A Massachusetts town will fly the Palestinian flag over a public park for a month despite heated disagreement among residents.
The town of North Andover, about 25 miles north of Boston, on Monday approved a proposal to fly the Palestinian flag on the flagpole of the North Andover Town Common park.
The black, white, green, and red flag of the Palestinian Liberation Organization was hoisted on the park&#8217;s flagpole to fly below both the American flag and the POW/MIA (missing in action and prisoners of war) flag.
The flag is scheduled to remain flying in the park from Tuesday morning until December 7.
Dozens of people showed up at Monday&#8217;s Select Board meeting to express their opinions on raising the Palestinian flag. During the hour of public comment, residents spoke both in favor of and against flying the flag.
“It’s a big deal for us to see the Palestinian flag that many of us think represents the attempted genocide of the Jewish people,” Rabbi Idan Irelander said,  <a href="https://whdh.com/news/palestinian-flag-flies-over-north-andover-town-common-after-select-board-approves-application/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> WHDH. “It basically represents Hamas, since they are the elected ruling party in Gaza.”
A supporter claimed to the outlet that the flag represents “a nation, the heritage of the people, their traditions, their culture and it doesn’t represent a terrorist group.”
A college student, Selma Khayal originally petitioned the town on October 16 to raise the Palestinian flag.
Previously, North Andover had flown the Israeli flag for nearly a month on the same park flagpole in the wake of the Palestinian terror group Hamas&#8217; attack on Israeli citizens last month, according to the flag-raising permit <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/15/news/massachussets-town-north-andover-approves-proposal-to-fly-palestinian-flag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> by the New York Post.
On October 7, Hamas launched deadly terrorist attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, including women and children. Israel has responded with airstrikes and a ground offensive.
Since the petition to fly the Palestinian flag, North Andover has updated its flag policy. The old policy allowed anyone to petition to fly any flag with approval from the Select Board. The flagpole was considered a &#8220;public forum.&#8221;
The new policy limits the flagpole to “statements of governmental speech only” and scraps the idea of the flagpole as a public forum.
“It is the policy of North Andover (Town) that its flag poles located at the Town Common are not intended to serve as a forum for free expression by the public, but rather as expressions of the Town’s official sentiments,” the new policy states.

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Three people have been charged in a “high-end” brothel scheme in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/massachusetts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Massachusetts</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia</a> that had politicians, tech executives, and government contractors as customers, according to the Department of Justice. 
Han Lee of Cambridge, Massachusetts, James Lee of Torrance, California, and Junmyung Lee of Dedham, Massachusetts, were charged with conspiracy to coerce and entice to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity. 
According to the DOJ, the three suspects <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/three-arrested-operating-high-end-brothel-network" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly</a> ran “sophisticated high-end brothels in greater Boston and eastern Virginia. Commercial sex buyers allegedly included elected officials, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors, attorneys, scientists and accountants, among others.”
According to an <a href="https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/usa_v._han_lee_et_al_-_complaint_affidavit_redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affidavit</a> from a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security who investigated the case, the suspects advertised women for commercial sex on two different websites “under the guise of professional nude photo shoots” and “established brothels.”
The locations in Massachusetts used for the commercial sex were in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, both cities not far from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston</a>. The locations used in Virginia were in Tysons and Fairfax, wealthy northern Virginia cities not far from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington, D.C</a>.
Clients would book appointments with an Asian woman on one of two websites and then would be sent a location, according to the DOJ. Both sites claimed to not promote commercial sexual activity, but investigators said women were advertised on the sites for prostitution. 
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The investigation has been ongoing since 2020 and about 20 “sex buyers” were interviewed, the affidavit said. Customers would be sent a “menu” and would be able to choose what kind of sexual experience they would have, the DOJ said. Investigators said customers paid between $350 and $600 per hour for sexual services. 
“All three target subjects have engaged in substantial amounts of cash deposits and peer-to-peer transfers with one another and others who I believe are tied to the conspiracy. I believe this transfer of money is consistent with the targets sharing the proceeds of the prostitution business and also disguising the true nature and source of the funds,” the affidavit said.
The customers, which included politicians and military officials, were not named. The affidavit said that this was because the investigation into their involvement with prostitution was ongoing.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-childrens-hospital-under-fire-again-for-video-claiming-young-kids-know-their-gender-seemingly-from-the-womb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Children’s Hospital</a>, one of the leading medical establishments in the U.S. encouraging life-altering gender procedures for minors, was reimbursed for the controversial treatments with taxpayer dollars.
