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Boston remembers 9/11, 14 years later

Boston officials and organizations are remembering the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks throughout the weekend. State officials including Mayor Marty Walsh and Gov. Charlie Baker attended a wreath-laying ceremony in the Boston Public Garden on Friday morning, after which officials conducted a flag-lowering, a reading of the

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Boston Mayor Walsh supports Dominican Republic boycott

Martin J. Walsh became the first big city American mayor to ask his citizens not to vacation in the Dominican Republic after that country recently threatened to expel some 200,000 people of Haitian origin who were born after 1929, according to WBUR. State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry (D-Dorchester), a