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2 separate cases place the immigration lens on Boston

5:00am March 17, 2025

by A Martínez

Two people legally in the U.S. who flew into a Boston airport have been denied reentry into the country after traveling abroad. One was deported in apparent defiance of a judicial order.

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2 men were arrested in Boston for allegedly flying a drone near the airport

1:32am December 16, 2024

Two men were arrested in Boston on Saturday for allegedly operating a drone "dangerously close" to Logan International Airport, police said.

Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments In Holocaust Survivors' Bid To Sue Hungary For Confiscated Property

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Boston's school admissions policy

1:48pm December 09, 2024

The court's action was the second time the justices declined to intervene in an admissions program based on geography since their 2023 ruling invalidating affirmative action in higher education.

Health & Safety

When temps rise, so do medical risks. Should doctors and nurses talk more about heat?

5:00am August 04, 2023

by Martha Bebinger

The medical dangers of heat are real. But people often ignore public heat alerts, or don't know how vulnerable they are. A new alert system prompts clinicians to talk about heat with patients.

FBI agents and members of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command handcuffed and interrogated the wrong person during a training exercise at a Boston hotel on Tuesday.

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Feds barged into the wrong hotel room during a drill, then detained the guest inside

2:27pm April 06, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

U.S. Army Special Operations Command and the FBI-Boston Division interrogated the wrong person during a training exercise on Tuesday: an airline pilot who was asleep at the time, per local media.

A United Airlines jetliner taxis to a runway for take off from Denver International Airport, Dec. 27, 2022.

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A man allegedly stabbed a flight attendant, tampered with the plane on a Boston trip

1:08am March 07, 2023

by Ayana Archie

The suspect was arrested at the Boston Logan International Airport after allegedly tampering with a side door and the emergency slide, and later allegedly lunged at a flight attendant.

The Embrace, the new memorial sculpture in Boston made in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was unveiled on Friday.

New MLK statue in Boston is greeted with a mix of open arms, consternation and laughs

1:15pm January 17, 2023

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

A new public art monument dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King was unveiled Friday. It immediately drew consternation and jeers as well as plaudits.

A Boston Police Crime Scene Response vehicle is parked on the street outside an apartment building where infant and other human remains were discovered by authorities.

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Police find the remains of 4 infants inside a Boston apartment

10:57am November 29, 2022

by Emily Olson

Police say they discovered "what appeared to be a human fetus or infant" and additional remains at an apartment in South Boston. An autopsy has revealed four infants: two female and two male.

Police and emergency personnel respond the scene of an explosion in Boston on Tuesday. A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries.

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The explosion at Northeastern University may have been staged, officials say

4:01pm September 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Federal officials are examining whether the employee who reported an explosion at Northeastern University may have lied to investigators and staged the incident, law enforcement officials said.

President Joe Biden speaks on the cancer moonshot initiative at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston on Sept. 12.

Biden touts his 'cancer moonshot' on the anniversary of JFK's 'man on the moon' speech

6:11pm September 12, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

Biden announced many of what he calls "cancer moonshot" goals in February. On Monday he laid out some updates in a speech that marked 60 years since Kennedy gave his iconic moonshot speech.