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BOSTON (AP) — In newly released recordings, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy expresses his frustration over the way a failed 2007 immigration bill was handled in the Senate and the secretive approach President Bill Clinton took on his failed universal health care proposal, which Kennedy called a "catastrophic mistake."
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The shooting last month by an illegal immigrant of 32-year-old Kate Steinle, who died in her father's arms on a San Francisco pier, has focused the nation's attention on so-called "sanctuary cities" — local jurisdictions that, as a matter of policy, refuse to comply with
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This summer, because of a 2014 referendum passed by nearly 60 percent of voters, Massachusetts became the latest state to require all businesses with 11 or more employees to provide paid sick leave. The policy sounds compassionate. Nobody wants to worry about losing a job or not being able to
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STATE HOUSE — Gov. Charlie Baker opened the door on Tuesday to including off-shore wind in his immediate energy plans if projects can prove competitive on pricing, prodding lawmakers to act with urgency this fall on two of his initiatives intended facilitate the solar industry and bring large-scale hydroelectric power to
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BOSTON (AP) — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady says his comments that he hopes Donald Trump will win the presidency were taken out of context and an example of why he tries to say as little as possible when speaking publicly. Brady said during an interview with WEEI-FM radio in
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Lawmakers on Beacon Hill weighed a bill Tuesday that supporters say would level the playing field for small beer brewers, while opponents say it would irreparably damage the craft-brewing industry that supports it. An overflow crowd gathered for the hearing, spilling into a State House hallway. The legislation would rewrite
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Broadcast live by CNN and attended by hundreds drawn by Donald Trump, Ernie Boch Jr.'s Summer Bash caught the eye of nearly everyone in and around Boston. At $100 a head, it surely raised tens of thousands of dollars. But for whom? At the Aug. 28 event, Trump
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WINCHESTER – If Barbara Doherty's son were alive today, he'd be the first to sign up to run in his hometown's road-race events, she said. "There wasn't a sport he didn't love," she said about Glen Doherty, one of
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