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DraftKings buys VSiN sports betting video broadcast company

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DraftKings has bought Vegas Sports Information Network, a multiplatform broadcast and content company delivering sports betting news, analysis and data to U.S. customers, DraftKings...

Biden boosts offshore wind energy, wants to power 10M homes

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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to sharply increase offshore wind energy along the East Coast, announcing progress on a huge...

More than 90K businesses without power because of high winds

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Powerful winds topping 50 mph knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses Monday across parts of New England. ...

Harvard punishes professor who had ties to Jeffrey Epstein

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Harvard University professor who had close ties with Jeffrey Epstein and is accused of giving the disgraced financier an office...

Anti-Semitic play calling renews push for genocide education

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BOSTON — Massachusetts lawmakers are renewing a push for mandatory genocide education after a high school football coach was fired following reports that the...

In a leaky underwater rail tunnel, workers race against time

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WEEHAWKEN, N.J. — Seven stories below street level on the edge of the Hudson River, a race against time is being waged, foot by...

Romney gets Profile in Courage Award for impeachment vote

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BOSTON — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney was named the recipient of the Profile in Courage Award on Friday for splitting with his party and...

Illinois city becomes 1st in US to pay reparations to Blacks

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EVANSTON, Ill. — Evanston, Illinois, on Monday became the first U.S. city to make reparations available to its Black residents for past discrimination and...

Pandemic takes a political toll on Massachusetts governor

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BOSTON — Early last March, when the COVID-19 crisis still felt like a remote threat, Charlie Baker flew off with members of his family...

USS Constitution honors 1st female chief petty officer

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BOSTON — The U.S.S. Constitution named one of its cannons in honor of the first woman to serve as a chief petty officer in...