While North End restaurateurs negotiate with Mayor Michelle Wu over extra fees as high as a $7,500 outdoor dining fee and shorter season in the neighborhood, their peers across the city say they, too, are struggling with new rules. Continue reading →
The high court in 2017 abolished rules that caused some individuals who never killed anyone to be sentenced to life for felony murder — but did not make the changes retroactive. Continue reading →
With a 7.7-acre empty parcel, the city has a chance to show how inclusive development can also transform a community by creating wealth and opportunities for residents. Continue reading →
A move by state officials appears to severely limit the influence climate groups can have on a process that will determine the future of natural gas in the state. Continue reading →
Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site early Friday, more than a month after taking it over, Ukrainian authorities said, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts. Continue reading →
President Biden announced Thursday that he will release 1 million barrels a day from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try to offset the loss of Russian crude oil from world markets, starve Russia of revenue, and cut the cost American consumers are paying at the pump. Continue reading →
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation had filed an administrative complaint in 2018 accusing the Democrats of misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to obscure the spending. Continue reading →
Biden administration announced several measures intended to make federal forms of identification, applications for federal programs, and travel documents more inclusive. Continue reading →
The head of the United Nations said Thursday that nearly all Afghans don’t have enough to eat and some have resorted to “selling their children and their body parts” to get money for food. Continue reading →
The Turkish prosecutor in the case against 26 Saudi nationals charged in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made a surprise request Thursday that their trial in absentia be suspended and the case transferred to Saudi Arabia, raising fears of a possible coverup. Continue reading →
When North Korea conducted its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile test to date last week, it said it launched the Hwasong-17, its newest and biggest ICBM. Continue reading →
Since the publication of “1984” over 70 years ago, we have become inured to the fabric of lies and evasions embedded in everyday discourse. Continue reading →
The “emotional and mental health challenges causing teenagers to act out at school” have unfortunately inspired a call to bring back police, bringing punitive rather than therapeutic responses to trauma endured by students and communities most harmed by the pandemic. Continue reading →
Ishtiaq Ali Saaem, 38, a former research director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was sentenced to six months of home confinement and three years probation for obstruction of justice on Thursday. Continue reading →
Trans youth, activists, and lawmakers spoke at a Transgender Day of Visibility event outside the Massachusetts State House on Thursday morning. Continue reading →
While North End restaurateurs negotiate with Mayor Michelle Wu over extra fees as high as a $7,500 outdoor dining fee and shorter season in the neighborhood, their peers across the city say they, too, are struggling with new rules. Continue reading →
The Massachusetts Nurses Association said that 60 nurses — approximately 10 percent of Atrius’s nursing staff — were let go on Wednesday. Continue reading →
Inventor, entrepreneur, statesman, scientist — the list goes on — Benjamin Franklin was unique and indispensable, as Ken Burns shows in a two-part PBS documentary premiering Monday. Continue reading →
Long before his altercation at the Oscars, Rock had written an hour or so of new material for his latest stand-up act. At the Wilbur, he was determined to plow ahead with it. Continue reading →
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