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Sultan al-Jaber, president of the UNFCCC COP28 Climate Conference, at a press conference following the opening session of the conference on Nov. 30, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

UN climate talks are in need of a fix

A process that lets a problem grow into an emergency on its watch is not doing its job. 1:06 p.m.

In this 2012 photo, Naomi Bar-Yam, right, executive director of the Mothers' Milk Bank of New England in Newton, held a refrigerator open as lab technician Kelly Fischl temporarily stored donated breast milk in flasks prior to pasteurization.

Donated breast milk, an intimate and selfless gift

It’s happening every day. And it deserves to be much more widely known. 3:00 a.m.

Do you believe that Trump is seriously looking at cover-everyone alternatives to the ACA? Do you think he will ever propose, let alone develop, one?

Trump recycles his health care hokum

Can he fool his MAGA followers again with his cynical promise to replace Obamacare with something "much better"? 4:18 p.m.

Avangrid said its Vineyard Wind 1 offshore substation will collect power generated by 62 wind turbine generators, and will bring it to shore through two export cables powering 400,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts.

Gen Z takes a seat — and sets the table — at COP28

The climate change challenge has largely fallen to us, caused by prior generations through a lack of environmental regulations and industrial expansion, leading to an exponential increase in greenhouse gas emissions. 3:00 a.m.

Columns

Traffic deaths are preventable. Why aren’t we preventing them?

What happened next changed everything. An idling tractor-trailer jolted forward and rolled over our daughter in the crosswalk. 10:56 a.m.

Crews were on the scene after catastrophic flooding washed out the intersection of Pleasant and Colburn streets in Leominster, leaving a house there an island on its own foundation, Sept. 12.

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How the home insurance industry can ensure climate-resilient policies

Massachusetts can lead the country by promoting a bold approach to climate disaster insurance. 3:00 a.m.

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BMC’s prescription for better health? A job.

In early 2023, a group of leaders at Boston Medical Center sat down to discuss a big idea: What if we started a jobs training program for our patients so that they could get the skills to join our workforce? 3:00 a.m.

A Stop Handgun Violence billboard went up at the garage on 50 Dalton St., Aug. 11, 2020. It depicts Joaquin Oliver, one of the students killed in the Parkland high school shooting in 2018.

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If the US can’t fix its gun policy, maybe an international lawsuit can

Lax US gun policy has caused an international public health and safety crisis, and blatantly violates human rights laws. 5:27 p.m.