20+ hour, 35+ min ago  (814+ words) What's it like to have millions of fans but struggle to make friends? For Punch, a 7-month-old macaque, fame and loneliness have collided, leaving the world watching as he clings to a stuffed orangutan toy from Ikea. Punch was abandoned…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (341+ words) Barack Obama shared his favorite books, movies, and music of 2025 lists on Thursday, and a couple of stars with local ties earned nods from the former president. On the top songs of the year round-up, Boston-born R&B singer Khamari…...

6+ mon, 4+ day ago  (371+ words) Skibidi" is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to the Cambridge Dictionary. Internet culture is changing the English language and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture in…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (518+ words) A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a Natick couple bizarrely harassed by eBay employees in 2019 may proceed to civil trial with a more than $500 million lawsuit against the company and others involved. David and Ina Steiner, who ran a…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (493+ words) Maybe what we're witnessing is not so much the end of influencer culture but the rise of the recession influencer. The real flex in 2025 may be to post about being boring, broke, and honest. In ... Is the influencer backlash real…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (176+ words) Hear from the journalists behind "Snitch City," the new investigative series that pulls back the curtain on police misconduct and confidential informants. A year after their award-winning series, Murder in Boston, The Boston Globe just launched a Spotlight podcast franchise....