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  36. <title>Savor a slice of deep dish peanut-butter pie</title>
  37. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/24/savor-a-slice-of-deep-dish-peanut-butter-pie/</link>
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  40. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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  47. <description><![CDATA[Cooks who want a new pie to add to their recipe collections need look no further than this recipe for "Deep-Dish Peanut Butter Pie" from "Butter, Flour, Sugar, Joy" (Sourcebooks) by Danielle Kartes.]]></description>
  48. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cooks who want a new pie to add to their recipe collections need look no further than this recipe for &#8220;Deep-Dish Peanut Butter Pie&#8221; from &#8220;Butter, Flour, Sugar, Joy&#8221; (Sourcebooks) by Danielle Kartes.</p>
  49. <h3>TAG GOES HERE</h3>
  50. <h4>Deep-Dish Peanut Butter Pie</h4>
  51. <h4>INGREDIENTS</h4>
  52. <p>1 (3.4-ounce) box instant vanilla pudding</p>
  53. <p>2 cups heavy cream</p>
  54. <p>1 cup milk</p>
  55. <p>1 cup crunchy peanut butter (use smooth, if preferred)</p>
  56. <p>1 teaspoon vanilla extract</p>
  57. <p>1 pinch salt</p>
  58. <p>10 to 12 Biscoff¨ cookies, graham crackers, or crunch peanut butter cookies</p>
  59. <p>4 tablespoons butter, melted</p>
  60. <p>1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream</p>
  61. <p>3 tablespoons confectioners&#8217; sugar</p>
  62. <h4>DIRECTIONS</h4>
  63. <p>Whip the pudding mix with the cream and milk in a large mixing bowl, then add the peanut butter, vanilla, and salt. Continue mixing until it&#8217;s light and thick, roughly 2 to 3 minutes. Crush the cookies in a bowl or Ziploc bag and mix with the melted butter. Press into the pie dish, then spoon the filling into the dish.</p>
  64. <p>Whip the heavy whipping cream in the work bowl of your stand mixer, with a hand mixer, or by hand in a mixing bowl and confectioners&#8217; sugar. Top the filling with the whipped cream. Refrigerate at least 4 hours, but overnight is best. Serve and enjoy.</p>
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  74. <title>Feed a crowd with delicious chicken tinga tacos</title>
  75. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/24/feed-a-crowd-with-delicious-chicken-tinga-tacos/</link>
  77. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gretchen McKay]]></dc:creator>
  78. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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  85. <description><![CDATA[I love tacos when I'm cooking for a crowd because they're usually so much easier to pull together than a sit-down dinner with multiple courses, and they can be easily individualized depending on the toppings.]]></description>
  86. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love tacos when I&#8217;m cooking for a crowd because they&#8217;re usually so much easier to pull together than a sit-down dinner with multiple courses, and they can be easily individualized depending on the toppings.</p>
  87. <p>Any protein made with tinga, a spicy-ish sauce crafted from fire-roasted tomatoes, chili peppers and spices, is always at the top of my go-to list because it&#8217;s so flavorful and can be prepared fairly quickly — a blessing when you&#8217;re pinched for time in a crowded kitchen full of hungry people.</p>
  88. <p>I was just that during a recent weekend, when four of my five kids (plus two daughters-in-law and two grandkids) came for a weekend visit. Taking everyone out to dinner would have cost the proverbial arm and a leg, along with the patience required to dine with active toddlers. And ordering pizza just seemed so &#8230; predictable.</p>
  89. <p>But tacos? Kids especially love crunchy handheld foods and the grown-ups appreciated the casual eat what you want, when you want it taco bar I set up on the kitchen counter.</p>
  90. <p>There are probably as many recipes for chicken tinga as there are home cooks, but a few pantry ingredients are essential: tomatoes, white onion and garlic, chipotle peppers in adobo and Mexican oregano, which is a bit more floral than the Italian variety used in pasta sauces.<br />
  91. I also like to add a little cumin to the sauce. Mexican cookbook author Rick Bayless, whose recipe I&#8217;ve adapted over the years, also recommends a dash or two of vinegar for extra tang.</p>
  92. <p>This recipe is doubled for a crowd, but can easily be cut in half for smaller gatherings. If you like, you can cook the chicken thighs whole and shred them in the pan with two forks just before serving, or you can start with thin slices or bite sized pieces. It all depends on how chunky you like your tacos.</p>
  93. <p>Similarly, if you prefer a tamer dish, cut down on the amount of chipotles and adobo sauce you add.</p>
  94. <p>Serve with a salty, crumbly cheese such as queso fresco or feta and lots of chopped cilantro.</p>
  95. <h3>TAG GOES HERE</h3>
  96. <h4>Chicken Tinga Tacos</h4>
  97. <h4>INGREDIENTS</h4>
  98. <p>Vegetable or olive oil to coat the pan</p>
  99. <p>1 large white onion, sliced a little less than 1/2 inch thick</p>
  100. <p>2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs</p>
  101. <p>5 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped</p>
  102. <p>2 (15-ounce) cans diced fire-roasted tomatoes</p>
  103. <p>1 (7-ounce) can chipotle chiles in adobo sauce, or to taste</p>
  104. <p>2 teaspoons Mexican oregano</p>
  105. <p>2 teaspoons cumin</p>
  106. <p>A little additional vinegar, if you think the dish needs it</p>
  107. <p>1 ripe avocado, sliced</p>
  108. <p>1 cup Mexican queso fresco or other fresh cheese like farmers cheese, mild feta or fresh goat cheese</p>
  109. <p>A handful of cilantro leaves for garnish</p>
  110. <p>Chopped red onion, for garnish</p>
  111. <p>24 hard taco shells or soft taco-sized flour tortillas, warmed</p>
  112. <h4>DIRECTIONS</h4>
  113. <p>Prepare chicken. Set a very large (12-inch) skillet over medium-high heat and drizzle the bottom liberally with oil. When the pan is hot, add onions.</p>
  114. <p>Stir onions until they soften and start to brown, about 4 minutes, then snuggle the chicken in the pan in a single layer on the bottom. Cook until everything is nicely browned, about 5-6 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook a minute or so longer.</p>
  115. <p>In a blender or food processor, blend the tomatoes and their juice to a very coarse puree.</p>
  116. <p>Remove chipotle peppers from sauce and chop into small pieces — start with 3 or 4, you can always add more.</p>
  117. <p>Add puree to the browned chicken in the skillet, along with the chopped chiles, half the adobo sauce from can and oregano and cumin. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer until the chicken is tender and the mixture is thick, about 4 minutes.</p>
  118. <p>Taste and add a little more adobo sauce or chopped chiles if it&#8217;s not spicy enough. Season with 2 teaspoons of salt and a couple dashes of white or red vinegar, if you would like it a little more tangy. Stir to combine.</p>
  119. <p>When ready to serve, place some chicken tinga in warmed hard taco shells or on warmed soft tortillas. Top with sliced avocado, a sprinkling of fresh cheese, chopped onion and leaves of cilantro.<br />
  120. Serves 8.</p>
  121. <p><em>— Gretchen McKay, Post-Gazette</em></p>
  122. <p><em>Tribune News Service</em></p>
  123. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  124. <p>&nbsp;</p>
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  134. <title>Mary Ann Esposito&#8217;s spring ham &#038; veggie quiche</title>
  135. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/24/mary-ann-espositos-spring-ham-veggie-quiche/</link>
  137. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Ann Esposito]]></dc:creator>
  138. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
  139. <category><![CDATA[Restaurants Food & Drink]]></category>
  140. <category><![CDATA[Things To Do]]></category>
  141. <category><![CDATA[Ciao Italia]]></category>
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  144. <description><![CDATA[Lighten up mealtime with this tasty spring ham and vegetable quiche made with prepared puff pastry.]]></description>
  145. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lighten up mealtime with this tasty spring ham and vegetable quiche made with prepared puff pastry. Vary the veggies with spinach, artichoke hearts or peas.</p>
  146. <h3>TAG GOES HERE</h3>
  147. <h4>Spring Ham and Vegetable Quiche</h4>
  148. <h4>INGREDIENTS</h4>
  149. <p>1 sheet puff pastry</p>
  150. <p>2 tablespoons olive oil</p>
  151. <p>3 scallions, thinly sliced</p>
  152. <p>1 cup cauliflower florets in small pieces</p>
  153. <p>1 small red bell pepper, diced</p>
  154. <p>1 cup diced asparagus plus a few whole for garnish</p>
  155. <p>2 cups grated cheese of your choice</p>
  156. <p>3 large eggs</p>
  157. <p>½ teaspoon salt</p>
  158. <p>Grinding black pepper</p>
  159. <p>½ cup cream cheese at room temperature</p>
  160. <p>2/3 cup light cream</p>
  161. <p>1 cup diced ham</p>
  162. <p>¼ cup minced fresh thyme, parsley, tarragon or basil or a combination</p>
  163. <p>Coarse sea salt</p>
  164. <p>Sweet paprika</p>
  165. <h4>DIRECTIONS</h4>
  166. <p>Roll the puff pastry out to 14 x 16 inches. Line an 8 x 12-inch rectangular pan or 9 inch pie pan with the dough, allowing the excess to overlap edges. Bring excess dough to edges of pan and use your hands to pinch and tuck dough around the edges. Set aside.</p>
  167. <p>Preheat oven to 425F</p>
  168. <p>Heat the oil in a sauté pan; add the scallions, cauliflower, red peppers and cut asparagus and cook until the vegetables soften.</p>
  169. <p>In a bowl beat the eggs with the salt, pepper cream cheese and cream until well combined. Stir in the ham and herbs.</p>
  170. <p>Spread the grated cheese over the puff pastry and pour the egg mixture evenly over the cheese. Add the reserved asparagus spears over the top and sprinkle with paprika. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the quiche is set and a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Sprinkle with coarse salt if desired.</p>
  171. <p>Cut into squares or wedges to serve. Serves 6 to 8</p>
  172. <p>www.ciaoitalia.com</p>
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  182. <title>John Lithgow wants kids to know &#8216;Art Happens Here&#8217;</title>
  183. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/24/john-lithgow-wants-kids-to-know-art-happens-here/</link>
  185. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Schaefer]]></dc:creator>
  186. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
  187. <category><![CDATA[Things To Do]]></category>
  188. <category><![CDATA[TV and Streaming]]></category>
  189. <category><![CDATA[television]]></category>
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  191.  
  192. <description><![CDATA[In a career marked by versatility and distinctive subject matter, John Lithgow, at 78, is now focusing on a real-world issue: Arts classes in public schools.]]></description>
  193. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a career marked by versatility and distinctive subject matter, John Lithgow, at 78, is now focusing on a real-world issue: Arts classes in public schools.</p>
  194. <p>His April 26 PBS special “Art Happens Here with John Lithgow” sees the Tony and Emmy winning actor immerse himself in four Los Angeles arts programs for kids to illustrate their importance.</p>
  195. <p>“What do I hope people take away from this?  A better sense of how important and in my opinion, how essential it is,” he said in a virtual interview, “to give young kids the inspiration, education and discipline of the creative arts.</p>
  196. <p>“Of course, I want those watching to enjoy and be entertained. But also remind them how important arts education is.”</p>
  197. <p>“Art Happens Here” he calls, “A piece of strenuous advocacy. Along with showing a lot of delightful young people and four brilliant teachers.</p>
  198. <p>“American education in general,” he continued, “has been in dire straits even before the pandemic came along and robbed millions of kids of two years of social development and in-person education. One of the things very deleterious is the slow diminution of arts in the classroom for kids.</p>
  199. <p>“When I was a kid, I moved around a lot. I went to about six or eight different public schools. In my most formative years, in 9th and 10th grade in Akron, Ohio, of all places, I had the very best arts education. My two teachers in those two years were unquestionably the best, most inspiring teachers I had in all my secondary education. They made me a better student.</p>
  200. <p>“I&#8217;m absolutely convinced of that,” he added, “because I co-chaired a committee on the arts of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In three years of research that wrapped up three years ago, we found pure, hard evidence on what effect arts in education does for young people in schools: It makes them better students!</p>
  201. <p>“It also makes them much more eager to get to school.  Nothing can help with the terrible challenges of inequality more than arts education.</p>
  202. <p>“Because it&#8217;s in arts classrooms &#8212; music, dance, theater and studio art &#8212; that young people really discover who they are. It was certainly my case.”</p>
  203. <p>Lithgow’s message?</p>
  204. <p>“I say, Take yourself out of your comfort zone! It’s something I’ve done my entire life. As an actor, I always cook something up for myself &#8212; in case nobody wants me.</p>
  205. <p>“That’s how I end up with symphony orchestras for children, writing satirical books. Always be ready to take on challenges you’re not sure of achieving.”</p>
  206. <p><em> “Art Happens Here with John Lithgow” airs April 26 on PBS</em></p>
  207. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  208. <figure id="attachment_4770187"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="542px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="John and student Rosie work on a ceramics project at the Community Center of La Canada Flintridge. (Photo Jessica Howes/PBS SoCal)" width="1228" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4770187" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-LITHGOW-01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">John and student Rosie work on a ceramics project at the Community Center of La Canada Flintridge. (Photo Jessica Howes/PBS SoCal)</figcaption></figure>
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  218. <title>Redfern: Vessels must hit the brakes, not right whales</title>
  219. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/24/redfern-vessels-must-hit-the-brakes-not-right-whales/</link>
  221. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Redfern]]></dc:creator>
  222. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
  223. <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
  224. <category><![CDATA[Opinion Columnists]]></category>
  225. <category><![CDATA[New England Aquarium]]></category>
  226. <category><![CDATA[Shark]]></category>
  227. <category><![CDATA[whale]]></category>
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  229.  
