In December 2025, Andrea Lucas, the chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, invited white men to file more sex- and race-based discrimination complaints against their employers.

“Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under ...Read more

When you look out across a snowy winter landscape, it might seem like nature is fast asleep. Yet, under the surface, tiny organisms are hard at work, consuming the previous year’s dead plant material and other organic matter.

These soil microorganisms – Earth’s recyclers – liberate nutrients that will act as fertilizer once ...Read more

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday said she would send another $1.5 billion from state coffers to New York City, helping to bail it out of a budget gap Mayor Mamdani had leveraged to push for tax hikes on the rich.

The governor committed an additional $1 billion this fiscal year and $510 million next fiscal year, according to a press release....Read more

BALTIMORE — A man was federally charged in Maryland last week after posting drone footage on YouTube of a flight over part of the Raven Rock Mountain Complex, a military installation buried in the Catoctin Mountains sometimes described as a “second Pentagon.”

The drone pilot, Stuart Dale Bennett, was identified by FBI agents after a U.S. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to restore the slavery exhibits that the National Park Service removed from the President’s House last month.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe issued a ruling Monday requiring the federal government to “restore the President’s House Site to its physical ...Read more

A man charged with cyberstalking for publishing vile racist and antisemitic rants against judges has been jailed on the eve of trial after he photographed a prosecution document in court and used it, in some cases with assistance from supporters, to contact potential state witnesses.

Paul Boyne’s return to jail days before his trial is ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly inspired but much more to the point.

Six words scrawled underneath her note would become his dying wish: “The same for me as well!”

Seven months ...Read more

BOSTON — As concerns about an ICE surge, potential nearby detention facility and World Cup attendance continue to circulate, Gov. Maura Healey spoke on the issue again and called for defunding the immigration agency.

“Right now, ICE has too much power, unbridled authority, no guardrails,” said Healey in a WCVB “On the Record” segment ...Read more

BOSTON — Police reports released to the Herald after a public records fight reveal new details about the hours leading up to and following the murder of an MIT professor in his Brookline home last year.

Nuno Loureiro died on Dec. 16 after being shot by his former classmate Claudio Neves-Valente — the same man authorities have said is ...Read more

The Trump administration has unveiled a sweeping set of regulatory proposals that would substantially change health plan offerings on the Affordable Care Act marketplace next year, aiming, it says, to provide more choice and lower premiums. But it also proposes sharply raising some annual out-of-pocket costs — to more than $27,000 for one type...Read more

The Trump administration has formally denied Minnesota law enforcement access to information and evidence from the FBI investigation into the shooting death of Alex Pretti by federal agents on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis.

The announcement comes in the wake of White House border czar Tom Homan announcing the end of Operation Metro Surge and a ...Read more

A Valentine’s Day double homicide in North Carolina is getting international attention due to one of the victims being a Ukrainian refugee.

The killing of Kateryna Tovmash, 21, marks the second time in six months a Ukrainian woman has died violently while seeking refuge in North Carolina, Ukrainian media outlets have noted.

Tovmash died ...Read more

As the investigation into the abduction of Nancy Guthrie entered its third week, authorities await key DNA evidence, President Trump threatened the abductors and daughter Savannah Guthrie urged her mother's kidnappers to "do the right thing." But with no sign of the 84-year-old, there growing concerns about her welfare and questions about how ...Read more

MIAMI — Moringa powder capsules have been recalled as a CDC and FDA investigation links the capsules to a new form of salmonella outbreak that the CDC calls “unusual and highly concerning.”

“The salmonella strain associated with this outbreak is resistant to all first-line and alternative antibiotics commonly recommended for the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota farmers are worried they won’t have enough hands to tend livestock and manage crops this year, a consequence of ongoing federal immigration enforcement in the state targeting undocumented workers from Latin America who keep U.S. agriculture churning.

While the thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...Read more

The Buddhist monks arrived at The Lawyer’s Mall below the State House steps last week, which has long been the scene of political protests.

In this sharply partisan era, almost any event can get cast as political if one party believes its rivals are using it to make a point. Plenty of loud politicians seem to thrive on the most elementary ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio showered Viktor Orban with praise on a visit to Hungary as the U.S. doubled down on its support for the strongman leader before an election that could bring an end to his 16 years in power.

Speaking in Budapest on Monday, Rubio pledged that Donald Trump would provide assistance if Hungary ever ran into financial ...Read more

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held talks with the head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog in Geneva on Monday, ahead of a second round of nuclear negotiations with the U.S.

During his meeting with Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Araghchi discussed “proposals” he’ll present at ...Read more