Massachusetts Democrats drag Biden over migrants

BOSTON — Top Massachusetts Democrats fed up with federal inaction on immigration are beginning to lash out at President Joe Biden. “The guy’s running for president. He better start paying attention to this,” an audibly frustrated House Speaker Ron Mariano said Wednesday. He had just been asked by POLITICO whether the White House should designate a point person to coordinate...

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Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in South Texas

McALLEN, Texas — The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it had waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction, marking the administration’s first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency. The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S. Federal Registry with few details outlining...

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Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson calls out John Kelly: ‘He knew Mr. Trump's record’

Rep. Frederica Wilson has many things to say about former White House chief of staff John Kelly. None are very nice. “Mr. Kelly is an idiot,” she said in an interview Wednesday. The Florida Democratic congressmember was reacting to Kelly’s recent statement to CNN, where he asserted on the record that his old boss, former President Donald Trump, made disparaging comments about...

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New Jersey leaders agree to overhaul troubled veterans homes following scathing DOJ investigation

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday announced a “conceptual agreement” to move state-run veterans homes — which have been criticized for their poor quality of care and high death tolls during the pandemic — out of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and into a new cabinet-level agency. The announcement, made alongside Democratic lawmakers, marks the first...

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Appeals court doubtful on Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter

A federal appeals court panel sounded skeptical Wednesday about reviving former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over being banned from Twitter two years ago. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard Trump’s lawyer contend that Twitter, now known as X, acted at the behest of members of Congress and other U.S. government officials when it deplatformed...

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Tuberculosis cases are rising in New York. The city is struggling to keep up.

NEW YORK — The understaffed agency charged with monitoring tuberculosis in New York City is struggling to respond to new cases — fueling fears of a resurgence decades after the nation got TB under control. The city has confirmed about 500 cases of active tuberculosis so far this year, an increase of roughly 20 percent from the same time last year, according to internal preliminary...

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Leader of gun safety group Giffords to step down

Peter Ambler, the longtime executive director of the gun violence prevention group Giffords, is stepping down after 10 years with the organization. At a coffee shop in Southeast D.C., he shared the news in a conversation with POLITICO. He won’t leave the movement entirely — he’s staying on board with Giffords as an adviser — but his departure represents a major changing of...

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