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WBUR’s Walter Wuthmann reports on highlights from Mayor Wu's third State of the City address.

President Trump has already cut over 1,200 positions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency of about 12,000 employees that provides services ranging from weather forecasting to fisheries science. Several former NOAA employees said another round of terminations could interfere with future fisheries surveys.

Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joins WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss what she thinks the Democratic Party must do to mitigate and combat policy shifts by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans.

In 1990 thieves disguised as police stole 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Their empty frames have been restored and remain as stark reminders of the unsolved art heist.

Peter Drummey, chief historian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, joins WBUR to talk about Evacuation Day.

Elected officials exchanged jokes Sunday morning at the annual St. Patrick's Day breakfast in South Boston, doing their best to lighten the mood in what feels like a politically dark moment for many Democrats in Massachusetts.

The governor's influence is rising in the Democratic Party, as she shifts from low-key resistance to full-on protest over Trump's punitive slashing of federal funds

Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler joins WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss how these changes will impact education in Massachusetts. 

The South Boston St. Patrick's Day Breakfast, where Boston's most powerful swap jokes over bacon and eggs, is an annual lightning rod for rivalries and gossip. This year, an already contentious Boston mayoral race could stir the pot even more.

In 2020, the pandemic closed classrooms and banished hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren to learn over screens at home. Here's what some local school workers say they saw then — and what challenges they see students face now.