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Brothers bring boxing back to Fenway after 70 years and hope to revitalize the sport in Boston
For the first time in nearly 70 years, boxing is returning to Boston’s famed Fenway Park. The 11-fight card is the ...
Trump’s big bill also seeks to undo the big bills of Biden and Obama
Chiseling away at President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Rolling back the green energy tax breaks from President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. At its core, the ...
What it would take to convert a jet from Qatar into Air Force One to safely fly Trump
President Donald Trump really wants to fly on an upgraded Air Force One — but making that happen could depend on whether he’s willing to cut corners with security. As government ...
As a generation of gay and lesbian people ages, memories of worse — and better — times swirl
David Perry recalls being young and gay in 1980s Washington D.C. and having “an absolute blast.” He was fresh out of college, raised in Richmond, Virginia, and had long viewed ...
The Club World Cup has faced pushback in Europe but FIFA is banking on its big bet
The Club World Cup. A bold new era for the world’s most popular sport — or a major inconvenience, shoe-horned into a soccer calendar that is already at saturation point? FIFA’s newly ...
Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage kidnapped into Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023
Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage kidnapped into Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. The Prime Minister’s office said Saturday that the body of Thai citizen ...
Russian drones and missiles target Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv, killing 3, officials say
A large Russian drone-and-missile attack targeted Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring 21, local Ukrainian officials ...
A ball thrown from the stands causes moment of confusion in Braves-Giants game
An overexuberant fan had people seeing double during the game between the Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants. A ball was thrown on the field from the stands on a ...
French Open: No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka faces No. 2 Coco Gauff in the women’s final
No.1 Aryna Sabalenka faces No. 2 Coco Gauff in the French Open final on Saturday with both women aiming to win the title for the first time. Gauff lost the 2022 French Open final at ...
How the Vatican manages money and where Pope Leo XIV might find more
The world’s smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily finances the Catholic Church’s central ...
Can an American pope apply US-style fundraising and standards to fix troubled Vatican finances?
As a bishop in Peru, Robert Prevost was often on the lookout for used cars that he could buy cheap and fix up himself for use in parishes around his diocese. With cars that ...
Drought, rising prices and dwindling herds undercut this year’s Eid al-Adha in North Africa
Flocks of sheep once quilted Morocco’s mountain pastures, stretched across Algeria’s vast plateaus and grazed along Tunisia’s green coastline. But the cascading effects ...