The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

Director of photography Bill Greene is retiring after a remarkable career at The Boston Globe. After 41 years, take a look at 41 of his photos.

The hardest cases deserve a fair trial. That’s true of Sanders, and of Lindsay Clancy, too.

The SJC found Latarsha Sanders was denied a fair trial because her psychiatric history was not shared with the jury who convicted her of first-degree murder in the deaths of two of her children.

Washington is loosening financial safeguards just as risks tied to artificial intelligence are mounting.

We’ve had one of the steepest declines in Massachusetts, which should give the president a frisson of delight.

Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.

Can a 17-year-old consent to sex with her 47-year-old teacher? At long last, this state will say no.

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Every now and then, a story seems to drop from the sky. A smart fifth-grader. The teacher she hated — and whose life she saved. Here’s how we got that story.

You want to think you’d do more.

More than 40 years after Montana Miller left Mr. Grosky behind, she gave him an unexpected gift.

More than 40 years after Montana Miller left Mr. Grosky behind, she gave him an unexpected gift.

As hunger rises, the inability to reach state SNAP case workers contributes to thousands losing food assistance

Birchmore's death certificate now also says her cause of death was “asphyxia," not "asphyxia by hanging."

Jesus, we were taught, was a radical.

Lyons told the Globe in an interview Friday he is leaving "on my own terms."

“We spend pennies on everything else, yet when it comes to war, there’s no limit. How is this America First?”

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An expert on authoritarian governments sees where the US is going. And he knows what we need to do to fix it.

Gutting the Fourth Amendment just as America marks 250 years of independence is a little too on the nose, even for this administration.

Federal officials have said about 50 arrests were made the first day and that roughly 1,400 people are targets of the operation in the mostly rural state of 1.4 million residents.

Toppling US Senator Susan Collins is crucial to Democrats’ plan to bring America back from the brink.

Somali immigrants put their faith in what this country stood for. The president is destroying it.

Minnesota is just the latest and most violent front in a much wider campaign of aggression Donald Trump and his administration are conducting in blue states.

The president is looking after his friends in oil and gas, at the expense of New England’s wind industry.

Even if Latarsha Sanders' family had the wherewithal to stand up for her publicly, would anyone have listened?

From the beginning, it was clear the prosecution’s strategy was to deny Latarsha Sanders’ mental illness and demolish her character.

Latarsha Sanders was in no condition to understand the stakes as she sat in an interrogation room at the Brockton police station.

As paranoid and obsessive as Latarsha Sanders could be, she had never hurt her kids. Now, her family rakes through their memories for signs.

Latarsha Sanders had the kind of psychotic break that speaks for itself. Or at least it should.

A judge explains his reasons for resigning.

A video of immigration authorities apparently trying to detain a man who is holding a toddler, while bystanders are yelling for his safety, has gone viral.

Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch paid $55,000 under a resolution released Wednesday by the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance.