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‘This is repression’: Mass. lawmakers decry Tufts student’s living conditions after visiting detention facilities
Lawmakers visited facilities in Louisiana where the Trump administration is holding immigrants, including Tufts doctoral ...
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McGovern: ‘This is beyond the pale’
Returning from visiting two students being held in separate detention facilities in Louisiana, U.S. Rep. James McGovern said ...
Lawmakers visit detained Tufts student as Trump admin appeals return order
McGovern’s remarks followed a trip with Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley to a U.S. Customs and Immigration Detention ...
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Mass. Rep. McGovern visits Louisiana to demand release of students detained for opposing U.S. support for war in Gaza
Members of Massachusetts’ Congressional delegation have returned from a visit to an ICE detention center in Louisiana to ...
Congressional Democrats travel to Louisiana to meet with Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk
Five Democrats traveled to Louisiana on Tuesday to visit the ICE facilities where Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk have been ...
‘I’m afraid that something will happen to me.’ Detained Tufts student visited in Louisiana by Mass. lawmakers.
At a press conference Tuesday, Senator Ed Markey and Representative Ayanna Pressley harshly condemned the treatment of ...
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Members of MA Congressional Delegation meet with detained Tufts student in Louisiana
For the first time, members of Congress met with Rumeysa Ozturk, a 29-year-old PhD student at Tufts University being held ...
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MA lawmakers return from meeting with detained Tufts student in Louisiana
For the first time, members of Congress met with Rumeysa Ozturk, a 29-year-old PhD student at Tufts University being held ...
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Jamie Dupree: NASA nominee avoids answering a simple question — where was Elon Musk?
The recent confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s pick to head NASA was about what you would expect. Senators asked questions about space agency plans, and nominee Jared Isaacman — a ...
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Senator Markey and Mass. officials request answers on LIHEAP staff cuts
Massachusetts Democrats have signed a letter along with Senator Ed Markey addressed to the Secretary of Health and Human ...
White House calls NPR and PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding
The Trump White House is proposing to eliminate most federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public ...
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'It's Not A Difficult Question': Trump Nominee Refuses To Answer Ed Markey's Yes Or No Question
During his Senate confirmation hearing to head NASA, Trump nominee Jared Isaacman repeatedly dodges Sen. Ed Markey's question ...