Michael Casey

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

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.

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)

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)

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)

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 scooter

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)

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

By Steve LeBlanc, Kathy McCormack, and others

Harvard protest

Harvard protesters voluntarily withdraw after administration agrees to discuss endowment concerns

By Michael Casey and The Associated Press

Salisbury

‘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 Fight

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 coffeeshop

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

Harvard

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 signs

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 Airways

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

Homeless encampment in Portland, Oregon

America’s cities are ratcheting up controversial ‘sweeps’ of homeless encampments, but still failing to find a solution: ‘We’re not trash, we’re people’

By Claire Rush, Janie Har, and others