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For district superintendents across Massachusetts, the ramp up in immigration enforcement during the Trump administration has created many challenges, including school absences and additional worry and fear among their students and parents.

It’s been nearly 30 years since the Dropkick Murphys formed in Quincy. The band is out with a new album, "For the People," with lyrics that are pointed and aimed to inspire. Frontman Ken Casey said, "Silence is complicit at this point."

“The very institutions that glue our society together are melting in front of our eyes. Our institutions are under attack,” said George Pappas, a judge who was fired this month from the Chelmsford Immigration Court.

Federal moves to eliminate "environmental justice" grant programs threaten progress in a city with high rates of asthma and childhood lead poisoning. Now, officials are suing the Trump administration to get their $20 million grant back.

Peter Karol of Suffolk Law School and Bhamati Viswanathan of Columbia University Law School's Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts join WBUR's Morning Edition to explain how the suits against Suno fit into a broader legal battle over the future of creative work.

About 100 criminal cases being dismissed in Boston Municipal Court Tuesday because the defendants did not have legal representation. The dismissals come as public defenders continue to refuse cases until the state raises their wages.

Massachusetts' four regional food banks have faced millions of dollars in federal cuts to food supplies and grant programs this year. At the same time, the federal government recently implemented more stringent requirements to qualify for food stamps.

Harvard seeks to restore roughly $2.5 billion that the Trump administration canceled with little warning this spring. 

After more than three decades as a family physician in Maine, Dr. Scott Schiff-Slater said he struggles to make sense of the public's eroding trust in medicine. He's frustrated and worried: about his patients' health and the misinformation that drives these decisions.

As immigration arrests surged this summer, ICE held detainees for extended periods of time in its field office in Burlington, Mass. Two women who spent more than a week inside discuss the "horrible" conditions they endured.