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DALLAS (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. is squaring off against government investigators, including in Massachusetts, who believe the energy giant covered up knowledge of how fossil fuels contribute to climate change. Exxon went to state court this week in Texas to quash a subpoena issued last month by the attorney general
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NEW YORK (AP) — James Levine, the former Boston Symphony Orchestra maestro, will retire as the Metropolitan Opera's music director at the end of the season because of Parkinson's disease, ending a 40-year run that lifted the company to a golden era but became increasingly problematic as
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BOSTON – Republican Gov. Charlie Baker has joined forces with Democratic leaders Robert DeLeo, the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to oppose a likely ballot question asking voters to make retail marijuana sales legal in the state. The three officials have previously voiced opposition
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STATE HOUSE — The owners of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth plan to refuel in 2017 and then cease operations on May 31, 2019. Entergy Corporation, based in New Orleans, announced its timeline on Thursday, putting some clarity into what has been a major variable in the state's
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BOSTON – During an emotional and at times tearful news briefing, two Boston University students on Tuesday explained why they filed suit against the university and their one-time music professor, a world-renowned music French horn player, whom they claim repeatedly sexually harassed them. The students, Erin Shyr and Maria Currie, accuse
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For the first time, a small portable device that lets researchers study DNA in the weightless environment of space will be employed in a student-designed experiment aboard the orbiting International Space Station. The initial experiments were designed by a 16-year-old Bedford, New York, high-school student, Anna-Sophia Boguraev. The lab device
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Proclamation Ale Co., a small Rhode Island brewery that's pushing to change the state's beer laws, recently received an angry letter about its efforts. In response, the brewer set the letter on fire and posted to Facebook a photo of him holding
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STATE HOUSE — Cities and towns reliant on local aid saw much to celebrate in the $39.5 billion budget proposal released by House leadership on Wednesday, but some groups, including the court system, were less excited by the fiscal restraint shown in the spending plan for next year. The budget,
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