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For nearly three weeks, Scott Brown's campaign has been battering Elizabeth Warren for listing herself as a Native American on a legal directory and then being billed as a minority law professor at Harvard University. Now, Warren has a Democratic critic, too. Warren's primary opponent, Marisa DeFranco, who is trying to raise her profile in the race, is arguing that voters should be concerned about Warren's "lack of a clear, consistent message" in response to the Native American controversy.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is accusing Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of launching attacks on her family over her claims of Native American heritage. Warren made the comment during a campaign stop Thursday in Brookline, where she also called on Congress to pass a bill barring bank executives from sitting on the boards of directors of regional Federal Reserve banks. Warren said the step is needed given the recent disclosure by JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon of a growing $2 billion loss.

US Senator Scott Brown has turned questions over Democrat Elizabeth Warren's claims of Native American ancestry into a key strategy in his bid to retain his Senate seat. Almost every day for more than two weeks, the Brown campaign or a Republican surrogate has highlighted the latest bit of news to emerge on the subject, often citing articles on conservative websites in a bid to coax more coverage from the mainstream news media. Warren's failure to offer a full and concise answer on what role her ancestry has played in her professional career has left an opening that has allowed the questions to linger.

JPMorgan's $2 billion-plus trading loss and questions surrounding Facebook's stock offering last week have put Wall Street back in the public spotlight, just as Elizabeth Warren works to refocus the Massachusetts US Senate race on her political strength. The Democrat delivered remarks today focused on big bank accountability after meeting with families at a Brookline restaurant. It is one of relatively few so-called message events lately by Warren as she has otherwise campaigned across Massachusetts in her race against Senator Scott Brown.

US Senator Scott Brown's aides said he will pay a charitable fine after Elizabeth Warren's campaign claimed that ads run by a national oil industry group in Massachusetts violate the candidates' pledge to mutually police advertising from outside political committees. The radio and prints ads, paid for by the American Petroleum Institute, urge people to oppose a plan in Washington to hike taxes on energy companies. The ads conclude by telling people to call Brown's office and push for him to oppose the plan — a position the senator has already taken.

Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren beefed up her campaign operation yesterday with an announcement that she has hired a veteran Democratic political operative as chief of staff. Mindy Myers managed the 2010 US Senate campaign for Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and served as New Hampshire state director for President Obama's 2008 campaign. She served in the legislative affairs office for President Clinton and on Vice President Al Gore's 2000 campaign for president, as well as working as a senior adviser and political director for former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle.

WASHINGTON - Republican Jon Huntsman's campaign manager resigned yesterday only a month after the former Utah governor launched his presidential bid, raising questions about the campaign's prospects in a crowded GOP field. Huntsman, who served as President Obama's ambassador to China, opened his presidential campaign in June with a high-profile announcement at the same northern New Jersey park where Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 presidential run, with the Statue of Liberty as the backdrop.

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A gubernatorial candidate challenging pro-football Hall-of-Famer Lynn Swann in the Republican primary fired his campaign manager after the man told a televised call-in show: "The rich white guy in this campaign is Lynn Swann. " Bill Scranton, a former lieutenant governor who is white and comes from a wealthy family, also issued an apology to Swann after his campaign manager's comments Wednesday. The remarks made by James Seif "in no way whatsoever reflect my views, or those of my campaign," Scranton said.

NORTH ANDOVER ­— When MaryRose Mazzola was in eighth grade, her parents drove her to Howard Dean's presidential campaign rallies and took her around town to put up campaign signs. But the Mazzolas weren't campaigning for Dean; their 14-year-old daughter was. Now 21, Mazzola has been working for political campaigns ever since. She will graduate on May 20 from Merrimack College and has deferred her acceptance to a master's program at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is accusing Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of launching attacks on her family over her claims of Native American heritage. Warren made the comment during a campaign stop Thursday in Brookline, where she also called on Congress to pass a bill barring bank executives from sitting on the boards of directors of regional Federal Reserve banks. Warren said the step is needed given the recent disclosure by JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon of a growing $2 billion loss.

