WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocacy groups are set to file the first lawsuit Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order for the Pentagon to revise its policy on transgender troops, likely setting up ban on their service in the armed forces.

Policymakers, nonprofits and others who rely on federal funding are scrambling to unpack the significance of a Trump administration freeze on most federal grants and loans, a shift that Gov. Maura Healey warned will be "devastating" for Massachusetts.

The funding freeze "violates the separation of powers," Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said, as a colleague from California called it "arbitrary and capricious."

The protest was organized by the Boston chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Boston Coalition for Palestine.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu brought the newest member of her family to City Hall Tuesday.Wu carried 15-day-old baby Mira into work —<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration falling on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, members of the Black community in Boston said the coincidence generates some complicated feelings for them.

The sounds of loud chants and music filled the streets of Boston on Saturday as thousands of people gathered for the People's March.

The Northern Irishman made his official debut in his new start-up competition this week with Boston Common Golf on a night where he came face-to-face with the president's granddaughter

ICE agents and their partners in federal and local law enforcement ramped up targeted raids over the weekend, seeking known "criminal aliens" accused of U.S. crimes.

As Trump prepares for another term, here’s what Boston.com readers had to say about some of the most pressing issues facing the nation.

The new Trump administration has launched a nationwide immigration crackdown that saw some 1,000 people arrested in a single day on Sunday, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement data. ICE field officers have been given a quota of 75 arrests per day, CNN reported — significantly higher than 2024 target numbers.