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Gas pipeline builder suspends work on Mass. project

BOSTON – Kinder Morgan suspended further work and spending on its Northeast Energy Direct natural gas pipeline project Wednesday, citing inadequate commitments from prospective customers. The line would help Massachusetts and New England meet energy needs but has been met by protests and uncooperative landowners across the state. Less than a

Massachusetts

Republican Party gains in popularity as states shift to GOP

BOSTON – Massachusetts remains one of the most liberal states in the U.S., but a Republican tide has pushed the nation closer to the GOP corner, a new survey of Americans' political leanings shows. Gallup tracking surveys show 20 states were either solidly Republican or leaning that way last

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N.H. prep school abuse case makes way into US Senate race

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Investigations into sexual misconduct by faculty at a renowned New Hampshire prep school have found their way into the state's high profile Senate race between incumbent Republican Kelly Ayotte and Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan, whose husband is a former principal of the school. News

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Exclusive prep schools face reckoning on sexual abuse

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A series of sexual abuse scandals is forcing a reckoning at some of New England's most exclusive boarding schools and sending a shudder through similar institutions around the country that have long been training grounds for members of America's elite. At St.

Democrats

Ayotte sharpens attacks on Obama over Guantanamo detainees

WASHINGTON – New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte is ramping up her criticism of President Barack Obama's decision to release radical Islamic terror suspects from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, proposing a ban on the transfer of detainees to prisons on American soil as well as

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DNC Chair: Superdelegates make sure Party leaders don’t have to run against grassroots activists

(CNSNews.com) – Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said that although the Democratic Party "wants to give every opportunity to grassroots activists… to participate" in its presidential nomination process, superdelegates "exist… to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be

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N.H.’s Ayotte agrees to meet with Obama’s high court pick

WASHINGTON – New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a Republican fighting for re-election against her state's Democratic governor, became the latest GOP Senator to agree to meet with President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, bucking the party leadership's stance. Ayotte, a first-term senator from Nashua, has