Alex Kingsbury is a contributing writer at The New York Times and a former member of the Globe editorial board. Appointments always start with an earnest apology. “I’m so sorry,” I’ll hear, seconds ...

HBO’s "Harry Potter" series is off to the races. After months of casting rumors, some of Hogwarts' core faculty and staff have been cast, and we know the series will be filmed at the same studio where ...

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Alice Walker. Charles Bukowski. Louise Erdrich. Juan Felipe Herrera. These are just some of the authors who received a Creative Writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts over the ...

The Braintree American baseball team’s storybook run in the Little League World Series came to an end Sunday morning with a 3-2 loss to the Northwest representative from Bonney Lake, Wash., in ...

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Waymo, the company synonymous with self-driving taxis on the West Coast, is now allowed to start testing out the congested streets of New York City. The Department of Transportation issued a permit on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rookie Roman Anthony hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning and drove in three runs in a memorable Yankee Stadium debut and the Boston Red Sox survived struggles at the plate for a ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Francisco Giants right-hander Landen Roupp was carted off the field after he was hit by a line drive by Ramón Laureano of the San Diego Padres in the third inning Wednesday night.