Timothy Smyth News Today

Audrey Grant and Timothy Smyth both care strongly about abortion — but they’re on opposite sides of the issue. We asked them to talk about it.

The race to represent a Boston district on the Massachusetts Republican State Committee shows how the party's "big tent" is expanding in an ugly direction

Lori Kauffman, a Kanye West-obsessed Republican running for a seat on the party's state committee, is a virulent antisemite and Holocaust denier.

Lori Kauffman, of Dorchester, will appear on the March 5 ballot for Republican voters in the state’s First Suffolk District. However, the party she hopes to help steer apparently doesn’t want anything to do with her.

A Sacramento-based law firm has been hired to defend a Vallejo police officer in a federal excessive force case after he was recorded on video holding a man at gun point while off-duty. On Monday, attorneys with Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff, LLP, filed an official response, on behalf of Vallejo Ofc. David McLaughlin, to a […]

Asian Republicans Charge Massachusetts GOP With Discrimination A polling place in Dorchester Mike Deehan / GBH News A battle over control of the state Republican party has led to claims that its leader has discriminated against Asian American voters trying to fill a vacant political position. In a letter to national party officials, more than two dozen Vietnamese-American Republicans alleged that Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons led a "callous and underhanded scheme to discrim...