On Sept. 11, 2001, Brooklyn firefighter Stephen Siller, just off an overnight shift, saw the planes hit the towers. He geared up and ran through the Battery Tunnel, toward the danger. He died there. 

The marriage has curdled for tech titan Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and his movie-star spouse, Carla Duval (Sienna Miller), after she orchestrates her own husband's infidelity. And London's top lawyers are salivating for the legal war to come.

Rural voters, especially farmers, have largely voted conservative in recent years. High prices for diesel fuel and fertilizer caused by the war in Iran could sway the way they vote.  

Bendancer danced for 168 hours over seven days, seemingly smashing the previous record of 127 hours set by a dancer in India.

A new generation of mothers looking for community online is often feeling manipulated by the $60-billion U.S. baby product market to buy, buy, buy.

Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, according to a federal survey.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday appointed the state’s Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor to investigate the case.

Topsfield Fair organizers say some of the giant pumpkins could at Friday's contest break fair — or even world — records.

Two Massachusetts men have been sentenced to probation and given fines after they pleaded guilty to setting off fireworks at an empty Harvard Medical School building in 2025.

Robin Schoenthaler wanted to buy cowboy boots for a Texas wedding. “I had a pretty specific request,” she writes. She needed size 9. Extra points for bright colors, sparkles, low heels, not too pointy. "I figured it was a long shot. But I was wrong.”

"Flock and other companies are building an omnipresent digital dragnet without democratic consent, enabling law enforcement to track people across the country with the click of a mouse," writes Gideon Epstein, of the ACLU of Massachusetts.

The internet is the great connector. Talk with nearly anyone at any time about anything. But that kind of freedom can lead to misunderstandings. Maybe your neighbors discover your cruder, less friendly persona online. Maybe a debate over holiday lore becomes a battle front.

Endless Thread producers Grace Tatter and Frannie Monahan bring two stories to remind us that the internet is a morass of information that no one can ever control.

Show notes:

• "How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor" (Oakland Review of Books)
• Bomellida FAQ (GitHub)

This week, the attorney general's office released its investigation on clergy sexual abuse in the Worcester, Springfield and Fall River dioceses. And new polling gives a sense of where voters stand on the gubernatorial race and the ballot questions for this election.

WBUR's Tiziana Dearing sat with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu this week. She shared her complicated feelings on artificial intelligence and how it drives her policies.

Plus, it's almost peak leaf-peeing season in the Boston area. Check out this foliage map from the state's Department of Conservation and Recreation to see the best time and location to see the colors change.

In her new novel, "Hocus Pocus," Keene State professor Brinda Charry follows an Indian stage magician through a frozen 1816 Boston, where audiences see him as a curiosity.

Gov. Healey is asking the Trump administration to expedite its review of a proposed natural gas pipeline expansion project in New England.

Judge William Sullivan issued the decision Thursday, stating that prosecutors had offered enough evidence for a jury to decide whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children.

DraftKings was sued in a federal class-action lawsuit in Massachusetts. The lawsuit claims the Boston-based sports betting company used artificial intelligence to figure out which customers were most likely to keep gambling and losing, and then targeted them with promotions.

After spending 8 years running focus groups with voters, the former Republican operative and Never-Trumper says she knows not only how voters think but why they vote the way they do.

Most adults in the U.S. cannot consistently afford health care. That’s according to a recent Gallup poll.

This time of year, when peppers come in a rainbow of colors and shapes and sizes and flavors, it’s hard not to love sweet peppers.

Death row inmate Christa Pike survived two injections intended to kill her.

Santa Rosa Island is one of only two naturally occurring groves or Torrey pines in the world.

Are any of the recent unsettling food-related headlines related to FDA cuts?

It's been 50 years since Pat Metheny released his first album in 1976.

Every day, 17 veterans die by suicide. Mental health conditions, chronic pain, poor sleep, financial strain, and isolation can all compound the risk.

Fighting in Yemen reignited this summer, connected with the war in Iran, and experts say that is exacerbating a health and humanitarian crisis.

In "The Radiance," a writer who's also named Ayad Akhtar has an almost fatal bicycle accident that leaves him with a mysterious state of altered perception. 

At a bitcoin bar in Washington, D.C., on a recent Saturday night, a pro-data center party welcomed hundreds of artificial intelligence fans who enjoyed a generative AI photo booth, data-themed drinks and speeches about the race against China.

A decade ago, a federal plan aimed to help the pollinators along their journey and offset habitat loss by planting strips of milkweed and wildflowers along Interstate 35.

Newly constructed homes now cost less than existing homes in many U.S. markets, reversing a years-long trend.