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A guaranteed basic income for Boston’s poor? Officials consider the idea.

With about 18 percent of city residents living below the poverty line, Boston officials are mulling the implementation of a temporary guaranteed income program for the city’s poor.

Latino children are more likely to enter foster care in Massachusetts than any other state
One out of 20 Hispanic children in Massachusetts are involved in the state's child welfare system.

Effort aims for greater equity in the state’s fractured public health system
A bill under consideration in the state Legislature would make new public health standards law.

Latest from our D.C. bureau

Efforts to undermine voters’ decisions are part of a perilous pattern, specialists say

President Biden to celebrate Thanksgiving, continue birthday festivities with coconut cake on Nantucket

Flag draped over President John F. Kennedy’s coffin to be displayed at JFK Library on 60th anniversary of his assassination

The New Hampshire primary’s most sought-after undecided voter? Republican Governor Chris Sununu.

National politics news

Koch network endorses Nikki Haley in Republican presidential primary

The political arm of the powerful Koch network formally endorsed Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign Tuesday, promising to commit its nationwide army of activists — and virtually unlimited funds — to helping Haley defeat former President Donald Trump in the GOP primary contest.

In new challenge to indictment, Trump’s lawyers argue he had good basis to question election results

A defense motion filed late Monday in federal court in Washington asserts that former president Donald Trump was not obligated to accept at face value the judgments of government officials who found no widespread fraud in the election.

Hunter Biden offers to testify publicly before Congress, setting up a potential high-stakes face-off

President Biden’s son slammed the inquiry as a “fishing expedition” and refused to give closed-door testimony but said he would "answer any pertinent and relevant question” in front of the House Oversight Committee next month.

Trump says he will renew efforts to replace ‘Obamacare’ if he wins a second term

Former president Donald Trump says he wants to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act.

Trump says he will renew efforts to replace ‘Obamacare’ if he wins a second term

Former president Donald Trump says he wants to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act.

With White House holiday decorations, Jill Biden wanted holiday visitors to feel like kids again

“Each room on display is designed to capture the pure, unfiltered delight and imagination of our childhoods," Dr. Biden said.

Efforts to undermine voters’ decisions are part of a perilous pattern, specialists say

Democracy experts say state lawmakers who try to reject the will of the voters are starting down a dangerous path.

Members of Congress head for the exits, many citing dysfunction

More than three dozen members of Congress have announced they will not seek reelection next year, some to pursue other offices and many others simply to get out of Washington.

Many voters are weary about a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024. Third parties hope they can fill the gap.

The 2024 presidential election is drawing a robust field of independent, third party and long shot candidates,

The debate over Ukraine aid was already complicated. Then it became tangled up in US border security.

Linking Ukraine’s military assistance to U.S. border security interjects one of the most divisive domestic political issues — immigration and border crossings — into the middle of an intensifying debate over wartime foreign policy.

In Robert Kennedy Jr.’s run for president, a faint line to his family can be found

Despite being greeted by widespread horror and pained dismissal, Robert Kennedy Jr.’s quest has, in its outlandish improbability, at least faint trace elements of the family’s political playbook.

Donald Trump will look to upstage Clemson grad Nikki Haley at her alma mater’s football rivalry game

The former president and current front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination will be on hand Saturday as the University of South Carolina Gamecocks host the Tigers of Clemson University, Haley’s alma mater, in the annual Palmetto Bowl.