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Boston.com National News
Apr 18, 2025

10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination are released, on Trump's order
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration posted 229 files containing the pages to its public website.

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Apr 18, 2025

Haley Joel Osment charged with cocaine possession and being drunk in public
Osment was arrested April 8 at the Mammoth Mountain ski resort.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 18, 2025

A startling admission from a GOP senator: ‘We are all afraid'
Lisa Murkowski, a longtime senator from Alaska and an independent voice in an increasingly tribal party, has been the rare Republican on Capitol Hill willing to criticize President Donald Trump's actions.

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Apr 18, 2025

Fyre Festival 2 calls off Mexico plans but insists event is not dead
A festival organizer said the event would not start as planned in Playa del Carmen on May 30.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 18, 2025

Here's what we know about the Florida State shooting suspect
Police identified the suspect as Phoenix Ikner, a Florida State student and the son of Leon County Sheriff's Deputy Jessica Ikner.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 18, 2025

Harvard's stand against Trump is helping it raise more money
"The more Trump punishes Harvard financially, the more I will donate," said Samuel Graham-Felsen, who donated to his alma mater for the first time this week.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 17, 2025

Trump admin terminates $90 million in disaster prevention aid for Mass.
Gov. Maura Healey said the funding cuts "suddenly ripped the rug out from under cities and towns" relying on federal aid.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 17, 2025

BU professor starts hunger strike to support free speech, detained students
The strike started after the university removed political signs from his office window several times.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 17, 2025

2 people were killed and at least 5 wounded in Florida State shooting
The two deaths are not students at the university, but the shooter is believed to be a student.

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Apr 17, 2025

Florida State gunman used deputy mom's former service weapon to kill 2 and wound 6, authorities say
The shooter, identified by police as Phoenix Ikner, is believed to be a Florida State student, investigators said.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 17, 2025

Suspect in custody in Florida State shooting, source tells AP
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare was receiving and treating people affected by the shooting.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 17, 2025

Mass. health care workers send open letter to protect immigrant access to care
The Health and Law Immigrant Solidarity Network sent the letter, which garnered more than 400 signatures, to seven of the largest health care networks in the state.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 17, 2025

What is tax-exempt status and can the IRS revoke it from Harvard?
The university, like many colleges and charities, is exempt from federal income and property taxes, saving it billions of dollars. President Donald Trump has questioned whether it should enjoy that status.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 17, 2025

IRS said to be considering whether to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status
The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration's attempts to choke off federal money and support for the leading research university.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 16, 2025

Judge finds probable cause to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating deportation order
"The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions. None of their responses has been satisfactory," the judge wrote.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 16, 2025

Trump administration sues Maine over participation of transgender athletes in girls sports
The lawsuit follows weeks of feuding between the Republican administration and Democratic Gov. Janet Mills.

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Apr 16, 2025

Judge in Boston orders federal agencies to release billions of dollars from two Biden-era initiatives
"Agencies do not have unlimited authority to further a President's agenda, nor do they have unfettered power to hamstring in perpetuity two statutes passed by Congress during the previous administration," the judge wrote.

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Apr 16, 2025

RFK Jr.'s mixed message about the measles outbreaks draws criticism from health officials
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s efforts to contain an epidemic in a tight-knit, religious community in West Texas have run counter to established public health strategies deployed to end past epidemics.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 16, 2025

Harvard stands to lose $2.2 billion in federal funding. Researchers fear science will suffer.
The impact will be felt most immediately by researchers at the Ivy League school and its partner institutions.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 16, 2025

Why Harvard decided to fight Trump
It came after leaders at Harvard, during intense discussions over the weekend, determined that what the government was proposing represented a profound threat to the 388-year-old university's independence and mission.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

Wink Martindale, the genial game-show host and an early TV interviewer of Elvis Presley, dies at 91
Martindale died Tuesday at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, California, according to his publicist. He had been battling lymphoma for a year.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

‘I am speaking out today to begin the process of reclaiming my life': Man who says he was held captive in Conn. home for 20 years makes first public comments
"Please call me ‘S,' " the statement begins. "This is not the name given to me by my parents when I was born. I am choosing a new name for myself, and I will use that name as I reclaim control over my life and my future."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

Second Mass. attorney mistakenly told to leave the U.S. despite being a citizen
As the Trump administration urges hundreds of thousands of people to leave, some immigration attorneys are receiving the shocking emails directly.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

Live updates: Here's how readers are reacting to Harvard rejecting Trump's demands
We're sharing the top reactions to Harvard pushing back on demands from the Trump administration.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

Federal judge drops contempt case against ICE agent over arrest outside Boston courthouse
"Any attempt or threat to interfere with the lawful functions of federal government agents will not be tolerated."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

Trump threatens Harvard's tax status, escalating billion-dollar feud
It's the latest turn in a fight between Trump and academia more broadly.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

Harvard faculty, Democrats praise school for rejecting Trump's ‘dangerous' demands
Harvard's rebuff of the Trump administration should serve as a template for other institutions, elected officials and faculty members said.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

Do you agree with Harvard's decision to defy Trump's demands?
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Apr 15, 2025

Read Harvard's full response rejecting the Trump administration's demands
"Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

‘I did not think he'd get this authoritarian this fast,' Jon Stewart says of Trump on ‘The Daily Show'
Stewart analyzed Donald Trump's presidency in a lengthy statement, "How authoritarian is we?"

