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Emerge Career trains incarcerated students to get commercial learner’s permits, earn CDLs upon release, and find jobs with a starting pay averaging $75,000 a year. Continue reading →
A series of firestorms raging out of control in Los Angeles on Wednesday decimated the affluent neighborhood of Pacific Palisades and was threatening an ever wider swath of America’s most populous county as night fell. Continue reading →
Police say Nicholas D. Arruda, 39, shot and killed his pregnant wife, Danielle, 39, and their two young children. “My brother committed the most cowardly despicable act one could perpetrate,” Arruda’s brother said. Continue reading →
The Supreme Judicial Court ruling in the Milton lawsuit is a win for Healey and Campbell, but could slow implementation of the state’s ambitious housing law. Continue reading →
It's freezing in New England as wildfires engulf parts of the Los Angeles area. Lead meteorologist Ken Mahan has the forecast for both sides of the country. Watch →
In addition to a star-studded lineup, the festival is trying to make the experience better for concertgoers. Assistant digital editor Matt Juul explains. Watch →
President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to delay his planned sentencing Fridayin his criminal hush money case, setting up a potential test of the high court's ruling to extend broad immunity from prosecution to former presidents. Continue reading →
The number of Americans enrolled under the Affordable Care Act has doubled since President Biden took office, but could face risks as President-elect Donald Trump returns to office. Continue reading →
Federal officials also said they will reclassify the grizzly’s status so that ranchers would be able to shoot bears that are killing livestock. Continue reading →
Lebanon’s deeply divided parliament is set Thursday to try to elect a new president, potentially ending a yearslong political vacuum and ushering in a degree of stability for a country reeling from its bloodiest war in decades. Continue reading →
Israeli soldiers recovered the body of a 53-year-old hostage in an underground tunnel in southern Gaza, the military said Wednesday, and the army was determining if another set of remains belongs to the man’s son. Continue reading →
South Korea’s Presidential Security Service, an agency assigned to protect the president, is now at the heart of South Korea’s biggest political mess in decades, acting as a final line of defense to prevent criminal investigators from detaining President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection. Continue reading →
The Supreme Judicial Court largely rejected the Town of Milton’s arguments against a 2021 state law aimed at increasing housing production in Eastern Massachusetts. Continue reading →
State Auditor Diana DiZoglio said she intended to probe “high-risk areas” in the House and Senate, such as procurement procedures and the use of nondisclosure agreements, after voters gave her the authority to audit the Legislature. Continue reading →
Robert Kraft has already satisfied the Rooney Rule by interviewing Pep Hamilton and Byron Leftwich in person, meaning the Patriots are the first of the six teams with a head-coaching vacancy who can make a hire. Continue reading →
Emerge Career trains incarcerated students to get commercial learner’s permits, earn CDLs upon release, and find jobs with a starting pay averaging $75,000 a year. Continue reading →
Newton-based The RMR Group has proposed a 447-foot hotel and residential tower at the corner of Causeway and North Washington streets. Continue reading →
The North Shore sandwich staple was purchased by a Burlington-based investment firm — but the new owner promises changes to its grub will be minimal. Continue reading →
Friedrich St. Florian, an architect whose design for the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington inspired criticism and controversy as well as praise, died Dec. 18 at his home in Providence, Rhode Island. He was 91. Continue reading →
Richard Hays, a New Testament scholar and author who challenged conservative Christian opposition to homosexuality by reinterpreting scripture - and shifting his own views along the way - to argue that God’s judgment is capable of change, died Friday at his home in Nashville. He was 76. Continue reading →
Louis Schittly, a French physician whose experiences in an African war zone in the late 1960s led him to help start Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, an aid group that received the Nobel Peace Prize for decades of work amid conflicts and disasters, died Jan. 1 in Mulhouse, France. He was 86. Continue reading →
Rabbi Lior Nevo said the aim was simple: to celebrate, unashamedly, aging women and their bodies. “I thought it would be really fun and empowering.” Continue reading →
“We have this great bookstore and these great events — but we can amplify that in frequency and scale by changing the face of the downtown permanently,” Kinney said. Continue reading →
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