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The policy forces asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while awaiting immigration hearings.

“We spent almost two years now really not having access to these tests in the United States,” said Dr. Michael Mina.

Brenda Cassellius said the district has been adjusting its strategy and has hired clinical and operational staff.

Any reason for overturning the Roe v. Wade precedent is “utterly absent,” the former Suffolk County sheriff said.

Dr. Cheryl Hamlin travels to Mississippi about once a month to perform abortions that local doctors refuse.

The senator said he's 'very confident' in his party's ability to find consensus on the multi-trillion dollar social infrastructure package known as the Build Back Better bill.

Today we broadcast live from the 114th NAACP National Convention, the first time the convention has returned to Boston since 1982. We started the show with Tanisha Sullivan, President of the NAACP Boston, and Michael Curry, CEO of Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. Rep. Ayanna Pressley stopped by, along with Marty Walsh, the Bay State Banner’s Ron Mitchell and Mel Miller, Naia Butler-Craig, Imari Paris Jeffries, and more. Robert Kraft and Mayor Michelle Wu called in. We also spoke to GBH News reporters Paris Alston and Phillip Martin.

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