The Commonwealth, with its wealth of universities, would be a prime spot to create jobs and grow the field of AI-oversight expertise.

The agency inked the deal with Connecticut company Radeco, which modifies the original machines with military grade add-ons that include a robotic arm, thermal camera, and sensors for explosive materi...

In Massachusetts alone, 7,300 people are expected to lose access to full Medicaid coverage Thursday.

There is research showing that there are numerous benefits for a low-income child to attend a Head Start program, though these effects are less clear as the child ages.

"I assumed it was some crazy contractor trying to drum up business," the homeowner quipped.

The Sox have been resilient all season. Everyone counted them out. That’s all you’ve got to make yourself feel hopeful at this hour.

Trillions of dollars in spending, higher interest rates, hardly any jobs

$6 diesel is hurting small truckers. It could hurt Trump, too.

How on earth did The New York Times, a seemingly ossified institution in a dying industry, survive the most destabilizing period in its history — and emerge stronger?

On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.

He went from outsider businessman to disappointing politician.

Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, a lawyer and politician from the centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party, is only the second woman to lead the government of a North African country.

A new “propaganda playbook” aims to demystify common techniques used to target Black Americans, long a powerful voting bloc, with election-related disinformation.

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week finds its newest champion in a bear that overcame an injury in 2007 that nearly killed him.

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field known outside our solar system.

Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.

This campaign could be a compelling model for Democrats.

Voters are showing a growing determination to repudiate his presidency.

A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.

Over the last seven years, Massachusetts school aid has soared to $7.7 billion this year. But concerns are growing over lackluster MCAS scores, inflation, and budget cuts.

Another Trump enabler pays the price

“Pretty sure he’s not blown away by ‘carved rock in shape of circle,’” Jon Stewart said, noting that China has its own “fully autonomous magnetic levitation train.”

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

Councilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery.

A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

As their midterm picture darkens, and gas and diesel prices soar, some Republicans who backed the war for months are now changing their tune.

The fate of two cotton brokers highlights how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has scaled back its regulatory actions not just for crypto cases but also for the kinds of cases it has long poli...

Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.

Our Ukraine correspondent Siobhán O’Grady visits a school in Kyiv where air raid sirens interrupt classes all day and children must take shelter.

New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston says that the state simply couldn’t continue to create jobs faster than the rest of the country.

The storm system continues to spin over the Mid-Atlantic but will eventually get caught back up in the jet stream as it weakens, moving out early Tuesday.

No, I haven’t lost my mind

“Two and nine have treated me very unfairly," he said.

The president might be supercharging what already looked like a blue wave.

The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week above 7% for the first time since January 2025, the latest affordability setback for prospective homebuyers following a five-week run of rate in...

What’s driving interest rates higher?

New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.

The war of attrition between Russia and Ukraine is expanding to encompass both countries' economies.

The NIH grant process remains intact. But supporters on the Hill and in research institutions worry the administration will try to alter it again.

The price tag, once a symbol of fairness and transparency, has disappeared.

Pillars of business and civil society gave in to Trump in shocking succession. Even when capitulation made no sense.

Despite bloviations from the Oval Office, Joe Biden outperformed the Orange Menace on every important metric

As the president extolled the strength of the economy on the global stage, Americans continued to feel the sting of rising prices stemming from the war in Iran.

Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.

The White House’s campaign to reorient history around the president’s desired narrative is far reaching in scope and relentless in its pursuit.

Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.

Our dystopian future has arrived.

So far, this week has been defined by sagging polling numbers for Trump that are so bad that Republican candidates in tight contests are creating real distance for the first time.