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Britain says Russia seeking to replace Ukraine government

The British government on Saturday accused Russia of seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration, and said former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is being considered as a potential candidate.

Tom Cruise’s next ‘Mission: Impossible’ films are delayed over COVID
One of the biggest movies slated for 2022 — “Mission: Impossible 7” starring Tom Cruise — is being pushed into next year in the latest blow to struggling cinemas.

Bitcoin pyramid schemes wreak havoc on Brazil’s ‘New Egypt’
An ongoing criminal case underscores the fast-growing appetite for cryptocurrencies in Brazil, where years of economic and political crises have made digital currencies an attractive shield against depreciation of the Brazilian real and double-digit inflation.

Inflation is wiping out pay increases for most Americans
After years of barely budging, wage growth is finally at its highest level in decades. But in an unexpected twist, the same strong economic recovery that is emboldening workers is also driving up inflation, leaving most Americans with less spending power than they had a year ago.

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Mass. seeks to claw back at least $2.7 billion in jobless benefits it says were incorrectly paid

Baker administration’s next climate task: curbing heat emissions from buildings

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Members of the Connecticut National Guard loaded boxes of COVID-19 test kits and personal protective equipment into vehicles for nursing homes in Windsor Locks, Conn., on Friday.

Omicron nears US peak even as some regions still face struggle

The Omicron variant is starting to loosen its grip on the US Northeast, but experts warn that it will take more time for this latest COVID-19 wave to recede nationwide.

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The hallway of a local nursing home.

McKee allows nursing homes to bypass minimum staffing requirements

The Nursing Home Staffing and Quality Care Act was signed into law by McKee in May 2021. Now, the governor says, critical staff shortages justify a moratorium on enforcement of the law and its financial penalties.

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The local labor market ended 2021 on an upbeat note.

Mass. employers added 222,000 jobs last year

The local labor market ended the year on an upbeat note, data released Friday show, but a sharp decline in the jobless rate was skewed by statistical revisions.

The Boston Floating Hospital for Children in the early 1900s.

Tell us: Share your memories of the Floating Hospital for Children, now known as Tufts Children’s Hospital

Was anyone in your family involved with the Floating Hospital for Children? Tell us your memories of the hospital that began onboard a ship sailing in Boston Harbor.

The lobby of IBM Watson Health in Cambridge.

IBM sells some Watson Health assets for more than $1 billion

IBM launched Cambridge-based Watson Health in 2015 with the aim of using its core artificial intelligence platform to help health care providers analyze troves of data and ultimately revolutionize cancer treatment.

Nathan Smith of Beverly tested positive for COVID-19 more than 20 days ago, but he still experiences fatigue, sinus symptoms, and gastrointestinal issues.

For some, ‘mild’ illness from Omicron feels like anything but

An unlucky group of COVID-positive people have found that the variant’s “mild” categorization is something of an understatement.

Yemen prison airstrike killed, injured over 100, Red Cross says

A Saudi-led airstrike targeting a prison run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed and wounded over 100 detainees on Friday, rescuers said, part of a pounding aerial offensive that hours earlier saw another airstrike take the Arab world’s poorest country off the internet.

The University of Pennsylvania sign is shown in Philadelphia, May 15, 2019.

A professor said her students think average Americans make six figures. That’s a long way off.

"I asked Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was over six figures," Wharton professor Nina Strohminger tweeted. "One of them thought it was $800k."