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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren listed herself as an "American Indian" in her own handwriting on a Texas Board of Bar Registration card in 1986 – about a year before she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. It's the earliest public document that
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American politics at the moment can pretty much be explained by what you make of the record sixth Super Bowl victory by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick, and owner Robert Kraft. One view of it is to marvel at, and celebrate, the hard work, risk-taking, and
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Springfield city officials can't ask people about their immigration status and Springfield police can't cooperate with federal immigration authorities unless they have a warrant under a new local ordinance approved by the city council. The council overrode a veto by Mayor Domenic Sarno on Monday night,
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Abortions after 24 weeks would be less impeded in Massachusetts and girls under 18 wouldn't have to ask their parents or a judge for permission to get one under a new bill state legislators are considering. The bill would also expand eligibility to have state funds pay for
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The Covington Catholic confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial is a story of high school kids enduring repeated abuse of their religious and political beliefs and then responding with school chants to drown out the abusers. They did nothing wrong and not even much noteworthy.
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Recap and analysis of the week in state government By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's political life is pretty close to non-viable after an image of his 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced showing a picture of two men standing side-by-side, one in blackface and the other in a white Ku Klux Klan outfit. You can't tell from
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John Bogle, the founder of The Vanguard Group who died last month at age 89, got rich by giving his mutual fund customers a better deal. The obituaries seem to have missed that point, dwelling instead on the theory that if only Bogle had chosen to rip off his customers,
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