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POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: A MODEST march — MARATHON Monday — GOP DONOR fuels Dems

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OVERLOOKED: Videos show Cambridge officer striking black Harvard student By John Hilliard GLOBE CORRESPONDENT   APRIL 15, 2018 Cambridge’s mayor called a video of a police officer repeatedly striking a black Harvard University student while he was pinned to the ground by fellow officers “disturbing” and promised that the findings of an internal probe would be made public. A MODEST march — MARATHON Monday — GOP DONOR fuels Dems 04/16/2018 07:32 AM EDT By Stephanie Murray ; ( stephaniemurray.news@gmail.com ; @StephMurr_Jour) and Brent D. Griffiths ( bgriffiths@politico.com ; @BrentGriffiths) IT'S MARATHON MONDAY.  And we're in for a wet one. Cloudy, windy and rainy with temperatures in the 50s. That's New England for you. The second annual March for Science drew hundreds to Boston over the weekend - far fewer than the thousands who came out last year  to decry President Donald Trump's push to cut funding for some science and environm...

Trump's Dangerous Plot to Weaponize the Supreme Court

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01 April 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Trump's Dangerous Plot to Weaponize the Supreme Court  Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post Marcus writes: "He is ignorant of - ignorant, really, to the point of allergic to - the importance of the judiciary as an independent institution and the operation of the rule of law. Yet he is also maliciously canny." READ MORE TRUMP'S WAR CABINET!  IS THIS WHAT THE NATION WANTS? MORE ENDLESS WARS TO BUILD AMERICAN EMPIRE?   John Bolton speaking at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit in Nashua, New Hampshire, on April 17, 2015. (photo: Darren McCollester/Getty Images/JTA) Patrick Cockburn | The Appointments of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in the US Bring Us Closer to War in the Middle East Patrick Cockburn, The Independent Cockburn writes: "Armed conflict between the US and Iran is becoming more probable by the day as super-hawks replace hawks in the Trump adminis...