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Midway through the event on Saturday, the farmworker advocacy organization Migrant Justice announced that Border Patrol had arrested and detained a family in Franklin County. -
'No Kings' rallies were held in dozens of Maine communities on Saturday. Protesters called out President Donald Trump's immigration policies on the same day as a military parade in Washington, D.C. -
In the latest in a series of national days of action, opponents of President Trump rallied in thousands of towns and cities, including at least two dozen protests across New Hampshire. -
Residents in Springfield, Northampton, Pittsfield, Westfield and other communities across western Massachusetts protested on 'No Kings Day.' -
Thousands of protesters gathered at the Capitol in Hartford, and in communities across the state, to speak out against the Trump administration and acts of political violence. -
Steven Kramer said he sent the robocalls that mimicked the former president’s voice ahead of the 2024 New Hampshire primary as a warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence. -
Campobello Island, just across the bridge from Lubec, is home to the Roosevelt Campobello International Park, a memorial to binational friendship. -
Grocers haven’t been able to place orders with United Natural Foods, and far fewer deliveries have come in for everything from tofu to dairy, paper products and canned food. -
After two years of sluggish environmental legislative action, state lawmakers in 2025 passed several big initiatives on climate change. -
Protests will extend across the southwest and northeast corners of the state. Rallies are also planned in major cities including Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford. -
A CDC-funded research center based at UMass Amherst is looking for natural alternatives to chemical tick repellants, and they believe a substance produced by donkey glands might offer one. -
The yearslong push to put guardrails on when — and how — companies can commodify key aspects of a person’s identity has taken on new urgency in Montpelier. But the tension between strict consumer protections and their potential impact on local businesses continues to thwart compromise over an issue that states are reckoning with nationwide.
