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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories A dozen women who have worked in and around the State House over the past two decades described a climate of harassment and sexual misconduct.  Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s move came after a Globe columnist reported a series of incidents of sexual harassment in and around the State House.  A new report says Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah is telling friends that he won’t seek reelection, and that if that happens, Mitt Romney plans to run.  Who is the most likely to

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Capital Source That’s what it looks like at first blush in a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll released earlier this week.   CAPITAL SOURCE The GOP candidate for the US Senate collected about $50,000 in nearly six weeks between forming her fund-raising committee and Sept.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories A dozen women who have worked in and around the State House over the past two decades described a climate of harassment and sexual misconduct.  Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s move came after a Globe columnist reported a series of incidents of sexual harassment in and around the State House.  A new report says Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah is telling friends that he won’t seek reelection, and that if that happens, Mitt Romney plans to run.  Who is the most likely to

President Trump called the opioid epidemic the "worst drug crisis" to strike the U.S. in its history on Thursday while declaring a public health emergency. "Nobody has seen anything like this going on now. As Americans, we cannot allow this to continue," Trump said at a White House ceremony alongside advocates and his wife, Melania. "It is time to liberate our communities from this scourge of drug addiction. ... We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic.

House Republicans on Thursday narrowly adopted the Senate’s version of the 2018 budget resolution, overcoming a key hurdle for the party’s tax-reform plan. The budget will allow Republicans to pass a tax overhaul that adds up to $1.5 trillion to the deficit through a process known as reconciliation, which only requires 51 votes to pass in the Senate. Twenty Republicans voted against the budget in the 216-212 vote, more than the 18 who voted against the original House version earlier this month. Most of the 20 defectors were centrists hailing from populous states that could stand to lose from e

The tight 216-212 House vote Thursday to pass the GOP budget is raising a red flag for Republicans on tax reform. The GOP barely scraped up enough votes to pass their partisan budget, as 20 on their side defected. That included 11 GOP lawmakers from New York and New Jersey who wanted to send a message about the need for their leaders to compromise on plans to eliminate the state and local tax deduction, which could hit their districts hard. In reality, Republicans probably were always going to be able to pass the budget, a critical step toward tax reform since it unlocks rules that would prote

The Trump administration is blocking the release of some records compiled during the investigation into the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, which were set to be released on Thursday. President Trump said in a memo he "has no choice" but to withhold the information as requested by government agencies, citing national security concerns.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are getting restless. The committee announced its investigation into Russia's election interference in January. Ten months later, the panel is still digging for information, frustrating members who were never enthusiastic about the probe to begin with. Many say they are ready to close the books on the matter.  "I think this investigation has gone excruciating slow," Rep. MORE (R-Utah) told The Hill. “We've been doing this for more than a year. We started looking at it on the committee in September [2016].”  Rep.

BARCELONA, Spain — After a chaotic day of wavering, Catalonia’s separatist leader, Carles Puigdemont, announced on Thursday that he would place a decision on independence from Spain before the region’s Parliament. The move by Mr. Puigdemont virtually ensures that the central government in Madrid will take control of the restive region, using its emergency constitutional powers following an expected approval vote on Friday in the Spanish Senate, where the conservative party of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy holds a majority. Mr.