  230. <description><![CDATA[The situation facing North Atlantic right whales in U.S. waters is particularly dire.]]></description>
  231. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Massachusetts marks its second annual Right Whale Day on April 24. This day is an opportunity to educate the public about the plight of this critically endangered species — the state’s official marine mammal, of which less than 360 remain — and to highlight the research and conservation work happening to protect these animals. This day comes as the situation facing North Atlantic right whales in U.S. waters is particularly dire.</p>
  232. <p>The heartbreaking irony for North Atlantic right whales was highlighted when the first sighting of a healthy right whale calf and its mother in Cape Cod Bay occurred in the same week that another new right whale mother was reported dead off Virginia’s coast. The mother, known as Catalog #1950, suffered catastrophic and gruesome injuries that were later confirmed to be caused by a vessel strike that completely dislocated her spine and fractured all vertebrae in her lower back. She also leaves behind her sixth calf, which is expected to die without its mother’s care.</p>
  233. <p>This marks the third right whale death from a vessel strike this year, and we should not accept this as inevitable. There is a viable solution that could go far in protecting right whales.</p>
  234. <p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed modifications to the existing federal vessel speed rule, including expanding time periods and size of seasonal speed zones; extending speed restrictions to include most vessels measuring over 35 feet; and implementing mandatory, instead of voluntary, restrictions in dynamic speed zones, which are established when​ and where​ right whales are observed and are likely to remain.</p>
  235. <p>The New England Aquarium is steadfast in its call for the federal government to issue the revised vessel speed rule, which has been the subject of extensive review by various government agencies over the past 18 months. The delay of these protective measures has put this critically endangered species at continued risk. To increase the species’ chance of survival, speed restrictions need to be implemented immediately.</p>
  236. <p>Vessel strikes are not the only risk these vulnerable whales face as they swim along the East Coast, heading north from calving grounds in Florida and Georgia to the Canadian Maritimes where many spend the summer months. Fishing gear entanglements have affected more than 85% of North Atlantic right whales, ensnaring their tails, mouths, and flippers and impeding their ability to eat, breed, and live long lives. One whale died in February due to entanglement, and just last week, an entangled right whale was spotted 50 miles off Block Island, R.I., with rope coming out of both sides of its mouth. The work being done by state and federal agencies, industries, and other partners to increase the use of ropeless fishing gear and fishing lines that snap more readily when whales encounter them is promising and deserves further study. These emerging methods will save whale lives.</p>
  237. <p>On this Right Whale Day, let’s celebrate this iconic species and the births of 19 calves this year. With every birth, there is hope for their survival. But as we celebrate, we ask that you join us in calling for action to reduce the two main threats they face — vessel strikes and entanglements — before it is too late.</p>
  238. <p><em>Dr. Jessica Redfern, PhD, is Associate Vice President of Ocean Conservation in the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium.</em></p>
  239. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  240. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  241. ]]></content:encoded>
  245. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4769837</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-WHALES-01.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="283082" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ FILE - A North Atlantic right whale surfaces on Cape Cod Bay, in Massachusetts, on March 27, 2023. The loss of dissolved oxygen and changes to ocean chemistry due to warming waters threatened whale and other marine mammals according to a new study.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File, NOAA permit # 21371) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  250. <title>Editorial: Bob Kraft a good fit for Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s seat</title>
  251. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/24/editorial-bob-kraft-a-good-fit-for-elizabeth-warrens-seat/</link>
  253. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Boston Herald editorial staff]]></dc:creator>
  254. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
  255. <category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
  256. <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
  257. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4770699</guid>
  258.  
  259. <description><![CDATA[The owner of the New England Patriots has a lot on his plate, but he's demonstrated the kind of "put your money where your mouth is" backbone that's sorely needed in American leadership.]]></description>
  260. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bob Kraft should run for Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s Senate seat.</p>
  261. <p>The owner of the New England Patriots has a lot on his plate, but he&#8217;s demonstrated the kind of &#8220;put your money where your mouth is&#8221; backbone that&#8217;s sorely needed in American leadership.</p>
  262. <p>Kraft, who attended Columbia University on a full academic scholarship, has seen that institute of higher education devolve like so many others into a raving circus of antisemitism.</p>
  263. <p>As <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/22/robert-kraft-not-comfortable-supporting-columbia-university-amid-anti-israel-virulent-hate-protests/">the Herald reported</a>, police arrested more than 100 protestors at a pro-Palestinian encampment that sprang up on campus over the Israel-Hamas war, while a rabbi at the university advised Jewish students to go home until it’s safer for them on campus.</p>
  264. <p>The usual suspects claimed they were shocked, shocked at these incidents, in line with responses following other outbreaks of harassment against Jewish students around the country. Lots of talk, little action.</p>
  265. <p>That&#8217;s not the Kraft way.</p>
  266. <p>“I am deeply saddened at the virulent hate that continues to grow on campus and throughout our country,” Kraft said. “I am no longer confident that Columbia can protect its students and staff and I am not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action is taken.”</p>
  267. <p>Fix the problem or forget about funding. A message with muscle.</p>
  268. <p>Columbia isn&#8217;t in Massachusetts, but <a href="http://Harvard, MIT, Tufts and UMass Amherst">Harvard</a>, Tufts, UMass Amherst and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are. They all share the dubious honor of receiving failing grades on the Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s Antisemitism Scorecard.</p>
  269. <p>Some donor alums have ceased supporting these alma maters, none with the name recognition of Kraft, but it begs the question: why aren&#8217;t pols pulling government dollars from these colleges amid the wave of antisemitic acts?</p>
  270. <p>Sen. Warren, a former professor at Harvard, must at least acknowledge, as Kraft did, that these universities aren&#8217;t the places they once knew.</p>
  271. <p>She, like so many progressive politicians, has had ample opportunity to publicly discredit the misinformation underpinning so many campus demonstrations. Instead, <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/10/elizabeth-warren-faces-heat-for-israel-genocide-comments-amplify-dangerous-rhetoric/">Warren delivered</a> this statement recently at the Islamic Center of Boston when asked if a top UN court will find that Israel is carrying out a genocide.:</p>
  272. <p>“So if you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that they’ll find that it is genocide, and they have ample evidence to do so.&#8221;</p>
  273. <p>Never mind that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has stated, “We don’t have any evidence of genocide being created. We don’t have evidence of that.”</p>
  274. <p>Does Warren&#8217;s pandering to young voters do anything to douse the flames of antisemitism on campuses? No.</p>
  275. <p>But she could propose to cut the funding of colleges until they fix the problem. According to the Heritage Foundation, during fiscal year 2022, Ivy League universities received $1.8 billion for overhead on government-funded research grants.</p>
  276. <p>Warren has clout. If she proposed cutting such fed funding to schools at which antisemitism rages, it would have an impact.</p>
  277. <p>Bob Kraft has the right idea, and has used his position to speak up, and stand up for the religious freedom guaranteed in our Constitution.</p>
  278. <p>Politicians who can&#8217;t do the same should be cut from the team.</p>
  279. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  280. <figure id="attachment_4771387"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="542px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Editorial cartoon by Chip Bok (Creators Syndicate)" width="4200" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4771387" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_053ef9.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Editorial cartoon by Chip Bok (Creators Syndicate)</figcaption></figure>
  281. ]]></content:encoded>
  285. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4770699</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-L-EDITORIAL-01_ce298e.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="213051" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Robert Kraft, CEO of the New England Patriots, poses on the red carpet at the NFL Honors award show ahead of the Super Bowl 58 football game Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Las Vegas. The San Francisco 49ers face the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 58 on Sunday. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  290. <title>Gongloff: U.S. isn&#8217;t ready for more wildfire smoke</title>
  291. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/24/gongloff-u-s-isnt-ready-for-more-wildfire-smoke/</link>
  293. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Gongloff]]></dc:creator>
  294. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
  295. <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
  296. <category><![CDATA[Opinion Columnists]]></category>
  297. <category><![CDATA[wildfires]]></category>
  298. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4769905</guid>
  299.  
  300. <description><![CDATA[Many Americans were surprised last year when smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away turned their air toxic. There’s no excuse for anybody to be surprised when it happens again — possibly in just a couple of months.]]></description>
  301. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many Americans were surprised last year when smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away turned their air toxic. There’s no excuse for anybody to be surprised when it happens again — possibly in just a couple of months.</p>
  302. <p>Canada’s emergency preparedness minister has warned repeatedly that an unusually dry and warm winter, combined with what might be an unusually dry and warm spring and summer, could lead to another terrible wildfire season.</p>
  303. <p>It’s hard to imagine a Canadian wildfire season more explosive than last year’s, which burned a record 15 million hectares, more than seven times the annual average. Dozens of those fires kept burning through the winter, even under the cover of snow. (These are known as “zombie fires,” a phrase that joins “firenado” and “thundersnow” in the growing lexicon of freak-weather terms you wish you’d never heard.)</p>
  304. <p>Where there’s fire, there’s smoke, as the saying sort of goes; and wildfire smoke will be one of the most noticeable ways climate change threatens human health in the years to come. It could cause as much as 27,800 US deaths per year by 2050, according to a new study in the National Bureau of Economic Research, with an annual economic cost of $244 billion.</p>
  305. <p>Children, senior citizens and people with asthma and other underlying health issues can be harmed by relatively low concentrations of wildfire smoke. But the stuff is such a toxic stew of chemicals, delivered in particles small enough to enter the bloodstream, that even the healthiest of us should avoid it.</p>
  306. <p>It caught millions off guard in New York and many other places in the eastern part of the U.S. last spring and summer, when Canadian wildfire smoke temporarily gave American cities some of the unhealthiest air on the planet.</p>
  307. <p>New York officials were accused of waiting too long to warn about the danger when the smoke hit in early June, leaving people exposed and uninformed about how to respond. New York and many other cities lacked the kind of contingency plans their West Coast peers developed long ago, including protections for outdoor workers and designated places where people can go to breathe clean air.</p>
  308. <p>A year later, much of the country still isn’t ready for another smoky summer. Democrats in Congress last year introduced two bills to address the problem on a national level: the Wildfire Smoke Emergency Declaration Act and the Smoke and Heat Ready Communities Act. The first would give the president power to declare a “smoke emergency,” which would open government purse strings to help relocate and shelter affected people and reimburse businesses for losses. The second would use the EPA to help communities prepare for both wildfire smoke and extreme heat, including public messaging campaigns.</p>
  309. <p>Passing these bills should have happened months ago.</p>
  310. <p>The easiest fix of all is for public officials to broadcast widely and often about the dangers of smoke and how to avoid it. It’s not rocket science: Shun the outside air, preferably by staying in a room with a HEPA filter; recirculate the air in your car; and wear some kind of mask, preferably an N95, when you must venture out.</p>
  311. <p>Fire season is coming sooner than you might think.</p>
  312. <p><em>Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. /Tribune News Service</em></p>
  313. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  314. <p>&nbsp;</p>
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  319. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4769905</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/060623hazyms002.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="229722" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ A hazy blanket of smoke from the Canadian wildfires smothers the city of Boston on Tuesday. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald) June 6, 2023 ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  324. <title>Scherer: Problems plague draft net neutrality order</title>
  325. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/24/scherer-problems-plague-draft-net-neutrality-order/</link>
  327. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nate Scherer]]></dc:creator>
  328. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
  329. <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
  330. <category><![CDATA[Opinion Columnists]]></category>
  331. <category><![CDATA[Net Neutrality]]></category>
  332. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4769903</guid>
  333.  
  334. <description><![CDATA[The Federal Communications Commission recently released a draft net-neutrality order that it will vote on April 25. Unfortunately, the 434-page proposal appears just as flawed as previous versions.]]></description>
  335. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Federal Communications Commission recently released a draft net-neutrality order that it will vote on April 25. Unfortunately, the 434-page proposal appears just as flawed as previous versions.</p>
  336. <p>Similar to the initial proposal, this draft order would reclassify broadband services from a Title I information service to a Title II telecommunications service under the Communications Act of 1934. The draft order would also reinstate strict rules that prohibit “blocking, throttling and paid prioritization,” re-establish a general conduct standard that prohibits “unreasonable interference,” and make other significant changes. The commission believes reclassification is necessary to “safeguard the fair and open internet” and protect consumers.</p>
  337. <p>However, the internet is already “fair and open,” and consumers increasingly enjoy a wide range of services available at reasonable and even declining prices.</p>
  338. <p>The reclassification of broadband services is unnecessary and represents a radical departure from the light-touch approach to internet regulation that has served the county well. In practice, reclassification would subject broadband services to a regulatory framework initially designed to address a 1930s telephone monopoly, not the vastly more competitive broadband market.</p>
  339. <p>Unsurprisingly, this order is sure to lead to significant unintended consequences for investment, deployment and access within the broadband market, as well as for consumers who will experience higher broadband prices due to increased tax exposure traditionally experienced only by telecommunication services.</p>
  340. <p>The FCC leans on unproven arguments that use public safety and national security to justify a larger government role in the broadband market. The commission says this increased role is supported by its statutory authority to “defend communications networks and critical infrastructure.” Yet, as the American Consumer Institute noted, the commission already has broad power to shut down bad actors deemed to be security threats.</p>
  341. <p>In recent years, the commission has taken action against a wide range of companies that it thought were subject to the influence or control of foreign governments. There is no reason the commission needs more authority in this area, primarily when Congress never intended for it to be the lead agency on national security questions.</p>
  342. <p>None of this matters to the commission, which is pushing full steam ahead with its plan to impose regulations on the broadband market regardless. While the commission is correct that “access to affordable reliable, high-speed broadband is essential to full participation in modern life,” reclassifying broadband services as a telecommunications service would undermine the competitive processes that have made broadband access essential in the first place and unlocked countless consumer benefits.</p>
  343. <p>The commission would be wise to reconsider this rulemaking, which is sure to produce unintended consequences for consumers and the broadband market.</p>
  344. <p><em>Nate Scherer is a policy analyst with the American Consumer Institute./InsideSources.com</em></p>
  345. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  346. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  347. <p>&nbsp;</p>
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  352. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4769903</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BHR-Z-SCHERER-01.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="215455" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ FILE - The seal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seen before an FCC meeting to vote on net neutrality, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. On Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, the FCC enacted new rules intended to eliminate discrimination in access to internet services, a move which regulators are calling the first major U.S. digital civil rights policy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  357. <title>Dear Abby: Tired of hearing neighbor&#8217;s hot sex sessions</title>
  358. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/24/dear-abby-tired-of-hearing-neighbors-hot-sex-sessions/</link>
  360. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Abigail Van Buren]]></dc:creator>
  361. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
  362. <category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
  363. <category><![CDATA[Things To Do]]></category>
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  368.  
