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Trump Border Czar Responds to Selena Gomez: ‘No Apologies’

Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University, previously to Newsweek: “If things start to spiral out of control and the press is inundated with stories of family separations and other ways it’s affecting Americans who may support those policies now, it could conceivably change their minds or at least nuance their opinions. It could backfire […]
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What it will take for TikTok to survive in the US

Sahar Abi-Hassan, an assistant professor in political science at Northeastern University who studies the behavior of the Supreme Court, says the court might side with TikTok for several reasons, including its historical hesitance toward restricting speech. But she finds it more likely that the court upholds the law.
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Archaeologists May Have Found Home Built by One of New England’s First Black Property Owners

“King Pompey was an esteemed leader in the Black community, but his home and property have always been a mystery,” says Kabria Baumgartner, a historian at Northeastern University and member of the research team, in a statement.
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Long-Lost Home of ‘King Pompey’ May Have Been Found in New England

“King Pompey was an esteemed leader in the Black community but his home and property have always been a mystery,” Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Northeastern University, who was involved in the investigations.
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Zoning laws, racial covenants, and segregation in Greater Boston explored in new report

Ted Landsmark, director of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, advised and edited the report. Dain’s findings reminded him of his struggles moving to Boston as a young Black professional in the 1970s, and the lack of “access to housing, residential, and education opportunities in [suburban] communities.”
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After Jan. 6, Twitter banned 70,000 right-wing accounts. Lies plummeted.

While suspending Trump may have reduced misinformation by itself, the study’s findings hold up even if you remove his account from the equation, said co-author David Lazer, professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University.
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Group sues DraftKings over $1,000 sign-up bonus and its fine print

The $1,000 bonus at the heart of the lawsuit, filed in Middlesex Superior Court Friday by the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University, had fine print that revealed it would only be paid out if customers made an initial deposit of $5,000 and gambled $25,000 within 90 days on bets with odds of -300 […]
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Massachusetts police pull over more minorities than whites, new data shows

Matthew Ross, an associate professor of public policy and economics at Northeastern University, who assisted with the study’s analysis and conducted his own meta-analysis, joined All Things Considered host Arun Rath to discuss the findings. What follows is a lightly edited transcript.
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Targeting online gambling, Northeastern lawyer who fought Big Tobacco sues DraftKings

Now, a leader of the lawsuits against Big Tobacco has shifted his attention to online betting, targeting the offerings of local firm DraftKings. Northeastern law professor Richard Daynard, who helped uncover evidence in the 1980s that tobacco companies knew about the cancer risks of smoking, said he sees online gambling as another looming crisis for society.
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Bombshell UFO testimony dubbed ‘implausible’ as expert demands real evidence of spacecraft

The physicist told Northeastern Global News: “I think what I find most surprising is that lawmakers seem to be taking him so seriously at this point. I’m sure they know things that I don’t.”
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Taco Bell’s Ads Spice Up ‘Taco Tuesday’ TM Spat

Alexandra Jane Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University, said “the most basic thing about trademark law is that it relies on consumer protection,” and “arguably we can look at what Taco Bell is doing [is] helping remind people that ‘Taco Tuesday’ should be free for all to use and that it’s the […]
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Why Are There So Many Wild Turkeys on The Loose in Massachusetts?

William Fowler, distinguished history professor emeritus at Northeastern University, tells me that Franklin liked to kid, and it’s not so much that he was lobbying for the turkey as he was mocking a French society that had an eagle as its emblem.