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Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton is touting a plan to address "gouging" in the pharmaceutical industry after huge price increases in some drugs, the Associated Press reported. Clinton's statements on Twitter came after news that drugmaker Turing Pharmaceuticals hiked the price of a 53-year-old generic
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Charter school proponents, including the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association and the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance are considering whether to move forward with a statewide ballot initiative to lift the cap on public charter schools. Currently, more than 30,000 Massachusetts students attend charter schools, about 3 percent of the total
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Less than a week before Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in Havana, tensions grew in Cuba's capital as 90 activists protesting the country's recently renewed ties with America were arrested Sunday, according to YahooNews and the AFP. The majority of the protesters,
obama
President Barack Obama is back in Massachusetts for his annual Martha's Vineyard vacation, a 17-day island golfing dalliance that eclipses the amount of vacation time the average American worker receives fourfold.
Abortion
Denver — On Friday a group of Roman Catholic nuns won a temporary reprieve from the controversial contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act. The August 21 ruling by the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit means that the Little Sister of the Poor, a group
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Nearly 200 retired generals and admirals attached their names to an open letter sent to Congress on Wednesday, saying the controversial Iran nuclear agreement threatens national security and lawmakers should reject the deal, according to the Washington Post. A total of 190 retired officers from all five branches of the
Elizabeth Warren
Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, who supports the Obama administration's controversial nuclear deal with Iran, tops the list of candidates supported by "the Iran lobby," according to Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Horowitz Freedom Center. According to Shillman, the Iranian American Political
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Hurricane Donald swept through the Boston area on Friday, bringing with it the ceaseless fanfare, sound bites, and criticisms that continue to whirl around real estate magnate Donald Trump's bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Trump claims that the $100-per-person Norwood event was not a fundraiser, although it