This fall, tip your basket to William Blaxton when you pluck a plump apple from a tree, bob for apples on Halloween or cherish your grandmother’s amazing apple pie on Thanksgiving. Reverend Blaxton, among other claims to fame, planted the first seeds that would fuel a pioneering nation and give apples an image of all-American wholesomeness. A bookish and eccentric …
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The First Continental Congress, a brazen show of both defiance and union by the American colonies on the road to revolution, met on this day in history, Sept. 5, 1774. It was the first time many of the transformative figures in human history known as the Founding Fathers would meet. John Adams, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Jay and George …
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More than 100 migrants are sleeping on the floors of Boston’s Logan International Airport as more continue to stream in and use the facility as a shelter. A police source confirmed to Fox News that the hundreds of people pictured lining the floors of Boston’s main air hub with makeshift beds and air mattresses are migrants that have been using …
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The president of an organization called Mayors for Guaranteed Income told Fox News Digital that elected officials who pushback against a guaranteed basic income (GBI) program are “out of touch with what’s really happening in their communities.” “I think the issue is just one of politics and sort of unenlightened elected officials who were just out of touch with their …
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Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were outside TD Garden in Boston on Sunday calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, as thousands of fans made their way into the area for game two of the NBA Finals. Roughly 50 protesters told Boston 25 News they were aiming to raise awareness about the ongoing war in the Middle East between Hamas terrorists and …
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A Massachusetts woman was arrested Thursday on charges that she shot two people believed to be her parents, one of them fatally, a county district attorney said. The woman, 24, was arrested in Bedford on murder, assault and battery, and unlawful possession of a weapon charges, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said at a news conference. Bedford is about 20 …
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Five children who were born completely deaf have had some reversal of hearing loss after receiving a “groundbreaking” gene therapy. The clinical trial, which was co-led by Mass Eye and Ear in Boston and the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai, was the first in the world to apply gene therapy to children in both ears, according …
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Authorities in Boston are working to crack down on three major food delivery companies over an increase in reckless scooter, moped, and motorcycle operations by delivery drivers. According to Boston 25 News, Boston’s Police Commissioner Michael Cox and the Mayor’s Chief of Streets Jascha Franklin-Hodge sent a letter to Grubhub, Uber Technologies, and DoorDash and gave each food delivery company …
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Boston lawmakers, who are considering slashing millions from the police department budget for the third year in a row, have come under fire from the head of the city’s largest police union, according to a new report. “With social unrest so high and police departments across the country struggling to hire and retain officers, any talk of defunding the police …
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A Boston city councilor bashed a plan from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration to potentially give children power in deciding budgeting priorities, according to a recent report. “During this time of great fiscal uncertainty … now more than ever, it is critical that we show the taxpayers of Boston that we take our financial responsibilities seriously,” Flynn Boston City Councilor …
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