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WATCH: Americans fail at trying to pronounce different Mass. cities

Imagine being a tourist visiting Massachusetts for the first time. You're driving around in your rental car grasping at your smartphone desperately trying to ask Siri how to get to Worcester or where the nearest Dunkin' Donuts might be in Haverhill, but she ends up automatically directing

Donald Trump

Trump vows to put ‘America first’ in foreign policy

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare formal policy speech, Republican front-runner Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to put American security "above all else" if elected president, warning allies they would be left to defend themselves if they don't "pay their fair share." He also called for

America

Born American … but in the wrong place

When the Communists took control of Hungary in 1949, my parents' textile shop (and everything that was in it) was taken from them. They were considered the "bourgeoisie," and therefore dangerous. That same year, 1949, my grandfather was sentenced to ten years hard labor by the Communists

Massachusetts

To bring back U.S. history, first repeal Common Core

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Today, Massachusetts celebrates Patriots' Day. In towns across the commonwealth, crowds will gather for parades of

Abortion

The need to compromise

The topic of abortion has divided this country for more than half a century. And while the imminent March for Life in D.C. this coming Friday bears witness to a civic activism that is peaceful, both sides of the debate on abortion have tended to add to national divisiveness.

Massachusetts

There’s no ‘diversity problem’ at Boston Latin

Like other Boston residents, I have been perplexed at the degree of controversy surrounding our best public school, and the misleading analysis in local media, such as The Boston Globe. Underlying the race-relations controversy is the complaint that Boston Latin has a "diversity problem," that it doesn'

Donald Trump

Trump’s new Obama claims push into uncharted territory

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's latest accusation against President Barack Obama — that he's putting U.S. enemies ahead of America's own people — is thrusting him into uncharted territory for the presidential candidate of any major political party. Trump spent the first days following the Orlando

Democrats

Clinton nonprofit got $17.7M in foreign cash, NY filing shows

Clinton Foundation officials used an obscure New York state charity board filing to disclose that the nonprofit organization received nearly $17.7 million in donations from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The specific foreign governments weren't identified