From January 2015 to May 2023, Massachusetts reimbursed the Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) $1.4 million for so-called &#8220;gender transition services,&#8221; according to documents obtained by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/30/childrens-hospital-transgender-services/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Caller</a>. The hospital, which boasts of having the first pediatric transgender surgery center in the country, has performed hundreds of gender surgeries on children since 2017 and has offered phalloplasties for 18-year-old boys and vaginoplasties for girls as young as 17, according to scrubbed pages of its <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210914090829/https://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/programs/a-_-e/center-for-gender-surgery-program/eligibility-for-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. 
The Daily Caller reported that the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services said it paid BCH $1.4 million for “Gender transition services (i.e., physician’s services, inpatient and outpatient, hospital services, surgical services, prescribed drugs, therapies, etc.)” between January 2015 and May 2023.
Last year, BCH was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pediatric-gender-clinics-scrub-their-websites-amidst-criticism-of-gender-related-treatments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> for offering on its website a “full suite of surgical options for transgender teens.” After public backlash to advertising its gender surgeries for children, BCH deleted a video from its YouTube channel that showed a doctor speaking positively about removing a uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and cervix for an elective “gender affirming hysterectomy.”
BCH has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-childrens-hospital-offering-gender-affirming-hysterectomies-to-kids-who-cant-even-drink-legally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoted</a> breast augmentations or double mastectomies in the name of gender affirmation for girls as young as 15. According to the National Institutes of Health, BCH performed 204 “gender affirmation” surgeries between 2017 and 2020, The Daily Caller reported. Those operations included 65 chest surgeries, with the youngest patient being 15 years old. 
Earlier this year, Oren Ganor, the co-director of BCH’s Center for Gender Surgery, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-childrens-hospital-official-expand-training-for-gender-affirming-surgeries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-wrote an article</a> that called for increasing training for gender surgeries. 
“With certain states restricting gender-affirming surgeries, residency programs in states with more favorable regulations must ensure they increase training efforts to accommodate increased caseloads of gender-affirming surgeries that will likely result,” <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2801614">wrote</a> Ganor along with Harvard graduate Shawheen Rezaei. 
BCH has not responded to a request for comment.
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As leftists continue to push for gender surgeries to be readily available to minors, many taxpayers are now funding the life-altering procedures. Last week, The Daily Wire reported that Pennsylvania also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pennsylvania-spent-over-20-million-on-transgender-medical-services-for-children-and-youth-report">spent</a> nearly $20 million in tax dollars on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries for children between 2015 and July of this year. The money was provided through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), according to records obtained by the Pennsylvania Family Institute. 
Florida recently took action to stop Medicaid providers from using taxpayer dollars for transgender procedures. In August, the Sunshine State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-florida-fines-medicaid-providers-for-using-tax-dollars-to-cover-trans-treatments-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fined</a> five Medicaid insurers for violating state law against using taxpayer funds to provide coverage for transgender procedures.

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A Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young children before attempting to kill herself allegedly researched “ways to kill” prior to the deaths.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, reportedly kept two notebooks discussing the medications she was on and her “suicidal expressions and thoughts,” according to a search warrant <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/lindsay-clancy-search-warrant-murder-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewed by Inside Edition</a>. She reportedly wrote that she “confides in friends” about her mental state.
The warrant was filed on March 15 but only recently <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/679857984-Lindsay-Clancy-Sw-Court-Docs-Pt-2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unsealed</a>. Police hoped to use the search warrant to access Clancy’s cell phone and tablet.
In September, Clancy was charged on three counts each of murder and strangulation for the deaths of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and Callan, who was only eight months old, Inside Edition <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-indicted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Clancy was previously indicted in Plymouth District Court on two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation or suffocation, and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
The newer indictment, however, moves her case out of the district court and into Plymouth Superior Court.
After allegedly strangling her children, she attempted to kill herself and was hospitalized. She is now receiving psychiatric care at Tewksbury Hospital and is expected to remain there until November.
Clancy&#8217;s attorney, Kevin J. Reddington, said his client suffered from postpartum depression and was overprescribed medicine.
