President Trump has not yet said he will support the measure, which does not include $5 billion that he wants for a border wall.
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Over the objection of outraged students, teachers, and parents, the Boston School Committee voted Wednesday night to close two high schools in West Roxbury over the next two years.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates as expected, indicating that it sees the economy growing fast enough to merit a tap on the brakes. But it also dropped the number of expected rate increases in 2019.
The Massachusetts Senate is teeing up a bill for Thursday designed to extend by several weeks the unemployment benefits for 1,250 workers locked out by National Grid.
N. Korea says it won?t denuclearize unless US removes threat North Korea said it will never unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States first removes what Pyongyang called a nuclear threat.
Everett official shot to death, allegedly by estranged husband A member of the Everett Board of Assessors and second cousin to the city?s mayor was shot, allegedly by her estranged husband, as she sat in her car in her parents? driveway.
Mueller asks House committee for Roger Stone transcript Stone has been under suspicion because of his proclamations about connections to WikiLeaks and predictions about hacked Democratic emails.
Officials investigating whether toxic exposure played role in death of 11-year-old Haverhill girl Grief counselors are at a Haverhill middle school today to help students and staff deal with the loss of an 11-year-old girl described by a school official as ?beautiful and well-loved.?
Here are four things to know about the latest news, which reportedly caught the Pentagon unawares.
Law enforcement officials searched a Hadley Road property in Merrimac Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation, according to police.
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When everyone wants a visit from Kris Kringle, the going rate soars and the pickings can get, well, slim.
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The guard scored 29 points, but lacking three of their top interior players, the Celtics were pounded on the boards and lost their second straight.
Red Sox have a plan to improve bleacher seats at Fenway Park The team also wants a new function room that?ll provide ?sweeping views? of the playing field, and a 5,000-seat theater alongside the ballpark.
Depression, ranging in severity, shadows old age for nearly a third of Mass. seniors Diagnoses, spanning in severity from mild seasonal affective disorder to major depressive disorder, affects 31.5 percent of people over 65, according to a new UMass-Boston report.
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It?s not often that 10 acres of prime real estate in Brookline go on the market. But that?s what will happen when Newbury College closes next spring.
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Two Tufts student-athletes? differing politics, like their different skin color, doesn?t get in the way of their friendship. In fact, by accepting their differences, they have become closer.
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Penny Marshall and the lasting impact of ?A League of Their Own? The film has visceral connections to what women are capable of, what women were once denied, what women can overcome, and how women can connect.
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Michael Flynn?s ?Lock her up!? chant about Hillary Clinton comes back to haunt him.
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Federal pot bills an easy bipartisan win for 2019 Warren-Gardner bill would take pot shops out of legal limbo and clear the way for access to banking and credit care services.
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I do not want to hear that I have a ?humor deficit? or can?t take a joke. I did not over-react. I took a job and because I did not want to be harassed, I was fired.
Aaron hernandez and Football Inc. The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America?s most popular sport.
After suicides in Acton and Boxborough, a communion of sorrow The unthinkable has been an all-too-common companion in two small neighboring towns, where six young people took their lives in the short span of 30 months. The questions keep coming: What is happening? Why? When will it stop?
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Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: a colorful sunrise, Christmas tree lightings, and high school sports.
They are down to just two healthy big men. So it?s time for Danny Ainge to make a move.
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Keolis Commuter Services officials said the employee did the decorating on his own time.
Style ideas for the bold, the not-so-bold, and the downright scared.
Massachusetts? first black congresswoman announced Monday on Twitter that she will work in the Capitol office that belonged to the country?s first black congresswoman.
Thousands of passengers were delayed, diverted or stuck on planes Thursday as the only runway at Britain?s Gatwick Airport remained closed after drones were spotted over the airfield.
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So-called half-ton light-duty trucks have been making a steady move toward family vehicle status for years.
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Capital One also will move into the 18-story building, planned as part of a major MIT project.
The two towering figures of British landscape painting are reunited in a show at the Clark Art Institute, with gently subversive results.
Recovery experts set up new ?religion? in Maine that may skirt drug laws The Church of Safe Injection illegally distributes clean syringes. Branding as a ?religion? may offer some legal protection.
Love Letters: Until next year, my sweetheart In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.
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Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix? Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
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