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Chairs agree accord on charter schools ‘unlikely’
STATE HOUSE — It's unlikely that the Massachusetts House and Senate will be able to agree on a charter school expansion bill that would prompt charter school proponents to drop a proposed ballot question, key lawmakers told school committee members on Tuesday. The ballot question calls for the addition
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Harvard Law student’s anti-Semitic remark sparks uproar
CAMBRIDGE – A Harvard Law School student, who mocked a former Israeli foreign minister with what has been denounced as an anti-Semitic remark during a question-and-answer session after a school forum last week, believes the matter has been "blown out of proportion," a person close to the situation said
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House rejects film credit cap, gas tax increase
BOSTON – The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Monday shot down proposals to increase the state gas tax and to cap the state's film tax credit program as they began to dispense with more than 1,300 amendments to a state budget bill. The House swiftly took care of
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Bay State GOP caucuses preview Cleveland nomination fight
BOSTON — Saturday's Massachusetts Republican caucuses could prove crucial to who emerges at July's Republican National Convention to claim the party's presidential nomination. With New York billionaire Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, counting and courting every last delegate across the country,
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Brussels bomber identified as top Islamic State jailer
PARIS (AP) — The bomb maker for attacks on Paris and Brussels had a previous career as a jailer for the Islamic State group, a lawyer for one of his hostages said Friday. Belgian authorities say Najim Laachraoui, a 24-year-old Belgian, built the explosive belts used in the assaults on both
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Poll suggests wide support for ‘millionaire’ tax proposal
BOSTON – More than three quarters of Boston residents polled said they would support a surtax on incomes of $1 million or more, assuming the revenue would be used to increase spending on transportation and education, according to survey results released Monday. But critics have pointed out that revenue raise by
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Brady loses ‘Deflategate’ appeal, ordered to serve suspension
NEW YORK (AP) — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady must serve a four-game "Deflategate" suspension imposed by the National Football League, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, overturning a lower-court judge and siding with the league in a battle with the players' union. A three-judge panel of
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