Marianne Leone's mother, who was born in Boston to Italian immigrants, returned to Italy with her parents as an infant. But in 1935, she used her American passport -- and birthright citizenship -- to ...

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Ezra Furman’s new record “Goodbye Small Head” is so detail-rich that its lyrics deserve to be printed out and annotated. Whether a listener is a longtime fan of the Somerville singer-songwriter — ...

This week began with the Trump Administration and the Chinese government announcing a 90-day pause in the steep tariffs the ...

The flights will image geology as part of a national effort to modernize geological maps in the region. The planes will take ...

Rep. Joe Courtney, a Democrat from Connecticut, says the Boeing jet the Qatari government plans to gift to President Trump ...

Healey announced a "hiring freeze" will take effect May 27, blocking executive branch agencies and departments from bringing ...

The world's 1.4 billion Catholics have a new pope, Leo XIV. But the church he now leads is far from unified. What does the ...

The state’s public defender agency said an alleged sexual relationship between a judge and prosecutor, first described in a ...

The 90-day relaxation of escalating reciprocal tariffs led to a stock market rebound this week. But business leaders in ...

As Trump takes aim at education and diversity, equity and inclusion, some students look to historically Black colleges for ...

Massachusetts and 19 other states allege in a lawsuit that both Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Transportation ...