The largest immigrant community in Massachusetts is also being arrested in larger numbers since President Donald Trump took office. Fear is ricocheting through the community — even among those who once supported Trump during his election.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Sept. 4 filed a lawsuit against Mayor Michelle Wu, the city of Boston and its police department over its sanctuary city policies, claiming they’re interfering with immigration enforcement. In response, Wu accused Trump of “attacking cities to hide his administration’s failures.”

In November 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the $1.3 trillion Infrastructure Jobs and Investment Act. The legislation addressed the nation’s long-neglected and deteriorating roads, bridges, waterways and electric grids, and to improve broadband access.

Immigration enforcement has gone hand in hand with the Trump administration's sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles and in the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.

Hundreds of activists, immigrants and their supporters gathered outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office to protest President Donald Trump’s intensifying immigration enforcement in sanctuary cities like Boston.

US president Donald Trump and his health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr are expected to announce a link between autism and the use of the pain ­reliever acetaminophen during pregnancy. Ahead of the announcement,

Trump has previously denied the severity of brain injuries. In 2016, he criticized the NFL’s concussion protocols. In 2020, he described traumatic brain injuries U.S. service members sustained during a missile strike as “headaches” that he didn’t consider to be “very serious injuries” compared with people who lost limbs.