  369. <description><![CDATA[Dear Abby: My husband and I live in a lovely older neighborhood and have enjoyed wonderful neighbors over many years. The homes are close together with windows often left open in spring, summer and fall, as large shade trees keep our homes cool. A couple of years ago, our longtime next-door neighbors moved, and a [&#8230;]]]></description>
  370. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Dear Abby:</strong> My husband and I live in a lovely older neighborhood and have enjoyed wonderful neighbors over many years. The homes are close together with windows often left open in spring, summer and fall, as large shade trees keep our homes cool.</p>
  371. <p>A couple of years ago, our longtime next-door neighbors moved, and a new neighbor, a single woman, moved in. She was quiet, and we would occasionally visit in the yard. Well, over the last few months, a &#8220;problem&#8221; has developed. This neighbor has a new male friend who is there much of the time. Since the new friend&#8217;s arrival, loud moaning sounds frequently emanate from her home.</p>
  372. <p>It quickly went from a bit funny to shocking to annoying. It&#8217;s unbelievable how loud and prolonged the moaning sounds are, the &#8220;Oh, Gods,&#8221; the slapping and spanking sounds, not to mention the frequent back-to-back sessions.</p>
  373. <p>Other neighbors hear it and have commented, so it&#8217;s not just we who are offended. One neighbor thought someone was in distress and almost called the police until another neighbor told her what it was. It has awakened us and kept us up at night. Also of concern is that there are small children among our nearest neighbors.</p>
  374. <p>Abby, is there anything you can suggest I do so our neighbor keeps her private business private without embarrassing or offending her? I would sure like to put an end to the auditory assault. &#8212; Kept Awake in Ohio</p>
  375. <p><strong>Dear Kept Awake:</strong> Approach your neighbor privately and inform her that the sounds of her lovemaking are creating a disturbance not only for you, but also for the other neighbors. Tell her that one of them nearly called the cops, but someone was able to stop the person. Then suggest that when she entertains her gentleman caller, they close the windows, because not only are people scandalized, but there are children who can hear what&#8217;s going on. Then cross your fingers. If the noise isn&#8217;t abated, DO inform the authorities. Perhaps they can be more persuasive.</p>
  376. <p><strong>Dear Abby:</strong> I&#8217;ve been married to my husband for 40 (long) years. Whenever I do something wrong, I get a note on the kitchen counter. This has gone on for years and years. This is the note I woke up to this morning. &#8220;Why did you leave the light on in the garage? To burn it out to see what I would do? I will do nothing except go to the garage in daylight.&#8221; He always makes it seem like I purposely do things. I&#8217;m tired of being treated like this. What is his problem? &#8212; Notes in the East</p>
  377. <p><strong>Dear Notes:</strong> I will assume you have addressed this directly with your husband. For whatever reason, he is hesitant to communicate with you face-to-face, which is why he resorts to notes on the kitchen counter. Instead of openly expressing his annoyance, he expresses it indirectly, which is the definition of passive-aggression. The next time it happens, call him on it &#8212; and confront him directly.</p>
  378. <p>Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com</p>
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  383. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4769634</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/abby-01.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="251290" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Jeanne Phillips, aka Dear Abby (Photo courtesy Andrews McMeel Syndication) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  388. <title>Crime Briefs: 2021 Caribbean Festival murderer convicted</title>
  389. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/crime-briefs-2021-caribbean-festival-murderer-convicted/</link>
  391. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Flint McColgan]]></dc:creator>
  392. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
  393. <category><![CDATA[Crime & Public Safety]]></category>
  394. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  395. <category><![CDATA[Local News]]></category>
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  398. <category><![CDATA[Crack Cocaine]]></category>
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  407.  
  408. <description><![CDATA[A Boston man was convicted of stabbing a teen in the neck, killing him, during the city’s annual Caribbean Festival in 2021. Plus: Fake chiropractor, accused pervert.]]></description>
  409. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Boston man was convicted of stabbing a teen in the neck, killing him, during the city’s annual Caribbean Festival in 2021.</p>
  410. <p>“What verdicts can never do is erase the pain and loss and grief of losing a loved one,” Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said after the verdict. “I’m grateful for the jury’s service and verdict in this tragic and inexplicable act of violence—which ended the life of a young man enjoying a city festival.”</p>
  411. <p>A Suffolk Superior Court jury on Monday convicted Omara Shears, 46, of the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Javare Sommerville-Adams on Aug. 28, 2021.</p>
  412. <p>Prosecutors say Shears, 46, walked up to Sommerville-Adams outside Stash’s Pizza in Dorchester at about 9:20 a.m. and stabbed the teen in the neck. The two had no known connection to each other prior to the murder, according to prosecutors.</p>
  413. <h4>Fake chiropractor, accused pervert</h4>
  414. <p>Prosecutors say a Somerville man pretended to be a chiropractor to take sexual advantage of clients.</p>
  415. <p>Jose Mendez, 60, was arraigned at Somerville District Court last week on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, indecent exposure and operating as an unlicensed chiropractor. Bail was set at $5,500 and Mendez was ordered to stay away from the alleged victims and not practice as a chiropractor. He is due to return to court on May 14.</p>
  416. <p>Investigators say that Mendez was operating an unlicensed chiropractic business out of his Cross Street home. In at least two instances, prosecutors say, he did inappropriate things with clients, including inappropriate touching and exposing himself.</p>
  417. <p>Somerville Police say that they believe Mendez promoted his business through word-of-mouth referrals and that they are actively investigating the scope of his alleged conduct. They ask that anyone with any information to contact them at 617-625-1600, extension 7278.</p>
  418. <h4>Restaurant worker killed in Framingham</h4>
  419. <p>A man authorities identified on Tuesday as Anthony Junior Lopez, 30, was found dead with “obvious trauma to his body” behind the Framingham sandwich shop where he worked.</p>
  420. <p>Framingham Police rushed to Hot Table on Worcester Road at around 10 Saturday night where they found Lopez’s body behind the restaurant. Authorities say he was scheduled to work that evening.</p>
  421. <p>Lopez’s body was transferred to a medical examiner to determine the cause of death.</p>
  422. <p>Police ask that anyone with any information regarding the incident or who “may have seen something unusual in the area of 1 Worcester Road” that night to call them at 508-532-5923.</p>
  423. <h4>Crack is wack</h4>
  424. <p>Boston Police arrested five people following searches of three Roxbury addresses Saturday night and charged with trafficking some heavy drugs: fentanyl and crack cocaine.</p>
  425. <p>The BPD says that they arrested Jose Virella-Castro, 41, of Boston; Jarlin Soto-Soto, 41, of Dorchester; Alejandro Fernandez, 62, of Roxbury; Michael Moreira, 57, for Roxbury; and Rafael Puntier, 54, of Roxbury; following midday searches of three addresses in Roxbury near where it meets the South End: 35 Northampton St., 155 Eustis St., and 161 W. Springfield St.</p>
  426. <p>Police say they recovered about 253 grams of crack divided into 459 individual baggies, 980 grams of fentanyl across 412 baggies, as well as almost $8,000 in cash.</p>
  427. <p>The searches were the culmination of “several months of investigation” between the BPD and a Drug Enforcement Administration task force.</p>
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  437. <title>Natick makes statement, nets big 3-1 win at Newton North</title>
  438. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/natick-makes-statement-nets-big-3-1-win-at-newton-north/</link>
  440. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Mulherin]]></dc:creator>
  441. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
  442. <category><![CDATA[High School Sports]]></category>
  443. <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
  444. <category><![CDATA[Boys Volleyball]]></category>
  445. <category><![CDATA[Natick]]></category>
  446. <category><![CDATA[Newton North]]></category>
  447. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4771939</guid>
  448.  
  449. <description><![CDATA[There’s a few people who didn’t take us super seriously at the beginning of the season, but I think we just proved that we’re state championship contenders.” Natick junior Branch Barnes]]></description>
  450. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NEWTON – There’s been some sort of block preventing the Natick boys volleyball team from closing out several of its biggest games over the last couple years. It looked like that might continue Tuesday night, too, when it squandered a comfortable match-point lead to allow No. 1 Newton North to rally and force a fourth set.</p>
  451. <p>This time, though, the RedHawks shifted the narrative.</p>
  452. <p>In a combination of uncharacteristic errors from the previously unbeaten Tigers (6-1), as well as monster performances from senior Harrison Landry (39 assists, five kills) and junior Branch Barnes (25 kills), the No. 4 RedHawks (7-1) didn’t waver en route to a signature 3-1 win (25-19, 25-21, 24-26, 25-18).</p>
  453. <p>All of Natick’s set wins saw Newton North keep the score close late in the frames, only for the RedHawks to use runs of 6-1, 4-0 and 7-1 to put away each one, respectively.</p>
  454. <p>“We learned from (the loss to) Needham,” Barnes said. “We came out to the Needham game (on April 4) and we were really ready for one set. We won that set, and we were like, ‘Oh my God, what do we do now?’ We learned from that experience and I’m very proud of everyone because we were able to just (keep focus). Even after that loss in the third set, we all stuck in it, and that’s been one of our biggest challenges.</p>
  455. <p>“We overcame it and it’s awesome to beat a team with so much talent at their home. There’s a few people who didn’t take us super seriously at the beginning of the season, but I think we just proved that we’re state championship contenders.”</p>
  456. <p>For as sloppy as Newton North looked at times with its serve (15 service errors) and other miscues (39 total errors) while down a key player, it still kept every set within reach toward the final stretches.</p>
  457. <p>Moving Paul Nelson to libero and Brady Dwyer (24 assists) to setter in the second set freed up star senior Adam Christianson (14 kills, 15 assists) as a hitter. Simon Vardeh (13 kills) had hot moments while middles Peter Reale (five kills, three blocks) and Sam Huang (seven kills, two blocks) caused problems for Natick, trading blows with the RedHawks each frame until either team cracked 20 points. That included a must-win third set, when the Tigers benefitted from Natick errors to crawl back from a 24-22 deficit for a 26-24 win.</p>
  458. <p>That’s the kind of rally that would unravel the RedHawks in other matches, but they persevered this time. Landry fed Barnes toward the end of the fourth set for seven kills in the frame and a 20-18 lead, before Landry and Simon Pedrelli each added kills within a 6-0 run. Nicholas Bonavire’s block was the final point.</p>
  459. <p>Sound fundamentals in the biggest moments were key, as well as strong serving and a closing mindset.</p>
  460. <p>“I don’t care for (stats), I care what moment of the game do you do a mistake?” Natick head coach Peter Suxho said. “When? In the end, or in the beginning? I focus toward the end. … In those moments, our guys played well.”</p>
  461. <p>Landry and Barnes were fully in rhythm throughout, connecting for at least five kills in every set. Matt Salerno (six kills, two aces) and Bonavire (four kills) helped Natick go pin-to-pin to keep Newton North’s middles from making their typical impact, while middles Pedrelli and John Carroll (five blocks) played massive roles at the net.</p>
  462. <p>“We faked it in the middle, we played side-by-side, and were successful,” Suxho said. “We forced them to make mistakes. We attacked them where they’ve got weakness. … We direct our offense very well (through Landry).”</p>
  463. <figure id="attachment_4771582"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="739px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Natick's Nicholas Bonavire, left, lifts the ball over Newton North defenders at the net in Natick's 3-1 win. (Chris Christo/Boston Herald)" width="2836" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0423-NWS-BHR-L-volleyballcc02.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Natick’s NicholasBonavire, left, lifts the ball over Newton North defenders at the net in Natick&#8217;s 3-1 win. (Chris Christo/Boston Herald)</figcaption></figure>
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  473. <title>Red Sox offense wastes Tanner Houck&#8217;s latest gem in 4-1 loss to Guardians</title>
  474. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/red-sox-offense-wastes-tanner-houcks-latest-gem-in-4-1-loss-to-guardians/</link>
  476. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mac Cerullo]]></dc:creator>
  477. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
  478. <category><![CDATA[Boston Red Sox]]></category>
  479. <category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>
  480. <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
  481. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4771513</guid>
  482.  
