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A Boston-based National Public Radio correspondent received a torrent of criticism over the weekend after she defended the media organization's decision to refer to a Columbia University student who falsely accused another student of rape as a "survivor." The piece, produced for NPR's "
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The specter of President Jimmy Carter has suddenly emerged from the 1970s to haunt the Trump administration. A Wall Street Journal editorial warns President Donald Trump that "on present course his Presidency is careening toward a historic reputation where names like Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon reside."
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New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's swift firing of communications director Anthony Scaramucci earlier today is the single best personnel move in President Donald Trump's administration. Scaramucci was brought in 10 days ago apparently to stop leaks and improve loyalty to Trump. But his
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General John Kelly was named new White House Chief of Staff on Friday. Kelly, 67, the current secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is the first Boston native to run the White House staff. He grew up in Brighton.
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President Donald Trump's new communications director thinks a reporter will tell you who his confidential source is if you ask him. That's the headline from Anthony Scaramucci's profanity-laced tirade published by Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker.
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BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate on Thursday again took a step towards undoing a 2002 ballot initiative mandating English language immersion in public schools, voting in a 39-0 landslide to pass a measure dumping the requirement that all Bay State students must be taught in English unless districts first obtain a
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BOSTON — Pro-illegal immigration activists crashed a press conference on Wednesday held to announce the filing of a bill intended to combat a recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision barring local police departments from acting upon federal detainer requests. "Keep hate out of our state," the activists chanted, disrupting
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BOSTON — A federal judge may have tossed out a bid to block President Donald Trump's voter integrity team from collecting data from all 50 states, but don't expect Massachusetts officials to be sending the White House any information. Debrah O'Malley, a spokesman for Secretary
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