Surprise Fall In Jobs Does Not Dash Recovery Hopes

Paul Kirk is rejecting Republican criticism that the endorsement violated the spirit of an agreement that he stay clear of the campaign.

The Transportation Security Administration plans to install 150 new whole-body scanners in airports. Opponents of the machines say they violate passengers' privacy, but supporters say they actually aren't all that invasive — and they're our best weapon against attacks.

House and Senate lawmakers have less than a week to finalize an education reform bill in order to meet a Jan. 19 deadline to apply for millions of dollars in federal education aid.

The immigrants who were stopped by federal immigration authorities Wednesday on the highway in Foxborough were apparently on their way to work at Gillette Stadium.

First, Ted Kennedy overshadowed the state’s Senate race. Now his brother is. The GOP’s Scott Brown is invoking John F.Kennedy’s 1960s tax cuts — not spending — as the right way to stimulate the economy. But was JFK was really a trickle-down economist? And is Brown's strategy a good one?