GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldMIDDLETON — On the eve of what could be a very big day for the Bruins, the club is at the center of much speculation on both the trade and free agent markets. A name constantly bandied about the last couple of years has been that of goaltender Tuukka Rask.But in his first public comments since departing the Toronto bubble in the first round of the playoffs on Aug. 15, Rask made it clear that he doesn’t want to go anywhere. And in light of Don Sweeney’s recent public comments, in which he said that he...…GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldMIDDLETON — On the eve of what could be a very big day for the Bruins, the club is at the center of much speculation on both the trade and free agent markets. A name constantly bandied about the last couple of years has been that of goaltender Tuukka Rask.But in his first public comments since departing the Toronto bubble in the first round of the playoffs on Aug. 15, Rask made it clear that he doesn’t want to go anywhere. And in light of Don Sweeney’s recent public comments, in which he said that he...WW…

GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | The Democrats are rewriting history, celebrating the Obama record on the economy as if these were the salad days for America. In Washington parlance, that is called “misremembering.” The reality is that the Obama tax-and-regulate agenda led to the weakest economic recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.This week, the Census Bureau released its economic report — the gold standard of measuring the finances of American families.In President Trump’s first three years in office, real median family income...…GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | The Democrats are rewriting history, celebrating the Obama record on the economy as if these were the salad days for America. In Washington parlance, that is called “misremembering.” The reality is that the Obama tax-and-regulate agenda led to the weakest economic recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.This week, the Census Bureau released its economic report — the gold standard of measuring the finances of American families.In President Trump’s first three years in office, real median family income...WW…

GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldLast winter’s Biogen conference in Boston appears to have triggered a globetrotting COVID-19 superspreader that infected an estimated 300,000 people, a scientific study states.The of managers held at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel sent 100 attendees home with the coronavirus who then spread it to 29 states and other countries, the study reports.In all, Biogen’s two-day brainstorming session is tied to an estimated 1.6% of all coronavirus infections in the U.S., the study states.The report...…GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldLast winter’s Biogen conference in Boston appears to have triggered a globetrotting COVID-19 superspreader that infected an estimated 300,000 people, a scientific study states.The of managers held at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel sent 100 attendees home with the coronavirus who then spread it to 29 states and other countries, the study reports.In all, Biogen’s two-day brainstorming session is tied to an estimated 1.6% of all coronavirus infections in the U.S., the study states.The report...WW…

GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson has posted dozens of crimes allegedly committed by ICE detainees who were ordered released by a federal judge due to coronavirus concerns.Hodgson’s first “Prisoner Release Alert System” posted on Facebook Monday, and he vowed to continue releasing lists of crimes. Federal Judge William Young ordered the detainees freed after a lawsuit was brought by Lawyers for Civil Rights claiming illegal immigrants were at risk of contracting COVID-19 in detention facilities.“We can’t give...…GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson has posted dozens of crimes allegedly committed by ICE detainees who were ordered released by a federal judge due to coronavirus concerns.Hodgson’s first “Prisoner Release Alert System” posted on Facebook Monday, and he vowed to continue releasing lists of crimes. Federal Judge William Young ordered the detainees freed after a lawsuit was brought by Lawyers for Civil Rights claiming illegal immigrants were at risk of contracting COVID-19 in detention facilities.“We can’t give...WW…

GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldThe numbers of infected among cops, firefighters and MBTA employees is growing — but they’re confident they’ll figure out a way to push through and handle the upcoming coronavirus peak.As of Friday afternoon, 124 firefighters in the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts union had tested positive and 561 are in quarantine, union President Richard MacKinnon Jr. told the Herald.That’s up from 62 members who’d tested positive by the end of last week, and a mere eight the previous week.“It’s going...…GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldThe numbers of infected among cops, firefighters and MBTA employees is growing — but they’re confident they’ll figure out a way to push through and handle the upcoming coronavirus peak.As of Friday afternoon, 124 firefighters in the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts union had tested positive and 561 are in quarantine, union President Richard MacKinnon Jr. told the Herald.That’s up from 62 members who’d tested positive by the end of last week, and a mere eight the previous week.“It’s going...WW…

GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldNearly 17,000 carpenters and painters are refusing to work at Massachusetts construction sites over concerns for the safety as the coronavirus pandemic escalates and calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to order a statewide shutdown.The Painters and Allied Trades Union has directed its 4,000 members in Massachusetts and across New England to stop working following the close of business on Monday and ordering them not to return to work “until it is safe to resume.”“Business representatives and organizers...…GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldNearly 17,000 carpenters and painters are refusing to work at Massachusetts construction sites over concerns for the safety as the coronavirus pandemic escalates and calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to order a statewide shutdown.The Painters and Allied Trades Union has directed its 4,000 members in Massachusetts and across New England to stop working following the close of business on Monday and ordering them not to return to work “until it is safe to resume.”“Business representatives and organizers...WW…

GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | Due process is making a huge comeback in 2020 thanks to Tara Reade.The Democrats, once the party of “Believe All Women,” have now quickly morphed into the party of “Believe Some Women.”Reade is not the first victim of a liberal double standards by any means, but her allegation has put the left’s blatant hypocrisy on full display.By accusing Democratic front-runner Joe Biden of rape, Reade has shed light on the two very different roads a sexual assault victim might travel down.One road is far more accommodating....…GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | Due process is making a huge comeback in 2020 thanks to Tara Reade.The Democrats, once the party of “Believe All Women,” have now quickly morphed into the party of “Believe Some Women.”Reade is not the first victim of a liberal double standards by any means, but her allegation has put the left’s blatant hypocrisy on full display.By accusing Democratic front-runner Joe Biden of rape, Reade has shed light on the two very different roads a sexual assault victim might travel down.One road is far more accommodating....WW…

GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldQuest Diagnostics is launching a coronavirus antibody test for the general public to help people learn if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19 and developed antibodies against it, the company announced on Tuesday.People — without even visiting a doctor — can buy this $119 test online. A doctor then reviews each test request.If the test is approved, the person will get their blood drawn at one of Quest’s 2,200 patient service centers in the U.S.Local Quest patient centers are in Boston, Brookline, Quincy,...…GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldQuest Diagnostics is launching a coronavirus antibody test for the general public to help people learn if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19 and developed antibodies against it, the company announced on Tuesday.People — without even visiting a doctor — can buy this $119 test online. A doctor then reviews each test request.If the test is approved, the person will get their blood drawn at one of Quest’s 2,200 patient service centers in the U.S.Local Quest patient centers are in Boston, Brookline, Quincy,...WW…

GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | Democrats don’t just have a Tara Reade problem, they have a women problem, and it won’t go away simply because Joe Biden denies touching Reade and chooses a female running mate. The women’s vote is not that cheap.Reade, like Christine Blasey-Ford, is credible because there aren’t enough reasons to conclude otherwise. People are entitled to the presumption of respect when they report violence.This is not an endorsement of the “believe all women” mantra. I would say the same thing about any person who reports a...…GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | Democrats don’t just have a Tara Reade problem, they have a women problem, and it won’t go away simply because Joe Biden denies touching Reade and chooses a female running mate. The women’s vote is not that cheap.Reade, like Christine Blasey-Ford, is credible because there aren’t enough reasons to conclude otherwise. People are entitled to the presumption of respect when they report violence.This is not an endorsement of the “believe all women” mantra. I would say the same thing about any person who reports a...WW…

GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldArmy 1st Lt. Thomas J. Redgate is finally coming home to Massachusetts, decades after being killed in action during the Korean War.The Boston native will be buried in the National Cemetery in Bourne once the coronavirus pandemic allows family members to travel. His kin tell the Herald the closure is a relief, especially on the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Thursday.“I always felt that some day we would find out what happened to him,” said nephew Stephen Redgate, of Montana, who is also Thomas...…GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS.XBy | | Boston HeraldArmy 1st Lt. Thomas J. Redgate is finally coming home to Massachusetts, decades after being killed in action during the Korean War.The Boston native will be buried in the National Cemetery in Bourne once the coronavirus pandemic allows family members to travel. His kin tell the Herald the closure is a relief, especially on the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Thursday.“I always felt that some day we would find out what happened to him,” said nephew Stephen Redgate, of Montana, who is also Thomas...WW…