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Teaming up with Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), the New England Patriots wore stickers on the their helmets honoring the local men and women who have died in US military service. The black-and-white stickers were affixed to the back of the helmets and were worn during the Patriots'
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US Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chair of the US Senate Judiciary Committee, has referred Justice Brett Kavanaugh accuser Judy Munro-Leighton to the Justice Department for investigation for "materially false statements she made to the Committee during the course" of its own investigation into allegations against Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh, nominated
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The Portsmouth Herald reports Friday that U.S. Rep. Eric Smalwell, a California Democrat known for propagating collusion theories regarding 2016 Trump campaign and the Russians, said he is waiting until the mid-terms to decide whether he will run for president in 2020. Smalwell, quoted by Herald reporter Paul Steinhauser,
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A story in The Wall Street Journal suggests that, at least in part, a race discrimination lawsuit filed against Harvard University's admissions policy has perhaps given Republican candidates to higher office "common ground" with Asian-American voters, namely, antipathy to affirmative action. The Asian-American demographic, on whose
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Four days after NH Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Kenneth C. Brown granted an injunction to plaintiffs' claims a one-year-old state voter registration law was unconstitutional and unduly burdened voter registration, the NH Supreme Court unanimously stayed that injunction. Judge Brown's October 21 decision in League of
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Surgeon and professor Miroslav Djordjevic, a leading expert in "gender reassignment" surgery, told a Canada news outlet that he is seeing an increase in requests for reassignment "reversals", particularly among formerly male patients who had received surgery to become female. In an interview with National Post,
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Vanguard Renewables, of Wellesley, MA has been named "2018 Organics Recycler of the Year" by the National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA) for developing anaerobic "digester" generators currently operating at farms in Deerfield, Hadley, and Rutland. According to a NWRA press release, the award was presented
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Albert Lexie, 76, of Monessen, PA, a shoeshiner who died October 16, may have only earned about $10,000 a year over his 30-year career, but his tip jar runneth over: He donated $200,000 in tips to the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. According to a UPMC