The U.S. Senate confirmed John Kerry as Secretary of State Tuesday, offering the Massachusetts Democrat the job of chief foreign minister for U.S. President Barack Obama. The Senate voted 94-3 to confirm...

Barney Frank ended his 32 years representing Massachusetts’s fourth district in the House of Representatives on Thursday, but said on Friday that he would be interested in taking John Kerry’s interim...

Olivia Culpo, a former Boston University student, said she will not return to BU after winning Wednesday’s Miss Universe competition in Las Vegas. "I actually will not be returning to BU," Culpo said...

Boston University President Robert Brown was the highest paid Mass. private college president in 2010, according to data by The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2010, Brown received a total compensation...

Boston University chair of the Board of Trustees Robert Knox said he was always amazed by former BU president John Silber’s dedication and integrity. “He was a fearless man with a commanding presence,”...

In a forum at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University on Thursday, Thomas E. Donilon, national security advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama, focused on the importance of restoring...

After securing a second term in the White House, President Barack Obama said it is time for the American people to come together in the face of adversity as he strives to move the nation forward. Obama...

Republican Sen. Scott Brown said Democrat U.S. Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren won the senate seat “fair and square” to a crowd of fired-up supporters in his concession speech at the Park Plaza Hotel Tuesday...

Backed by what her campaign lauded as a “grassroots effort,” Elizabeth Warren reclaimed the Senate for the Democratic Party and became Massachusetts’ first female senator. The former Harvard professor...

Fernando Ponce, 81, grew up with a government ruled by Communist dictators and social unrest. But even though he came from Chile, an underdeveloped country where he saw political corruption, Ponce said...

Boston University announced Monday that its early decision application deadline will be extended as a result of Hurricane Sandy. The deadline was extended from Nov. 1 to Nov. 5 to give students affected...

This is the first in a two-part story in the youth vote series focusing on absentee voting. Had it not been for his mother, James Ferritto would not have been able to vote this November. Before heading...