Record-breaking U.S. heat wave nears end, but others expected to follow
The United States sweltered in dangerously hot weather on Sunday, with major cities including New York, Philadelphia and Washington broiling in temperatures that rose into triple digits Fahrenheit. An oppressive heat wave stretching from the Midwestern plains to the Atlantic coast had nearly 150 million ...
Yuji Haraguchi: Changing the gourmet rules
From making fish-based ramen to serving Japanese lunch as breakfast in the U.S., chef Yuji Haraguchi likes to break with convention.
Employees at online home furnishings retailer Wayfair staged a walkout Wednesday to protest the company's decision to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to a government contractor that runs a detention center for migrant children in Texas. More than 500 employees at the company's Boston headquarters ...
Suspect in custody in ambush shooting of retired Red Sox slugger David Ortiz
Police in the Dominican Republic were investigating on Monday why a man shot and wounded former Boston Red Sox slugger David "Big Papi" Ortiz as he sat in a nightclub late on Sunday, according to police and the team. Ortiz, a 43-year-old retired baseball player ...
Actress Felicity Huffman pleads guilty in court in U.S. college admissions scandal
Actress Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty on Monday to paying to rig a college entrance exam for her daughter, part of a wide-ranging scandal in which wealthy parents used bribery and fraud to secure their children spots at prominent U.S. universities. The onetime star of the ...
Actress Lori Loughlin pleads not guilty in college admissions bribe scam
Actress Lori Loughlin said on Monday she will plead not guilty to charges that she participated in what prosecutors say was the largest college admissions scandal uncovered in U.S. history. Loughlin, who starred in the television sitcom "Full House," and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo ...
Actress Felicity Huffman arrives at Boston court to face college admissions bribe charges
Felicity Huffman arrived at the federal court in Boston on Wednesday, where she and fellow actress Lori Loughlin will appear to face charges tied to what prosecutors call the largest college admissions scam uncovered in U.S. history. Camera crews crowded the courthouse in anticipation of ...
Alleged victim of Kevin Spacey sexual assault filmed part of incident
A young man who accused Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting him at a seaside restaurant near Boston in 2016 filmed part of the incident, according to court filings obtained by AFP. The 59-year-old star of the "House of Cards" series, who has won two Oscars, ...
Boston Irish mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger, inspiration for film 'The Departed,' killed in prison
James "Whitey" Bulger, who lived a double life as one of Boston's most notorious mobsters and as a secret FBI informant before going on the run for 16 years, was killed at a federal prison in West Virginia, sources said Tuesday. The FBI was looking ...
Boston counterprotest overwhelms, cuts short 'free speech rally'
Thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-Nazi slogans in a public rejection of white nationalism upstaged a small group in Boston that planned a "free speech rally" a week after a violent clash rocked Virginia and reverberated across the U.S. Counterprotesters marched through the city on Saturday ...
Boston St. Patrick's parade faces boycott calls after gay vets are snubbed
A gay veterans group said Wednesday it has been denied permission to march in this year's Boston St. Patrick's Day parade just two years after organizers made the groundbreaking decision to allow gay groups to participate for the first time. The veterans group, OutVets, said ...
Scientists, environment activists stage Boston protest over Trump's threat to research
Hundreds of scientists, environmental advocates and their supporters held a rally in Boston on Sunday to protest what they see as increasing threats to science and research in the U.S. The scientists, some dressed in white lab coats, called on President Donald Trump's administration to ...