For nearly three weeks, Scott Brown's campaign has been battering Elizabeth Warren for listing herself as a Native American on a legal directory and then being billed as a minority law professor at Harvard University. Now, Warren has a Democratic critic, too. Warren's primary opponent, Marisa DeFranco, who is trying to raise her profile in the race, is arguing that voters should be concerned about Warren's "lack of a clear, consistent message" in response to the Native American controversy.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sought to distance himself Thursday from a GOP-leaning independent group's plan for a $10 million TV ad campaign renewing attention to President Barack Obama's ties to his controversial former pastor. Obama's campaign accused Romney of failing to show "moral leadership in standing up to the very extreme wing of his own party. " The Ending Spending Action Fund, a conservative super PAC bankrolled by billionaire Joe Ricketts, has laid out a proposal to publicize the racially incendiary sermons delivered by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright...

Delegates to the Connecticut Republican Party's state convention will see some changes when they arrive Friday, all part of an effort by party leaders to make the process for endorsing a U.S. Senate candidate more open and transparent. State GOP Chairman Jerry Labriola said Thursday the party has created a website to allow the 1,245 delegates and the campaigns to track the delegate vote as it's happening and how each city and town delegation voted. They're also bringing in scanners and copiers to provide paper copies of the vote counts.

After a proposed advertising campaign linking President Obama to the inflammatory Rev. Jeremiah Wright was leaked and subsequently condemned by Mitt Romney, the super PAC that conceived it decided to spike the idea Thursday. The $10 million strategy, reported by The New York Times , was hatched by a group of conservative advisers to the Ending Spending Action Fund , a super PAC formed by Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade. "The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big,...

Mitt Romney and his Republican Party raised $40 million in April, an unexpectedly strong haul in the first month of the general campaign that illustrates enthusiasm within the GOP and threatens President Barack Obama's overwhelming cash advantage. Since becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Romney has devoted most of his time to privately courting donors so he can prepare for what may be the most expensive campaign in history. His focus appears to be paying off. In just one month, Obama's 10-to-1 cash advantage has shrunk to 2-to-1, partly because...

Priorities USA, which runs a pro-Obama super PAC and has faced fund-raising problems, announced today that Massachusetts native Mary Beth Cahill is joining the group. Cahill, Senator Edward M. Kennedy's onetime chief of staff and Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign manager, will serve as a consultant on strategy and spending. Cahill is a close personal friend and political ally of Stephanie Cutter, another Massachusetts native and former Kennedy aide who now serves as deputy manager of President Obama's reelection...

Delegates to the Connecticut Republican Party's state convention will see some changes when they arrive Friday, all part of an effort by party leaders to make the process for endorsing a U.S. Senate candidate more open and transparent. State GOP Chairman Jerry Labriola said Thursday the party has created a website to allow the 1,245 delegates and the campaigns to track the delegate vote as it's happening and how each city and town delegation voted. They're also bringing in scanners and copiers to provide paper copies of the vote counts.

Elizabeth Warren's allies in the Massachusetts Democratic Party today called on US Senator Scott Brown to disclose any fund-raising ties he may have to JPMorgan Chase, the Wall Street bank that is under fire for a $2 billion trading loss. In a conference call with reporters, the party chairman, John Walsh, said Brown must reveal who sits on his "New York City Finance Committee," an entity that hosted an evening reception for Brown on March 12. Walsh also pointed to a Globe analysis of Brown's fund-raising figures that indicated that the Massachusetts...

Images of Pastor Maldonado celebrating his Formula One victory in the Spanish Grand Prix are being replayed to patriotic music on Venezuelan television. President Hugo Chavez is also heaping praise on the driver. But while F1 fans on both side of Venezuela's polarized political landscape are lauding Maldonado's performance, some critics have been questioning how many millions of dollars Venezuela's state oil company has spent in sponsorship money for the team. Chavez opponent Yon Goicoechea called it ironic that Petroleos de Venezuela SA has been financing the Williams team in...

Elizabeth Warren's allies in the Massachusetts Democratic Party today called on US Senator Scott Brown to disclose any fund-raising ties he may have to JPMorgan Chase, the Wall Street bank that is under fire for a $2 billion trading loss. In a conference call with reporters, the party chairman, John Walsh, said Brown must reveal who sits on his "New York City Finance Committee," an entity that hosted an evening reception for Brown on March 12. Walsh also pointed to a Globe analysis of Brown's fund-raising figures that indicated that the Massachusetts Republican...