Elizabeth Warren is focusing her trademark populist style on the next big item on the Republican to-do list in Washington: overhauling the US tax code. 

President Donald Trump told the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson that the soldier ?knew what he signed up for,? according to a Florida congresswoman. 

??He said, ?I?m going to write you a check out of my personal account for $25,000,? and I was just floored,?? the father said. 

When a Brookline woman told her friends and family she had cancer, they mobilized, at one point raising $24,000 for her. But it turns out she made it all up. 

When Jeff Immelt had to fly, he sometimes had an empty private jet follow him ? just in case the plane he rode on had mechanical issues, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

DivcoWest is readying several construction sites for its 45-acre property on the borders of Cambridge, Boston, and Somerville and is also giving the project a new name. 

MathWorks will donate $10 million to the museum, the largest corporate gift in the institution?s two-century history. 

Lawmakers are considering a sweeping overhaul of the state?s criminal justice system and are looking at the question of solitary confinement. 

The teacher, who was not identified, allegedly began a sexual relationship with a Stoughton High School student that continued after the student graduated.  

Students in grades 3-8 performed worse on the redesigned MCAS ? often by eye-popping double-digit margins. 

UMaine officials launched an ambitious effort three years ago to draw kids north to Orono.