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A staggering 672,483 new EBT cards have been added to the welfare rolls in a little over a year -- a tally that's intensifying calls for an audit of the welfare agency.
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Table Boston, a North End restaurant that charges $125 a person, is under fire after the owner's beef with a customer over a reservation cancellation went viral.
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Editorial | Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a word for Donald Trump: no. No to his cabinet picks, no to his policies -- essentially no to any idea that comes from a Trump White House. If only working for her Massachusetts constituents were as high a priority.
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Melania Trump focuses on addicted babies, not protests
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A Wu administration official, on behalf of the mayor, mistakenly sent all Boston city councilors an email Tuesday inviting them to a holiday party that was meant exclusively for “electeds of color,” prompting an apology and mixed reactions.
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Opinion | Massachusetts taxpayers will be on the hook for four years with no federal help because of Healey and her delusion that she’s doing the people’s will by fighting the Trump mandate to crack down on illegal immigration.
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If the Democrats have lost Needham, they’ve lost everywhere. This is why on Monday, Americans will be regaining control of America. Today, America. Tomorrow, Massachusetts.
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Gov. Maura Healey’s declaration that state police won’t assist in mass deportations is being blasted by critics who say it backtracks from her blaming the federal government for the migrant crisis.
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A Massachusetts school committee member has resigned after being exposed on social media for telling Trump supporters she hopes they choke on a “piece of (expletive) covered in broken glass.”
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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, could be on the chopping block after catching the eye of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. "Delete CFPB," Musk said this week.
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Opinion | Happy 80th birthday, Dementia Joe Biden. It’s been said that 80 is the new 60. But for the nation’s oldest (by far) president, 80 is the new 150. Biden is 80 going on… take away the car keys and lock him up in the memory-wing.
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Opinion | Nothing says the economy is great like a 34.6% increase in the number of food-stamp recipients in Massachusetts – in a mere 14 months.
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Judge Shelley Joseph is being hit with charges of "willful judicial misconduct" for bringing "disrepute" to the courts for allowing an illegal immigrant to escape ICE arrest in 2018.
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Editorial | Signaling to undocumented migrants that the state won't lift a finger to enforce immigration laws is like turning on the flashing neon "vacancy" sign on a motel. Need a room? Come here.
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Opinion | President Joe Biden’s last full month of office has served as a grim reminder he was one of the worst leaders this country has had in modern history.
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.@RepJoeKennedy said "enough is enough" following #LasVegasShooting, calls for action on gun control
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According to a new book, the NFL spread the initial misinformation that sparked Deflategate and later hid data that undermined their allegations against the Patriots.
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Woman who gouged out her eyes reveals why she did it, says 'life is more beautiful now'
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The Massachusetts student who was banned from wearing an "only two genders" shirt to middle school is asking the Supreme Court to hear his high-profile First Amendment case.
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President-elect Donald Trump says wind farms off the Massachusetts coast are “driving the whales crazy,” and his administration will look to enact a policy that halts the development of the “garbage” energy source.
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A group of allegedly powerful men implicated in a Greater Boston and in the DC suburbs of Virginia sex-trade case lost an appeal to the state’s highest court to keep their names secret.
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Huge rally in Barcelona to demand jailed separatists go free
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Opinion | The most important question about Mayor Michelle Wu’s no-whites-allowed Christmas party at the Parkman House Wednesday night is obvious: What if the reverse had happened?
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s publicly hosted holiday party excluding white elected officials is questionable optics and judgment for someone who is supposed to be uniting the city.
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Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey remains on the hot seat as Karen Read’s defense team argues he has used his personal cellphone and email to communicate with the court and witnesses in the case.
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A Trump-connected group has warned Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu that it has identified the Bay State and Boston as sanctuaries for illegal immigrants, urging them to undo the policies that “make a mockery of American democracy.”
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Opinion | Say what you will about Donald Trump, but there were no illegal immigrants sleeping at Logan Airport when he was president.
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was not on the ballot on Election Day but she still lost on multiple fronts.
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While Democrats attack Donald Trump for his age and mental fitness, two ancient fossils lead the Massachusetts delegation with no indication they plan to give up their taxpayer-funded gigs.
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Disgraced former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins has been suspended from practicing law in Massachusetts.
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Weeks ago, Gavin Brennan was simultaneously fighting COVID-19 and undergoing chemotherapy. Today, he celebrated his 7th birthday after coming home from Children's Hospital. @Meghan_Ottolini reports:
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The U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston tweeted an alert just after 7 a.m. that a press conference is set for this morning to "announce the arrest of a Boston City Councilor on federal corruption charges."
