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Looking for #BostonMarathon2024 news? We have reporters all along the course and will be coming to you live all day on GBH 89.7FM too. Stream our coverage on our site or see the latest on our liveblog!
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"There are no two sides," said @AyannaPressley on @bospublicradio . "You are either a patriot or a traitor. These people sought to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. It was a violent, white supremacist mob, and your silence is complicity."
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The kid who delighted the audience and performers at a recent @HandelAndHaydn performance by saying "Wow!" into the hush following the music has been found -- and his backstory makes that moment even more captivating: #wowchild @995WCRB
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BREAKING: Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker Cancels National Guard Deployment To Border, Citing 'Inhumane' Treatment Of Children And Families
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"I have a son with special needs. And to me, special needs is the new normal in this country," Yang said on the debate stage, before asking audience members to raise their hands if they knew someone autistic or with special needs.
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BREAKING: @AyannaPressley wins race for Massachusetts' 7th congressional district, in an upset victory over incumbent @mikecapuano : #ma7 #mapoli
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Are you a fan of official Obama photog @PeteSouza 's Instagram? If so, get some behind-the-scenes stories in his interview with @jimbraude and filmmaker @dawnporterm , who just released @wayiseeitfilm :
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▶️ WATCH LIVE: 2020 presidential candidate @AndrewYang takes questions live from the @wgbhnews studio at @BPLBoston :
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“If President Biden is serious about closing the racial wealth gap, if President Biden seeks to build back better, then he must use his executive authority to issue broad-based, across-the-board student debt cancellation,” said U.S. Rep. @AyannaPressley .
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They're 8th graders. They found out that Stop & Shop is charging 18% more in their neighborhood - a largely minority and working class area of Boston - compared to the Stop & Shop in Dedham, a more affluent suburb.
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Multiple students provided GBH News with photos of injuries they sustained during the sweep. City crews were dispatched Thursday morning to clear blood and graffiti from the Boylston Place alleyway, according to footage obtained by GBH News.
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Make way for cages? The Boston Public Garden's famous duck statues were in cages and mylar blankets to protest the conditions for migrant kids at the border:
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#BREAKING : LEGO (yes, that LEGO) will move its Americas head office to #Boston !
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Atatiana Jefferson was inside her own home playing video games with her 8 year old nephew when her neighbor called the police because her front door was open. The police officer that arrived shot and killed her:
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Mel King, whose work helped shape the city of Boston, has died. He was 94. King’s decades-long career included directing the New Urban League of Greater Boston, serving as a state representative beginning in the 1970’s, and teaching at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies.
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“If you work in technology, you know that what we did to the manufacturing jobs, we’re about to do the retail jobs, the fast food jobs [and] the truck driving jobs,” says #2020 candidate @AndrewYang . His idea? An automation tax and universal basic income:
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All smiles on Boylston! Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, former acting Mayor Kim Janey and former Mayor Marty Walsh were spotted taking a selfie at the finish line of the 126th #BostonMarathon . (Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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“They lived a long and beautiful life. But that is not a reason to accept an outcome in which a guy who liberated a concentration camp in Germany in World War II has to die next to his wife over the course of three hours." @alexjgoldstein of @FacesofCovid :
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley launched her re-election campaign this weekend:
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. @RepPressley is behind a bill to combat rising maternal mortality rates. The MOMMIES Act, would extend Medicaid coverage from two months to a full year after childbirth and increase access to community-based services like doulas and midwives:
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Arlo Guthrie on his Thanksgiving anthem 'Alice's Restaurant': "I mean, if I thought it was going to become popular, I would have made it a hell of a lot shorter to begin with, if I knew I was going to have to repeat it for 50 freaking years." @folkslinger
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"It's time for Mueller to testify." @RepPressley , Mass. lawmakers respond to release of report.
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"It was once again a blatant attempt to vilify the contribution that immigrants make to our community," @RepJoeKennedy said.
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President Trump on Sunday ordered National Guard troops to start withdrawing from Washington, where the protests over the killing of George Floyd have been peaceful in recent days.
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Rep. @AyannaPressley is asking the CDC to follow cities across the country and declare racism a public health crisis, putting funding behind research into unequal health outcomes and ending unequal access to healthcare. Listen to her talk with @GBHJoe :
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"The initial Russian war plan has gone completely to hell," said @RadioFreeTom Russia had planned to sweep through Ukraine in 7-10 days, which certainly has not happened. Nichols said Russia is likely to lose this war.
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"Not a good day for our country. Not a good day for our president. Not a good day for this administration," @RepJoeKennedy said.
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Your child can now cuddle with a plush Bernie Sanders doll via @wgbhnews
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"I think our criminal legal system is so fundamentally flawed...it cannot be reformed by tinkering at the edges," said @AyannaPressley . "We need a transformative, bold reimagining of what the criminal legal system can be, by prioritizing decarceration.”
