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First the state sued Milton to enforce its ambitious MBTA housing law. Now Milton is firing back.

Town officials filed a response to Attorney General Andrea Campbell's lawsuit that challenges the validity of the ambitious housing law itself, and the attorney general’s ability to enforce it.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Combating crooks delays handling of Massachusetts jobless claims

The state has ramped up benefits processing, but its performance is not back to where it was before the pandemic.

Four Canadian school boards sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for disrupting students’ education

The lawsuits claim platforms like Facebook and Instagram "designed for compulsive use, have rewired the way children think, behave, and learn."

RI FOOD CLUB

‘Uyghur food is art’: In Providence, Jahunger is this unlikely chef’s taste of home

Subat Dilmurat, the owner of Jahunger, was named a semifinalist for the 2024 James Beard Restaurant and Chef awards earlier this year.

COLUMN | DAN MCGOWAN

‘It has created a life for me’: A Rhode Island TikTok star worries about the fate of the popular app

Ian Brownhill has gone from being a struggling actor to a well-paid social media content creator in the past four years.

Its beach nearly gone, waterfront home on Nantucket sells for just $600k. What does the sale say about the island’s future?

The property was first listed in September for nearly $2.3 million. But after the shoreline lost a stunning 70 feet to erosion in just a matter of weeks, putting the home at imminent risk, the price plunged to $600,000 by year’s end.

VP Harris says US agencies must show their AI tools aren’t harming people’s safety or rights

Each agency by December must have a set of concrete safeguards that guide everything from facial recognition screenings at airports to AI tools that help control the electric grid or determine mortgages and home insurance.

Steward plan to sell doctors network comes under scrutiny from federal and state lawmakers

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell pledged to “use every tool available” to address problems that might arise from the sale.


Settlement reached in lawsuit between Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ allies

The settlement ends almost two years of litigation that was sparked by DeSantis’ takeover of Walt Disney World’s governing district from Disney supporters following the company’s opposition to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law.

New proposals spark hope that offshore wind will pick up speed

Four developers have filed bids to build wind farms off the southern coast of New England, offering hope that a nascent industry can be sparked back to life after stalling out amid rising costs.

GBH warns of possible layoffs as it faces ‘financial headwinds’

GBH’s warning of potential layoffs came a day after Boston’s other NPR news station, WBUR, offered buyouts to staff.

TikTok is under investigation by the FTC over data practices and could face a lawsuit

The investigation is the latest battle in Washington for the social media company, which is already fighting against a federal bill that could ban the platform in the United States if it doesn’t break ties with its Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance.

Meta is failing to curb anti-trans hate, report says

Social media posts catalogued by the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD included calls for the violent extermination of transgender people as well as descriptions of trans and gender nonconforming people as “satanic,” “sexual predators,” “terrorists,” “mentally ill,” and “perverts.”

How the Key Bridge collapse will disrupt the supply of cars, coal, and tofu

The collapse has caused a suspension of vessel traffic that will disrupt a key trade lane and threaten to further tangle already-stressed supply chains.

Blackstone to invest up to $750 million in Moderna to develop new vaccines

Moderna, one of the state’s largest biotechs, is trying to diversify its revenue stream after a global plunge in demand for COVID products last year.

BOLD TYPES

What is the future of the T? Jarred Johnson and TransitMatters have some ideas.

The executive director of the transit advocacy group believes in a “data-driven but people-centered” approach to fixing the T.