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Massachusetts Gaming Commission Conducting Review of Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Steve Wynn

Matthew McDonald

Steve Wynn, who plans to open a casino in Everett, paid a $7.5 million settlement to a manicurist who claimed Wynn pressured her to have sex against her will and also sexually harassed other employees, according to The Wall Street Journal. Wynn denies wrongdoing but declined to get into specifics; the revelation's effect on the planned $2 billion-plus casino north of Boston is unclear.

Pro-Borders Group, Socialist Anti-Deportation Activists To Hold Dueling Rallies Saturday
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Pro-Borders Group, Socialist Anti-Deportation Activists To Hold Dueling Rallies Saturday

Evan Lips

BOSTON — A virtual powderkeg of passions is expected to explode on the streets outside the Hub's John F. Kennedy Federal Building on Saturday, where dueling groups of demonstrators with vastly different political leanings plan to meet. 

The noon demonstrations between a pro-borders group calling itself  "Resist Marxism" and a coalition of local socialist organizations revolve around the deportation of Siham Biyah, a Moroccan national and mother of an 8-year-old boy who has been living stateside since 1999 despite facing multiple deportation orders.

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