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1Dec 13, '23A Wu administration official, on behalf of the mayor, mistakenly sent all Boston city councilors an email Tuesday inviting them to a holiday party that was meant exclusively for “e108×2.1M1.9k864234
2Oct 9, '24A staggering 672,483 new EBT cards have been added to the welfare rolls in a little over a year -- a tally that's intensifying calls for an audit of the welfare agency.90.3×1.8M3.6k1.3k550
3Feb 23, '24Table Boston, a North End restaurant that charges $125 a person, is under fire after the owner's beef with a customer over a reservation cancellation went viral.35.9×713k1.9k176199
4Jun 24, '25Karen Read jury foreman appeals to FBI to reopen the murder investigation16.3×322k3k291108
5Oct 27, '20The Herald endorses President Trump10.5×06.3k1.4k27
6Aug 2, '25The city under Wu seems to be headed in a slow, downward spiral, with a downtown ghost town, transportation gridlock, priced out Millennials fleeing to the suburbs, cracked sidewal9.9×197k3k632102
7Oct 27, '20Editorial: The Herald endorses Trump9.6×08.6k1.4k15
8Apr 23, '25Opinion | This is about as bad a beginning of a trial as you’re ever likely to see from any prosecution, anywhere. Two witnesses, both totally discredited.9.1×180k2.7k32785
9Jul 25, '25Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell spent nearly $300,000 on her taxpayer-funded credit card last fiscal year, with expenses ranging from traveling to France and a balmy Caribbean isl9.0×178k5k2.6k173
10Dec 14, '23Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s publicly hosted holiday party excluding white elected officials is questionable optics and judgment for someone who is supposed to be uniting the city.7.9×156k1.1k33218
11Feb 14, '25A Boston-based think tank says the state economy is crashing as the Massachusetts population records "historically high" gains in "low-skilled migrants, many lacking legal status" 7.7×152k2.6k803170
12Aug 3, '16Sasha Obama lands summer job at Vineyard seafood joint Nancy’s #Mapoli7.5×03.8k2k0
13Dec 15, '23Opinion | The most important question about Mayor Michelle Wu’s no-whites-allowed Christmas party at the Parkman House Wednesday night is obvious: What if the reverse had happened?7.5×148k1.2k23417
14Mar 6, '25Boston Mayor Michelle Wu may be facing criminal prosecution for the city’s sanctuary policies after the prospect of federal charges was raised by several Republican lawmakers who g7.2×142k3.1k43234
15Mar 2, '25Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is coming under blistering condemnation for sending condolences to an knife-wielding attacker shot and killed by an off-duty police officer who is credited7.2×142k4.6k75457
16Sep 20, '18Colin Kaepernick to be honored by Harvard7.0×05.4k1.5k12
17Nov 9, '24Opinion | Massachusetts taxpayers will be on the hook for four years with no federal help because of Healey and her delusion that she’s doing the people’s will by fighting the Trum6.9×136k1.9k48375
18Apr 11, '25MassArt has confirmed that one of its students is seen in a video verbally harassing a Trump supporter wearing a white and gold ‘47’ hat while walking on a Boston sidewalk, behavio6.2×123k1.3k32952
19Jun 2, '25Illegal immigrant in Massachusetts charged with child rape: 'Victim tied, bound or gagged'5.9×117k1.1k45641
20Nov 30, '24Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey remains on the hot seat as Karen Read’s defense team argues he has used his personal cellphone and email to communicate with the court a5.5×109k1.4k23435
21Apr 13, '25The Boston Water and Sewer Commission has spent tens of thousands of dollars investigating its human resources director, but continued to give her raises, promote her and now pay h5.1×101k96341043
22Mar 12, '24Disgraced former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins has been suspended from practicing law in Massachusetts.4.9×97k1.1k15623
23Jan 27, '25A convicted murderer who beat his pregnant wife to death in front of her 5-year-old boy was one of the illegal immigrants grabbed by ICE in the Boston area sweep last week.4.7×93k90321743
24Nov 1, '16Tomorrow's Page One4.7×02.1k1.8k0
25Apr 22, '25Opinion | Hank Brennan, the special prosecutor, came out of the gate Tuesday in the Karen Read retrial and immediately put a worldwide audience not just to sleep, but into a deep c4.5×90k1.9k17531
26Nov 14, '24Editorial | Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a word for Donald Trump: no. No to his cabinet picks, no to his policies -- essentially no to any idea that comes from a Trump White House. If4.3×86k2k29530
