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Lauren Moran, a pastry chef who owns a bakery and café, taste-tests Cornwall’s new coffee drinks with her husband, Cornwall’s general manager Billy Moran (left), and Speedwell Coffee Co. owner Derek Anderson. Tovia Smith/NPR hide caption toggle caption Tovia Smith/NPR Lauren Moran, a pastry chef who owns a bakery and café, taste-tests Cornwall’s new coffee…

Amber Heard told Johnny Depp she had seen “our love slaughtered right in front of my eyes” after the Hollywood star allegedly “screamed obscenities” and “slapped her across the face” on a private plane to Los Angeles, in text messages read out at the High Court.Mr Depp, 57, denies attacking Amber Heard, 34, on the…

BOSTON (AP) – Faneuil Hall Marketplace, one of Boston’s most popular tourist destinations, reopened to the public Wednesday with a pair of special performances by the facility’s favorite street musicians. The market, which includes several buildings of retail outlets and restaurants and lined with cobblestone walkways, was closed in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.…

The Latest on protests over racial inequality (all times local):6:20 p.m.JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi legislators have voted to raucous cheers and applause to remove a Confederate battle emblem from their state flag. Mississippi’s House and Senate took historic votes Sunday to retire the flag adopted in 1894. It’s the last state flag that included a…

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As Black Lives Matter protests have forced a political and cultural reckoning in the wake of the death of George Floyd, advocates and officials alike early on faced the question of how to talk about the incidents of looting that accompanied some early demonstrations. The split on the issue was wide: President Donald Trump echoed…

The Boston Marathon has been canceled for the first time in its 124-year historyBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports WriterMay 29, 2020, 12:20 AM4 min readBOSTON — Organizers canceled the Boston Marathon on Thursday for the first time in its history, bowing to the social distancing requirements of the coronavirus outbreak and ending a 124-year run…

In the summer of 2013, I spent my days sifting through the most extensive archive of top-secret files that had ever reached the hands of an American journalist. In a spectacular act of transgression against the National Security Agency, where he worked as a contractor, Edward Snowden had transmitted tens of thousands of classified documents…

Photo: Getty ImagesWith protests taking place in at least 140 cities over the last week sparked by the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, we thought it was time to look at other demonstrations and riots throughout American history. And given the potential risks to personal safety—not to mention large gatherings in the…

It’s certainly an arresting image: a four-legged robot trots across a grassy hillside, steering a herd of sheep without a human in sight. The apparently seamless fusion of the futuristic and the agrarian feels refreshing — even hopeful — at a time when so much progress relies upon the destruction of the natural world. But…

SHOWING US ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THIS DEADLY VIRUS. WE HAVE A MODEL THAT TRACKS PEOPLE. MIKE THIS IS THE LEAD RESEARCHER FOR NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY STUDY THAT FOUND HIDDEN OUTBREAKS OF THE CORONAVIRUS, HITTING IN EARLY FEBRUARY IN THE U.S., WEEKS BEFORE ANYONE KNEW IT WAS HERE. MOST OF THOSE CHAINS OF TRANSMISSION WENT UNDETECTED…

The Boston Dynamics robot known as Spot has been deployed to a park in Singapore to remind people they should follow social distancing guidelines during the pandemic, according to a new report from Singapore’s top government technology agency. And it almost feels like the robots are there to taunt us as this point, because unlike…