Boston College has announced that its new indoor baseball and softball training facility will be named after Pete Frates, who helped popularize the ALS fundraiser.
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Young man sues Kevin Spacey over alleged groping at Nantucket bar
The lawsuit filed Wednesday against the actor seeks unspecified damages for ‘severe and permanent mental distress and emotional injuries.’
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Zuckerberg invites regulators to help Facebook protect elections
In a discussion at Harvard Law School, the Facebook CEO invited regulators to set industrywide privacy standards and take a harder line with foreign interference in elections.
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McConnell rejects Democrats’ demands to change $4.6 billion border bill
Democratic demands include more protections for the children, such as setting medical and hygiene standards at facilities, and a requirement that any death of a minor be reported within 24 hours.
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Paris prosecutor: No sign to suggest Notre Dame fire was criminal
The Paris prosecutor’s office says that there is no evidence from a preliminary investigation to suggest that a fire that destroyed large parts of Notre Dame Cathedral was criminal.
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Back-to-school spending will rise 9% and Prime Day is the reason
Spending for new clothes and school supplies used to begin in August. Now, retailers are using Amazon’s mid-summer Prime Day.
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NASA opening moon rock samples sealed since Apollo missions
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.
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Beth Chapman, wife of bounty hunter reality TV star, dies
Beth Chapman died early Wednesday at Queen’s Medical Center after an almost 2-year battle with cancer.
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Judge rejects Cuba Gooding Jr.’s request to toss charges in groping case
Lawyers for Cuba Gooding Jr. are providing a court with video that they say will show the actor did not grope a woman at a New York City bar.
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Two more deputies fired for inaction in Florida high school shooting
A sheriff says two additional deputies have been fired as a result of an internal affairs investigation into the agency’s response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that killed 17 people