By MIKE SCHNEIDER (Associated Press) Some Republicans in Congress are pushing to require a citizenship question on the questionnaire for the once-a-decade census and exclude people who aren’t citizens from the count that helps determines political power in the United States. The GOP-led House on Wednesday was expected to vote on the Equal Representation Act which would eliminate noncitizens from the tally gathered during a census and used to decide how many House seats and Electoral College votes each state gets. The bill is unlikely to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate ..read more

By SEUNG MIN KIM, JILL COLVIN and CALVIN WOODWARD (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump are two presidents with unfinished business and an itch to get it done. Related Articles National Politics | Republicans renew push to exclude noncitizens from the census that helps determine political power National Politics | Nervous about falling behind the GOP, Democrats are wrestling with how to use AI National Politics | He helped Trump win in 2016 using Facebook ads. Now he’s back, and an AI evangelist National Politics | Inside the courtroom where Trump was forced to l ..read more

By GARANCE BURKE and ALAN SUDERMAN (Associated Press) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump’s former campaign manager looked squarely into the camera and promised his viewers they were about to witness a bold new era in politics. “You’re going to see some of the most amazing new technology in artificial intelligence that’s going to replace polling in the future across the country,” said Brad Parscale in a dimly lit promotional video accentuated by hypnotic beats. Parscale, the digital campaign operative who helped engineer Trump’s 2016 presidential victory, vows that his new, AI-powered pl ..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

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the city tried for days to de-escalate the protest encampment at Emerson College, and protesters were even offered around-the-clock warming rooms in exchange for taking down their tents, but students refused the offer because they wanted to be arrested. Wu’s latest comments Tuesday on GBH’s Boston Public Radio come amid criticism some have directed at what they felt was a heavy-handed police response the mayor directed at the Boylston Place Alley that led to 118 arrests, and calls from several city councilors and the college for the Suffolk District Attorney’s off ..read more

A six-year-old sexual harassment lawsuit against the the city’s former health chief Felix G. Arroyo finally goes to trial Wednesday, with heavy-hitters in Boston’s political and legal circles, including then-Mayor Marty Walsh, expected to take the stand. The case of Hilani Morales versus her former supervisor Arroyo and the City of Boston, in which Morales accuses the then-health cabinet chief of sexually harassing her and the city of retaliating against her with a demotion after she complained, has been working its way through the courts since March 2018. Arroyo, who was fired by Walsh follow ..read more

By Louis Jacobson | KFF Health News (TNS) “Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an April 21 post on X ____ The National Institutes of Health is the federal government’s main agency for supporting medical research. Is it barred from researching mass shootings? That’s what presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said recently. Kennedy, whose statements about conspiracy theories earned him PolitiFact’s 2023 “ Lie of the Year,” is running as an independent third-party candidate against President Joe Biden, the presumptive Demo ..read more