Santa’s sleigh didn’t make it in time for Christmas for some this year.
Speaking to about 30 people at New England’s largest day shelter, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley began in parable, then unwrapped a teaching about the heart of the holiday.
Militants targeted Christians in three separate Christmas Day bombings in Baghdad, officials said.
Egypt’s military-backed interim government has been intensifying its campaign of arrests and prosecutions targeting Muslim Brotherhood members.
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Movie Review
Ben Stiller updates James Thurber’s 1939 short story and creates a trenchant if uneven parable about the fate of the imagination in the digital age.
Movie REview
In love with ‘Her’Joaquin Phoenix is superb in the touching meditation on what it means to be human and where our machines may be taking us.
Movie REview
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf’ is a howl, and the joke isn’t pretty“The Wolf of Wall Street” is one of the funniest yet most depressing movies of Martin Scorsese’s long career.
Movie Review
Stallone, De Niro back in the ring with ‘Grudge Match’Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro don’t generate enough combative spark to make the movie anything more than an amiably mediocre diversion.
Larry Tye
Bridging the care gapThings have improved dramatically — but not enough — in rooting out hospital miscues and keeping patients from being readmitted.
In Sunday’s blowout win, the Patriots unveiled a new running game to neutralize a size disadvantage along the offensive line.
Sixty-three people in Mass. were convicted as juveniles of first-degree murder and are now serving mandatory life sentences without parole.
The three high-ranking government officials resigned days after their sons were taken into custody in a sweeping corruption and bribery scandal.
The government extended its deadline to sign up for health insurance for those who were stymied by the federal website.
Students say that fixed tuitions help them hold down costs by allowing them to budget wisely and borrow less.
Members of the Music & Youth Initiative, a nonprofit music training and mentoring program, are learning how to protect their work.
The goal is to create a vision of abundance, yet the selection is practical.
Video
Watch the ‘Broken City’ Insiders eventVideo of a discussion with The Boston Globe’s Washington bureau of the gridlock in Washington and what can be done to end it.
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When doctors prescribe books to heal the mind Can you read your way to psychological health? Britain is finding out.
