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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he believes the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had something to do with the murder of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy. President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas during the third year of his presidency.
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Over a two-day span, nine stranded dolphins — two of them repeats — were rescued off the coast of Cape Cod. On the morning of Monday, May 1, nine Atlantic White-Sided Dolphins were seen swimming in Wellfleet Harbor, according to The Cape Cod Times. As rescuers arrived to help the dolphins to
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A spectator at a Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies game in Philadelphia on Friday, May 5 fell over a protective wall into the Phillies bullpen. The spectator was reaching for a ball thrown his way. The incident happened in the top of the first inning when Masataka Yoshida, the Red
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Northampton city councilors are defending themselves for voting $20,000 to decorate manhole covers with characters from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." The funds for the project come from $4 million the city received from the federal American Rescue Plan Act to address Covid.
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A recently-formed Harvard undergraduate pro-homosexuality-and-transgenderism advocacy group has launched a petition asking for more gender-inclusive bathrooms on campus. "Gender-inclusive" bathrooms refer to bathrooms that anyone can use, regardless of sex.
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Boston College football record-holder Zay Flowers was drafted 22nd overall in the NFL draft by the Baltimore Ravens. Flowers holds the record for most receiving yards, receiving touchdowns, and catches at Boston College, according to BC Interruption.
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Twenty-seven thousand people convicted of drunken driving in Massachusetts from June 1, 2011 through April 18, 2019 may be able to get their convictions overturned due to faulty breathalyzer testing machines. The machines had faulty calibration that led to false results, a 2019 investigation found, according to CBS News Boston.
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Former Harvard professor Charles Lieber was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston to time served for lying about his research ties to China and fined more than $83,000 for not paying taxes on money he made from a Chinese university. Prosecutors say Lieber lied about his involvement