Clancy used her cell phone to check the time it would take for her husband to return from errands so that she could strangle the kids and try to kill herself, prosecutors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/massachusetts-mom-accused-of-strangling-children-timed-how-long-husband-would-be-away-prosecutors-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in February.
She allegedly sent her husband to pick up dinner and medications from a CVS store so she could kill their children and herself, the Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/moms-searches-show-she-plotted-to-strangle-her-kids-prosecutors-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. While he was out of the house, she allegedly strangled her children with exercise bands, killing the older children in the home and sending the youngest to a hospital, where he died later.
“The defendant did not take advantage of the situation when her husband left the home that night,” Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague said during Clancy’s arraignment on Tuesday. “She created the situation. And she used Apple Maps to make sure she had enough time to strangle each child before her husband returned from where she sent him.”
Sprague added that it took at least four minutes to kill each child and that Clancy told a psychiatrist she “killed the kids because she heard a voice” and had “a moment of psychosis.”
During the hearing, Clancy’s husband, Patrick, said that his wife only used the word “psychosis” after speaking with a doctor hired by her defense attorney, the Beast reported.
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Clancy appeared at her February arraignment from her hospital bed, where she had been left paralyzed from the waist down after jumping out of a window in a suicide attempt after allegedly strangling her children. She also cut her wrists and neck before she jumped.
Patrick reportedly returned home and found the house quiet. He searched for the children and found Clancy lying injured in the backyard.
“What did you do? Where are the kids?” the prosecution said he asked.
His wife allegedly responded, “In the basement.”
Patrick then called 911 and allegedly found the children in the basement with exercise bands still around their necks.
Clancy reportedly had “suicidal ideations in December of 2022 … and on one occasion had thoughts of harming her children,” the prosecution said, <a href="https://people.com/crime/mass-mom-3-lindsay-clancy-allegedly-strangled-kids-heard-voice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to People magazine</a>. She committed herself to a Boston psychiatric hospital on January 1, prosecutors added, but was released on January 5. On January 24, she allegedly killed her children and attempted suicide.
If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or go to <a href="http://speakingofsuicide.com/resources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources</a> for a list of additional resources.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/massachusetts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Massachusetts</a> Governor Maura Healey warned on Monday that the state can no longer guarantee shelter for migrant families as the state&#8217;s shelter system reaches capacity due to a flood of illegal migrants.
Healey, a Democrat, said during a press conference at the state House that “we are entering a new phase of this challenge — we can no longer guarantee shelter placement for families who are sent here.”
Massachusetts&#8217; shelter system is currently housing about 23,000 people, including nearly 7,000 families, <a href="https://www.masslive.com/politics/2023/10/gov-maura-healey-warns-state-shelter-system-may-reach-capacity-by-end-of-month.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to officials. The system can house a total of 24,000 people or 7,500 families, and officials estimate it will reach capacity by the end of October.
Families with higher needs, such as health and safety risks, will be prioritized for shelter as the colder months begin, Healey <a href="https://www.masslive.com/politics/2023/10/gov-maura-healey-warns-state-shelter-system-may-reach-capacity-by-end-of-month.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“I want to assure you that we will continue to engage, assess and serve every family who appeals for help as best we can,” the governor said.
Massachusetts has a &#8220;right to shelter&#8221; legal obligation to migrant and homeless families, and Healey said the state is not ending that obligation.
“We are not ending the right-to-shelter law,” Healey said. “We are being very clear, though, that we are not going to be able to guarantee placement for folks who are sent here after the end of this month.”
In August, Healey <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4260155-massachusetts-migrants-homeless-no-shelter-gaurantee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> a state of emergency over the migrant issue and activated 250 state National Guard members to aid shelters and hotels that are housing migrants.
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Since then, Healey has urged the Biden administration to provide federal aid to Massachusetts for the crisis, as well as to speed up the work visa approval process for migrants.
“This again affirms my call to the Biden administration,” the governor said Monday. “I think they know and understand clearly what it is that we are seeking and those discussions are continuing. I’m hopeful that they will result in action soon for our state. But in the meantime we can’t wait.”
Other states and cities are also struggling with an huge influx of illegal migrants who have arrived in recent months.
New York City has a similar shelter crisis. Since last year, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-to-limit-migrant-family-shelter-stays-to-60-days-mayor-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 118,000 migrants have arrived, with about 600 new migrants now arriving each day. More than 64,000 are still being housed on the city’s dime.
