An estimated 6,000 high school students in Mass. lack a permanent residence, and the number is growing.
Utility crews over a wide area worked to restore electricity to thousands of customers, who have been without power since last weekend’s ice storm.
Three top ministers whose sons were implicated in a corruption scandal resigned, signaling the government may be in crisis.
Egypt’s military-backed interim government has been intensifying its campaign of arrests and prosecutions targeting Muslim Brotherhood members.
A quarter-century after its Boston launch, the service organization continues to redefine itself.
On Christmas, Pope Francis hopes ‘for a better world’Francis prayed for protection for Christians under attack, battered women and trafficked children, peace in the Middle East and Africa, and dignity for refugees.
Movie review
The new movie featuring Justin Bieber depicts him as a good-guy musician even as it avoids his instances of misbehavior.
Movie Review
Ben Stiller updates James Thurber’s 1939 short story and creates a trenchant if uneven parable about the fate of the imagination in the digital age.
Larry Tye
Bridging the care gapThings have improved dramatically — but not enough — in rooting out hospital miscues and keeping patients from being readmitted.
Miami improved to 5-0 vs. the Lakers in Christmas Day games, but LeBron James said the contest wasn’t the same without Kobe Bryant.
Sixty-three people in Mass. were convicted as juveniles of first-degree murder and are now serving mandatory life sentences without parole.
Militants targeted Christians in three separate Christmas Day bombings in Baghdad, officials said.
The government extended its deadline to sign up for health insurance for those who were stymied by the federal website.
Students say that fixed tuitions help them hold down costs by allowing them to budget wisely and borrow less.
Members of the Music & Youth Initiative, a nonprofit music training and mentoring program, are learning how to protect their work.
The goal is to create a vision of abundance, yet the selection is practical.
Video
Watch the ‘Broken City’ Insiders eventVideo of a discussion with The Boston Globe’s Washington bureau of the gridlock in Washington and what can be done to end it.
ideas
When doctors prescribe books to heal the mind Can you read your way to psychological health? Britain is finding out.