27Jun 21, '25Opinion | If people could watch more of these high-profile trials, or even just stream the audio online, they'd be as outraged as the voters in Norfolk County are after watching th4.3×86k2.1k21151
28Apr 2, '25Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone has been sued for reinstating a buffer zone, limiting Karen Read supporters from demonstrating outside the Dedham courthouse.4.3×85k1.3k15525
29May 13, '25The Wu administration has placed a city attorney on paid administrative leave days after he announced he was challenging Michelle Wu for Boston mayor.4.2×83k1k37035
30Feb 23, '25The State Police detective captain who pocketed an eye-popping $584,072 in pay last year amassed record overtime using 27 different reasons -- including bonus hours on days he call4.0×80k1k33440
31Jun 1, '25A bill pending on Beacon Hill that looks to set a statewide vehicle miles traveled reduction goal as part of the decarbonization push has ignited national backlash, with critics ca3.8×76k96727541
32Feb 19, '24Battenfeld: Michelle Wu's decision to exclude thousands of charter, parochial and METCO school children from her free museum weekends program is mean-spirited and divisive.3.6×72k89127823
33Nov 14, '24A group of allegedly powerful men implicated in a Greater Boston and in the DC suburbs of Virginia sex-trade case lost an appeal to the state’s highest court to keep their names se3.5×69k1.2k30147
34May 20, '25Opinion | Meet Shanon Burgess, who although he’s claimed on multiple occasions to have a bachelor’s degree, doesn’t have anything close to a BS, although he’s currently full of it.3.4×68k1.6k17124
35Jan 17, '25If the Democrats have lost Needham, they’ve lost everywhere. This is why on Monday, Americans will be regaining control of America. Today, America. Tomorrow, Massachusetts.3.4×67k1.9k28550
36Mar 17, '25Opinion | Massachusetts needs to offer sanctuary for taxpayers who are sick and tired of shouldering the costs for agendas they don't want.3.4×67k2.3k34725
37Dec 11, '24A longtime Boston City Hall worker who made more than $130,000 a year in the Mayor Michelle Wu administration has been sentenced in connection to a prison money laundering charge.3.3×66k87227929
38May 22, '25Colombian national in Massachusetts allegedly received more than $400,000 in stolen federal benefits, voted in 2024 election3.3×65k1.2k55097
39Feb 15, '25Dozens of Massachusetts lawmakers are calling for probes into “skyrocketing” energy costs and whether the increases are “justifiable” while scores of Bay State residents say they a3.2×63k97519935
40Nov 7, '24Gov. Maura Healey’s declaration that state police won’t assist in mass deportations is being blasted by critics who say it backtracks from her blaming the federal government for th3.0×59k1.8k39250
41Sep 26, '24The scandal-scarred Massachusetts State Police is beyond repair and needs to be dissolved and replaced with a modern, civilian-led force that's fully accountable to the public.2.9×57k91715721
42Feb 11, '25She is part of the baggage the Democrats need to throw overboard if they ever want to win again.2.7×54k2.5k34020
43Nov 18, '24Editorial | Signaling to undocumented migrants that the state won't lift a finger to enforce immigration laws is like turning on the flashing neon "vacancy" sign on a motel. Need a2.6×53k1.3k29829
44Aug 7, '25A former Massachusetts State trooper who ripped off taxpayers in the Troop E overtime scandal lost his bid before Massachusetts’ highest court to regain his pension.2.6×52k1.1k11418
45Aug 20, '25Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said federal immigration authorities plan to “flood” Boston in response to Mayor Michelle Wu’s refusal to dismantle the city’s sanctuary protections,2.6×51k2k30725
46Dec 12, '24Battenfeld: San Francisco is now being forced to make dramatic budget cuts, and the person who oversaw skyrocketing spending in SF is now in charge of the budget for Boston Mayor M2.6×51k1k32439
47Feb 23, '25Howie Carr: The Democrats’ latest plot to pick the pockets of working-class Americans in Massachusetts is to impose a $2 tax per every prescription written in the state.2.6×51k1.3k65227
48Dec 6, '24The U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston tweeted an alert just after 7 a.m. that a press conference is set for this morning to "announce the arrest of a Boston City Councilor on federa2.6×51k1k17224
49Nov 7, '24Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was not on the ballot on Election Day but she still lost on multiple fronts.2.5×50k1.1k15125
50Nov 13, '24A Massachusetts school committee member has resigned after being exposed on social media for telling Trump supporters she hopes they choke on a “piece of (expletive) covered in bro2.5×49k1.8k39338
51Jan 12, '20Rare for Dems, Yang tells it like it is2.5×02.3k44110
