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July 1, 2020 at 9:01 pm

Black-owned businesses see sales surge amid racism reckoning VIEW

BOSTON (AP) — When Mahdi Hashemian was looking for a bicycle for his 7-year-old daughter Zeynab last week, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident decided to skip...

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June 18, 2020 at 4:54 am

Jean Kennedy Smith dies at 92; last surviving sibling of JFK VIEW

Jean Kennedy Smith, who was the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and who as a U.S. ambassador played a key role in...

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June 4, 2020 at 1:40 pm

Citizenship concerns remain as immigration agency reopens VIEW

LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — For Albert Baraka, the ceremony outside the federal immigration office in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was brief, but life changing. The 20-year-old, who...

May 24, 2020 at 8:54 am

Thousands wait to take US citizenship oath amid virus delays

BOSTON (AP) — Wendy De Los Santos passed the test to become a U.S. citizen just days before government offices shut down nationwide because of...

House painter Jose Martinez sits in his home Friday, April 3, 2020, in Greenfield, Mass. “The check would have given me the opportunity to stay at home, avoid sickness and keep my family safe,” Martinez said, referring to the stimulus money. “But I have to keep looking for work and exposing us to risk. I don’t know what else to do.” The $2.2 trillion package that Congress approved to offer financial help during the coronavirus pandemic has one major exclusion: millions of immigrants who do not have legal status in the U.S. but work here and pay taxes. (AP Photo/David Goldman) NYOTK NYOTK

April 12, 2020 at 8:12 am

Millions of taxpaying immigrants won’t get stimulus checks VIEW

PHOENIX (AP) — The $2.2 trillion package that Congress approved to offer financial help during the coronavirus pandemic has one major exclusion: millions of immigrants...

March 30, 2020 at 1:26 pm

Feds revoking reservation status for tribe’s 300 acres

BOSTON (AP) — A tribe is losing reservation status for its more than 300 acres in Massachusetts, raising fears among Native American groups that other...

March 25, 2020 at 10:17 am

Trump administration urged to free migrants as virus surges

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure was mounting on the Trump administration Wednesday to release people from immigration detention facilities where at least one detainee has tested...

March 11, 2020 at 8:07 pm

Cluster of coronavirus cases is tied to US biotech meeting

BOSTON (AP) — A biotech meeting at a hotel in downtown Boston appears to be the source of a cluster of the coronavirus in the...

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A man walks outside the Biogen Inc., headquarters, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in Cambridge, Mass. Seventy of Massachusetts’ 92 confirmed coronavirus cases have been linked to a meeting of Biogen executives that was held at the Marriott Long Wharf hotel in Boston in late February 2020. For most people, the virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) BX102 BX102

March 11, 2020 at 1:00 pm

Cluster of coronavirus cases is tied to US biotech meeting

BOSTON (AP) — A biotech meeting at a hotel in downtown Boston appears to be the source of a cluster of the coronavirus in the...

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March 9, 2020 at 6:34 am

First recreational pot shop in a major East Coast city opens VIEW

BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s first pot shop opened Monday, marking the first recreational marijuana store to open in a major East Coast city. Pure Oasis...

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