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Whitey Bulger Gets Quick Funeral Mass in South Boston

Matthew McDonald

A private funeral Mass was celebrated for James "Whitey" Bulger at St. Monica's Church in South Boston on Thursday.

NBC News Boston published images of Whitey's younger brother, William M. Bulger, 84, outside the church. The younger Bulger is a former president of the Massachusetts Senate and a former president of the University of Massachusetts.

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Lone New England Republican in Congress Leads, But Race Will Be Decided By Ranked-Choice Tiebreaker

Matthew McDonald

Republican U.S. Representative Bruce Poliquin won a narrow plurality of votes in his re-election bid in the Second Congressional District in Maine, but because he didn't get a majority of votes he could still lose in an unusual tiebreaker.

Voters who picked two independent candidates who got small percentages of the vote (5.7 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively) will decide between the two major-party candidates, through ranked choice.

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