A lot happens in Boston every day. To help you keep up, WBUR, Boston's NPR News station, pulled these stories together just for you.
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Massachusetts Congressman Richard Neal, who's the top Democrat on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, joins WBUR's Morning Edition.โดย WBUR
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Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, joins WBUR's Morning Edition.โดย WBUR
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UMass President Marty Meehan says changes to Dept. of Ed. and research funding cuts would harm students and scientific advancement
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Meehan is talking with both Democratic and Republican members of Congress, and university leaders from other states, in an effort to fight the Trump administration's plans to cut funding.โดย WBUR
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U.S. Senator Ed Markey joins WBUR's Morning Edition ahead of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation vote.โดย WBUR
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins WBUR's Morning Edition.โดย WBUR
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Ethan Pierce, the founder of Adaptive Reader, joins All Things Considered to discuss using AI to simplify classic literature.โดย WBUR
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During the pandemic, Massachusetts accidentally spent more than two billion dollars of federal aid on something it wasn't allowed to: unemployment insurance.โดย WBUR
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The founder of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra has conducted more than a thousand concerts over five decades. He has no plans to slow down or step away from the conductor’s podium any time soon.โดย WBUR
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Councilor Burhan Azeem argues the measure was a much-needed effort to allow for the development of more multi-family housing in the city.โดย WBUR
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Mass. regains access to some federal funds, but environmental projects still face uncertain future
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Massachusetts gained access to at least some previously frozen federal money Monday after a federal judge ordered the Tump administration to immediately restore all funding. But the future of the projects the money will support — many of which protect public health, clean up environmental pollution and tackle climate change — remains unclear as off…
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Massachusetts received $3.5 billion in grant funding last year from the National Institutes of Health. That's more money, per capita, than any other state.โดย WBUR
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The order will end that legal status for about 350,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. We hear from an immigrant in Boston who's scrambling to secure a different status to stay in the U.S. and an immigration lawyer who calls the government's move arbitrary and capricious.โดย WBUR
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Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s new training ship, the Patriot State, is heading to St. Thomas this week after stops in Puerto Rico and North Carolina. Students are taking part in a six-week voyage as part of the school’s Sea Term.โดย WBUR
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The man's lawyer says he has a family and no criminal history, but he's now listed at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center, about 50 miles southeast of San Antonio.โดย WBUR
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Boston is bracing for a classic New England winter stretch, with a series of storms set to bring snow, wind and potentially messy conditions over the next several weeks.โดย WBUR
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'We are not targeting anyone': Foley says she'll uphold immigration law but won't target local officials
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Leah Foley, the newly appointed U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, said her office will not target local politicians or police who disagree with President Trump's immigration directives. However, she stressed that no one is "immune from federal prosecution" if they interfere with the government's enforcement actions.…
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Alberto Vasallo, CEO and journalist at El Mundo Boston, has spent the last week working to sort out fact from fiction when it comes to local crackdowns by federal immigration agents.โดย WBUR
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From 2019 through June 2024, more than 14,000 people filed allegations of discrimination, in employment or housing disputes, with the independent state agency. It has struggled to keep up with its caseloads, and last year, it logged a 15% increase in new filings, totaling over 3,500 claims.โดย WBUR
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Looking for supportive community, South Carolina family with LGBTQ+ kids moves to western Mass.
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Seeking safety from anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, a family left South Carolina for Massachusetts, looking for legal protections and a safer future for their children.โดย WBUR
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In taking on Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, the 57-year-old scion of a paper and football fortune will have to persuade voters why they should elect him.โดย WBUR
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