“In the darkest time for our country, for the whole of Europe, I call on you to do more,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Continue reading →
A shrinking number of residents plan to keep wearing face coverings in public indefinitely, even as mask mandates have been rescinded. Continue reading →
“With everything being the same, if Trooper Thomas Devlin was not hit by the defendant’s car, he would’ve still been alive today,” prosecutors wrote in a May court filing, conveying the opinion of a state medical examiner. Then, they changed their mind. Continue reading →
The House on Thursday will vote on legislation that would ban discrimination on the basis of a person’s natural hairstyle, including protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, or twists. It would also bar schools from creating any policy that “impairs or prohibits” natural hairstyles. Continue reading →
Republicans have vilified Biden’s judicial nominees who have represented criminal suspects. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, for the Supreme Court, is the most prominent. Continue reading →
With 41 million Americans set to resume student loan payments in May, the chairwoman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is imploring the Biden administration to extend the payment pause until at least 2023, giving the Education Department more time to fix the “broken” repayment system. Continue reading →
A pickup truck struck a bus carrying members of the University of the Southwest’s golf teams on a rural road in West Texas, leaving nine people dead, including the university’s golf coach and six of his players, Texas authorities said Wednesday. The wreck was among the worst accidents involving sports teams in recent years. Continue reading →
Throughout Syria’s 11-year civil war, human rights groups and government defectors have documented the widespread killing of civilians by security forces as they sought to stamp out any opposition to the dictatorship of Bashar Assad. Continue reading →
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe — arrested in Tehran’s airport in 2016 on her way home to London and used as a diplomatic pawn, her family says — was released Wednesday. Continue reading →
Thousands of Ukrainian children who have found shelter in hastily converted housing facilities across central and eastern Europe are struggling to come to terms with their new reality as refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of their country. Continue reading →
Climate change is a problem of people. We already have the technology we need to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a manner that brings about sustainable development. Continue reading →
Valerie Burns used her considerable community organizing, fund-raising, and political skills to leverage significant land acquisition, greenway planning and development, and activation of the parklands along the Neponset. Continue reading →
Some Russian scientists Wednesday promised to join with American counterparts to oppose a nuclear conflict and call for scientific collaboration. Continue reading →
An ambitious public transportation plan in the 1940s aimed to extend Boston’s rapid transit system out to the suburbs by using high-speed electric trains on existing railroad right-of-ways. If it had become a reality, experts say, life in the Boston area would be quite different today. Continue reading →
The federal case against activist Monica Cannon-Grant, arrested on Tuesday morning, reveals a defendant who clearly wasn’t satisfied with just one self-enrichment scam. Continue reading →
There's a long list of star athletes who came out of retirement — Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Bjorn Borg among them — and the results weren't always good. Continue reading →
Teams cannot sign players to three 10-day deals in one season, so Boston had to either sign Fitts for the rest of the year or fill his spot with another player. Continue reading →
The Federal Reserve lifted its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday as policymakers took their first decisive step toward trying to tame rapid inflation by cooling the economy. Continue reading →
The Waltham company makes the brains of the Javelin, including the 15-pound reusable command launch unit that helps the Ukrainian military pick a target and fire. Continue reading →
Maureen Howard, who first drew wide attention in 1965 with her novel “Bridgeport Bus,” which came to be regarded as a precursor to second-wave feminism, and went on to write ambitious, well-regarded books for 45 more years, died Sunday in the New York City borough of Manhattan. She was 91. Continue reading →
Eugene Parker, a physicist who theorized the existence of solar wind and became the first person to witness the launch of a spacecraft bearing his name, has died, his son and the University of Chicago said Wednesday. Continue reading →
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