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On ‘sanctuary cities,’ local governments should not flout federal law

The shooting last month by an illegal immigrant of 32-year-old Kate Steinle, who died in her father's arms on a San Francisco pier, has focused the nation's attention on so-called "sanctuary cities" — local jurisdictions that, as a matter of policy, refuse to comply with

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Obama snubs former Vatican envoys Flynn, Glendon in party planned for Pope Francis

A pair of former U.S. ambassadors to the Vatican, both from greater Boston, will be conspicuously absent from the White House greeting party planned for Pope Francis after he arrives in Washington on Tuesday. In an unusual break from protocol, the White House did not invite former Boston Mayor

Cambridge

Harvard adds alternative gender pronouns

CAMBRIDGE — Starting this school year, students at Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences will be allowed to select their gender and choose their own pronouns. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in which more than half of Harvard undergraduates are enrolled, will allow students to select from genders,

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Harvard launches ‘virtual classroom’ for students anywhere

Written by Collin Binkley BOSTON (AP) — The newest classroom at Harvard's business school has no desks or chairs. Instead, the professor teaches facing a towering digital screen that stretches from wall to wall, filled with the live video feeds of up to 60 students tuned in from their

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Rare photos of 19th-century blacks speak to modern Americans

Written by William J. Kole CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Some faces are pensive; others are proud. Some are known; others are obscure. All are black.