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A group of MIT pranksters transformed the school’s Great Dome Saturday night into Captain America’s shield in celebration of the new “Avengers” movie.
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Janet Jackson and BTS offered up show-stopping performances Sunday during the Billboard Music Awards.
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“Katy Perry, please stop,” the nun pleaded. Then the nun collapsed and died.
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MIT officials to college applicants: Your acceptance won't be rescinded if you're disciplined for joining high school protests against gun violence.
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BREAKING: Patriots coach Bill Belichick declines Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump
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Northeastern University has dismissed 11 first-year students after they were caught violating social distancing rules, the school announced Friday. Their $36,500 tuition for the semester will not be refunded.
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For years, the Boston police kept a secret: the patrolmen's union president was an alleged child molester. Patrick Rose kept his badge and ascended to power in the police union. He went on to allegedly molest five other children.
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Astronomers have detected an unusual radio signal from a far-off galaxy, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials. ✨ The signal is a fast radio burst, an intensely strong burst of radio waves, MIT said in a statement.
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Chris Christie says President Trump made him order meatloaf when they dined together at the White House this week
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Which one is Elizabeth Warren? The Massachusetts senator met a doppelganger last night: Stephanie Oyen, of Edina, Minn. “She looked me up and down and said, ‘We need to talk!’ ” Oyen said.
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Stacey Abrams, who ran for Georgia governor, will deliver the Democratic response to President Trump's State of the Union address.
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Police estimate the crowd size around the Boston Common area today was around 30,000 to 40,000 people.
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Of the 51 million tons of plastic waste US households produced in 2021, just 2.4 million tons (5 percent) were recycled, new research shows. The findings show that plastic recycling is a “myth,” says the analysis by environmental nonprofit @greenpeaceusa .
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Meet the winner of the 2018 World’s Ugliest Dog contest: Zsa Zsa the English Bulldog.
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Julián Castro is endorsing Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bid, saying the Massachusetts senator is “the most qualified, best-equipped candidate to win the nomination.”
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The 95-year-old Middletown, R.I., man who was the subject of one of the 20th century’s most recognized photos has died.
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For years, the Boston Police kept a secret: the union president was an alleged child molester
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Track the coronavirus pandemic in Massachusetts to its roots and you find a story driven by heroics, ingenuity, error, pain, and a hard question: How could a state famous for health care excellence have suffered such a vast loss of human life?
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CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski ran 26.2 in Boston to honor his infant daughter who died of brain cancer
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Employees of the Boston-based online housewares giant Wayfair say they will stage a walkout at the company’s Back Bay offices Wednesday to protest the company’s decision to sell furniture to operators of facilities for detained migrant children.
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Hey @Buck , we got the pic. #RedSox
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A judge has approved fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli’s plea deal in the nationwide college admissions scam. Giannulli, husband of actress Lori Loughlin (who also faces sentencing today), will get 5 months in prison.
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Virginia Oliver is the oldest licensed lobsterer in Maine. At 101, she rises before dawn three mornings a week to head out for the day’s catch alongside her son, Max. It’s no surprise that when her story ran in the Globe Sunday, it piqued broad interest.
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#BREAKING : More than 1,000 Jewish activists and others shut down traffic in Boston during rush hour Tuesday evening, chanting, singing, and drumming to protest immigrant detention in the city and across the country.
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Natick resident David Steiner was puttering in his garage one morning when a neighbor called out: “Hey, your fence has been tagged.” Steiner, who with his wife, Ina, publishes a news website about the e-commerce industry, thought it must be a joke.
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Anita Hill noted that during Thursday’s hearing, Brett Kavanaugh expressed "a real anger, an aggression, as well as a lot of emotion." No female Supreme Court candidate, she said, "would ever have the license to express (herself) in that way."
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Prince William and Kate, who are hosting The Earthshot Prize awards, have arrived on the "green carpet." Kate is wearing a green column gown, a rental(!). And her diamond choker necklace? It once belonged to the late Princess Diana.
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The longtime head of spine surgery at Boston Medical Center has been reprimanded by state regulators and fined $5,000 for leaving an operating room before the start of an emergency surgery to go eat in his car, where he fell asleep and missed the procedure.
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BREAKING: Antonio Brown is no longer a Nike athlete, a spokesperson said.
