It’s probably time for organizations like the World Anti-Doping Agency to recognize the good that marijuana can do for the mental health of some athletes. Continue reading →
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed multiple times Thursday outside the Shaloh House, a Jewish day school on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton. His alleged attacker, Khaled Awad, 24, was arraigned Friday on seven charges, including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury. Continue reading →
The judge denied Boston school officials’ request for additional time, making it clear he views the plaintiffs’ request to reconsider his ruling as urgent. Continue reading →
The state Department of Conservation and Recreation announced Friday that Walden Pond visitors will be asked to “cease open water swimming” and swim only in areas marked off by ropes and buoys. The restrictions sparked an immediate outcry from open water swimmers who say that water-safety education, not bans, is the best way to prevent drownings. Continue reading →
Although Juliet Bernstein was born before World War I, at a time when the telephone was considered high technology, she has settled on a 21st-century path toward her goal: a GoFundMe account to help pay for home care. Continue reading →
Each day, more deaths are being linked to the heat wave that struck the Pacific Northwest this past week, with medical staff who treated people overwhelmed by temperatures well above 100 degrees saying the toll from the extreme weather will keep creeping up. Continue reading →
The number of people missing in the Florida condominium collapse fell substantially Friday, from 145 to 128, after duplicate names were eliminated and some residents reported missing turned up safe, officials said. Continue reading →
The poll reflects a larger debate — raging in city council chambers, activist circles, and even the White House — about whether the nation can mitigate a troubling recent spike in violent crime and still make progress on the police reforms that gained momentum after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. Continue reading →
US troops and their Western allies have departed Bagram Airfield, the last active air base used by the US military in Afghanistan, officials said Friday, effectively ending major US military operations in Afghanistan. Continue reading →
The Lebanese judge leading the investigation into last year’s massive explosion at Beirut’s port announced Friday he intends to pursue senior politicians and former and current security chiefs in the case, and requested permission for their prosecution, state media reported. Continue reading →
Researchers spotted the construction in commercial satellite images of remote areas west and southwest of the city of Yumen, on the edge of the Gobi Desert in Gansu province. Continue reading →
Perhaps some of this year’s record-breaking drownings could have been prevented if only there had been more safety policies in place. Continue reading →
From vaccine guidance to the attention of care providers to the comforts of animals, readers share who came through for them in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading →
The state Department of Conservation and Recreation announced Friday that Walden Pond visitors will be asked to “cease open water swimming” and swim only in areas marked off by ropes and buoys. The restrictions sparked an immediate outcry from open water swimmers who say that water-safety education, not bans, is the best way to prevent drownings. Continue reading →
Dennis White, the former Boston police commissioner who was fired last month following the reemergence of decades-old domestic violence allegations, is now alleging gender and race discrimination in a federal case against the city and Acting Mayor Kim Janey. Continue reading →
Relatives and friends said a final goodbye on Friday to David Green, who served with the US Air Force in Vietnam and Thailand and spent 36 years as a Massachusetts State Police trooper only to be slain in his hometown last Saturday in an apparent hate crime. Continue reading →
In an encouraging burst of hiring, America’s employers added 850,000 jobs in June, well above the average of the previous three months and a sign that companies may be having an easier time finding enough workers to fill open jobs. Continue reading →
The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund has awarded 40 organizations grants up to $150,000 to support their work to end systemic inequities throughout Massachusetts. Continue reading →
Louis Andriessen, who as a young iconoclast disrupted the Dutch classical music scene before becoming one of Europe’s most important postwar composers with a series of large-scale, often brash works, died Thursday in Weesp, the Netherlands. He was 82. Continue reading →
Frieda Fritzshall, who not only survived the Holocaust but established a museum outside Chicago to keep the memory of it alive for future generations so history would not repeat itself, died June 19 in Deerfield, Illinois. She was 91. Continue reading →
You’ve seen the vaguely terrifying Boston Dynamics robots climb stairs, open doors, and march in formation. Now the four-legged bots are grooving alongside the world's biggest boy band, BTS. Continue reading →
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