Massachusetts’ population grew enough since 2010 to ensure it keeps its nine seats in the US House of Representatives for the next decade, federal US Census officials announced Monday. Continue reading →
The Mattapan lawyer and former state government official was tapped earlier this month to become the executive director of the city’s Office of Police Accountability and Transparency, an office forged amid calls for racial justice after George Floyd’s murder last year by a Minneapolis police officer. Continue reading →
India’s surge is a reminder that, while more than 42 percent of the American population has received at least one vaccine shot, immunization has barely begun in many parts of the world. Continue reading →
A group of activists and lawmakers is challenging the construction of a women’s prison in Norfolk, saying the move would have detrimental effects on the women and their families, and that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Continue reading →
Fourteen-year-old Brandi Levy was having that kind of day where she just wanted to scream. So she did, in a profanity-laced posting on Snapchat that has, improbably, ended up before the Supreme Court in the most significant case on student speech in more than 50 years. Continue reading →
The Supreme Court said Monday that it would review a New York law that imposes strict limits on carrying guns outside the home, setting the stage for its first major Second Amendment case in more than a decade. Continue reading →
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a sweeping Justice Department investigation on Monday into the Louisville, Ky., metro police and the county government there, the second time in a week that the department has opened a civil investigation into a police force that prompted national furor for the killing of an unarmed Black person. Continue reading →
Russian authorities on Monday ordered the offices of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny to halt their activities pending what would be a landmark court ruling on whether they should be outlawed as an extremist group. Continue reading →
A recording of Iran’s foreign minister offering a blunt appraisal of diplomacy and the limits of power within the Islamic Republic has been leaked, providing a rare look inside the country’s theocracy. Continue reading →
Countries, companies, and powerful members of the diaspora have all pledged to pitch in, but it likely won’t be enough to stop the unfolding catastrophe. Continue reading →
Reparative action should provide resources directly to Black communities that have built resilience in the face of racist policies and know best where to invest. Continue reading →
The state’s push to build a new facility in Western Mass. should be secondary to the pursuit of equitable access to long-term care for veterans across the state. Continue reading →
India’s surge is a reminder that, while more than 42 percent of the American population has received at least one vaccine shot, immunization has barely begun in many parts of the world. Continue reading →
A group of activists and lawmakers is challenging the construction of a women’s prison in Norfolk, saying the move would have detrimental effects on the women and their families, and that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Continue reading →
Duxbury Public Schools has formally declared it should not be held civilly responsible for the emotional trauma suffered by Parker Foley when he was allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulted by former Duxbury Middle School gym teacher John Blake in the mid-2000s. Continue reading →
The voices of the soccer fans were heard, but who's to say the billionaire owners haven't gone back to their bunkers to devise a new plan? Continue reading →
Ten Massachusetts companies have been named to the Boston Globe’s first-ever Top Places to Work rankings based on diversity and inclusion. Continue reading →
Anne and Carl Deane filed a lawsuit last week in Boston against their mother, Carol Deane, alleging she defrauded them as minors by transferring to herself tens of millions of dollars in financial interests that belonged to them. Continue reading →
President Biden intends to raise capital gains taxes for those earning more than $1 million a year his top economic adviser confirmed Monday, arguing that the move would affect only a tiny share of American households. Continue reading →
Lyn Macdonald, a self-schooled British historian who interviewed thousands of World War I veterans and trekked across the battlefields where they had fought, collected her findings in celebrated books that chronicled the Great War from the perspectives of common people. Continue reading →
Lyn Macdonald, a self-schooled British historian who interviewed thousands of World War I veterans and trekked across the battlefields where they had fought, collected her findings in celebrated books that chronicled the Great War from the perspectives of common people. Continue reading →
While his scientist wife was working on the rollout of Pfizer's vaccine, keyboard programmer David Weiser of Haverhill wrote a book inspired by the couple's AC/DC-loving 6-year-old. Continue reading →
The solo drama, based on interviews conducted in Ferguson, Mo., a year after Michael Brown's death, is performed with exceptional force and depth by Maiesha McQueen. Continue reading →
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