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A rare two-headed turtle is being cared for by the veterinary staff at New England Wildlife Centers. The cute diamondback terrapin hatchling, found at a protected nesting site in Barnstable, has two heads and three legs on each side. 🐢
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"Enough prayers. Time for some action," President Biden said, as he urges the Senate to pass legislation passed by the House that would close loopholes in background checks for gun purchasers. Watch live:
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Governor Charlie Baker on Wednesday reaffirmed that he will not vote for President Trump, a fellow Republican.
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Daniel Radcliffe wants Tom Brady to ‘take that MAGA hat out of your locker,’ says he's rooting for the Rams in the Super Bowl.
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Responding to Trump's speech, Boston Police Department says, “We are committed to helping people, not harming them.”
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Harvard Crimson names Kristine Guillaume first black woman president in paper’s 145-year history
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The Kraft family used the Patriots team plane to shuttle 1.7 million N95 masks from China to Boston, WSJ reports
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Iranian scientist who was set to begin working at a Harvard lab is among those who have been barred entry to US.
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A new scientific study claims that bones found in 1940 on the Pacific Island of Nikumaroro belong to Amelia Earhart, despite a forensic analysis of the remains conducted in 1941 that linked the bones to a male.
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The #Falcons ’ new stadium has a Chick-fil-A, which won’t open on Sundays.
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The White House misspelled the Red Sox as "Red Socks" on its website ahead of today's visit.
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Melania Trump to visit Boston Medical Center to highlight treatment program for sick infants
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The globe’s richest 1 percent have carbon footprints 175 times the size of those in the bottom 10 percent, and private jets are one reason why. The world’s poorest people are often the worst affected by climate change, despite doing little to cause it.
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Ben & Jerry’s announced on Monday that it will no longer allow its ice cream to be sold in the West Bank and East Jerusalem after online criticism.
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Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital say they have found the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein circulating in the blood of long COVID patients up to 12 months after they were diagnosed with COVID-19. Here's what we know of their #LongCovid study findings.
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Even a nation hooked on drama does not want to see a US president dragged out the front door of the White House on Jan. 20, so we asked experts in the art of persuasion how they go about dislodging the reluctant.
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Donald Trump Foundation remains under investigation and cannot be dissolved, N.Y. official says
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Ocean Spray gives TikTok star a truck after his Fleetwood Mac/Cran-Raspberry video goes viral
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US Representative Joe Kennedy is urging his fellow Democrats to adopt a new economic ideology — what he’s calling ‘‘moral capitalism’’ — as they prepare to take control of the House in January.
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Without mentioning Donald Trump by name, Joe Kennedy III in his #SOTU response described an amoral, bullying president obsessed with celebrity and crowd size.
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Five years after a Massachusetts buyer purchased a drawing at a Concord estate sale for $30, international art experts met in London to discuss the work many believe to be an original piece by the Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer.
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The Globe editorial board called for an end to President Trump’s sustained assault on the #FreePress . Hundreds of publishers around the US answered that call
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Cambridge Public Schools eliminated advanced math in middle school with the aim of reducing disparities between low-income children of color and their more affluent peers. But some families and educators argue the decision has had the opposite effect.
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If you ever wondered why @McDonalds McFlurry machines are often out of order, you're not alone. The FTC also wants to know why the fast food chain’s ice cream machine always seems to be broken.
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A win for @Spotlightmovie , and for every journalist in the tireless pursuit of the truth.
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#Celtics rookie @jaytatum0 once had to knock on a neighbor’s door to ask for food. Now he’s on the threshold of NBA stardom.
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Democrats introduce impeachment article charging Trump with 'incitement of insurrection' as House Republicans block resolution calling on Pence to invoke 25th Amendment.
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San Antonio police officers who wore Trump hats with their uniforms "will be disciplined appropriately," chief says
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev IN CUSTODY!
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A lunar eclipse and comet will both be visible in the sky above Boston Friday.
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After Tito Jackson lost the Boston mayor’s race in 2017, he began to take stock of his life and heritage. He’d been open about his adoption — but all he knew was that his birth mother was just 13 years old when he was born.
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A United Airlines flight attendant insisted that a 10-month-old puppy be stored in an overhead bin. By the time the flight landed, the dog was dead.
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Photos: An estimated 6,000 people gathered for #OurFirstStand rally at Faneuil Hall to save Obamacare
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. @Aly_Raisman gets a hero's welcome in Needham, Mass., her hometown
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Joe Biden has defeated President Trump in the down-to-the-wire 2020 presidential race, per national news organizations, breaking a national popular vote record and making Kamala Harris the first woman and first person of color to be elected VP.
