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The state Transportation Department announced late last week it will fund millions of dollars to expand rail service in and around Pittsfield. Lindsay Schmid, with the regional tourism council 1Berkshire, told WBUR's Fausto Menard she thinks it could be a big economic driver for the area.

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on why Democrats need to embrace the "sticky symbolism" of billionaire private jets.

Peter Preble's 11th great-grandfather was Richard Warren, a passenger on the Mayflower and one of the 41 men to sign the Mayflower Compact. The more Preble learned about Warren, the more complicated his family's history became.

I received this in email this morning. I’m looking forward to skedaddling up to Los Angeles to improve my wardrobe of baggy cargo pants and food-stained T-shirts.

What to Do If Someone Puts a Suitcase in Your Overhead Bin — It has never occurred to me to think that an overhead bin is assigned to the seat below it. I look for a bin above my seat or a couple of rows ahead so I can get on and off the plane faster (and out of the way more quickly of everybody else getting on and off the plane).

Without a cause of death, it's unclear if Russia's precautions were the right ones.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117411420916699261

25% sold out as of now.

Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.

“I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police.

In his new action thriller, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim father and hit man whose life is upended when he suddenly has to care for his children on his own. The role brings together a lot of what has shaped Ali as an actor, including an attraction to characters who live in morally complicated places. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about why the script blew him away, filming Moonlight, and his childhood.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle's dream posting in Greece may be turning into a nightmare for the Trump administration. Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are reportedly considering giving their ambassador the boot after a series of damaging reports about her conduct bef...

We’re kicking off this week’s Green Deals with a bunch of ongoing savings from last week’s big event alongside some newer deals. Leading the group is Segway’s GT3 Electric SuperScooter down at its $1,400 low for the rest of the week, not to mention the other models in the s...

A major drug raid right across from a Hudson Valley school has taken down a suspected dealer. Continue reading…

Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British Colonies Now Searchable Online. “The Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers contains about 300,000 pages recording enslaved people across former British colonial dependencies…”

Is X good again? That's probably the wrong question. The right one: Are we past the era when a single social network needs to be everything to everyone?

Election Day is approaching, but Mayor Zohran Mamdani—who won’t be on the ballot—was once again the main character in city politics, facing what co-host Christina Greer calls “probably the roughest week of his mayoralty.” Christina and Harry Siegel dig into Mamdani’s response to the Marble Hill ICE shooting and how it seemed to expose both […]

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Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.

Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing.

At times it really does feel like time is moving faster than ever, and even things that happened a year ago might as well have happened 10 years ago. But it is important to maintain perspective, and understand that time and history have to play their parts before we can prop...

Shortly after launching, Volkswagen said its new Electric Urban Car Family is proving “highly popular,” with nearly 150,000 orders to date.

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