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BOSTON – A Boston Latin School student's mother, who has joined a rising chorus demanding the dismissal of Headmaster Lynn Mooney Teta over her response to alleged racial incidents, sang a much different tune last October about the elite institution. The mother, Lori Smith Britton, told the Boston Globe
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The policy issues raised in the Justice Department's dispute with Apple Inc. over a locked iPhone represent the "hardest question I've seen in government and it's going to require negotiation and conversation," FBI Director James Comey said Thursday. "It&
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Battling in intense public broadsides, smartphone maker Apple and the Justice Department are making their cases before anyone steps into a courtroom over a judge's order forcing Apple to help the FBI hack into an iPhone in a sensational terrorism case. Both sides are framing their
Massachusetts
BOSTON – A Somerville man accused of wreaking havoc after hacking into a local hospital's computer network turned up in a sailboat off the coast of Cuba Tuesday, where his craft had foundered, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Martin Gottesfeld, 31, faces a single criminal conspiracy charge for disrupting the
Massachusetts
BOSTON – A Chinese national who facilitated the sale of nuclear technology to Iran will spend almost a decade in jail while his Iranian accomplice roams free as part of a deal between the governments of the United States and Iran. Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the
Massachusetts
BOSTON –President Barack Obama's landmark nuclear deal with Iran is paying dividends for one criminal defendant charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with helping Iran in its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Not so for the Iranian man's alleged accomplice, a Chinese national.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Justice Department's claim of executive privilege used to withhold certain documents tied to the Fast and Furious "gun-walking" scandal from release to a congressional committee. House Republicans sued in federal court in 2012 to obtain thousands of
Immigration
BOSTON – Asylum seekers who fraudulently claim persecution in their home countries may easily escape discovery by U.S. immigration authorities, according to a report from the investigative arm of Congress. Agencies charged with ferreting out phony stories "have limited capabilities to detect asylum fraud," the Government Accountability Office,
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