Students suspended for refusing to clear the MIT encampment have until next week to find housing off campus and say they’re unsure how they’ll continue to pressure the school to cut its financial ties with Israel. Dozens of protesters marched through the streets of Cambridge shortly after organizers kept their lips tight on next steps during a Friday afternoon news conference on campus, hours after police broke down the encampment and arrested 10. “The encampment is gone, but the encampment was just one action,” said Dan Zeno, a graduate student who helped organize the tent site on Kresge ..read more

David Matthews | New York Daily News Stormy Daniels blasted Donald Trump on social media Thursday night, just a few hours after she finished testifying against the former president in his Manhattan hush-money trial. “Real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh…wait. Nevermind,” she wrote in a post on X — a taunting reference to Trump not testifying in the case and using his own social media accounts to rail against the proceedings. The zinger came after Trump’s lawyers unsuccessfully requested a mistrial based on Daniels’ testimony. If ..read more

If it’s not broken, why try to fix it? That seemed to be the unanimous response of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Thursday to a proposal by the state Legislature to shift control over the liquor licensing process at the state’s gambling facilities away from the commission and its staff. The proposal, contained within the House’s fiscal 2025 budget plan, would see the licensed bars and restaurants at the state’s three casinos fall under the control of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission, like nearly every other victualler in the commonwealth. As the state’s regulations are writte ..read more

Molly Crane-Newman and Josephine Stratman | New York Daily News Stormy Daniels, facing tough questions from Donald Trump’s defense team as she returned to the witness stand following her bombshell testimony on the alleged Lake Tahoe tryst with the former president, fended off accusations she’d made the story up. Related Articles Parker: Add Tom Cotton to Trump’s VP shortlist Trump attorney and Stormy Daniels trade barbs during questions about alleged 2006 sexual encounter Inside the courtroom where Trump was forced to listen to Stormy Daniels Going graphic: Stormy Daniels ..read more

By AYANNA ALEXANDER (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Young Black lawyers and law students are taking on a new role ahead of the general election: Meeting with Black voters in battleground states to increase turnout and serve as watchdogs against voter disenfranchisement. The Young Black Lawyers’ Organizing Coalition has recruited lawyers and law students and is sending them to Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas to meet with Black voters, aiming to better understand the barriers that the historically disadvantaged voting bloc faces when registering to vote and accessing the ballot ..read more

By JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHAEL R. SISAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump squirmed and scowled, shook his head and muttered as Stormy Daniels described the unexpected sex she says they had nearly two decades ago, saying she remembered “trying to think of anything other than what was happening.” It was a story Daniels has told before. This time, Trump had no choice but to sit and listen. Years in the making, the in-person showdown between the former president and the porn actor who has become one of his nemeses happened Tuesday in a New York courtroom that has beco ..read more

Hey, all you filthy hippies and trust-funded useful idiots, I have a suggestion for you. Stop blocking Mass Ave and setting up Soros-villes on every campus in America and do something for your Hamas heroes. Go east, young non-binaries, and enlist in a terrorist brigade. Hamas is looking for a few good gender-fluids. It’s easy to chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free!” But comrades, it’s time to really do something about “freeing” Palestine, and let the rest of us live our lives in peace? Which side are you on? You want to fight for the Nazis, fascist fanboys that you are, t ..read more

AG Andrea Campbell wasted no time telling a Texas bankruptcy court that floundering hospital operator Steward Health Care Systems “extracted value” from Massachusetts by burdening its facilities with debt at the same time it was hauling in hundreds of millions of dollars from the Bay State’s generous health care plans, charged she outlined in court papers filed Tuesday. Campbell told the Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Texas that Steward Healthcare has spent the years since it started operating for-profit hospitals in the commonwealth making one bad decision after another, and tha ..read more

John Deaton, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, took a long flight south this week to visit the United States-Mexico border to “truly understand” the root causes of immigration issues that have sparked contentious debates in both Washington and Massachusetts. Planning for the trip to Yuma, Arizona came in the wake of Gov. Maura Healey’s decision to use the Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex in Roxbury to house homeless migrant families with children and pregnant women as they awaited placement in the state’s emergency shelter system. Deaton, who grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and is now l ..read more

Molly Crane-Newman and Josephine Stratman | New York Daily News NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels told a riveted jury Tuesday that sex with Donald Trump made her feel dizzy and had the room spinning as she wondered how she ended up half-naked in a Lake Tahoe hotel room with the then-reality TV star at the former president’s hush money trial. Her testimony sparked a demand by Trump’s lawyers for a mistrial – which was denied. In one of the trial’s more surreal moments, the porn star recounted her tryst with Trump in 2006 as the former president looked on with a scowl. “What could possibly go wrong ..read more