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  • deportationLaw

    Trump is sorry for deporting college student who flew home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but is still deporting her

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • metaLaw

    ‘Its own research shows they encourage addiction’: Highest court in Mass. hears case about Instagram, Facebook effect on kids

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • AmmonoosucEconomy

    ‘Is this kind of the first domino to fall?’ Trump’s Medicaid cuts shut down the only hospital for miles around in an elderly New England mountain town

    By Michael Casey, Amanda Swinhart, and others
  • Quantavia Smith sits for a photo in her studio apartment at the Santa Monica and Vermont Apartments in Los Angeles, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025Real Estate

    This 38-year-old used to be homeless and now pays $19 per month for an apartment over an LA subway station thanks to affordable housing

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • People wait in line durning an emergency food distribution at The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia’s Mitzvah Food Program in Philadelphia, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Politics

    Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP payments after some states quickly paid the food benefits

    By David A. Lieb, Michael Casey, and others
  • Donald TrumpEconomy

    Trump ‘failed to consider the harms’ on SNAP benefits by withholding food aid during shutdown, judge rules

    By Geoff Mulvihill, Michael Casey, and others
  • A volunteer prepares meals at the Philabundance Community Kitchen in Philadelphia, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Politics

    Judges order Trump administration to use emergency reserves for SNAP payments during the shutdown

    By Michael Casey, Geoff Mulvihill, and others
  • New EnglandNorth America

    ‘The color is just not going to be there this year for some hillsides’: Autumn leaf peeping pegged back by drought, climate change

    By Patrick Whittle, Michael Casey, and others
  • Michael Pimentel, center, a resident at the Gabriel House assisted living facility, in Fall River, Mass., receives assistance from an emergency medical worker, right, outside a temporary shelter, Monday, July 14, 2025, in Fall River, following a fire that started late Sunday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Health

    Residents at Massachusetts assisted-living facility say staff fled without helping them during fire that killed 9

    By Michael Casey, Kimberlee Kruesi, and others
  • A Harvard University student wears a cap that says "The best things in life come to those who don't give up"Leadership

    The big theme at Harvard’s 374th commencement? Standing up to tyranny

    By Michael Casey, Leah Willingham, and others
  • This photo provided by Harvard Law School shows a rare copy of the Magna Carta from 1300 sits in a display case on April 15, 2025, at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. (Lorin Granger/Harvard Law School via AP)Arts & Entertainment

    Harvard thought the Magna Carta it bought for $30 was a cheap copy. Turns out it’s from 1300 and could be worth over $20 million

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A student protester stands in front of the statue of John Harvard, the first major benefactor of Harvard College, draped in the Palestinian flag, at an encampment of students protesting against the war in Gaza, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)Politics

    Harvard sees $2.2 billion in grants frozen after university says it will defy Trump administration demands to limit campus activism

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • Harvard UniversityPolitics

    Harvard University says it won’t comply with Trump’s demands, risking nearly $9 billion in funding, declaring it cannot ‘allow itself to be taken over by the federal government’

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • Immigration advocates speak Thursday, April 10, 2025, outside federal court in Boston, after a hearing aiming to halt the Trump administration’s from stopping a program that allowed hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to temporarily live in the country. (AP Photos/Michael Casey)Politics

    Trump administration can’t cancel temporary legal status of over 500,000 Latin American immigrants this month, judge rules

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., Tuesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)Politics

    Turkish doctoral student at Tufts handcuffed and detained by masked DHS agents: ‘It looked like a kidnapping’

    By Jake Offenhartz, Kathy McCormack, and others