FBI investigation

Heavy construction equipment was being used to excavate a backyard as part of an FBI investigation in Randolph, Massachusetts, but it wasn’t clear what the investigation was about.

A suspicious Twitter account that allegedly made negative comments about Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts is now under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to the campaign of Sen. Ed Markey. The account, which used the Twitter handle @Markeychusetts, first posted on Aug. 23 and made negative comments against the Kennedy campaign, pretending to be a…

Federal agents were at a storage facility on Monday in Quincy, Massachusetts, conducting a search.

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