  483. <description><![CDATA[Tanner Houck enjoyed another strong showing against the Cleveland Guardians, but he didn't get enough support in the club's eventual series-opening loss.]]></description>
  484. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Cleveland Guardians had all week to prepare for Tanner Houck. After getting shredded by the 27-year-old right-hander in last week&#8217;s complete game shutout, the Guardians presumably studied the data, made their adjustments and came into Tuesday with a new plan of attack.</p>
  485. <p>For most of the night, it didn&#8217;t work.</p>
  486. <p>Houck was excellent once again, shutting the Guardians down over six-plus innings, but he eventually ran out of gas and got little support from the depleted Red Sox offense in the club&#8217;s eventual 4-1 loss.</p>
  487. <p>Cleveland&#8217;s decisive breakthrough came in the bottom of the seventh. Trailing 1-0 after Houck tied them up through six scoreless innings, the Guardians tied the game with a leadoff double by Will Brennan and an RBI single by Tyler Freeman. Houck was pulled after subsequently walking Estevan Florial, and the Guardians ultimately touched the Red Sox bullpen for three runs to put the game away.</p>
  488. <p>Houck was charged with two runs on five hits, three walks and four strikeouts over six-plus innings. Before the seventh inning he had posted 15 consecutive scoreless innings against the Guardians, and his ERA for the season is now 1.65.</p>
  489. <p>&#8220;He did an amazing job,&#8221; Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. &#8220;He&#8217;s earning the right to go deep into games. There&#8217;s no baby gloves here. He was throwing the ball well, the split that he hung and a slider down the middle and that was it, but overall another great outing.&#8221;</p>
  490. <p>Despite the chilly, rainy conditions that threatened throughout the afternoon, the game flew by as Houck and Cleveland starter Ben Lively went toe to toe. Neither side was able to score until the top of the seventh, when Wilyer Abreu broke the ice with a solo home run to deep right field.</p>
  491. <p>That gave Houck his first lead of the day, but Cleveland finally mustered some resistance after Brennan and Freeman came through to tie the game at 1-1. Houck then walked Florial, ending his day, and left-hander Brennan Bernardino walked his first batter to load the bases with no outs.</p>
  492. <p>Brayan Rocchio put Cleveland ahead with a sacrifice fly to left, and while the Guardians couldn&#8217;t get any more runs across in the seventh, they got two more in the eighth on a solo home run by Jose Ramirez and an RBI double by Florial off left-hander Cam Booser.</p>
  493. <p>That set the stage for All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase, who shut the Red Sox down with three straight strikeouts in the top of the ninth for his seventh save of the season.</p>
  494. <p>All told the Red Sox managed only six hits, struck out 12 times, went 0 for 3 with runners in scoring position and were undone by numerous baserunning blunders, including Rob Refsnyder and Connor Wong both getting picked off at first base. Refsnyder did go 3 for 3 with a double, giving him four doubles through his first four games of the season since coming off the injured list.</p>
  495. <p>The Red Sox are now 13-11 on the season, but 1-4 against the Guardians, who own baseball&#8217;s best record at 17-6. Cooper Criswell (0-1, 4.26 ERA) will get the start Tuesday against Cleveland&#8217;s Carlos Carrasco (1-1, 3.44).</p>
  496. ]]></content:encoded>
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  505. <title>Trump&#8217;s &#8216;eyes and ears&#8217; takes the stand</title>
  506. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/trumps-eyes-and-ears-takes-the-stand/</link>
  508. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  509. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
  510. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  511. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  512. <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
  513. <category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
  514. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4771713</guid>
  515.  
  516. <description><![CDATA[A veteran tabloid publisher testified Tuesday that he pledged to be Donald Trump 's "eyes and ears" during his 2016 presidential campaign, recounting how he promised the then-candidate that he would help suppress harmful stories and even arranged to purchase the silence of a doorman.]]></description>
  517. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NEW YORK — A veteran tabloid publisher testified Tuesday that he pledged to be Donald Trump &#8216;s &#8220;eyes and ears&#8221; during his 2016 presidential campaign, recounting how he promised the then-candidate that he would help suppress harmful stories and even arranged to purchase the silence of a doorman.</p>
  518. <p>The testimony from David Pecker was designed to bolster the prosecution&#8217;s premise of a decades-long friendship between Trump and the former publisher of the National Enquirer that culminated in an agreement to give the candidate&#8217;s lawyer a heads-up on negative tips and stories so they could be quashed.</p>
  519. <p>The effort to suppress unflattering information was designed to illegally influence the election, prosecutors have alleged in striving to elevate the gravity of the first trial of a former American president and the first of four criminal cases against Trump to reach a jury.</p>
  520. <p>Pecker is the first witness against Trump, who faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with hush money payments meant to prevent harmful stories from surfacing in the final days of the 2016 campaign.</p>
  521. <p>With Trump sitting just feet away in the courtroom, Pecker detailed his intimate, behind-the-scenes involvement in Trump&#8217;s rise from political novice to the Republican nomination and the White House.</p>
  522. <p>Pecker traced the origins of their relationship to a 1980s meeting at Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and said the friendship bloomed alongside the success of the real estate developer&#8217;s TV show &#8220;The Apprentice.&#8221;</p>
  523. <p>Their ties were solidified during a pivotal August 2015 meeting at Trump Tower involving Trump, his lawyer and personal fixer Michael Cohen, and another aide, Hope Hicks, in which Pecker was asked what he and the publications he led could do for the campaign.</p>
  524. <p>Pecker said he volunteered to publish positive stories about Trump and negative stories about his opponents. But that wasn&#8217;t all, he said, telling jurors how he told Trump: &#8220;I will be your eyes and ears.&#8221;</p>
  525. <p>&#8220;I said that anything I hear in the marketplace, if I hear anything negative about yourself, or if I hear about women selling stories, I would notify Michael Cohen,&#8221; so that the rights could be purchased and the stories could be killed.</p>
  526. <p>&#8220;So they would not get published?&#8221; asked prosecutor Joshua Steinglass.</p>
  527. <p>&#8220;So they would not get published,&#8221; Pecker replied.</p>
  528. <p>Pecker&#8217;s testimony Tuesday followed a hearing earlier in the day in which prosecutors urged Judge Juan M. Merchan to hold Trump in contempt and fine him $1,000 for each of 10 social media posts that they say violated an earlier gag order barring attacks on witnesses, jurors and others involved in the case.</p>
  529. <p>Merchan did not immediately rule, but he seemed skeptical of defense arguments that Trump was merely responding in his posts to others&#8217; attacks and had been trying to comply with the order.</p>
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  539. <title>Karen Read case: Prosecutors challenge bringing DA to witness stand</title>
  540. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/karen-read-case-prosecutors-challenge-bringing-da-to-witness-stand/</link>
  542. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Flint McColgan]]></dc:creator>
  543. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
  544. <category><![CDATA[Crime & Public Safety]]></category>
  545. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  546. <category><![CDATA[Local News]]></category>
  547. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  548. <category><![CDATA[Karen Read]]></category>
  549. <category><![CDATA[Michael Morrissey]]></category>
  550. <category><![CDATA[Murder]]></category>
  551. <category><![CDATA[Norfolk County]]></category>
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  553.  
  554. <description><![CDATA[The prosecutors in the Karen Read case are challenging her defense's ability to bring their boss to the witness stand in the upcoming trial.]]></description>
  555. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The prosecutors in the Karen Read case are challenging her defense&#8217;s ability to bring their boss to the witness stand in the upcoming trial.</p>
  556. <p>Juror empanelment is set to resume tomorrow in Norfolk Superior Court and the trial could begin as soon as Thursday.</p>
  557. <p>Attorneys from both sides filed lists of possible witnesses before jury selection got started last week. The prosecution listed 87 potential witnesses. The defense listed 77 of their own potential witnesses, but with a great amount of overlap with the prosecution&#8217;s list. However, one name stood out: Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey.</p>
  558. <p>&#8220;When a defendant resorts to &#8216;the extraordinary means&#8217; of calling a prosecutor as a witness, he must make &#8216;a satisfactory offer of proof&#8217; as to the need for testimony from the prosecutor,&#8221; prosecutor Adam Lally wrote in the motion, specifying that the material the prosecutor is called to account should be &#8220;relevant&#8221; and &#8220;material,&#8221; and not simply the &#8220;cumulative&#8221; facts of the case.</p>
  559. <p>The parties apparently debated this issue during a private sidebar with Judge Beverly Cannone last Thursday. Lally said in the motion that defense attorneys indicated they would ask Morrissey to testify regarding any possible &#8220;conflict&#8221; with the Canton Police Department and the subsequent assignment of the investigation to the Massachusetts State Police unit in his office to the case.</p>
  560. <p>Read, 44, of Mansfield, was indicted in June of 2022 for second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter, and leaving the scene of a collision causing death in the Jan. 29, 2022, death of John O’Keefe, 46, a 16-year member of the Boston Police Department and Read’s boyfriend of two years.</p>
  561. <p>Prosecutors say she struck him with her Lexus SUV outside a Canton home after a night of heavy drinking and left him to die in the cold. The defense says someone else killed O&#8217;Keefe and police and prosecutors have engaged in a cover-up.</p>
  562. <figure  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DA.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DA.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="545px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DA.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DA.jpg?fit=210%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 210w" alt="Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey as seen in a video he posted in August 2023 slamming &quot;internet&quot; allegations in the Karen Read murder case. (DA screengrab)" width="1016" height="349" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DA.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="3251814" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DA.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DA.jpg?fit=210%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 210w" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey as seen in a video he posted in August 2023 slamming &#8220;internet&#8221; allegations in the Karen Read murder case. (DA screengrab)</figcaption></figure>
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  568. <dcterms:created>2024-04-23T19:55:31+00:00</dcterms:created>
  569. <dcterms:modified>2024-04-23T20:48:43+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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  572. <title>&#8216;Turtleboy&#8217; lawyer accuses prosecutor of purposefully delaying case</title>
  573. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/turtleboy-lawyer-accuses-prosecutor-of-purposefully-delaying-case/</link>
  575. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Flint McColgan]]></dc:creator>
  576. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
  577. <category><![CDATA[Crime & Public Safety]]></category>
  578. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  579. <category><![CDATA[Local News]]></category>
  580. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  581. <category><![CDATA[Karen Read]]></category>
  582. <category><![CDATA[Massachusetts State Police]]></category>
  583. <category><![CDATA[Norfolk County]]></category>
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  586. <description><![CDATA[The attorney for Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney is quite upset with the special prosecutor’s delays in his client’s witness intimidation case — saying that they amounted to “obfuscation.”]]></description>
  587. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The attorney for Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney is upset with the special prosecutor’s delays in his client’s witness intimidation case — saying that they amounted to “obfuscation.”</p>
  588. <p>Kearney, 42, of Holden was indicted on eight felony counts of witness intimidation and eight misdemeanor counts of picketing witnesses. Special prosecutor Kenneth Mello accuses him of not only taking an interest in the murder case of Mansfield’s Karen Read — Kearney strongly advocates for her innocence in his blog and YouTube posts — but went out of line and directly harassed state witnesses in the case and encouraged his followers to do the same.</p>
  589. <p>The case has been marked by a level of animosity between defense attorney Timothy Bradl and special prosecutor Kenneth Mello. Mello fired off a motion to have Bradl sanctioned in January and Bradl returned suit the next month. Mello’s motion was denied but Bradl’s will be argued at the next court date, set for May 23 at 2 p.m.</p>
  590. <p>Bradl said in a pre-trial hearing at Norfolk Superior Court that Mello is dragging out the process of sharing evidence in the case, which the defense needs to file a motion to dismiss the case. But Bradl went further, saying that the fact prosecutors in the Read murder trial received copies of the minutes of his own client’s grand jury testimony before he did points to something more nefarious.</p>
  591. <p>Bradl said he learned the minutes, which would demonstrate exactly what the prosecution is alleging against his client, were available only after he found them filed in the Read case.</p>
  592. <p>“So if that&#8217;s not a smoking gun that shows that counsel for the Commonwealth here is intentionally withholding documents from us, I don&#8217;t know what is,” Bradl said with visible and audible annoyance. He also accused Mello of being &#8220;hired&#8221; to delay Kearney&#8217;s case to keep his client away from the Read case.</p>
  593. <p>Mello did not attend the hearing in person, but appeared via internet telecommunications platform Zoom, and the audio in the courtroom was very faint. Mello is suffering from an unspecified illness for which he has previously been hospitalized and indicated Thursday he would be needing surgery in the near future.</p>
  594. <p>“I take some offense to the accusation that I am trying to delay,” Mello said. “I can say I haven’t provided a single page of anything with prosecutor (Adam) Lally on the Karen Read case.”</p>
  595. <p>Mello said he believed he had shared all the grand jury minutes with Bradl, to which Bradl shook his head.</p>
  596. <p>Judge Michael Cahillane, who usually sits in Bristol County, gave Mello until May 8 to provide required discovery.</p>
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  601. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4771448</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/TURTLEsc012.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="266208" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Aidan Kearney, also know as Turtleboy, is congratulated by his attorney Timothy Bradl as they react to not being incarcerated as he appears in Dedham District Court on March 14. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  606. <title>UN calls for investigation into mass graves uncovered at two Gaza hospitals raided by Israel</title>
  607. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/un-calls-for-investigation-into-mass-graves-uncovered-at-two-gaza-hospitals-raided-by-israel/</link>
  609. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  610. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
  611. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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  613. <category><![CDATA[Israel-Hamas war]]></category>
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  617. <description><![CDATA[The issue of who could or should conduct an investigation remains in question.]]></description>