Chicago is <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/migrants-chicago-texas-how-to-help-in-migrant-crisis/13941689/#:~:text=With%20a%20migrant%20population%20of,Rights%20Beatriz%20Ponce%20de%20Leon." target="_blank" rel="noopener">dealing</a> with more than 18,000 migrants, with more arriving daily. Last month, the city of Chicago <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-signs-nearly-30-million-contract-to-build-giant-winterized-tent-camps-for-migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a $29.4 million contract with a private security firm to build massive winterized camps for newly arrived illegal migrants.

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A recently retired Brandeis professor said he was on the phone with his daughter in Israel the moment she was killed by Hamas gunfire.
Ilan Troen, an Israeli scholar and professor emeritus at Brandeis, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-attack-10-09-23/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> “CNN This Morning” on Monday that he was having a conversation with his daughter, Deborah Matias, when terrorists forced their way into her home and killed her while she was shielding her 16-year-old son. Shlomi, Matias’s husband and Troen’s son-in-law, was also killed during the attack.
&#8220;The terrorists came into their place, broke through the doors, shot them,&#8221; Troen <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/family-members-of-brandeis-university-professor-ilan-troen-killed-in-israel-attacks/">told</a> CBS News Boston.
Matias&#8217;s son managed to survive the attack and find a place to hide, Troen said.
“We were on the phone the entire day with our grandson, Rotem, as he lay first under her body, and then found a place to escape under a blanket in a laundry,&#8221; Troen told CNN, later clarifying that he was texting with his grandson throughout the day.
&#8220;He was told not to speak and therefore he was to hide and use texting,&#8221; Troen said. &#8220;By the time he was rescued, he had 4% left in his battery.&#8221;
“The brunt of the shot was borne by his mother,” Troen said, calling his daughter a “child of light and life.”
&#8220;My grandson has witnessed the murder of his mother by people who rehearsed what they were doing,&#8221; he told CBS.
Troen said that his daughter decided to become a musician and attended the Berkeley College of Music in Boston and the Rimon School of Music in Tel Aviv, where she met her husband.
“She, rather than becoming a scientist or a physician, she said to me one day, ‘Dad, I have to do music, because it’s in my soul,'&#8221; Troen said.
Troen is the Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies, Emeritus. He is also the founding director of Brandeis’ Schusterman Center of Israel Studies. He grew up in Massachusetts, attended Brandeis as an undergraduate, and received his Masters and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.
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Other reports of family tragedies have poured in since Hamas attacked Israel, which has killed at least 700 Israelis. Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad <a href="https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1711343720048550086?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on X that parents Itai and Hadar Berdichevsky were able to hide their 10-month-old twins in a shelter before the couple was gunned down by Hamas terrorists who entered their home.
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Itai and Hadar Berdichevsky were shot and killed after a struggle by the vile Hamas terrorists who broke into their home. Before that, they still had time to hide their two 10-month-old twin babies in the shelter. 
The babies were left alone crying for 14 hours until they were… <a href="https://t.co/cW4Joxdk97">pic.twitter.com/cW4Joxdk97</a>
— יוסף חדאד &#8211; Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) <a href="https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1711343720048550086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Naftali Bennet, Israel’s former prime minister, <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1711126272888205447?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that a family of five, including two 6-year-old girls and a 4-year-old boy, were also killed by terrorists over the weekend.
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An entire family murdered in cold blood.
Kedem family: Father Jonathan, mother Tamar, 6-year-old girls Shachar and Arbel, and 4-year-old boy Omer.
Look at their happy faces. 
Their love.
All of them murdered by Palestinian terrorists at Nir-oz kibbutz. 
Just because they’re… <a href="https://t.co/Y8yvGtHUDi">pic.twitter.com/Y8yvGtHUDi</a>
— Naftali Bennett בנט (@naftalibennett) <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1711126272888205447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A woman pled guilty on Thursday to calling in a fake bomb threat at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boston-childrens-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital</a> while the hospital was at the center of a controversy about its transgender youth surgery program.
Catherine Leavy, 37, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/westfield-woman-pleads-guilty-making-hoax-bomb-threat-against-boston-childrens-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pled guilty</a> in Boston federal court to one count of making a false bomb threat and one count of intentionally conveying false or misleading information that a bomb was on the way to the hospital, prosecutors said in a press release Thursday.