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

They followed the rules. Now thousands of migrants are told, ‘leave.'
The new wave of notices indicates that the bulk of "removals" by the administration is likely to come from the revocation of immigrants' legal status, not, as Trump promised, the large-scale deportation of criminal migrants.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

JD Vance fumbles Ohio State's NCAA football championship trophy as Buckeyes visit the White House
"I didn't want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy so I decided to break it."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 15, 2025

News analysis: Harvard's decision to resist Trump is ‘of momentous significance'
But a fight with the nation's oldest, richest, and most elite university is a battle that President Donald Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 14, 2025

Blue Origin launches an all-female celebrity crew with Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez
Blue Origin has launched Jeff Bezos' fiancee Lauren Sanchez into space with an all-female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Gayle King

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Boston.com National News
Apr 14, 2025

Judge hears arguments in case of detained Tufts student; State Dept. reportedly found no links to terrorism
Lawyers representing Rümeysa Öztürk and the federal government appeared before a Vermont judge, who is considering the case's jurisdiction.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 14, 2025

Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands with federal funding at risk
The school is the first to push back against the government's efforts to force change at elite universities.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 14, 2025

Economist who called 2008 crash sounds alarm over looming financial crisis
Ray Dalio, founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, says he's "worried about something worse than a recession."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 14, 2025

She worked in a Harvard lab to reverse aging, until ICE jailed her
On Feb. 16, customs officials detained Kseniia Petrova at Logan International Airport in Boston for failing to declare samples of frog embryos she had carried from France at the request of her boss at Harvard.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 13, 2025

Suspect arrested in arson fire that forced Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, family to flee residence
The man, captured later in the day, will face charges of attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson and aggravated assault, authorities said.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 13, 2025

US won't say whether it's facilitating return of mistakenly deported man, despite judge's order
The government only said Garcia is under the authority of the El Salvador government.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 11, 2025

Maine governor, staring down Trump, says she is unfazed by ‘loud men'
While Gov. Janet Mills has stood firm, the federal government has barraged Maine with investigations, declared its education system to be in violation of federal law, and frozen some of its funding.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 11, 2025

Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say
The officials said stripping the immigrants of their Social Security numbers will cut them off from many financial services and encourage them to "self-deport" and abandon the U.S. for their birth countries.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 10, 2025

NYC mayor says family of Spanish tourists died in helicopter crash into Hudson River
Mayor Eric Adams said the flight began at a downtown heliport around 3 p.m. and that the dead had been recovered and removed from the water.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 10, 2025

Cabot Creamery butter recalled over fecal bacteria contamination
Consumers should not eat or use the recalled butter, which has a best-by date of Sept. 9.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 10, 2025

Michelle Obama addresses divorce rumors and public absences
The former first lady said on a podcast that people "couldn't even fathom that I was making a choice for myself, that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 10, 2025

Sidelined and still processing her defeat, Kamala Harris looks for a way back in
A successful campaign for governor of California in 2026, Kamala Harris has told allies, would give her a prominent perch from which to push back against President Trump and defend Democratic priorities.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 10, 2025

House approves budget framework for Trump's ‘big' bill after intense wrangling sways GOP holdouts
Two conservative Republicans voted against it, as did all Democrats.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 10, 2025

Author, wife of Weezer bassist arrested after being shot by police who say she pointed a gun at them
Police said they were assisting California Highway Patrol officers in their search for three suspects from a misdemeanor hit-and-run. Lauren was not among the suspects.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 09, 2025

Readers: Are you making big purchases as a result of Trump's latest trade plans?
President Trump announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, except for China, on Wednesday. We want to know how the tariffs are impacting your spending.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 09, 2025

How the government is working to consolidate data about you
Elon Musk's team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 09, 2025

Trump pauses tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises taxes on Chinese imports
Global markets surged on the development, but the precise details of Trump's plans to ease tariffs on non-China trade partners were not immediately clear.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 09, 2025

