John Tierney News

The clock is ticking on student loan interest rates. The rates for federally-backed student Stafford loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1. And what has Congress done to help these already struggling students? Absolutely nothing.

In what could become an annual occurrence, Congress yet again faces a looming deadline to resolve the problem of student loan interest rates.

In the waning days of the Massachusetts special Senate election campaign, Republicans are searching for signs of an upset while Democrats are cautioning against complacency.

"I think there has to be some middle ground in terms of transparency." Greg Meagher of Tewksbury Sun staff photos can be ordered by visiting our MyCapture site.

A political action committee formed by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has raised nearly $229,000 during the first six months of the year.

The two candidates for the open U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts - Republican businessman Gabriel Gomez and Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey - recently answered written questions from State House News Service about two issues particularly dear to the Cape: fishing regulations and Cape Wind.

But how he sees them is still hard to explain. That makes it hard to figure what the Republican candidate for US Senate would do in Washington and why Massachusetts should send him there.

Touting student loans as a solid investment, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressman John Tierney made the case Monday for student borrowers to pay the same discount interest rate as banks.

Leaks show US intelligence vulnerability: Noah Bierman and Bryan Bender report from Washington about Edward Snowden and how it was "just another guy who sits there day to day in the office" who showed how easy it is for someone within to weaken the National Security Agency's information fortress.

With leaked revelations disclosing the scope of the federal government's ability to peer into the public's phone calls and email use, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. John Tierney indicated that the law that enabled the snooping will be up for scrutiny.

Andy Metzger, State House News Service With leaked revelations disclosing the scope of the federal government's ability to peer into the public's phone calls and email use, both U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressman John Tierney indicated the law that enabled the snooping will be up for scrutiny.

Today is Monday, June 10. Here are five things you need to know in Hamilton and Wenham: 1. Clouds: Monday will be a cloudy day, with rain expected to move in later in the day.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressman John Tierney plan to join students and professors to highlight a July 1 deadline when the interest rate on federal students loans are set to double if Congress doesn't act first.

"The biggest threat to children's safety regarding guns... are the guns found around their homes," said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, during our recent event on gun violence prevention.

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America announced today that it will endorse Rep. Ed Markey in the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts.

Terrorist attacks drove West Point grad to pursue military career EagleTribune.com June 4, 2013 By Paul Tennant, ptennant@eagletribune.com NORTH ANDOVER - Asked why he pursued a military career, 2nd Lt.

Michelle Willis of Billerica holds a photo of her Head Start class from 1991. Her two children, Serenity, 3, left, and Aidan, 5, are currently in the same Head Start class.

Most likely, nobody knows how much the Republican Party is paying for public relations advice these days.

After conducting research that strongly suggested gerrymandering cost Democrats the US House in 2012 and after doing this same exercise for the Democrats , leading to a similar conclusion, I wondered how many seats Republicans might have left on the table that, with hindsight being 20/20, they could have won by making unilateral changes, within ... (more)

A smart gun technology company hopes to collect $50,000 through a crowdsourcing campaign to fund a safe weapon prototype.