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  • Michael Pimentel, center, a resident at the Gabriel House assisted living facility, in Fall River, Mass., receives assistance from an emergency medical worker, right, outside a temporary shelter, Monday, July 14, 2025, in Fall River, following a fire that started late Sunday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Health

    Residents at Massachusetts assisted-living facility say staff fled without helping them during fire that killed 9

    By Michael Casey, Kimberlee Kruesi, and others
  • A Harvard University student wears a cap that says "The best things in life come to those who don't give up"Leadership

    The big theme at Harvard’s 374th commencement? Standing up to tyranny

    By Michael Casey, Leah Willingham, and others
  • This photo provided by Harvard Law School shows a rare copy of the Magna Carta from 1300 sits in a display case on April 15, 2025, at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. (Lorin Granger/Harvard Law School via AP)Arts & Entertainment

    Harvard thought the Magna Carta it bought for $30 was a cheap copy. Turns out it’s from 1300 and could be worth over $20 million

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A student protester stands in front of the statue of John Harvard, the first major benefactor of Harvard College, draped in the Palestinian flag, at an encampment of students protesting against the war in Gaza, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)Politics

    Harvard sees $2.2 billion in grants frozen after university says it will defy Trump administration demands to limit campus activism

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • Harvard UniversityPolitics

    Harvard University says it won’t comply with Trump’s demands, risking nearly $9 billion in funding, declaring it cannot ‘allow itself to be taken over by the federal government’

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • Immigration advocates speak Thursday, April 10, 2025, outside federal court in Boston, after a hearing aiming to halt the Trump administration’s from stopping a program that allowed hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to temporarily live in the country. (AP Photos/Michael Casey)Politics

    Trump administration can’t cancel temporary legal status of over 500,000 Latin American immigrants this month, judge rules

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., Tuesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)Politics

    Turkish doctoral student at Tufts handcuffed and detained by masked DHS agents: ‘It looked like a kidnapping’

    By Jake Offenhartz, Kathy McCormack, and others
  • Wreckage of Delta Airlines plane that crashed upon landing at Toronto Pearson AirportFinance

    How do you survive a plane crash? It helps to have skilled crew, strong seats and detachable wings

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • A Delta Air Lines plane lies upside down at Toronto Pearson Airport on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)Finance

    Investigators to probe why Delta jet burst into flames and flipped after landing ‘so hard that the right main [landing] gear collapsed’

    By John Wawrow, Michael Casey, and others
  • Photo: TORONTO, CANADA - FEBRUARY 17: Emergency personnel work at the scene of a Delta Airlines plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport on February 17, 2025 in Toronto, Canada. Several passengers were injured on the flight arriving from Minneapolis, resulting in the suspension of all flights at Canada's busiest airport. (Photo by Katherine KY Cheng/Getty Images)Politics

    Delta Air Lines jet flips upside down on snowy Toronto runway, sending 18 to the hospital. But all 80 aboard survive

    By John Wawrow, Michael Casey, and others
  • People rally against the policies of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    Federal judge clears key hurdle for Trump and Musk’s government employee buyout plan

    By Lindsay Whitehurst, Chris Megerian, and others
  • A pedestrian crosses First Avenue as a winter storm sweeps over the intermountain West, plunging temperatures into the single digits and bringing along a light snow in its wake Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Environment

    70 million Americans set to face winter storm warnings as U.S. braces for arctic blast of cold and snow

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • Daniel RanahanEnvironment

    30-year-old firefighter stunned to discover large tumor, then stunned to discover toxic chemicals in his work gear

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • E20 tilt-rotor electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developed by Shanghai TCab TechnologyTech

    As Elon Musk pushes driverless cars, one company is already testing autonomous helicopters to spray crops and fight fires

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A member of the Texas delegation holds a sign during the Republican National Convention on July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Politics

    Conservatives are pushing back on U.S. law that entitles immigrant children to a public education

    By Michael Casey, Jocelyn Gecker, and others