‘Totally silly': Trump's focus on trade deficit bewilders economists
Behind Trump's new tariffs is a goal that is as ambitious as it is unrealistic: eliminating the bilateral trade deficit with every U.S. trading partner.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 09, 2025

Why water fluoridation, long considered a public health success story, is under scrutiny
About one-third of community water systems — 17,000 out of 51,000 across the U.S. — serving more than 60% of the population fluoridated their water, according to a 2022 CDC analysis.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 08, 2025

Dave Portnoy and Joe Rogan are among the Trump backers now questioning his tariff policies
"Welcome to Orange Monday," Portnoy said on his "Davey Day Trader" financial livestream.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 08, 2025

Visas revoked for Berklee, Emerson students
At least three Berklee students and one Emerson student are affected.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 08, 2025

Wall Street bursts with anger over tariff ‘stupidity'
Billionaire investors are in an unfamiliar position, watching and cringing as tariffs roll on and the stock market reels.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 08, 2025

Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf
A company that aims to bring back lost species say they have genetically engineered wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf

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Boston.com National News
Apr 08, 2025

Protesters disrupt Moulton event; congressman compares ICE to Nazis
Demonstrators criticized Rep. Seth Moulton for not doing more to secure the release of Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 08, 2025

Here's what Jon Stewart said about Trump's tariffs and the economy on ‘The Daily Show'
"Our economy is in the midst of a beautiful metamorphosis, turning from a simple caterpillar, into a dead caterpillar."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 08, 2025

Maine sues the Trump administration over funding freeze after dispute over transgender athletes
Trump and Maine, which is controlled by Democrats, are in the midst of a weeks long dispute about the Title IX anti-discrimination law and the participation of transgender students in high school sports.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 08, 2025

Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different.
Trump, now championing his own sweeping tariffs that have sent global markets into a tailspin, argues that the U.S. was founded on steep import taxes on goods from abroad.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 07, 2025

Transgender woman arrested after using bathroom at Florida state Capitol
Marcy Rheintgen said she was held in jail overnight after she deliberately challenged a state law by entering a women's bathroom in the government building.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 07, 2025

As the markets fell, Trump putted
The stock markets have lost more than $6 trillion in value since Trump imposed sweeping tariffs. But on Sunday the president won — at golf.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 07, 2025

Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff
The worsening problems come as Elon Musk's DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 07, 2025

This Republican senator is leading the charge against Trump's tariffs
"He is consistent — some would say stubborn," one senator said of Rand Paul. "But he stepped up on tariffs, and he tells it like it is."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 06, 2025

Andrea Campbell talks Trump lawsuits, auditing the state legislature, school cellphone bans on WBZ
The attorney general spoke with Jon Keller on WBZ's "Keller at Large" Sunday morning.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 05, 2025

Disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died at age 94
He had been living in Missouri, and Vatican News reported he died there.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 04, 2025

Rep. Moulton calls out ‘chainsawing of our government' in DOGE cuts
Moulton spoke at a press conference in Danvers on April 4 along with leaders from North Shore community organizations.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 03, 2025

Dow drops 1,600 as US stocks lead worldwide sell-off after Trump's tariffs cause a COVID-like shock
Everything from crude oil to Big Tech stocks to the value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies fell. Even gold pulled lower.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 03, 2025

‘They fired everybody': Entire staff is laid off at office that helps poorer Americans pay for heating
"Eliminating the entire federal staff responsible for LIHEAP — a program that millions of households depend on to stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer — isn't reform," said Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass. "It's sabotage."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 02, 2025

‘Deeply troubling': ICE is undermining public safety, Suffolk DA says
District Attorney Kevin Hayden insisted his office did not know ICE agents would detain a man mid-trial, calling the move "unacceptable and unprofessional."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 02, 2025

Wisconsin and Florida elections provide early warning signs to Trump and Republicans
In the marquee race for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the conservative judge endorsed by Trump and backed by Musk and his groups to the tune of $21 million lost by a significant margin in a state Trump won in November.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance?
It set the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the chamber's history, though Booker was assisted by fellow Democrats who gave him a break from speaking by asking him questions on the Senate floor.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

Professors pushed Harvard to resist Trump. Now billions are on the line.
Harvard, the wealthiest school in the world, sought compromise amid pressure to do more to combat antisemitism. The Trump administration is examining its funding anyway.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

Here's what Jon Stewart said about Trump's third-term comments, federal worker layoffs, and the Signal chat
"There are other methods for staying in power beyond when you are legally allowed to be there. Historically, some of them involved catapults."

