Decision 2024

Massachusetts voters rejected a proposal to gradually increase how much employers must pay workers who collect tips, like servers in restaurants. The state’s wage for tipped workers is now $6.75 an hour, while the minimum hourly wage for most other workers is $15. Now, if a worker doesn’t earn enough in tips to bring them up to $15 an hour,…

As most people went to bed early Wednesday morning, it appeared Massachusetts students will no longer have to pass the MCAS exam to earn a diploma in Massachusetts. The yes vote on Question 2 was leading by a 59% to 46.4% margin at 1 a.m. with roughly 75% of precincts reporting. Max Page, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, told…

As of early Wednesday morning, Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts appeared on track to be able to negotiate their wages, benefits and working conditions, with voters favoring Question 3 by solid margins. As of 1 a.m. Wednesday with 73% of votes tallied, 54% of voters supported the initiative to allow app-based drivers the right to unionize, and 46% opposed…

Republican Donald Trump addressed his supporters after winning critical swing states on election night.

Massachusetts voters approved a ballot law Tuesday giving the state auditor the explicit authority to audit the Legislature, backing a measure championed by Auditor Diana DiZoglio. The measure grants the auditor’s office the power to audit the “accounts, programs, activities and functions” of all “departments, offices, commissions, institutions” in the state, including those created by the Legislature and the...

Republicans have flipped two key Democratic-held Senate seats in Ohio and West Virginia, according to NBC News projections, making them favorites to capture the majority, while the battles for House control and the presidency remain unsettled.

Here’s what it was like at the watch parties for Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her Republican challenger, John Deaton, on the night she was re-elected by Massachusetts voters.

Cedric Richmond, co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign, spoke to supporters at Howard University saying Vice President Kamala Harris will not speak until Wednesday.

Abortion rights advocates lost Tuesday on a Florida ballot measure but prevailed in four other states, including Missouri, where an amendment clears the way to undo one of the nation’s strictest bans.

The Republicans took over control of the U.S. Senate for the first time in four years.

Never in the Senate have two Black women served at the same time. Kamala Harris was only the second Black woman and first South Asian woman to serve in the Senate, before she was elected vice president.

Former President Donald Trump won North Carolina Tuesday, according to an NBC News projection, giving the former president the first battleground victory of the night.

Republican Bernie Moreno has unseated Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, NBC News projects.

Political analyst Sue O’Connell gives a progress report on the presidential race.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spoke after winning a third term on Tuesday.

On election night, we check in at the headquarters for Donald Trump in Florida and Kamala Harris in Washington.

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was reelected Tuesday night, defeating Democratic Rep. Colin Allred.

Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride won the state’s lone U.S. House seat Tuesday, making her the first transgender person elected to Congress.

U.S. Rep. Gabe Amo, the first Black representative in Congress from Rhode Island, won reelection on Tuesday. Amo easily beat his Republican challenger Allen Waters and has promised to work on issues such as ending gun violence to supporting reproductive freedom, as well as fighting to protect Social Security and Medicare. Amo said he was honored to have been “overwhelmingly...

The lawsuits come after a lawyer for Musk’s super PAC said the winners of its $1 million cash giveaways were not selected randomly as Musk had claimed.