The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from hospital.
The 62-year-old was sent home on Wednesday, two weeks after the ground-breaking surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
Organ (...)
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a longtime fixture of Democratic politics with turns as Energy Secretary and United Nations ambassador under the Clinton administration, died on Friday, the Richardson Center for Global Engagement said in a (...)
The US airman accused of leaking confidential intelligence and defense documents has been officially charged in a court appearance in Boston.
Jack Teixeira, 21, wore shackles and a prison uniform as he stood before a federal judge on Friday. After a (...)
An artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict your risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke over a 10-year period from just a single chest X-ray.
Researchers trained the deep learning AI to search the X-ray images for patterns associated with (...)
Merriam-Webster has chosen 'gaslighting' as its word of the year for 2022. Searches for the word on merriam-webster.com increased 1,740% in 2022 over the year before.
Merriam-Webster's editor-at-large Peter Sokolowski told AP exclusively ahead of (...)
Full STEAM Ahead — an education project developed in response to COVID-19 by the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — took top honors at the 2020 Reimagine Education Awards in the (...)
Hadley Sikes, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT, has been working for years with her team on the technology they're adapting to create a COVID-19 test with rapid results. Moving beyond lab prototypes and into manufacturing the (...)
A grand jury in Massachusetts has indicted a former Boston College student in the suicide of her boyfriend, whom prosecutors said she verbally, physically and psychologically abused right up to his death.
South Korean national Inyoung You, 21, was (...)
Actress Felicity Huffman, the first parent to be sentenced in a wide-ranging college admissions scandal, faces prison time on Friday for admittedly paying to rig her daughter's entrance exam.
Prosecutors recommended US District Judge Indira Talwani (...)
Actress Felicity Huffman tearfully pleaded guilty on Monday to paying to rig a college entrance exam for her daughter, part of a wide-ranging scandal in which wealthy parents used fraud to secure their children spots at prominent US (...)
A federal judge on Wednesday warned parents charged in the largest college admissions scandal in US history, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, to be careful discussing the case with their children, who are potential (...)
A powerful, fast-moving snowstorm swept into the U.S. Northeast Thursday with the potential for more than 30 centimeters of snow along the heavily populated Philadelphia to Boston corridor.
Forecasters said that the storm had the potential to be the (...)
There was a time when Chris Long didn't think this opportunity would ever come. A time when words like "playoffs" and "Super Bowl" seemed like unattainable unicorns that the 31-year-old Patriots defensive lineman might never touch. Eight years in (...)
A telegram telling of the attack on Pearl Harbor and a West Point cadet's letter afterwards seeking advice from his father, General Dwight Eisenhower, are among exhibits at a US museum illustrating the shock and horror that catapulted the United (...)
Qi'dah 1436 - 26 août 2015 (SPA) - Le ministre saoudien des Affaires étrangères, le Pr Adel Ben Ahmed El Joubir, a passé en revue avec le secrétaire d'Etat américain, John Kerry, la situation et les derniers développements dans la région du Golfe et (...)
Qi'dah 1436 - 26 août 2015 (SPA) - Le ministre saoudien des Affaires étrangères, le Pr Adel Ben Ahmed El Joubir, a passé en revue avec le secrétaire d'Etat américain, John Kerry, la situation et les derniers développements dans la région du Golfe et (...)
The United States Secretary of State John Kerry met at his summer house in Nantucket Island in Massachusetts State on Monday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir.
During the meeting, they (...)
The biggest sensation on Cape Cod right now isn't the lobster, the historic lighthouses or its rolling sand dunes. It's not even a Kennedy.
It's a bear.
A bruin believed to have swum about 500 feet (152 meters) across the Cape Cod Canal from the (...)
The New York Yankees, trailing Boston 9-0 after five innings, roared back with 15 unanswered runs to stun the Red Sox 15-9 in a Major League Baseball shocker Saturday.
“Never,” Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez said when asked if he'd experienced (...)
Oprah Winfrey is among those scheduled to join Lady Gaga at Harvard University this month for the launch of the singer's Born This Way Foundation. The nonprofit foundation said in a statement Tuesday the event is scheduled for Feb. 29 at Harvard's (...)
Troy Matteson fired a six-under par 65 Friday to seize a one-stroke lead after the first round of the $8 million Deutsche Bank Championship, the second event of the US PGA playoffs.
The American opened on the 10th hole with a bogey but followed (...)
Charley Hoffman made 11 birdies, and that was more than enough to win the Deutsche Bank Championship.
Hoffman ran off four straight birdies early to make up a four-shot deficit, and he kept right on going Monday on the TPC Boston.
He closed with a (...)
Tiger Woods got his US PGA Tour playoff bid back on track Saturday with a six-under 65 in the second round of the Deutsche Bank Championship.
Woods, three shots below the projected cut line going into the second round, birdied four of the first (...)
He may be leader of the free world, but President Barack Obama isn't exempt from a summer rainstorm like the one that blew across New England Monday, swamping his Martha's Vineyard vacation.
Gone was any thought of more presidential golf. Instead, (...)
A US woman who was born without arms or kneecaps is preparing to test for her black belt in taekwondo.
Sheila Radziewicz is scheduled to take her test next month at Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts in Peabody. The 32-year-old brown belt, who was born (...)