BOSTON — “It’s the worst financial deal in the history of Massachusetts.”

GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue is calling on U.S. Attorney Leah Foley to investigate “everything around” the $2 billion Springfield courthouse deal — especially the political connections held by the business partnership awarded the lucrative ...Read more

UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump threatened to escalate the war with Iran by “annihilating” the Islamic Republic if it fails to negotiate a deal over its nuclear program, delivering a defensive speech justifying the mission at the United Nations on Tuesday.

His remarks come more than six months into a war that has grown ...Read more

In the days after Earl Charles Spencer plunged the British monarchy into its biggest crisis in years by alleging in a forthcoming book that King Charles said bitter things about Princess Diana after her death, Meghan Markle chose an interesting way to promote the pantry items on sale through her lifestyle company, As Ever.

The American wife of ...Read more

An ironic development emerging alongside the “Make America Healthy Again” movement is the portrayal of nicotine as a wellness and performance-enhancing product. Across social media, podcasts, wellness communities and tech startups, prominent wellness personalities and other influencers are portraying nicotine as a misunderstood compound ...Read more

The Trump administration is repealing federal rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants.

It says the changes will make electricity cheaper for Americans. What consumers pay will depend partly on the cost of keeping older plants running compared with building and operating new ones. Even if the ...Read more

SEATTLE — In a report published Monday, the Seattle Police Department blamed budget constraints and distractions from elected officials for the hourslong delay in publicly communicating information about the Bite of Seattle shooting on July 26.

Interim police Chief Andre Sayles and Assistant Chief Tyrone Davis are scheduled to present the ...Read more

Gulf Arab states are set to urge U.S. President Donald Trump to avoid any escalation of hostilities with Iran at a meeting on Tuesday, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Officials from the Gulf Cooperation Council, a six-member bloc including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, have been coordinating ahead of a ...Read more

The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public.

Individuals and industries may kill endangered animals in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities, it said — so long as the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California serial killer Wesley Shermantine, who along with his childhood friend terrorized the Central Valley throughout the 1980s and '90s, has died in prison, authorities said.

Shermantine was one-half of the notorious "Speed Freak Killers." The moniker referred to the duo's methamphetamine-fueled killing rampages, which ...Read more

DENVER — The Aurora immigration detention center placed a housing unit on a brief quarantine earlier this month after detainees were told they’d been exposed to tuberculosis, according to interviews with advocates and two people housed in the pod.

Federal and facility officials did not provide comment on the reports, despite multiple ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A group of Baltimore residents accused top city officials of violating city and state laws and regulations by approving a $900 million Harborplace redevelopment plan, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

Plaintiffs, mostly residents who live downtown near the Inner Harbor, said in the complaint that Mayor Brandon Scott and the ...Read more

Actor Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of fentanyl and other drugs including a generic version of Xanax, according to a coroner's report in North Carolina where she died last month.

The Greenville County Coroner's report listed Panettiere's cause of death as toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, Alprazolam — the generic version of ...Read more

Pollsters approach this year’s midterm elections dogged by high-profile misfires in recent elections while facing challenges from brash rivals intent on reshaping the landscape of political forecasts.

There are no guarantees that polling’s troubles – and persistent popular skepticism about the dependability of election polls –...Read more

President Donald Trump loves a good pardon. His generosity is so well known, in fact, that an industry of lobbyists, lawyers and other insiders has reportedly sprung up to facilitate clemency for wealthy criminals. Clemency, meaning mercy or leniency, lets the president reduce the punishment for, or even forgive, federal crimes.

For ...Read more

Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S.

These findings stopped me in my tracks because those two jobs rely on the same thing as my own work: ...Read more