The Legislature’s Committee on Housing votes unanimously on a bill to create a rental assistance program for homeless students and, where applicable, their families.
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Biden pans McCarthy’s debt plan as ‘huge cuts’ to Americans
The Speaker’s proposal includes raising the debt limit into next year, undoing much of Biden’s climate change agenda and imposing a 1% cap on future non-defense spending each year for 10 years.
Fox News, Dominion settle for $787 million over false election claims
The announcement averts a prolonged trial in a case that exposed how the top-rated network chased viewers by spreading false claims about the 2020 presidential election.
George Mitchell, in Northern Ireland, urges end to political impasse
The former U.S. senator from Maine, whose negotiations led to the Good Friday Agreement, marks 25 years since the deal largely ended bloodshed there.
Plans for religious charter school push church-state debate into new territory
The Conversation: Using public funds to support students at private religious schools, such as was litigated in a Maine case, is one thing, but establishing faith-based institutions within public districts is another.
Judge delays trial over Fox News and 2020 election lies
The case centers on whether Fox defamed Dominion Voting Systems by spreading false claims that the company rigged the 2020 presidential election to prevent former President Donald Trump’s reelection.
Jay voters to consider proposed budget increase
Residents will also elect two selectpersons, three school board directors and two trustees, one each for the two water districts.
Massachusetts guardsman accused of leak appears in court as U.S. spells out case against him
Friday’s new details about the highest-profile intelligence leak shed light on how investigators came to zero in on Jack Teixeira, even though a motive for the disclosures remains publicly unexplained.
Biden says he’s expanding some migrants’ health care access
The administration is expanding eligibility for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Trump will answer questions in N.Y. fraud lawsuit, lawyer says
The former president was scheduled to meet with lawyers for Attorney General Letitia James, who sued Trump last year.