Leavy called in the hoax bomb threat in August of last year, just as Boston Children’s Hospital was facing a flood of criticism over its transgender youth surgery program. The next month, Leavy was arrested at her home just west of Springfield. She was charged and later indicted by a federal grand jury in October.
She is scheduled to be sentenced in March and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for the false bomb threat, the more serious charge. The other charge carries five years in prison, and both carry three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.
On August 30 last year, the hospital got a call in which the caller said, “There is a bomb on the way to the hospital, you better evacuate everybody, you sickos.”
The hospital and nearby area was put on lockdown, and a bomb squad arrived on the scene, but no explosive devices were found.
When police showed up at her house, Leavy expressed her disapproval of Boston Children’s Hospital in an interview with law enforcement, but she said she had no plan to actually bomb the hospital, according to the DOJ.
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Last summer, the hospital, which is one of the nation&#8217;s top hospitals and affiliated with Harvard Medical School, came under fire from critics over its transgender surgeries available to children.
Boston Children’s Hospital’s Center for Gender Surgery <a href="https://www.childrenshospital.org/treatments/chest-reconstruction" rel="noopener">lists</a> chest surgery with parental consent for girls 15 and up who identify as male.
Initially, the hospital&#8217;s website had <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220725014638/https://www.childrenshospital.org/treatments/vaginoplasty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> 17-year-olds could qualify for vaginoplasty surgery, but that language was removed, and the hospital <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pediatric-gender-clinics-scrub-their-websites-amidst-criticism-of-gender-related-treatments">claimed</a> it was &#8220;misinformation&#8221; that they ever performed transgender genital surgeries on minors.
The hospital also <a href="https://www.childrenshospital.org/programs/transgender-reproductive-health-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lists</a> &#8220;gender-affirming hysterectomies&#8221; for women 18 and older.
Over the last few years, critics have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/st-louis-clinic-ditches-transgender-care-for-minors-over-law-exposing-doctors-to-lawsuits">sounded the alarm</a> about the permanent effects of both gender hormone treatments such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and surgical procedures, especially on children.
The number of gender surgeries nearly tripled in the U.S. from 2016 to 2019, according to an <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808707?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=082323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open. In 2016, there were about 4,550 procedures, and that number spiked to around 13,000 in 2019.
Hundreds of girls in the U.S., some as young as 12, <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/generalpediatrics/101252?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2022-10-17&amp;eun=g394940d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202022-10-17&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have gotten</a> elective, gender-related double mastectomies to remove their healthy breasts over the last few years.
Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year.

Woman Who Called In Fake Bomb Threat At Boston Children’s Hospital Pleads Guilty

Boston University announced Wednesday that it would conduct an &#8220;inquiry&#8221; into Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country">Antiracist</a> Research amid complaints about its culture.
The inquiry will be a broader version of a previous &#8220;examination,&#8221; looking at the center&#8217;s grant management practices, a spokesperson for Boston University <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/following-layoffs-boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-kendis-antiracist-center/#:~:text=By%20Mike%20Damiano%20and%20Hilary,%2C%202023%2C%209%3A13%20p.m.&amp;text=Boston%20University%20announced%20Wednesday%20it,center%27s%20culture%20and%20financial%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Boston Globe.
The inquiry also comes shortly after layoffs at the center. Kendi recently laid off about 20 employees, more than half the center&#8217;s staff, the university <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ibram-x-kendis-center-antiracist-research-lays-off-staff-members-boston-university-confirms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> last week.
Kendi, a prominent critical race theory scholar, has become an influential voice on &#8220;antiracism&#8221; over the last several years, especially after his book, &#8220;How to Be an Antiracist,&#8221; became a New York Times bestseller in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death.
He has drawn criticism for promoting the theory that all racial disparities are due to racism. Kendi has also faced criticism for his book &#8220;Antiracist Baby,&#8221; a children&#8217;s picture book that introduces children to the concept of antiracism.
The Center for Antiracist Research was established in June 2020, just days after Floyd&#8217;s death, when Kendi was hired as a history professor at Boston University. Since then, the center has raised tens of millions of dollars from donors.
The center managed to accomplish certain projects, such as teaming up with The Boston Globe to <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/the-emancipator/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launch</a> a digital publication called The Emancipator. However, many other projects have gone uncompleted, such as a Racial Data Tracker, which would be &#8220;the nation’s largest online database of racial inequity data in the United States.&#8221;
The center “was just being mismanaged on a really fundamental level,” Phillipe Copeland, a Boston University professor who worked at the center, told the Globe.
