Three local research universities and other private and public universities across the country this evening sued the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services over the way they suddenly slashed federal funds for research, including money they had already agreed to pay. Read more.
Update: Approved 8-1.
The Cambridge City Council is scheduled to vote today on zoning changes that would allow apartments and condos everywhere in the city, in part by eliminating minimum lot sizes and allowing four-story buildings everywhere without the need for zoning variances everywhere - with two more stories for buildings with at least 20% of the units rented or sold as affordable. Read more.
The Crimson reports Boston firefighters recovered the body of somebody who apparently jumped into the river from the Cambridge side of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge around 2 a.m. on Sunday.
A Cambridge college student and a Salem video-game designer are among seven people who have sued to block a new government policy that only allows passports to have gender designed as "M" or "F." Read more.
The president yesterday signed one of his executive orders, this time to ban transgender athletes. Our Charlie Baker, now head of the NCAA, immediately complied, expressing gratitude for "a clear, national standard" he can get behind. Read more
You may have heard about the barely pubescent kids currently trying to run rampant through government computer systems that handle trillions of dollars in transactions and data on millions of Americans. Read more.
The Crimson reports on the Wednesday night crash on JFK Street. No injuries reported.
Ari Ofsevit was running along the Charles in Cambridge yesterday when he noticed an eagle walking on the ice and nd asked a guy with a camera if he'd taken a photo.
Updated, 3:25 p.m.
A Springfield man was fatally shot outside 24 Clifton St. shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Monday, Cambridge Police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office report. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer snapped this turkey mob outside 1050 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge today, then scurried away before the feathers flew.
The bridges and overpasses of the river roads continued their winning streak in 2024, once again teaching lessons to truck drivers from near and far what "CARS ONLY" means. The year also brought an unusual, underwater twist as construction work in the Sumner Tunnel meant we got to see some below-ground storrowing. Read more.
An oncology professor at the University of California, Irvine yesterday agreed to hand over $1.52 million in profits he made by buying stock in Nuvalent before it announced positive news about a lung-cancer drug for which he was running clinical trials and then selling it after the news led to a jump in the stock's price.
Dr. Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou also agreed to pay a $1.52 million fine on top of that, according to documents filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in US District Court in Boston yesterday. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer snapped the aftermath of an apparent car-B-Q at the southern end of the Gilmore Bridge this afternoon, reports traffic was back up all the way to North Station. Read more.
Cambridge Day reports the arrest of Edward J. Watson, 65, on charges he killed Michelle Miller in 1992 at the behest of her abusive partner.
Cambridge Day reports on the impending end of Whitney's, which opened on JFK Street when it was still called Boylston Street.
Cambridge Police report residents are getting calls from somebody claiming to be a Cambridge PD captain - while a siren and a police radio blare in the background - with a warning that the residents are targeted for arrest for missing jury duty but that they can fix things by depositing a large amount of money at a specific location. Read more.
Grant Gould shows us the first snowball of the season, made fresh this morning in West Cambridge.
A woman who was raped at knife point in a restroom at 125 Cambridgepark Dr. in May today sued several companies that own or manage the building or were doing construction work in it at the time, seeking information she says the companies have refused to turn over related to just who was working in the building at the time and how and why the building's security systems were turned off. Read more.
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