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Two trademark applications for the word "Boston" were filed this month under the Red Sox name -- an aggressive proposal that trademark law experts laughed at and stressed has an "extremely low" chance of getting approved by the federal gov...

I'm not wringing my hands about the national woke overreaction. I just relish watching the entire company, especially in Boston, suffer through the agony of a programming death spiral, on top of the ongoing collapse of their stock price....

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has welcomed Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to his Downing Street office while demonstrators gathered nearby to protest Netanyahu's right-wing policies...

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For years skateboarding was branded as a hobby for rebels or stoners in city streets, schoolyards and back alleys...

Once he thought about it, James McCann was actually glad Grayson Rodriguez struggled near the end of his fourth start this spring. McCann, the 32- year-old catcher the Orioles brought in to back up Adley Rutschman, knows what it takes for a pitcher of Rod...

The Ukrainian army is using Soviet-era helicopters on missions to the front lines in the fight against Russia's invasion of Ukraine...

House Republicans are pressing forward with a vote on a midterm campaign promise...

A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said...

Legacy sites like the Providence Gas Company Purifier House on Allens Avenue are integral in the city's transformation....

Jamestown, R.I., author set down a lovable children's series to write a cozy murder mystery....

WBZ TV's Jordyn Jagolinzer reports....

Everyone in tech circles may be goin' gaga over artificial intelligence at the moment, but here in the land o' Android, we've got plenty of other interesting stuff on the horizon. Believe it or not, Google's already hard at work on the nex...

The conversation about who should continue to receive funding has created tension on Beacon Hill, as top policymakers grapple with how to solve a crisis that has put Massachusetts on the map for having some of the most expensive child care in the country....

That boyfriend loved me as I was, yet I wanted to make something new....

Will a shared love for anime unite these daters?...

Zack Green has your latest weather forecast....

"Waiting for Trump" is equally absurd — a motley, endless production signifying just about nothing that allows Trump to sit back and raise money from rubes who worship him....

Mass. State Police crews responded to a crash on Route 391 northbound in the area of the Connecticut River Bridge in Chicopee on Wednesday night....

Dry, seasonable weather returns to end the week...

In a statement released late Thursday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said U.S. Central Command forces retaliated with "precision airstrikes" against facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard....

A man reported his wife missing after their Jeep was swept downstream by swift-moving water....

The drone strike also wounded five American service members and a second U.S. contractor, the Pentagon said, adding that Iran is thought to have been behind it and the U.S. hit Iran-linked targets....

Spring is officially here, and there is plenty going on this weekend in greater Boston....

Police are looking for four who they believe injured three teenagers in a shootout in Philadelphia....

The solution, many experts and members of Congress agree, is to strengthen internet privacy protections to prevent the kind of surveillance and data abuse TikTok critics worry about....

China is threatening "serious consequences" after the US Navy sailed a destroyer around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea for the second day in a row, in a move Beijing claims was a violation of its sovereignty and security....

The Pentagon says a US contractor was killed and five US service members and one other US contractor were wounded when a drone struck a facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday....

A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said...

The train derailed just before noon on Thursday on a line jointly owned by Norfolk Southern, the company linked to a catastrophic train derailment in February in Ohio, and CSX, according to a statement from the latter outfit, which said the freight train ...

In their pursuit of power, Republicans turned the fate of American lives into political gamesmanship....

Hundreds of positions in emergency medicine are going unfilled because of huge structural problems in American health care....

For most of the world, the struggle against colonialism was the dominant struggle of the last half of the 20th century, not communism....

Young people who are taught their rights become concerned citizens able to hold bad officers to account....

City Councilor Frank Baker made the $10,000 contribution to support the redistricting lawsuit, which names the city, Mayor Michelle Wu, the City Council, and the election head as defendants....

One day after supermodel Gisele Bndchen's tell-all interview with Vanity Fair dropped, former husband Tom Brady took to Instagram to post a famous quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, in which the 19th century author references "the betrayal of false f...

China is threatening "serious consequences" after the U.S. Navy sailed a destroyer around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea for the second day in a row, in a move Beijing claims was a violation of its sovereignty and security...

North Korea claimed Friday to have tested a nuclear-capable underwater drone designed to generate a gigantic "radioactive tsunami" that would destroy naval strike groups and ports...

Scandal-embattled Japanese electronics and technology manufacturer Toshiba has accepted a $15 billion tender offer from a buyout fund made up of the nation's major banks and companies...

China's scandal-plagued football association has been rocked by new corruption probes into its chiefs of discipline and competition...

The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era...

Mike Reed didn't cause the collapse of the newspaper business, but he has managed to accelerate it....

Good Friday Prayer Walk...

Huge street protests and widespread strikes rocked France on Thursday as demonstrators mounted a fierce display of resistance to a new law raising the retirement age and of fury at President Emmanuel Macron, who bypassed a full vote in Parliament to force...

Ukraine's president on Thursday made his third visit in two days to areas that have felt the brunt of Russia's war, with a trip to the southern Kherson region that was retaken from the Kremlin's forces, and as a senior Kyiv commander hinted th...

MEMPHIS — As he drove to work on a summer afternoon in Memphis last year, Ralph Jones saw a woman on the sidewalk flagging him down. Thinking she was in distress or needed a ride, Jones said, he pulled over....

DENVER — Stranded at home amid pandemic lockdowns in spring 2020, Emma Warford stumbled down a social media rabbit hole in her quest to get in shape. Viral 28-day fitness challenges. YouTubers promising "hourglass abs." Diet videos where sli...

Six new inductees will enter the venerable Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in June, the organization announced Wednesday....

Shares have fallen in Asia as worries over turmoil in the banking sector and the risks of recession overshadowed gains on Wall Street. Benchmarks declined in most major markets, while U.S. futures were higher. Oil prices fell. On Thursday, the S&P 500 add...

Jacob Wycoff has an updated weather forecast....