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    WBUR
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    Apr 12, 2023
    WBUR is Boston's NPR news organization. We produce independent, high-quality journalism on air, online, on demand and on stage. Here’s where you can find our work: 📲 Go to https://wbur.fm/3GHQz3p to read our news and listen to our livestream. 📥 Subscribe to our newsletters, including WBUR Today. 🎧 Download the WBUR app. ✨ Follow WBUR on other social media platforms.
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    Feb 2, 2019
    OPINION: "The whole idea that taxing super rich people will damage the economy, it turns out, is a myth perpetrated by … really rich people," writes @stevealmondjoy. cc: @AOC
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    The Solution Hiding In Plain Sight: Tax The Rich
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    Jan 23, 2020
    WBUR is out with a new poll of New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary voters this morning: 🗳️ 29% Sanders 🗳️ 17% Buttigieg 🗳️ 14% Biden 🗳️: 13% Warren 🗳️ 6% Klobuchar 🗳️ 5% Yang 🗳️ 5% Gabbard 🗳️ 2% Steyer 🗳️ 1% or less for others
    Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign stop at the State Historical Museum of Iowa on Monday in Des Moines, Iowa. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
    Sanders Widens Lead In N.H. In New WBUR Poll
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    Sep 21, 2020
    PLACEHOLDER/DO NOT PUBLISH -- VIDEO IS SCHEDULED VIA TWITTER DOT COM
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    Jul 25, 2019
    JUST IN: @AyannaPressley is introducing a bill to halt capital punishment at the federal level.
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    Jul 25, 2019
    The death penalty has no place in a just society.
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    Aug 21, 2021
    When a congressman asked @AVindman why he wasn’t afraid to blow the whistle on President Trump, he said: "Because this is America. This is the country I’ve served and defended and here, right matters.” @OnPointRadio hears his message for Americans.
    Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump. (Andrew Harnik, File/AP Photo)
    In 'Here, Right Matters,' Alexander Vindman Reflects On The Power Of Truth
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    Jul 19, 2018
    The Massachusetts House has voted to repeal a series of antiquated state laws, including an 1845 ban on abortion:
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    Massachusetts House Votes To Repeal Old Anti-Abortion Laws
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    Jun 28, 2019
    "The Mueller report makes painfully clear that our President obstructed justice on multiple occasions," @RepJoeKennedy says:
    U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III at WBUR in early 2018 (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
    Rep. Kennedy, A Close Pelosi Ally, Calls For Impeachment Inquiry On Trump
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    Apr 21, 2021
    A new report finds Black girls are disciplined more harshly than their white peers for things like dress code violations. Over policing leads to more disruptions to education, increasing the “school-to-confinement pipeline,” Rep. @AyannaPressley says.
    Rep. Ayanna Pressley (Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)
    Ayanna Pressley Reintroduces Bill To Address Disproportionate Punishment Of Black Girls In Schools
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    Nov 27, 2022
    "This is not Jamie Fraser, the king of men. This is an actor who thinks he's playing the role of a hillwalker," says @SamHeughan about his journey to hike Scotland's West Highland Way. He takes readers along on the trek in his new memoir. 📕
    Actor Sam Heughan appears at the 92 Street Y to discuss his book "Waypoints: My Scottish Journey." (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
    'Outlander' star Sam Heughan reflects on the 'Waypoints' of his life in new memoir
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    Oct 19, 2022
    "This is not Jamie Fraser, the king of men. This is an actor who thinks he's playing the role of a hillwalker," says @SamHeughan about his journey to hike Scotland's West Highland Way. He takes readers along on the trek in his new memoir. 📕
    Actor Sam Heughan appears at the 92 Street Y to discuss his book "Waypoints: My Scottish Journey." (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
    'Outlander' star Sam Heughan reflects on the 'Waypoints' of his life in new memoir
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    Feb 8, 2023
    A Massachusetts family with an infant and a two-year-old making $130,125 per year would pay no more than $10 per day for child care under a plan proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
    Sen. Elizabeth Warren talks with reporters outside her home in Cambridge in 2018. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
    Warren pitches a plan for $10-a-day child care
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    Nov 9, 2022
    JUST IN — The @AP has called it for the Yes vote for Ballot Question 4. 53.6% Yes, 46.4% No. This means a law passed by the state legislature to allow unauthorized immigrants to have a driver's license will remain law. Story to come.
    A screenshot showing the vote for Mass. Ballot Question 4. The results are 53.6% Yes, 46.4% No.
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    Jun 22, 2020
    Massachusetts now has the lowest COVID-19 transmission rate of any state in the country, according to a website that has been compiling state data and tracking transmission trends. wbur.fm/37Tsy6X