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Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onNovember 24, 2018
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Article snippet: The T’s governing board is due to expire in mid-2020, forcing officials to focus on what comes next.  Capital Source After failing to generate much attention as a candidate, Brianna Wu is looking ahead. “I’m focused on 2020. I’m going to win this time,” Wu said this week.   Representative Brian Higgins of New York said he had changed his mind after securing an ‘‘agreement in principle’’ that Democrats would undertake a ‘‘serious good faith effort’’ to advance legislation lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 50.   What are we to make of the just reissued “Night of Camp David,’’ a popular 1965 novel by Fletcher Knebel about a president who suffers from severe mental illness?  The hearing underway in California comes as thousands of Central Americans are waiting in Tijuana to apply for permission to enter lawfully.  In what has become an increasingly common move for the Trump administration, it asked the justices to step in before lower courts have ruled.  President Donald Trump began his Friday on Twitter saying Democrats and Republicans “MUST come together” on border security and “funding for the Wall.”   President Trump used a Thanksgiving Day call to troops deployed overseas to pat himself on the back and air grievances about the courts, trade, and migrants heading to the US-Mexico border.  President Trump disputed that US intelligence officials had concluded that the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia ordered the killing of a journalist.  Editorial The l... Link to the full article to read more

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