The Biden administration said Wednesday it is making $4.5 billion available through a low-income home energy assistance program to help with heating costs heading into what is expected to be a brutal winter.

Since being sworn into office in January, it has been a whirlwind for Vanna Howard, who is the Bay State’s first female Cambodian-American State Representative. It’s a role she could not have imagined as a young child in Cambodia when she was fleeing the Khmer Rouge.

Seth Moulton is weighing a 2020 run for president. Matt Corridoni, Moulton’s communications director, confirmed to NBC10 Boston that the two-term Massachusetts Democrat “is thinking about” joining the race to be his party’s presidential nominee. A rising political star who recently saw a backlash for criticizing U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi assuming the role of House Speaker and may face primary...

Senator Kamala Harris announced Monday she has entered the 2020 presidential race. Harris, who plans to highlight truth, justice, decency and equality in her quest for the democratic nomination, is the fourth woman to enter the field. “I think this is terrific,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, the first woman to jump into the race three weeks ago, said of the news....