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Latino voters cite many of the same concerns as other conservatives — the economy, crime, unchecked immigration and identity politics. Some are willing to overlook Trump's "strong-man" rhetoric as hyperbole.
The number of people staying outdoors in Lowell doubled between early 2020 and early this year. Tension over the crisis led to the camping ban, which takes effect Wednesday. But opponents say it will harm people who are already suffering and won't do anything to resolve issues that contribute to homelessness.
As state, county and city law enforcement leaders evaluate their legal options to refuse assistance — or offer it — to federal agents, competing tactics could emerge. And immigration advocates warn different policies among government agencies will breed confusion.
Massachusetts' political leaders are bracing for a second Trump administration. For Gov. Maura Healey, Trump represents a challenge both familiar and new.
The artist's mid-career survey at Tufts University Art Galleries includes includes video, photographs and large paintings. Jackson's archival and in-person research provides an armature that she builds around materials like halftone line images, paper bags, voting ephemera and site specific soil and dust.
Watch for the Taurid and Leonid meteor showers this weekend. Sky & Telescope reporter Kelly Beatty says we should also keep an eye out for Venus and Mercury in the night sky.
The exhibit features more than 20 set recreations, from Harry’s tiny bedroom under the stairs to the sinister Chamber of Secrets.
Greg Epstein, the secular humanist chaplain at Harvard and MIT, wrote a book titled "Tech Agnostic." He joined WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the religion of tech.
A survey at the Rose Art Museum offers a probing look at the 41-year-old artist’s career as he rides a surge of admiring coverage for his large, eye-catching installations.
“Madmen Cross the Water" is a novel vehicle for the theatrical folk duo Sons of Town Hall to introduce their fictional band's music.
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
