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Police investigated a claim last month that a sexually explicit book had been shown to children at a middle school in Great Barrington, a town in western Massachusetts. The book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, a self-described trans nonbinary person who uses "e/em/eir" pronouns,
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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Amidst a continuing plagiarism scandal and fallout from her statements after the attack on Israel by Hamas in October 2023, Harvard president Claudine Gay announced her resignation Tuesday, January 2, 2024. The Harvard Crimson was the first to report the news.
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WMUR in New Hampshire plans to hold a Democratic presidential primary debate next week — but one major candidate will not be present. President Joe Biden will not attend the station's Monday, January 8 debate at New England College, meaning that it is expected to be a debate between
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Elizabeth Warren realized a "starter list" of New Year resolutions for Washington to X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, January 1, 2024. "A starter list of New Year's resolutions for Washington," Warren said. "Ensure universal child care. Tax the rich to fund opportunity for
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Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka (D-Ashland) plans to seek another term. Spilka, who has represented the Middlesex and Norfolk District since 2005, told GBH News she is running for re-election in 2024. She also said she will run for Senate president again if she wins her re-election bid. Spilka has
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Gender exists on a spectrum, and there are more than two genders, a curriculum at Uxbridge High School says. The 8th-grade health curriculum at Uxbridge High School uses the genderbread person to teach this claim as fact, instead of the common understanding that there are two sexes, male and female,
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Maine Republicans are calling for the impeachment of Maine's secretary of state, who recently ruled that Donald Trump should not appear on the state's presidential election ballot. Shenna Bellows, the Maine secretary of state, is "a biased Democrat Party hack, unworthy of the high office