After weeks of delay, President Trump directed his administration to cooperate with a transition to a presidency headed by Joe Biden. However, Trump also said he is not conceding the election. Continue reading →
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped Obama-era officials for top national security and economic roles, signaling a stark shift from the Trump administration’s “America First” policies that disparaged international alliances and favored deregulation and tax cuts. Continue reading →
The former Massachusetts senator and secretary of state will join the Biden administration as a National Security Council official focused on climate change, the Biden transition team announced Monday. Continue reading →
Millions of Americans have begun to scatter across the country for the Thanksgiving holiday, despite warnings from public health officials and elected leaders to refrain from traveling as coronavirus infections surge to alarming levels. Continue reading →
At a Monday meeting, the Massachusetts High Technology Council recommended that federal, state, and local governments develop a systematic, expanded testing regime using multiple kinds of tests. Continue reading →
After weeks of delay, President Trump directed his administration to cooperate with a transition to a presidency headed by Joe Biden. However, Trump also said he is not conceding the election. Continue reading →
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped Obama-era officials for top national security and economic roles, signaling a stark shift from the Trump administration’s “America First” policies that disparaged international alliances and favored deregulation and tax cuts. Continue reading →
The former Massachusetts senator and secretary of state will join the Biden administration as a National Security Council official focused on climate change, the Biden transition team announced Monday. Continue reading →
A covert meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia would be a historic first, suggesting that the two countries were making progress toward establishing formal diplomatic relations. Continue reading →
China launched a spacecraft to the moon’s surface on Monday, aiming to be the first nation to bring back lunar rock and soil samples in more than four decades. Continue reading →
New evidence indicates most of the 24 inmates killed during a prison riot in Colombia’s capital earlier this year over fears that crowded, unhygienic conditions would fuel a virus outbreak were shot to death intentionally, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. Continue reading →
The City Council’s plan to form a special commission on family homelessness is an earnest endeavor. Political leaders should be held accountable for ensuring it makes a difference. Continue reading →
Deliberations are taking place in secret. Open, honest debate doesn’t happen anymore on Beacon Hill. Democrats have decided to give up the public discourse part of the job description. Continue reading →
Fierce winds hampered the Coast Guard’s search Monday for the fishing vessel Emmy Rose and its four crew members in an area of the Atlantic Ocean about 20 miles northeast of Provincetown. Continue reading →
In the past month, 50 residents and 21 employees Atria Marland Place in Andover have tested positive for the coronavirus. Six residents have died in the past week. Continue reading →
Governor Charlie Baker on Monday unveiled the state’s new #GetBackMass ad campaign to encourage people to keep taking COVID-19 precautions, so they can return to many of their cherished pre-pandemic pastimes sooner rather than later. Continue reading →
At a Monday meeting, the Massachusetts High Technology Council recommended that federal, state, and local governments develop a systematic, expanded testing regime using multiple kinds of tests. Continue reading →
Unemployed residents with prior US work experience who enrolled in an employment-focused English course boosted their earnings by an average of more than $7,100 annually, compared with unemployed non-English speakers. Continue reading →
At a Monday meeting, the Massachusetts High Technology Council recommended that federal, state, and local governments develop a systematic, expanded testing regime using multiple kinds of tests. Continue reading →
Len Barry, the lead singer of the Dovells on their danceable early-1960s hits “Bristol Stomp” and “You Can’t Sit Down” and later a solo artist whose career peaked with his infectious love song “1-2-3,” died Nov. 5 in a hospital in Philadelphia. He was 78. Continue reading →
Bruno Barbey, a French photographer for the Magnum Photos agency who produced powerful, empathetic work in war zones as well as in peacetime, died Nov. 9 in Orbais-l’Abbaye, in northeastern France. He was 79. Continue reading →
Andrew White, a profusely talented and proudly eccentric musician and scholar best known in jazz circles for transcribing more than 800 of John Coltrane’s saxophone solos, died Nov. 11 at an assisted-living facility in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was 78. Continue reading →
The Boston singer's two original quasi-Yuletide songs, “Christmas Cactus” and “Red Poinsettia,” will be released as a single for Record Store Day. Continue reading →
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