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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Barack Obama's plan to protect from deportation an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally suffered another setback Monday in a ruling from a New Orleans-based federal appeals court. In a 2-1 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
election
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar was trapped in a post-election limbo Tuesday with official results barely trickling in, although opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party claimed a victory massive enough to give it the presidency and loosen the military's grip on the country. In an interview
Barack Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised to pass a bill that bans moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States — something Barack Obama has been trying to do since he was sworn in as president. The Senate planned to vote Tuesday on the $607 billion defense policy bill, which passed
Harvard University
CAMBRIDGE – Activists at Harvard Law School are asking the esteemed school to ditch the wheat. Student protesters claim the sheaves in the Harvard Law insignia "stain the school's contribution to humanity." The reason?
Politics
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The regional parliament of Catalonia launched a plan Monday to set up a road map for independence from Spain by 2017, defying warnings from the central government in Madrid that it is violating the nation's constitution. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pledged to halt the effort.
Obamacare
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon have another opportunity to determine the legal contours of religious liberty in America. On Friday, the Court announced that it will consider the arguments of Christian-affiliated institutions that they should be exempt from the contraceptive mandate of Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as
Massachusetts
WASHINGTON – The Democrats who make up the Massachusetts delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives walk in lockstep on many issues, but when it comes to immigration, one toes a different line. Rep. Bill Keating, a former Norfolk County prosecutor whose ninth district encompasses much of the South Shore
Massachusetts
WEYMOUTH — With Republican state Sen. Robert L. Hedlund's mayoral victory in the books, aide Patrick O'Connor confirmed he will run for his boss's Plymouth and Norfolk District seat. "I am running," O'Connor said by phone, moments after the Massachusetts Republican
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