John Kerry News

Gabriel Gomez is an ambitious guy. In January, with Massachusetts senator John Kerry all but certain to be confirmed as secretary of state, the 47-year-old Gomez wrote a letter to Governor Deval Patrick.

In one of his first visits to the city since winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep.

Republicans are going over the top with their pursuit of Benghazi as a monumental scandal.

Dear Patriots. We lost! Obama-supporter Gabriel Gomez beat Conservative Republican Michael Sullivan in the Massachusetts primary.

John Kerry is so far not having a good run at Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. It's not for a lack of effort: he's about to make his fourth trip of his young tenure as Secretary of State to Israel and the Palestinian territories to try to jumpstart talks.

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A "fresh face" in Massachusetts politics decides to run for U.S. Senate.

Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey, his party's nominee for Senate in next month's special election, asked a former House colleague not to show up to a fundraiser in Washington, D.C. earlier this week.

Democratic Rep. Ed Markey has opened up a 7-point lead over Republican Gabriel Gomez in their battle to replace John Kerry in the Senate, according to a poll released Thursday.

Washington D.C., May 15, 2013 / 05:04 pm .- A bipartisan coalition of Congress members has sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, calling for government action to protect the family members of Chinese pro-life leader Chen Guangcheng.

The value of Capitol Hill experience keeps showing up in recent moves around K Street, as former aides to members of Congress head on to big jobs in the influence industry.

Massachusetts Republican senate candidate Gabriel Gomez says he'll win without help from Washington Republicans, even as major Republican figures and the GOP campaign apparatus are helping him with his campaign.

Elizabeth Warren does great email. One payoff of my pittance of a contribution to her grass-roots funded campaign - I regret not contributing more - is that I am regularly alerted by the new Massachusetts senator to the favoritism of our Congress toward Wall Street.

Commerce Department General Counsel Cameron Kerry - brother of Secretary of State John Kerry - will become acting secretary of commerce when the outgoing acting secretary, Rebecca Blank , leaves at the end of this month.

Polls are back in the news, with the release of four public polls and an internal Gabriel Gomez campaign poll in the June 25 Massachusetts special Senate election to replace John Kerry.

Republicans are faulting Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Edward Markey for his involvement in a so-called "rubber check" episode from the early 1990s, during which he and other members of Congress wrote checks with insufficient funds from a members-only bank.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak after delivering joint statements following their meeting in Jerusalem in this 2012 file photo.

With city voters facing five elections in a half-year span in Springfield, there is a concern by some observers the situation could lead to voter weariness, apathy and even confusion.

U.S. Senate candidate Ed Markey shakes hands with a supporter in Boston, on Tuesday, April 30, as he celebrates winning the Democratic primary for the special U.S. Senate election.

Everyone knows that Barack Obama can put together a winning coalition in a national presidential election.

In the wake of the recent apology from the IRS for targeting right wing groups and the brouhaha that has resulted from that action, it might behoove us to at least be reminded of a time when that organization apparently went after left-leaning groups during the Bush administration.