2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (352+ words) Today marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks. WBUR's Andrea Shea reports that ceremonies honoring the 2,977 victims are planned today at the State House and beyond. A moment of silence will be held at 8:46 a.m., the time the first hijacked plane out…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (592+ words) State Sen. William Brownsberger preserved his lead over former Boston City Hall aide Daniel Lander in a Democratic primary recount across four cities and towns that ended Thursday. Brownsberger won the election by 35 votes out more than 24,000 cast, virtually unchanged…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (314+ words) It’s been 25 years since the devastating terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center changed the world. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is making sure the heroes — and the 2,977 lives lost — will be remembered with honor on Sept. 11. Commemorations include drenching State…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (60+ words) Charlie Kirk supporter in Arizona: 'Don't let him die, Lord' WBUR On the day Charlie Kirk was killed last year, Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd went to a Phoenix church important to the conservative leader's mission of marrying religion and politics....

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (449+ words) Jacob Coxon, a researcher at the AI company Anthropic, quit his job, writing on social media Tuesday that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Evan Hubinger, also an Anthropic researcher, added his own…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (461+ words) Animal rights advocates want the last elephant in Massachusetts to retire and move, arguing that, like many winter-weary New Englanders, she should live out her sunset years someplace warm. But, as calls to move 61-year-old Emily from the region grow,…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (777+ words) Helena Foulkes defeated Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee in the state’s Democratic primary Wednesday, making him the first governor in any U.S. state to lose a party primary since 2018. McKee’s defeat ends his bid for a second full term and…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (781+ words) Pat Bavis still remembers the day he learned about the attacks on Pearl Harbor in his high school history class in Boston in the '70s. “You're sheltered when you're a young boy … and you think the world's all hunky-dory,” he said....

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (361+ words) Massachusetts state Sen. Jo Comerford isn't the only politician who gets trolled on social media. But after years of it, the Northampton Democrat reached a limit. She recently posted a video in which she called out the trolls who post…...