Spencer Buell

6 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Spencer Buell

For as long as there have been political fundraisers, there have often been glasses of wine or bottles of beer available to hoist the candidate’s success. In Somerville, a mayoral hopeful is taking another approach. And one that, to his frustration, is still technically in a legal gray area: a cannabis-infused menu at a fundraiser.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Spencer Buell

Twelve years later, it’s still as painful as ever for Delores Grant, grandmother of the late Boston police officer Dennis “DJ” Simmonds. “It doesn’t get any better. It’s very rough for me today,” said Grant, whose grandson was injured in the aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and died a year later.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Spencer Buell

CAMBRIDGE — For years, decades, centuries, this college town has been home to protests: colonists against the King of England, students against the wars in Vietnam, and in Gaza. Now something different is brewing just outside Harvard Yard. The city government itself, citing concerns that its oldest and most noteworthy organization might give in to demands from President Trump, is organizing a protest that will pressure the university to resist him.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser |Spencer Buell

UMass president Marty Meehan called the Trump administration’s cancellation of so many student visas “unprecedented.”“These actions by the federal government are extremely troubling and upsetting,” Meehan said Monday. “Massachusetts and the nation have grown stronger because of this infusion of talent.”The State Department, which has the authority to revoke visas, declined to offer specifics on the cases.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Spencer Buell

The federal government has revoked the visas of three current Harvard students and two recent graduates, administrators said Sunday. “We are not aware of the details of the revocations or the reasons for them, but we understand that comparable numbers of students and scholars in institutions across the country have experienced similar status changes in roughly the same timeframe,” the Harvard International Office wrote in a message to international students Sunday.