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Massachusetts schools must again receive access to their remaining COVID-19 relief money, restoring more than $100 million in unspent funds the Trump administration had sought to strip away in March.

A federal judge on Friday issued a temporary pause on the Trump administration’s plans to restructure government agencies and cut tens of thousands of federal workers.

An immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest became chaotic as bystanders tried to stop the federal agents from arresting a woman in a Worcester, Mass., neighborhood late Thursday morning.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Sunday afternoon in opposition to recent arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Many of the same protestors who were blocking the agents' car and chanting, "where is the warrant," during Thursday's arrest, packed inside the YWCA on Friday, angry and demanding answers.