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Gender equality in the workplace has been stalled for years. And one big reason behind this trend is something called the "winner-take-all" approach to business.
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Just after midnight on May 17, 2004, same-sex couples began filling out marriage license applications at Cambridge City Hall. One married couple looks back on their wedding and how it's gone since.
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The airplane maker continues to answer difficult questions about production and quality control lapses on its 737 Max jets.
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In response to a lawsuit from environmentalists, the Biden administration is ending new leases for coal mining on federal lands in the most productive part of America's top coal producing state.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed legislation that erases most references to climate change from state law. The new law takes effect July 1.
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On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has made many promises about what he'd do on his first day in office, should he win again. Some are more realistic than others.
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President Biden to meet leaders of Black sororities and fraternities. Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama finish union vote. Boeing's shareholder meeting comes at a turbulent time for the company.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned Daniel Perry, a former Army sergeant who was convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter protester in Austin in 2020. He had been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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After months of preparation, the U.S. military is opening a floating pier to deliver humanitarian aid to people in Gaza. No U.S. troops will go ashore in Gaza.
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In the early 1950s, the mother of Irene Montoya and Linda Garcia was hospitalized for TB. For years the girls lived in neglectful foster homes. Finally, they landed in the home of an older couple.