Copeland skewered the center in a Facebook post on Sunday, saying the layoffs amount to &#8220;employment violence and trauma.&#8221;
&#8220;Boston University needs to explain how one of its premier Centers ended up in this situation and how mass layoffs are ‘antiracist.’ This act of employment violence and trauma is not just about individual leaders. It&#8217;s about the cultures and systems that allow it to occur,&#8221; Copeland <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/boston-univ-professor-calls-layoffs-ibram-x-kendis-antiracism-center-employment-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Sunday.
“I don’t know where the money is,” <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/following-layoffs-boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-kendis-antiracist-center/#:~:text=By%20Mike%20Damiano%20and%20Hilary,%2C%202023%2C%209%3A13%20p.m.&amp;text=Boston%20University%20announced%20Wednesday%20it,center%27s%20culture%20and%20financial%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Saida Grundy, another Boston University professor who worked at the center.
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Kendi reportedly did not delegate authority, which slowed the center&#8217;s operations.
He was also on leave from the center during the last several months, and when he returned last week, he reportedly laid off about 20 staffers over Zoom, <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/following-layoffs-boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-kendis-antiracist-center/#:~:text=By%20Mike%20Damiano%20and%20Hilary,%2C%202023%2C%209%3A13%20p.m.&amp;text=Boston%20University%20announced%20Wednesday%20it,center%27s%20culture%20and%20financial%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to one of the professors at the center.
Kendi “takes strong exception to the allegations made in recent complaints and media reports,” the Boston University spokesperson said.
The center&#8217;s scholars have also produced very little research, and the two research papers they have put out have been co-authored with other academics, a Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ibram-kendis-center-for-antiracist-research-hasnt-produced-any-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> found.
Global health professor Elaine Nsoesie, who <a href="https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/elaine-nsoesie/#:~:text=Elaine%20Nsoesie%20is%20an%20Associate,University%20Center%20for%20Antiracist%20Research." target="_blank" rel="noopener">leads</a> the Racial Data Tracker project at the center, co-authored a January <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2800557?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=011823" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> that concluded that areas with more black residents had more &#8220;dilapidated buildings.&#8221;
Management and organizations professor Sanaz Mobasseri, another <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/profile/sanaz-mobasseri/#:~:text=Sanaz%20Mobasseri%20is%20an%20Assistant,amongst%20employees%20in%20the%20workplace." target="_blank" rel="noopener">scholar</a> at the center, co-authored a <a href="https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amr.2021.0446" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> that stated, &#8220;We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group in U.S. society.&#8221;
How long Boston University&#8217;s probe into the center will take is unclear.

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Marvel alum <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chris-evans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Evans</a> said he ditched California living to appreciate the changing seasons in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/massachusetts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Massachusetts</a>.
The 42-year-old “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marvel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Avengers: Endgame</a>” star discussed his thoughts during a cover story interview with <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/chris-evans-october-cover-profile-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GQ</a>. He said <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> gave him “Pavlovian anxiety” and that returning to his home state offered a sense of peace in his life. 
Evans said arriving back East “takes me back to a place when life was not just simpler—that’s too reductive—but to a time where I was more pure, I guess; where my ego and my insecurities weren’t such a dominant force that I had to push against.”
Later, he said, “The fact that trees are green blows my mind.” The actor also discussed how becoming self-focused makes him unhappy.
“I’ve just learned early on that when I go small, I suffer,” Evans told the outlet. “When I look at my own life and it’s under a microscope, or when I consider my own experience, it leads to cyclical unhappiness.”
The “Captain America” star also mentioned how he picks projects now based on the season. As he told GQ, “Now it’s really about, well: What time of year are we filming? Am I gonna miss autumn? You know, I don’t want to miss autumn. I only have so many of them.”
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Evans said he’s content at this point to leave Hollywood behind. “I could just make furniture for nobody and be happy,” he added.  
“I don’t want to waste too much time in this industry, but that doesn’t really feel.… That doesn’t sound correct. I don’t want to occupy too much space in an industry that I’ve already poured 20 years into,” Evans said. 
He continued, “Sometimes I wonder if I’m lacking some sort of—like, I think I’m a very driven person. I have a lot of energy. I wake up early, I get a lot done in a day, but it’s not always focused on acting. Sometimes reading a script is the last thing I want to do.”
