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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2021, file photo, Gov. Charlie Baker, right, tours a mass vaccination site at the Natick Mall in Natick, Mass., with Bill Hass, left, and Heather Provino of Labcorp. A year of battling the spread of the coronavirus has taken a political toll on Baker as he faces slumping popularity. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP, Pool, File)
Pandemic takes a political toll on Massachusetts governor

By Steve Leblanc Mar. 23, 2021 07:43 AM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Feb. 12, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Friday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 2021. There are 322 days left in the year. Today’s...

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2020, file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Mountain Top Inn & Resort in Warm Springs, Ga. President-elect Joe Biden has evoked Franklin Delano Roosevelt in promising a remaking of America unseen since the New Deal. Pledging to emulate some of the loftiest reforms in the nation’s history has left him with towering promises to keep. And Biden hopes to deliver against the backdrop of the pandemic and searing national division. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Biden has set sky-high expectations. Can he meet them?

By Will Weissert Jan. 19, 2021 12:07 AM EST

President-elect Joe Biden speaks about jobs at The Queen theater, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Pressure mounts on Biden to make diverse picks for top posts

By Will Weissert, Lisa Mascaro And Steve Peoples Dec. 05, 2020 12:10 AM EST

President-elect Joe Biden speaks about jobs at The Queen theater, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Pressure mounts on Biden to make diverse picks for top posts

By Will Weissert, Lisa Mascaro And Steve Peoples Dec. 04, 2020 06:14 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2016, file photo, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice Kimberly Budd smiles during a swearing-in ceremony at Faneuil Hall in Boston. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, Gov. Charlie Baker nominated Budd to become chief of the state's highest court. If confirmed, Budd would become its first Black chief justice. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Budd set to be 1st Black female chief of state Supreme Court

Oct. 28, 2020 12:18 PM EDT

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., speaks during a hearing with the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/New York Times, Pool via AP)
Analysis: Mississippi US Senate race draws outside attention

By Emily Wagster Pettus Oct. 25, 2020 05:00 PM EDT

This Sept. 1, 2020 photo shows Jake Auchincloss, who is running in the Massachusetts 4th District race, campaigns Foxboro, Mass., near the John J. Ahern Middle School on Primary Day. Auchincloss has won a packed primary to become the Democratic nominee to fill the U.S. House seat being vacated by Rep. Joe Kennedy III in Massachusetts. The Newton city councilor edged out six fellow Democrats in a race for the 4th Congressional District. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via AP)
Marine wins Democratic primary for Kennedy's US House seat

By William J. Kole Sep. 04, 2020 01:33 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2019, file photo Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN/New York Times at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. Warren, a Massachusetts senator and leading progressive, has become an unlikely confidant and adviser to Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. They talk every 10 days or so, according to aides to both politicians who requested anonymity to describe their relationship. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Elizabeth Warren's new role: Key Joe Biden policy adviser

By Will Weissert Jul. 22, 2020 12:19 AM EDT

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks after Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the reopening of more Texas businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic at a press conference at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Monday, May 18, 2020. Abbott said that childcare facilities, youth camps, some professional sports, and bars may now begin to fully or partially reopen their facilities as outlined by regulations listed on the Open Texas website. (Lynda M. Gonzalez/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick's broadcast company won federal loan

By Acacia Coronado And Paul Weber Jul. 06, 2020 06:36 PM EDT