"Birthright citizenship in our country is a guarantee of equality, born out of a collective fight against oppression," Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell said in a statement.

The U.S. Secret Service and Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department originally spoke to the man in a hotel on Tuesday morning. ABC reports they were responding to an alert from the Carlisle Police Department about a man with a gun who had expressed suicidal ideations on social media and was headed to Washington.

Eighteen states, the District of Columbia and San Francisco will seek a preliminary injunction blocking a Trump order denying citizenship to U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants.

Healey’s travel in 2024 included a stretch in which she visited or was traveling to other states on 28 of the 80 days from the day she left Massachusetts for the Democratic National Convention in mid-August through Election Day on Nov.

American Airlines and JetBlue agree to pay nearly $2M in legal fees to six US states after losing a lawsuit over the now-blocked Northeast Alliance partnership.

Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.

Longtime federal prosecutor Leah Belaire Foley is the new U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts. Foley, who previously served as Assistant U.S. Attorney, was sworn in to her new role on Tuesday afternoon, one day after her appointment as U.

Eighteen states, plus the District of Columbia and San Francisco sued in federal court to block Trump's order.

Trump’s roughly 700-word executive order, issued late Monday, amounts to a fulfillment of a campaign promise. But whether it will stand up in court isn't clear.

Eighteen Democratic-led states, along with the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco, filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Boston, arguing that President Donald Trump's order on ending birthright citizenship is a violation of the US Constitution.

As Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, Massachusetts’ representatives in Congress were quick to warn their constituents about his second term.