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A controversial bill to significantly reduce state regulation of home schooling narrowly cleared the House of Representatives Wednesday. House Education Policy and Administration Committee Chairman Kristin Noble, R-Bedford, said the bill resulted from weeks of work behind the scenes with home-schooling parents and advocates from across the state. “This does advance core principles of parental rights, educational freedom, and limited government intervention in family decisions,” Noble said. State Rep. Muriel Hall, D-Bow, a retired educator, said the legislation would undo 30 years of collaboration to ensure students in home education have the same opportunities to thrive as those in public...

Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is fracturing his own party, with Republican governors openly defying the White House over detention expansion as political fallout from the carnage in Minneapolis threatens to cost him at the midterms. Kristi Noem was rebuffed this week when she tried to build a new illegal migrant camp in New Hampshire by the state's Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte. Merrimack residents were outraged when it emerged that the Homeland Security Secretary planned to use their town to expand Trump's mass deportation effort. Ayotte, a moderate Republican governing a blue state, informed Noem that she would not assist in...

In a newly unsealed affidavit, police say the man who opened fire inside a New Hampshire country club, killing one and injuring two others, said he did not want to target “civilians” and went into the restaurant because he knew wealthy people dined there. Police say Hunter Nadeau told officers he did not want to target “civilians” at Sky Meadow Country Club and went into PRIME restaurant because he wanted to punish the wealthy for not helping the poor. the affidavit obtained by Boston 25 News on Thursday, investigators said Hunter Nadeau, 24, spoke to police after shooting and killing...

New polling from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center offers some early insight into the 2028 presidential primary field for both the Democratic and Republican tickets.As the first state in the nation to conduct presidential primary elections, how things turn out in New Hampshire can often set the tone going into the rest of the election cycle, indicating up front which candidates have a real chance of taking their party’s nomination.Results from the Granite State Poll, a States of Opinion Project, revealed that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is currently at the top of the potential Democratic field in...

Trump Endorsed Sununu over Scott Brown

A New Hampshire Episcopal bishop's stark warning to his clergy is resonating across the nation, drawing fervent praise from some and rebukes from others. Bishop Rob Hirschfeld was one of several community and faith leaders gathered in Concord, N.H., for a vigil for Renee Macklin Good just days after she was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis. Hirschfeld called out the "cruelty, the injustice and the horror … unleashed in Minneapolis," and warned his clergy to prepare for "a new era of martyrdom." "I've asked them to get their affairs in order to make sure...

On Friday, a Manchester resident may leave the Granite State for the last time. Oscar Gutierrez, 40, is detained at Strafford County jail for staying in the country illegally. He’s due to be flown to Louisiana, and from there, back to his original country of Honduras. This may effectively be a death sentence. As a teen, Gutierrez fled Honduras 22 years ago after refusing to join MS-13, a criminal gang. Threats followed him to the U.S. If he ever returns, he will be murdered, according to his family. Gutierrez’s wife, Mirna, said she has presented evidence of the threats to...

The suspected gunman behind both the deadly shooting spree at Brown University and the killing of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor was already dead for two days before authorities found his body inside a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said Friday. Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown University graduate student, died Tuesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. Police discovered his body Thursday night inside a storage unit in Salem following a nearly weeklong manhunt. Authorities identified Valente as the suspect who opened fire...

Authorities say the same suspect was responsible for Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University and the Monday night murder of an MIT professor in Brookline, Mass. At a news conference Thursday night in Providence, that city’s police chief Col. Oscar Perez identified the Brown suspect as 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente.At a separate news conference in Boston, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley said Valente, a Portuguese national, is also believed to be the gunman who killed MIT physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro.Ted Docks, the Special Agent in Charge of Boston’s FBI field office, told the press a search warrant was...

#BREAKING : FBI agents were seen surrounding a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, where authorities say the suspected Brown University shooter’s vehicle was found abandoned. #BREAKING : Brown University shooter is Dead Reports indicate the suspected gunman in the Brown University shooting has died by suicide. Authorities have not yet officially confirmed the information.

