The region is not alone in facing terrorist attacks and plots, but its international reach may play a role, analysts say.
The state has been so successful in nurturing the birds back to health that their nesting areas are consuming wide swaths of beaches.
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?I?m always telling them, ?Watch the game, watch the game,? because anything can happen,? David Ortiz said.
Woman suffers serious injuries in Fenway incidentMedical personnel attended to the woman at the ballpark before taking her to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Firms like MassMutual and Liberty Mutual operate in an opaque, poorly understood, and often immensely profitable world.
Starts & Stops
The group has a message for legislators: Don?t allow the T to raise fares by more than 5 percent every two years.
A three-alarm fire ripped through the sides of two three-story buildings in Charlestown on Saturday evening, officials said.
BELMONT STAKES
American Pharoah captures Triple Crown with Belmont winThe odds-on favorite becomes the first horse in 37 years to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont.
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CRITIC?S NOTEBOOK
A development boom is going to reshape Boston?s skyline, which raises the question: What?s a good tower, anyway, and what?s a bad one?
Yvonne Abraham
A rush to judge at the Boston Public LibraryUsually, a beleaguered official?s boss will try to hold off the bloodhounds. This did not happen for library chief Amy Ryan.
Red Sox 4, Athletics 2
Hanley Ramirez homered and Joe Kelly pitched six strong innings in the win.
The Energy Department projected that US oil production will begin declining as soon as 2020 ? just five years from now.
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SUBURBAN HANDBOOK: SUMMER EATING
Sweet and salty, crunchy and chewy, nothing says summer like fried clams stuffed into a butter-toasted hot dog roll.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
We?re waiting for Boston 2024 to show us something, anything, that will turn the negativity that is killing this process.
special section | diversity boston
How diversity ? in the workplace and elsewhere ? has evolved over the years, and why it?s still necessary.
Cheap Eats reviews
These restaurants feature dishes you can order for under $20.
2016 candidate Graham has problems in home stateSenator Lindsey Graham?s worst-case scenario ? losing the South Carolina primary badly ? could be politically fatal.
Michael A. Cohen
Rand Paul?s pandering makes his hypocrisy obviousThe Republican presidential candidate is more than willing to make exceptions to his strict libertarian views.
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Fruit pickers in Mexico have blocked roads and staged marches since March as frustration over working conditions boiled over.
MLB does not agree with the team?s claims that the strike zone has changed or gotten wider in 2015.
Several specialists in policing said less lethal options ? such as a Taser or pepper spray ? would not have been practical options.
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BMW?s new system sounds promising, might not be in Boston for a while.
Islamic State militants reached the southern gates of the predominantly Kurdish city of Hassakeh in Syria, activists said.
Williams is chief executive of Roxbury Technology Corp., a maker of toner cartridges.
Mitt Romney, who briefly flirted with a third presidential bid, has shifted from candidate to aspiring kingmaker in the GOP primary.
The actor of ?Parks and Recreation? fame and author of ?Gumption? talks about his love of reading and favorite types of books.
Phones are often the cause of our stress ? but what if they could help us manage it instead?
Design New England
A house for BenNicola Manganello designs an elegant home for a family in Maine with special needs.
ideas | data dive
How big data changes the way you buy a homeThe volume and availability of information about every aspect of real estate can seem downright creepy.
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