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Local News TechBoston Academy’s head of school wrote in a letter to families that the victim was stabbed during a fight between two students. TechBoston Academy in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston on March 16, 2022. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff A student at a Dorchester high school was hospitalized Wednesday after being stabbed by another

Researchers have discovered a genetic link between depression and heart disease that could help to find new drugs to target both conditions. A team of scientists at Tampere University in Finland identified a “gene module” consisting of 256 functionally related, co-expressed genes that contribute to the development of both diseases. The full findings of the

The Archdiocese of Chicago is facing a lawsuit in connection with a former priest accused of sexually abusing and exploiting an altar boy at a now-closed elementary school and parish on the city’s Lower West Side.  The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in Cook County Circuit Court, alleges that the Rev. John Keehan repeatedly sexually

General Daily Insight for April 25, 2024 It’s easy to get overwhelmed. The sensitive Moon faces off with expansive Jupiter and shocking Uranus, making it difficult to reckon with change — whether it’s looming in the near future or weighing us down in the recent past. We can breathe a sigh of relief as communicative

An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 people Wednesday in the ongoing investigation into an alleged attempt to use alternate electors after the 2020 presidential election as part of a wider alleged conspiracy to falsely declare then-President Donald Trump the winner, the state’s attorney general announced. The alleged fake electors and defendants named in the indictment were Kelli

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The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Last year’s slowdown marks an official end to the uptick in new babies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. At

President Biden made the sign of the cross, a gesture Catholics often make before and after prayer, while listening to pro-abortion comments by a fellow Democrat in Florida. The president’s actions came Tuesday as Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, the state’s former Democratic gubernatorial nominee, blasted an upcoming law restricting abortion to within six weeks of gestation.

Andrew T. Guzman, the provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at the University of Southern California, sent a letter to the school’s students, faculty and other members with an update on the situation taking place on campus. Guzman reiterated the university “values freedom of expression and protects the right of every member of

The Biden administration last month secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine for the first time to enable Ukrainian forces to strike farther into Russian-seized areas in Ukraine, according to a report. Politico reported Wednesday that the U.S. approved the transfer of “a number” of Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), which Ukraine had been asking for for years

California’s attorney general filed criminal charges Wednesday against one of L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s top advisors, who supervises high-profile and sensitive cases including police misconduct, fraud and public corruption. Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced the 11 felony counts against Assistant Dist. Atty. Diana Teran in a press statement. He accused her of improperly

Manuel Vazquez, owner of Coya’s artisan ice cream, poses for a photo as he carries a tray of ice pops in the kitchen of his shop in Fort Myers, Florida, U.S., February 26, 2024. Marco Bello for NPR hide caption toggle caption Marco Bello for NPR Manuel Vazquez, owner of Coya’s artisan ice cream, poses

One hundred or more protesters gathered on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday to participate in an unruly anti-Israel demonstration. The rowdy protests invited hundreds of onlookers, some of whom joined in on the anti-Israel chants on the school’s South Lawn. UT Austin is one of many American universities where

A wave of pro-Palestinian protests spread and intensified on Wednesday as students gathered on campuses around the country, in some cases facing off with the police, in a widening showdown over campus speech and the war in Gaza. University administrators from Texas to California moved to clear protesters and prevent encampments from taking hold on

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The legal troubles are growing for Memorial Hermann Hospital and the doctor in charge of the hospital’s liver and kidney transplant programs. Three families, represented by the Hastings Law Firm, have filed for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Dr. J. Steve Bynon “in order to prevent him from deleting or

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