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The Latest on protests over racial inequality (all times local):6:20 p.m.JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi legislators have voted to raucous cheers and applause to remove a Confederate battle emblem from their state flag. Mississippi’s House and Senate took historic votes Sunday to retire the flag adopted in 1894. It’s the last state flag that included a…

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As Black Lives Matter protests have forced a political and cultural reckoning in the wake of the death of George Floyd, advocates and officials alike early on faced the question of how to talk about the incidents of looting that accompanied some early demonstrations. The split on the issue was wide: President Donald Trump echoed…

The Boston Marathon has been canceled for the first time in its 124-year historyBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports WriterMay 29, 2020, 12:20 AM4 min readBOSTON — Organizers canceled the Boston Marathon on Thursday for the first time in its history, bowing to the social distancing requirements of the coronavirus outbreak and ending a 124-year run…

In the summer of 2013, I spent my days sifting through the most extensive archive of top-secret files that had ever reached the hands of an American journalist. In a spectacular act of transgression against the National Security Agency, where he worked as a contractor, Edward Snowden had transmitted tens of thousands of classified documents…

Photo: Getty ImagesWith protests taking place in at least 140 cities over the last week sparked by the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, we thought it was time to look at other demonstrations and riots throughout American history. And given the potential risks to personal safety—not to mention large gatherings in the…

It’s certainly an arresting image: a four-legged robot trots across a grassy hillside, steering a herd of sheep without a human in sight. The apparently seamless fusion of the futuristic and the agrarian feels refreshing — even hopeful — at a time when so much progress relies upon the destruction of the natural world. But…

SHOWING US ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THIS DEADLY VIRUS. WE HAVE A MODEL THAT TRACKS PEOPLE. MIKE THIS IS THE LEAD RESEARCHER FOR NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY STUDY THAT FOUND HIDDEN OUTBREAKS OF THE CORONAVIRUS, HITTING IN EARLY FEBRUARY IN THE U.S., WEEKS BEFORE ANYONE KNEW IT WAS HERE. MOST OF THOSE CHAINS OF TRANSMISSION WENT UNDETECTED…

The Boston Dynamics robot known as Spot has been deployed to a park in Singapore to remind people they should follow social distancing guidelines during the pandemic, according to a new report from Singapore’s top government technology agency. And it almost feels like the robots are there to taunt us as this point, because unlike…

158 new coronavirus deaths in Massachusetts; over 1,800 new cases in state The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed 158 new COVID-19-related deaths across the state Sunday, bringing the state’s total to 4,004.The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to 68,087 after 1,824 new cases were reported by state health officials on May 3.The…

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