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‘Mission impossible’: With Boston’s proof-of-vaccination mandate set to begin, businesses worry

With the rules set to take effect Saturday, some retailers say the mandate is starting to feel like yet another COVID-related burden on the backs of businesses the pandemic has hurt the most.
Here’s how to get a QR code to prove your COVID-19 vaccine status through the state’s new website

How COVID-19 and staffing issues took Rhode Island Hospital ‘from bad to terrible’

“I’d be being untruthful if I felt like we had all the resources and tools to take care of every patient that came through the door right now,” Rhode Island Hospital’s director of emergency services said.

Mass. Dept. of Public Health closes 3 unlicensed COVID-19 testing sites

Testing sites in Dartmouth, Needham, and Worcester operated by the Center for COVID Control Testing, a private company based in Illinois, were issued cease and desist orders Thursday by local public health officials, according to the state.
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Supreme Court halts COVID-19 vaccine rule for US businesses, allows mandate for most health care workers

California governor denies RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan parole

Governor Gavin Newsom rejected a recommendation from a two-person panel of parole commissioners. Newsom said Sirhan, now 77, poses an unreasonable threat to public safety.
Read the statement from RFK’s widow and 6 children on the decision not to release Sirhan Sirhan

Cambridge man achieves justice as Australian convicted in brother’s 1988 gay hate crime killing

For years, Australian police had insisted the death was suicide, but in 2017 the incident was reclassified as a gay hate killing amid a painful reckoning over the violence endured by gay people in the Sydney area during the 1980s and 1990s and police indifference to such crimes.

Djokovic faces deportation after Australia revokes visa

Novak Djokovic faces deportation again after the Australian government revoked his visa for a second time, the latest twist in the ongoing saga over whether the No. 1-ranked tennis player will be allowed to compete in the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated for COVID-19.
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Deval Patrick

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Read the statement from RFK’s widow and 6 children on the decision not to release Sirhan Sirhan

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