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Maura Healey

Healey widens probe into climate skeptics at think tanks

BOSTON – Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is the latest state prosecutor to start investigating conservative groups with supposed ties to ExxonMobil, after she issued a subpoena for 40 years of internal company documents and communications with a handful of think tanks.

Harvard University

Harvard upstarts fall short in Board of Overseers vote

CAMBRIDGE – Five candidates for Harvard University's Board of Overseers who campaigned on a platform calling for free tuition and making admissions more transparent have come up short. On Monday, Harvard announced the five winning candidates who emerged from a field of 13. The new members include the president

Massachusetts

Amherst College slapped with sex allegations by ex-lecturer

AMHERST, Mass. – Amherst College has responded to a raunchy wrongful-dismissal lawsuit by describing its allegations – that a supervisor urged female teaching assistants to have sex with students to boost enrollment in Spanish classes – as "frivolous," and by asserting that the lecturer who sued was legitimately let go. The

new hampshire

Sanders, Clinton camps trade charges of theft, sabotage

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic race for president unexpectedly exploded with rancor Friday as Hillary Clinton's campaign accused rival Bernie Sanders of stealing millions of dollars worth of information about potential voters. Sanders' team, meanwhile, accused the Democratic Party of holding his White House bid hostage by temporarily