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Friday, July 17, 2026 12:14 AM ET

Boston Globe - Politics

Live updates - Follow live updates on the Trump administration - We're following the latest updates and analysis on the Donald Trump administration. Follow along live.

9 minutes ago

Thousands sign letter demanding Wu address street safety concerns ahead of City Hall vigil for Boston transit planner - The signatures are being delivered to City Hall one week after Boston transit planner Louisa Gag was killed while cycling on Tremont Street.

10 hours ago

White House teleprompter operator bet on Trump speeches, Kalshi says

9 minutes ago

Trump lobbies for voter ID bill, pushes unfounded election claims during primetime address -- Trump's fixation on his loss to Democrat Joe Biden six years ago and the long-debunked theories he's circulated about it are things he still brings up regularly when discussing other subjects.

1 hour ago

Why American elections are so complicated — and secure -- President Donald Trump said in a speech to the nation that he's using federal power to secure elections from being "stolen."

39 minutes ago

Four takeaways from the first Maine Democratic Senate debate

2 hours ago

ICE changed its story about the shooting in Maine. That's part of a bigger pattern of violence and murky explanations.

1 day ago

Biddeford, Maine mayor calls ICE agents' lack of body cameras 'unacceptable' after agent fatally shoots man there

1 day ago

Elizabeth Warren backed progressive Senate candidates in key midterm races. So far, it's not going the way she hoped.

15 hours ago

State & local politics

1 month ago

'Simple but incredibly meaningful': Mass. Senate wants to allow for more duplexes in bid to ease housing crunch -- Massachusetts Senators unveiled measure that would allow two-family homes, or duplexes, to be built "by-right," meaning they could be built on any residentially zoned lot in the state.

6 hours ago

GLOBE NH | MORNING REPORT - New law puts question to N.H. voters: Should a property tax cap apply to your local schools? Critics contend the Republican-led effort to rein in public education costs distracts from systemic flaws in the state's K-12 school funding model.

7 hours ago

Governor Healey unveils Noah Kahan-themed bill to cap ticket resale prices -- The so-called Great Divide Act, named for New England singer-songwriter Noah Kahan's latest album, would cap the resale price of concert tickets at 110 percent of the ticket's original face value.

9 hours ago

Trump administration caps how long international students can stay in the US

39 minutes ago

Trump is expected to make election conspiracies a focus of his national address

1 hour ago

Trump administration races the clock to rebuild US tariff wall knocked down by Supreme Court

2 hours ago

Trump officials want to make testosterone drugs easier to prescribe. Is that a good idea?

6 hours ago

DHS finds itself back in the headlines after ICE shot and killed two people, in a test for Secretary Mullin

7 hours ago

Trump is taking longer to approve disaster aid and denying Democratic states more frequently

8 hours ago

After six years, Trump brings his election obsession to primetime at the White House

11 hours ago