The state Office of the Child Advocate is pushing for stricter oversight of residential schools that serve children with autism and other disabilities, amid disturbing reports of abuse. Continue reading →
This tale of two Bidens comes as the party’s long-running narrative about the oldest sitting president in history clashes with a growing line of attack highlighted by a House Republican impeachment inquiry. Continue reading →
Thousands of Massachusetts biopharmaceutical workers have been laid off in the past two years in what experts describe as one of the industry’s biggest shakeouts in decades. Continue reading →
Israel called for the evacuation of more than one million citizens from the northern Gaza Strip and concentrated more armed forces around the enclave Friday, signaling that it may be preparing to escalate the war with Hamas. Continue reading →
The president started his speech Friday talking about the conflict, telling the crowd that he had spoken by video conference for an hour or so with the families of 14 Americans missing in the attacks. Continue reading →
This fall, California officials are lining up $52 million for levee repairs and, compared to a year ago, longer stretches of temporary flood walls and millions more sandbags to prepare for what the winter might bring. Continue reading →
Markey included a link to a Globe article about a Medway family who had traveled to visit relatives in the Gaza Strip and is now stuck in a war zone. Continue reading →
North Korea lashed out Friday at the arrival of a US aircraft carrier battle group in South Korea, calling it a provocation and again raising the specter of using nuclear weapons to defend itself. Continue reading →
The man arrested as the main suspect in Friday’s stabbings had been under surveillance since the summer on suspicion of Islamic radicalization, French intelligence services said. Continue reading →
Panic and chaos gripped the northern Gaza Strip on Friday as thousands of people fled south in vehicles piled high with blankets and mattresses along two main roads after the Israeli military ordered a mass evacuation of half of the besieged coastal strip. Continue reading →
Local and state officials gathered at Logan International Airport on Friday to mark its 100th anniversary and celebrate the opening of four new gates and other improvements at Terminal E, which welcomes international travelers to the city. Continue reading →
Despite the departure of some key defensive figures, the Celtics believe they could be even better at that end of the floor this year. Continue reading →
Microsoft on Friday said it closed its $69 billion purchase of the video game giant Activision Blizzard, overcoming significant regulatory hurdles in Britain and the United States and signaling that the tech industry’s giants are still free to use their cash hoards to get even bigger. Continue reading →
A Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories, and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heart-rending world. Continue reading →
Laszlo Solyom, a legal scholar who helped guide Hungary in its transition to a free-market democracy after the fall of communism in 1989, presiding over his country’s Constitutional Court and then serving as its president from 2005 to 2010, died Sunday in Budapest. He was 81. Continue reading →
A pediatrician who used science to fight for racial justice in apartheid South Africa, Hoosen Coovadia later transformed the approach to HIV treatment for pregnant women in Africa and beyond. Continue reading →
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