Whether Boston will see the level of excitement that drove the record-setting turnout in the 1983 race remains an open question amid an unusual campaign season that has been marked as much by extreme weather and a pandemic as it has been by politics and policy. Continue reading →
The herring central to the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe’s way of life are scarce. But with support from elders, the tribe’s Natural Resources Department and UMass researchers are embarking on a study into the herring’s spawning habitats and lifecycles to learn more about how to help them rebound. Continue reading →
“Two commissioners of the 18-member California Parole Board made a grievous error last Friday in recommending the release of the man who murdered my father,” Kennedy said in a statement. Continue reading →
A US drone strike on Sunday destroyed an explosives-laden vehicle that the Pentagon said posed an imminent threat to Afghanistan’s main airport, as the massive airlift of Afghans fleeing Taliban rule shut down just two days before the scheduled final withdrawal of US forces. Continue reading →
Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US, knocking out power to all of New Orleans, blowing roofs off buildings, and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River. The hurricane was blamed for at least one death. Continue reading →
With the release of the 2020 census last month, the drawing of legislative districts that could in large part determine control of Congress for the next decade heads to the nation’s state legislatures, the heart of Republican political power. Continue reading →
As hundreds of thousands of youngsters return to class in the nation’s second-largest school district, they’re participating in what amounts to a massive public health experiment unfolding in real time: Every single student, teacher, and administrator in the Los Angeles public schools must get tested for the coronavirus every single week — indefinitely. Continue reading →
These scenes, unfolding in the heart of Mississippi’s capital city, are a clear indication that the health care system in the nation’s poorest state is close to buckling under the latest avalanche of cases triggered by the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus. Continue reading →
A missile and drone attack on a key military base in Yemen’s south on Sunday killed at least 30 troops, a Yemeni military spokesman said. It was one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s civil war in recent years. Continue reading →
US military aircraft are now ferrying food, tarps, and other material into southern Haiti amid a shift in the international relief effort to focus on helping people in the areas hardest hit by the recent earthquake to make it through the hurricane season. Continue reading →
The United States and 97 other countries said Sunday that they would continue to take in people fleeing Afghanistan after the US military departs this week and had secured an agreement with the Taliban to allow safe passage for those who are leaving. Continue reading →
“Two commissioners of the 18-member California Parole Board made a grievous error last Friday in recommending the release of the man who murdered my father,” Kennedy said in a statement. Continue reading →
A line of more than 200 people wrapped around the block outside Florian Hall in Dorchester Sunday afternoon, with people of all ages waiting patiently to pay their respects to former Bruins player and Boston College star Jimmy Hayes, who died last week. Continue reading →
Communities Responding to Extreme Weather, or CREW, has organized a series of initiatives to inform Bostonians on the deadly effects of climate change. Continue reading →
A three-run bottom of the eighth inning, which included a two-out home run and a crucial obstruction call, sealed Boston's fate in the series finale. Continue reading →
Boston College athletic director Patrick Kraft said the Atlantic Coast Conference’s partnership with the Pac-12, Big Ten was “not a financial play, but a stabilization play.” Continue reading →
Woburn’s Indigo isn’t planning to sell electric cars the old-fashioned way: Fleets will be deployed in parking lots, where gig workers can use a smartphone app to rent them by the day for delivering packages or people. Continue reading →
We need to ask ourselves how did we get here and how can we avoid this fiasco from ever happening again? There is plenty of blame to go around. Continue reading →
As a conductor, Ms. Ho “let the notes speak for themselves,” said Mark Dwyer, her successor as organist and choirmaster at the Church of the Advent. Continue reading →
An All-American forward, Jerry Harkness led Loyola University Chicago’s integrated basketball team to the 1963 NCAA championship, along the way defeating a Mississippi State team that had previously refused to play against Black athletes. Continue reading →
Is seeing believing? One TikTok user has racked up almost 600,000 views with snippets of celebrity lookalikes they apparently saw on Martha's Vineyard. Continue reading →
Siwa, an 18-year-old pop star who has said she identifies as gay and queer, said the same-sex pairing signals to viewers that it’s OK to be your true self. Continue reading →
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