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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 John Kingston, the wealthy Winchester businessman, recently hired campaign consultant Mark Harris, a top Republican operative from Pennsylvania.  capital source A legislative committee is considering a bill to allow towns to prohibit bans on clotheslines, as a means of reducing domestic energy use.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories If this morning’s press conference was any indication, we now now have some indication of how the one-on-one meeting at the G-20 summit will go.   In a statement annoucing he will join Campaign Legal Center as a senior director for ethics, Shaub appeared to criticize the Trump administration.  Representative Steve Scalise was wounded by a gunman last month and was readmitted to an intensive care unit Wednesday.

Posted at 5:45 pm on July 5, 2017 by Ben Howe Back in 2009, media bias was hot on all of the right’s lips. We were aghast that racism accusations were hurled at every criticism of the administration.

Posted at 7:00 pm on July 5, 2017 by streiff In the aftermath of the North Korean ICBM launch on July 4, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
 

Posted at 7:30 pm on July 5, 2017 by Jim Jamitis Apparently there are some people who actually think politics isn’t stupid enough right now. Later this month in Pasadena, the third annual Politicon will feature a “debate” between comedian Chelsea Handler and Tomi Lahren, formerly of The Blaze. The Daily Beast broke the story. “Hammering” a Republican president is such a risky move for a comedian.

Posted at 9:02 pm on July 5, 2017 by streiff A mass tactical airborne drop is when an airborne unit jumps with full combat gear. That gear includes vehicles. Mass tacs are always something of a dicey affair. Back in 1982, gusting wind during a drop at Fort Irwin, CA, killed four paratroopers and injured over one hundred. But even when the weather isn’t trying to kill you, little things can become big things very quickly. If idiocy or malice are involved, the usual friction, to use the term in Clausewitz’s meaning, is compounded.

Posted at 4:00 am on July 6, 2017 by Jay Caruso Politics is a culture all of its own. Some people vote, some write letters to the editor, and some people breathe politics every day, whether they do it for a living or simply out of a passion for the political process.

A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday ruled that unaccompanied minors being held in immigration detention centers have a right to bail hearings, striking a blow to the Justice Department.  Justice Department lawyers argued before a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel that the Department of Health and Human Services had been granted responsibility for unaccompanied immigrant minors under a 2002 law, as well as a 2008 law, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. But the panel said that in passing those two measures, Congress never explicitly nullified or modified a 1997 set

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A group of nearly 30 Senate Democrats sent a letter to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday demanding he protect members of the LGBTQ community from housing discrimination.  The letter, signed by 29 Democrats including Sens.