Ed Markey

Safety advocates and lawmakers are joining the families of rollaway crash victims to push for new safety features on vehicles with keyless ignition systems. “She was really the light of our whole family, she’s been the perfect mom, the perfect grandma,” said Karl Hofer of New Canaan, Connecticut. Hofer is talking about his mother, Kathleen, who was killed in a...

A New England family is one of many across the U.S. sounding the alarm about deadly vehicle rollaway crashes that kill almost 150 people per year.

In a virtual fashion, mothers will be walking for peace once again on Sunday. The 25th annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace, which will be live-streamed on the necn Facebook page, takes place this Mother’s Day beginning at 9 a.m. The event was founded by Chaplain Clementina Chery, whose son, Louis D. Brown, was murdered as a teenager. Her...

For Sen. Ed Markey and many Progressive Democrats, fixing the United States Supreme Court means expanding the number of justices from 9 to 13. President Joe Biden has created a commission to study the expansion of the Court, though he has said in the past that he is “not a fan.”

Congressional Democrats will introduce legislation Thursday to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices, alongside progressive activists pushing to transform the high court, NBC News reports.

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., is re-introducing a bill along with a bipartisan group of senators that would put an end to the decades-old ritual of turning clocks forward in the spring and backward in the fall. The Sunshine Protection Act would push winter sunsets in Massachusetts up to 5:30 from 4:30 p.m. “It’s sunshine in the evening, it just makes…

Sunday night we spring forward, but Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., has reintroduced a bill that would put an end to that ritual for good.

Lawmakers in Massachusetts participated in a virtual discussion Saturday that focused on racial disparities with COVID-19 vaccination efforts across the country. Sen. Ed Markey hosted the roundtable and was joined by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, State Rep. Nika Elugardo, and other local leaders. Markey said these are the leaders who have been advocating for equity and accessibility “at…

State and local leaders hosted a roundtable Saturday to discuss racial disparities with vaccine distribution in Massachusetts. Lawmakers say underserved communities need all the resources they can get.

Sen. Ed Markey told NBC10 Boston says one of his biggest concerns is that Donald Trump is now free to continue as a leader of the Republican Party but without any constraints.

A familiar candidate with a boot for a hat has entered the Massachusetts Senate primaries. Vermin Supreme explains why he’s campaigning as a write-in candidate, as well as his thoughts on Kanye West’s presidential bid.

Calling the second impeachment of Donald Trump a scarlet letter on his presidency, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey thinks a conviction in a Senate trial is possible. “It’s going to be very hard for any Republican to deny the fact that Donald Trump did in fact incite an insurrection against the American people,” Markey said Saturday. He said the mob...

Sen. Ed Markey is calling for an investigation into Capitol riot and the second impeachment of President Donald Trump

Like a lot of people from Massachusetts, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey can’t seem to get enough of Dunkin’. In fact, the Malden native loves Dunkin’ so much that his normal order includes three entire doughnuts, he said on a podcast released Tuesday. But Markey doesn’t eat all three in their entirety, he explained. He orders three different doughnuts, then...

It’s the time of year when politicians on both sides of the aisle come together in harmony for a holiday song with Alison King, a tradition 2020 couldn’t interrupt — for the most part.

As the United States continues to roll out the Pfizer vaccine for health care workers and nursing home residents, a number of New England politicians said Saturday they have received their first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Washington upon the advice of their physicians. Members of Congress received notice at the end of this week from the Office of the Attending...

Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren were among a handful of New England politicians who said they received their COVID-19 vaccinations this weekend.

Two U.S. senators from New England want to press more states to institute mask requirements. Sens. Ed Markey, of Massachusetts, and Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut, have introduced the Encouraging Masks for All Act. The legislation would provide an additional $5 billion to the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund for states that implement mask requirements. It would also make…

Democrat Joe Biden won Massachusetts and Democratic U.S. Sen. Edward Markey was reelected for another six-year term as voting concluded Tuesday. In the state’s 4th Congressional District, Democratic Newton City Councilor Jake Auchincloss is projected by NBC News to become the newest member of the state’s all-Democratic congressional delegation.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey fended off a challenge from Republican Kevin O’Connor. It was in September that the 74-year-old Markey, who has served for decades in Congress, rebuffed a high-profile primary challenge from Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III.