  618. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>By EDITH M. LEDERER (Associated Press)</strong></p>
  619. <p>UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations called Tuesday for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation” of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were <a href="https://apnews.com/article/shifa-hamas-israel-gaza-military-war-hospitals-1842f3cc81744526c72bff727882e956">raided by Israeli troops</a>.</p>
  620. <p>Credible investigators must have access to the sites, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters, and added that more journalists need to be able to work safely in Gaza to report on the facts.</p>
  621. <p>Earlier Tuesday, U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk said he was “horrified” by the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/shifa-hamas-israel-gaza-military-war-hospitals-1842f3cc81744526c72bff727882e956">destruction of the Shifa medical center</a> in Gaza City and Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis as well as the <a href="https://apnews.com/video/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip-funerals-and-memorial-services-military-and-defense-d9beb2f74ee544b491ce0043f37152c6">reported discovery of mass graves</a> in and around the facilities after the Israelis left.</p>
  622. <p>He called for independent and transparent investigations into the deaths, saying that “given the prevailing climate of impunity, this should include international investigators.”</p>
  623. <p>“Hospitals are entitled to very special protection under international humanitarian law,” Türk said. “And the intentional killing of civilians, detainees and others who are ‘hors de combat’ (incapable of engaging in combat) is a war crime.”</p>
  624. <p>U.S. State Department spokesman Vedant Patel on Tuesday called the reports of mass graves at the hospitals “incredibly troubling” and said U.S. officials have asked the Israeli government for information.</p>
  625. <p>The Israeli military said its forces exhumed bodies that Palestinians had buried earlier as part of its search for the remains of hostages captured by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war. The military said bodies were examined in a respectful manner and those not belonging to Israeli hostages were returned to their place.</p>
  626. <p>The Israeli military says it killed or detained hundreds of terrorists who had taken shelter inside the two hospital complexes, claims that could not be independently verified. Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, and EU.</p>
  627. <p>The Palestinian civil defense in the Gaza Strip said Monday that it had uncovered 283 bodies from a temporary burial ground inside the main hospital in Khan Younis that was built when Israeli forces were besieging the facility last month. At the time, people were not able to bury the dead in a cemetery and dug graves in the hospital yard, the group said.</p>
  628. <p>The civil defense said some of the bodies were of people killed during the hospital siege. Others were killed when Israeli forces raided the hospital.</p>
  629. <p>Palestinian health officials say the hospital raids have destroyed Gaza’s health sector as it tries to cope with the mounting toll from over six months of war.</p>
  630. <p>The issue of who could or should conduct an investigation remains in question.</p>
  631. <p>For the United Nations to conduct an investigation, one of its major bodies would have to authorize it, Dujarric said.</p>
  632. <p>“I think it’s not for anyone to prejudge the results or who would do it,” he said. “I think it needs to be an investigation where there is access and there is credibility.”</p>
  633. <p>The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, said after visiting Israel and the West Bank in December that a probe by the court into possible crimes by Hamas fighters and Israeli forces “is a priority for my office.”</p>
  634. <p>The discovery of the graves “is another reason why we need a cease-fire, why we need to see an end to this conflict, why we need to see greater access for humanitarians, for humanitarian goods, greater protection for hospitals” and for the release of Israeli hostages, Dujarric said Monday.</p>
  635. <p>In the Hamas attack that launched the war, terrorists killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250 hostages. Israel says Hamas is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-hostage-families-ceasefire-ramadan-d1b0da2f7bd2e9882f79ebae874561be">still holding around 100 hostages</a> and the remains of more than 30 others.</p>
  636. <p>In response, Israel’s air and ground offensive in Gaza, aimed at eliminating Hamas, has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, around <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gaza-aqsa-martyrs-hospital-health-care-israel-7c7a6117efae29e22a61e82151144613">two-thirds of them children and women</a>. It has devastated Gaza’s two largest cities, created a humanitarian crisis and led around 80% of the territory’s population to flee to other parts of the besieged coastal enclave.</p>
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  641. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4771595</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Israel_Palestinians_UN_Hospital_Graves_47028.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="111689" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ FILE &#8211; U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 9, 2023. The United Nations is calling for &#8220;a clear, transparent and credible investigation&#8221; of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
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  647. <title>Neighbors vow to keep fighting Boston, pro soccer team&#8217;s plans for White Stadium redevelopment</title>
  648. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/neighbors-vow-to-keep-fighting-boston-pro-soccer-teams-plans-for-white-stadium-redevelopment/</link>
  650. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gayla Cawley]]></dc:creator>
  651. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
  652. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  653. <category><![CDATA[Local News]]></category>
  654. <category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
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  656. <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
  657. <category><![CDATA[Boston City Hall]]></category>
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  659. <category><![CDATA[Michelle Wu]]></category>
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  661.  
  662. <description><![CDATA[Neighbors and park advocates who unsuccessfully sought to stall the city and a professional women’s soccer team's plans to restore and use Franklin Park’s White Stadium vowed to keep fighting both parties in court. ]]></description>
  663. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Neighbors and park advocates who unsuccessfully sought to stall the city and a professional women’s soccer team&#8217;s plans to restore and use Franklin Park’s White Stadium vowed to keep fighting both parties in court.</p>
  664. <p>Representatives from the Emerald Necklace Conservancy and a group of residents who joined their <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/02/21/boston-pro-soccer-team-sued-over-white-stadium-redevelopment/">lawsuit against the city and Boston Unity Soccer Partners</a> gathered for a Tuesday press conference at White Stadium, where they maintained that plans for its reuse constitute an “unconstitutional privatization” of the land.</p>
  665. <p>Undeterred by a <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/03/22/boston-professional-womens-soccer-team-win-judges-approval-for-white-stadium-renovation/">Suffolk Superior Court judge’s decision last month</a> to throw out their push for an injunction intended to halt the project, the plaintiffs announced their plans to continue the lawsuit, and proceed to legal discovery, “to reveal the many details of this soccer stadium plan that have not been made public,” as described by Egleston Square resident Renee Welch.</p>
  666. <p>“We’re going to continue to challenge the city,” said plaintiff Louis Elisa, a former regional director for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and president of Roxbury’s Garrison Trotter Neighborhood Association.</p>
  667. <p>The plans, he said, would “take away the space and activities that are here for the community, that was created for people to have a respite to come away from the challenges of their urban community.”</p>
  668. <p>While the group was “disappointed” by the judge’s ruling, Welch said, it “did not affect the underlying lawsuit.”</p>
  669. <p>“In the weeks since the judgment, the city has moved forward aggressively, holding several public meetings on the project, where concerns of residents have continued to go unaddressed,” Welch said. “Instead, city officials have addressed residents’ concerns as frivolous.”</p>
  670. <p>On the evening of the judge&#8217;s ruling, Mayor Michelle Wu said she was “thrilled to see the court’s clear ruling that this frivolous lawsuit from the Emerald Necklace Conservancy must not block our ongoing community engagement to deliver a generational investment in White Stadium and Franklin Park.”</p>
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  732. <p>While the mayor has stated that the planned renovations, which per the lawsuit constitute a $30 million investment from Boston Unity and $50 million from the city, will benefit both the new soccer team and the community, the plaintiffs aren’t buying it and remain convinced that Boston Public Schools student-athletes will be displaced to accommodate the professional games and practices.</p>
  733. <p>The plaintiffs also reiterated their skepticism that most pro soccer game attendees will opt for public transportation, pointing to White Stadium’s small parking lot, saying that the planned redevelopment will instead lead to traffic congestion and public safety issues stemming from spillover parking on neighborhood streets.</p>
  734. <p>Their main point of contention, however, revolves around the purported privatization of White Stadium, a claim the mayor has disputed in the past as “either a misunderstanding or a misrepresentation.”</p>
  735. <p>The project, according to the lawsuit, would “illegally transfer the public trust lands” held by the beneficiaries of the White Fund Trust “to private parties, ensuring extensive, exclusive use” of those lands by a private party for the operation of a professional sports team.</p>
  736. <p>“This idea that they want to put a private soccer league in White Stadium after 35 years of neglect worries me because if that soil is still sitting there and they’ve not cleaned the park and done the basic maintenance, how do we believe now that they’re going to find $50 million?” Elisa said.</p>
  737. <p>Boston Unity Soccer Partners, an all-female ownership group, was the only respondent to the city’s request for proposals for White Stadium and won an expansion bid in September to become the National Women’s Soccer League’s 15th team.</p>
  738. <p>It plans to start playing in the renovated stadium in the spring of 2026. The group, which includes Boston Globe CEO Linda Pizzuti Henry as one of its investors, has said that construction, which includes adding 1,000 seats to the 10,000 seat stadium, would generate 500 jobs and that 300 jobs will be created permanently.</p>
  739. <p>“Many of us here love soccer,” Karen Mauney-Brodek, president of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, a nonprofit park advocacy group, said. “We think Boston would be well-served to have a soccer team here, but not in this park that is so essential to the health and well-being and the needs of the Boston Public School students.”</p>
  740. <p>In a Tuesday statement, Boston Unity Soccer Partners said the judge’s ruling last month indicated “that there is no legal basis to challenge this public-private-community partnership to revitalize White Stadium.”</p>
  741. <p>The group further described the “sentiments” of Emerald Necklace Conservancy as being inconsistent with the community feedback it has solicited since starting the stadium redevelopment process a year and a half ago.</p>
  742. <p>“We continue to invite the community at large to offer constructive feedback on the proposed plans and to participate in the many upcoming public meetings,” the Boston Unity statement said. “We are proud to be part of a project that honors the legacy of White Stadium so it will continue to serve as a cornerstone of our community for generations to come.”</p>
  743. <p>The mayor’s office did not respond to a request for comment.</p>
  744. <figure id="attachment_4771014"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="440px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="White Stadium (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)" width="3600" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4771014" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rknl009.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">White Stadium (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)</figcaption></figure>
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  754. <title>Latest T zoning rejection won’t draw lawsuit, yet, AG says</title>
  755. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/latest-t-zoning-rejection-wont-draw-lawsuit-yet-ag-says/</link>
  757. <dc:creator><![CDATA[State House News Service]]></dc:creator>
  758. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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  763. <category><![CDATA[Andrea Campbell]]></category>
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  770. <description><![CDATA[Town Meeting shot down an 84-acre zoning change by a 169-289 vote, according to The Patriot Ledger, which reported that Marshfield's town counsel told residents he expected to be "sued immediately" for failure to comply with the MBTA Communities Act.]]></description>
  771. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marshfield appears unlikely to draw a state lawsuit right away after its Town Meeting on Monday reportedly rejected a plan that would have complied with new zoning requirements for communities near MBTA service.</p>
  772. <p>Town Meeting shot down an 84-acre zoning change by a 169-289 vote, according to The Patriot Ledger, which reported that Marshfield&#8217;s town counsel told residents he expected to be &#8220;sued immediately&#8221; for failure to comply with the MBTA Communities Act.</p>
  773. <p>Attorney General Andrea Campbell, whose office is already suing Milton over its refusal to embrace zoning changes required by that law, said Tuesday that Marshfield still has seven-plus months to change course, potentially at another Town Meeting later in the year.</p>
  774. <p>&#8220;Marshfield, like other municipalities categorized as &#8216;commuter rail&#8217; and &#8216;adjacent&#8217; towns under the MBTA Communities Law, has until the end of 2024 to come into compliance with the law,&#8221; Campbell said in a statement. &#8220;I applaud Marshfield&#8217;s officials for taking proactive steps toward compliance well before their deadline and encourage the town to consider another MBTA Communities zoning article at another town meeting prior to the end of the year. My office stands ready to assist Marshfield and other towns in achieving compliance by their required deadline.&#8221;</p>
  775. <p>Milton is defined as a &#8220;rapid transit&#8221; community under the MBTA Communities Act due to its proximity to the Mattapan Trolley, and rapid transit communities faced a deadline of Dec. 31, 2023 to submit a zoning ordinance or bylaw that complies with the new requirements, according to guidance from the attorney general&#8217;s office.</p>
  776. <p>Most other communities affected by the law because of commuter rail, bus or ferry service &#8212; including Marshfield &#8212; have until Dec. 31, 2024 to come into compliance.</p>
  777. <p>Shortly after Milton voters rejected a rezoning plan that would have complied with the law, the Healey administration revoked its eligibility for a $140,800 seawall grant and Campbell sued the town. That lawsuit is expected to go before the Supreme Judicial Court later this year.</p>
  778. <p>Officials and supporters of the mandatory zoning changes argue they are necessary to generate more housing production and drive down sky-high prices straining families across the state.</p>
  779. <p>Nearly three dozen other communities have approved zoning changes aimed at complying with the MBTA Communities Act, including several of Marshfield&#8217;s neighbors.</p>
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  789. <title>Massachusetts cities, towns consider following Brookline&#8217;s tobacco sales ban</title>
  790. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/massachusetts-cities-towns-consider-following-brooklines-tobacco-sales-ban/</link>
  792. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lance Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
  793. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
  794. <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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  807. <category><![CDATA[Supreme Judicial Court]]></category>
