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After eliminating single-family zoning in 2025, Cambridge officials say they're seeing more multi-family housing.

The Education Department cut about $600 million in grants for teacher training in 2025.

“ Boston's density, scarcity of developable land and existing demands on our infrastructure make large-scale data centers incompatible with the direction we should be taking as a city,” Culpepper said during the meeting.

"Without Jo van Gogh, there would be no Vincent van Gogh posters in dorm rooms, no sunflowers on tote bags and cat collars, no immersive experiences in converted warehouses in every mid-sized city in America," writes Jo Piazza.

Mo lives in Aden, an ancient city in southern Yemen.

WBUR's Tiziana Dearing takes us through this week's top headlines.

The collision occurred near the intersection of Tremont and Parker streets, near the spot Boston transportation planner Louisa Gag was fatally struck by a truck driver while riding her bike in July.

A memo from the Fish and Wildlife Service suggests that only intentional killing of endangered animals should be illegal.

Top AI researchers and leaders worry AI is developing too fast.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Christina Ricci signed onto a letter in protest of the university’s plans to sunset the prestigious program.

Russia is believed to be holding thousands of Ukrainians as prisoners of war.

Tech giant OpenAI has disclosed six more instances in which its systems hid errors, made stuff up and in one case gave itself the instruction: “You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize.”

Author Siggie Cohen shares practical ways parents can lead with confidence and enjoy less chaotic, more harmonious, and happier homes.

Cole Brauer became the first woman to race around the world alone in a sailboat.

Should a billionaire get to decide whether to bar an artist from performing because of their views?

President Trump's third surgeon general pick is Dr.

Experts commissioned by the UN report that they have "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes during two airstrikes in Iran, including one that hit a school in February.

What signs did the Federal Reserve see that pushed it to raise interest rates for the first time in three years?

Speaker Mike Johnson called an early recess after members passed a bipartisan sanctions bill against Russia, but before the House could tackle artificial intelligence regulation or vote on an impeachment resolution against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Across 24 songs, Jepsen explores the full spectrum of human emotions, channeling folk pop for the "Day" side and leaning into house music for the "Night" side.

As midterms approach, we're taking a closer look at some of the toss-up races in the Senate and the House.

Roberto Clemente Day was Tuesday this week, a chance for baseball fans and players to recognize Clemente's legacy as an athlete and humanitarian.

Someday soon your doctor may prescribe the psychedelic drug LSD to treat anxiety.

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home.

As Andris Nelsons begins his final season as Boston Symphony Orchestra music director, the grassroots Red Flower Campaign is returning to Symphony Hall.

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Cambridge photographer Mario Quiroz is exhibiting a project documenting Somerville’s only dual language K-8 program in a surprising setting.

With federal guidance in limbo, WBUR's Morning Edition host Tiziana Dearing talked to Dr.

Ed Sheeran's tour has been roiled by the decision this week to drop Macklemore as an opener because of the rapper's onstage pro-Palestinian comments.

Local music and visual arts ensemble Soundscape Visions is premiering a song on September 26 in Lynn that is inspired by art from Ukraine.

"Homesharing is not elder care, and a spare bedroom is not an affordable housing strategy," writes James Lomastro.

In response to tech leaders' recent warnings about the speed at which AI is progressing, Joanna Weiss took pen to paper to appeal to the bots, from a human perspective, before things get too out of hand.

Mayor Michelle Wu told local business leaders Wednesday that building Boston's economy starts with building more housing and giving people more reasons to go out.

A Virginia mom let her 5-year-old son take a walk alone in her gated community.

Murad was a co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for her efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon of war.

The charges stem from a May 22 incident, when Mayor Moises Rodrigues allegedly put his hand around 17-year-old student’s waist and shoulder as she was marching in a town parade.

There are concerns in the U.S. that regulating AI here would cause the U.S. to fall behind China in development.

A report from the Congressional Budget Office says the war has cost taxpayers more than $38 billion.

Jesse Appell's comic videos and appearances on Chinese TV have garnered more than 500 million views.

Think of the potato chip.

Tik Root, a senior staff writer at Grist, reports that since February and the start of the war on Iran, soaring diesel prices have cost U.S. consumers an additional $46 billion, or about $350 per household.

America's five biggest male professional sports leagues — the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and MLS — and their players' unions have sent a letter to gambling regulators in 35 states and Washington, D.C.

In southern Lebanon, Israel has been seizing territory since a ceasefire with Iran-backed Hezbollah five months ago.

Alex and Mike Faherty launched the company in 2013 alongside Alex Faherty's wife, Kerry Docherty, and the twins' mother, Ninie Norris, who designs the interiors of their stores.

Prices have continued to rise across the economy, and the war in Iran is raising inflation.

It might not come as a surprise that reading is good for you.

This week, state authorities confirmed that a fourth person has died from the disease, and there have been four breakthrough cases reported in fully vaccinated people.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., was abruptly closed on Tuesday amid an ongoing legal fight involving President Trump's efforts to have his name on the building and exert control over the institution.

The public transit advocacy group Transit Matters announced the winners Tuesday of its third annual Pokey-Schleppie Awards, recognizing the slowest and most "bunched" MBTA bus routes of the year.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted officials at Massachusetts's second largest school district Tuesday afternoon to report the breach.