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Massachusetts

Baker questions Obama step toward marine monuments

BOSTON – Raising concerns about potential impacts on commercial fisheries, Gov. Charlie Baker is questioning President Barack Obama's step toward designating two areas off the Massachusetts coast as national marine monuments. The White House and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have signaled an intention to designate at least

Obamacare

Failure of ObamaCare co-ops demonstrate the need for business basics

If only we could get profits out of the system, then things would work right. That's what proponents of government-run health care often suggest. Yet ObamaCare's "co-ops" – including one in Massachusetts – are proving that health care must be run like a business, or it

Obamacare

Health law’s 3rd sign-up season faces challenges from prices

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's insurance website is faster and easier to use, but as a third sign-up season gets underway, President Barack Obama's health care law is approaching limits. Enrollment on the federal and state exchanges began Sunday. While the law's expanded coverage has

Obamacare

Potential delay on some upgrades to Obamacare site

WASHINGTON (AP) — With sign-up season starting in less than two weeks, the Obama administration indicated on Monday that some long-awaited upgrades to the government's health insurance website could take more time before they're customer-ready. At issue is a new doctor look-up tool for HealthCare.gov, as

terrorism

Religious leaders, scholars ask Obama to declare ISIS violence a genocide

Washington D.C. — More than 100 religious leaders, scholars, and human rights advocates signed a letter Monday asking President Obama to formally declare the killing and displacement of Middle Eastern religious minorities a "genocide." "We humbly request that your office publicly acknowledge and denounce the Islamic State&

President Barack Obama

Obama apologizes to aid group for US attack on Afghan clinic

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama apologized to Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday for the American air attack that killed at least 22 people at its hospital in Afghanistan, and said the U.S. would examine military procedures to look for better ways to prevent such incidents. Obama's telephone

Immigration

US government deports fewest immigrants in nearly a decade

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration deported the fewest number of immigrants in the past 12 months since 2006, according to new government figures obtained by The Associated Press. The figures also show that deportations of criminal immigrants have dropped to the lowest numbers since President Barack Obama took office in

MBTA

White House withdraws Scott’s nomination to NTSB board

OCT. 5, 2015 — The White House has pulled the plug on former MBTA chief Beverly Scott's nomination to serve on a national transportation board. Scott resigned as general manager of the MBTA last winter, announcing her plans to step down as the transit authority was coping with snow