Senator recalls an unsettling conversation from the depths of the mortgage crisis.

With two and one half years left in his presidency, Barack Obama finds a series of daunting global crises filling his Oval Office in-box.

A lawsuit claims Thomson Safaris illegally obtained land in Tanzania, beat villagers, and burned down homes — charges it denies.

“I think anybody would have done the same thing,” the woman said. Two former college football players are charged in the assault.

The Food and Drug Administration will also regulate cigars, pipe tobacco and hookahs, under a proposal to be released Thursday.

A one-hour film chronicles the career, remarkable family life, and the late creative flowering of a renowned Somerville artist diagnosed with ALS.

Suffolk University, taking aim at academia’s hallowed practice of providing lifelong job protection for veteran instructors, will require all tenured faculty to undergo performance reviews.

Stability used to be something only the elderly worried about. But now, athletes of all ages are working on balance to improve performance.

Lackey worked eight innings of one-run ball and the Red Sox beat the Yankees Wednesday night, 5-1, at Fenway Park.

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s continued refusal to acknowledge the significance of identifying herself as a minority as a law professor is disingenuous.

It represents the Obama administration’s latest break from the criminal justice policies created to fight drugs.

Rival Palestinian political factions announced a surprise reconciliation deal, upending peace talks with Israel.

Many of the party resources that would have been showered on Baker’s race for governor will now be directed at Brown’s challenge to Jeanne Shaheen.

Primark plans to open a 70,000-square-foot store late in 2015 at a location once occupied by Filene’s in Downtown Crossing.

Kelly Reilly is a sturdy lead, but ABC’s new drama is a mixed bag for fans of good TV.

Officials say 152 people, the vast majority of them students, were missing and presumed dead.

Pineda’s crime isn’t using pine tar, it’s using it so blatantly that the Red Sox were forced to say something.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh has refused to release information gathered by the city its hiring practices of municipal employees, a decision that breaks with longstanding city policy.

That figure was too much, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for a five-justice majority, returning the case to the lower courts.

“Bad Teacher” is a mediocre new CBS comedy adapted from the 2011 Cameron Diaz film.