THE LOWELL Police Department’s badge-pinning ceremony held in front of an overflow and enthusiastic crowd at City Hall on Friday represented some historic firsts for the department and for the city.
The House bill that sets Pentagon policies for the next year, which began as mundane and bipartisan, passed on Friday on a party-line vote. The bill received a 58-to-1 vote
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives and the Democratic-led Senate this week will start to seek the upper hand in a spending showdown that could trigger a government shutdown just months after Congress narrowly avoided default.