Despite this, the actor didn’t rule out a return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, giving the idea a “maybe.”
&#8220;I’ll never say never, just because it was such a wonderful experience,” he said. “But I’m also very precious with it. It’s something that I am very proud of. And like I said, sometimes I can’t believe it even happened. And I wouldn’t want the black eye if it felt like a cash grab or if it didn’t live up to expectations or if it just felt like it wasn’t connected to that original thing….So, no time soon.&#8221;

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Marvel Alum Chris Evans Discusses Ditching ‘Pavlovian Anxiety’ Of L.A.

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Amidst duel crises of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/massachusetts-activates-the-national-guard-to-deal-with-influx-of-illegal-aliens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigration</a> and rising <a href="https://www.mass.gov/news/massachusetts-opioid-related-overdose-deaths-rose-25-percent-in-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drug overdoses</a>, Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey has decided to crack down on the real culprit of the Bay State&#8217;s problems: Single-use plastic bottles.
Monday morning, the governor announced at The Clinton Global Initiative in New York City that she will be banning state agencies from purchasing single-use plastic bottles because climate change demands it.
&#8220;We know that plastic waste, plastic production are among the leading threats to our oceans, our climate, and environmental justice. In government, we have an obligation — we also have an opportunity — to not only stop contributing to this damage but to chart a better path forward,&#8221; Healey <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/gov-healey-to-ban-all-state-agencies-from-purchasing-single-use-plastic-bottles/3138580/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
There are some buzzwords in that statement that should be broken down before moving on to a parting thought about Healey and her ilk&#8217;s &#8220;concern&#8221; about the planet.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-climate-endgame-a-50-trillion-bridge-to-racial-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously discussed</a>, climate or environmental &#8220;justice&#8221; can commonly be taken to mean the race-based redistribution of wealth. Indeed, just last month Healey announced millions in taxpayer funding toward green energy projects and jobs in &#8220;environmental justice&#8221; communities. What does that mean? Well, here are the criteria to <a href="https://www.mass.gov/info-details/environmental-justice-populations-in-massachusetts#what-is-an-environmental-justice-population?-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">qualify</a> as an &#8220;EJ&#8221; in Massachusetts, per the state government:
<ol>
<li>the annual median household income is 65 percent or less of the statewide annual median household income</li>
<li>minorities make up 40 percent or more of the population</li>
<li>25 percent or more of households identify as speaking English less than &#8220;very well&#8221;</li>
<li>minorities make up 25 percent or more of the population and the annual median household income of the municipality in which the neighborhood is located does not exceed 150 percent of the statewide annual median household income</li>
</ol>
So, as readers can see, green energy funding is, to reiterate, often just a vehicle for the mass redistribution of wealth along racial and ethnic lines. It&#8217;s no different in the Bay State.
On Monday, Healey also told the crowd at CGI, &#8220;In our coastal state, we know climate change is our biggest threat. We also believe that taking action is our greatest opportunity, an opportunity to secure a safe, prosperous, and sustainable future.&#8221;
One has to wonder how many folks flew on private jets to that meeting in New York City. Something tells me that Healey won&#8217;t be banning state travel via gas-guzzling modes of transportation anytime soon. Nor does it seem that she offered her worldly peers any chastisement for their use of fossil fuels to gallivant around the globe.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Boston, MA – August 8: Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey held a morning press conference announcing significant action related to the state’s emergency shelter system.

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A grand jury has indicted a Massachusetts mother who allegedly strangled her three young children.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, has been charged on three counts each of murder and strangulation for the deaths of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and Callan, who was only eight months old, Inside Edition <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-indicted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Clancy was previously indicted in Plymouth District Court on two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation or suffocation, and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
The new indictment, however, moves her case out of the district court and into Plymouth Superior Court.
Clancy has not entered a plea for the current charges, nor has she appeared in court. She previously pleaded not guilty to the earlier charges.
After allegedly strangling her children, she attempted to kill herself and was hospitalized. She is now receiving psychiatric care at Tewksbury Hospital and is expected to remain there until November.
Clancy used her cell phone to check the time it would take for her husband to return from errands so that she could strangle the kids and try to kill herself, prosecutors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/massachusetts-mom-accused-of-strangling-children-timed-how-long-husband-would-be-away-prosecutors-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in February.
