Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.
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More than 40 percent of U.S. adults have a gun in their household, making it hard to get guns off the streets – even if new gun restrictions are passed.
Black bear near military housing at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle, May 17, 2010.
USAF/Kathy Gault
Once hunted into corners of North America, black bears have expanded across the continent since the early 1900s. But bears that end up living near people aren’t seeking close encounters.
Average Walmart workers make twice the federal minimum wage but may still qualify for public benefits.
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Many people associate Henry David Thoreau with solitude in the outdoors. But Thoreau understood in the mid-1800s that there was no such thing as nature separate from humans.
Rally in support of raising the minimum wage in University City, Mo.
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A few decades ago Boston Harbor was one of the nation’s dirtiest water bodies. Now, healthier fish in the harbor underscore that a multibillion-dollar cleanup has succeeded.
Warning sign at a Cape Cod beach.
Carlos García-Quijano
The return of white sharks to Cape Cod, Massachusetts was a tourism success story – until a shark killed a swimmer. Can the Cape’s residents and visitors learn to share the ocean with these apex predators?
Offshore wind turbine near Scotland.
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Depression can have a profound impact on mothers and their children. But women often have no idea that they have depression – nor do their medical providers.
Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker signed a comprehensive energy law in 2016 that authorized the development of new offshore wind and hydroelectric projects.
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Several states, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island, have developed ambitious renewable energy targets that hinge in large part on getting their power from turbines stationed in the water.
Exercise equipment in a yard outside the East Block for condemned prisoners at San Quentin State Prison in California.
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Standardized test scores drive many of our decisions about students, teachers and school districts. But research shows that the results are highly predictable, in a bad way.
Signatures were collected to put the death penalty on the 2016 Nebraska ballot.
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Neither Democratic candidate for president has gotten the endorsement of Massachusetts’ junior senator. Here’s a look at Elizabeth Warren’s long game playbook.
Boston 2024 offered a historic opportunity for redevelopment in Boston.
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Charlie Baker is the new Governor of Massachusetts and, doggone it, he likes government. Though this notion is antithetical to most elite Republican office holders, Governor Baker is firmly in the blue…