RODRIQUE NGOWI

Students, faculty and members of the Harvard University community rally, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo)
University protests blast Trump’s attacks on funding, speech and international students
University professors and students have led protests on campuses against what they say are broad attacks against American higher education.
 
This image taken from video provided by Marilu Domingo Ortiz shows ICE agent smashing the window of a car to arrest a man who they claim was in the process of applying for asylum, in New Bedford, Mass., Monday, April 14, 2025. (Marilu Domingo Ortiz via AP)
Family says ICE agents smashed car window in seizing Guatemalan man who’s seeking asylum
A Massachusetts family is demanding answers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, complaining its agents smashed a car window and detained a man who was in the process of applying for asylum.
 
Parker Tirrell, a transgender athlete who plays on her high school's girls soccer team, practices in the driveway of her family home, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Plymouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Transgender teens fight back against Trump’s ban on participation in girls’ sports
Two transgender teenagers in New Hampshire are the first to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” Sixteen-year-old Parker Tirrell has played soccer since age 4 and wants to keep at it.
 
Ash Lazarus Orr, a transgender plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Trump administration's policy that bans the use of the "X" marker used by nonbinary people on passports, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Monday, March 24, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)
Transgender Americans aim to block Trump’s passport policy change
A federal judge is considering whether to block a Trump administration policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.
 
Protesters rally outside the Rhode Island State House in support of deported Brown University Dr. Rasha Alawieh, Monday, March 17, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Homeland Security says professor deported to Lebanon with US visa supported Hezbollah leader
Homeland Security officials say a doctor from Lebanon who was deported over the weekend despite having a U.S. visa “openly admitted” to supporting a Hezbollah leader and attending his funeral. Dr.
 
Tommy McCarthy and his wife Louise Costello, owners of the Burren Pub, play an Irish tune, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Somerville, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day may be known for a boozy good time, but more are opting to forgo the buzz
Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day has long been known for a boozy good time. But a growing number of people have found ways to participate in the parades, festivals and banquets without a buzz.
 
Spectators celebrate during the St. Patrick's Day parade, Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Boston, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
St. Patrick’s Day parade celebrates Boston heritage in America’s most Irish big city
Throngs of green-clad revelers have filled the streets of America’s most Irish big city for the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade. The Sunday parade celebrated the heritage and contributions of all those who hail from the Emerald Isle.
 
Protesters rally outside of a Tesla store in Boston, Saturday, March 1, 2025, against the company's CEO, Elon Musk, who is leading an effort to cut government jobs on behalf of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)
Anti-DOGE protests at Tesla stores target Elon Musk’s bottom line
Demonstrators have gathered outside Tesla stores across the U.S. to protest the automaker’s billionaire leader, Elon Musk. Protesters are targeting Musk over his push to slash government spending on behalf of President Donald Trump.
 
Fired cybersecurity chief for Veterans Affairs site warns that health and financial data is at risk
A fired federal employee who oversaw cybersecurity at a flagship website for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is warning that sensitive financial and health data could be compromised due to actions taken by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.
 
Lesley University basketball player Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel lines up a foul shot while practicing prior to game, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Lexington, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
One-armed basketball player makes women’s Division III history with basket
Being cut from her high school basketball team was painful for Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel, but she refused to let that rejection, or being born with one arm, stop her from pursuing her basketball dreams.
 
A Kemp's ridley sea turtle swims in a tank at a New England Aquarium marine animal rehabilitation facility in Quincy, Mass., Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Global warming fills New England’s rich waters with death traps for endangered sea turtles
As global warming fills the plankton-rich waters of New England with death traps for sea turtles, the number of stranded reptiles has multiplied over the last 20 years. That is filling one specialized animal hospital with the endangered creatures.
 
In this image take with a drone, a Norway spruce, this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, is prepared for harvest, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in West Stockbridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)
Crowds flock to tiny Massachusetts town to send off New York’s Rockefeller Christmas tree
This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree comes with a strong New England accent, and locals could not be more excited. The Norway spruce that will travel to New York City hails from West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
 
Visitors enter the Lizzie Borden House, site of an 1892 double axe murder, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Fall River, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
As Halloween approaches, tourists visit a home with a gruesome past and tunnels said to be haunted
October has long been considered the spookiest month, and as Halloween approaches, many tourists find it the ideal time to visit a home with a gruesome past or descend into a darkened basement clutching a lantern.
 
The Piscataqua River Bridge is shown in Portsmouth, N.H. after a man connected to a homicide was fatally shot by police and an 8-year-old child was found shot to death in the man’s car on the bridge that connects New Hampshire to Maine, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. An 8-year-old child was found shot to death in the man's car, the attorney general's office said Thursday. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
Woman found dead before police kill husband on I-95 bridge and discover boy’s body in vehicle
Police say a man who was being pursued in the killing of his wife in New Hampshire was shot by police and tumbled from the Interstate 95 bridge that connects the state to Maine.
 
A men's competitor David Colturi takes a practice dive in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, Saturday, June 8, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
They’re on the edge of glory, and the edge of an art museum, as cliff divers come to Boston
Cliff diving’s marquee event thrilled spectators in Boston as the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series made the 100th stop in its history.
 
William Cashore, 84, smiles as he looks at his 1954 Scripps National Spelling Bee championship trophy, Wednesday, 29 May, 2024 in Greenwich, Rhode Island. As a 14-years-old Cashore correctly spelled the final two words of the contest, uncinated and transept, in 1954. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)
Oldest living National Spelling Bee champion reflects on his win 70 years later
As contestants from the latest Scripps National Spelling Bee head home, the oldest living champion is reflecting on his experience and the effect it had on him. William Cashore was 14 when he won the 1954 competition.
 
In this image taken from video, piglets interact with yoga class participants, Friday, May 17, 2024, in Spencer, Mass. (AP Photo)
Three little piggies at a yoga class = maximum happiness
If goat yoga is a trend, piglet yoga may not be far behind. Yoga classes in Massachusetts are selling out within hours and people come from far away to participate.
 
New England Aquarium staff and visitors looking at Myrtle as the massive sea turtle rests in a crate after being hoisted out of a giant ocean tank before a performed a medical examination in Boston, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Myrtle, who's around 90 years old and weighs almost a quarter of a ton, underwent a medical examination that included blood draws as well as eye, mouth and a physical examination to ensure the creature remains in good health. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi) (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)
Ancient sea turtle housed at Boston aquarium for more than 50 years passes another physical
Myrtle, an ancient green sea turtle that has delighted visitors to the New England Aquarium in Boston for more than 50 years, is in good physical shape.
 
This combo image shows Professor Emeritus Louis Brus, left, Alexei Ekimov of Nanocrystals Technology Inc., center, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Moungi Bawendi. The three scientists in the United States won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on quantum dots. (AP Photo)
3 scientists win Nobel in chemistry for quantum dots research used in electronics, medical imaging
Three scientists in the United States have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on quantum dots.
 
File - Driver Jose Viveros delivers beverages in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles, Thursday, July 27, 2023. On Friday, the U.S. government issues the July jobs report. The labor market has added jobs at a steady clip in the past year, despite efforts by the Federal Reserve to cool the economy. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Fewer Americans got jobs in July than expected. But a steady market suggests US may avoid recession
The job market has cooled over the summer. But it’s still strong enough to defy predictions that higher interest rates would tip the United States into recession.
 
Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida, Texas
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the playbook of a fellow Republican, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to a new level by catching officials flat-footed in Martha’s Vineyard with two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants.
 
Amid tears and laughter, visits resume in nursing homes
In-person visits to nursing homes are resuming in Massachusetts and other states with masks, social distancing — and plenty of tears and laughter.
 
Harvard scholars: Travel ban deprives US of best, brightest
Harvard Medical School researchers say they’re frustrated that President Donald Trump’s travel ban is keeping bright new Iranian recruits from joining them in Boston.
 
App teaches kindergartners basic computer coding
Children as young as 5 can use the app to craft their own interactive stories and games.
 
Pakistani girl shot by Taliban honored at Harvard
Malala Yousafzai, an outspoken proponent for girls’ education, was at Harvard on Friday to accept the 2013 Peter J.
 
Cop who leaked Boston bomb suspect photos punished
Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded not guilty in connection with the April 15 bombing that killed three and injured or maimed 260. He’s also accused of killing a police officer while on the run three days later. His brother died of injuries suffered during a police confrontation.
 
Vt. woman disfigured in attack reveals new face
“I’m now in a better place, mentally and emotionally, than I ever could have imagined six years ago,” said Tarleton, a former transplant nurse. “I want to share my experience with others, so they may find that strength inside themselves to escape their own pain.”