Arroyo and Lara, two of the most influential and outspoken progressive voices on the City Council, became the first incumbent councilors in at least four decades to be eliminated in the first round of voting. Continue reading →
Leominster Mayor Dean Mazzarella detailed extensive damage in the city, and a state of emergency continues. “It affects every single section of the city. No one escaped this,” he said. Continue reading →
Once a Boston firefighter, Allen Curry was forced into early retirement decades ago following an incident involving two white colleagues. Now, he’s closer than he’s ever been to receiving a pension equal to 100 percent of a current day firefighter salary. Continue reading →
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday opened an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, working to appease far-right lawmakers who have threatened to oust him if he fails to accede to their demands for deep spending cuts that would force a government shutdown at the end of the month. Continue reading →
Reporter Danny McDonald shares a story of a firefighter whose career ended 40 years ago after suffering a racist attack. He is still fighting for his pension. Watch →
WATCH: Deputy Washington bureau chief Tal Kopan joins us to explain why Massachusetts is getting less money than it needs to replace lead water lines. Watch →
If the FDA ordered their removal, a trade group warned that numerous popular products — including Tylenol, Mucinex, and Benadryl cold and flu remedies — might become unavailable as companies race to reformulate them. Continue reading →
The increase followed two years of historically large declines in poverty, driven primarily by safety net programs that were created or expanded during the pandemic. Continue reading →
The four-count indictment comes nine months after the violent beating of Nichols by police officers during a Jan. 7 traffic stop near his home in Memphis. Continue reading →
Hopes were fading of finding survivors in the rubble of a powerful earthquake that struck Morocco, as rescue efforts stretched into a fourth day Tuesday with the death toll surpassing 2,900. Continue reading →
Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city. Continue reading →
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un rolled through Russia on an armored train Tuesday toward a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, a rare encounter between isolated leaders driven together by their need for support in escalating standoffs with the West. Continue reading →
If the decision is enacted, it would mean that corporate well-being, even in medicine — a field sworn to first do no harm — trumped the health of women and their babies. Continue reading →
The Massachusetts Legislature is considering a bill to make legal immigrants like refugees and asylum seekers eligible for popular safety net programs such as food assistance and cash benefits. Continue reading →
In a letter Tuesday, attorneys cautioned the National Federation of State High School Associations that a policy mandating hair “adornments” be “securely fastened close to the head” could be too easily misinterpreted to discriminate against Black players. Continue reading →
MassDOT is closing the new Green Line extension between Lechmere and Union Square stations for 25 days starting on Sept. 18 to repair the Squires Bridge on McGrath Highway that carries car traffic over the Green Line tracks. Continue reading →
As part of the shakeup, assistants Shalrie Joseph and Dave van den Bergh were fired, and Marcelo Santos was elevated to an assistant role from the Revolution II team. Williams remained with the team. Continue reading →
This was supposed to be Rodgers’s time in the spotlight, riding into New Jersey to turn the NFL’s worst franchise into a winner, but instead the Jets’ aspirations took a huge blow. Continue reading →
The nonprofit Boch Center, which runs the Wang and Shubert theaters, plans to hire a search firm in the coming weeks to identify a new leader, whom the organization hopes to name by the end of the year. Continue reading →
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