In that way, Boston has hinted at a new Amer­ican matu­rity, say experts. Because of it, the “new normal” post-​​​​Boston might not look too dif­ferent from what came before – … read more »

Ammo­nium nitrate may be the more likely can­di­date in the explo­sion. In small quan­ti­ties, the white pel­lets won’t det­o­nate, notes Ronald Willey, a chem­ical engi­neering pro­fessor at North­eastern Uni­ver­sity in Boston. Many drug­store … read more »

“What we saw today was a rel­a­tively small-​​​​scale set of explo­sions,” says Stephen Flynn, co-​​​​director of the George J. Kostas Research Insti­tute for Home­land Secu­rity at North­eastern Uni­ver­sity, in Boston. “The chal­lenge with … read more »

Years ago, Rice’s behavior might have been shrugged off by many as “tough love,” but this time, “there was a cer­tain sense of out­rage” expressed by everyone from sports com­men­ta­tors … read more »

While inci­dents like the one at UCF – par­tic­u­larly in the con­text of other recent shoot­ings – can lead to talk of an epi­demic, it’s also impor­tant to keep the threat level … read more »

Soviet offi­cials report­edly were miffed by the depic­tion of an Amer­ican who was at first besotted by the rad­ical ideas of the rev­o­lu­tion but who lost faith as the total­i­tarian … read more »

With the hunt for Christo­pher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer sus­pected of three killings, in its second week, local offi­cials have offered $1 mil­lion for infor­ma­tion that could lead to his cap­ture. … read more »

“If you remove gang-​​​​related inci­dents from the Chicago homi­cide sta­tis­tics, the homi­cide rate involving normal cit­i­zens is much lower,” says James Alan Fox, a crim­i­nol­o­gist at North­eastern Uni­ver­sity in Boston.  

The street shooting Friday morning near New York’s land­mark Empire State Building, in which an ex-​​​​employee killed his former boss, is a tragic reminder that workplace-​​​​related vio­lence remains a con­sis­tent, … read more »

Amer­i­cans are prob­ably already seeing the drought’s impact, and it will get worse before it gets better, says Jeff Born, a finance pro­fessor and director of the exec­u­tive MBA pro­gram at North­eastern … read more »

Two high-​​​​profile shoot­ings of police offi­cers in small towns – one on each coast – are high­lighting sta­tis­tics that show a sharp spike in police officer deaths nation­wide during the … read more »

Two high-​​​​profile shoot­ings of police offi­cers in small towns – one on each coast – are high­lighting sta­tis­tics that show a sharp spike in police officer deaths nation­wide during the … read more »