The episode initially raised concerns because it happened near a synagogue, but the police say it was unrelated to antisemitism.
As the government shutdown entered its first full week, emotions across the country ranged from uneasy to unconcerned.
Many students don’t do the reading and don’t speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.
Some underground attractions are closed, and many outdoor sites have reduced their services.
The Trump administration has cut off funding for certain providers around the country whose offerings include abortion. Patients in Maine are among those who will feel the fallout.
A farmhouse in Spring City, a midcentury modern home in Long Beach and a brick house in Portland
A coalition of blue states and Washington, D.C., accused the Trump administration of illegally “taking money from its enemies” in freezing emergency preparedness grants.
Travelers who fell in love with the Iberian country can revisit it in towns along the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where chefs and other purveyors are putting new twists on tradition.
The strips feature intricate designs and can be applied at a fraction of the cost of a salon visit. People are collecting them by the hundreds.
Business leaders and trade organizations have been especially worried by attempts to stop work on wind farms that had already secured federal approval.
The Democrat from New Hampshire has worked to find common ground with the Trump administration on foreign affairs.
Ranging from historic houses in Rhode Island to a sleek new motel in Colorado, these properties offer a mix of rural and urban pleasures.
The ruling came in a suit brought by a coalition of states with sanctuary laws and other policies barring police from helping federal immigration officers.
The coming Senate collision in the deep-blue state will be a test of the Democratic Party’s appetite for generational change.
Boston’s mayor, Michelle Wu, apologized in 2023 to Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett for the actions of police after the 1989 killing of Carol Stuart.
Offshore turbines let Block Island shut down soot-spewing, earsplitting diesel generators. There were other benefits, too.
Patrons at a country club’s restaurant intervened to stop the gunman, the authorities said. The mother of the man who was killed said he died trying to protect his family.
Emma Kemper, founder of the design firm Emma Beryl Interiors, and her husband, Benjamin, bought a retreat from Brooklyn and undertook a complete renovation.
A suspect was detained after the shooting at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua left one person dead and several others injured, the police said.
A new policy for the National Endowment for the Arts to review grant applications to see if they comply with President Trump’s “gender ideology” order violates the Constitution, the court said.
A mother teamed up with her daughter and son-in-law to find a home they could all live in together — but separately.
The artist Anne Buckwalter has amassed a collection of hand-carved avian decoys.
Young buyers and sellers have started to change the character of a market known for drawing Ralph Lauren and Martha Stewart.
The projects would allow small electric or hybrid aircraft to carry passengers or cargo before federal regulators approve their commercial use.
Josh Kraft had harshly criticized the policies of Mayor Michelle Wu, a fellow Democrat, but his message did not resonate with voters.
The Trump administration had imposed conditions on grants awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development that critics viewed as overtly political.
Maine’s Board of Pesticides Control says two summer residents poisoned a neighbor’s trees so the couple, both Martha Stewart associates, could have a harbor view. They deny it.
After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat.
Check out these standout dining scenes that we encountered in our reporting for the 2025 Restaurant List.
Focusing on a small group of offenders is more effective than sweeping crackdowns.
The two top vote-getters on Tuesday will compete in November. They are expected to be Mayor Michelle Wu and Josh Kraft, a political newcomer and a son of the New England Patriots owner.
Get live results from the 2025 Boston preliminary municipal election.
Readers discuss the reasons for the spike since the pandemic and how to lure students back.
The former superintendent and medical director of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts were indicted in 2020 on charges of neglect after many residents became sick and died.
Dana L. McIntyre, who owned a pizzeria in a Boston suburb, defrauded the federal government out of more than $660,000, the Justice Department said.
The people who believe he is going to save America.
The state has begun emptying hotels of about 2,800 homeless people living there as part of a pandemic-era program — and offering them tents — after federal funding ran out.
The group liked online war games. But then Jack Teixeira, an active-duty airman, began showing them classified documents, members say.
New York State tax figures show that 1,453 millionaire taxpayers moved away in 2021, while 80,000 remained.
New arrivals over the last few years have fueled hopes of population growth, but workers increasingly struggle to find housing in a market gone wild.
Hospital-at-home care is an increasingly common option, and it is often a safer one for older adults. But the future of the approach depends on federal action.
In a so-called natural experiment, two school districts in Boston maintained masking after mandates had been lifted in others, enabling a unique comparison.
“Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis are using asylum seekers as political tools,” a reader writes. Also: President Biden and the pandemic; abortion prosecutors; arms for Ukraine.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
As the United States marks one million Covid-19 deaths, Times journalists reflect on the one story or moment from the pandemic that will stay with them forever.