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After months of deliberation, Congress on Wednesday agreed to a defense bill that allows thousands of Afghans who worked with the American military to immigrate to the United States.
The National Defense Authorization Act for 2020 provides 4,000 Special Immigrant Visas to Afghan interpreters and others whose lives are threatened due to their work with American forces. For former interpreters like Zia Ghafoori, the visas are the difference between life and death.
BOSTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives is expected next week to take the historic step of voting to impeach Republican President Donald Trump, and members of the state's all-Democrat congressional delegation firmly back removing him from office.
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act, legislation that sets defense spending and policy for the 2020 fiscal year.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley sought to quell concerns President Trump's intervention in the cases of three service members last month would lead to a disruption of order and discipline within military ranks.
"We do maintain, and we will maintain good order and discipline," Milley told lawmakers during a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. "We will not turn into a gang of raping and burning, pillaging throughout … That is not going to happen because of this or anything else."
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representative Seth Moulton released the following statement on the life and legacy of Pete Frates:
“Pete Frates was a fighter and a patriot who challenged America to confront ALS. Rather than retreating from the national spotlight to manage his illness, he rallied the country around funding medical research through the Ice Bucket Challenge. He will be long remembered for his humor, his strength, and his courage. What a hero he was to me and so many others.”
BEVERLY, MA — The death of Pete Frates Monday brought an outpouring of tributes from leaders in North Shore communities. Frates, the former Boston College baseball player best known for popularizing the "Ice Bucket Challenge" after being diagnosed with ALS, lived in Beverly and graduated from St. John's Prep in Danvers in 2003.
We check in with Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton on the President's decision to pardon a Navy SEAL, the ongoing impeachment hearings, and other issues facing the country and Massachusetts.
In Iraq, I learned there are two types of courage: physical courage and moral courage. Moral courage was often the hardest to find.
SINCE 2000, 17,496 citizens of Massachusetts have died from an opioid overdose. Half of those deaths came in the last five years. That’s like one of at least 245 communities in the Commonwealth disappearing in 19 years. Enough people in Massachusetts have died from an opioid overdose to fill all but 69 of the seats at the TD Garden for a Bruins game.
Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control estimates 700,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose death in the years spanning 1993-2017. That’s more people than live in the entire city of Boston.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — If there’s a word that sums up the current mood of the West’s high command, it’s this: despair.
That’s the clearest and most alarming takeaway from discussions with the assorted diplomats, military officials and security wonks who assembled this weekend for the annual Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, a clubby gathering of leading democracies.