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Five years after the COVID pandemic started, a scientist who warned against dismissing the controversial "lab leak" theory says more needs to be done to prevent high-risk research from potentially causing a global health crisis. Alina Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. When WBZ-TV interviewed her in 2021, she said she got online hate and even death threats over her belief that COVID could have originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.

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Boston homeowner discovers his house was once cut in half A unique home in Boston that went viral last month because the owner discovered it had once been cut in half is now for sale. The Victorian-style house on Metropolitan Boulevard in Roslindale is on the market for $1.5 million. "At the turn of the century, 318 Metropolitan was one of Boston's largest homes," the listing for the five-bedroom, 2.5-bath house says.

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Dozens of Harvard University professors are pledging to take a temporary pay cut to support the school as it fights the Trump administration's move to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding. So far, 84 senior faculty members have pledged to donate 10% of their salary this year "as our contribution to the university's financial resources while it legally contests these attacks," organizers said in a statement.

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Police in Massachusetts respond to "senior assassins" game over water gun Police departments in several Massachusetts towns are warning graduating high school students about the dangers of a game called "senior assassin" that has prompted 911 calls. The game, usually played by high school seniors, involves students running around outside with water guns at night. They try to eliminate or "assassinate" others playing the game by squirting water at them.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Neal Riley

An elected town official in Massachusetts wants tolls to be added to the Cape Cod bridges. Mashpee Select Board Vice Chair David Weeden said at a meeting Monday that there should be a "modest rate" charged to tourists crossing over on the Bourne and Sagamore bridges. In Weeden's comments, first reported by The Boston Herald, he said, "I'd advocate for tolls to be imposed at the bridges.""There's over 35 million cars, vehicles coming across those two bridges combined annually," Weeden said.