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Rachel Martin asks Boston Globe technology reporter Hiawatha Bray if the Amazon Echo is a gadget worth adding to all our other gadgets.

New York's network of food banks has re-branded and is operating under new leadership. The Food Bank Association of New York State is fine-tuning its…

The final contest of the 2018 midterms is being decided Tuesday in North Carolina. The original election was close, and the results were thrown out amid evidence of vote tampering by a GOP operative.

I look carefully at the charcoal drawing. Do I see a long-eared rabbit or a long-billed duck?

A global climate summit got underway today in Glasgow, Scotland. It appears unlikely that this conference will produce any dramatic new changes in policy.

Doctor Sleep is Stephen King's sequel to his 1977 smash hit The Shining, about a haunted hotel. Sleep follows Danny Torrance, the troubled son of Shining protagonist Jack, as he gets drawn into a new battle against evil. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says King "is still scaring the hell out of me."

Despite the health risks, Dan Flynn left California to New York with a national mortuary response team last month. His daughter tells him how he inspired her to go into medicine.

The British Commonwealth Summit begins Monday in Samoa as leaders of commonewealth nations seek reforms

The British group's moody debut carried the ring of 1980s post-punk. The grooves are magnified on its second album, and plenty of moments feel like straight-up club music.

If you were on The Ed Sullivan Show, you had arrived. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Van Cliburn, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby — a legendary list of luminaries spanned an incredible range of pop culture. Now Sullivan's press representative has a new book detailing how the show shaped American culture.