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  • 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
  • Sen. Robert Kennedy poses with his wife Ethel outside the Senate Chamber on Oct. 13, 1965.Politics

    Ethel Kennedy’s legacy captured in 10 photos: From Camelot to social justice work

    By Michael Casey, Steve LeBlanc, and others
  • Two researchers observe test tubes while in a wooded area, apparently observing water samples. They are in outdoor safari-like clothing.Success

    Ig Nobel Prize goes to scientists who discovered butt-breathing mammals

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • BOSTON, MA – AUGUST 1: Boston Red Sox President and CEO Sam Kennedy, Governor Maura Healey, and former NFL quarterback Matt Ryan, amongst others, participate in the 10th anniversary of the Frates Foundation Ice Bucket Challenge August 1, 2024 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images)Health

    The ice bucket challenge is back. A decade after the viral campaign, organizers are once again fundraising to find a cure for ALS

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • This alert screen, seen on a mobile phone in Providence, Rhode Island, shows a notification alerting users that the 9-1-1 emergency system is currently down. The 911 system across Massachusetts went down Tuesday afternoon, June 18, 2024, making it impossible for anyone to reach emergency services. (AP Photo/Michelle Smith)Tech

    Massachusetts installed a firewall designed to prevent cyberattacks and hacking—instead it caused a 911 outage

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A sign stands at the road leading to the Raytheon facility in Marlborough, Mass., on June 10, 2019. The major defense contractor was sued Tuesday, June 11, 2024 over allegations that it discriminated against older workers in job ads. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)Success

    Raytheon sued for age discrimination for seeking recent college grads over older workers

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • A delivery driver on a scooterRetail

    Fury road: Cities are seizing illegal mopeds and scooters amid backlash against food delivery drivers

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A Paqui One Chip Challenge chip is displayed in Boston, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. A medical examiner says a Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge died from ingesting a substance “with a high capsaicin concentration,” according to autopsy results The Associated Press obtained late Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Capsaicin is a chili pepper extract. Harris Wolobah died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the chip. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc, File)Retail

    ‘One Chip Challenge’ led in part to high school sophomore’s death, autopsy found

    By Steve LeBlanc, Kathy McCormack, and others
  • Harvard protestPolitics

    Harvard protesters voluntarily withdraw after administration agrees to discuss endowment concerns

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • SalisburyEnvironment

    ‘What, and destroy $2 billion worth of property?’ Mass. beach community undaunted after storm washes away 3-day-old $600,000 sand dune project

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • Our Biggest FightTech

    Billionaire Frank McCourt says the surgeon general is only half right about the social-media mental health crisis. It’s a crisis of personhood, not privacy

    By Frank H. McCourt Jr. and Michael Casey
  • Young professional women collaborating in coffeeshopSuccess

    Black professional women are struggling to find their way in a job world where they have few workplace peers—and diversity is under attack

    By Terry Tang, Michael Casey, and others
  • HarvardSuccess

    Harvard hit with student lawsuit claiming campus is ‘bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment’

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • Native American road signsPolitics

    U.S. road signs feature (Native) American languages for a change as 7 states honor indigenous tribes

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press
  • JetBlue/Spirit AirwaysPolitics

    Government accuses JetBlue of trying to have it both ways in arguing Spirit acquisition is crucial but other small carriers could easily replace it

    By Michael Casey and The Associated Press