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Battenfeld: San Francisco is now being forced to make dramatic budget cuts, and the person who oversaw skyrocketing spending in SF is now in charge of the budget for Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
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It’s time for Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu to do an about face and declare their cooperation with federal immigration authorities to rid shelters of drug dealers, sex abusers and criminals carrying weapons.
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U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch says he believes Congress has “lost control of the immigration process in this country," casting Massachusetts’ only yes vote on a bill named after a Georgia nursing school student murdered by an illegal immigrant.
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A Cape Cod gun store owner is in the process of kicking off a mad dash to collect tens of thousands of signatures by late October to suspend the enforcement of a new, wide-ranging gun law in Massachusetts as efforts to repeal the measure also push forward.
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The scandal-scarred Massachusetts State Police is beyond repair and needs to be dissolved and replaced with a modern, civilian-led force that's fully accountable to the public.
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A convicted murderer who beat his pregnant wife to death in front of her 5-year-old boy was one of the illegal immigrants grabbed by ICE in the Boston area sweep last week.
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Battenfeld: Michelle Wu's decision to exclude thousands of charter, parochial and METCO school children from her free museum weekends program is mean-spirited and divisive.
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A Boston Police officer who was fired for sending pro-Trump tweets anonymously on Jan. 6, 2021, had his termination vacated by the state civil service commission.
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A longtime Boston City Hall worker who made more than $130,000 a year in the Mayor Michelle Wu administration has been sentenced in connection to a prison money laundering charge.
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Ted Cruz touts Cambridge, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard as immigrant ports of entry under new plan
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Seth Moulton says he doesn't want his girls 'getting run over on the playing field by a male or formerly male athlete': NY Times
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Federal authorities said the Boston Police Department refused to act on 198 immigration detainer requests last year, far exceeding the 15 reported by BPD’s commissioner, while blasting the city for jeopardizing “public safety and national security.”
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Opinion | Bay State voters are increasingly angry and frightened as they have watched unchecked immigration burden their communities— yet Massachusetts leaders continue to ignore their own voters’ concerns.
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The federal funds spigot feeding Massachusetts could be at risk when President-elect Donald Trump takes office next year.
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White supremacist group The Patriot Front reportedly marching through Boston
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Accused Boston BLM charity fraudster Monica Cannon-Grant’s last private attorney has been temporarily suspended from practicing law in the state of Massachusetts.
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Mayor Wu is overseeing a commercial decline unlike any the city has seen in recent memory, with over a billion dollar hole in the budget due to declining tax revenues. And bike lanes don’t generate revenue.
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Editorial: Mueller report means the end of Trump collusion myth
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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is being slammed for not supporting Virginia’s successful effort to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls.
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The Massachusetts student who was banned from wearing an "only two genders" shirt to middle school is receiving support from 18 states and free speech groups.
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The appeals court has sided with the city's public-safety unions, throwing out a lower-court judge's ruling and installing an injunction preventing Mayor Michelle Wu from enforcing the employee vaccine mandate.
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Pressley, Markey, Clark echo Trump’s call for $2,000 coronavirus stimulus checks
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It's time. If Mike Vrabel is willing to return to New England as the Patriots' head coach, the Krafts should make the call.
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Conservative critics are slamming Massachusetts Congresswoman Elizabeth Warren for setting up a fundraiser for communities affected by the devastating California wildfires on a platform affiliated with the Democratic Party.
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Opinion | During Donald Trump's presidency all Americans experienced freedom, strength, and prosperity for the first time in the 246-year history of the United States.
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Opinion | “Here in New Hampshire, we are going to ban sanctuary policies and give law enforcement the tools to work together to ensure this crisis never comes to our towns.” -- Governor-elect Kelly Ayotte
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Trump chooses anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary
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Massachusetts hospital employee who was fired after not getting COVID vaccine scores win in appeals court
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Harvard students who blamed Israel after Hamas' terrorist attacks say they're afraid for their safety, as a truck revealing students' names and their faces continued to drive around the Cambridge campus on Thursday.
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As Nantucket continues to reel from the Vineyard Wind turbine blade failure, critics are raising concerns around how the project’s parent company, Avangrid, has donated thousands of dollars in campaign money to state elected officials.
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A group of Massachusetts senators are demanding that the governor review how many migrant families being supported by taxpayers entered the U.S. on the condition of having their expenses covered by a sponsor, and that she make those people pay up.