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  813. <description><![CDATA[Brookline’s ban on tobacco sales to anyone born this century is inspiring other cities and towns across Greater Boston to follow suit, while critics worry about "unintended consequences.]]></description>
  814. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brookline’s ban on tobacco sales to anyone born this century is inspiring other cities and towns across Greater Boston to follow suit, while critics worry about &#8220;unintended consequences.&#8221;</p>
  815. <p>Residents in <a href="https://www.cityofmalden.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04242024-3277">Malden</a> will get to weigh in Wednesday on an ordinance that would restrict the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2003. The same proposal will be up for debate in <a href="https://www.winchester.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1697">Winchester</a> on Thursday.</p>
  816. <p>Local health boards in Wakefield, Stoneham and Melrose approved the ordinance being heard in Malden and Winchester shortly after the <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/03/09/massachusetts-highest-court-allows-brookline-ban-on-tobacco-sales-for-adults-born-this-century/">state Supreme Judicial Court upheld Brookline’s ban in early March</a>.</p>
  817. <p>Wakefield and Stoneham passed the so-called “Nicotine-Free Generation law” a day apart in late March, with the restrictions set to go into place next January – the same time it will go into effect in Melrose.</p>
  818. <p>Brookline residents approved a bylaw in 2020 that places tobacco consumers into two groups: people born before 2000 are allowed to buy smokes while those born after are not.</p>
  819. <p>Convenience store owners and retailers say tobacco bans could hurt their businesses while advocates and local officials counter that the restrictions put public health at the forefront.</p>
  820. <p>“Three towns might not seem like much, but history raises our optimism,” <a href="https://ash.org/renewed-momentum-on-tobacco-endgame/">Action on Smoking &amp; Health</a> wrote after the approval in Wakefield and Stoneham. The national lobbying group, focused on ending the “global tobacco epidemic,” compared the generational law to the state’s ban on smoking indoors.</p>
  821. <p>“We hope, and expect a similar landslide now,” the group wrote. “Several other towns have already held or scheduled hearings on NFG. Expect the third domino in days or weeks, not months.”</p>
  822. <p>MassInsider, an online news blog, has slammed tobacco sale bans for “infringing on the individual liberties of adults and creating two sets of adults going forward.”</p>
  823. <p>That concern sparked several Brookline convenience store owners to take their argument to the SJC that the town’s ban undermined the state Constitution by dividing adults into two age groups and preempted by the Tobacco Act.</p>
  824. <p>But Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt found the ban to be consistent with a state law prohibiting tobacco sales to people under the age 21, “rationally related to a legitimate government interest” and in line with the Massachusetts Constitution’s equal protection provisions.</p>
  825. <p>State lawmakers voted in 2018 to block the sale of tobacco products to people younger than 21 years old, raising the minimum age requirement from 18.</p>
  826. <p>The Tobacco Act preempts any “inconsistent, contrary or conflicting” local law related to the minimum age provision but allows cities and towns to limit and to ban the sale of tobacco products within their municipalities, Wendlandt highlighted in her ruling.</p>
  827. <p>Newton City Councilor David Mincley, during a meeting earlier this month, said he feels “conflicted” about approving an ordinance there due to the “unintended consequences.”</p>
  828. <p>“We’ve received many letters from convenience stores and networks of convenience stores that are worried about what it would do to their business model,” Mincley said, “and whether it makes it attractive to open up businesses in Newton which is an issue.”</p>
  829. <p>“Right now, our tax base is primarily residential,” he added. “We need a more commercial tax base. This just makes it that much harder.”</p>
  830. ]]></content:encoded>
  834. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4771454</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Smoking_Age_Limit_79900-1.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="241781" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ FILE &#8211; This Aug. 28, 2017 file photo shows cigarettes displayed on a store shelf in New York. With a new law enacted in December 2019, anyone under 21 can no longer legally buy cigarettes, cigars or any other tobacco products in the U.S. It also applies to electronic cigarettes and vaping products that heat a liquid containing nicotine. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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  840. <title>TMC mulls how to improve divisional alignments</title>
  841. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/tmc-mulls-how-to-improve-divisional-alignments/</link>
  843. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Danny Ventura]]></dc:creator>
  844. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
  845. <category><![CDATA[High School Sports]]></category>
  846. <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
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  848.  
  849. <description><![CDATA[The Competitive Equity Modifier used by the MIAA to help establish divisional alignments isn&#8217;t exactly everyone&#8217;s cup of tea. That was certainly evident at Tuesday morning&#8217;s MIAA Tournament Management Committee meeting. TMC chairman Shaun Hart spoke of the possibility of changing the way the CEM number would be attained. He mentioned using statistics from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
  850. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Competitive Equity Modifier used by the MIAA to help establish divisional alignments isn&#8217;t exactly everyone&#8217;s cup of tea.</p>
  851. <p>That was certainly evident at Tuesday morning&#8217;s MIAA Tournament Management Committee meeting.</p>
  852. <p>TMC chairman Shaun Hart spoke of the possibility of changing the way the CEM number would be attained. He mentioned using statistics from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) as a starting point rather than participation numbers as a base.</p>
  853. <p>“Those numbers are not subjective,” Hart explained. “Those are actual numbers that have to be reported to them.”</p>
  854. <p>Not everyone on the committee was receptive to the CEM component playing a large role in alignments. Wellesley athletic director John Brown says there are teams in his league who have little chance of competing due to this, something New Bedford AD Tom Tarpey doubled down on.</p>
  855. <p>“Schools like us have little chance of being moved down,” said Tarpey, whose school enrollment according to CEM numbers put them among the top 15 in the state. “I know in our league Brockton is going through the same problems that we are.”</p>
  856. <p>Hart understood their situation but was quick to add that those schools have the option to appeal down. He went on to say that schools who have successfully appealed their placement in recent years would likely be allowed to stay where they were rather than go through an appeals process.</p>
  857. <p>In other news, the TMC unanimously approved fall formats for soccer, golf, football, cross-country and field hockey. Swimming and volleyball were meeting in the upcoming weeks to finalize their formats for TMC approval.</p>
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  867. <title>George Santos ends comeback bid for Congress after raising no money</title>
  868. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/george-santos-ends-comeback-bid-for-congress-after-raising-no-money/</link>
  870. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  871. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
  872. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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  874.  
  875. <description><![CDATA[Former U.S. Rep. George Santos says he's dropping his longshot bid to return to Congress, months after he was expelled from the House while facing a slew of federal fraud charges. Santos said he was withdrawing from the race in a post Tuesday on the social media platform X. He had been running as an independent candidate for the 1st Congressional District in New York. The announcement came after the disgraced former congressman&#8217;s campaign committee reported no fundraising or expenditures in March, raising speculation that his campaign had failed to get off the ground.]]></description>
  876. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE (Associated Press)</p>
  877. <p>Former U.S. Rep. <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/george-santos">George Santos</a> on Tuesday said he is dropping his longshot bid to return to Congress, months after he was expelled from the House while facing a slew of federal fraud charges.</p>
  878. <p>Santos, who was running as an independent candidate for the 1st Congressional District in New York, said he was withdrawing from the race in a post on the social media platform X. </p>
  879. <p>The announcement came after the disgraced former congressman&#8217;s campaign committee reported <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H4NY01212/">no fundraising or expenditures</a> in March, raising speculation that his campaign had failed to get off the ground. </p>
  880. <p>Santos last month <a href="https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-running-again-ebf8c0c87d939ed6def387ab1b56f884">launched a campaign</a> to challenge Republican Rep. Nick LaLota in the GOP primary for the eastern Long Island congressional district, which is a different district than the one he previously represented. Weeks later, Santos said he was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-running-again-independent-b524c5a296624a0e05196f14c8050686">leaving the Republican Party</a> and would instead run for the seat as an independent. </p>
  881. <p>&#8220;Although Nick and I don&#8217;t have the same voting record and I remain critical of his abysmal record, I don&#8217;t want to split the ticket and be responsible for handing the house to Dems,&#8221; Santos wrote on X, adding, &#8220;Staying in this race all but guarantees a victory for the Dems in the race.&#8221;</p>
  882. <p>Santos was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-expulsion-vote-ethics-investigation-fd0f1524065883c6b2fe3e6f9afd84db">expelled from the House</a> in December following a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ethics-congress-santos-5ebffe514d8779fbc16a77fa1ab5e0df">damaging ethics committee report</a> that determined there was &#8220;overwhelming evidence&#8221; of lawbreaking and that he &#8220;cannot be trusted.&#8221; He was just the sixth member expelled by colleagues in the chamber&#8217;s history.</p>
  883. <p>The former congressman has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that include deceiving Congress about his wealth, stealing from his campaign and obtaining unemployment benefits he didn&#8217;t deserve. He has a trial tentatively scheduled for later this year. </p>
  884. <p>In his post on X, Santos did not rule out seeking office in the future. </p>
  885. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s only goodbye for now,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be back.&#8221;</p>
  886. ]]></content:encoded>
  890. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4771705</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Election_2024_House_New_York_Santos_37891.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="92733" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ FILE &#8211; Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., departs Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 11, 2023. On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the former U.S. representative said he&#8217;s dropping his longshot bid to return to Congress, months after he was expelled from the House while facing a slew of federal fraud charges. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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  896. <title>Sharks &#8216;adapting their movements and routines,&#8217; great white researchers discover</title>
  897. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/sharks-adapting-their-movements-and-routines-great-white-researchers-discover/</link>
  899. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Sobey]]></dc:creator>
  900. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
  901. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
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  915. <description><![CDATA[Great white sharks adapt their movements and routines based on the specific habitat they're hunting in, according to new research.]]></description>
  916. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do great white sharks change their behaviors in different environments, or do the apex predators follow the same routines regardless of location?</p>
  917. <p>Researchers recently set out to solve this shark puzzle, as they reportedly discovered <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/04/cape-cod-shark-researchers-id-nearly-100-new-great-whites-one-of-the-largest-photo-id-databases-of-individual-white-sharks-worldwide/">great white</a> behaviors by attaching smart tags and cameras to their fins.</p>
  918. <p><a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4825">Great whites adapt their movements and routines</a> based on the specific habitat they&#8217;re hunting in, according to the shark scientists.</p>
  919. <p>&#8220;&#8230; The sharks are adapting their movements and routines to suit their local environment, rather than behaving the same way everywhere they&#8217;re found,&#8221; said shark researcher Oliver Jewell.</p>
  920. <p>In the study, 21 white sharks from small juveniles to large adults were fitted with motion-sensitive biologging tags along the California coast in different environments &#8212; offshore islands, coastal headlands, and an inshore cove.</p>
  921. <p>The tags were attached for up to six days at a time and measured swimming depths and body movements, before they detached and floated to the surface.</p>
  922. <p>The California coast provided a unique space to conduct the work, not only because researchers had been studying this specific population for decades, but the area is home to both juvenile and adult white sharks.</p>
  923. <p>&#8220;White sharks visit the same areas of central California year after year, with some seen in the same spot for 30 years or more,&#8221; said Jewell, a researcher at the University of Western Australia.</p>
  924. <p>&#8220;We were looking to see what shapes their movements and routines while they are there,&#8221; Jewell added.</p>
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  986. <p>During the day, sharks at all sites were generally more active &#8212; swimming up and down the water column, suggesting they were actively searching for prey.</p>
  987. <p>However, sharks showed more active behavior at both dawn and dusk in places where they were thought to feed on fish rather than marine mammals.</p>
  988. <p>&#8220;We found the greatest differences in movements were from sharks from different areas, while the size of the shark and time of day were also important,&#8221; Jewell said.</p>
  989. <p>It&#8217;s important to review the location of a shark when considering why it might be behaving a certain way, the scientist added.</p>
  990. <p>&#8220;Hopefully, we can apply the research in a number of ways going forward &#8212; we&#8217;ve already been tagging more sharks in more areas, and will follow this up with further studies,&#8221; Jewell said.</p>
  991. <p><a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/11/05/cape-cod-surfers-have-close-call-with-10-foot-great-white-shark-the-shark-circled-behind-me-very-aggressive-and-agitated/">Great white sharks will be returning to Cape Cod&#8217;s waters</a> over the next few months, where they feed on seals throughout the summer and fall. Many sharks also head farther north to Maine and Canada.</p>
  992. <p>This recent research was a part of Monterey Bay Aquarium&#8217;s &#8220;Project White Shark&#8221; and led by Jewell, a former Murdoch University PhD candidate, with Harry Butler Institute and the School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences &#8212; in collaboration with Oregon State University, Stanford University and California State University Monterey Bay.</p>
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  1003. <title>Tennessee lawmakers pass bill to allow armed teachers, a year after deadly Nashville shooting</title>
  1004. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/tennessee-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-allow-armed-teachers-a-year-after-deadly-nashville-shooting/</link>
  1006. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  1007. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
  1008. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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  1010.  
