Massachusetts: Washington

By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- Representative Niki Tsongas has introduced legislation that would require the Pentagon to develop lighter body armor for soldiers in an effort to reduce the thousands of orthopedic injuries reported each year as a...

By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts is poised to receive about $200 million in federal money for energy research and efficiency programs under a sweeping climate change bill to be unveiled Friday, according to one of the measure's...

Daniel Kurtzman:
"In a move that has stunned Washington, D.C., longtime Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter has switched parties. He is the first Republican senator to switch teams since Senator Larry Craig, I guess." --Jay Leno

"President Obama, if you take a look at it, has accomplished quite a lot in his first 100 days. By way of comparison, take a look at George W. Bush's first 100 days in office. This is in his memoir. So, according to that, Bush spent 100 days in the Oval Office looking for the corner." --David Letterman

"This really is big, because Specter's move puts the Democrats within a hair's breath of a unfilibusterable 60-seat Senate majority.

By Alan Wirzbicki, Globe correspondent WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of protestors clad in orange jumpsuits and black hoods gathered at the White House this morning to denounce President Obama for his opposition to an inquiry of allegations of torture at secret...