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“I’m running to make Roe v. Wade the law of the land again. So women have a federal guarantee to the right to choose. Donald Trump doesn’t trust women. I do,” Biden says in his short ad, following a clip of Trump saying he is “proud” to have ended the nearly 50-year-old law.

A small group of protestors gathered outside the State House on Wednesday to oppose state spending on emergency shelters in Massachusetts that are providing temporary housing to both local residents and migrants from other countries.

Massachusetts is currently allocating about $75 million monthly to shelters, a significant increase that coincides with the expected depletion of emergency services funding by Governor Maura Healey’s administration in April without additional financial support.

Massachusetts senators voted Thursday to shuttle hundreds of millions of one-time use dollars to a state-run shelter system buckling under the weight of an influx of migrants from other countries and soaring costs that show little sign of slowing down.

A Westfield Democrat responded to U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who leads the House Judiciary Committee, for an investigation the congressman initiated into a Haitian national accused of assaulting a migrant girl at a Massachusetts shelter last week.