LOWELL — It’s been a painful and sobering start to the new year for the administration, students and families of UMass Lowell who have processed several incidents in which cars have hit pedestrians, ...

The Department of Homeland Security has been ensnared by a partial government shutdown as Congress did not act to fund the agency by the end of Friday. But nearly all DHS workers will remain on the ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has opened more than three dozen internal investigations into allegations of excessive use of force by its agents from January 2025 to January 2026, the agency’s ...

Chinese official and internet personality He Jiaolong died at 47 after falling from a horse while filming a clip to promote ...

Anti-Israel protesters have marched through Melbourne’s CBD in their thousands to demonstrate against Isaac Herzog’s visit, ...

The White House on Tuesday rejected the latest offer from Democratic lawmakers on proposed new constraints on federal ...

There were 370 deaths as of Dec. 1, 2025, the lowest number since 2019. The largest four traffic behaviors that cause fatalities – driving impaired, distracted driving, speeding and unbelted drivers – ...

The grim total of 290 traffic fatalities in 2025 took place in the year city officials had vowed to eliminate them entirely.

Multiple failures across different parts of the government caused an Army Black Hawk helicopter to collide with an American Airlines regional jet, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in ...

Public health is rooted in prevention. We act when strong evidence shows that exposure causes harm. On air pollution, the data has been clear for decades.

Another reader felt that the biggest benefits of a falling human population will be to the planet itself: “Less pollution, less deforestation, less mass extinctions of other species, etc., etc.