Elizabeth Warren

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.

US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has said she was unaware that Harvard Law School had been promoting her purported Native American heritage until she read about it in a newspaper several weeks ago. But for at least six straight years during Warren's tenure, Harvard University reported in federally mandated diversity statistics that it had a Native American woman in its senior ranks at the law school. According to both Harvard officials and federal guidelines, those statistics are almost always based on the way employees describe themselves.

Polls show that frustration with Washington has never been higher — and who could argue? Most Americans believe the country is on the wrong track. Most lawmakers openly concede that nothing will get done before the November elections. The leaders of both parties are already trading threats over the possibility of a national debt default next year. Barack Obama got elected by promising to change the tone in Washington, but clearly he's failed, as George W. Bush did before him. That should be a clue that the partisan animosity consuming the political system doesn't originate in the White House.

Elizabeth Warren, emerging from what many consider the roughest patch yet in her Senate campaign, has pulled into a virtual tie with US Senator Scott Brown, according to a new Suffolk University/7News poll. Warren, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has the support of 47 percent of likely voters in Massachusetts, compared to 48 percent for Brown, a dead heat in a poll with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. That is a significant shift from the last Suffolk poll in February when Warren, a consumer advocate and Harvard Law School professor, trailed Brown, a Wrentham...

One woman took the fall for Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Another woman — Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat running for US Senate in Massachusetts — is calling for him to resign from the New York Fed. So far, the power guys are sticking with Dimon. Appearing on "The View," President Obama called JPMorgan Chase "one of the best-managed banks there is" and said Dimon "is one of the smartest bankers we've got. " While the FBI investigates potential criminal wrongdoing at JPMorgan Chase in the wake of a complex $2 billion trade loss, the so-sorry Dimon...

A record unearthed Monday shows that US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a great-great-great grandmother listed in an 1894 document as a Cherokee, said a genealogist at the New England Historic and Genealogy Society. The shred of evidence could validate her assertion that she has Native American ancestry, making her 1/32 American Indian, but may not put an end to the questions swirling around the subject. Intense focus on Warren's heritage comes as the Democrat has faced several days of scrutiny about whether she has represented herself as a minority in her...

The Haverhill VFW Post was friendly territory for Senator Scott Brown, a National Guardsman himself. Yet in the midst of his remarks to veterans this month, he stopped abruptly, distracted by a video camera in the crowd. Brown fixed an icy gaze on the man behind the lens. The cameraman was a video tracker for a liberal group that supports Brown's Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren. His mission, as it is most days, is to track the senator's every word, in hopes of catching an inconsistency, or better, a gaffe.

Elizabeth Warren fumbled through her worst stretch as a Senate candidate this week, setting off a debate among strategists over whether the controversy over her claims to Native American ancestry would linger when the November election is closer. The Warren campaign will not say when top advisers learned that she considered herself part-Native American, but it was an element of her biography that seemed to catch them off guard. When news emerged last Friday that Harvard Law School had publicly touted Warren as a Native American professor in the Harvard Crimson in the 1990s, Warren...

Republican Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, his likely Democratic opponent, are locked in a dead heat, with a large bloc of voters still undecided about which candidate to back in this marquee matchup, a Boston Globe poll has found. The survey found that both candidates remain popular and are successfully managing their core political message and fending off attacks on their public image at this early stage of the campaign, which has become a focal point for the national parties as they vie for control of the Senate.

A popular and successful Massachusetts figure with great looks and an everyman appeal, suddenly challenged by an upstart from the Ivy League? No, it's not Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren - it's Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who is set to face former Harvard star and Bills starter Ryan Fitzpatrick on Sunday. Fitzpatrick, who quarterbacked the Crimson to an Ivy championship in 2004 and then spent years as a third-stringer in the NFL waiting for his big break, is riding a streak of two impressive victories into the match-up in...

Consider this as you brace for a multimillion-dollar US Senate race this fall that hijacks the commercials amid your favorite TV shows, fills the newspaper, and is propelled by verbal barrages between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren. With six months to go, only 5 percent of voters are undecided and able to be convinced by it all. That was one eye-catching finding overnight from the latest Suffolk University/WHDH-TV poll about the race. Brown and Warren were in a statistical tie, with the incumbent senator at 48 percent and the Harvard Law...

A new poll shows the race between incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and chief Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren is a virtual dead heat. The Suffolk University and WHDH-TV poll released Wednesday also indicates that lingering questions about Warren's claims of Native American ancestry isn't seen as a major issue for most voters. The poll of 600 likely Massachusetts general election voters found 48 percent back Brown and 47 percent support Warren. That's well within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.

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.

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...

The Haverhill VFW Post was friendly territory for Senator Scott Brown, a National Guardsman himself. Yet in the midst of his remarks to veterans this month, he stopped abruptly, distracted by a video camera in the crowd. Brown fixed an icy gaze on the man behind the lens. The cameraman was a video tracker for a liberal group that supports Brown's Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren. His mission, as it is most days, is to track the senator's every word, in hopes of catching an inconsistency, or better, a gaffe.

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.

One night about two decades ago, she and her husband, Bruce Mann, who also teaches at Harvard Law, were attending a game between the 76ers and Warren's beloved Houston Rockets. (Warren taught at the University of Houston when Hakeem Olajuwon played for a Cougars team memorably dubbed "Phi Slama Jama" for its dunking prowess.) "So Elizabeth is up, cheering, yelling at the ref," Mann recalls. "And the crowd around is getting kind of, well, restive. They're saying, ‘Hey, lady, you're not from around here, are you?