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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy's growth slowed sharply in the final three months of last year to a 0.7 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Consumers slowed spending, businesses cut back on investment and global problems trimmed exports. The slowdown could renew doubts about
Seth Moulton
BOSTON – Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton urged attendees ahead of a panel discussion on refugee resettlement in New England to resist "denying the American dream" to those living in peril abroad, but a former State Department foreign service officer reminded listeners that the asylum vetting process isn&
Massachusetts
BOSTON – A Chinese national who facilitated the sale of nuclear technology to Iran will spend almost a decade in jail while his Iranian accomplice roams free as part of a deal between the governments of the United States and Iran. Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the
Massachusetts
BOSTON –President Barack Obama's landmark nuclear deal with Iran is paying dividends for one criminal defendant charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with helping Iran in its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Not so for the Iranian man's alleged accomplice, a Chinese national.
Donald Trump
WASHINGTON – Plummeting poll numbers and a frosty reception from women are triggering alarms inside Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign and prompting pundits and even a GOP contender to resume tossing around the idea of a Joe Biden candidacy. "Voices are being heard among the political classes about
Democrats
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton's emails while secretary of state included at least one that dealt with one or more spies engaged in ongoing operations, Fox News reported Friday, citing two people familiar with a letter to Congress from the inspector general of U.S. intelligence agencies. It wasn'
Abortion
WASHINGTON – On Friday, hundreds of thousands of activists plan to converge on the Washington Monument for a noontime rally and then march to Capitol Hill at the other end of the National Mall, where they will gather at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to commemorate the 43rd
congress
Puerto Rico is sinking in $73 billion of debt. Mired in a long-running depression, the U.S. territory has already cut essential services to bare bones. Puerto Rico can't fully pay its bondholders without setting off total economic collapse. One of two things can happen, short of doing
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