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A view inside the casino at MGM Springfield during a media preview on Monday, August 20, 2018. The complex is set to open on Friday.

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Gaming Commission continues research on casino impact

by Patrick Lovett For the GazetteOctober 17, 2018

Official Presidential portrait of Calvin Coolidge.

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Museum celebrates President Calvin Coolidge

by Mark Rondeau Bennington BannerOctober 17, 2018

students socialize at Grant High School in Portland, Ore., after school let out. Portland Public Schools relaxed its dress code in 2016 after student complaints that the rules unfairly targeted female students and sexualized their fashion choices.

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California city is latest to redo ‘sexist’ school dress code

by Jocelyn Gecker Associated PressOctober 17, 2018

Britain's Prince Harry, right, reacts as Meghan, right, Duchess of Sussex holds a toy kangaroo given by Australia's Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove, center, in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)

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Royals start Aussie tour with baby gifts

by Kirsty Wigglesworth Associated Press, and Rod McGuirk Associated PressOctober 17, 2018

The Saudi Arabia consul's residence, in Istanbul, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. A high-level Turkish official says police who searched the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul found evidence that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed there. Authorities meanwhile prepared to search the consul's residence nearby after the diplomat left the country. State media say security forces began setting up barricades in front of the residence just hours after Consul Mohammed al-Otaibi flew out of the country on...

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Turkish official: Police found evidence of Khashoggi slaying

by Fay Abuelgasim Associated Press, Suzan Fraser0 Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressOctober 17, 2018

Enchanted Circle Theater, a Holyoke nonprofit, is using a $10,000 grant to continue to its work in the Amherst-Pelham elementary schools. The company puts on programs that bring together social studies education and theater for fourth- and fifth-graders, such as those shown here.

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Classrooms: Grant keeps social studies, theater programs alive at Amherst elementary schools

by Greta Jochem Staff WriterOctober 17, 2018

Fifth-graders from Lander Grinspoon Academy recently ventured to the Mill River in Northampton to collect benthic macroinvertebrates. These organisms are found in streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes, and can be used to determine the health of a body of water. Ryan O’Donnell, a water quality monitoring coordinator for the Connecticut River Conservancy, helped the students learn about the organisms and scientific method.

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Classrooms: School notes

by Staff Report October 17, 2018

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., speaks to a supporter at a campaign stop at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, in St. Louis. Democrats are leading Republicans in the money race in many of the key Senate and House campaigns three weeks from the midterm elections that will determine who controls Capitol Hill in January. McCaskill reported $7 million in net contributions that includes $4.6 million in itemized individual contributions...

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Democrats dominate House money race

by Bill Barrow Associated Press, Brian Slodysko Associated Press, and Chad Day Associated PressOctober 17, 2018

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2018 file photo, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., gestures during a town hall style gathering in Woburn, Mass. She took the DNA test President Donald Trump urged. She’s hitting back in personal terms, calling him “creepy” on Twitter, in real time. And she’s not backing down. When it comes to challenging the man who redefined the rules of American political combat, Warren in some ways is doing it Trump’s way. She’s getting some backlash from Native Americans...

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Warren’s DNA claim inflames some Native Americans

by Sean Murphy Associated PressOctober 17, 2018

A Honduran migrant breastfeeds her daughter before starting to walk again as part of a caravan of hundreds of Honduran migrants making their way the U.S. in Esquipulas, Guatemala, early Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to cut aid to Honduras if it doesn’t stop the impromptu caravan of migrants, but it remains unclear if governments in the region can summon the political will to physically halt the determined border-crossers. (AP Photo/Moises...

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Trump warns Honduras over migrant caravan now in Guatemala

by Sonia Perez D. Associated PressOctober 17, 2018