The pandemic forced commencement online for all colleges last year, but this spring as vaccines are becoming readily available, schools are diverging widely on how they’re celebrating their seniors. Continue reading →
The push on civil rights has so far attracted zero Republican votes, while GOP party leaders spent last week tamping down a move by a handful of their more extreme members to form a caucus dedicated to celebrating “Anglo Saxon” heritage. Continue reading →
More than five years after the Democrat earned national attention for being elected Fall River’s youngest mayor at age 23, Jasiel F. Correia II is heading to trial on widespread corruption charges that have driven him from office and recalled an era when brazen influence peddling and graft in politics were more commonplace. Continue reading →
More than 5 million people, or nearly 8 percent of those who got a first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, have missed their second doses, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Continue reading →
Months after former president Donald Trump’s election defeat, legislative Republicans in Arizona are challenging the outcome as they embark on an unprecedented effort to audit the results in the state’s most populous county. Continue reading →
President Biden nears the end of his first 100 days in office with a slight majority of Americans approving of his performance and supporting his major policy initiatives, but his approval rating is lower than any recent past presidents except Donald Trump. Continue reading →
State efforts have mostly stalled, raising questions about whether they can win enough support to succeed on a wide scale. California is the only state to approve a commission to study reparations statewide and how they might work. Continue reading →
American tourists who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be able to visit the European Union over the summer, the head of the bloc’s executive body said in an interview with The New York Times on Sunday. Continue reading →
The Trump administration used COVID-19 as a pretext to close America’s land borders to asylum seekers, a misguided move that President Biden should reverse. Continue reading →
Worcester’s elected officials became the latest in Massachusetts to abandon an electoral method that constituents called discriminatory. Continue reading →
The Rev. Willie Bodrick II, senior pastor at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, characterized the string of headlines since the Chauvin verdict in Minneapolis simply: “constant crisis.” That feeling resonated at Black churches throughout Boston. Continue reading →
Tito Jackson, a former Boston city councilor and mayoral candidate, recently shared the revelation of a lifetime: that he had located, and connected with, his birth mother. Continue reading →
Charlotte was playing without three of its top five scorers: Gordon Hayward, LaMelo Ball, and Malik Monk. But Boston didn’t seem bothered to take advantage, and trailed for the final 47 minutes. Continue reading →
This was supposed to be the easiest game of the trio of games that could determine the Celtics' playoff seeding, but they responded with a dismal performance despite a nearly full healthy roster. Continue reading →
Despite the pandemic, there’s been a lot happening behind the scenes as the Boston company Big Night Entertainment Group expands its scope beyond bricks and mortar. Continue reading →
The long-term-care insurance industry as a whole has suffered gigantic losses due to pricing decisions made decades ago that proved to be far off the mark. Continue reading →
The Charlotte, N.C.-based bank, the largest in Massachusetts based on market share, is giving $1 million to the King Boston initiative, to help pay for a Boston Common memorial honoring the Kings’ formative time in this city. Continue reading →
I’m not sure we need this kind of lean approach every year, but it did seem like the right style for a sobering year that has been ridden with loss, grief, illness, and financial strain. Continue reading →
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