She allegedly sent her husband to pick up dinner and medications from a CVS store so she could kill their children and herself, the Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/moms-searches-show-she-plotted-to-strangle-her-kids-prosecutors-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. While he was out of the house, she allegedly strangled her children with exercise bands, killing the older children in the home and sending the youngest to a hospital, where he died later.
“The defendant did not take advantage of the situation when her husband left the home that night,” Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague said during Clancy’s arraignment on Tuesday. “She created the situation. And she used Apple Maps to make sure she had enough time to strangle each child before her husband returned from where she sent him.”
Sprague added that it took at least four minutes to kill each child and that Clancy told a psychiatrist she “killed the kids because she heard a voice” and had &#8220;a moment of psychosis.”
Clancy’s husband, Patrick, said during the hearing that his wife only used the word “psychosis” after speaking with a doctor hired by her defense attorney, the Beast reported.
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Clancy appeared at her February arraignment from her hospital bed, where she had been left paralyzed from the waist down after jumping out of a window in a suicide attempt after allegedly strangling her children. She also cut her wrists and neck before she jumped.
Patrick reportedly returned home and found the house quiet. He searched for the children and found Clancy lying injured in the backyard.
“What did you do? Where are the kids?” the prosecution said he asked.
His wife allegedly responded, “In the basement.”
Patrick then called 911 and allegedly found the children in the basement with exercise bands still around their necks.
Clancy reportedly had “suicidal ideations in December of 2022 … and on one occasion had thoughts of harming her children,” the prosecution said, according to People magazine. She committed herself to a Boston psychiatric hospital on January 1, prosecutors added, but was released on January 5. On January 24, she allegedly killed her children and attempted suicide.
If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or go to <a href="http://speakingofsuicide.com/resources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources</a> for a list of additional resources.

Massachusetts Mom Accused Of Strangling Her 3 Young Children Indicted

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FBI agents in Portland, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oregon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oregon</a>, were surprised when a 68-year-old man walked into their office and reportedly confessed to bashing a Boston woman’s head in with a hammer back in 1979.
John Michael Irmer told FBI agents last month that he had killed a 24-year-old Pennsylvania woman who had moved to Boston, Massachusetts. Irmer has since been extradited to Boston and arraigned in Boston Municipal Court Central Division, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said in <a href="https://www.suffolkdistrictattorney.com/press-releases/items/2023/9/11/oregon-man-to-be-arraigned-for-1979-back-bay-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> on Monday.
Irmer reportedly told authorities that he met a red-haired woman at a skating rink in Boston around Halloween nearly 44 years ago. He reportedly said that he and the woman walked to an apartment building that was under renovation, where he quickly grabbed a hammer and hit the woman on the head multiple times. She died instantly, and Irmer said he raped her afterward, according to prosecutors. The next day, Irmer said, he fled to New York, according to the press release.
Investigators were able to verify his story, discovering that a red-haired woman named Susan Marcia Rose was found murdered at the same apartment building on October 30, 1979. Rose’s cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to the head, which fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. A DNA sample collected at the scene and preserved for 44 years matched a sample taken from Irmer after he allegedly confessed.
Rose was originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, but had moved to Boston prior to her death. In June 1981, a different man was tried for her murder but found not guilty.
“Nearly 44 years after losing her at such a young age, the family and friends of Susan Marcia Rose will finally have some answers,” District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement. “This was a brutal, ice-blooded murder made worse by the fact that a person was charged and tried — and fortunately, found not guilty — while the real murderer remained silent until now. No matter how cold cases get resolved, it’s always the answers that are important for those who have lived with grief and loss and so many agonizing questions.”
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Irmer was arraigned for the crime on Monday and reportedly hid behind a wall for much of the time, CBS Boston <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/john-michael-irmer-susan-marcia-rose-boston-murder-arrest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. He is being held without bail on charges of murder and aggravated rape.
Irmer allegedly told FBI agents that he wanted to confess to multiple murders, the Boston Globe <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/11/metro/oregon-man-confesses-1979-murder-woman-boston-according-officials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In court, Assistant District Attorney John Verner said that Irmer admitted to killing another woman in the south, but that case is still being investigated.

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A Man Walked Into An FBI Office And Confessed To A 1979 Cold Case Murder In Boston, Prosecutors Say

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