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Wednesday morning's attempted massacre at a baseball field in Virginia, in which an apparent Bernie Sanders backer opened fire on several GOP members of Congress and their staff after reportedly inquiring about the group's political affiliation, allegedly inspired another as-of-now-unnamed individual to threaten a female Republican
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BOSTON — The state's Sierra Club director arguably stole the show during a rally Tuesday at the foot of the Massachusetts State House, which had been organized by a Falmouth lawmaker looking to drum up support for a bill that would enter the state as a non-party stakeholder into
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Mainstream media types and their ilk on Monday grappled with their coverage of the one-year anniversary of an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack in which a lone gunman shot and killed 49 patrons of a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, with outlets like the Washington Post receiving heavy criticism for apparently
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BOSTON — A federal judge has squashed Harvard University's bid to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to draw back the curtain on the elite institution's admissions policies. The plaintiffs, represented by the Arlington, Virginia-based Students For Fair Admissions organization, have sought to prove that Harvard discriminates against
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BOSTON — The long-simmering question of whether school districts or the state should determine which sports mascots are acceptable reached a boil on Tuesday, as Beacon Hill lawmakers received an earful of testimony from both Native Americans and non-Native Americans claiming that sports names such as "Redmen" and "
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A New Boston Post investigation has discovered that it only takes two clicks — one from a Facebook user reporting content and another from just one of the thousands of content reviewers employed across the globe by the social media giant — to initiate a lock/ban on another user's
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BOSTON — A bill calling for a statewide ban on doctors and therapists assisting minors in converting from one sexual orientation or gender identity to another drew passionate testimony from opponents and supporters during a hearing Tuesday. Opponents of the therapy, like Samuel Brinton, told lawmakers about their own experiences. Brinton,
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BOSTON — Late Monday night Walt Heyer talked to a New Boston Post reporter about how that afternoon he left the sun-stroked 100-plus degrees of Phoenix, Arizona, only to land at Logan Airport, greeted by the Bay State's 50-ish degrees of sloppy wet March leftovers. Drastic changes? A metaphor?