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The Daily Free Press

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The Boston University LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center. BU students are concerned the school will change its sexual misconduct policy following the Trump administration’s announcement that its 2020 Title IX ruling would be reinstated. RACHEL FEINSTEIN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Student leaders react to Trump administration’s returns to 2020 Title IX ruling

Nicole Abrams February 12, 2025
Student leaders give their opinion's on the Trump administrations changes to Title IX, and what it could mean for BU.
Gov. Maura Healey. Healey plans to pardon all individuals convicted with marijuana possession that occurred before March 13. MATTHEW EADIE/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Gov. Maura Healey to pardon all misdemeanor marijuana possession convictions in Massachusetts

Gia Shin March 25, 2024
In a move mirroring a growing national trend, Governor Healey declared her intention to pardon individuals convicted of low-level marijuana possession.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Presidential candidates’ foreign policy is not so foreign | Con-Current Events

Frank Yang March 7, 2024
Who we end up electing as our president will directly affect the outcome of international turmoils. Let's vote, and vote wisely.
Official City of Boston Ballot Drop Box. Voters went to the polls to vote in the Super Tuesday primary election. MADI KOESLER/DFP FILE

Bostonians vote on Super Tuesday

Anna Rubenstein March 6, 2024
Biden and Trump will win this year’s Massachusetts primary, according to the AP projection, moving the two candidates closer to a rematch in November. On Tuesday, Boston voters headed to the polls to cast their votes in this year’s primary.
The Massachusetts Turnpike. The Allston Multimodal Project is still awaiting funding after a $200 million proposal was rejected by the National Infrastructure Project Assistance Program. ISABELLA OLAND/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Allston Multimodal Project continues to push for federal funding

Charlie Johnson February 23, 2024
After a second failed attempt, the Allston Multimodal I-90 project still awaits federal funding in order to revitalize and reconfigure the neighborhood. 
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Taylor Swift: Pop star or PSYOP? | Con-Current Events

Frank Yang February 5, 2024
She says that “karma is [her] boyfriend,” but it seems highly unlikely that the political sphere will realize just how much karma may come out of picking a fight against Taylor Swift.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Can age just be a number this time? | Not to Get Political But

Lauren Albano February 2, 2024
Regardless of any gripes voters have surrounding his age, Biden is the least of all evils going into the 2024 presidential election. His win is vital to the preservation of American democracy.
Cots set up in the Melnea Cass Recreational Complex in Roxbury for migrants who have been sleeping on the floor of Logan International Airport. This recreation center is the fourth overflow center to open in Massachusetts within the last two months due to the state’s shelter system being at full capacity. MATTHEW EADIE/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Emergency overflow shelter for migrants opens in Roxbury against backdrop of concern

Daily Free Press Staff February 1, 2024
Migrant families who have been sleeping at Logan International Airport began moving to a recreation center in Roxbury on Wednesday, sparking questions and concern from the Roxbury community.
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips speaks to supporters at a primary night event in Manchester, New Hampshire. Rep. Phillips came in second in the New Hampshire Democratic primary behind a successful write-in Biden campaign on Tuesday. MATTHEW EADIE/ DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Democratic challengers will stay in race after Biden wins New Hampshire primary

Matthew Eadie January 24, 2024
President Joe Biden won New Hampshire’s Democratic primary on Tuesday, despite not officially having his name on the ballot, requiring voters to write-in the president’s name in a landslide Democratic primary.
President Biden deplanes Air Force One in Boston Logan International Airport on Tuesday. Biden attended three fundraising events while hundreds downtown protested in response to the events. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

President Biden’s daylong fundraising visit to Boston draws protesters downtown

Matthew Eadie December 5, 2023
President Joe Biden visited Boston on Tuesday, attending three campaign fundraising events across the Greater Boston area that drew hundreds of protesters downtown in the evening. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

We’ve all been sleeping on Marianne Williamson | Not to Get Political But

Lauren Albano November 8, 2023
Even though there's no way Marianne Williamson edges out Biden to become the Democratic nominee, we could all still learn from her platform's progressive break with the status quo.
Demonstrators marching to the gates of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Nov. 4

Boston students join tens of thousands in march on Washington, call on Biden, Netanyahu for cease-fire

Matthew Eadie November 7, 2023
WASHINGTON — Students from universities and colleges across Boston joined tens of thousands of people from all around the country in a march on the nation’s capital on Nov. 4, calling on President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
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