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Boston Globe - Politics

What do Iran and the US stand to gain from their deal? Here's what to know. -- Besides the new oil revenue for Iran, the two sides are more or less back where they were nearly four months ago — before Israel and the US launched their war on Iran.

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G7 leaders back Trump's deal to end Iran war as more details of it emerge -- Closing the three-day summit, French President Emmanuel Macron called it a "very good deal."

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Live updates - US officials read memorandum of understanding with Iran to journalists. Follow live updates. As part of the agreement, the US will move to waive, but not eliminate, some wide-ranging sanctions against Iran once the deal is signed.

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Trump delays Clayton's nomination for intelligence director, but committee chairman promises hearing

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Can Democrats take the Senate? Here are the key races to watch.

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Birthright citizenship, mail ballots, and presidential power: What's left on the Supreme Court's docket this term

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Trump chose war. Vance gets the fallout.

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House panel wants Alan Dershowitz to testify about Jeffrey Epstein, his former client

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State & local politics

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Warning of layoffs, Wu moves to reverse City Council cut to transportation staff in $4.9 billion budget plan -- Wu wrote Wednesday that the council's move to cut the transportation department's personnel budget "would require layoffs across multiple divisions."

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Pay to drive into Boston? No way, say a majority of Mass. voters. -- More than 69 percent of the 500 registered voters surveyed in the Suffolk/Globe poll said they would not be willing to pay to drive to downtown Boston if there was less traffic.

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A Republican and Democrat challenging Ed Markey walked into a debate — without the incumbent. Here are four takeaways. -- Two candidates running for US Senate — US Representative Seth Moulton, a Democrat, and John Deaton, an attorney and the presumptive Republican nominee — sparred in an hourlong debate without incumbent Senator Ed Markey.

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Former Mass. Senator John Kerry slams Trump's moves in Iran: 'The world is scratching its head' -- John Kerry, who helped negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, called the Trump administration's deal to end the war in Iran an attempt to "dig itself out of a hole they dug themselves."

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What the White House's outrage over a Weather Channel forecast teaches about trust in meteorologists

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Most Americans see freedoms under threat but core to nation's identity, AP-NORC poll finds

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Trump delays Jay Clayton's nomination for intel director to try to push Congress on voting bill

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The cost to overcome a Trump endorsement? $100 million. Plus more takeaways from Tuesday's primaries.

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Trump-backed candidates secure GOP Senate nominations in Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma. Here's what happened.

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