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Prominent Left-Wingers To Gather At Inaugural Conference of Sanders Institute

Matthew McDonald

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and actors John Cusack and Danny Glover are among the prominent left-wingers expected to speak at a three-day conference in Burlington, Vermont.

The event, called "The Gathering," is the inaugural conference of the Sanders Institute, which was founded by Jane O'Meara Sanders, the wife of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.

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49-Year-Old Murder of Harvard Graduate Student Solved, DA Says

Matthew McDonald

The 1969 unsolved murder of a 23-year-old woman who was a graduate student at Harvard University has been definitively tied to a serial rapist who died in prison in 2001, the Middlesex District Attorney's office said.

The body of Jane Britton was found January 7, 1969. She had been bludgeoned to death in her bed.

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