U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-7th District: “Everyone is carrying so much — including you. In 2026, build community where you ...

As of 8 a.m. Saturday, most of Western Mass. and Central Mass. were in the clear, though residents may still have a lot of ...

We must end 2025 with a final farewell in the world of books. Mass market paperbacks were primarily positioned as portable, even disposable, low cost and even lowbrow as they were significantly ...

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with publisher Esther Margolis about the end of the era of mass market paperbacks. These inexpensively made books were once staples in most grocery and drug stores.

Thank you for highlighting the urgent need to regulate nonmedical home care in Massachusetts (“Home care workers should be licensed and regulated,” Editorial, Dec. 9). As you note, many private home ...

People requesting a Mass to be said for some intention at their local parish might face a long wait. There may be a long line of others already wanting to donate for a Mass intention. In some parishes ...

Every mass shooting in the U.S. raises calls for better policies to prevent such tragedies. There's evidence suggesting that certain kinds of laws may reduce deaths from mass shootings, say scientists ...

No matter how you define a mass shooting, one thing is clear: data suggests this brand of violence has grown worse in the United States. In 2015 alone, there have been 299 shootings that killed or ...

The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else. The story of particle mass starts right after the Big Bang. During the very first moments of the ...

There were more mass shootings across the U.S. in 2019 than there were days in the year, according to a gun violence research group. 2019 had the highest number of mass shootings in any year since the ...