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Provincetown, Mass., the quirky community at the tip of Cape Cod, thought it was safe to return to prepandemic partying. It wasn’t.
The agency cited an outbreak in Provincetown, Mass., in which most of the infected were immunized. An internal C.D.C. document paints an even more harrowing picture.
Infections in vaccinated Americans are rare, compared with those in unvaccinated people, the document said. But when they occur, vaccinated people may spread the virus just as easily.
Theodore McCarrick, 91, is the highest-ranking U.S. official in the Roman Catholic Church to be charged with sexual abuse. He is accused of assaulting a 16-year-old boy in 1974.
He disputed the Freudian view that dreams held encrypted codes of meaning, believing instead that they resulted from random firings of neurons in the brain.
Plays about writers, including “Mr. Fullerton,” a new potboiler probing Edith Wharton’s love life, too often undermine the real brilliance of their subjects.
The annual summer festival in Massachusetts has tried to adapt amid the pandemic and calls for more diversity onstage.
“The Maine Farm Table Cookbook” includes recipes from restaurants, farms, dairies and more across the state.
The vaccines are effective at preventing serious illness and death, but they are not a golden shield against the coronavirus.
The law aims to take the cost burden of recycling away from taxpayers. One environmental advocate said the change could be “transformative.”
The downpours have put a damper on the tourism industry as it tries to bounce back from Covid-19.
From New Hampshire to Scotland, services like Google Maps can direct ill-prepared hikers onto trails that would challenge even the most experienced climbers, mountaineers said.
As the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, she persevered to make care accessible to women and Black communities, regardless of their ability to pay.
The pandemic taught us that time might be our most valuable resource for building the environments we want.
A new policy will increase representation of Black and Latino students in the prestigious public schools, which serve as a gateway to elite colleges.
The ban sought to stop a school in Massachusetts from using shock therapy to prevent harmful behaviors in students with disabilities.
The owners of Apt Cape Cod, a farm-to-table restaurant in Brewster, Mass., drew a line in the sand against customers’ rude behavior since being allowed to fully reopen.
A photographer considers the pandemic, domesticity, intimacy, slavery and the history of Cambridge, Mass.
The president and energy companies want new transmission lines to carry electricity from solar and wind farms. Some environmentalists and homeowners are pushing for smaller, more local systems.
Senator Maggie Hassan, a former governor of her state, is working to burnish her centrist image without making political waves.
Americans are flocking to national parks in record numbers, in many cases leading to long lines and overcrowded facilities. Here’s what four parks looked like over the holiday weekend.
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was wearing a skullcap and standing in front of a large menorah on the steps of a Jewish school when he was attacked by Khaled Awad, 24, prosecutors said.
The states, including Massachusetts and New York, agreed to drop opposition to the bankruptcy organization plan of the company, the maker of OxyContin.
An Italianate Victorian house in Kennebunk, a Tudor Revival mansion in Cleveland Heights and a 1911 home outside Washington, D.C.
An Italianate Victorian house in Kennebunk, Maine; a Tudor Revival mansion in Cleveland Heights, Ohio; and a 1911 home outside Washington, D.C.
Using a hand-powered recumbent trike after spine cancer, the author retraces the 35 miles of a pioneering cycling tour of Boston’s North Shore taken more than a century ago.
The call of loons, and of mortality.
A Republican who shunned protocol and employed incendiary rhetoric, Mr. LePage left office with a 40 percent approval rating.
The latest news and data from the team tracking the coronavirus.
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A powerful winter storm pummeled the northeast, dropping more than a foot of snow in many areas
There are 13,000 school districts in the U.S. Here is how some are faring.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
Farmers Ralph and Lisa Turner of Freeport, Maine, made a living supplying restaurants. This spring, they had tens of thousands of pounds of crops — and no customers.
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Most professional theater in America has been shut down since March. So how did this production of “Godspell” come together?
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A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.