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It's official: U.S. Representative Dean Phillips (D-Minnesota) is challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination for president. Phillips will file to be put on the 2024 New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot Friday, October 27, the New Hampshire Secretary of State's office told CBS Minnesota.
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) reacted to the mass shooting that took place in Lewiston, Maine that left at 18 people dead by calling for more gun control. "Another day in America, another horrific shooting," Sanders tweeted Thursday, October 26, a day after the shooting. "No
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Fifty-seven people protesting Israel were arrested on trespassing charges Wednesday during a sit-in outside the offices of the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The 56 student and one university employee refused to leave the third floor of the Whitmore Administration Building after the building closed at 6
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U.S. vice president Kamala Harris praised Australia's sweeping gun control laws while lamenting a mass shooting in Maine on Wednesday night that left 18 dead and 13 injured. "Gun violence has terrorized and traumatized so many of our communities in this country. And let us be
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Undergraduate students at Harvard College who work part-time for the school have voted overwhelmingly to form a union. The tally as of Wednesday, October 25 was 153-1, according to the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, which also reported:
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Massachusetts's attorney general issuing the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, claiming the company is "preying upon young people's unique psychological vulnerabilities." Meta Platforms Inc. "has tailored its platforms' features to manipulate and exploit their developing brains in a way that ensures
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A 40-year-old man recently hospitalized for hearing voices shot and killed at least 16 people in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday night. Police were still looking for the suspect, Robert Card, as of 8 a.m. Thursday, October 26 according to multiple news reports, including one from the Lewiston Sun Journal.
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service After pausing the campaign due to a shortage of drivers, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials are hopeful they can revive an effort to overhaul and expand the bus network by the end of next year.