Executives at Steward Health Care have treated their in-house malpractice insurer, TRACO, like a piggy bank, pulling cash from it at will, and severely depleting the assets meant to cover claims of medical harm. Continue reading →
Carol Clingan learned about the mural while working on a genealogical project where she was asked to compile an index of Massachusetts synagogues, past and present. Continue reading →
A child went missing in Pawtucket, R.I., in 1988. More than 30 years later, a detective announced she had caught the killer — even though police at the time said there was no evidence of foul play. Continue reading →
Groundskeepers, deacons, horticulturists, conservationists, arborists, and newly minted gardeners are changing how they tend to burial sites. Continue reading →
Though the western United States faces the greatest risks of expanding and intensifying fires, the unusual and long-lasting spate of eastern blazes underscores the ways growing wildfire risks across the country may stretch resources and surprise even the most seasoned firefighters. Continue reading →
House Democrats are considering pushing aside some of their most senior leaders from top posts in the next Congress, driven by a worry that aging members are not up to the task of countering President-elect Donald Trump and his loyal Republican allies in Congress. Continue reading →
The strike highlighted the dangerous work of delivering aid in Gaza, where the war has displaced much of the 2.3 million population and caused widespread hunger. Continue reading →
Rebels had seized most of Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, as of Saturday, according to a war monitoring group and to fighters who were combing the streets in search of any remaining pockets of government forces. Continue reading →
A week after Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, was accused of being a “wrecking ball” jeopardizing global climate talks, Saudi officials are leading an effort to block a United Nations deal to tackle plastic pollution, negotiators said. Continue reading →
Festive cocktails — and a mocktail — to warm your spirits this holiday season from Christopher Kimball and the cooks at Milk Street. Continue reading →
Sometimes the best way to fight the cold weather is to get out and embrace it, and parts of New England shine brightest when the mercury drops. Continue reading →
The failure of a ballot measure that would have reinstated rent control in California shows that even many liberals have lost their appetite for policy with side effects that hurt people’s pocketbooks. Continue reading →
After Thanksgiving, nostalgia and the holiday spirit send people into the fields and forests of northern New England in search of the perfect Christmas tree. Growers are expecting strong sales this year, in spite of drought. Continue reading →
On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Brown University student Khadija Nazari recounts escaping from the Kabul airport as US troops withdrew and launching a school that teaches 100 girls at a secret location. Continue reading →
On Nov. 15, primary care doctors in the Mass General Brigham system, which includes MGH and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, filed to form a union. Continue reading →
The Patriots owner's omission this year stings even more because his odds were upped when the Hall split up the contributors category, separating out coaches for the first time. Continue reading →
The Bruins turn 100 Sunday and plan a centennial birthday party before their 3 p.m. game at the Garden against the Montreal Canadiens. Continue reading →
The scammers appear to be targeting phone numbers with 603 area codes, without knowing whether a number is affiliated with any of the state’s roughly 588,000 E-ZPass accounts. Continue reading →
A. Cornelius Baker spent nearly 40 years working with urgency and compassion to improve the lives of people with HIV and AIDS by promoting testing, securing federal funding for research and pushing for a vaccine. Continue reading →
Morton Abramowitz, a former American diplomat and conflict mediator whose efforts to end wars and avoid wars included helping to arm anti-Soviet guerrillas in Afghanistan in the 1980s and founding the International Crisis Group as a broker for peace in the 1990s, died Nov. 29 at his home in Washington. He was 91. Continue reading →
As a high-ranking figure in the Department of Justice during the 1970s, J. Stanley Pottinger was probably the only person in government to figure out the identity of Deep Throat. Continue reading →
"He’s pushing things. That’s the big attraction," Craig says of director Luca Guadagnino, who adapts William S. Burroughs’s novella to the big screen. Continue reading →
We knew we weren’t in New England anymore when we pulled up outside the original Anchor Bar on the corner of East North and Main streets. Continue reading →
The new mapped trail highlights dining, accommodations, and other locations featured in Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, BET, and Universal Studios holiday movies. Here's how to get in the spirit. Continue reading →
The property comes with basement storage, parking, an in-unit washer and dryer, and new plumbing, electrical, heating and AC systems. Continue reading →
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