Government And Institutions

The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to raise the cost of attending the school system by up to 5 percent for in-state undergraduates, the first increase in three years.

An IRS watchdog says budget cuts to the agency are taking their toll — and more are on the way under legislation that has advanced through a House panel.

A new report from the investigative arm of Congress largely blames the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs for hindering energy development on tribal lands.

Alexander Hamilton, who has been featured on the $10 bill since 1929, is making way for a woman.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage pledged Wednesday to use his line-item veto power to strike out "several hundred" items in the $6.7 billion budget that lawmakers sent to his desk just after midnight, blasting Democrats and Republicans alike for securing money in the spending plan for their own pet projects instead of funding his priorities.

President Barack Obama and his Republican allies on trade are thinking of restarting their legislative push in the Senate.

Targeting youth unemployment, Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to propose tax credits to encourage businesses to train young people and offer apprenticeships to develop lifelong job skills.

The government is paving the way for up to about 1 million people covered by underfunded multiemployer pension plans to face benefit cuts over the next few years.

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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says there's "not a reason in the world" why the U.S. economy can't grow at 4 percent annually.

Six months ago Wednesday, Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro stunned the world by announcing an end to their nations' half-century of official hostility.

House Speaker John Boehner says he's committed to passing a major trade deal as soon as possible, but he has not figured a way out of Congress' logjam on legislation that's a priority for President Barack Obama.

Wild gyrations in Hong Kong share prices are raising concerns that a new trading link with mainland China is a conduit for questionable trading practices that could undermine the city's reputation as a center of global finance.

State senators on Tuesday scrapped a plan to freeze tax credits for historic preservation work for two years amid concerns that the proposal could stop some significant restoration projects around the state.

The Pennsylvania Senate unanimously approved a measure Tuesday to impose up to an additional 65 cents per phone line and an extra $52 per household to help counties pay for the growing cost of their 911 emergency communications centers.

The Obama administration is cracking down on artificial trans fats, calling them a threat to public health.

Fishery regulators approved a plan to reconfigure closed fishing areas on Georges Bank, one of New England's key fishing grounds, on Tuesday.

A $115.4 billion budget deal would make California the first in the nation to offer state-subsidized health care to children who are in the country illegally while expanding other social welfare programs, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders said Tuesday.

Maine's Democratic-controlled House supported a $6.7 billion budget deal on Tuesday that slashes income taxes, boosts property tax relief and changes how the state reimburses for welfare programs after weeks of partisan wrangling over a spending plan that must be in place by June 30 to avert a government shutdown.

World stocks sank Monday as Greece inched closer to default after weekend talks with international creditors over freeing up the rest of its bailout funds went nowhere.