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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that federal law enforcement is ready to be deployed in cities with an increase in crime.

The public impeachment inquiry hearings that started Wednesday pit a Democratic attorney who built his reputation as a federal mob and securities fraud prosecutor against a GOP House Oversight investigator who helped steer some of the most notable probes of the Obama administration. The two attorneys with shiny resumes are hardly household names. Now, Daniel Goldman and Steve Castor find...

A white man opens fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, targeting Mexicans and killing 22 people. Another man kills 11 Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. The two mass shootings and a presidential tweet put a spotlight on the idea of “domestic terrorism,” adding momentum to a debate about whether such attacks should be classified and tried...

Thousands of records have been hacked at Massachusetts General Hospital. About 9,900 patients who took part in research studies have had personal information stolen, according to a statement released Thursday by hospital officials.

A suspect has been arrested in connection with a major investigation into an “organized criminal enterprise” that stretched from Massachusetts to Florida that allegedly had scammers pose as municipal water department employees. Paul Mitchell of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was arrested by Florida and federal law enforcement on numerous charges out of Stoughton earlier this month, Stoughton Police Chief Donna McNamara...

Thousands of accusations of sexual abuse and harassment of migrant children in government-funded shelters were made over the past four years, including scores directed against adult staff members, according to federal data released Tuesday. The cases include allegations of inappropriate touching, staff members allegedly watching minors while they bathed and showing pornographic videos to minors. Some of the allegations included...

Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke shared a stage with Oprah Winfrey to talk about the migrant family separation policy enacted by the Trump administration in 2018. During a closed portion of the interview, O’Rourke said he would announce his decision about a 2020 presidential run “before the end of the month,” suggesting he was leaning toward it.

New England’s mostly Democratic Legislature reacted to Donald Trump after the president took to prime-time television Tuesday to push for a wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. The disagreement between the White House and Democratic congressmen over funding for Trump’s long-promised wall has kept the federal government partially shut down for 18 days.

An unprecedented federal and state collaboration to defend election systems against Russian interference ended with no obvious voting system compromises, although it’s not entirely clear why. Federal officials are wondering whether foreign agents are saving their ammunition for the 2020 presidential showdown or planning a late-stage misinformation campaign to claim Tuesday’s election had been tainted. It doesn’t change how vulnerable...

State leaders learned earlier this year a Russian oligarch has financial ties to one of Maryland’s elections vendors.

A Democratic National Committee official is now saying that what appeared to be a thwarted attempt to break into its massive voter database was actually an unauthorized test. Bob Lord, the DNC’s chief security officer, said late Wednesday in a statement that the test “mimicked several attributes of actual attacks on the Democratic party’s voter file” and that it was...

The vendor, ByteGrid LLC, was purchased by a Russian investor in 2015 without knowledge of Maryland state officials, officials said.

An embattled FBI agent whose anti-Trump text messages exposed the Justice Department to claims of institutional bias vigorously defended himself Thursday at an extraordinary congressional hearing that devolved into shouting matches, finger-pointing and veiled references to personal transgressions. Peter Strzok testified publicly for the first time since being removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team following the discovery of texts...

Behind the convictions of Boston’s most powerful mobsters over the past 30 years, there has been one constant: federal prosecutor Fred Wyshak.

A one-time teacher at an elite Massachusetts boarding school has been returned to the U.S. from Thailand to face child rape charges involving one former student.

A former teacher at an elite Massachusetts boarding school has been returned from Thailand to face child rape charges.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Thursday huddled in classified briefings about the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, a highly unusual series of meetings prompted by partisan allegations that the bureau spied on the Trump campaign. Democrats emerged from the meetings saying they saw no evidence to support Republican allegations that the FBI...

Delta Air Lines and department store chain Sears Holding Corp said Wednesday that some of its customers’ payment information may have been breached in a cyberattack last fall. The companies said the incident involved (24)7.ai, a chat-services provider used by Delta, Sears and other companies. Delta says only “a small subset” of customers were affected, with payment information exposed from...

The Trump administration is suing to block California laws that extend protections for immigrants living in the United States illegally.

The backlash against Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for alerting undocumented immigrants against potential ICE raids in her city over the weekend isn’t going away. Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan issued a stern statement on Tuesday, decrying Schaaf’s actions, going as far as to say that she might have put the lives of federal agents in danger. On Wednesday morning, Homan...