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WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins formally resigned Friday after wide-ranging investigations by two federal watchdog agencies found she sought to use her position to influence a local election and lied to investigators. In a letter to President Joe Biden obtained by The Associated Press, Rollins thanked the White House for supporting her during her […]
U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins as seen in a May 24, 2022, file photo. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald) U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins will co-lead a delegation of more than 30 other U.S. attorneys in Alabama to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” the day a civil rights demonstration there fell into violence in 1965, as well as the […]
The investigation comes as allegations of racism have placed Everett under a spotlight. Though the city — just across the Mystic River from Boston — has a majority of Black and Latino residents, its politics don’t reflect that change. An entrenched — and virtually all-white power structure runs the city with little more than lip […]
Life after the final rose proved to be more challenging than expected for Matt James, but the former Bachelor is ready to share his side of the story in his new book, First Impressions: Off Screen Conversations with a Bachelor on Race, Family, and Forgiveness. “It’s been such a crazy journey to that point,” the […]
The U.S. Senate couldn’t have been more divided on the nomination of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins for the job of top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts. But with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie, senators confirmed Rollins to become the state’s next U.S. attorney, the first Black woman to hold that post. The vote […]
US attorney nominees normally are confirmed easily for their four-year terms by a routine unanimous consent motion. But Rollins’ nomination turned into the latest partisan battle in the evenly divided Senate over President Biden’s executive and judicial branch picks. Republican opposition to her forced the Senate to hold its first roll call vote to confirm […]
WASHINGTON (CBS) — The United States Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to confirm Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins’ nomination to be the next U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. Rollins would be the first Black woman to hold the position. Her nomination moved forward from the Senate Judiciary Committee following a tied vote […]
Boston is one of the few major cities in the U.S. in which violent crime dropped in 2021, and the decline was dramatic. The most startling statistic was the decrease in homicide, which fell by nearly a third. These numbers are extremely inconvenient for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, who is
Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins in Boston Police Headquarters media room in Boston on May 27, 2021. | Source: Boston Globe / Getty The resistance to Massachusetts getting its first Black woman U.S. attorney has been so overt that the Boston Globe described it as “unusual pushback” as Republicans try to paint President
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