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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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Chinese dissident Teng Biao was a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School on March 10, 2015 when a high-ranking Harvard official ordered him to cancel a talk about his experiences in China because the university's president was scheduled to meet with the president of China and Teng'
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Young Americans are dramatically less patriotic than they were 18 years ago in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attack, a newly released poll found. Some 63 percent of people ages 18 to 29 surveyed in the poll identified as "very patriotic" or "somewhat patriotic"
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In Maine, a significant amount of the state is not leaving their homes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. About 40 percent of Mainers are staying home entirely each day over the past few weeks, according to an analysis of cell phone data reported by the Bangor Daily News.
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Prospective lawyers will have a little more time to study for the bar exam now. As WHDH-TV Channel 7 reports, the justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners announced on Thursday, April 23 they will be pushing back the Uniform Bar Examination because
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Harvard University says it will not take about $8.6 million through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. The announcement, which the university made Wednesday, April 22, is the third position the world's richest university has taken on the federal grant money in a week.
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Without much else to do, beaches in Massachusetts have become a popular spot, despite it not being summertime weather yet in the Bay State. As Boston 25 reports, there were hundreds of people at Plum Island Beach in Newbury on Sunday, April 19, and many of the cars were from
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Walk-up coronavirus testing sites are now a reality in Rhode Island. The first one in the Ocean State opened up on Tuesday, April 21 in the parking lot of Robert L. Bailey IV Elementary School in Providence. The purpose of it, according to The Providence Journal, is to help those
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden mistook Memorial Day for Labor Day while answering a question from a reporter about when he would announce a vice presidential running mate. Biden did a 10-minute remote interview with KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, April 21.