The deal settles three open investigations into the university, and does not require the Ivy League institution to admit any wrongdoing or make a payment to the federal government. Continue reading →
Massachusetts legislative leaders are soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars to help fund a massive gathering of lawmakers, lobbyists, and policy makers in Boston. Continue reading →
Leaders on Beacon Hill also floated structural changes aimed at heading off future work stoppages like the one that has gripped the state court system for weeks. Continue reading →
The Fed’s monetary policy committee kept its benchmark rate steady at between 4.25 percent and 4.5 percent, as analysts and investors expected. Continue reading →
The scenario has become grimly familiar to football fans: A former player experiencing cognitive issues kills himself with a gunshot to his chest, rather than his head, to allow for his brain to be examined. Continue reading →
Warnings in the first hours after the 8.8 magnitude quake sent residents fleeing to rooftops in Japan and forced tourists out of beachfront hotels in Hawaii, snarling island traffic. Continue reading →
Senate Democrats moved to compel the Trump administration to release material connected to the investigation into accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, invoking a little-known law in a bid to force Republican leaders to confront the growing furor over the case. Continue reading →
Iddo Moed, Israel’s ambassador to Canada, said after the announcement that Canada is a “dear friend but at the moment it is an estranged friend” because it “stopped putting itself in Israel’s shoes.” Continue reading →
President Trump is trying to push around his nation of 200 million, dangling 50 percent tariffs as a threat. And yet, the US president is ignoring his government’s offers to talk. Continue reading →
A key issue that brought the two neighbors to arms is their most intractable dispute: who can lay claim to the centuries-old Hindu temples along the border, dating back to the ancient Khmer Empire. Continue reading →
The issue is politically fraught, but don't law-abiding citizens have a right to live without stepping over needles or encountering violence in front of their homes? Continue reading →
Trump didn’t single-handedly break the Senate’s confirmation process. But a single event turned the judicial confirmation process into the kind of pure, bare-knuckled partisan cage match it is today. Continue reading →
Briefly slated for closure, the Casa da Saudade Library, a center of cultural and intellectual life for Portuguese speakers, has found another lease on life.
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A perfect storm is present for playoff play via one of the AL’s three watered-down wild-card slots, if the Red Sox can stomach prioritizing the present. Continue reading →
At 29, Wong has come to an unexpected crossroads. He’s a member of a contending team and surrounded by teammates he cares for. But he’s also hitting .165 with a .434 OPS and only one RBI. Continue reading →
Investigators have found that a helicopter involved in a deadly crash with a passenger plane over Washington was flying above its height limit. Continue reading →
Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert is showing off the friendlier side of automation while his research institute cranks on robotics and AI. Continue reading →
A photographer, drummer, and bandleader in addition to a poet, Mr. Ellis helped found the Dark Room Collective, a Cambridge-based community of Black artists. Continue reading →
ISLAMABAD -- Laura Dahlmeier, a two-time Olympic gold medal-winning German biathlete, died after a mountaineering accident in Pakistan on Monday. She was 31. Continue reading →
On Wednesday, Ozzy Osbourne, one of the founders of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, received just such a tribute in Birmingham, England — his hometown — ahead of a private family funeral. Continue reading →
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