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Boston Globe - Politics

Senate approves bill to end the shutdown, sending it to the House -- The Senate has passed legislation to reopen the government, bringing the longest shutdown in history closer to an end after a small group of Democrats struck a deal with Republicans.

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Live updates - Senate passes bill to end government shutdown. See a recap. The longest shutdown in US history is closer to an end after a small group of Senate Democrats struck a deal with Republicans on Monday.

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Supreme Court denies request to revisit same-sex marriage decision -- The court declined the petition, filed by Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who gained national attention in 2015 when she defied a court order and refused to issue same-sex licenses because of her religious beliefs.

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Louisiana prison guards cut a Rastafari inmate's dreadlocks. The Supreme Court will decide if he can sue. -- The justices heard arguments in the case of Damon Landor, who wants to sue for money damages under a federal law designed to protect the religious rights of inmates.

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He lost a US Senate race a year ago. Republican John Deaton says he will try running in another in 2026.

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Hundreds of flights canceled, delayed at Logan Airport Monday amid government shutdown

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Eight Democrats voted with GOP to advance deal to end shutdown. A lot of other Democrats are outraged.

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Chris Pappas breaks with N.H. Senator Jeanne Shaheen on deal to end shutdown: 'I can't support it'

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Gabriela Coletta Zapata says she has the votes to be Boston City Council president. She has other news: She's pregnant. -- Gabriela Coletta Zapata won reelection to a second full term last week, and currently chairs the council's powerful government operations committee.

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RI POLITICS - Providence City Councilor Sue AnderBois to run for R.I. lieutenant governor - AnderBois will challenge incumbent Sabina Matos, a fellow Providence Democrat.

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Healey to Mass. SNAP recipients: 'Forget the noise' from Washington, buy groceries -- Governor Healey said a federal program that helps millions of Americans buy groceries is being fully paid out for November and that people should "go out and buy the food you need."

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'Silence, for me, is now intolerable.' Takeaways from Judge Mark Wolf's rebuke of Trump administration in the Atlantic. -- In a first-person essay, Mark Wolf said he retired after four decades on the bench so he can fight what he called the Trump administration's "assault on the rule of law."

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Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide

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Trump tries to seize 'affordability' message

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After mistaken deportation, US asks judge to let it send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia

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Supreme Court will decide whether states can count late-arriving mail ballots, a Trump target

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Trump threatens to sue the BBC for $1 billion after Jan. 6 documentary

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The FDA removes a long-standing warning from hormone-based menopause drugs

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