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Becket Fund leader named to religious freedom panel
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Asian-American Lin to head national campus Christian group
MADISON, Wisc. – One of the nation's leading organizations serving Christian college students has named Tom Lin its next leader. He…
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UMass critics decry veer to left in required courses
AMHERST – The University of Massachusetts has turned a corner and begun to more explicitly prescribe political attitudes and views that students – and…
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Amherst College wins $1M prize for helping low-income students
AMHERST – Amherst College received a $1 million award that recognizes its programs that help "high achieving students from low-income families&…
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Boston tops Silicon Valley as innovation hub, study says
BOSTON – The Hub edged out Silicon Valley as America's top location for digital innovation in a ranking of major U.…
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Framingham will join towns banning plastic bags
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Harvard prof says treat conservative ‘losers’ like post-war Germans
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Facebook reportedly suppressed news from conservative sites
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Trump slams Southern Baptist leader Moore as ‘nasty’
Despite Donald Trump's claim that he wants to unite the Republican Party's diverse elements as its presumptive presidential…
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The most diverse Massachusetts high schools
MALDEN – Malden High School and Cambridge Rindge & Latin school are the most racially and ethnically diverse public high schools in Massachusetts,…
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Greater Boston churches observe National Day of Prayer
BOSTON – Churches around Boston will commemorate the National Day of Prayer May 5, which takes place annually on the first Thursday in…
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Pledging allegiance: Ceremony mints Boston’s newest citizens
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Victims of Islamic State horrors appeal for intervention
NEW YORK – The Rev. Douglas Al-Bazi, a Chaldean Catholic Church parish priest from Erbil, Iraq, took the podium at the United…
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Rhode Island, Connecticut deliver landslides to Trump
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‘Free speech’ panel triggers insults at UMass Amherst
AMHERST – When three conservatives sought to speak about freedom of speech at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, they drew shouted insults, apparently…
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‘Brady Bunch’ star aids group helping people walk again
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Bono makes ‘Psalms’ film with Bible translator Peterson
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Little Sisters sees ray of hope in Obamacare court battle
WASHINGTON – A statement from government lawyers that health plans could be modified to provide contraceptive care for women under special circumstances may…
