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Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes faces cross-examination

The fraud trial of fallen Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is set to resume today with continued cross-examination of Holmes and possible expert psychological testimony.

Community members protested in June outside Cambridge's River Street Whole Foods Market in support of employees who wear face masks printed with the Black Lives Matter slogan.
NLRB files complaint against Whole Foods over BLM apparel
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A Florida jury found that Craig Wright did not owe half of 1.1 million bitcoin to the family of a late partner.
Defendant wins dispute over $50b in bitcoin
A computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of bitcoin prevailed in a civil trial verdict Monday against the family of a deceased business partner that claimed it was owed half of a cryptocurrency fortune.

BuzzFeed’s stock surges then falls in its public debut
BuzzFeed started trading on the stock market Monday, a big step that could help the company expand, but its debut was anything but smooth.

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HelloPrenup founders Julia Rodgers (left) and Sarabeth Jaffe.

Fresh off ‘Shark Tank,’ they’re out to disrupt divorce

Shoppers passed Charles Street Supply in Boston.

‘Everything is wait-and-see.’ Omicron forces uncertainty on long-struggling businesses

Armir Lee has watched his grocery bill go up at least 30 percent since September, when he returned from a three-month long trip to Eastern Europe.

Inflation is at a 31-year high. Here’s how it’s hitting New Englanders.

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A city employee picked up trash on the cobblestoned North Water Street in New Bedford, the onetime whaling capital of the world.

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Lakshmi Balachandra is a tenured professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College and until recently was a member of the Select Board in Needham. She talks about being discounted by students, college leadership, and town residents.

‘There was no way the brown woman could replace the white guy’

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‘He asked me if I wanted to date a board member’

Event planner Myriam Michel.

A Black event planner on standing out in a mostly white industry

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A WCVB producer on the challenges of being a Black journalist in New England

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Former president Donald Trump.

Trump media venture eyed by regulators; Representative Devin Nunes to be CEO

Regulators are looking into the deal that would bring Donald Trump’s new social media company to the stock market. Separately, Trump Media announced that Representative Devin Nunes, a Republican from California, will leave Congress to become the company’s chief executive in January.

Jenny Holaday, New Encore Boston boss.

Meet the new casino boss. Holaday hopes to help Encore emerge from the pandemic

Encore Boston Harbor Casino is bouncing back strong from the pandemic and new president aims to keep it that way.

John Judge will join Trustees of Reservations as chief executive in February.

Trustees of Reservations taps John Judge as its next chief executive

Judge, who currently leads the Appalachian Mountain Club, will take the reins of the country’s oldest land trust in February.

Moderna’s valuation is complicated by the market’s inability to determine how long the pandemic will last and what the demand for vaccines will look like.

Moderna shares sink while market awaits Omicron variant updates

Moderna dropped more than 13 percent on Monday, making it the worst performing stock in the S&P 500 Index.

Sophie Oberlander, 4, worked with the Kebbi robot and Becca Kenney, a speech and language intern, at Shawsheen Preschool in Andover.

At an Andover preschool, the teacher is a robot

"Kebbi" teaches neurodivergent children at Shawsheen Preschool in the hopes of improving their communication, attention, and emotional understanding skills.

Adagio Therapeutics cofounders Tillman Gerngross, Laura Walker, and Rene Russo.

In the long war against COVID, this Waltham biotech is designing a way to fight all variants

The Omicron variant has driven home the reality that COVID-19 may be with us for a long time. But one of New England’s leading biotech thinkers is pursuing a new way to fight it.

Diesel Cafe in Somerville's Davis Square.

Workers at three Somerville cafes are planning to unionize

An organizing committee representing Diesel Café, Bloc Café, and Forge Baking Company penned a letter to their shared management team requesting them to voluntarily recognize the union and participate in good faith contract negotiations.

A COVID-19 extraction laboratory at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform offices in Durban, South Africa, Nov. 16, 2021.

Omicron mutations may provide clues about origin, analysis shows

Scientists have been rushing to answer the questions posed by the emergence of Omicron, which was first sequenced in Botswana and South Africa last month, including how it developed, how transmissible it is, and the severity of illness caused by the strain in comparison with its predecessors, such as Delta.