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In this artist depiction, Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, seated second from right, appears in U.S. District Court, in Boston, April 19, 2023. (Margaret Small via AP)

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Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira to face military justice proceeding

Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for leaking highly classified military documents, will face a military justice proceeding later this month. Air Force officials say he faces two charges in the military justice system, including obstructing justice and failing to obey a...

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Salvage crews in Baltimore continue to remove wreckage from the Dali on April 26, one month after the cargo ship smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge and caused it to collapse. (Getty Images)

Who will pay to replace Baltimore's Key Bridge? The legal battle has...

Amazon and Target are among the latest big retailers to stop selling weighted infant sleepwear due to concerns about safety. Here, a woman pushes a stroller as the New York skyline is seen from Weehawken, New Jersey. (AFP via Getty Images)

Amazon, Target and other retailers pull weighted infant sleepwear over safety fears

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson visited Columbia University on April 24 to meet with Jewish students and make remarks about concerns that the ongoing demonstrations have become antisemitic. (Getty Images)

House passes bill aimed to combat antisemitism amid college unrest

Luis Escarraman spent $139 when he picked up some vitamin C and a few items of clothing for himself and his daughter. "I need to work extra to get what I used to have before," he told NPR. (NPR)

Voters in this 'boomerang' county say they're nostalgic for the Trump economy

Dr. Todd Rasmussen stands in his home office in Rochester, Minn. He is a former combat surgeon who did six tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Jenn Ackerman for NPR)

After downsizing healthcare for years, Pentagon says medical readiness was a casualty

Lawyer Keith Davidson, who represented former Playboy model Karen McDougal, testified during Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. April 30 in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)

Who is Keith Davidson, the lawyer who negotiated hush money payments from...

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The West Newton Cinema, pictured in 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Anonymous donor gives over $5 million to effort to save West Newton Cinema

An anonymous donor gave $5.2 million to help purchase and renovate the 87-year-old movie theater, according to the West Newton Cinema Foundation, a nonprofit formed by residents to save the...

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May 1, 2024

A rose in a water bottle hangs with protester signs along the barrier at the pro-Palestinian camp at MIT. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Boston city council adopts Gaza cease-fire resolution

This was the council's third attempt to pass a resolution calling for an end to the Israel-Hamas war. The symbolic move calls for an "immediate and permanent cease-fire in Israel...

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May 1, 2024

FILE - A vehicle charges at a Tesla Supercharger station in Detroit, Nov. 16, 2022. (Paul Sancya/AP)

Issues of electric vehicle chargers, family shelter system collide in Foxborough

Radio Boston discusses how electric vehicles and the state's migrant crisis are intersecting in Foxborough with Boston Globe reporter Aaron Pressman.

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11:46May 1, 2024

Harvard Street in Brookline. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Once again, housing looms large in Brookline elections

Leaders from the rival Brookline By Design and Brookline For Everyone coalitions sound off on a key issue in Brookline politics: housing.

Radio Boston

19:35May 1, 2024

Lexington native amongst student journalists following police crackdown on protests at Columbia

Rachel Kahn, a Lexington, Massachusetts native and student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, joins Radio Boston. Kahn talks about the protests at Columbia and the efforts by student...

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15:53May 1, 2024

Visitors walk along artist Massiel Grullon's ground mural “Knotical Waves,” commissioned by Now + There, at Lot Lab, near the Charlestown Navy Yard in 2023. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Boston will host its first 'Public Art Triennial' in 2025

Over the past 10 years, public art nonprofit Now + There has commissioned 52 participatory, site-specific sculptures and murals to enrich Boston’s landscape. The vision of the organization is expanding...

Arts & Culture

May 1, 2024

Former Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge, 55, shields his face with a printout of the indictment against him as he walked from the Warren B. Rudman United States Courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire, following his arrest on charges related to an alleged scheme to steal and sell donated body parts. (Steven Porter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

What's the latest on Harvard's morgue scandal? Here's where things stand now

Nearly a year since news of Harvard Medical School's morgue scandal first broke, WBUR’s new narrative podcast "Last Seen: Postmortem" digs into how it happened, the macabre history of our...

