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Climate change is already damaging the health of children, and its impacts will harm the entire generation with serious health problems throughout their lives, according to a new report from the medical journal The Lancet. Scientists and health experts from 35 academic institutions and United Nations agencies said that children will suffer from a rise in infectious diseases, malnutrition and...

Next year’s Met Gala may be the closest we’ll ever come to getting a Miranda Priestly moment at the starry event.

The former first lady announced that Selena Gomez, Liza Koshy, Shonda Rhimes, Megan Rapinoe, Tracee Ellis Ross and Kerry Washington have signed on as co-chairs of the national organization When We All Vote .

An advocacy group is trying to stop a Maine law that would give vaccine exemptions for religious and philosophical reasons from going into effect, but some people are saying they’d been misled. Mainers for Health and Parental Rights submitted a 93,000-signature petition calling for a people’s veto on a law passed this spring, making it illegal for parents to exempt...

Talk about a family vacation fit for royalty. Former President Barack Obama, wife Michelle and their two daughters jetted off to Europe for a star-studded getaway that included not only George and Amal Clooney, but U2 frontman Bono and Monaco’s Prince Albert II.

Former U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano has landed a new job. The law firm Foley & Lardner LLP announced Friday that the Democrat has joined the firm as a public affairs director and will be splitting his time between the firm’s Boston and Washington offices. Capuano will join Foley’s team of former members of Congress, which includes public affairs directors Dennis...

The Poor People’s Campaign will hold bus tours of poverty-stricken areas in more than 20 states to call attention to “what the national emergencies really are” in the wake of President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration over the U.S.-Mexico border, a leader of the campaign says. The tours will begin in late March and continue through April, said the Rev. William...

The question of how to best distribute state education dollars is emerging as a top issue in Massachusetts’ new legislative session, as mayors, lawmakers and educational advocates pressed Wednesday for increased funding for public schools, especially in poorer communities. The renewed effort comes months after the breakdown of negotiations between the House and Senate on the subject and as legislators...

It’s the time of year for college students to face finals. But students at Suffolk University in Boston have found a few great ways to relax. Finals week has been filled with Red Sox players, puppies, essential oils and positivity. Suffolk University and its students are helping each other relax during the stressful time.

In November, voters will decide whether to repeal a state law that protects transgender people from discrimination in public places. Passed in 2016, the law faced pushback before its passage, specifically around the protections it provided in restrooms and locker rooms. Now, Question 3 seeks to undo the legislation. “This is a safety and privacy issue for women and children...

Gov. Charlie Baker waffled on the issue of whether he will vote for Republican Senate candidate Geoff Diehl, the chair of Donald Trump’s campaign in Massachusetts, in his race against Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

ESPN+, the streaming video service from the sports network, has reached more than 1 million paid subscribers, the company said Thursday. It’s an impressive feat, given the service just launched in April.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage has called a fellow Republican “the most repugnant human” and stormed away from lawmakers who are investigating whether his administration retaliated against mill owners. The governor on Monday defended his administration before the Legislature’s government oversight committee.

An independent World Health Organization panel is backing away from the U.N. health agency’s own call two years ago to tax sugary drinks, in a new report on diseases like cancer, obesity and diabetes that some experts slammed as being “conspicuously limp.” International health experts said the decision was especially baffling, given the rising obesity crisis worldwide and WHO’s own...

In a surprise announcement that caught the candidate off-guard, President Donald Trump said Friday he’ll nominate acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to permanently lead the beleaguered department. Trump spilled the news about Wilkie at a White House event on prison reform as he introduced Cabinet members in attendance. When Trump got to Wilkie, he said, “I’ll be informing him...

After a shaky start and a wave of negative press, the AIDS relief charity amfAR attempted Thursday to focus the spotlight on its work instead of the stain left by one of its biggest benefactors Harvey Weinstein.

Two years after it was signed into law, Massachusetts’ transgender public accommodations law will be on the ballot, with voters deciding whether to repeal. Freedom for All Massachusetts campaign co-chair Mason Dunn and Karen Young, vice president of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, give their takes.

The town of North Andover could soon be home to one of the largest cannabis cultivation and research facilities in the state. The developers say residents would not be able to smell it and they would not sell it on the premises, but they are trying to sell the town on the idea that some consider controversial before a crucial…

A shelter in Concord, New Hampshire, is being renovated to improve service and reduce the number of people they have to turn away.

A coalition is trying to sell the people of Andover, Massachusetts on a 25-acre-pot growing facility, over 30 football fields long!