Increasing diversity is a challenge at Harvard graduate schools
At the design school, dental school, government school, and graduate school of arts and sciences, the percentage of African-American students doesn?t crack 5?percent.
At the design school, dental school, government school, and graduate school of arts and sciences, the percentage of African-American students doesn?t crack 5?percent.
Emergency medicine doctors said they need more space because today?s patients, including those with mental illness and drug addiction, require more intensive care.
A man found shot to death inside a converted garage at a Dorchester home early Saturday morning was a former assistant men?s basketball coach at UMass Boston, officials said.
Jillian O?Brien was seven months pregnant in March 2018 when she and her daughter, Billie, then 16 months, were rescued from their home which flooded during a nor?easter.
Michael Sullivan was convicted of first-degree murder in 1987, but advanced DNA testing cast doubt on his guilt.
A local temperance leader from the 1850s and nostalgia for the past had kept the town from licensing a liquor store for 162 years, historians said.
Yvonne Abraham
You can learn a lot from a self-made woman, but even more from a princess born to riches she thinks she earned herself.
The shooting took place shortly before 6:30 p.m. at the Bowdoin Apartments, officials said.
Community and amateur theater productions of ?To Kill A Mockingbird? threatened with legal action by a Broadway producer may now use another version of the play.
Nestor Ramos
The picture of Jassy Correia and her daughter doesn?t look the same anymore.
Everyone is aware that there are more sharks and that a man died last summer after an attack. Officials say they are responding in a number of ways, from more call boxes to scientific studies. Still, worries are growing.
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Snow will start between 7 and 10 p.m. tonight, ending from 7 to 9 a.m. Monday. Some localities may get 8 inches.
The National Weather Service has laid out its latest forecast for the winter storm that is set to sweep through the region overnight.
Forecasters predict highs in the lower 40s for much of Massachusetts and Greater Boston should get plenty of sunshine before storm clouds arrive.
The testimony of President Trump?s former lawyer was the subject of the show?s cold open this weekend.
The country doesn?t need the Disney touch to feel like a magical playground for your own little leprechauns.
EDITORIAL
A new enrollment plan for the state-funded, voluntary desegregation program has sparked controversy among parents.
Ideas | Robert L. Tsai
As the Supreme Court swings further to the right, reproductive rights advocates will have to battle it out in the states. That?s where the anti-abortionists have been hacking away at freedoms for decades.
She was alone except for the 23 strangers who gathered on a cold day at the end of January. None of them would ever know this baby?s story. It didn?t matter.
CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
Travel writer Christopher Muther attempts to improve his skiing skills, and quickly learns that the hills are alive with the sound of fear.
Michelle Singletary | The Color of Money
Had his wife known what was going on, would she have been able to stop him from taking an action that did monumental damage to their family and their finances?
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Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.
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Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.
The Big Picture
Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: winter weather, presidential candidates on the campaign trail, a Chinese New Year celebration.
De Blasio visited JetBlue Park on Saturday to see the Sox play the Orioles.
Captain Joel Barnes of the Berwick force died Friday while battling a four-alarm fire in a local apartment building.
Since the author?s stay at Walden Pond, researchers have noticed worrisome effects of climate change.
About 350 years ago, a young Sarah Good was 17 when her father, John Solart, built and opened his inn in 1670 in what is now Wenham.
Speaking at a conservative conference, the president also uttered a profanity and mocked Massachusetts?s Elizabeth Warren.
The two Sacramento police officers whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black man last year prompted nationwide protests will not face criminal charges.
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Had his wife known what was going on, would she have been able to stop him from taking an action that did monumental damage to their family and their finances?
A stage adaptation of William Wharton?s novel is brought stirringly to life in this Commonwealth Shakespeare production.
The fact that more than two-thirds of Sanibel is held as a nature conservancy engenders reverence for exotic birds and wildlife, as well. It?s easy to encounter them on Sanibel?s 25 miles of bicycle trails.
Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
A new version of CRISPR whose selling point is precision suffers from off-target DNA changes.