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Antigua man tied to former Congressman John Tierney’s brothers-in-law illegal gambling ring has been arrested

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:28 GMT

An Antigua man who had been charged 13 years ago in connection to a large-scale illegal gambling ring with former Congressman John Tierney’s brothers-in-law has been arrested.Richard Sullivan, 73, of St. John’s, Antigua, was recently arrested more than a decade after being charged in connection with the illegal gambling business — which used an Antiguan website but operated in the continental U.S.Sullivan was indicted by a Boston federal grand jury in 2010 with racketeering (RICO), operating an illegal gambling business, transmission of wagering information, money laundering and interstate travel in aid of racketeering.He was arrested on Sunday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York while going through customs upon his return to the U.S. from Antigua. Sullivan was arraigned in the Eastern District of New York, and he will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date.According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, two of Sullivan’s co-conspir...

Wu to propose 4th South End shelter in Mass and Cass plan, and area leaders are not happy

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:28 GMT

South End residents are saying enough is enough to the city’s response to the misery of Mass and Cass, and in particular a plan to add 30 shelter beds at a building under an overpass at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Street.“It’s a Band-Aid. And the medicine is worse than the disease,” said new state Rep. John Moran, who represents much of the South End, including this troubled area, as well as Lower Roxbury, of the proposal.“It creates a fourth shelter in the south end, which we do not need. We’ve been promised to have decentralization here,” he said.Moran and Boston City Council President Ed Flynn met with the president and vice president of the Worcester Square Area Neighborhood Association at the corner of East Concord and Albany streets at 7 a.m. Thursday to survey and discuss a city plan to open a new shelter in the 700-block of Albany Street that Mayor Michelle Wu is scheduled to unveil at 10 a.m. Friday.It was still some 30 minutes until AHOPE — wh...

Welcome aboard

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:28 GMT

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas was the guest speaker at Thursday’s U.S. naturalization ceremony where 350-plus new citizens — including members of the military — joined in inside Faneuil Hall.Dept. of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, also a naturalized citizen, walks thru the crowd.(Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

Fox News reaches 12.8 million viewers for GOP primary debate, despite Donald Trump’s absence

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:28 GMT

By DAVID BAUDER (AP Media Writer)NEW YORK (AP) — Even without lead contender Donald Trump, an estimated 12.8 million people watched the first Republican presidential primary debate on two Fox News television channels and its streaming service.There seemed little evidence that Trump’s attempt to counterprogram the debate, by appearing in an online interview with Tucker Carlson at about the same time on Wednesday, appreciably affected the number of people who were interested in checking out the eight alternatives.The viewership was a little more than half the 24 million people who watched Trump appear in his first presidential debate in August 2015, the Nielsen company said. But it outpaced a January 2016 GOP candidates debate on Fox that Trump also skipped and was seen by 12.5 million peopleTelevision is a vastly different world than it was eight years ago, with streaming more established and thousands of cable customers cutting the cord. The most-watched program seen liv...

Fair weather

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:28 GMT

The summer just wouldn’t be the same without a trip to the Marshfield Fair.The end of August has featured the fair since 1867. That’s a lot of cotton candy and fried dough. The fair has changed over the years, but it’s still one of a kind.Hope Healy, 17, of Plymouth walks her champion sheep, Nova, at the Marshfield Fair on Friday. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald) 

Healey meets with Secretary Mayorkas weeks after emergency declaration

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:28 GMT

Gov. Maura Healey planned to meet with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Thursday, only weeks after the governor declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts and petitioned the secretary for help with an influx of migrants.Mayorkas was in Boston for two publicly scheduled events, an awards ceremony at a U.S. Coast Guard Base near the North End and a naturalization ceremony at Faneuil Hall. After an event in Wellesley earlier in the day, Healey said she planned to meet with the secretary at the State House.The meeting comes more than two weeks after Healey penned a letter to Mayorkas calling on him and the Biden administration to remove “burdensome barriers” to work authorizations for migrants and provide more federal funding to address an influx of new arrivals.Healey said employers around the state are ready to employ migrants as nurses, laborers, and “so much more.”“And my meeting with Secretary Mayorkas, with whom I’ve already had conversations, as well ...

Biden policy allowing migrants from 4 countries into the US is praised, criticized at Texas trial

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:28 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — During a trial Thursday on the fate of an immigration program focused on people from Central America and the Caribbean, lawyers for Texas and 20 other Republican-leaning states suing to stop it accused the federal initiative of being outside the law. But an American sponsoring one of the migrants — a 34-year-old friend from Nicaragua named Oldrys and who’s now in the U.S. thanks to the program — praised its economic benefits and credited it for letting him reciprocate kindness to someone in need.“We really see this as an opportunity to welcome Oldrys into our family …. in a time of need for him,” said Eric Sype. Under the humanitarian parole program, up to 30,000 people are being allowed each month to enter the U.S. from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The federal government and immigrant rights groups are defending the program, saying it’s been successful at reducing migration and a humanitarian crisis on the southern border and has provided a safe ...

Trump arrives at Atlanta jail to surrender on charges he tried to overturn 2020 election loss

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:28 GMT

Former President Donald Trump arrived Thursday at a jail in Atlanta to surrender on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.The booking is expected to yield a historic first: a mug shot of a former American president.Trump and 18 others were indicted last week, accused of participating in a sprawling conspiracy to overturn his presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.The Fulton County prosecution is the fourth criminal case against Trump since March when he became the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted.Trump’s surrender, coming amid an abrupt shake-up of his legal team, follows the presidential debate in Milwaukee the night before featuring his leading rivals for the 2024 Republican nomination — a contest in which he remains the leading candidate despite accelerating legal troubles.His Atlanta appearance will be different from others, though, requiring him to surrender at a problem-plagued jail — but wit...

New York governor urges Biden to help state with migrant surge

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:28 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday implored President Joe Biden to take urgent action to help her state absorb a surge of international migrants who have strained resources and filled homeless shelters — putting some Democrats in a vulnerable position in a state usually seen as immigrant-friendly.In a rare public address, Hochul said she had sent the president a letter asking him to expedite work permits for migrants and provide financial resources to help care for the estimated 100,000 asylum seekers who have come to the state in the last year, mostly to New York City.“The reality is that we’ve managed thus far without substantive support from Washington, and despite the fact that this is a national, and indeed an inherently federal issue,” Hochul said in speech delivered in Albany. “But New York has shouldered this burden for far too long.”The public plea comes after months of private requests to the White House. The central request of the governor’s let...

US sanctions 11 Russians and 2 re-education facilities involved in forced transfer of Ukrainian kids

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:28 GMT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States on Thursday announced sanctions against 11 Russians and two re-education facilities reportedly involved in the forced transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children, accusing Moscow of war crimes and crimes against humanity.U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the announcement at a U.N. Security Council meeting that the U.S. organized on Ukraine’s national day to put a spotlight on the transfer or deportation of its children as young as four months old, not only to Russia but to its ally Belarus and Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine’s east.“Children are literally being ripped from their homes in the year 2023,” she said. “Russia and its proxies have detained children fleeing violence. They have forced children out of schools and orphanages. And local proxies have tricked or coerced parents into sending their children to so-called `summer camps’ only to be cut off from communication and refused to have their children returned to them...