52Aug 27, '24A Cape Cod gun store owner is in the process of kicking off a mad dash to collect tens of thousands of signatures by late October to suspend the enforcement of a new, wide-ranging 2.3×47k91523123
53Feb 15, '25A showdown over a Trump flag has erupted in a small Worcester County town as a police chief says he won’t report back to work under a town administrator who demanded the banner be 2.3×46k89715726
54Dec 2, '24Judge Shelley Joseph is being hit with charges of "willful judicial misconduct" for bringing "disrepute" to the courts for allowing an illegal immigrant to escape ICE arrest in 2012.3×45k1.3k25330
55May 31, '25Opinion | For the Norfolk County hackerama, the worst thing about the Karen Read murder trial is that it has exposed to the entire world just how corrupt and rotten the entire ente2.3×45k1.4k20722
56Dec 28, '24A Trump-connected group has warned Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu that it has identified the Bay State and Boston as sanctuaries for illegal immigrants, urging them to und2.2×43k1.1k17425
57Nov 20, '22Opinion | Happy 80th birthday, Dementia Joe Biden. It’s been said that 80 is the new 60. But for the nation’s oldest (by far) president, 80 is the new 150. Biden is 80 going on… ta2.2×01.4k41919
58Nov 30, '24Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, could be on the chopping block after catching the eye of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. 2.2×43k1.6k17812
59Feb 2, '24Opinion | Say what you will about Donald Trump, but there were no illegal immigrants sleeping at Logan Airport when he was president.2.2×43k1.1k24611
60Apr 15, '18Huge rally in Barcelona to demand jailed separatists go free2.1×01.1k8122
61Feb 22, '25Border czar Tom Homan has sent a warning from Washington: He’s “coming to Boston" and “bringing hell.” In a fiery speech at CPAC Saturday, Homan also slammed Police Commissioner Mi2.1×42k1.7k20715
62Jan 7, '25President-elect Donald Trump says wind farms off the Massachusetts coast are “driving the whales crazy,” and his administration will look to enact a policy that halts the developme2.1×42k1.2k22616
63Jul 16, '25A heartbroken Massachusetts mother is demanding accountability after seeing American flags be vandalized once more on a Cape Cod bridge named in honor of her Purple Heart son.2.0×40k1.7k43921
64Mar 10, '18Woman who gouged out her eyes reveals why she did it, says 'life is more beautiful now'1.9×01.1k3323
65Nov 8, '24Seth Moulton says he doesn't want his girls 'getting run over on the playing field by a male or formerly male athlete': NY Times1.9×38k8487418
66Nov 7, '19Melania Trump focuses on addicted babies, not protests1.9×01.4k3410
67Sep 6, '25Immigration agents from across the country have descended upon Boston and other towns and cities in the Bay State for an operation that officials are dubbing 'Patriot 2.0.' The Her1.9×38k87410815
68Aug 8, '25U.S. Attorney Leah Foley has become the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s worst nightmare.1.8×36k96614012
69Jul 5, '25Opinion | Another six-year term would give Sen. Ed Markey 60 uninterrupted years of slurping at the public trough, since 1972. Even Norfolk DA Michael “Meatball” Morrissey didn’t s1.8×36k1k28023
70Feb 15, '25Opinion | Trump has the support of most Americans. But rather than seek a compromise with him for the good of the country, the Democrats have chosen to resist him at every turn. Th1.8×36k1.9k44821
71Feb 17, '25Public schools and universities in Massachusetts and across the U.S. have less than two weeks to scrub their curriculums and outside contracts of any diversity, equity and inclusio1.8×35k1.4k15026
72Nov 2, '24While Democrats attack Donald Trump for his age and mental fitness, two ancient fossils lead the Massachusetts delegation with no indication they plan to give up their taxpayer-fun1.8×35k1.1k25511
73Dec 22, '24A Boston Police officer who was fired for sending pro-Trump tweets anonymously on Jan. 6, 2021, had his termination vacated by the state civil service commission.1.7×34k87212314
74Apr 29, '25Judge Shelley Joseph, the $207,855-a-year Boston Municipal Court magistrate, will face a public hearing in June for her “willful judicial misconduct” for allowing an illegal immigr1.7×33k1.5k37717
75Feb 7, '22According to a new book, the NFL spread the initial misinformation that sparked Deflategate and later hid data that undermined their allegations against the Patriots.1.6×01.2k31030
76Oct 9, '24Opinion | Nothing says the economy is great like a 34.6% increase in the number of food-stamp recipients in Massachusetts – in a mere 14 months.1.6×32k1.3k58056
