To UMass Boston community, Mount Ida deal is a slap in the face

At a time where the Boston campus is cutting jobs, services, and institutes, the UMass system?s purchase of the Mount Ida campus, ostensibly to benefit students in Amherst, stings.

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Charles K. Austin, a widely respected journalist who broke new ground when he became one of the first African-American television reporters in Boston and who appeared in ?Black Nativity? for many years, has died.

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The raid prompted a new blast Tuesday from President Trump, who tweeted that ??Attorney-client privilege is dead!??

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The showdown between President Trump and Special Counsel Robert Mueller is coming.

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Thomas Bossert, homeland security adviser to President Trump, is the latest to resign.

The new Mamava Mini lactation pods are designed for offices and come with a work station.

New perk for breastfeeding moms: Lactation pods signal changing times (and laws)

As a new state law requires employers to provide a place to pump, a lactation pod company turns its attention to the workplace.

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Almost 4 billion years after life on Earth first appeared, scientists are still trying to decode how it happened.

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Here?s our verdict on Dunkin? Donuts new donut fries

Could a retail chain come close to recreating the sublime crunchy-sweet confection that is a churro ?

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After a breakup, is it better to hold onto relics from the relationship, or to dump them?

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State Representative Geoff Diehl?s campaign said he has raised the most funds so far this year.

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The latest round of results on the National Assessment of Educational also raises concerns about stagnation.

Here?s what Facebook users are seeing if they were affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Many Facebook users woke up Tuesday morning to a notification from the social networking giant informing them that they were affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Patrick Reed celebrated with his wife Justine Karain Reed after he won The Masters golf tournament on Sunday.

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The troubled truth behind the Masters? champ is far more revealing than the packaged pageantry

CBS did not allow the real story of Patrick Reed to intrude on its own narrative from Augusta.

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Joseph Burhoe and John Perry pleaded guilty to lesser charges after a federal appeals court overturned most of their 2016 convictions.

A 1980 issue of The Flat Hat, a student newspaper at the College of William and Mary, in which James Comey wrote as a student about the need to attract more black students to the school.

Sophomoric and substantial: James Comey?s stint as a college journalist

At the College of William and Mary, the future FBI director tackled issues like race and campus rape, but also veered into the juvenile, like when he mocked the attractiveness of women at Harvard.

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Jamie Allman, also a talk-show host, has resigned from his role at a St. Louis TV station.

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The band said in a statement Monday that Buckingham will not be on its upcoming tour.

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So far, no convincing justification for the controversial transaction has been offered.

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