BOSTON — A real estate industry professional said Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposal to scale back certain affordability requirements for developers is too modest to make a meaningful impact on jump-starting housing production in Boston.

Chris Lehman, director of the Small Property Owners Association, said the mayor should instead be focused on ...Read more

Blackbird Mountain Guides, the company whose guides were leading skiers out of the Sierra Nevada backcountry when an avalanche struck their group and killed nine people, has ceased operations, according to an undated note on its website.

“Blackbird Mountain Guides is no longer operating,” a brief note on the company’s home page states. �...Read more

During campaign season, headlines were full of candidates who spoke openly about their faith – and many of them were Democrats.

Adam Hamilton, the new senator-elect from Kansas, is pastor of the United States’ largest United Methodist congregation. Frederick Haynes, who will represent a Texas district in the U.S. House of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The election of Nithya Raman, a democratic socialist, as the next mayor of Los Angeles promises to have a profound impact on the city’s police force — although perhaps not right away.

Among the most important and widely watched decisions facing the city’s next mayor is about what to do with LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell. Raman ...Read more

Outgoing U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman of New York on Wednesday handed over the reins of the so-called House Bagel Caucus to incoming U.S. Rep. Micah Lasher, keeping the hole-y post in Manhattan hands for another two years.

Goldman, who lost his seat in a primary landslide to incoming Rep. Brad Lander, passed the baton of the dough-little gig to Lasher...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration signaled it would respond aggressively to a Democratic-led Congress with a letter this week threatening to prosecute lawmakers for oversight efforts.

The letter from White House Counsel Will Scharf sent Monday to House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., argued that ...Read more

As Gov. Ron DeSantis signs the state’s 22nd death warrant of the year, a pastor who counsels people on death row is asking the next governor, Republican Gov.-elect Byron Donalds, for a six-month moratorium on all state-sanctioned executions.

Rev. Jeff Hood, a 42-year-old pastor based out of Little Rock, Arkansas, has been accompanying people ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police and state authorities are investigating a deadly accident involving an LAPD officer who apparently drowned during a training exercise at a backyard pool in Huntington Beach, with officials looking into potential violations of safety protocols related to diving at a private residence rather than a department ...Read more

Thousands of schools in Europe were targeted by bomb threats, leading to evacuations and adding to the recent disruption across the continent that grounded planes and saw supermarket fridges hacked.

In Italy, 6,000 schools received emailed bomb alerts, according to the Education Ministry, with a sizable number of them sending kids home. ...Read more

NEW YORK — A woman was arrested for assaulting two horse carriage drivers in Manhattan’s Central Park, smashing one over the head with a skateboard and punching another in the face while calling them animal abusers in a caught-on-video attack

Abigail Holbrook, 27, is charged with two counts of assault for the Tuesday attack on West Drive ...Read more

For millions of Paraguayans, Ueno Bank represented the future of banking.

Customers could open accounts, transfer money and pay bills from their cellphones without stepping inside a traditional branch. The digital lender expanded at remarkable speed, accumulating nearly 3 million customer accounts in a country of roughly 6 million people and ...Read more

The public reckoning against British actor-comedian and convicted rapist Russell Brand continues after his conviction and prison sentencing for rape and sexual assault charges.

British screenwriter and producer Jemima Goldsmith accused ex-boyfriend Brand of “violence, coercive control and abuse” during their relationship. In a tweet shared ...Read more

Kate Middleton opened up about her love for nature and how that passion helped her healing journey following her cancer diagnosis.

“I was told in hospital that my recovery would not be linear. There will be good days and bad days, that it will take time,” the Princess of Wales revealed in a new interview with Country Life, a special ...Read more

Rep. Laura Gillen says she missed the vote to impeach controversial Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth because she was stuck in traffic due to a police roadblock near the Capitol.

Like at least two other Democrats, the Long Island lawmaker says she planned to vote in favor of moving ahead with impeachment of Hegseth and will do so if and when the ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The former Rowan County clerk who made national news when she refused to sign a marriage certificate for two men is in another round of court trouble — she could face sanctions and contempt of court after a judge found she withheld information about assets she owns.

In a Nov. 6 order, a federal judge found Kim Davis likely ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House's top lawyer is raising the possibility of criminal investigations into House Democrats, arguing that the inquiries they plan to open into President Donald Trump and administration officials could themselves break the law.

Will Scharf, the White House counsel, made the warning in a letter dated Monday to Rep. ...Read more

Nvidia Corp.’s investigation of Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy is raising questions about the company’s future and sending its stock into a tailspin.

In the wake of Huang’s shocking disclosure in a memo to Nvidia employees on Sunday, Wall Street is wondering if the biggest and most important ...Read more

BALTIMORE — With the 2028 presidential election on the horizon, Maryland’s elections administrator wants lawmakers to use next year’s legislative session to address prediction markets and strengthen protections for election judges, and to revisit a proposal regulating the influence of social media algorithms on elections.

Jared DeMarinis ...Read more