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OCTOBER 11, 2018: Fall River Mayor Jasiel F. Correia II he leaves Moakley Federal Courthouse after his arraignment on Thursday, October 11, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. A group of Fall River city councilors plans to push for indicted Mayor Jasiel F. Correia II's removal at a special hearing Tuesday - an ouster they can legally force if they can muster seven votes against him.
Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren reportedly stole the show at the Center for American Progress' annual Ideas Conference in Washington on Tuesday as she laid out an aggressive liberal agenda and attacked President Donald Trump for undermining American democracy. The Hill reported that this year's CAP conference was an occasion for 2020 presidential contenders to demonstrate why they should be the next Democrat nominee for president.
After a decision by the Trump administration last week to end protected status for Honduran refugees, immigrant activists put Democrats on Beacon Hill on notice Monday that they want more than just lip service from their state elected leaders. At a rally outside the State House in support of immigrants from Honduras, El Salvador and other countries facing deportation because of actions taken by President Donald Trump, some community leaders said it was not enough for Beacon Hill politicians to offer their rhetorical support.
Among the “scrambled thoughts” that came to a young Ted Kennedy as he stumbled from the water into which he had crashed his Oldsmobile, killing his passenger and crippling his political career, was a sort of existential question, if not a supernatural one. The 37-year-old U.S. senator from Massachusetts wondered that night in 1969 whether “some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.” He recalled the thought aloud one week later in a televised speech, after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of the crash and failing to notify police until morning, as Mary Jo Kopechne died in the water off Chappaquiddick Island.
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'This Is On Them 100%': Fire Chief Blasts National Grid For Storm Response The fire chief in Hull took to Facebook to express his frustration with National Grid after power was knocked out in town for several days. More Than 100,000 Mass.
The Massachusetts congressman will begin Saturday joining fellow Democrat, Congressman Dan Kildee of Michigan, at a meeting with the Community Foundation of Greater Flint to receive an update on recovery efforts. The two will then do a walking tour of the Flint Farmers' Market to discuss the need for Flint residents to have access to healthy foods and affordable health care.
The 37-year-old , red-headed congressman from Brookline, heir apparent to the thinning Kennedy political dynasty, is quickly emerging as a player in a Democrat Party bereft of leaders. He recently gave a rip-roaring speech in Texas that tore into President Donald Trump and had Texas Democrats clamoring for more.
That rallying cry from his inaugural address - "Ask not what ... . FILE - In this April 20, 2017 file photo, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, D-Mass., great-nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, smiles while he speaks during the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium at Harvard's Kenn... .
Harvard University is honoring one of its most famous graduates - John F. Kennedy - with a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the slain president's birth. Harvard hosts the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium on Thursday.
Comcast Corp. is facing more calls for information from Massachusetts elected officials who are concerned that the broadcast signal of its new NBC station in Boston won't reach some viewers. US Representatives Stephen Lynch and Joseph Kennedy III sent a letter to Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts Friday, asking whether people who do not subscribe to cable or satellite services and instead watch free television over the air will be unable to tune in to the new station next month.
Massachusetts has been as successful as any state in the nation in training workers for jobs in STEM fields - science, technology, engineering and math - but the state's employers still can't find enough employees to hire.  Despite ranking at or near the top of most STEM education metrics, Gov. Charlie Baker this week declared that the state's efforts to train workers for STEM jobs and put them to work "clearly is not enough."