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90-year-old Ethel Kennedy joins hunger strike against immigration policies
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A Globe investigation found that the Boston Police Department in 1995 filed a criminal complaint against Rose for sexual assault on a 12-year-old. But he remained on patrol for another 21 years.
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In 1693, Elizabeth Johnson Jr. was convicted of a crime so heinous, a court ordered her executed. She was, the court found, a witch. Now, 328 years after she was convicted, a bill introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature would clear her name.
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Members of the royal family, President Biden, pop stars, actors, and other notable names will all be in town at the same time Friday. Has Boston’s concentration of celebrities ever been this high?
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“Bones or no bones?” It's a question @jongraz has asked of his 13-year-old pug Noodle for years. If Noodle “has bones,” he's decided to stand, which means it’ll be a good day. On “no bones” days, Noodle immediately slumps back down into his cushy bed.
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Read the letter that Elizabeth Warren got rebuked for reading, leading to #LetLizSpeak Twitter hashtag to trend:
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Some women said the environment at ESPN can be so hostile, they've hid pregnancies. One anchor even did her scheduled broadcast while she was having a miscarriage, according to former employees.
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Usually, the mysterious signals last for a few milliseconds at most. But this one lasted up to three seconds and included bursts of radio waves every 0.2 seconds, in a clear periodic pattern.
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Ayanna Pressley files bill that would abolish death penalty
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Ed Reinhold, FBI, says FBI has investifarted about 70 leads already. Live Video: http://t.co/nXuiv3rwFm
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Ninth grader Jaime Guttenberg loved to dance and hoped to become an occupational therapist and mother. Her aunt said she had "the world's best smile."
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In this photo from Louisville, Ky., protest organizers surrounded an officer and joined arms to make sure the crowd did not touch him. (Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal via AP) More coverage of the protests around the nation:
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The father who brought his daughter in last summer to report abuse by Rose was the boy allegedly abused at age 12 in the 1995 case. The department’s lack of administrative action back then may have left Rose free to offend again and again.
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Mookie Betts of the #RedSox meets his distant relative -- Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex.
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A Haverhill man stripped naked in the middle of a N.H. health club over the weekend, police said. The gym says it’s a “judgement-free” zone.
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For all of the heavy security and mystique surrounding the royal visit, the Prince of Wales, it turns out, is really just “one of the bros," according to one Bostonian.
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Prominent Asian Americans have been hard to ignore: There’s Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, & many others, @leung writes. Yet when Americans were asked to name a well-known Asian American, the most common survey answer was “don’t know."
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BREAKING: Fans unfurled a sign on Green Monster at Fenway tonight that said, "Racism is as American as baseball."
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Drug company CEO Martin Shkreli tried to donate to @berniesanders . Sanders wasn’t interested http://t.co/YcBqo6OGGj http://t.co/toJVNtDBti
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The Los Angeles Dodgers took out a full page ad in Wednesday’s Globe to congratulate the Red Sox on winning the World Series.
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To those who knew him in Lynnfield, Tom Randele was a regular guy. But Randele had a secret he’d harbored for 52 years. Unbeknownst to the residents of this affluent suburb north of Boston, Randele was one of the most wanted fugitives in the country.
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Michelle Wu makes it official: She's running for mayor of Boston.
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Long before he was a presidential candidate, Andrew Yang was just another a Brown University undergrad. Here’s how those early days shaped him.
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Move over, Olsen twins. The baby turtle, named Mary-Kate and Ashley, has been doing well. They came in on Sept. 22 weighing 6.5 grams, and now weigh 9 grams, Katrina Bergman, the chief executive officer at New England Wildlife Centers said.
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Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor, and she showed it in her questioning of Jeff Sessions
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Man charged in burning of ballot box, Boston police say
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Editorial in @GlobeOpinion : A president unfit for a pandemic
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After the Trump video surfaced, women shared stories of sexual assault in response to a tweet by @kellyoxford .
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A University of Hartford student was arrested for allegedly putting "bodily fluids" on her roommate’s property.
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A young man’s impromptu performance of ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ at a Norwood antique shop went viral. Now he’s getting the piano for free.
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Last British governor says Hong Kong ‘betrayed’ by China
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