77Apr 8, '25Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson plans to plead guilty to federal public corruption changes, effectively admitting that she stole thousands of dollars in a kickback s1.6×32k97123214
78Apr 7, '25Mike Kennealy, a former cabinet secretary under Gov. Charlie Baker, officially announced a run for governor of Massachusetts Monday, making him the first Republican to formally cha1.6×31k1.1k15916
79Mar 14, '25Massachusetts residents are sick and tired of paying taxes, and a new poll shows strong opposition from likely voters on Gov. Maura Healey’s proposal to reinstitute a long-dormant 1.6×31k96924314
80Feb 22, '25Like Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, they have big mouths but little support among the public, new polls have found, and it’s time to ask why.1.5×31k98515515
81Oct 2, '17.@RepJoeKennedy said "enough is enough" following #LasVegasShooting, calls for action on gun control1.5×09774020
82Feb 5, '25Pam Bondi freezes DOJ funding for sanctuary cities, as Boston Mayor Michelle Wu gets date to testify in front of Congress1.5×29k1.3k13314
83Jan 4, '25It’s time for Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu to do an about face and declare their cooperation with federal immigration authorities to rid shelters of drug dealers, sex ab1.4×27k1k2119
84Feb 11, '25A statewide group that has connected newly arrived migrants in Massachusetts to services says it can no longer offer citizenship application assistance due to a $300,000 federal fu1.3×26k1.2k15418
85Mar 14, '25House Republican Anna Paulina Luna formally recommended that the Department of Justice open an investigation into Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, saying that her enforcement of the city’1.2×25k1.3k26914
86Jan 9, '25Federal authorities said the Boston Police Department refused to act on 198 immigration detainer requests last year, far exceeding the 15 reported by BPD’s commissioner, while blas1.2×24k85232932
87Mar 2, '25Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft says the city’s growing payroll, boasting more than 500 employees who earned more than $300,000 last year, is the “latest example” of why more f1.2×24k9931467
88Oct 9, '24The Massachusetts student who was banned from wearing an "only two genders" shirt to middle school is asking the Supreme Court to hear his high-profile First Amendment case.1.2×24k1.2k23218
89Apr 3, '25The state's top federal prosecutor is threatening the city's DA with felony charges if he goes after an ICE agent for grabbing an illegal immigrant mid-trial. She also has harsh wo1.2×23k93119714
90Mar 6, '25Boston’s sanctuary city status is prompting the Small Business Administration to move out of its regional Causeway Street office and relocate to a “less costly, more accessible loc1.1×22k88315514
91Feb 25, '25Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft says public records show the city’s bid process for the White Stadium pro soccer rehab project was “rigged,” and he's calling for an investigati1.1×21k96924614
92Sep 29, '25Massachusetts hospital employee who was fired for not taking the COVID vaccine -- saying her 'body is a temple of God' -- wins her appeal1.1×21k1.4k22925
93Nov 19, '16.@AdrianaCohen16: Kids should be in play for Donald Trump1.0×08541840
94Mar 11, '25One of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s nominations to the Audit Committee abruptly withdrew his name from consideration after a fiscal watchdog questioned his ability to remain objectiv1.0×20k88722816
95Jan 5, '25Opinion | President Joe Biden’s last full month of office has served as a grim reminder he was one of the worst leaders this country has had in modern history.1.0×19k1.3k23813
96Jan 11, '25U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch says he believes Congress has “lost control of the immigration process in this country," casting Massachusetts’ only yes vote on a bill named after a Georgi0.9×18k93117212
97Oct 20, '21Ted Cruz touts Cambridge, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard as immigrant ports of entry under new plan0.9×08311000
98Apr 30, '20Weeks ago, Gavin Brennan was simultaneously fighting COVID-19 and undergoing chemotherapy. Today, he celebrated his 7th birthday after coming home from Children's Hospital. @Meghan0.8×08851012
99Sep 11, '25Massachusetts teacher suspended after 'inappropriate' comments about Charlie Kirk following his assassination, police presence boosted at school0.8×16k91214311
100Sep 7, '25Boston and other so-called sanctuary cities will continue to see a surge in immigration enforcement actions in the coming days, according to “Border Czar" Tom Homan.0.8×15k9141175

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