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Harvard suspends Palestinian advocacy group
Harvard University’s leading Palestinian advocacy group says it has been suspended as protests over Israel’s war in Gaza rock college campuses. The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee announced the suspension on social media Monday. A university spokesperson confirmed to The Boston Globe that Harvard College had suspended the group. The Harvard Crimson reported that it had obtained an email...
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Providence restaurant expanding into Cambridge: report
[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.] An Asian restaurant in Providence whose chef/owner was in the running for a prestigious award earlier this year is expanding to the local area. According to an article from Boston Magazine, Jahunger on Wickenden Street in Fox Point is going to be joined by a second location on Brookline Street in Cambridgeport,...
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16-year-old girl, formerly homeless, addresses Mass. lawmakers as Eagle Scout
A girl from Chelsea overcame the odds, going from homelessness to becoming an Eagle Scout and addressing state lawmakers at the Massachusetts State House. Sixteen-year-old Emily Green, a member of Scouts BSA Troop 56 in Cambridge, knows all about difficult situations as a first-generation Costa Rican American. Her family came to this country with practically nothing, living in shelters, finally…
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16-year-old girl overcomes homelessness, becomes Eagle Scout
Emily Green, a Chelsea teenager, addressed Massachusetts lawmakers Tuesday.
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Officer pulled gun from holster, accidentally fired it in Cambridge school bathroom, police say
Police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, provided new details Wednesday about a school resource officer’s accidental discharge of a gun in a school bathroom. The incident happened around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. The school resource officer, identified Wednesday as Frank Greenidge, accidentally fired his gun in a first-floor staff restroom, according to the Cambridge Police Department....
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Officer accidentally fires gun in school, Cambridge police say
Police say a school resource officer accidentally shot a gun in the staff bathroom of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
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School resource officer accidentally shoots gun in bathroom, Cambridge police say
A police officer accidentally fired a gun in a school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, authorities said Tuesday. The officer, assigned as a school resource officer at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, “accidentally discharged their firearm while using a staff bathroom inside the school” around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday, the Cambridge Police Department said in a press release. Police say no one was…
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Cambridge elementary school teacher charged with child rape
Jorge Alexis Bonilla pleaded not guilty during his court appearance this Monday.
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What's up with the ads saying Cambridge is ‘plotting to annex Boston'?
A Cambridge, Massachusetts, city councilor bought 77 billboards to air a “400-year-old grudge” with the city of Boston. The ads, which air Monday across Boston, are all part of an “elaborate” April Fools’ joke, Councilman Burhan Azeem said, and will “boast” that Cambridge is “plotting to annex Boston.” “[It’s] a 400-year-old grudge dating back to 1630, when we were originally…
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Harvard removes human skin from binding of old book
Harvard Library said it pulled the human skin binding from its copy of “Des destinées de l’âme,” written by Arsène Houssaye in the 1880s.
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MIT scientists want to create a ‘Lyme block' with proteins found in your sweat
Scientists at MIT in Cambridge are dreaming up a potential new way to help prevent a potentially debilitating tickborne illness, and the key to it all is right in our sweat. Researchers have discovered through years of study that a protein found in our sweat has antimicrobial properties, and can inhibit the growth of the bacteria that causes Lyme disease….
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Digital kiosks like these collect your phone's data if you go near them
Digital signs that can be found throughout the Boston area are collecting data from the phones of unaware people who go near them. Soofa, a tech and advertisement company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, makes the digital kiosks, which have popped up in cities and towns in 18 states. The 7-foot devices, which resemble giant Amazon Kindles, are present in Boston,…
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Digital signs collect data from phones of passersby
Electronic kiosks popping up across the Boston area are reading data from people’s cellphones without their knowledge.
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Cambridge startup aims to test athletes' sweat for doping
Epicore Biosystems in Cambridge is partnering with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to use sweat-sensing technology as a drug-detection method.
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Harvard's leader decries ‘flagrantly antisemitic' cartoon posted by groups
Harvard’s interim president has condemned an antisemitic cartoon posted to a social media account for a pro-Palestinian university faculty and student group, among others. The cartoon showed two men, one Arab and one Black, with nooses around their necks being held by a hand bearing the Star of David, the symbol imprinted with a star, interim President Alan Garber...
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Fire at MBTA's Kendall/MIT Red Line station; shuttles replace trains
A fire at an MBTA Red Line station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, disrupted train service Wednesday, officials said. A fire involving a train was reported about 2:52 p.m., according to the Cambridge Fire Department. The MBTA said shuttle buses were replacing trains between Harvard and Park Street Stations because of the fire department activity, and urged riders to expect delays. The…
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First lady Jill Biden to visit Mass., Conn. this week
First lady Jill Biden will be in New England this week for a fundraiser and an event about research on women’s health, the White House said Sunday. Biden will travel to to Connecticut, then Massachusetts, on Tuesday, and leave Wednesday afternoon, according to a news release from her office. Biden will arrive at Tweed New Haven Regional Airport in...
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Boston-area brothel bust hearings to be public, Mass. high court justice rules
Initial hearings for 28 people accused of paying for sex at high-end brothels operating in the Boston area will be open to the public, a justice on Massachusetts’ highest court wrote Friday. But documents in the case will be sealed before the hearings to protect private information for anyone for whom probably cause is not established at the hearings, Supreme…
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Lowell man charged in Cambridge double stabbing
A man has been arrested after a stabbing that left two people injured last month in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The stabbing happened Jan. 4 outside the Halal Guys restaurant on White Street. Two victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. Cambridge police said Wednesday that 23-year-old Joshua Barreau of Lowell had been arrested in Boston. Barreau was identified after police shared surveillance…
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Cambridge's Sofra to expand into new space in Allston
[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.] A popular bakery in Cambridge is expanding to a second space, and this one will be located across the river. According to an Instagram post from Ana Sortun, Sofra is planning to open a new outlet in Allston, with Sortun (who is executive chef and co-owner) saying the following: We’ve been...