The first time Brendan O’Brien saw an Electronic Benefits Transfer card, the system used to deliver Supplemental Nutrition ...

Marking the end of the quarter century, 2025 was a year full of changes, innovations, and often unanticipated trends. Despite ...

It started with the warmth of friendship, aching suspense, comforting nostalgia, and coming-of-age pain. Now, nearly 10 years ...

On Jan. 3, the United States launched a strike against Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro alongside his wife, ...

At a packed Boston Symphony Hall on Monday, Jan. 5, Mayor Michelle Wu was sworn in for a second term to lead the city.

As the 2025-2026 MLB’s hot stove cools into midwinter, clubs have made a slew of notable free-agent signings and trades. From ...

From Emerson College’s campuses to the world stage, The Beacon’s photographers documented many of the stories that defined ...

Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Boston on Thursday to protest the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday, Jan. 7.

“For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well connected that power does not belong in their hands,” he continued. “And yet over the last 12 ...

The Emerson Prison Initiative held a multiday conference last week that provided a platform for formerly incarcerated individuals, prison reform advocates, and program facilitators to discuss the ...

The incident followed a long battle between crews. Coming out of the Powerhouse Stretch, three boats — U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Wellesley, and Trinity — were neck and neck, going under Weeks Bridge ...

The cause of the AWS network shutdown is an internal subsystem that has gone down, according to Amazon Web Services’ latest status update. The subsystem is responsible for “monitoring the health of ...