On the campaign trail, Wu was a vocal supporter of deep and systemic reform for the police. A burst of violence could make that effort more turbulent. Continue reading →
With one billion users, TikTok has unparalleled potential to educate people around the world and enlist their help, some climate activists believe. Continue reading →
You can be Black and proud and want to be noted in your craft not by your race, but by your talent and work. Being “the only” isn’t excellence. It forces emotional labor atop your work while you wade in isolation. Continue reading →
Larger reforms, such as funneling more money toward wage increases to combat high turnover rates in the home health care field, are essential, activists say. Continue reading →
A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked the release of White House records sought by a US House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, granting — for now — a request from former president Donald Trump. Continue reading →
President Biden saluted the nation’s military veterans as “the spine of America” on Thursday as he marked his first Veterans Day as president in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Continue reading →
The new legislative effort would benefit surviving spouses and all living descendants of Black WWII veterans whose families were denied the opportunity to build wealth with housing and educational benefits through the GI Bill. Continue reading →
Cambodia on Thursday dismissed as “politically motivated” sanctions imposed by the United States on two senior defense officials over allegations of graft, accompanied by a broader warning of systemic corruption in the Southeast Asian nation. Continue reading →
A high-level meeting of the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday declared President Xi Jinping’s undisputed rule of “decisive significance” for its history, affirming Xi’s iron grip as he prepares for a near-inevitable third term that would extend his rule until at least 2027. Continue reading →
Betteridge’s Law, whose enforcement power can be likened to the “Pirate’s Code” (“more like a set of guidelines”) from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, has spurred considerable academic debate. Continue reading →
Wesley Black, who contracted cancer after being exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, spent the last years of his life fighting for other veterans. Continue reading →
More than 50 attendees were honored at the state’s annual Veterans Day Observance, held this year in the Great Room in Boston’s Faneuil Hall. Continue reading →
A North Kingstown School Committee member in Rhode Island said her son submitted to former coach Aaron Thomas’ naked “body fat tests” when he was a student-athlete at North Kingstown High School. Continue reading →
Allegations of racism and homophobia go beyond the Danvers boys’ hockey team, with a number of high-profile incidents occurring among student-athletes in the past year. Bob Baldwin hopes to stem the conduct. Continue reading →
Four Senators who suited up at TD Garden on Tuesday — goalie Matt Murray, forward Alex Formenton, and defensemen Josh Brown and Nikita Zaitsev — were on Ottawa's COVID protocol as of Thursday. Continue reading →
Moderna held a brief conference call Thursday to defend the safety of its COVID-19 shot from a barrage of questions about associated heart risks in young people. Continue reading →
The European Commission said sporadic pandemic-related lockdowns in some parts of Europe, together with emerging labor shortages, were adding to the disruptions, while inflation has hit a 10-year high. Continue reading →
“He came in and did something that’s, unfortunately, quite rare in a university. He spent a lot of time listening to other people,” said Lawrence Bacow, who was president of Tufts when Dr. Berman was interim dean, and is now president of Harvard University. Continue reading →
Stockwell was a top Hollywood child actor before giving up the profession, only to eventually find new success when he returned and offered a string of indelible performances in film, including David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” and Jonathan Demme’s “Married to the Mob.” Continue reading →
F.W. de Klerk, who as South Africa’s last white president opened the door to Black majority rule in sub-Saharan Africa’s most prosperous nation by releasing Nelson Mandela from prison, died Nov. 11 at his home in Cape Town. He was 85 years old. Continue reading →
The guitar whiz discusses his life growing up around drugs, how music saved him from that life, and the thrill of discovering that traditional bluegrass and the jam scene could coexist. Like many of the dates on his current tour, Strings’s Nov. 17 concert at the Boch Center Wang Theatre is sold out. Continue reading →
“… (Iphigenia),” the many-years-in-the-making collaboration between the two virtuosos, receives its world premiere this weekend at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston. Continue reading →
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