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Income equality and other hot-button issues will be discussed in a forum that is open to only women Saturday at the downtown Bristol Community College campus.

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President Donald Trump has lived up to his promises during his first year in office.

President Donald Trump and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are locked in an increasingly bitter, public dispute over the progress (or the lack thereof) on advancing Trump's agenda. Trump was elected last Fall by the so-called forgotten men and women of middle America because he promised to address the problems most impacting their lives...

Rev. David Lima describes the immigration debate in the U.S. as being like a tennis match played with a hand grenade. No one is listening to each other, and no progress is being made. Rev. Lima, the Executive Minister of the Interchurch Council of Greater New Bedford, hopes to shed light on the immigration issue during a forum Thursday night at the Whaling Museum...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson has testified before a Congressional subcommittee on the dangers of illegal immigration in the United States. Hodgson highlighted his written report on the subject to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, saying national security is compromised when criminal illegal immigrants are allowed to roam free...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is in Washington, D.C., this morning. Hodgson will testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, highlighting his written report on the dangers of illegal immigration and sanctuary cities...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Lawyers representing northeast fishermen are waiting to hear a U.S. District Court ruling that would temporarily halt the lease of 127 square miles of ocean off the coast of Long Island. In December, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management preliminarily awarded the $42...

Ken Pittman is a talk show host on 1420 WBSM New Bedford.  He can be heard Saturdays from 9am-Noon.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. I can point to Massachusetts and to Washington and say the same thing; They just don't understand what they are looking at...

President Donald Trump proved once again over the weekend that he is the master of the message by whipping the media into a frenzy over a hastily called news briefing for the express purpose of ripping it a new one. Stunned reporters were chastised for false reports on the alleged removal of a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr ...