The Twin Cities were among the hardest hit by the cuts that President Donald Trump made to the Department of Education last Friday, with over $6.5 million in federal education funds chopped from Fitchburg and over $1 million from Leominster. The cuts to Fitchburg’s and Leominster’s public schools are part of $106 million in K-12 […]
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‘Hands Off’ rally against Trump, Musk actions scheduled in Boston on Saturday, joining nationwide protests
Bostonians are expected to join hundreds of protests across the nation against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Saturday in the Boston Common, in what organizers say will be the “largest mobilization since the president took office.”
Campbell joins suit against RFK Jr. over $11B health care grant ‘terminations’
The Bay State has joined a coalition of 23 states and D.C. in suing the Trump Administration — again — with the latest court action aimed toward blocking the sudden termination of $11 billion in Department of Health and Human Services grants.
Harvard University faces Trump administration review of $8.7 billion in grants amid antisemitism investigation
Harvard University faces Trump administration review of $8.7 billion in grants amid antisemitism investigation
Tufts grad student Rumeysa Ozturk’s lawyer, ACLU push for her release from ‘unconstitutional’ ICE detention
Rumeysa Ozturk’s legal team, which now includes the ACLU, has filed an amended habeas petition in Massachusetts federal court — challenging the pro-Palestinian international student’s detention by ICE.
Marco Rubio defends ICE grabbing Tufts grad student: ‘A social activist that tears up our university campuses’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is defending ICE agents grabbing a Tufts graduate student off a Somerville street and taking away her student visa, claiming that the pro-Palestinian international student had created a “ruckus” on campus.
