President Donald Trump plans to roll out a 25% tariff on goods coming from Canada starting Saturday, a White House official said, a decision Gov. Maura Healey fears could lead to an estimated $200
The state's congressional delegation offered thoughts and prayers for the victims while also taking aim at Trump.
President Donald Trump's budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than a day after Massachusetts and other states sued and a federal judge intervened.
Federal aid is a major source of revenue for states. According to Pew Charitable Trusts, federal grants represented 36.4% of total revenue for state governments in fiscal year 2022.
A judge temporarily blocked the freeze, which the White House says doesn't affect individuals, but federal payment portals are glitching.
Ryan Michael English, 24, of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, told Capitol Police officers he would "like to turn himself in" on Monday, telling them he wanted to kill Scott Bessent, who was recently confirmed as the United States secretary of the treasury.
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network CEO Jim Klocke said that the news was a relief for nonprofits worried about cutting employee hours and layoffs
The funding freeze "violates the separation of powers," Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said, as a colleague from California called it "arbitrary and capricious."
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt is set to make her debut behind the podium as the White House holds its first official news briefing Tuesday afternoon. Leavitt is certain to get questions related to the White House budget office’s decision to pause all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government to ensure its programs are consistent with President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
On Tuesday, the White House and the Office of Personnel Management issued a memo to federal workers entitled “Fork in the Road.” It contained phrases such as “deferred resignation” and said federal agency workers could resign and be paid through the end of September.
For more than a century, the club has launched the careers of Olympic medalists and world and national champions while also serving as a training ground for young skaters just learning the sport. And when sorrow hits the skating world – as it did,
Black Americans who were pioneers in the military, journalism and women’s sports called Boston home during the 19th century. Pieces of their stories are hidden in plain sight for you to discover.