donald Trump stunned Senate Republicans by announcing Wednesday that he will nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to be U.S. attorney general.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was chosen by House Republicans Wednesday afternoon to be the Republican nominee for speaker in January, according to a post by the House Republican Conference on X. 

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will nominate Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general, putting a loyalist in the role of the nation’s top prosecutor.