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The New Hampshire Democratic Party is ditching former President Bill Clinton from the name of the party's annual fund-raising dinner, less than two years after he was first honored. The Kennedy-Clinton Dinner, as the event was known in 2016 and 2017, will now be called the Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former U.S. Representative Margaret Heckler (R-Wellesley) died Monday, August 6 in Virginia. She was 87. A moderate Republican, the former Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy championed the Equal Rights Amendment but also opposed abortion.
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Beth Lindstrom is supporting President Donald Trump's tough trade policies, provided that tariffs don't last long. "On the tariffs, I say: I believe in free trade but fair trade. So I think the president's ultimate goal is to
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Former President Barack Obama is endorsing 81 candidates for office around the country, but none in Massachusetts. The candidates are running for Congress, governor, and state legislatures. They are all Democrats, and the list includes candidates vying with other Democrats in party primaries.
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A bill that would have required all public school districts in Massachusetts that teach sex education to adopt state standards – which include a curriculum showing students how to use thin plastic wrap as a makeshift barrier – failed in the Massachusetts Legislature. The Massachusetts Senate passed Senate Bill 2128 by a
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Massachusetts Republican candidate Geoff Diehl taunted incumbent taunted U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren over how high federal personal income tax rates should be, harping on Warren's refusal to give a top figure during an interview earlier in the week. "What's the number, Senator Warren? Is
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Maine Governor Paul LePage has vetoed a bill that would outlaw so-called "conversion therapy" aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of a minor, sending a blistering message to state legislators chiding them for not passing an unrelated bill that would have outlawed female genital mutilation.
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Kingston is criticizing Senator Elizabeth Warren's call to get rid of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, accusing her of pandering "to the far left." Warren called for eliminating the federal agency that enforces immigration law during a rally