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04 April 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Don't Be Fooled, 'Roseanne' Is Really TV's Most Anti-Trump Show  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hollywood Reporter Abdul-Jabbar writes: "The day after the Roseanne revival premiered to massive ratings, President Donald Trump bragged at a Cleveland rally that the show's success was because 'it was about us.' He's right, but not in the flattering way he thinks." READ MORE A group of Central American refugees and asylum seekers, led by the nonprofit humanitarian organization Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders), walk along a road in the town of Santiago Niltepec in Oaxaca state, Mexico. (photo: Jordi Ruiz Cirera/Bloomberg) Donald Trump Says He Will Send Troops to US-Mexico Border Seung Min Kim, The Washington Post   Min Kim writes: "President Trump on Tuesday said the military will be sent to guard the U.S.-Mexico bo...

ENTERGY's failures are known.  Let's support RENEWABLES that don't create TOXIC WASTE for generations.  Has anyone noticed Charlie Baker's silence?  Incapable of leadership, incapable of governing.  Charlie Baker: ONE AND DONE!  \ Pilgrim shutdown enters second month By  Christine Legere   Posted Apr 3, 2018  PLYMOUTH — March was a tough month for the beleaguered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, and so far, April has been no better. The Plymouth reactor has now been shut down for 30 days because of a handful of equipment problems. Operators finished removing a damaged start-up transformer last week and are in the process of moving the new transformer into place, Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said Tuesday. The reactor was shut down March 6 because of a leak in a system needed to heat water before it is pumped into the reactor. While workers addressed that problem, the reactor lo...

GOV field snapshot — DEM triumphs in Attleboro — New FUNDRAISING numbers 04/04/2018 07:07 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski  ( ldezenski@politico.com ; @LaurenDezenski) with Brent D. Griffiths ( bgriffiths@politico.com ; @BrentGriffiths) GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. IN GOV FIELD, "UNCOMMITTED" LEADS FOR DEM DELEGATES -  We're two months out from Democrats gathering in Worcester for their annual state convention, but among party faithful, one key thing has held true about the three Democrats vying to take on Gov.  Charlie Baker : No clear frontrunner has emerged. The latest example comes from the party members committed to each of the three candidates ahead of the convention,  Bob Massie ,  Jay Gonzalez , and  Setti Warren . So far, the top choice for delegate support isn't a candidate at all: It's 'uncommitted', according to the campaigns' latest internal vote counts of the 5,500-some delegates to the state convention. Next is Gonzalez, follow...

03 April 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Tim Dickinson | Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump  Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone Dickinson wrote: "In November 2013, the president of the National Rifle Association, David Keene, was introduced as an honored guest at the conference of the Right to Bear Arms, a gun lobby in Moscow." READ MORE Donald Trump. (photo: Mark Seliger) Jill McCabe | The President Attacked My Reputation. It's Time to Set the Record Straight. Jill McCabe, The Washington Post McCabe writes: "I am an emergency room pediatrician and an accidental politician - someone who never thought much about politics until I was recruited to run for state office after making a statement about the importance of expanding Medicaid." READ MORE An airport terminal. (photo: Thinkstock) Foreign Visas Plunge Under Trump Nahal Toosi, Ted Hesson and Sarah Fr...