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Trump team, Mass. leaders clash on immigration
The attacks between the incoming Trump administration and Massachusetts officials over immigration policies, enforcement, and sanctuary cities continues to intensify. Massachusetts isn’t a sanctuary state, but it is the only right-to-shelter state, which is a draw for undocumented immigrants and a target for the incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan. “She’s not very smart,” Homan said of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu...
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Trump names longtime ally Pam Bondi as his new attorney general pick hours after Matt Gaetz withdraws
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named longtime ally Pam Bondi as his new choice for attorney general, capping a tumultuous week for previous pick Matt Gaetz.
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Fact checking Trump's agenda: Tariffs
While campaigning for a second term in office, President-elect Donald Trump declared “tariff” to be his “favorite word” and “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” He regularly said he would use tariffs to raise federal revenue and increase jobs and manufacturing in the United States.
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‘Like nothing you've seen': Trump team readies a flurry of executive actions for Day 1
Expect action on illegal immigration and more socially conservative health care policies for members of the military.
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Could Trump reinstate the student debt that Biden forgave? Here's what experts say
Millions of student loan borrowers have had their debt forgiven under the Biden administration. Could President-elect Donald Trump claw back that relief?
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5 things to know about Linda McMahon
Here are five things to know about former wrestling executive Linda McMahon.
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Jose Ibarra found guilty of murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley
Jose Antonio Ibarra was convicted on Wednesday in a case that became focal to the immigration debate ahead of the presidential election.
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Trump lawyers demand judge ‘immediately' throw out hush money case
Letting the conviction stand would threaten to “hamstring the operation of the whole governmental apparatus,” lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove argued in a letter to the judge.
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What to know about Linda McMahon, Trump's pick for education secretary
Linda McMahon founded World Wrestling Entertainment with her husband, Vince, and she has twice ran for U.S. Senate. Here’s more to know.
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Trump plans to ‘close' the Department of Education. What does this mean?
Kirabo Jackson, professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University and former economic advisor to President Biden, discusses how education policy in the U.S. may shift under the new Trump administration.
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‘We will show them': Healey doubles down on state's commitment to offshore wind
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey doubled down Tuesday on the state’s commitment to offshore wind amidst signals that the federal government could soon turn far more antagonistic to the growing sector, telling a union hall audience that the partnership of organized labor and the clean energy industry gives the state “a special sauce” that positions it to continue its energy transition....
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5 things to know about Sean Duffy
The former congressman appeared on MTV’s “The Real World” reality show.
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5 things to know about Howard Lutnick
The billionaire CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald was born in Long Island, New York.
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Trump picks Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick to be commerce secretary
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he has chosen a key transition adviser and billionaire financial services executive, Howard Lutnick, to lead the Commerce Department.
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Will Trump hush money case get tossed? Prosecutors OK stay of sentencing
Donald Trump’s sentencing is in limbo with his hush money case in New York possibly set to be tossed.
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How Mass. leaders are responding to Trump's mass deportation promises
Elected officials in Massachusetts are reacting to President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants by declaring a national emergency and using military assets. Trump campaigned on a promise of the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, and he says he intends to deliver on it. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who declared a state of emergency...
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Trump's incoming White House spokeswoman is remembered fondly in her native NH
New Hampshire’s Karoline Leavitt is going from a small town streets to Pennsylvania Avenue, set to become the youngest ever White House press secretary
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Will we learn about the House Ethics Committee's investigation into Matt Gaetz?
Political analyst Sue O’Connell believes if the House’s report on Donald Trump’s attorney general pick Matt Gaetz is not released officially, it will likely be leaked.
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Georgia appeals court cancels arguments in Trump election case until further notice
Three other criminal cases against Donald Trump have been put in limbo on the heels of the Republican’s election as president.
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NH native Karoline Leavitt tapped as Trump's White House press secretary
President-elect Trump’s selection of Karoline Leavitt as his White House press secretary, the youngest ever, has raised the New Hampshire native’s star — we went to her alma mater, St. Anselm College, to learn more about her....
...Plus, analysis from Sue O’Connell on how Leavitt will prepare for the transition from the campaign trail to a White House...