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Man accused of double murder in Brockton last year arrested in Mexico -- Davinci Leonard faces double first-degree murder charges and a myriad of gun charges in connection with a March shooting.

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US Homeland Security Department shuts down amid ICE raid impasse

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Law enforcement block road and tow car near Nancy Guthrie's home in investigation into her disappearance -- The Pima County Sheriff's Department said the activity was part of the search for Nancy Guthrie.

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Homeland Security wants social media sites to expose anti-ICE accounts

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- The Epstein files and the problem with guilt by association

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Eugene Scott -- Let Olympians define America for themselves

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Joseph Stiglitz and Mike Konczal -- Trump's tariff fantasy collides with economic reality

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Jason Collins strives to make a difference amid fight of his life against brain cancer -- Collins, 47, a 13-year NBA veteran who came out as gay in 2013, was diagnosed with Stage 4 glioblastoma Dec. 11.

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The two people found dead in car outside a Providence hospital were homeless -- A mother and her son were found in a vehicle outside The Miriam Hospital two weeks after a man was found dead on a sidewalk in downtown Providence amid severe cold weather.

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Mandatory driver impairment sensors clear a funding hurdle, but are they ready? -- A federal law requiring impairment-detection devices inside all new cars survived a recent push to strip its funding but remains stalled.

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Alexei Navalny died after being poisoned with dart frog toxin, European nations say -- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin found in poison frogs, five European nations said after test results.

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Trump administration sues Harvard for allegedly failing to comply with review of its admissions process - The lawsuit said Harvard had unlawfully withheld information necessary to determine whether it is "continuing to discriminate in its admissions process."

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Trump erased a bedrock climate rule. Here come the lawsuits. -- When the Trump administration erased one of the nation's bedrock scientific principles on climate change this week, it set up a legal battle.

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Wayland curling club vaulted into spotlight after Olympic success -- Broomstones Curling Club had a spike in interest after one of its alumni, Korey Dropkin, won a silver medal in mixed doubles at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

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Rose Byrne parades through Cambridge as Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year

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Bears, pearls, siblings, an aspiring retiree: looking at this year's Oscar-nominated animated shorts

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As AI accelerates and social media mushrooms, the perils of technology take center stage

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Boston Globe Spotlight Team - Nearly 250 patients at top Mass. hospitals say they were abused by a renowned doctor. Why wasn't he stopped sooner? A Globe Spotlight investigation found the state's medical establishment missed key warning signs.

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Why Trump and the MAGA movement turned against Harvard -- Over a decade of political and cultural upheaval, America's most powerful university grew vulnerable to attack. There were warning signs.

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Why the middle class is disappearing in Massachusetts -- The middle class in Massachusetts is being hollowed out. Driving the squeeze is a stratospheric rise in inequality.

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Water is coming for the Seaport; the whole city will be poorer for it. -- Buildings in the Seaport fund one-tenth of Boston's property-tax base. Flood waters and sea level rise will soon put that at risk.

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Jacob Roberts -- Hasty Pudding, Harvard must reckon with new Epstein revelations

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Olympics | men's hockey: US 6, Denmark 3 -- Jeremy Swayman shaky, but wins US men's hockey Olympic debut vs. Denmark -- The Bruins netminder allowed three goals on 21 shots faced in a 6-3 win in Milan.

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Delta announces new nonstop flight from Boston to Honolulu

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