Amid swelling anti-Asian sentiment, propelled by rhetoric surrounding COVID-19, second-generation Asian Americans are talking to their parents about subjects they never dared to broach before: race, racism, and identity. Continue reading →
Acting Mayor Kim Janey’s ceremony Friday, billed as an update for residents on the city’s successes, including the recovery from the pandemic, also illustrated the political advantages that come with being acting mayor. Continue reading →
Steering some of the financial windfall toward communities of color could help counter years of systemic racism and missed opportunities in a region where Black residents’ net worth — recently gauged at just $8 — is a fraction of white residents’. Continue reading →
The near-ubiquitous nature of hand sanitizer is a net positive, several doctors said. But it does have some drawbacks and should not be overused. Continue reading →
Rescuers searched through fresh rubble Monday after the last of the collapsed Florida condo building was demolished, which allowed crews into previously inaccessible places, including bedrooms where people were believed to be sleeping at the time of the disaster, officials said. Continue reading →
Tropical Storm Elsa swept across a mostly rural section of western Cuba with strong rain and winds Monday, then moved into the Florida Straits for a possible close brush with the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas on Tuesday. Continue reading →
Climate activists and their Democratic allies in Congress are pressing with renewed urgency for huge investments to slow global warming, after a bipartisan infrastructure plan cut out some of President Biden’s key climate initiatives. Continue reading →
There are concerns that if an agreement cannot be reached, the alliance could break apart, potentially triggering a price war and swings in global oil prices. Continue reading →
The United States left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said. Continue reading →
In an early setback for Israel’s three-week-old government, it lost a parliamentary vote early Tuesday to extend a contentious law that effectively bans citizenship or permanent residency for Palestinians from the occupied territories if they marry Israelis. Continue reading →
The real long-term solution to addressing vaccination rates — and future pandemics — is to cultivate a sense of duty so that individuals get vaccinated. Continue reading →
Attorney-client privilege prevented the public from getting the transparency it deserved in Mark Pearlstein’s report on the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home tragedy. Continue reading →
A tough transition out of the military led Jamhal Latimer to Blue Skys Farm in Cranston, R.I., more than five years ago. What took him from there to an armed standoff in Wakefield is unclear. Continue reading →
The Globe’s ace TV critic can’t be expected to review everything on the tube. So in the spirit of collegiality, and in desperate search of a subject on a long holiday weekend, I’ll take the commercials for him. Continue reading →
Riders have been venting about the inconvenience of obtaining a new CharlieCard on social media, especially after a WBUR radio host documented her struggle in verse earlier this week. Continue reading →
“Basically, I’m just trying to connect with the environment I’m going to be in every day and it just kind of helps,” the Red Sox reliever said. Continue reading →
Thousands of organizations — largely firms that remotely manage the IT infrastructure of others — were infected in at least 17 countries in Friday's assault. Kaseya, whose product was exploited, said Monday that they include several just returning to work. Continue reading →
You can see this collection of 80,000 items, dating from 1873 to 2019, at the Barker Character, Comic and Cartoon Museum in Cheshire, Conn. Continue reading →
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