Protesters focused their anger on President Biden, whom they accuse of feigning concern over the death toll in Gaza.
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For decades, states have taken foster children’s federal benefits. That’s starting to change.
States have for decades been using foster children’s federal Social Security benefits to help cover the costs of state services.
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Harpswell landowners settle suit over ownership of small parcel of working waterfront
If the settlement is approved, a new nonprofit called Friends of Barleyfield Point will be buying the land with the intent of keeping it open for public use and commercial fishing.
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Franklin County commissioners declare May 27 as the official remembrance of WWI arch in Farmington
The centennial anniversary will be recognized at 10 a.m. May 27, on Memorial Day, at the arch.
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Dabney Coleman, actor who specialized in curmudgeons, dies at 92
The mustachioed character actor was best known for roles as smarmy villains, like the chauvinist boss in ‘9 to 5’ and the nasty TV director in ‘Tootsie.’
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After decisive loss at Alabama Mercedes plants, powerful auto union vows to return and win
Workers at two Mercedes factories in Alabama voted decisively against unionizing.
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A college puts the ‘cat’ into ‘education’ by giving tabby honorary ‘doctor of litter-ature’ degree
The popular tabby lives in a house with his human family on the street that leads to the main entrance to campus.
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Some of the Catholic Church’s best-known approved, and not approved, reports of apparitions of Mary
The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral
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Vatican moves to adapt to hoaxes, Internet and overhauls its process for evaluating visions of Mary
Pope Francis has expressed skepticism about more recent events, including claims of repeated messages from Mary to “seers” at the shrine of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Some of the Catholic Church’s best-known approved, and not approved, reports of apparitions of Mary
Previously approved apparitions have turned these sites into major pilgrimage destinations, drawing millions of people to them each year.