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"You're busted!!" Outgoing Governor @massgovernor and governor-elect @maura_healey exchanged compliments on @BosPublicRadio with @jimbraude and @margeryeagan . A master class in bipartisanship.
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"There were so many anonymized secret references to Epstein and his contacts at the lab that they started to refer to him as 'Voldemort,' or 'He who must not be named,'" said @RonanFarrow . Hear him on how the @medialab hid donations from Jeffrey Epstein:
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Rep. @AyannaPressley is challenging a provision of the CARES Act that bars those with a criminal record from getting aid:
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JUST IN: For the first time since 2016, the Boston Police Department released data on field interrogation, revealing a stark disparity between the policing of black and white citizens in Boston. Read @isaiah_thompson 's latest:
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Red Sox manager Alex Cora, frustrated by the lack of recovery progress in Puerto Rico, will not visit the White House. Mookie Betts, David Price, and several other players of color also will not attend in protest of President Donald Trump.
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In @RepPressley 's first amendment since taking office, she's pushing for lowering the federal voting age to 16:
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Rep. @AyannaPressley said "the racism that drives his policies" was on display in a series of tweets from President Donald Trump on Sunday.
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BREAKING: Gov. Baker announces schools to remain closed for rest of school year:
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. @RepJoeKennedy and @GBHJoe talk taxes, @realDonaldTrump 's 'Pocahontas' slur, and sexual harassment on Capitol Hill.
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“When we look at who our gang database is filled with, it's Black kids from Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan. Why aren't we looking at neo-Nazis to enter them into this database as well?"
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Judge Richard Sinnott, who refused to allow charges to be dropped against some nonviolent protesters and then detained one of their lawyers, will face an official misconduct complaint:
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19 year old survives 49 days at sea; his fishing hut became unmoored and he drifted all the way to Guam:
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"Yes, I do have plenty of ire for my colleagues who seem to have contempt for the American people or our Constitution, for our democracy," says @AyannaPressley . "But Manchin and Sinema are carrying their water, too." Pressley and @SenWarren are fired up:
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"It is a very difficult day for our country, and none of my colleagues — none of them — ran for Congress to impeach a president of the United States," said @RepJoeKennedy on @wgbhnews this morning:
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BREAKING: Gov. Baker: "Starting today, all travelers arriving to the commmonwealth are instructed to self-quarantine for 14 days."
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More than 100 inmates have gone on hunger strike in solidarity with ICE inmates at the Bristol County House of Corrections. Sheriff Thomas Hodgson blames progressive groups for encouraging the protest.
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Former Gov. Bill Weld says Trump has committed impeachable offenses "way worse than Nixon." Weld, who was a prosecutor during the Nixon impeachment hearings, is running against Trump as a Republican:
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“Do not ride the poll-o-coaster, even when it is favoring your candidate," said Rep. @AyannaPressley . "Likes on Twitter do not vote. Polls do not vote. People vote. And friends don't let friends not have a plan to vote.”
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DHS hired a doctor who had previously tried to recruit a hit man to kill a patient:
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Boston is one of two cities in the country where residents can access their local park within a 10-minute walk. A new report details just how closely parks are tied to mental, physical and environmental health.
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TONIGHT: @gbhnews reporter @phillipWGBH will appear on @maddow to discuss the shocking story of neo-Nazi groups organizing protests against a Boston hospital. Tune in to @maddow at 9 and read the story here:
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“In my opinion, the next steps are that the Senate needs to step up and codify Roe v. Wade and we need to abolish the filibuster,” said @RepPressley . The prospect of the end of Roe has stepped up calls for Senate Dems to end the filibuster:
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"It's not just him saying, 'I didn't lose this election.'," says @HC_Richardson . "Trump has always been about distraction and grabbing a lot of money, and I have no reason to think that his personality dramatically changed a week ago."
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BREAKING: A flaming object has been spotted in the sky over Boston, creating eerie phenomena experts call “shadows.” We will continue to cover this developing situation.
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Rep. Trahan says she wouldn't only support voting for an impeachment inquiry -- she'd vote to impeach President Trump:
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"We as a generation have said enough is enough." Gen Z made waves at the polls in midterm elections, and they're not letting up. Hear more from Ashley Clark of @VOTmass @voterstomorrow
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Were you one of the people intrigued by presidential candidate @AndrewYang 's idea of a #UniversalBasicIncome ( #UBI )? The idea that may have seemed unlikely before the pandemic is getting a test right here in Massachusetts, in #Quincy :
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Rep. @AyannaPressley announced Wednesday she’s pushing for Rep. Lauren Boebert to be stripped of her committee assignments. "How we respond in moments like these will have a lasting impact and history will remember us for it. The world is watching."
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Massachusetts Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren demanded answers at a Senate field hearing about the Sept. 13 gas explosions and fires in the Merrimack Valley: #MVGasFire
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. @RepLoriTrahan 's bill, called the Accountability for Migrant Deaths Act of 2019, would require authorities to tell Congress about the death of any foreign national in their custody within 24 hours.
