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BOSTON — It's now legal in Massachusetts to be at least one toke over the line. Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly backed a ballot question that sought to regulate marijuana in the same way as alcohol, meaning that the Bay State is now the first state on the East Coast
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BOSTON — There will be no increase in the number of charter schools allowed to operate in the Bay State, as voters defeated a ballot initiative that would have paved the way for the annual statewide authorization of up to 12 new charters per year. Great Schools Massachusetts, the group that
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MANCHESTER, N.H. — On the eve of Election Day, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump took to the stage at a rally in the heart of the Granite State and made an announcement sure to send a vast chunk of New England sports fans into a fit, telling the crowd he
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's critics pounced over the weekend after video surfaced in which the commander-in-chief purportedly told Gina Rodriguez, an actress and rapper, that there would be no problems if illegal immigrants vote in tomorrow's presidential election. A clip of the interview found its way
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BOSTON — A Boston University student has enraged his left-leaning classmates by appearing in a school-sponsored YouTube video in which he lists his reasons for backing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump — the worst of which, in the opinion of his detractors, is the student's criticism of multiculturalism. Nicholas Fuentes,
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BOSTON — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is finally returning nearly $130,000 in campaign donations from a Hub-based law firm proven to have reimbursed its wealthy partners' political donations with company "bonuses," days after the firm was exposed in a lengthy Boston Globe report. The Globe straw-donor
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center, the nonprofit legal advocacy group noted for its work fighting organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, recently released a list of prominent anti-Muslim extremists. Making the list was native Somali female activist who has fought for free speech and the
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BOSTON — Poll results released Friday show that the ballot question asking voters whether or not the state should lift the cap on the number of charter schools allowed to open annually remains a toss-up, while momentum is gaining for backers of legalizing marijuana. A Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll of