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Wednesday, June 17, 2026 7:49 AM ET

Boston Globe - Politics

Live updates - Trump's opening phrase to other G7 leaders: 'I'm the boss.' Follow Live updates. US President Trump wraps up talks with world leaders at the Group of Seven summit on Wednesday. Follow along live.

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Analysis - Trump chose war. Vance gets the fallout. The irony to all of this is that reporting suggests that Vance thought the whole war in Iran was a bad idea from the start.

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Most Americans see freedoms under threat but core to nation's identity, AP-NORC poll finds -- About 9 in 10 Americans say the right to vote is "extremely" or "very" important to the United States' identity, the poll found.

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

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'His ego is out of control.' The White House UFC fight is another Trump birthday spectacle.

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State & local politics

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Most Mass. voters oppose congestion pricing, new Suffolk/Globe poll finds - 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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Governor Ayotte vetoes bipartisan bill to expand cultivation of medicinal marijuana -- Senate Bill 468 would have allowed medicinal marijuana dispensaries to have their own greenhouse on site, to increase supply and lower prices.

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In Georgia's Capitol, Republicans' redistricting session to begin without maps

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Interim US-Iran deal leaves the thorniest issue still to be negotiated: Tehran's nuclear program

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State lawmaker and Trump-backed pastor head to House runoff in Oklahoma

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Authorities say they've disrupted planned drone, gun attack on White House UFC cage-fighting show

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RFK Jr. overrules experts to keep hantavirus cruise ship passenger in quarantine

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Senate fails to advance war powers resolution to halt US action against Iran

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Trump ramps up Education Department's dismantling with changes on special education and civil rights

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Republican divides and strange alliances emerge ahead of Georgia runoff

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