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Abortion
BOSTON – Hundreds of pro-life supporters packed the sidewalk lining Planned Parenthood's Commonwealth Avenue clinic on Saturday to protest the use of their tax dollars to support the embattled organization. Planned Parenthood has been under fire since earlier this summer when the Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life group,
ICE
The number of Massachusetts "sanctuary cities," local communities that officially refuse to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) officials, grew by one earlier this month. The decision by the Lawrence City Council to become a "sanctuary city" brings the Massachusetts grand total to seven.
hillary clinton
KEENE, N.H. – Days after Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was run off stage in Seattle by protesters aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement, fellow candidate Hillary Clinton may have just triggered a new bout of outrage from the racially-focused group. According to multiple reports from the scene, the
Harvard University
CAMBRIDGE – Higher education could soon get a schooling on disability rights from a Massachusetts federal court, which is set to determine whether to allow a lawsuit demanding closed captioning on all Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology online and educational content to proceed. Last week, attorneys with the U.
Title IX
BOSTON – The U.S. women's soccer team World Cup triumph on Sunday has reignited an old conversation about the limits of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs including athletics. The day after Team USA's 5-2 victory
Bono
BOSTON – Give U2 credit for making a show at a sold-out 18,000-seat arena feel like an intimate experience. The ageless Irish rockers roared into the Hub last Friday for the first of a four-night set. The band's iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour held its third show Tuesday night at
boston
BOSTON – Demanding "full and complete transparency" from officials representing the city's bid to land the 2024 Summer Olympics, Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson on Monday filed an order for a subpoena with the city clerk's office seeking the complete version of Boston 2024'
International Olympic Committee
In the early 1970s when then-Colorado state Rep. Richard Lamm (D) began to form an opposition movement to Denver's bid to host the 1976 Winter Olympic Games, Lamm said he felt like he was "banging the last nails into my own political coffin." On Tuesday, the