LOCAL NEWS
After gun ban ruling, Menino to press onJoining dozens of mayors across the country, Mayor Thomas M. Menino said his fight to enact what he called "common sense regulations" to prevent the use of handguns by criminals in the City of Boston will continue, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling outlawing a ban on such guns in the nation's capital. More » |
Kennedy's Senate career full of civil rights historyWhen the Civil Rights Bill reached the U.S. Senate on March 30, 1964, it was met by a group of Southern senators determined to prevent it from hitting the desk of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson. More » |
Civil rights icon stresses kids' social engagementDrawing on his own inspiring life as an example of how one young person can make a difference, legendary civil rights leader Hollis Watkins, 66, spoke to a group of Boston teachers at Old South Meeting House last Saturday about how to engage today's youth in pressing social issues. More » |
1920s time capsule found in Dudley at Ferdinand'sThe contents of an 86-year-old time capsule recently found at the Ferdinand?s Blue Store Addition in Dudley Square were unveiled last Wednesday, giving present day Bostonians a glimpse of Roxbury life in 1922. More » |
Seeking global perspective, S. African students visit HubFive South African college students traveling across the U.S. in search of a global perspective on business, education and culture made a three-day stop in Boston last week. They called their maiden trip to the Hub an eye-opening experience. More » |
Free tuition program ends in Mass. with diplomasA program that gained national attention in 1991 for offering to pay college tuition for 69 second-graders closed its doors in Cambridge last Friday. More » |
Northeast braces for home heating oil cost increasesWASHINGTON - New Englanders struggling this summer to pay gas prices topping $4 a gallon should brace for more bad news - home heating oil costs are expected to hit record highs next winter. More » |
Atkins, first black Hub city councilor, dies at 69Thomas Atkins, Boston's first black at-large city councilor, who faced off against school busing opponents as an NAACP leader in the 1970s, has died. He was 69. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Obama, Clinton bury the hatchet, tout unity in UnityUNITY, N.H. - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stood side by side in the tiny New England outpost of Unity to provide the image that many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle. More » |
To some, Obama's success a blow to affirmative actionWASHINGTON - Barack Obama's political success might claim an unintended victim: affirmative action, a much-debated policy that he supports. More » |
Reopened black farmers settlement could cost USDAWASHINGTON - When Congress reopened the government's discrimination settlement with black farmers, lawmakers budgeted just $100 million for damages. They probably should have handed over a blank check. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Mugabe seeks support at African summitSHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe sought a boost of political legitimacy at a summit of African leaders Monday after his re-election was widely discredited as a sham. More » |
As Guantanamo's last days near, tough choices aheadGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks - and it may soon become one again. More » |
S. African parliament marks Mandela's 90th birthdayCAPE TOWN, South Africa - Tributes to Nelson Mandela's dignity, humanity and humor poured in at a special sitting of South Africa?s Parliament last Friday to mark the anti-apartheid icon's 90th birthday. More » |
International prosecutors seek Congo war crimes trialAMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Two former Congolese militia leaders should be tried on war crimes charges for alleged rapes, pillaging and mass murder in a 2003 attack that decimated a village in eastern Congo, international prosecutors argued last Friday. More » |
