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Potted Tree No Longer Blocking Former Governor’s Portrait in State House

Matthew McDonald

Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, served as governor of New Hampshire from 1997 to 2003; she ran against John E. Sununu, a Republican, for U.S. Senate in 2002 and lost; and then she ran again against Sununu in 2008 and won. Former Senator Sununu is the brother of the current governor, Chris Sununu, also a Republican, whose office initially told an aide for Senator Shaheen that the potted tree blocking Shaheen's portrait in the New Hampshire State House had to remain right where it was; now it has been moved.

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Chelsea Manning Denied Entry Into Canada

Matthew McDonald

The transgender former U.S. soldier who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified military documents was convicted of serious crimes which would equate to treason in Canada, according to Canadian authorities. Therefore, they stopped Manning from entering Lacolle, Quebec from northern New York state.

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