Former Mass. governor William Weld, who ran on the Libertarian ticket in 2016, said Friday he is considering challenging President Trump in the 2020 GOP primaries.
5 people killed in shooting at Illinois warehouse Five police officers also were wounded in Friday?s incident in Aurora, Ill., officials said. The shooter, Gary Martin, was killed.
69-year-old Cambridge bicyclist dies after Fenway collision The woman?s bicycle was hit by a cement truck around 1:30 p.m. Friday just blocks from Fenway Park.
For the first time in Mass., male inmate will get methadone A federal judge has ordered the Essex County House of Correction to provide the medication to Geoffrey Pesce.
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On GE, Baker and Walsh were smart ? but also got lucky For the state, the deal was as much a bet on GE as it was on South Boston real estate.
President Trump, among other things, said the Japanese prime minister nominated him for a Nobel Prize and took credit for saving 3 million lives in Syria.
Trump takes a tough stand on medical marijuana The president used a signing statement to call out a medical cannabis rider that appears in the spending bill that averted a government shutdown.
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Allison Donovan, 40, was remembered Friday night near the site where she was killed a week ago.
Polito?s home left off town?s online database ? at husband?s request Before settling into a new lakeside home, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito?s husband had a request: that details of their $1.5 million house be scrubbed from a public database.
Court dismisses claim brought by lawyers for Hernandez?s daughter A judge ruled that the late Patriots tight end was a class member of a concussion settlement with the league, and that lawyers missed the deadline to opt out.
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The Chinese government-backed rail car company building cars for the MBTA?s Orange and Red lines won?t get any tariff relief, even though the cars are being assembled in Massachusetts.
Payless ShoeSource to shutter all of its remaining US stores All stores will remain open until at least the end of March, and the majority will remain open until May.
Here are the best restaurants in Massachusetts, according to AAA AAA has announced its 2019 list of best restaurants nationwide ? and several of the top-rated establishments are located here.
Dane Cook opens up about his 20-year-old girlfriend ?Sometimes I actually find myself saying, ?Where has she been all my life??? Cook told Jimmy Kimmel. ?And then I realize she wasn?t alive for the first 26 years of it.?
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Opinion | Joseph M. Giglio and Charles Chieppo
The rise of shared, self-driving cars will pose an existential threat to public transportation.
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Trump?s ?emergency? sets a dangerous precedent For the president to label the border an ?emergency? renders the term meaningless.
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President Trump?s national emergency threatens democracy There?s no crisis at the border, but there is a democratic crisis within the GOP.
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White women: from slave owners to Trump voters A new book details white women?s critical role in normalizing slavery. Many continue to embrace those values 154 years later.
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Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought
After winning $1.3 million in a November event, he gave his fill-in caddie only $5,000 ? and until Friday defended that.
The perilous, high-stakes question of what to call the PawSox once they move The Worcester Mitten Kittens? The Worcester Tube Sox? The Worcester Hot Weiners? Nothing?s off the table it appears when it comes to renaming the PawSox.
All Oscars presentations will air during TV broadcast, after all The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had planned to present four awards during the commercial breaks.
People are going crazy ? again ? over this giant ?triple mural? on Worcester?s Hanover Theatre It was first completed a few months ago. But after the artist, Insane51, posted a video of his work this week on Instagram, the mural gained renewed attention.
Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.
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Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.
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The Big Picture
In a world where the smartphone is now ubiquitous, photographers capture daily life in which the personal device is part of the moment.
When asked who was the toughest player he has defended in the NBA, Tatum responded: ?Kyrie [Irving] in practice.?
The Boston cardinal has been considered one of Pope Francis? closest American advisers and he heads a Vatican advisory panel on the prevention of clergy sex abuse.
The average rate this week for 15-year fixed-rate loans eased to 3.81 percent from 3.84 percent. | realestate.boston.
The California Democrat will visit town after making her first trip to N.H. since announcing her candidacy.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is facing renewed criticism for the proposed addition to the next census.
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Cox Enterprises said in a statement Friday that it has agreed to sell a majority stake in its media holdings to Apollo Global Management.
A police spokesman said the suspects were arrested for ??probable cause?? of committing assault and battery on the ?Empire? actor.
Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix? Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
How biopharma is girding for climate change Hurricanes, power outages, floods, droughts, forest fires ? all pose a risk for biopharma companies.
