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Bill Weld Mulling Run Against Trump in 2020 GOP Primary

Matthew McDonald

Former Massachusetts governor William Weld has changed his party registration back to Republican and is reportedly mulling a primary challenge to President Donald Trump.

Weld, who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, when he resigned, governed as a fiscal moderate and a social liberal.

Stray Dog Remembered As World War I Hero
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Stray Dog Remembered As World War I Hero

Matthew McDonald

A stray dog who wandered onto New Haven Green in Connecticut as American soldiers were getting ready to ship out to go to France one day during the summer of 1917 ended up saving hundreds of lives on the front lines during World War I.

Stubby, as the dog was known, captured a German soldier and repeatedly warned American soldiers of poison gas attacks, according to the Connecticut Post, quoting from an obituary in The New York Times from 1926.

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