Brad Marchand is expected to play for the Boston Bruins in their first game of the round-robin portion of the Stanley Cup Qualifiers against the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday (3 p.m. ET; NBC, SN, TVAS).The forward returned to practice Saturday after not playing the final 11 minutes in a 4-1 loss to the Columbus Blue …
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Who gets to be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine? U.S. health authorities hope by late next month to have some draft guidance on how to ration initial doses, but it’s a vexing decision. “Not everybody’s going to like the answer,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, recently told one …
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An appeals court ruling overturning the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has raised familiar questions about whether he can receive fair trial in a city that remains traumatized by the 2013 attackBy JIM MUSTIAN and WILSON RING Associated PressAugust 1, 2020, 7:34 PM5 min read “Boston Strong” remains a “vibrant” rallying cry …
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“Boston Strong” remains a “vibrant” rallying cry more than seven years after the marathon bombing killed three people and injured more than 260 others, a federal appeals court noted as it threw out the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.But even as the ruling opened old wounds, it raised familiar questions about whether Tsarnaev can receive …
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A federal appeals court Friday overturned the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted after helping his brother plant two pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three people and leaving hundreds more with serious injuries.A three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the judge failed to allow …
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BOSTON (AP) — Rapper Kanye West won’t appear on the Massachusetts presidential ballot this fall, according to the office of Secretary of State William Galvin.The deadline to submit the 5,000 signatures needed to get on the ballot was Tuesday, and no one representing West even took out nomination papers, Galvin spokeswoman Debra O’Malley said.The nomination …
Laurence Kesterson/Associated PressThe Boston Red Sox were able to end their four-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over the New York Mets Wednesday night.New York nearly overcame a three-run deficit by loading the bases in the ninth inning with no outs. Closer Brandon Workman eventually got himself out of trouble to narrowly earn the …
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Figure skater Gracie Gold is one of several Olympians featured in HBO’s documentary The Weight of Gold, which exposes the pressures athletes face in the pursuit of medals and the emptiness they often feel when that chapter of their life is over. Gold’s rise and fall — and eventual comeback — has been one of …
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We are entering the silly season of vice presidential speculation, filled with ill-sourced rumors and Talmudic interpretations of what Joe Biden means every time he says that his running mate must be “simpatico.” Depending on what you read over the weekend, Kamala Harris is either the inevitable pick (The Hill) or doomed (Politico) because she …
