Massachusetts

The colorful town of Hyannis remains the domain of the only dynasty ever to exist in the United States. Now politics pits the most visible members of the clan against each other: JFK’s grandson, a Democrat, and independent presidential candidate Robert Jr., his great-uncle

Rick Slayman was sent home from Massachusetts General Hospital after a procedure that marks a milestone in the emerging field of xenotransplantation

Delahunt was an early Obama backer, becoming the first member of the Massachusetts congressional delegation to endorse the Illinois senator’s presidential bid

The storm should be completely out of the region by Sunday morning

The Senate passed a bill that would limit maximum stays to nine months with the possibility of 90 more days for veterans, pregnant women and people who are employed or enrolled in a job training program

The patient, Richard ‘Rick’ Slayman of Weymouth, Massachusetts, is recovering well from the surgery last Saturday and is expected to be discharged soon, doctors said

The Biden administration has approved six commercial-scale offshore wind energy projects, and auctioned lease areas for offshore wind for the first time off the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico coasts

The administration estimated the pardons announced could end up benefitting hundreds of thousands of people

In Minnesota, the ‘uncommitted’ vote was 19%. In Massachusetts, Colorado and North Carolina, tens of thousands of people opted for this choice

Teixeira, 22, admitted illegally collecting military secrets and sharing them with other users on Discord, a social media platform popular with people playing online games. Prosecutors plan to seek nearly 17 years in prison for him

Their announcements marked ‘an important milestone’ in ensuring mifepristone access, President Joe Biden said in a statemen

Internet gambling generated $6.17 billion, up 22.9%. Total was 10% higher than in 2022, which itself was a record-setting year

It was the first major snowstorm in New York City since February 2022. More than 1,000 flights were canceled Tuesday morning

The bill would toughen oversight for those who own privately made, unserialized firearms that are largely untraceable

The harassment started in 2019 after Ina Steiner wrote a story about a lawsuit brought by eBay that accused Amazon of poaching its sellers

Like in more than a dozen other states, the voters made the case that the U.S. former president should be disqualified because he urged his supporters to march on the Capitol

Claudine Gay has denounced racist threats following her appearance at a congressional hearing in early December to discuss antisemitism on campuses

Power was knocked out for more than 600,000 customers in an area stretching from Virginia north through New England

The weaponization of accusations of anti-semitism on college campuses is fueling the controversy over the Gaza war. This is despite the fact that experts point out that this hate speech isn’t a new phenomenon… and that it’s more often attributed to the extreme right

A study shows that a person’s prior beliefs about artificial intelligence greatly influences how they rate their conversations with the tool

Experts may have identified a pathogen that has sickened and killed dogs around the country

It is one of a growing number of states to do so. It will start limiting the amount of new gasoline-powered cars that can be sold in the state starting in 2027

Some experts worry the U.S. may be repeating mistakes that gave rise to the opioid crisis: overprescribing a questionable drug that carries significant safety and abuse risks

While much attention has focused on clearing the names of those put to death in Salem, most of those caught up in witch trials throughout the 1600s have largely been ignored

The lawsuit filed in federal court in California also claims that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents’ consent, in violation of federal law