With diminishing hopes for an imminent, effective Alzheimer’s medication, studies testing the protective power of computer-based brain exercises, as well as lifestyle interventions, have taken on new urgency. Continue reading →
Among the 78 districts and independent charter schools that have received over $5 million, the Atlantis Charter School in Fall River stands alone as the only one to have spent more than 90 percent. Only five others have spent even half. Continue reading →
Since it first opened in 1934, the Franciscan Monastery of Saint Clare has been a well-known landmark in Jamaica Plain. Nestled between the beautiful Arnold Arboretum and busy Arborway rotary, the handsome brick building is home to 10 cloistered nuns who hardly ever leave the property. Continue reading →
City officials condemned 370 Ocean Ave. Wednesday for code violations and damage from the fire, and 82 residents say Revere and the landlord, The Carabetta Companies, have done little to help them. Continue reading →
Steve Bannon, an ally of former President Donald Trump who was involved in his plans to overturn the 2020 election, has informed the House committee investigating the Capitol attack that he is now willing to testify. Continue reading →
A new sense of optimism, and urgency, has set in among party lawmakers nearly seven months after their last attempt to pass a sweeping bill ended in defeat. Continue reading →
Days after a gunman opened fire at a Fourth of July parade here, Alberto Fuentes arrived at a downtown memorial for the victims, asking himself a question now haunting many in this shattered Chicago suburb: Could the 21-year-old suspect’s parents have prevented any of this? Continue reading →
On Tuesday morning, NASA will show off the first pictures and data from the new James Webb Space Telescope. That will bring to an end some 30 years and $10 billion of planning, building, testing, and innovating, followed by six months of terror, tension, and anticipation. Continue reading →
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis offered a peculiar tableau Sunday after a day of high drama: The protesters were everywhere, cooking in the prime minister’s garden, and even lounging in the president’s bedroom, while the leaders were nowhere to be seen. Continue reading →
TOKYO — Two days after Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down at a campaign stop Friday, his Liberal Democratic Party and its allies swept to victory in a parliamentary election that gave them a chance to pursue Abe’s long-held ambition of revising Japan’s pacifist constitution. Continue reading →
CHASIV YAR, Ukraine — Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine is intensifying in Donetsk province, with a string of towns and villages coming under bombardment in the last week as Russian troops turn their firepower further west after seizing control of the last city under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province. Continue reading →
The court could clear the way for state lawmakers to put into place gerrymandered congressional maps and send their own electors to Washington to subvert the will of voters in presidential elections. Continue reading →
On nearly every issue — abortion, climate change, gun violence, and democracy itself — the path to progress (or at the very least, harm reduction) will be led by state and local leaders. Continue reading →
Since it first opened in 1934, the Franciscan Monastery of Saint Clare has been a well-known landmark in Jamaica Plain. Nestled between the beautiful Arnold Arboretum and busy Arborway rotary, the handsome brick building is home to 10 cloistered nuns who hardly ever leave the property. Continue reading →
June came and went this year with no event to celebrate Pride or Juneteenth, incensing some residents who say the town dropped the ball when it should be leading the way in promoting inclusion a year after the tragic act of racist hate that left two Black residents shot and killed. Continue reading →
Nantucket’s 17th-century Veranda House inn and two nearby buildings are total losses following a devastating blaze Saturday, according to the island’s fire department. Continue reading →
Downs scored two crucial runs in Boston's extra-inning win over the Yankees, including the deciding run that was set up by his first MLB hit. Continue reading →
Boston, in its fifth consecutive WFA championship game, pitched a 20-0 shutout for the first three quarters and continued an undefeated run that dates to 2018. Continue reading →
City officials condemned 370 Ocean Ave. Wednesday for code violations and damage from the fire, and 82 residents say Revere and the landlord, The Carabetta Companies, have done little to help them. Continue reading →
Liberal lawmakers are calling for stricter federal privacy regulation. But you don’t need new legislation to begin taking control of your sensitive data. Continue reading →
Once one of Africa’s longest-serving rulers, Eduardo dos Santos during almost four decades as president of Angola fought the continent’s longest civil war and turned his country into a major oil producer as well as one of the world’s poorest and most corrupt nations. Continue reading →
“Madame Web” starring Dakota Johnson (”The Lost Daughter”) is set to begin filming in Boston and surrounding areas the week of July 11 and continue through September, according to a source working on the production. Continue reading →
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