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Boston Globe - Politics

Live updates - Police arrest protesters at airport as Minnesota gears up for anti-immigration enforcement protest. Follow live updates. Minneapolis and St. Paul have seen daily protests since Renee Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Jan. 7.

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Justice Department says Jack Smith report on Trump investigation 'belongs in dustbin of history' -- The department's position echoes that of President Trump, whose lawyers this week asked a judge to permanently block the release of the Smith report.

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Police arrest protesters at airport as Minnesota gears up for anti-immigration enforcement protest -- Authorities have not said how many people were detained at the airport.

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The liberal Western Mass. city where the left is eating its young — and old

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Maine ICE raids follow a familiar pattern: Operations in places led by Democrats who've tangled with Trump

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'We don't believe in secret arrests or secret police': Here's how Maine lawmakers are responding to new ICE operation

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Democrats protest ICE in near-unanimous party vote against DHS funding

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Collins, Mills take different tacks on ICE's sweeping enforcement action in Maine - Democratic Governor Janet Mills called on her Republican rival, Senator Susan Collins, to act after the House's GOP majority defeated efforts by Democrats to curtail ICE funding.

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Governor Maura Healey proposes modest increase to unrestricted aid for Mass. cities and towns -- The governor proposed roughly $33 million in new unrestricted local aid for cities and towns in Massachusetts, far below the $351 million the Massachusetts Municipal Association recommended.

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Healey teases initiatives to relieve rising costs of health care, energy bills, and housing in State of the Commonwealth -- Speaking to a packed House chamber, Governor Maura Healey repeatedly nodded to the pain residents are feeling and cast her administration as the salve a Trump administration isn't providing.

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Rejecting decades of science, vaccine panel chair says polio and other shots should be optional

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Ukraine, Russia, US to discuss fraught issue of territorial concessions in Abu Dhabi

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Philadelphia sues over removal of slavery exhibit at Independence National Historical Park

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Canada's Carney fires back at Trump after Davos speech

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Five Democratic states asking judge to keep Trump from withholding money for child care

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Immigrants often don't open the door to ICE, but that may no longer stop officers

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In the case of the Federal Reserve, Supreme Court appears to carve out a murky exception

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