Article snippet: Upending decades of US defense posture on the Korean Peninsula, President Trump is stopping the annual US-South Korean war games and wants to remove US troops from the region. Decades of fraught relations with North Korea didn’t seem to stop Trump from publicly heaping praise upon Kim. Get Smart Scholars at Boston-area universities say the summit didn’t produce much of substance. NESTOR RAMOS A Canadian senator also thought Justin Trudeau was meek and mild. Then Trudeau kicked his butt. Former President George H.W. Bush is spending his 94th birthday relaxing at his summer home in Maine. As Mainers headed to the polls Tuesday, they weren’t just voting. They were participating in a first-of-its-kind experiment in state politics. The state’s largest labor organization called the Somerville Democrat “an outspoken supporter of the right to organize.” After a frenzied, late-night negotiation, the speaker defused a moderate Republican rebellion. Capital Source The American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts is endorsing Jay Gonzalez in his effort to unseat Governor Charlie Baker. GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Lively must be thinking that his odds have gotten a bit tougher lately as he pursues a $7 million civil lawsuit against Governor Charlie Baker and the state’s Republican Party establishment. <?EM-dummyText [This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy text for the s... Link to the full article to read more