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Voter turnout in 2024 New Hampshire GOP primary eclipses record
Read full article: Voter turnout in 2024 New Hampshire GOP primary eclipses recordMore people cast votes in Tuesday’s contest between former President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley than in any previous presidential primary of either party in New Hampshire’s history.
400 years on, Mayflower's legacy includes pride, prejudice
Read full article: 400 years on, Mayflower's legacy includes pride, prejudiceAnnawon Weeden, 46, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, sits for a portrait outside his home in Oakdale, Conn., Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. The soul-searching extends across the Atlantic to England, where Mayflower descendants say they, too, are trying to reconcile pride and prejudice. When the Pilgrims arrived at what we now know as Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Wampanoag tribe helped the exhausted settlers survive their first winter. But Native Americans also endured racism, oppression and new diseases brought by the European settlers. “It’s opening up everyone else’s eyes to how unbalanced the world is and unequal,” said Troy Currence, Hazel Harding Currence's son and a medicine man from the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe.
Rhode Island door knocks in search of fleeing New Yorkers
Read full article: Rhode Island door knocks in search of fleeing New YorkersRhode Island Air National Guard Tsgt. “I want to be crystal clear about this: If you're coming to Rhode Island from New York you are ordered into quarantine. Andrew Cuomo called the order "reactionary" and unconstitutional, saying he'd sue Rhode Island if the policy isn't rescinded but believed they could "work it out." "I understand the goal ... but there’s a point of absurdity, and I think what Rhode Island did is at that point of absurdity," said Cuomo, a Democrat. "This is more of an education tool to make people aware and comply with what we are asking them to do,” said Westerly, Rhode Island, police chief Shawn Lacey.