A “trans” individual who also commits sex crimes against children? How unoriginal. Barry Laughton, a New Hampshire Democrat who goes by “Stacie-Marie”, was the first “openly trans lawmaker” in the U.S., elected to office in 2012, making him a “trailblazing” icon for the LGBTQ crowd. Now, he’s facing 30 years in prison after admitting to sex crimes against toddlers. Minor-attracted pedophile? How about millstone-attached person? Think I’m being too extreme? Take a look at some of the text message exchanges, per the official criminal complaint from the Justice Department (GRAPHIC WARNING):

In a long vote made longer by Texas Senator John Cornyn's absence from D.C. until late Sunday night, a new funding bill has passed the U.S. Senate and heads for the House of Representatives.The deal, which got support from eight Democrats, is part of a package meant to reopen the government, fund SNAP benefits, begin the appropriations process, and even secure a future vote for extending Affordable Care Act subsidies. The text of the bill can be found here.What's in the Deal?In exchange for their support of a bill to re-open the federal government, the seven Democrats were promised a...

The first openly trans lawmaker in the US — who was hailed as a trail-blazer — has admitted to sickening child sex charges involving young kids in a daycare. Former Democratic New Hampshire state Rep. Stacie-Marie Laughton, 41, a biological male who identifies as female, pleaded guilty to charges including sexual exploitation of children last week in a Boston federal court, WMUR reported. Laughton now faces up to 30 years in federal prison. Four pictures of children believed to be 3 to 5 years old were sent to Laughton by former partner, Lindsay Groves, who took the horrific images in...

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is the Democratic Party’s early presidential frontrunner in New Hampshire, topping California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and former Vice President Kamala Harris in a new poll. With 19% support, Buttigieg leads Newsom – his closest opponent – by 4 percentage points, according to the University of New Hampshire’s Granite State Poll, released Monday. The only other Democrats in double-digits were Ocasio-Cortez (14%) and Harris (11%). Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) received 8% support and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker garnered a 6% backing. New Hampshire traditionally is the first state to hold both Democratic...

The New Hampshire Senate race was shaken up on Wednesday when former Senator John Sununu jumped into the Republican primary. Sununu was a senator for the Granite State from 2003 until 2009 and served in the House of Representatives prior to that. He is the brother of former New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. In 2008, he was defeated by Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, who is now retiring, leaving the seat open and highly competitive. “It’s been awhile since you elected me to serve New Hampshire, and boy have things changed. Washington’s never been perfect. It’s not meant to be,” the former...

Former Sen. John E. Sununu (R-N.H.) is expected to launch a bid to return to the upper chamber in the near future, NOTUS reported Wednesday. In March, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) announced she will not run for reelection in 2026, setting up an open-seat election in the Granite State. Sununu, 61, previously represented New Hampshire in the Senate from 2003 to 2009. He lost reelection to Shaheen in 2008, and has not held elected office since. Early last month, Sununu told WMUR9 that he was considering running for Senate, and would tour the state before making a decision by the...

"Investigators have confirmed rumors about what Nadeau shouted during the shooting, but Attorney General John Formella believes those statements were meant to create confusion. They are still investigating into whether this was a random or targeted shooting and have confirmed that there was no known connection between Nadeau and the victim.

A gunman shouting “Free Palestine” killed one person a country club wedding in New Hampshire, US. The man opened fire as the bride and groom were about to start their first dance on Saturday night, according to witnesses. Two others were wounded. Hunter Nadeau, 23, has been arrested and charged with the murder of 59-year-old Robert Steven DeCesare, police said. “Additional charges likely will be brought, including for the additional shooting victims,” John Formella, attorney general for New Hampshire, said in a statement.

A crazed gunman shouted ‘Free Palestine’ before he opened fire on a Nashua, New Hampshire, wedding reception and killed one guest — just as the bride and groom were about to start their first dance, according to witnesses. Police have charged Hunter Nadeau, 23, with murder after arresting him on Saturday night following the deadly shooting at Sky Meadow Country Club about 40 miles north of Boston. The victim has been identified as Robert Steven DeCesare, 59. ...

A gunman opened fire in a New Hampshire country club on Saturday, killing one person and wounding two, with a witness saying that the shooter yelled “Free Palestine” during the attack. The man killed at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua was named as 59-year-old Robert Steven DeCesare. Authorities said the suspect — named as 23-year-old Hunter Nadeau — was detained at the scene, and that earlier reports of two shooters were mistaken. The New Hampshire Department of Justice said there was no known connection between the suspected shooter and the victim. Tom Bartelson, who was at the country...