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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories CAPITAL SOURCE Walsh had previously vowed to stay out of the race: both Edwards and Passacantilli worked for him, in the Office of Housing Stability and in the Office of Economic Development, respectively.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories DATA SOURCE: AP Mayoral and city council races were decided around the state on Tuesday.   Walsh handily defeated City Councilor Tito Jackson to remain in office.  City Councilor Tito Jackson is challenging Mayor Marty Walsh in Boston. Framingham voters are electing their first mayor, former mayor William Lantigua tries for a comeback in Lawrence, and voters will decide on several Boston City Council races.

Republicans kicked off their markup of potentially historic tax legislation Monday, with Democrats hammering the proposal for slashing breaks for the middle-class to pay for tax cuts for wealthy individuals and corporations. Democratic questioning zeroed in on the breaks curbed or eliminated in the bill that tend to be enjoyed by the middle class: for teachers, homeowners and others.

The House Intelligence Committee on Monday night released more than 200 pages of transcripts from its marathon interview of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, sprawling testimony that contained a new details about the closely scrutinized foreign policy aide’s relationship to Moscow. The at-times tense interview — which took place behind closed doors last week — also highlighted an increasingly public partisan rift on the committee. Page, who throughout sought to characterize himself as a scholar whose name has been unjustly defamed, told lawmakers that he suggested to his fellow foreig

The Air Force failed to enter the Texas church shooter's domestic violence conviction into a federal database used for background checks on gun sales — a move that could have prevented him from purchasing a rifle used in Sunday’s mass shooting. The Pentagon announced a department-wide review of the case, and of relevant polices and procedures, after the Air Force said it did not put Devin Kelley’s court-martial for domestic assault into the database used to run background checks for firearm sales. Kelley had been court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his wife and stepson, including cracking

Congress returned to Washington on Monday facing the grim and all-too-frequent task of consoling a country rocked by yet another shooting massacre, this one at a small church in rural Texas.  But beyond the rudimentary calls for solidarity in the face of unspeakable violence, there was little unity in the nation’s capital, as lawmakers quickly adopted the familiar postures that have left the parties diametrically opposed when it comes to Congress’s role in battling rampant gun deaths. Republicans, behind President Trump, quickly shifted the debate from firearms to mental health.

The House is unlikely to repeal the mandate to buy insurance under ObamaCare as part of its tax-reform bill, GOP sources say, though the issue could return down the road. President Trump and conservative lawmakers are pushing for the individual mandate to be repealed in the bill, but House Ways and Means Committee Chairman MORE (R-Texas) has expressed worry that the controversial measure would jeopardize the broader tax-reform bill, given the Senate’s failure on health care earlier this year. “It hasn’t ever been in the [House] bill,” said one Republican on the Ways a

The disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein used a web of private detectives, lawyers and even undercover former Mossad agents in a failed effort to stop The New York Times and The New Yorker from publishing their investigations in October into allegations of sexual harassment and assault against him. The cloak-and-dagger undertaking, detailed in

WASHINGTON — Republicans outlined significant changes on Monday to the sweeping tax bill unveiled by House lawmakers last week, moving to tighten restrictions on so-called carried interest, alter rules aimed at preventing American companies from stashing profits offshore and further restrict a tax credit claimed primarily by low- and middle-income individuals. The changes came as part of an amendment, submitted by Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.