In 1628, the Dutch West India Company captured a Spanish silver fleet off the shore of Cuba. A broadside by Claes Jansz Visscher (1587–1652) celebrated the event, illustrating the battle and providing...

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That’s MET, as in Metropolitan Storage Warehouse. A Cambridge landmark, it’s the new home of the institute’s architecture school.

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The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An ‘extraordinary’ fire season is testing those who are left.

Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more aircraft to contain a 7-acre blaze last month, officials said.

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Deaths and close calls while fighting wildfires have strained an already on-edge workforce. They've also raised questions about policies and priorities amid an intense wildfire season.

As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy. The news was shared by philosophy professor Bradley Rettler in posts on social media....

Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.

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The AHA submitted a comment to the Federal Register stating our opposition to a rule proposed by the Office of Management and Budget that would give political appointees final approval over all federa...

Tributes have been paid to Peter Ahrends, the last surviving member of celebrated Modernist practice Ahrends Burton and Koralek (ABK), who has died aged 93

The deaths occurred as crews battled multiple fires across a parched region. Two other firefighters were injured.

The firefighters had been part of an interagency response to the Knowles and Gore fires on Saturday.

The U.S. Wildland Fire Service said the firefighters had been part of an interagency response to the Knowles and Gore fires near the Colorado-Utah border.

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Cambridge loosened drinking rules for the World Cup. Now it's considering a major crackdown on bars.

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“This erosion of our strength is a loss for the nation,” writes MIT President Sally Kornbluth.

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees