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Maura Healey

Healey widens probe into climate skeptics at think tanks

BOSTON – Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is the latest state prosecutor to start investigating conservative groups with supposed ties to ExxonMobil, after she issued a subpoena for 40 years of internal company documents and communications with a handful of think tanks.

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Punitive Trump trade plan would zap US poor, study says

BOSTON – Donald Trump's plan to slap punitive import taxes on countries like China and Mexico would lead to the erection of global trade barriers and impose "truly catastrophic" costs on the poorest American households, according to a study released Thursday. The New York billionaire and presumptive

Donald Trump

The cloud over our economic future

The United States will decide its economic future in the next presidential election. And it appears that it will choose a bad future indeed. As unlikely as a Bernie Sanders presidency remains, his successes in Iowa and New Hampshire have forced his opponent to tack hard to the left. Hillary