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This 2017 photo shows the first commercially produced Christmas card, dated December 1843.

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‘Scandalous’ 1st Christmas card up for sale

by William J. Kole Associated PressDecember 3, 2020

FILE - Musician Bob Dylan performs with The Band at the Forum in Los Angeles on Feb. 15, 1974. Transcripts of lost 1971 Dylan interviews with the late American blues artist Tony Glover and letters the two exchanged reveal that Dylan changed his name from Robert Zimmerman because he worried about anti-Semitism, and that he wrote "Lay Lady Lay" for actress Barbra Streisand. The items are among a trove of Dylan archives being auctioned in November 2020 by Boston-based R.R. Auction. (AP...

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Lost Bob Dylan interviews surface

by William J. Kole Associated PressOctober 27, 2020

President Dwight Eisenhower poses with President-elect John F. Kennedy at the White House before a private conference, Dec. 6, 1960.

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Some chastised JFK for booze in White House

by William J. Kole Associated PressSeptember 10, 2020

Cesar "Alex" Carrillo, left; his 4-year-old daughter; and his wife, Lymarie Deida — a U.S. citizen — lead a march calling for the release of 24-year-old Victor Diaz, a farmworker and activist from Addison County, Vt., who was detained by federal immigration officials in April 2016. Diaz ultimately was released on bond shortly after. Carrillo, a Vermont dairy worker originally from Mexico, was arrested by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents on Wednesday, March 15, 2017, outside the Chittenden County courthouse in Burlington, Vt. ICE agents intercepted and arrested Carrillo as he was en route to the courthouse for a hearing stemming from a 2016 driving under the influence charge. He was accompanied by Deida at the time of his arrest. (Photograph courtesy of Migrant Justice)

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Appeals court overturns ban on immigrant courthouse arrests

by William J. Kole Associated PressSeptember 1, 2020

FILE - In this April 15, 2019, file photo, fans cheer on the third wave of runners at the start of the 123rd Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, Mass. The 2020 Boston Marathon was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic for the first time in its 124-year history. There will be a virtual event instead, where a weeklong TV special beginning Sept. 7, 2020, will showcase runners' stories as they go the distance on their own. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)

Ready, set, go! Virtual Boston Marathon is about to be run

by William J. Kole Associated PressAugust 31, 2020

This July 2020 photo released by RR Auction shows a lock of hair from former President Abraham Lincoln, to be auctioned Sept. 12, 2020, by the Boston-based auction firm. The lock of hair was removed during Lincoln's postmortem examination in April 1865 after he was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington. (Nikki Brickett/RR Auction via AP)

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Lock of Lincoln’s hair and bloodied telegram up for auction

by William J. Kole Associated PressAugust 29, 2020

The Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park depicts a freed slave kneeling at the feet of President Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, June 25, 2020. Calls are intensifying for the removal of the statue as the nation confronts racial injustice. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Emancipation statues under fire

by William J. Kole Associated PressJune 25, 2020

FILE - In this April 17, 2017, file photo, runners cross the Boston Marathon start line in Hopkinton, Mass. The 124th Boston Marathon is scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2020. Boston Marathon organizers say they're postponing the prestigious race until Sept. 14 because of concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

Boston Marathon postponed until September amid coronavirus concerns

by William J. Kole Associated Press, and Jimmy Golen Associated PressMarch 13, 2020

FILE - In this March 23, 2016, file photo, a man walks near the art installation called "Breathing Flower" by artist Choi Jeog Hwa, of Seoul, South Korea, outside the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The museum turned 150 on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, and will celebrate the birthday by displaying its complete collection of Monet oil paintings beginning April 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Show me the Monet: Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts turns 150

by William J. Kole Associated PressFebruary 5, 2020

Peter Farrelly, left, and Bobby Farrelly are seen in August 2015 at a premiere in Los Angeles.

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‘Green Book’ director Farrelly, brother get disability award

by William J. Kole Associated PressDecember 4, 2019