  1011. <description><![CDATA[By JONATHAN MATTISE (Associated Press) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) &#8212; Protesters chanted &#8220;Blood on your hands&#8221; at Tennessee House Republicans on Tuesday after they passed a bill that would allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds, and bar parents and other teachers from knowing who was armed. The 68-28 vote [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1012. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By JONATHAN MATTISE (Associated Press)</p>
  1013. <p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) &#8212; Protesters chanted &#8220;Blood on your hands&#8221; at Tennessee House Republicans on Tuesday after they passed a bill that would allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds, and bar parents and other teachers from knowing who was armed.</p>
  1014. <p>The 68-28 vote in favor of the bill sent it to Republican Gov. Bill Lee for consideration. If he signs it into law, it would be the biggest expansion of gun access in the state since last year&#8217;s <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-school-03aa394109a5e682877403c0c3e52aa7">deadly shooting at a private elementary school</a> in Nashville.</p>
  1015. <p>Members of the public who oppose the bill harangued Republican lawmakers after the vote, leading House Speaker Cameron Sexton to order the galleries cleared.</p>
  1016. <p>Four House Republicans and all Democrats opposed the bill, which the state Senate previously passed. The measure would bar disclosing which employees are carrying guns beyond school administrators and police, including to students&#8217; parents and even other teachers. A principal, school district and law enforcement agency would have to agree to let staff carry guns.</p>
  1017. <p>The proposal presents a starkly different response to The Covenant School shooting than Lee proposed last year. Republican legislators quickly cast aside his push to keep guns away from people deemed a danger to themselves or others.</p>
  1018. <p>A veto by Lee appears unlikely, since it would be a first for him and lawmakers would only need a simple majority of each chamber&#8217;s members to override it.</p>
  1019. <p>&#8220;What you&#8217;re doing is you&#8217;re creating a deterrent,&#8221; the bill&#8217;s sponsor, Republican state Rep. Ryan Williams, said before the vote. &#8220;Across our state, we have had challenges as it relates to shootings.&#8221;</p>
  1020. <p>Republicans rejected a series of Democratic amendments, including parental consent requirements, notification when someone is armed, and the school district assuming civil liability for any injury, damage or death due to staff carrying guns. </p>
  1021. <p>&#8220;My Republican colleagues continue to hold our state hostage, hold our state at gunpoint to appeal to their donors in the gun industry,&#8221; Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones said. &#8220;It is morally insane.&#8221;</p>
  1022. <p>In the chaos after the vote, Democratic and Republican lawmakers accused each other of violating House rules, but only voted to reprimand Jones for recording on his phone. He was barred from speaking on the floor through Wednesday.</p>
  1023. <p>It&#8217;s unclear if any school districts would take advantage if the bill becomes law. For example, a Metro Nashville Public Schools spokesperson, Sean Braisted, said the district believes &#8220;it is best and safest for only approved active-duty law enforcement to carry weapons on campus.&#8221;</p>
  1024. <p>About half of the U.S. states in some form allow teachers or other employees with concealed carry permits to carry guns on school property, according to the Giffords Law Center, a gun control advocacy group. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/guns-schools-mass-shootings-states-b7104227457bc85536b6d5a6c6eb650e">Iowa&#8217;s governor signed a bill</a> that the Legislature passed last week creating a professional permit for trained school employees to carry at schools that protects them from criminal or civil liability for use of reasonable force.</p>
  1025. <p>In Tennessee, a shooter indiscriminately <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-school-03aa394109a5e682877403c0c3e52aa7">opened fire</a> in March 2023 at The Covenant School &#8212; a Christian school in Nashville &#8212; and killed three children and three adults before being killed by police.</p>
  1026. <p>Despite subsequent coordinated campaigns urging significant gun control measures, lawmakers have largely refused. They dismissed gun control proposals by Democrats and even <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-red-flag-republicans-guns-0cd94d15f372746ed53e85408d27af44">by Lee</a> during regular annual sessions and a special session, even as parents of Covenant students shared accounts of the shooting and its lasting effects.</p>
  1027. <p>Under the bill passed Tuesday, a worker who wants to carry a handgun would need to have a handgun carry permit and written authorization from the school&#8217;s principal and local law enforcement. They would also need to clear a background check and undergo 40 hours of handgun training. They couldn&#8217;t carry guns at school events at stadiums, gymnasiums or auditoriums.</p>
  1028. <p>Tennessee passed a 2016 law allowing armed school workers in two rural counties, but it wasn&#8217;t implemented, <a href="https://wpln.org/post/school-districts-across-tennessee-could-decide-whether-employees-can-carry-guns-under-new-bill/">according to WPLN-FM</a>.</p>
  1029. <p>Tennessee Republicans have regularly loosened gun laws, including a 2021 <a href="https://apnews.com/article/covid-19-pandemic-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-tennessee-gun-politics-133f593ffb8ca29005870aa049f35655">permit-less carry</a> law for handguns backed by Lee.</p>
  1030. <p>The original law allowed residents 21 and older to carry handguns in public without a permit. Two years later, Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti struck a deal amid an ongoing lawsuit to extend eligibility to 18- to 20-year-olds.</p>
  1031. <p>Meanwhile, shortly after the shooting last year, Tennessee Republicans passed <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-gun-lawsuits-shooting-3534e0242e1a2b582b6accddb292d8a6">a law bolstering protections against lawsuits</a> involving gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers. Lawmakers and the governor this year have signed off on allowing private schools with pre-kindergarten classes to have guns on campus. Private schools without pre-K already were allowed to decide whether to let people bring guns on their grounds.</p>
  1032. <p>They have advanced some narrow gun limitations. One awaiting the governor&#8217;s signature would <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-involuntary-commitment-bill-approved-republicans-e84081060736ae502dbcc3e085c8381f">involuntarily commit certain criminal defendants</a> for inpatient treatment and temporarily remove their gun rights if they are ruled incompetent for trial due to intellectual disability or mental illness. Another bill that still needs Senate approval would remove the gun rights of juveniles deemed delinquent due to certain offenses, ranging from aggravated assault to threats of mass violence, until the age of 25.</p>
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  1037. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4771477</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Arming_Teachers_Tennessee_91001.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="170978" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Rep. Ryan Williams, R-Cookeville, right, watches his bill to allow some teachers to be armed in schools pass the House as others react during a legislative session Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
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  1043. <title>North Carolina man sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police with pole at Capitol</title>
  1044. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/north-carolina-man-sentenced-to-six-years-in-prison-for-attacking-police-with-pole-at-capitol/</link>
  1046. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  1047. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
  1048. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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  1050.  
  1051. <description><![CDATA[By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; A man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison. David Joseph Gietzen, 31, of Sanford, North Carolina, struck a police officer with a pole during a [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1052. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (Associated Press)</p>
  1053. <p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; A man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege">U.S. Capitol riot</a> was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison.</p>
  1054. <p><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.241932/gov.uscourts.dcd.241932.1.1.pdf">David Joseph Gietzen</a>, 31, of Sanford, North Carolina, struck a police officer with a pole during a mob&#8217;s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.</p>
  1055. <p>Gietzen told U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols that he didn&#8217;t intend to hurt anybody that day. But he didn&#8217;t express any regret or remorse for his actions on Jan. 6, when he joined a mob of Donald Trump supporters in interrupting the joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 electoral victory.</p>
  1056. <p>&#8220;I have to make it explicitly known that I believe I did the right thing,&#8221; he said before learning his sentence.</p>
  1057. <p>The judge said Gietzen made it clear during his trial testimony &#8212; and his sentencing hearing &#8212; that he clings to his baseless beliefs that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump.</p>
  1058. <p>&#8220;Mr. Gietzen essentially was unapologetic today about his conduct,&#8221; Nichols said.</p>
  1059. <p>Last August, a jury convicted Gietzen of eight counts, including assault and civil disorder charges. After his trial conviction, Gietzen disregarded a court order to report to prison on Oct. 20, 2023, while awaiting sentencing. He missed several hearings for his case before he was arrested at his mother&#8217;s home in North Carolina on Dec. 12, 2023.</p>
  1060. <p>&#8220;This pattern of flouting rules and laws and doing what he wants, regardless of the consequences, is how Gietzen operates,&#8221; prosecutors wrote in <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.241933/gov.uscourts.dcd.241933.78.0.pdf">a court filing</a>.</p>
  1061. <p>Defense attorney Ira Knight said Gietzen apparently remained at his house, &#8220;just waiting to be picked up,&#8221; and wasn&#8217;t on the run from authorities or trying to hide after his conviction.</p>
  1062. <p>Prosecutors recommended a prison term of 10 years and one month for Gietzen, who worked as a computer programming engineer after graduating from North Carolina State University in 2017 with bachelor&#8217;s degrees in computer engineering and electrical engineering.</p>
  1063. <p>&#8220;Clearly, Gietzen is bright and able to get something done when he puts his mind to it &#8211; be it a college degree or assaulting officers as part of in a violent mob,&#8221; prosecutors wrote.</p>
  1064. <p>Gietzen&#8217;s attorneys requested a four-year prison sentence.</p>
  1065. <p>&#8220;David&#8217;s current philosophy is that he no longer wishes to be engaged with the political process,&#8221; <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.241933/gov.uscourts.dcd.241933.77.0.pdf">defense attorneys wrote</a>. &#8220;His involvement with politics has concluded and should be an indication to the Court that he is no longer interested in being a threat to the public or political process.&#8221;</p>
  1066. <p>Gietzen traveled to Washington, D.C., with his brother from their home in North Carolina. He attended then-President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Stop the Steal&#8221; rally near the White House on Jan. 6 before marching to the Capitol.</p>
  1067. <p>As the mob of Trump supporters overwhelmed a police line on the Capitol&#8217;s West Plaza, Gietzen shoved a police officer, grabbed another officer&#8217;s gas mask and struck an officer with a pole.</p>
  1068. <p>&#8220;And all of Gietzen&#8217;s violence was based on a lack of respect for law enforcement and the democratic process &#8212; its goal was to get himself and other rioters closer to the building so they could interfere with the certification of the election,&#8221; prosecutors wrote.</p>
  1069. <p>Gietzen later bragged about participating in the riot in messages to friends and relatives, saying he had &#8220;never been prouder to be an American.&#8221;</p>
  1070. <p><a href="https://interactives.ap.org/jan-6-prosecutions/">More than 1,350 people</a> have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. Over 800 of them have been sentenced, with roughly two-thirds getting terms of imprisonment ranging from a few days to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-da60222b3e1e54902db2bbbb219dc3fb">22 years</a>.</p>
  1071. ]]></content:encoded>
  1075. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4771469</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Capitol_Riot_Sentencing_35595.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="192037" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ This image from U.S. Capitol Police video, contained and annotated in the Justice Department&#8217;s statement of facts in support arrest warrant for David Joseph Gietzen, shows Gietzen, circled in yellow, pushing at a officer&#8217;s shield at a police line on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. The North Carolina man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot has been sentenced to six years in prison. (Department of Justice via AP)
  1076. ]]></media:description></media:content>
  1077. <dcterms:created>2024-04-23T17:20:32+00:00</dcterms:created>
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  1081. <title>Triston Casas diagnosed with rib fracture, will be out &#8216;a while&#8217;</title>
  1082. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/triston-casas-diagnosed-with-rib-fracture-will-be-out-a-while/</link>
  1084. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mac Cerullo]]></dc:creator>
  1085. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
  1086. <category><![CDATA[Boston Red Sox]]></category>
  1087. <category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>
  1088. <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
  1089. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4771414</guid>
  1090.  
