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As teachers remain on strike in three communities on the North Shore of Massachusetts, the mayor of one has come under fire for a gesture. Schools in Beverly, Gloucester and Marblehead have been closed all week with educators on the picket lines. Thursday night, Gloucester Mayor Greg Verga was caught on video giving the finger during a teacher prot...

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, his campaign press secretary, to serve as his White House press secretary. Leavitt, 27, currently a spokesperson for Trump’s transition, would be the youngest White House press secretary in history. Previously that distinction went to Ronald Ziegler, who was 29 when he took the po...

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden won reelection to Congress through Maine’s ranked choice system on Friday. It’s the third time in four elections in the hotly contested district that Golden won after votes were retabulated because first choices failed to produce a majority for any candidate. This time it was Republican challenger Austin The...

President-elect Donald Trump’s unorthodox pick for health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has drawn a range of pushback from Massachusetts’ top elected leaders. Kennedy is the latest in a string of eyebrow raising picks from Trump, including Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense ...

Black Friday is almost here — and if you’re struggling to keep up with all the deals already, AI might be able to help. Thirty-eight percent of consumers say they have already used generative AI in their shopping journey or are planning to use it to shop during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to a new survey by Boston…

The Rams have an elite pass rush. How can the Patriots neutralize it on Sunday? Phil Perry explains in his Week 11 preview.

A man was found guilty Friday on four murder charges more than six years after he killed a woman and her three young children in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. The bodies of 38-year-old Sara Bermudez, 8-year-old Madison Bermudez, 6-year-old James Bermudez and 2-year-old Michael Bermudez were found in their Old Warren Road home on March 1, 2018. Al...

Will Christian Barmore make his season debut in Week 11 vs. the Rams? Check out the final Patriots injury report.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins is planning to run for a sixth term in two years, NBC affiliate News Center Maine reported. The senator made the announcement of her 2026 campaign at a stop Friday in Vassalboro. Collins has been in office since 1997 and has staked out a moderate position in the Republican Party. Earlier this week, she voiced skepticis...

Some caution that putting South Carolina to the back of the line-up could alienate Black voters.

It’s sounds crazy, but the New England Patriots are kind of in the mix for an AFC playoff spot entering Week 11.

A man and a woman were arrested in a deadly stabbing two weeks ago in Chelsea, Massachusetts, prosecutors said Friday.

A car fleeing police across Massachusetts’ North Shore, at times reaching 100 mph, crashed on Route 128 in Gloucester, leaving its driver and two others hurt, police said.