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  • Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...

  • Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title

    Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...

  • Biden to speak at Coast Guard Academy graduation

    NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden is returning to Connecticut this week to speak at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduation in New ...

  • Shumlin to sign aid-in-dying bill

    MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A 10-year effort by advocates to bring an aid-in-dying law to Vermont is about to be punctuated with Gov. Peter Shumlin’s signing of the ...

  • Taoiseach to pick up honorary doctorate in Boston

    The Taoiseach is to receive an honorary doctorate today from Boston College.Enda Kenny will also deliver the commencement address to 3,000 students graduating from the college this semester.Commencement addresses are usually attended by the Archbishop of Boston, in keeping with the college's Catholic roots, but Cardinal Sean O'Malley is boycotting the event.He says he is avoiding the ...


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Drive, which won Nicolas Winding Refn the Best Director prize at Cannes last spring, is a sharply etched, finely tuned homage to the existential road movies of the 1970s like Vanishing Point (1970) and Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) in which the nature of human existence was fuse ... ...

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  • Markey Gomez on trail agree to debate

    The Haitian music was loud and the bass was heavy on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan when US Senate hopeful Edward J. Markey began to dance. Smiling broadly next to state Representative Linda Dorcena Forry, he began with a slight shuffle and then moved his whole body to the ...

  • Conn. lawmakers to announce mental health proposal

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Lawmakers, advocates and the mother of a child killed in the Newtown school shooting are unveiling a new proposal for child mental health at the state Capitol complex in ...

  • Mass. energy summit to focus on cutting costs

    NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley will host an energy summit to bring together experts in the field for discussions on ways to reduce energy costs and improve the state’s ...

  • Sen. McCain to attend rally for Mass. GOPs Gomez

    BOSTON (AP) - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez is hoping to get a needed boost of cash and enthusiasm when U.S. Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican and fellow Navy veteran, stops by for a fundraiser and morning ...

  • Courts expand e-filing to self-represented parties

    Starting last Saturday, self-represented parties were able to request access to the Judicial Branch’s e-services system. Court clerks must approve access requests, allowing people to file documents, read papers and perform other tasks on their cases by ...

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