Nearly 40 cats affected by near-record snowfall in Louisiana are arriving at the MSPCA at Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem on Saturday as part of an urgent rescue mission.

Attorney General Andrea Campbell and prosecutors from other states planned to sue President Donald Trump after his administration issued a directive to pause the distribution of federal funding.

According to the executive order, the Federal Emergency Management Agency Review Council, co-chaired by the secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense, will assess FEMA’s effectiveness over the past four years, comparing its responses to state and private sector efforts of disaster relief.

For her first official trip back to the Bay Area since being sworn into the 119th Congress, Rep. Lateefah Simon was hoping to discuss health care innovations at local hospitals. But the Trump administration’s illegal freeze on all federal grants Monday recast the purpose of Simon’s visit.

Massachusetts Governor Plans Graduation Requirement Council After Voters Ditched Testing BOSTON (AP) — The governor of Massachusetts plans to convene a statewide graduation requirement council after voters in November decided to ditch the state’s ...

The Trump administration's freeze on federal loans and grants is being challenged in court on multiple fronts.

California, a coalition of other states and the city of San Francisco have sued the Trump administration over President Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, calling it unconstitutional.

Massachusetts is joining in legal action as President Trump's administration begins a review of spending that could freeze trillions of government dollars.

Mass. AG Campbell is co-leading a lawsuit of 23 states to stop the Trump Administration’s new policy pausing federal grants and loans.

In an interview aired Wednesday night, Trump said he may withhold aid to California until the state adjusts how it manages its scarce water resources. He falsely claimed that California’s fish conservation efforts in the northern part of the state are responsible for fire hydrants running dry in urban areas.

An Arizona man lost his miniature pinscher in Oklahoma eight years ago. On Jan. 15, he received calls and texts saying his dog Damian had been found.

With Republicans in control of all three branches of the federal government, liberal states should increasingly fund cultivated-meat research. For those