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Zhayreth, Adriana, Freddy and Freydar Torres sit on the stoop of their apartment in Dorchester.

With strife behind them, a young migrant family prepares to seek asylum in Boston

Migration

Calling it a humanitarian crisis, Governor Maura Healey has activated the National Guard to support migrants at Joint Base Cape Cod and launched two welcome centers in Boston and Quincy. But the influx of desperate people is so great that families are flooding nonprofits and local hospitals.

Poet Stanley Kunitz

Arts, Culture & Media

Jacob’s Pillow

Arts, Culture & Media

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Arts, Culture & Media
Nantucket erosion aerial

Nantucket’s bluffs and beaches are crumbling in the face of storms and rising seas

Environment
Angel Echavarria with his 22-year-old daughter, Ishannis Lopez, and other family members.

‘I never give up.’ New evidence prompts release of man after 21 years in prison.

Justice

Forty-eight year old Angel Echavarria has spent nearly half his life in prison for a crime that a preponderance of new evidence suggests he did not commit. This week, a judge told Echavarria that he was a free man.

Henry Liu and his son at Fenway Park in April 2010.

Henry Liu is a musket-carrying member of the Lexington Minute Men. He’s also Chinese American.

Lifestyle & Belief

There are some requirements to be a Lexington Minute Man. You have to be a US citizen and you have to be male. Your ancestry, though, doesn’t matter, either to other reenactors or, apparently, the crowds.

Henry Liu and his son at Fenway Park in April 2010.

Henry Liu is a musket-carrying member of the Lexington Minute Men. He’s also Chinese American.

Lifestyle & Belief

There are some requirements to be a Lexington Minute Man. You have to be a US citizen and you have to be male. Your ancestry, though, doesn’t matter, either to other reenactors or, apparently, the crowds.

Kerry

Secretary of State John Kerry has traveled far but can’t find peace in Syria

Global Politics

The diplomatic dance requires multiple players to dance with you. And Secretary of State John Kerry has traveled the world looking for dance partners — successfully, in many occasions. On the matter of Syria, though, few are cooperating.

Boston students take on the French consulate over its warning to avoid their neighborhood

Development & Education

When the French consulate issued a warning to French tourists to avoid certain neighborhoods in Boston at night, students there decided to do something about it.

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