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May 1, 2024

The New England Institute of Art, in Brookline in 2016. (Collin Binkley/AP)

U.S. Department of Education discharges loans for New England Institute of Art students

About 3,500 Massachusetts borrowers who attended The Art Institutes are eligible for roughly $80 million in relief.

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May 1, 2024

Postmortem, Ep. 5: A reckoning

How should we treat the dead?

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Medical students stand around an operation in a lecture theater in the United Kingdom around 1898. (SSPL/Getty Images)

Postmortem, Ep. 4: The anatomy lab

Medical schools have a dark past.

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Does Massachusetts need the prestigious Michelin Guide?

Why doesn't Massachusetts have a Michelin Guide? Radio Boston digs in.

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15:46Apr 30, 2024

U.S. Representative Seth Moulton at WBUR. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR

US Rep. Moulton on war in Gaza, campus protests

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26:12Apr 30, 2024

A protester sits and holds a sign with George Floyd’s image during an 8 minute and 26 second moment of silence in front of the Boston police substation in Jamaica Plain in 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

How leaders are thinking about police reform 4 years after George Floyd's murder

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46:21Apr 29, 2024

A boy follows a reading at his family's Passover meal in 2020. (Elaine Thompson/AP)

How four Boston-area Jews are thinking about Passover this year

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Everett-based artist WhyTri creates music that melds different styles of hip-hop together (Courtesy WhyTri)

Local musician discovered by Fortnite after posting on Reddit

At the beginning of 2023, alternative hip-hop artist WhyTri started posting videos of his music on Reddit. He didn't think much of it — for him, it was a way...

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04:48May 1, 2024

Tents and a protest mural at the student protest camp on the Green at Tufts University. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Tufts warns encamped students: Leave or face discipline

Tufts University issued an ultimatum to the students camped on its campus: Clear out or face the consequences.

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Apr 30, 2024

Gov. Maura Healey speaks to the news media. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Healey signs shelter funding bill that limits lengths of stay

Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday signed into law a new nine-month limit on how long families can live in Massachusetts emergency shelters.

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Apr 30, 2024

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in Malden. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

School districts look to state for guidance on LGBTQ student issues

Local school leaders say some of the resources they have received from the state education department have been helpful, but want more guidance on navigating the conversation around gender identity...

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Apr 30, 2024

The Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex in Roxbury. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

State plans upgrades for Roxbury recreation center, after using it as temporary shelter

The improvements, long in the works, are slated to come as the state returns the popular facility and its pool to the neighborhood.

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Apr 30, 2024

Members with the group "Googly Eyes on the MBTA" rallied on Boston Common near the Park Street station Monday. (Meghan B. Kelly/WBUR)

What's the latest novel vision for the T? Googly eyes

Looking to bring a little levity to stressful commutes, a local group is calling for the MBTA to put giant googly eyes on the front of T trains.

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Apr 30, 2024

A technician walks with a solar panel across the rooftop during a solar panel installation in Boston. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Want to take out a loan from Massachusetts' new 'green bank'? Here's how it works

The Massachusetts Community Climate Bank is offering loans to help low- and moderate-income homeowners make clean energy improvements to their homes. Here's what's covered and who's eligible

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Apr 30, 2024

Tufts administrators wait out campus protesters as graduation looms

School officials say they won't meet with student protesters until some two dozen tents are removed from the quad.

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Apr 29, 2024

A Red Line train arrives at JFK/UMass station. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

Get ready for a 9-day closure of the middle of the Red Line

The MBTA will shut down the Red Line between Park Street and JFK/UMass this Thursday, May 2, through next Friday, May 10, as part of the long slog to remove...

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Apr 29, 2024

Karen Read sits in court during jury selection at Norfolk County Superior Court, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. (David McGlynn/New York Post via AP)

Trial starts in conspiracy-fueled case of girlfriend charged in Boston police officer's death

The trial of Karen Read is set to begin Monday. Read is facing charges including second degree murder in the death of Officer John O’Keefe, 46, in 2022. The defense's...

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