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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103 (Dorchester, Massachusetts) endorsed President Joe Biden's re-election bid this week. "President Biden and Vice President Harris are the leaders working people need now," said Lou Antonellis, business manager and financial secretary of Local 103 IBEW, in a press release
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Gasoline prices are going up because more people are buying it, there's less of it stored up, and there are conflicts in some places where it's drilled. The price of oil is now more than $80 for one barrel, and it might go even higher. In
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Gender exists on a spectrum, and more than two genders exist, a curriculum at Sharon Middle School School says. The sixth-grade health curriculum at Sharon Middle School uses the genderbread person to teach this claim as fact, rather than the common understanding that there are two sexes, male and female,
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State financial aid forms in English and Spanish are now available to students in the country illegally who attending or planning to attend public or private colleges in Massachusetts. "We are taking quite a bit of care to make certain that if a student starts an application and does
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By Sam Drysdale State House News Service
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U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) wants the federal government to commit to not deport anyone to Haiti. Given the political instability in the country, including the recently announced resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry and recently heightened gang violence, Pressley told GBH News that deporting someone to Haiti
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Vice President Scott Brown? It was a possibility that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. considered.
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A man was arrested in Rockland this week after police said he raped a child at a hotel that serves as a migrant shelter. Cory B. Alvarez, 26, is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on Hingham Street in Rockland, the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office said