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CAMBRIDGE — Police have released an onlooker's video depicting the takedown-style arrest of a naked black Harvard student police say was under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, an incident that has prompted accusations of police brutality from a black Harvard Law School student organization and a description of "
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BOSTON — Massachusetts's highest court has sided with Attorney General Maura Healey in her bid to force ExxonMobil to produce and turn over documents her office maintains will show that the energy giant was aware about carbon emissions and their effect on the earth's climate since at
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Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who dreamed up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and saw it transform into reality under the Dodd-Frank reforms of 2010, pounced on her chance Thursday to criticize the man currently at the helm of the agency. Bureau acting chief Mick Mulvaney appeared before the
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UPDATE: The Boston Red Sox have asked the city to postpone Thursday's scheduled vote. The request has been granted and the voting date has been moved to April 26. This marks the second team-requested postponement. ————————————-
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Governor Charlie Baker was nowhere to be found when Vice President Mike Pence visited Boston on Tuesday evening for a fund-raising gala, and now one of his Democratic challengers is criticizing the Swampscott Republican for missing out on an opportunity to "talk some sense" into President Donald Trump&
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BOSTON — A collection of Asian-Americans contesting Harvard University's affirmative action policies in federal court are gaining the backing of a significant ally in their quest to force the elite Ivy League institution to fork over admissions data. The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday submitted a letter
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Editor's note: An earlier version of this story initially reported the city of Somerville's launching of an immigration-related hotline. The hotline was launched jointly via several nonprofits. SOMERVILLE — The birthplace of so-called "sanctuary city" policies, which bar police from sharing arrestees' information with
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BOSTON — Attorney General Maura Healey is hailing a federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Massachusetts's 1998 assault weapons ban, a ruling she said "vindicates the right of the people of Massachusetts to protect themselves from these weapons of war and our efforts to enforce