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Boston Globe - Politics

Live updates - Minnesota gears up for a mass anti-immigration enforcement protest despite the dangerous cold. 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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Rejecting decades of science, vaccine panel chair says polio and other shots should be optional -- A pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person's right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.

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

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Maine ICE raids followed Trump clash with Democratic governor. That's happened elsewhere, too.

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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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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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Downtown Boston is still struggling. For Segun Idowu's replacement, will Wu focus there? -- Idowu's impending departure raises questions about whether his successor will continue his neighborhood-focused approach to the job.

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Minnesota gears up for a mass anti-immigration enforcement protest despite the dangerous cold

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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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Vance says Insurrection Act not needed 'right now' in Minneapolis. Here are the highlights from Thursday.

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US completes withdrawal from World Health Organization

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