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boston

Malcolm X boyhood Roxbury home becomes dig site

BOSTON (AP) — Archeologists are digging at a boyhood home of Malcolm X in an effort to uncover more about the slain black rights activist's early life as well as the property's long history, which possibly includes Native American settlement. The two-week archaeological dig began Tuesday outside

boston

Globe targets assault rifles, Ayotte in editorial wrap

BOSTON – In a move reminiscent of its one-time parent, the Boston Globe put its editorial opinion front and center Thursday, wrapping the newspaper with a package urging tighter gun controls under a red-letter headline: "Make it stop." The paper's move reflected a Dec. 5 New York

Florida

Orlando imam denies ties to nightclub shooter

ORLANDO, Fla. – Marcus Dwayne Robertson, the Islamic imam who preaches intolerance toward homosexuals, denied that the Orlando nightclub shooter, Omar Mateen, was a student of his online Muslim academy, during a Tuesday night interview broadcast by Fox News. "Our heart goes out to the victims and we didn'

terrorism

Islamic State uses 20,000 kids as shields in Iraq’s Fallujah

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.N. children's fund on Wednesday issued a stark warning to Iraqi troops and Islamic State militants in the battle for Fallujah to spare the children, the most vulnerable among tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the city west of Baghdad. Iraqi forces backed

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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

Massachusetts

Moulton raises a storm with Trump, Hitler comments

BOSTON – Seth Moulton, the first-term congressman from the North Shore, dropped a bombshell Wednesday, comparing Donald Trump's rise to Adolf Hitler's early days as a politician during the Weimar Republic era in Germany. "When you're in politics, one of those sort-of like cardinal

Donald Trump

Cruz and Trump: Boost surveillance of Muslims after Brussels

NEW YORK (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Tuesday that surveillance in Muslim neighborhoods in the U.S. must be intensified following the deadly bombings at Brussels, while rival Donald Trump suggested torturing a suspect in last year's Paris attacks would have prevented the carnage. Echoing Trump&

Faith

Despite apology, professor Larycia Hawkins leaves Wheaton College

Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins, who faced termination from her tenured post at the evangelical school for publicly saying Christians and Muslims worship the "same God," has announced in a joint statement with the college that she will leave. The statement on Wheaton's website referred to