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BOSTON – Civil rights lawyers are threatening to sue online retail giant Amazon.com for discrimination, citing Amazon's policy of requiring criminal background checks on its delivery drivers. Boston-area lawyers representing drivers fired by delivery contractors after background checks revealed criminal records claim the policy unfairly targets blacks and
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BOSTON – For one batch of freshmen at Boston College, this year's rush of exams and deadlines will include one very unique extra credit assignment. Professor Kerry Cronin, BC's famous "Dating Doctor" will set them the task of asking someone out on a date. Cronin
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NASHUA, N.H. — Despite recent bad reviews of his debate performance and post debate behavior, Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump is gaining on Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in this critical swing state, putting the two candidates in a virtual dead heat in New Hampshire heading into the final month
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BOSTON – Nearly half of all younger voters currently plan to cast their ballots for third party candidates this November, according to a national study released this month by Quinnipiac University. The poll of voters aged 18-34 showed 44 percent are dissatisfied with the Republican and Democratic candidates for president. Twenty-nine
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It's no secret that religion has become a dirty word in the public sphere, particularly in politics. The "freedom of religion" portion of the First Amendment has increasingly come to mean that public expressions of faith are unwelcome, lest anyone feel offended. It goes without saying
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NEW HAVEN – For most college students, the end of September means the end of course-shopping and the threat of looming deadlines and midterms. But for a small group of students at Yale University, the library is the last thing on their minds. Instead, they are preparing to host nearly two-hundred
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BOSTON – A team of anthropologists and art history experts, led by professors from Yale and Brown, has proven once and for all the authenticity of a controversial 13th century Mayan text. Their findings confirm the document, called the Grolier Codex, is indeed the oldest writing to be discovered in the
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BOSTON – Thousands are flocking to the Bay State this week to venerate a relic of one the world's most beloved saints, Padre Pio. Encased in a glass box and accompanied by a security detail of Capuchin monks, is the heart of the Italian priest who experienced "Stigmata,