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U.S. Senator. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) wants publicly-funded presidential campaigns. Sanders made that clear when responding to the news that Americans for Prosperity, a Koch-backed political advocacy group, endorsed former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
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A woman who had seven children with five different fathers and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of one of them can't get parental rights back to her two youngest just because she now claims they are American Indians, a Massachusetts court has ruled. Shaniqua Leonard, of
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A former U.S. senator from New Hampshire is thinking of endorsing former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley for president in the Republican primary. U.S. Senator Gordon Humphrey (R-New Hampshire), who voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, told Politico this week that he
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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Harvard officials are worried that longtime heavy-hitters will stop donating to Harvard because of the university's tepid response to Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7. "Everyone's concerned about it," said Kenneth Lipper, a Harvard Law School graduate and former deputy mayor
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Massachusetts is a liberal state. But what does that mean at the municipal level?
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Former state representative Kate Campanale says she won't run for the state rep seat her husband Peter Durant left vacant Wednesday when he was sworn into the Massachusetts Senate. Campanale, who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019, told State House News Service on
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A member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is leaving the court six years before mandatory retirement age for a state university job that will significantly increase his salary and pension. David Lowy, 63, became an assistant district attorney in Essex County in 1992 and has worked in state jobs