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The fire union is pushing back at the mayor and police, saying firefighters stand by what they reported after rushing into a South Boston apartment this past weekend, a matter that triggered a 51A child-neglect alert.
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Attorneys for blogger Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney say that special prosecutors assigned to his case accusing him of pro-Karen Read witness intimidation are lying about not having evidence from his cell phones.
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Days after Massachusetts voters embraced Auditor Diana DiZoglio's mission to audit the Legislature, the Methuen Democrat formally notified top Beacon Hill leaders that her office is reviving its recent probe and seeking missing information.
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Trump says mass deportations of immigrants would be top priority: ‘No choice’
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Massachusetts Republicans painted a dire picture Thursday night of a state crippled by overspending on the state-run shelter system, a lack of transparency on Beacon Hill, and widespread mismanagement of the state finances.
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A Massachusetts mother has told the nation she’s worried about her kids and their safety as two illegal immigrants who flocked to Massachusetts are in custody for alleged sex crimes against minors.
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Opinion | Inflation has hit every household, and we have all trimmed our budgets, it’s time for Mayor Wu to do the same.
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Owner says record-holding cats died in November house fire
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Opinion | In case you’re not familiar with this latest $196,551-a-year local poster gal for leftist lunacy, this Nutt is nuttier than a fruitcake.
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Opinion | Wu truly lives in another world where she doesn’t have to subject herself to the same rules and criticism that other pols face every day. She’s the Mayor in a Bubble.
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Incoming border czar Thomas Homan says he hopes Boston Mayor Michelle Wu doesn’t “cross the line” when the Trump administration begins rolling out its mass deportation plan early next year.
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The Healey and Wu administrations finally were forced to acknowledge highly infectious chickenpox cases at a migrant shelter in Roxbury this week but deliberately downplayed the outbreak for political reasons and released only limited information.
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Does this look someone who would go bat-bleep crazy and suddenly start shoving the female manager of a nice Cape Cod bar while screaming unhinged obscenities at her and her young waitresses on a balmy summer Saturday night?
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ICE Boston agents have arrested three immigrants who were charged in connection with the death of an infant. The 1-year-old boy reportedly had significant bruising on his face.
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ICE has already begun rounding up hundreds of illegal immigrant criminals across the country just two days into the Trump administration’s aggressive push — with one Boston-area Haitian gang member telling agents “(expletive) Trump, Biden forever!”
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William Gross, the first Black commissioner of the Boston Police Department, says he’s feeling “perturbed” that the North End, filled with Italian restaurants, is being singled out with heavy restrictions on outdoor dining.
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Editorial | Massachusetts needs a state DOGE, an entity charged with asking the tough questions that taxpayers want answers to: What does your office do? How much do you get paid? What do you do to earn that salary?
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Opinion | At least three times in the last six presidential campaigns, "60 Minutes" has shamelessly peddled Very Fake News in their hysterical attempts to rig elections for the Democrats.
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Opinion | There are huge risks of backlash for Mayor Wu. She could be seen as an unreasonable obstructionist, defending migrants accused of serious crimes like sexual assault.
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Opinion | How does a sub-par vice president get transformed nearly instantaneously into a joyful performer who can do no wrong?
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Mexican director Cuaron's 'Roma' wins top prize at Venice
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A newly elected MassGOP committeewoman from Boston is focused on recruiting Republicans to run for a seat on the all-Democrat City Council to combat what she says is a “dangerous” government structure limited to one political viewpoint.
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The longtime spokesman for the embattled Norfolk DA has resigned as the office faces blistering scrutiny on multiple fronts -- including federal investigators.
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John Deaton, a Republican and cryptocurrency attorney, officially launched his campaign against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren Tuesday, marking the first major challenger to the second-term Democrat this election cycle.
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Shortly after Mayor Michelle Wu introduced a revised plan to raise commercial tax rates, Boston City Councilor Erin Murphy requested information from the mayor’s office on how many new positions have been created under the Wu administration.
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Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton after his transgender comments says Democrats are 'not listening. just shutting down debate'
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Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson was told to retake the oath of office after a video showing her not saying the words or raising her right hand during Monday’s inaugural ceremony went viral on social media, the Herald has learned.
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As DA, Rachael Rollins used her taxpayer-funded credit card at fancy restaurants from Newbury Street to New York in what appears to be a blatant violation of state guidelines, a Herald analysis shows.
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Opinion | Will she order police to “protect” the immigrants who are not here legally and risk being deported? Does that mean actively obstructing ICE from going after rapists and felons?
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