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BOSTON – The Hub edged out Silicon Valley as America's top location for digital innovation in a ranking of major U.S. metropolitan regions released Thursday, with researchers citing Boston's higher scores for livability and connectedness. "While the San Francisco Bay Area is the clear leader
regulations
BOSTON – Framingham will join Cambridge, Newton and more than a dozen other Bay State communities in banning plastic bags used by retailers to package goods including groceries starting in January 2018. Acting on a citizen's petition "to eliminate the usage of thin-film single-use bags by all retail
Massachusetts
CAMBRIDGE — Liberals have won the culture wars, and should start taking advantage of their victory, Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet wrote in a recent blog entry that has drawn much attention for suggesting conservatives should be treated like post-war Germans and Japanese. Tushnet, who teaches constitutional and civil rights
censorship
It's only fitting that Twitter should have listed "Former Facebook Workers" as trending, because Facebook initially did not. In fact, former Facebook workers say that the social media giant's managers instruct online curators to manipulate news feeds and trending lists to cut or leave
Donald Trump
Despite Donald Trump's claim that he wants to unite the Republican Party's diverse elements as its presumptive presidential nominee, the billionaire New Yorker has no qualms about attacking an evangelical influencer in one of the nation's largest and most conservative denominations. Theologian Russell Moore,
Faith
MALDEN – Malden High School and Cambridge Rindge & Latin school are the most racially and ethnically diverse public high schools in Massachusetts, while religiously affiliated schools are among the most diverse private schools in the Bay State, according to reports released by the education research website Niche. At Malden High
Beacon Hill
BOSTON – Churches around Boston will commemorate the National Day of Prayer May 5, which takes place annually on the first Thursday in May. Former president Ronald Reagan signed the law establishing the first Thursday in May as the National Day of Prayer in 1988. A decade later, President Bill Clinton
Immigration
This article includes an interactive quiz at the end of the story. BOSTON – On a sunny October afternoon, 368 immigrants from dozens of nations rose to their feet in Faneuil Hall's dignified upper chamber and swore allegiance to the United States of America, marking their entry into U.