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. @LydiaMEdwards has been elected to represent East Boston, Charlestown and the North End. #bospoli #mapoli
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The Electoral College Is A Vestige Of Slavery. It's Time To Get Rid Of It. via @wgbhnews , by @dankennedy_neu
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"Universal basic income" is one of the signature policies of presidential candidate @AndrewYang . But would $1,000 a month make a difference? One New Hampshire family got a chance to find out.
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“I’m calling on all state legislators to strike down these amendments," Congresswoman @AyannaPressley said. "They’re weakening what is already a modest proposal given the depth of the hurt caused by generations of brutality caused by police, unchecked.”
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Boston Firefighters Go to Florida To Offer Peer Counseling For Orlando First Responders
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Several hundred people marched from the Holocaust memorial in Boston to Amazon's Cambridge offices to protest the company's business with ICE. Twelve were arrested:
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"CBP, from the very moment we got there, was resistant to us gaining access to individuals [and] information,” Rep. @joekennedy said. “The lack of professionalism all the way through was troubling, to say the least.”
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"I think when we're talking about a ban of legal, regulated products, the most relevant question is, Is there any evidence that's linking the illnesses with legal, regulated products? And I think the answer is no," said @shaleentitle of @MA_Cannabis .
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Gov. Charlie Baker said that Massachusetts’ newly-announced test-and-trace initiative will be the first such statewide effort in the country. It’s an approach that has worked elsewhere across the globe:
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"The way that [AG William Barr] has handled the parts of this process, from when he came into office, have unfortunately not been up to the standards that we would need to have ... given the sensitivity of this investigation," @RepJoeKennedy said.
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“The Harriet Tubman stamp is just one of the ways that we express this commitment to racial equity in our congregation,” said the pastor of @hopecentjp in Jamaica Plain.
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Boston's trains used to run 24 hours a day — something many @MBTA riders may not know. Will we ever see late-night service again?
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“It’s a disgrace. The world is watching, and this is simply dysfunctional,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the chaos of the speaker vote. Massachusetts lawmakers have expressed their frustration with the process:
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WATCH LIVE: @USWNT player @sammymewy live on @BosPublicRadio talking about her team’s World Cup triumph:
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. @RepJoeKennedy joins @GBHJoe at @BPLBoston tomorrow at 10:20 a.m.! Join the live stream here:
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Around the world, women face demands for transactional sex. via @wgbhnews
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There’s a lot of attitude in burros. That, one therapist said, is what makes them special. They’re small but feral. Approachable, but not easily charmed. Donkeys, it turns out, are a great metaphor for people.
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What @DrJillStein could mean for this election:
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“There is a lack of trees in most of the communities of color,” said Marilyn Forman. “So, we have programs where we end up actually distributing air conditioners because it's so hot, because everyone's on this heat island, you know. A lot of concrete.”
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“I’ve noticed that Boston as a city is incredibly deep and complex and that’s beautiful,” Mitski said on stage. “But have y'all as a city considered therapy? And talking to a professional about your sad, deep, complex long history?”
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Juliette Kayyem: "It is inconsistent to not remember a lot of meetings...but to specifically remember the one thing that might benefit the narrative in any future criminal investigation.”
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Democratic presidential candidate @AndrewYang wants voters to know one thing about him: If he is elected, he will give every American $1,000 a month, which he calls a "freedom dividend."
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The Cambridge City Council has voted to ban cars from Memorial Drive so residents can have more space for recreational activities.
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“Let’s be clear. If the government shuts down it will be because Republicans can’t govern. And, that’s it. They’re playing political games with people’s livelihood and lives,” @RepPressley said on @BosPublicRadio .
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A GBH News investigation shows that after Gov. Baker took office, the state began inflating its claims for how much agencies were spending with minority-owned businesses.
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. @alexjgoldstein started @FacesOfCOVID "to just affirm the basic dignity of the people that we've lost. On @GreaterBoston , Goldstein talks about how he hopes it allows people to collectively mourn in this isolating time. Full interview ➡️
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Not even the numbers can dispute it: As of Thursday, Simone Biles is the greatest gymnast ever to have competed in the world championships.
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"Our revolution inspired their revolutions, and now we are flirting with losing it," said @RickSteves . You can watch the full episode here:
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"Listen, this is not black against white. This is everybody against racism. This is good against evil." ICYMI, here's @celtics star @EnesKanter on why he won't "shut up and play":
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. @RepKClark and @AyannaPressley are behind new legislation to fight the workplace discrimination and harassment that women encounter on the job:
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It's back to the pen for Canada's fugitive capybaras
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They call them "archaic laws," but how archaic are they if they're being used in 2007? WGBH News' @wgbhbarbara interviews @rhartholder case of a woman charged in 2007 with "procuring a miscarriage" under an 1845 law.
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