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

Prosecutors directed to seek death penalty against UnitedHealthcare killing suspect Luigi Mangione
Mangione, 26, faces separate federal and state murder charges for the killing. The federal charges include a charge of murder through use of a firearm, which carries the possibility of the death penalty.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

They were deactivated from delivering. Their finances were devastated.
Some state and local governments are trying to regulate deactivations. As part of a court settlement, Massachusetts mandated that Lyft and Uber provide drivers a reason when they are deactivated and set up an appeals process.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

Wu to join rally Tuesday evening for detained Tufts student
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and labor union leaders will gather in support of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk outside the JFK Federal Building.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

Layoffs begin at U.S. health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food
The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff — 10,000 jobs through layoffs and another 10,000 workers who took early retirement and voluntary separation offers.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

Layoffs begin at U.S. health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease, and regulating food
The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff — 10,000 jobs through layoffs and another 10,000 workers who took early retirement and voluntary separation offers.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker launches overnight speech to protest Trump's agenda
Booker railed against cuts to Social Security offices and spoke to concerns that broader cuts to the social safety net could be coming, though Republican lawmakers say the program won't be touched.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

Pentagon eliminates lower fitness standards for women in combat roles
Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, mandated that physical fitness requirements for combat jobs be "sex-neutral," a move that is likely to significantly reduce the number of women who qualify.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

No toilet paper and no privacy: Returning to the office, federal workers walk into chaos
President Donald Trump has described his new in-office requirement as a way to ensure workers are doing their jobs. He sees potentially leading more employees to quit as an added benefit.

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Boston.com National News
Apr 01, 2025

Hooters files for bankruptcy protection
"Our renowned Hooters restaurants are here to stay and we are taking action to strengthen our business to better serve our valued customers over the long term."

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Boston.com National News
Mar 31, 2025

‘We need to reform our party': Seth Moulton suggests how to change Democrats' messaging
The Massachusetts congressman recently sat down with WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller and discussed the Signal chat, veterans, and his party's message.

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Boston.com National News
Mar 31, 2025

Watch: Newly returned NASA astronauts, including Needham native, speak to reporters
Butch Wilmore and Needham native Suni Williams said Monday that they hold themselves partly responsible for what went wrong.

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Boston.com National News
Mar 31, 2025

Leaders of Harvard's Middle Eastern Studies Center will leave
Harvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism.

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Boston.com National News
Mar 31, 2025

Targeting of Tufts student for deportation stuns friends and teachers
The Trump administration said she "engaged in activities in support of Hamas." Her friends and lawyers say all she did was co-author an essay critical of the war in Gaza.

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Boston.com National News
Mar 31, 2025

Elon Musk hands out $1 million payments after Wisconsin Supreme Court declines request to stop him
A unanimous state Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state's Democratic attorney general to stop Musk from handing over the checks to two voters.

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Boston.com National News
Mar 30, 2025

Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term as president
The 22nd Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1951 after President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times in a row, says "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice."

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Mar 30, 2025

Minnesota officials seek answers in case of graduate student detained by ICE
University leadership said Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained the student Thursday at an off-campus residence.

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Mar 28, 2025

A Harvard scientist from Russia has been detained by ICE since February for failing to declare frog embryos
The woman is being held in a Louisiana detention facility while waiting for her next hearing.

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Mar 28, 2025

How Kristi Noem's $50,000 Rolex in a Salvadoran prison became a political flashpoint
The high-end Swiss watch lent a striking contrast to her tour of a notoriously overcrowded mega-prison in one of Latin America's poorest countries.

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Mar 28, 2025

A child complained of a ‘monster' under their bed. Their babysitter then came face-to-face with a man hiding there.
"An altercation ensued with the babysitter and one child was knocked over in the struggle."

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Mar 28, 2025

Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with ‘improper ideology'
Trump singled out the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016 near the White House, the Women's History Museum, which is in development, and the American Art Museum for criticism.

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Mar 27, 2025

Rubio defends arrest of Tufts student, says more ‘lunatics' will be targeted
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Rumeysa Ozturk's visa was terminated due to disruptive protest behavior. He did not cite evidence.

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Mar 27, 2025

ICE responds to judge's order as Tufts gives update on detained student
Rumeysa Ozturk is now being detained in Louisiana. A judge had ordered ICE not to relocate her without 48 hours notice, but a federal prosecutor says the order was too late.

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Mar 27, 2025

Trump administration abruptly cuts billions from state health services
"We will continue to assess the full impacts and are in touch with the Attorney General's Office and the 49 other states facing similar challenges," Gov. Maura Healey of Massachusetts said in a statement.

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Mar 27, 2025

A beloved library that united the U.S. and Canada faces new border restrictions
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the line between the village of Derby Line, Vermont, and the town of Stanstead, Quebec.

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Mar 27, 2025

We asked readers if egg prices are changing their habits. Here's what they said.
"Eggs are a staple that I will prioritize ahead of other food needs," Christopher F. in Holden wrote.

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