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Boston Globe - Politics

In battleground Michigan, 3 Democrats test vision of affordability in the Senate primary -- That nationwide challenge is especially urgent in Michigan, where three Democrats are running in the US Senate primary in August.

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Trump erased a bedrock climate rule. Here come the lawsuits. -- When the Trump administration erased one of the nation's bedrock scientific principles on climate change this week, it set up a legal battle.

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Trump official will leave top transit post for a state Assembly seat -- Marc Molinaro is preparing to quit his influential perch in the Trump administration after just six months.

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US Homeland Security Department shuts down amid ICE raid impasse -- The lapse in funding could last for weeks, with Congress on a recess and no agreement on Democratic demands to enact new limits on the tactics employed by immigration officers patrolling American cities.

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Newly released documents detail ICE plans for warehouse facility in Merrimack, N.H.

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to travel to Germany to speak at Munich Security Conference

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Goodlander calls attempt to indict Democratic lawmakers an 'outrage'

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Full scope of ICE's 'new detention model' outlined in records released by N.H. Governor Ayotte

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Shirley Leung - For Karen Spilka, this year's Galentine's Day is serious business - On Galentine's Day, we sat down with Mass. Senate President Karen Spilka to talk about her priorities and relationship with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.

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'Concerned but never courageous': Janet Mills ad slams Susan Collins for Trump response -- Maine US Senator Susan Collins faced a new attack ad this week from Maine Governor Janet Mills, who is criticizing her response to President Trump.

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As city approves new campus plan, Wentworth agrees to new annual payments -- The small Fenway campus is the second Boston school whose expansion plans were dangled as leverage by City Hall to extract higher voluntary payments-in-lieu-of-taxes from colleges.

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Partial government shutdown ahead as funding set to lapse for Homeland Security. Here's a recap of Friday.

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With Congress gone, much of DHS is set to run out of money after midnight

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Journalist Don Lemon pleads not guilty to civil rights charges in Minnesota church protest

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Professors in the Epstein files say they hoped friendship would lead to research funding

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Second US aircraft carrier is reportedly being sent to the Middle East as Iran tensions high

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What to know about the Homeland Security shutdown starting this weekend

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Trump administration erases the government's power to fight climate change

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Trump heads to Fort Bragg to cheer special forces members who ousted Venezuela's Maduro

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