  1091. <description><![CDATA[Red Sox manager Alex Cora provided an update on first baseman Triston Casas' injury on Tuesday, and the news wasn't good.]]></description>
  1092. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Red Sox manager Alex Cora provided a discouraging update on Triston Casas&#8217; injury, telling reporters in Cleveland that the first baseman has a fractured rib and will miss an extended period of time.</p>
  1093. <p>“He has a fracture so he’ll be out for a while,&#8221; Cora said, as transcribed by MLB.com&#8217;s Ian Browne. &#8220;Obviously we had a pretty good idea a few days ago but after all the tests in Boston, that’s what came out. We just have to be patient now. Timetable? There’s none. This has to heal on its own. We’ve just got to be patient.”</p>
  1094. <p>Casas was placed on the injured list with what was originally described as a &#8220;left rib strain&#8221; on Sunday after leaving Saturday&#8217;s game after one at bat. Following the game Cora expressed immediate concern, and now it appears the Red Sox could be without their up-and-coming first baseman for a long time.</p>
  1095. <p>Even amid this season&#8217;s early run of injuries, losing Casas is a particularly devastating blow. Through the first three weeks of the season the 24-year-old had already hit six home runs and posted a .857 OPS. Cora said Bobby Dalbec will get the majority of the playing time at first base going forward, despite the fact Dalbec is currently 1 for 30 (.033) on the season through his first 14 games.</p>
  1096. <p>If the Red Sox decide to seek outside alternatives, a number of players could become available in next week following the upcoming May 1 opt out window. Another possibility is veteran first baseman Garrett Cooper, who the Chicago Cubs designed for assignment on Tuesday. The 33-year-old is currently batting .270 through 12 games and was an All-Star in 2022 with the Miami Marlins.</p>
  1097. <h4>Jacques claimed</h4>
  1098. <p>Left-hander Joe Jacques, who the Red Sox designated for assignment on Friday, has been claimed off waivers by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Jacques appeared in one game for the Red Sox this season, allowing one run in 1.2 innings of work, and overall he has a 5.08 ERA in 28.1 career innings in the big leagues.</p>
  1099. ]]></content:encoded>
  1103. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4771414</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AP23164026739380.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="156127" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Boston Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas adjusts his hair after grounding out to end the bottom of the fourth inning during a June 12, 2023 game against the Colorado Rockies at Fenway Park. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  1108. <title>Biden takes slight polling lead over Trump as independents consider Kennedy</title>
  1109. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/biden-takes-slight-polling-lead-over-trump-as-independents-consider-kennedy/</link>
  1111. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Medsger]]></dc:creator>
  1112. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
  1113. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  1114. <category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
  1115. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  1116. <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
  1117. <category><![CDATA[2024 Election]]></category>
  1118. <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
  1119. <category><![CDATA[Jill Stein]]></category>
  1120. <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
  1121. <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
  1122. <category><![CDATA[poll]]></category>
  1123. <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category>
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  1126. <description><![CDATA[According to a Morning Consult poll of nearly 10,000 registered voters released Tuesday and taken in the days after the first-ever trial of a former U.S. president began, President Joe Biden has slipped ahead of his Republican rival by a single point.]]></description>
  1127. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While former President Donald Trump spends his days in a New York courtroom defending himself from 34 felony level charges, polls show his support among independents waning and his once-clear lead in the 2024 election all but dried up.</p>
  1128. <p>According to a <a href="https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/2024-presidential-election-polling#tracking-2024-presidential-vote-choice-over-time">Morning Consult poll</a> of nearly 10,000 registered voters released Tuesday and taken in the days after the first trial of a former U.S. president began, President Joe Biden has slipped ahead of his Republican rival by a single point and is leading 44% to 43%, a 3-point swing from just one week ago.</p>
  1129. <p>“While Biden led Trump for most of 2023, Trump began making up ground last summer as the Republican presidential primary heated up. The presumptive GOP nominee consistently led Biden during the first two months of 2024, but the race has narrowed since then to a practical dead heat,” pollsters wrote.</p>
  1130. <p>Those results are in keeping with a <a href="https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/election-2024-april/">Marist poll</a> released Monday, which showed the elder politician up by three points among registered voters and a full six points among those who said they will definitely vote this November.</p>
  1131. <p>&#8220;Despite some weak spots for Joe Biden among non-whites and younger voters, he continues to outperform his 2020 numbers among white voters,&#8221; Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, said with the poll’s release.</p>
  1132. <p>Both polls show that adding independent candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West and Green Party candidate Jill Stein to the mix only further complicates matters for Trump’s second try at a second term.</p>
  1133. <p>According to the Morning Consult Survey, “nearly 1 in 10 voters have consistently said they would back a third-party candidate if the election were today, a high number that reflects Americans’ dissatisfaction with their probable choices in November.”</p>
  1134. <p>Of those independent minded voters, many who might have voted for Trump are leaning toward Kennedy, who originally started his long-shot White House bid as a Democratic candidate. Marist pollsters say that “Trump’s support among independents is also down (30% from 38%) in a multi-candidate field. While Biden’s support is little changed (34% from 33%), Kennedy’s support among independents has inched up to 27% from 21%, previously.”</p>
  1135. <p>&#8220;Although it bears watching in the future, right now, a multicandidate field does not benefit Trump,” Miringoff said.</p>
  1136. <p>At this point in 2020 election, Biden was up over then-President Trump by an average of 5.5 points, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden">RealClearPolitics</a> polling averages. At the same point in 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was ahead of Trump by an average of 9.9 points.</p>
  1137. ]]></content:encoded>
  1141. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4770592</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/US-NEWS-ELECTION-RACE-ANALYSIS-GET.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="191411" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ The race looks familiar with President Joe Biden (R) and former President Donald Trump topping the ballot. (Brendan Smialowski and Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images/TNS) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  1146. <title>Ticker: Baltimore port to open deeper channel, enabling some cargo ships to pass; General Motors reports strong first-quarter profits</title>
  1147. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/ticker-baltimore-port-to-open-deeper-channel-enabling-some-cargo-ships-to-pass-general-motors-reports-strong-first-quarter-profits/</link>
  1149. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  1150. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
  1151. <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
  1152. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  1153. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  1154. <category><![CDATA[Ticker]]></category>
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  1156.  
  1157. <description><![CDATA[Officials in Baltimore plan to open a deeper channel for commercial ships to enter and leave the city’s port starting on Thursday — a significant step toward reopening the major maritime shipping hub that has remained closed to most traffic since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed last month.]]></description>
  1158. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Officials in Baltimore plan to open a deeper channel for commercial ships to enter and leave the city’s port starting on Thursday — a significant step toward reopening the major maritime shipping hub that has remained closed to most traffic since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed last month.</p>
  1159. <p>The new channel will be 35 feet (12 meters) deep, which is a substantial increase over the three other temporary channels established in recent weeks. It puts the cleanup effort slightly ahead of schedule, as officials previously said they hoped to open a channel of that depth by the end of April.</p>
  1160. <h4>General Motors reports strong first-quarter profits</h4>
  1161. <p>Despite a small dip in U.S. vehicle sales, General Motors&#8217; first-quarter net income rose more than 25% on strong deliveries of pickup trucks and other higher-profit vehicles.</p>
  1162. <p>The automaker said that while its average sales price per vehicle was down slightly from last year at just under $50,000, pickup sales remained strong, and it&#8217;s not seeing the price erosion across its lineup that other companies have experienced.</p>
  1163. <p>GM on Tuesday said it made $2.97 billion from January through March, with revenue increasing 7.6% over the same period a year ago to just over $43 billion. That topped the $41.15 billion that analysts polled by FactSet were calling for.</p>
  1164. ]]></content:encoded>
  1168. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4771402</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AP24106626554243.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="209933" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers debris removal vessel The Reynolds works near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Baltimore. The FBI confirmed that agents were aboard the Dali conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  1173. <title>30-year-old man found dead in back of Framingham business: police</title>
  1174. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/30-year-old-man-found-dead-in-back-of-framingham-business-police/</link>
  1176. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Pelaez]]></dc:creator>
  1177. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
  1178. <category><![CDATA[Crime & Public Safety]]></category>
  1179. <category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
  1180. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  1181. <category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
  1182. <category><![CDATA[Framingham]]></category>
  1183. <category><![CDATA[Homicide]]></category>
  1184. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4766492</guid>
  1185.  
  1186. <description><![CDATA[Police are investigating an apparent homicide outside a Framingham business Saturday night, officials announced. Framingham police were notified to a business on Worcester Road around 10 p.m. Saturday night where a 30-year-old man was found dead in the trash area behind a building, police said. The man, a current Framingham resident whose identity was not [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1187. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Police are investigating an apparent homicide outside a Framingham business Saturday night, officials announced.</p>
  1188. <p>Framingham police were notified to a business on Worcester Road around 10 p.m. Saturday night where a 30-year-old man was found dead in the trash area behind a building, police said. The man, a current Framingham resident whose identity was not disclosed in the report, had suffered physical trauma.</p>
  1189. <p>A preliminary investigation revealed that the victim was an employee of the business who was working that evening. Police asked the public to report any suspicious activity in the area of 1 Worcester Road, the address of an outdoor shopping center.</p>
  1190. <p>The case was referred to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to determine the cause of death. The investigation is being conducted by the office of Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan, state police detectives and local police.</p>
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  1200. <title>Supreme Court to hear Biden &#8216;ghost gun&#8217; regulation</title>
  1201. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/supreme-court-to-hear-biden-ghost-gun-regulation/</link>
  1203. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Medsger]]></dc:creator>
  1204. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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  1213. <category><![CDATA[Gun Laws]]></category>
  1214. <category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
  1215. <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
  1216. <category><![CDATA[Justice Department]]></category>
  1217. <category><![CDATA[Merrick Garland]]></category>
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  1223. <description><![CDATA[The Firearms Policy Coalition, one of the Second Amendment advocacy group behind the lawsuit, hailed the court’s decision to hear the case as a victory with potentially national implications.]]></description>
  1224. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-852.html">Biden administration’s appeal</a> of the ATF’s “frames and receivers&#8221; firearms rule which was previously overturned by a lower court, as the government works to preserve new gun regulations staunchly opposed by gun rights groups.</p>
  1225. <p>The <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-852.html">2022 rule</a> came about, according to the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/11/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-cracks-down-on-ghost-guns-ensures-that-atf-has-the-leadership-it-needs-to-enforce-our-gun-laws/">Biden White House</a>, in response to the increased use of homemade firearms, or “ghost guns&#8221; in the commission of crimes. These unserialized weapons have been blamed for an uptick in gun crimes, and law enforcement agencies have expressed concern over their inability to track them.</p>
  1226. <p>The high court justices agreed to leave the rule in place <a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ghost-guns-biden-administration-lawsuit-46b871969dc6a7da35605c2ebc5385e5">last summer</a> as the appeals process played out, but on Monday indicated they would hear the Biden administration’s appeal of the November decision by 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold parts of a <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/04/biden-admins-frames-and-receivers-gun-control-rule-halted-by-federal-judge/">lower court ruling</a> striking down the rule.</p>
  1227. <p>The Firearms Policy Coalition, one of the Second Amendment advocacy group behind <a href="https://www.firearmspolicy.org/vanderstok">the lawsuit</a>, hailed the court’s decision to hear the case as a victory with potentially national implications.</p>
  1228. <p>“FPC and our members look forward to the end of President Biden’s unconstitutional and abusive rule. We are delighted that the Supreme Court will hear our case and decide this important issue once and for all,” FPC founder and President Brandon Combs said in a statement. “The Fifth Circuit’s decision in our case was correct and now that victory can be applied to the entire country.”</p>
  1229. <p>FPC Action Foundation President Cody Wisniewski, who is representing the plaintiffs before the court, said the court’s decision to hear the case represents “an important day for the entire liberty movement.”</p>
  1230. <p>“By agreeing to hear our case, the Supreme Court will have the opportunity to put ATF firmly in its place and stop the agency from unconstitutionally expanding its gun control agenda. We look forward to addressing this unlawful rule in the Court’s next term,” he said in a statement.</p>
  1231. <p>In announcing the rule in April of 2022, President Joe Biden <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives-gun-politics-5f0f26cdb5d3bcbc6f9c5daf471c118d">said</a> that “law enforcement is sounding the alarm&#8221; over so-called ghost guns and that regulations around homemade weapons would save lives.</p>
  1232. <p>That same month Attorney General Merrick Garland signed “<a href="https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/definition-frame-or-receiver/summary#:~:text=Definition%20of%20a%20%E2%80%9Cframe%20or,liquid%20polymers%20and%20other%20raw">Final Rule 2021R-05F</a>” and sent it to be published in the Federal Register.  The rule expands the way the federal government defines the parts of a firearm to effectively include component kits that could theoretically become functioning weapons. All of those newly defined parts, according to the rule, must be licensed and include serial numbers.</p>
  1233. <p>“The rule clarifies that the definition of ‘firearm’ includes a weapon parts kit that is designed to or may readily be completed, assembled, restored, or otherwise converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive,” an overview of the Final Rule prepared by the ATF reads. “This change makes clear that many of the products currently marketed and sold as unregulated “80% kits” contain a “frame or receiver” that is regulated by Federal law.”</p>
  1234. <p>The Justice Department told the Supreme Court last year that local law enforcement agencies seized more than 19,000 ghost guns at crime scenes in 2021, more than ten times what they had just five years earlier.</p>
  1235. <p>The court will likely hear the case this fall.</p>
  1236. <p><em>Herald wire services contributed.</em></p>
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  1246. <title>Top 10 U.S. vacation destinations from Men’s Journal</title>
  1247. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/top-10-u-s-vacation-destinations-from-mens-journal-includes-a-california-charmer/</link>
  1249. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jackie Burrell]]></dc:creator>
  1250. <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
  1251. <category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
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  1256.  
  1257. <description><![CDATA[This sneak peek at Men's Journal's guide to 50 top travel destinations ranges from an alpine town in the Rockies to a Central Coast treasure in California.]]></description>
  1258. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking for vacation inspiration? Men’s Journal recently ranked the best vacation destinations in the country, including everything from beach towns to gastronomic treasures and adventure-packed gems. It’s a coast-to-coast, border-to-border array of 50 tempting spots, complete with tips on when to go, where to stay and what to do — and eat — while you’re there.</p>
  1259. <p>The top spot goes to Ouray, a Colorado mountain town the magazine editors say feels “like you’ve stepped foot in a live-action REI commercial.” But California gets several sensational shout-outs, starting with the coastal town of SLO — San Luis Obispo — at No. 3, thanks to its balmy temperatures, small town vibe and proximity to surfer-friendly beaches, rolling vineyards and winery tasting rooms.</p>
  1260. <p>San Francisco comes in at No. 14, with a must-see list that hits all the biggies — the Golden Gate Bridge, the California Academy of Sciences, Alcatraz and all the other places tourists congregate, snap photos and chatter about “San Fran,” the SoCal sobriquet that makes locals shudder. (Hmm, do the denizens of Los Angeles — No. 11, by the way — roll their eyes when we refer to “SoCal”?)</p>
  1261. <p>Also on the SoCal list: San Diego, with its 70 miles of soft, sandy beaches and lush, museum-packed Balboa Park, sits at No. 21.</p>
  1262. <p>You’ll find all 50 destinations, complete with restaurant and sightseeing tips, at <a href="https://www.mensjournal.com/travel/best-us-vacations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.mensjournal.com/travel/.</a> Meanwhile, here’s a peek at the top 10:</p>
  1263. <h4 class="">10 Best Vacations in the U.S.</h4>
  1264. <p>1 Ouray, Colorado</p>
  1265. <p>2 Chattanooga, Tennessee</p>
  1266. <p>3 San Luis Obispo, California</p>
  1267. <p>4 New Orleans, Louisiana</p>
  1268. <p>5 Bend, Oregon</p>
  1269. <p>6 Boise, Idaho</p>
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