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  • Whitey Bulger Bio Profiles Boston's Most Notorious Gangster
    Reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, who covered Bulger for years for The Boston Globe, have a book out about the career criminal. Bulger was wanted for 19 murders when he was captured by the FBI in 2011. Jury selection for his trial begins June 6.
  • 2 Years Added To Expected Life Of Medicare Trust Fund
    Trustees now expect the program's fund will be depleted in 2026. Meanwhile, Social Security's trust fund is still expected to go dry in 2033. Both programs' finances need to be reformed, experts agree.
  • Calmly, From Portland, It's The Quiet Music Festival
    For the annual Quiet Music Festival of Portland, which begins today, the goal is to celebrate calming sounds. The festival gained fame after the show Portlandia featured a Battle Of The Gentle Bands.
  • Don't sit down here and have a smoke with your coffee, Starbucks says.
    No Smoking Outside Starbucks Shops Starting Saturday
    The coffee chain says it will enforce its no-smoking rule at its outdoor seating areas and within 25 feet of store entrances. So, no coffee and a smoke for those who enjoy them together. Have smoking bans gone too far or not far enough?
  • The Coors Light can created to celebrate this year's National Puerto Rican Day parade sparked controversy over its logo.
    Puerto Ricans Find Coors' Toast In Poor Taste
    Community activists in New York are angry after MillerCoors placed a Puerto Rican flag on a commemorative beer can. The can was designed to promote the annual Puerto Rican Day parade.
  • In <em>The East</em>, Ellen Page (left) and Alexander Skarsgard play members of an anarchist eco-terrorist collective.
    Rediscover Your Inner Anarchist In The Anti-Corporate 'East'
    The East is a romantic activist outlaw fantasy in which Brit Marling plays an agent who poses as a radical activist to catch an eco-terrorist group. It's one of those melodramas in which someone on the morally wrong side has a spasm of conscience and maybe crosses over. Maybe.
  • A Cambodian survivor of the infamous Tuol Sleng prison (known as S-21) poses by a picture of "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea last year.
    Top Khmer Rouge Leaders Apologize For Regime's Atrocities
    Nuon Chea, the No. 2 leader in the genocidal Cambodian regime, and head of state Khieu Samphan are on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1970s.
  • A file photo from 2011 shows a man touching a giant bronze sculpture of a mammoth in the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk. A team of Russian and South Korean scientists who found a well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth carcass this month say it also included blood.
    Report Of Liquid Woolly Mammoth Blood Prompts Clone Talk
    Scientists in Siberia say they've extracted blood samples from the carcass of a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth, leading to speculation that a clone of the extinct animal might someday walk the earth. But researchers say the find must be studied further to know its potential.
  • Mets phenom Dwight Gooden pitches at New York's Shea Stadium on May 6, 1984.
    Baseball's 'Doc' Gooden Pitches A Cautionary Tale
    Dwight Gooden, blessed with a blazing fastball and knee-buckling curve, was the king of New York by the time he was 21 years old. Everyone expected the Mets phenom to be one of the best pitchers in baseball history.
  • Demonstrators flee from a water cannon during clashes with riot police Friday during a protest against the demolition of Taksim Gezi Park, in Taksim Square in Istanbul.
    Turkish Police, Anti-Government Protesters Clash
    What started out as a peaceful sit-in against redevelopment plans for a park in Istanbul has erupted into wider political protests.
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