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Former Massachusetts governor and current U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is no fan of former vice president and Republican presidential hopeful Mike Pence. Romney, who recently announced that he isn't running for re-election, told his biographer that there was no one "more loyal, more willing to
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Full implementation of new curriculums on local indigenous peoples' culture and on black studies is occurring in kindergarten and grades 1, 3, and 7 this school year in public schools in Portland, Maine, a school official said. Come the 2024-2025 school year, full implementation is expected pre-kindergarten through fifth
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By Alison Kuznitz State House News Service
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The New England Patriots have not won a football game this season. However, if you believe the oddsmakers, they will likely get their first win next Sunday. That's because the Patriots are generally somewhere between 2.5- to 3-point favorites against the New York Jets in their Sunday,
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Massachusetts public schools now have an updated sex education framework that call for teaching students about same-sex sexual behavior and the changeability of gender identity. The framework also calls for teaching students about bodily autonomy, mental health, dating safety, consent to sexual activity, and information about sexually transmitted diseases, according
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A Maine state representative is thanking God for his unlikely escape from beneath a 40-foot lobster boat after a rogue wave flipped it over. State Representative Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) was approaching Winter Harbor along the northeast coast of Maine on Friday, September 15 in about 50 feet of
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By Colin Young State House News Service
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Nikki Haley plans to do some heavy campaigning in the Granite State this week. The Republican presidential candidate, who served as governor of South Carolina and later as the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has three campaign events scheduled for Thursday, September 21 in New Hampshire.