FeedCity

Britain, France and Canada moved to block imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. This comes amid the expansion of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory and a wave of deadly violence against Palestinian civilians.

Just after midnight on Tuesday morning, Canada began imposing retaliatory tariffs on certain American products made in states with tight Senate races, such as Ohio and Texas. 

Under his tenure, UMass Boston climbed the U.S. rankings of public research universities, earning top-tier status from the Carnegie Foundation in 2025. And he helped oversee a long-overdue $293 million overhaul of a campus that first opened in 1974. 

Gonzalez has agreed to a four-year, $135 million contract with the New England Patriots that makes him the highest-paid cornerback in NFL history, two people with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press. The news comes just before the team kicks off the NFL season on Wednesday.

Since his testimony in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial, there has been a tsunami of social media commentary criticizing Patrick Clancy and questioning whether he had some involvement in the deaths of the children.

Authorities in Illinois have not alleged that Clancy’s trial played a role in the killing of Walsh’s son, and no evidence made public so far establishes a connection beyond her discussion of the case.

Starting this week, Fidelity Investments is requiring its 6,000-plus Boston-based employees to resume in-person work five days a week. Many will return to a brand-new headquarters in what used to be known as the Seaport World Trade Center. Here's a peek inside.

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s decision to not seek reelection created a cascade of competitive races. Two of the eight Republicans hoping to replace the three-term Democrat are former U.S. senators she previously defeated: John E. Sununu and Scott Brown.

All Springfield Public Schools staff have been directed to stay off of district network systems until further information is known. Students with district-issued the laptops should do the same.

They survey of nearly 1,200 Massachusetts educators by UMass Amherst’s Center for Education Policy also found that teachers consider their biggest challenges in the classroom to be student disinterest and low motivation, unclear standards around student discipline or behavior, and insufficient time for planning.

On rainy or snowy days, some of the new machines at South Station are not in service: They’re covered in black, snug-fitting tarps.

"Better coordination may not prevent every tragedy, but in high-risk care it is essential," writes Lauren Hajjar. "A collection of services is not the same as a system of care, and a person in crisis should not be responsible for connecting the pieces."

It's not just phones anymore. More teachers and even entire U.S. school districts are cutting back the time students spend on laptops and other screens. How do students really learn -- and do screens help or hurt?

A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

Rep Drunken Van Orden has some seriously misplaced priorities. He's facing a lot of problems at home, where rural hospitals are closing, people are losing their health care coverage, farms are going bankrupt, and people are going hungry, all because he voted for the One Bi...

“Trump is reaching for a more drastic trade war weapon, with new threats to shut foreign goods out of the U.S. altogether,” Axios reports. “It would mark a significant evolution of the administration’s trade agenda, with potentially bigger economic fallout than the tariffs that have defined it so far.” “Trump may also have firmer legal […]

Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) stripped references to President Trump and his “America First” movement from prominent parts of her campaign website as she battles for moderate voters in an unusual incumbent-versus-incumbent California House race, Politico reports.

Today, President Donald J. Trump stood with first responders, Gold Star families, and the Tunnel to Towers Foundation to honor the Americans who ran toward the fire on September 11, 2001. At his side was a 21-foot steel beam recovered from the wreckage of the South Tower — carried more than 10,500 miles on Tunnel […]

The post President Trump Honors 9/11 Heroes and Renews America’s Vow to Never Forget appeared first on The White House.

The lessons about why NYT won't report on a good policy news apply even to us old-school bloggers.

The post The Snowflakes and Petals of Influence NYT Chooses to Ignore appeared first on emptywheel.

OpenAI announced a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, which I had never heard of because I’m not a mathematician, but which is apparently a very big deal:

The question of whether smooth three-dimensional fluid motion can break down has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.

There is some controversy over whether two human researchers (one at Anthropic) working on similar problems might’ve accidentally influenced the OpenAI model. It doesn’t sound like that’s true, but it does feel a little unfair regardless, where credit likely means so much to people.