BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has released a new report detailing nearly 1,000 cases of child sex abuse allegedly committed by 270 clergy across the Fall River, Worcester and Springfield dioceses, first publicly exposed in 2002, and the institutional failures that allowed the abuse to occur and continue.

The report ...Read more

BOSTON — The chances of a two-month suspension of the state’s 24-cents per gallon gas tax proposed by Gov. Maura Healey last week being taken up by state lawmakers this legislative session looks bleak, at best, as gas prices continue to soar and the general election sits just over a month away.

Healey announced last week that she had filed ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Facing high resignation rates and significant staffing shortages in the University of Connecticut police and fire departments, UConn will offer tuition waivers for public safety personnel and their dependents beginning next year, according to public safety officials at the university.

Lawmakers say the tuition waivers will ...Read more

A pilot of a jet carrying more than 170 passengers to Tel Aviv stabbed his colleague and tried to crash the plane in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branded a serious security incident.

Catastrophe was narrowly avoided after a passenger and members of crew stormed the cockpit of the Flydubai plane that had taken off in Dubai and ...Read more

DUBLIN, Calif. — A married man and woman in their 70s have been charged with murder, days after they allegedly shot and killed their son-in-law at a local parking lot, taking turns firing at the victim, who was embroiled in a bitter divorce and custody battle with the suspects’ daughter.

Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, were charged ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With less than five weeks to go until the midterm elections, Republicans face historical headwinds as the party in power and must also contend with high gas prices amid the ongoing Iran war.

But Republican groups enjoy a clear cash advantage as the party seeks to hold on to the House, and redistricting in several states has ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The once unlikely prospect of Democrats scoring a net gain of four seats to win the Senate majority now looks more plausible less than five weeks out from the midterm elections.

Still, that would require the party to win in red states that haven’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in years. But strong recruits, coupled with a ...Read more

Tropical Storm Hanna continued to churn Wednesday in the central Atlantic though it is expected to become a remnant low by tonight.

Hanna, located nearly 1,210 miles east of Bermuda as of 5 a.m. Wednesday, was moving east-southeast at 5 mph with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.

This hurricane season broke a 112-year record now that the ...Read more

Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal communities around the world. Today, about 1 billion people live in coastal areas; about 100 million live within 1 meter (3.3 feet) of sea level, highly exposed to coastal flooding.

Over the long term, when it comes to future ...Read more

More than a year of tensions inside the office that shapes UCLA's public image spilled into a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday, as lawyers for a campus vice chancellor asked a judge to block the public release of an investigation into allegations from six employees that she bullied them or misused university funds.

Vice Chancellor Mary Osako ...Read more

A visit to the Eiffel Tower by a delegation of monks representing a global Hindu religious denomination on Sept. 5, 2026, has raised broader questions about accommodating religious observances in public spaces.

Eiffel Tower workers protested with a one-day strike after tower management allegedly replaced some women employees for the ...Read more

For nearly a decade now, news outlets ranging from The Atlantic to the Forward and The Free Press have reported on the increasing number of Jewish students attending college in the South.

This shift is not unique to American Jews. The five states with the fastest-growing number of applicants are all in the South or Southwest. Most ...Read more

Pennsylvania lawmakers returned to Harrisburg on Sept. 28, 2026, after a 10-week recess with little time to determine the future of the state’s skill games. On June 15, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the devices are slot machines governed by the state’s gambling and criminal laws. The court stayed its order for 120 days to give...Read more

Federal prosecutors recently described an interstate criminal enterprise with all the trappings of organized crime: clandestine warehouses, money laundering and stolen goods transported across state lines. The mid-September 2026 announcement stated that 19 defendants faced charges; two had just pleaded guilty, while the remainder are slated ...Read more

As a powerful nor’easter hit the U.S. Atlantic Coast in late September 2026, the ocean poured into coastal neighborhoods from North Carolina to New York. Water from the storm surge and heavy rain filled streets and surrounded homes as near-hurricane-force winds knocked out power. It may have even uncovered a shipwreck more than a century ...Read more

Imagine watching a political campaign video in which a candidate admits to taking a bribe. You recognize the face and voice. But the confession is entirely fabricated, thanks to artificial intelligence.

Now imagine that your state has passed a law against these AI-generated election deepfakes. Would that mean the video has to be ...Read more