Boston Children’s Hospital, which cares for the region’s sickest children, had 17 children with COVID-19 in the hospital this week, up from six on Nov. 23. Continue reading →
As the latest surge pushes COVID-19 infections to new highs in the state, Massachusetts is once again turning to the National Guard — as it has time and again during the nearly two-year pandemic. Continue reading →
Throughout the state, Massachusetts residents have swarmed testing sites this week, some seeking assurance they aren’t infectious, others suffering from fever and coughs and looking for confirmation of their worst fears. And the chaotic scenes here are a snapshot of a larger nationwide problem. Continue reading →
A Globe review of more than 1,500 prisoner grievances filed at the state’s six largest prisons found that incarcerated men seldom prevail when they allege they've been abused. Grievance investigators fully corroborated the prisoners’ accounts only nine times. Continue reading →
David Zapatka has photographed 182 of the nation’s 800 active lighthouses at night, but it’s a race against time: The Coast Guard is shutting down lighthouses and climate change is destroying them. Continue reading →
A federal court on Tuesday denied a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Republican Governor Kevin Stitt that challenged the Pentagon’s military-wide coronavirus vaccine mandate. Continue reading →
More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the United States have soared to the highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious Omicron variant. Continue reading →
A Moscow court abolished the Memorial Human Rights Center on Wednesday in the second ruling in two days against Russia’s most prominent human rights group. Russia’s Supreme Court liquidated another wing of the group, the International Memorial Society, on Tuesday in a decision condemned by global human rights organizations. Continue reading →
Much of Asia has largely managed to keep Omicron at bay even as the variant rages in other parts of the world, but the region that is home to most of the globe’s population is bracing for what may be an inevitable surge. Continue reading →
The Biden administration needs a new policy toward migrants fleeing violence and poverty and to get behind grassroots democratic reform. Continue reading →
When I was targeted by Turkey for speaking out against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, my Celtic teammates consistently checked in on me and offered to help in any way they could. Continue reading →
Mayor Donald Grebien talks about replacing the baseball stadium with a consolidated high school and settling a legal battle over five key downtown parcels. Continue reading →
The fire was in a building on Webster Avenue, fire officials tweeted. Cambridge Fire Chief Gerry Mahoney confirmed that the woman, whose name was withheld, died on the second floor of the three-decker wood-frame residence. Continue reading →
The former Red Sox manager is prohibited from discussing baseball matters, but he talked about his improving health and the late Jerry Remy. Continue reading →
Rather than shutting down league operations for upward of three weeks during the season, the NHL can stay out of the picture entirely. Continue reading →
When it comes to funding for entrepreneurs, this year has been one for the record books. But how much is too much? Where’s all this cash going? And is this boom time going to continue in 2022? Continue reading →
Cleo Robotics' "Dronut" is a surveillance drone that’s designed to operate indoors, flying through dangerous or hard-to-reach places, like air ducts, oil pipelines, or perhaps a booby-trapped building Continue reading →
Biogen is reportedly in talks to be acquired by Korea's Samsung Group in a deal that would value the Cambridge-based drugmaker at $42 billion. Continue reading →
A novelist, critic, and essayist, Ms. Medwed also was an enthusiastic and encouraging writing teacher and a champion of other writers' work. Continue reading →
J.D. Crowe, a master banjo player and bandleader who expanded the sound of bluegrass while attracting some of the genre’s most prodigiously gifted musicians into his groups, died Friday at his home in Nicholasville, Ky. Continue reading →
At each performance of his play “Storm Reading,” writer and actor Neil Marcus offered his audience a reminder: “Disability is not a brave struggle or courage in the face of adversity. Disability is an art. It’s an ingenious way to live.” Continue reading →
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