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What are my responsibilities when hosting house guests? Do I provide meals?
We’re mining the archives for some of Robin Abrahams’s hit columns you may have missed (this one is from 2014). But keep your ...
On the anniversary of Vermont’s summer floods, one village seeks to rebuild on higher ground
Throughout the Green Mountain State, residents are still reckoning with the damage inflicted by seven federally declared ...
After my husband died, I couldn’t bear to part with his car
It had been 11 weeks since my husband died. Tackling all the business the world requires of you when you lose a spouse takes ...
From Beyoncé to Lady Gaga, this Newton designer is turning heads with his custom kicks
That night, the 35-year-old designer was sitting on his couch in Newton, scrolling through X, when photos and videos of ...
Night sky lessons from a leading astronomer, and a floating spa on Vancouver Island
Hotel Ursa in Orono has launched a celestial experience with Shawn Laatsch, a pioneer of the world’s first 3-D stereoscopic ...
The next front in the battle over America’s universities? Accreditation.
In its push to reshape American higher education, the Trump administration is threatening the independent process of ...
Indigenous composer Cris Derksen highlights R.I.’s history with ‘First Light’
Her work for cello, comissioned by Newport Classical and premiering this weekend, is inspired by the Wampanoag people.
What to know as Yemen’s Houthi rebels launch new, more violent attacks on ships in the Red Sea
In just days, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have begun a new, more violent campaign of attacks targeting ships in the Red Sea, ...
Bangladesh tribunal indicts ousted Prime Minister Hasina over deaths of protesters
A special tribunal on Thursday indicted Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by accepting charges of crimes ...
Rescuers search for missing crew from Red Sea attack as US alleges Yemen rebels may have them
The Houthis released dramatic footage of the sinking of the Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned Eternity C, which the rebels ...
UN says if US funding for HIV programs is not replaced, millions more will die by 2029
The $4 billion that the United States pledged for the global HIV response for 2025 disappeared virtually overnight in January when President Trump ordered that all foreign aid be suspended and later ...
EU chief von der Leyen faces a confidence vote. Hungary’s leader says she must go.
The censure motion, the first at the European Parliament in over a decade, was brought against the European Commission ...