Hanna Krueger

The Boston-born, national health care system is at the eye of a seismic scandal that has paralyzed Malta’s government, ensnared federal officials, and jeopardized the country’s health care system.

A video posted Wednesday to a Russian social media channel reportedly shows the 28-year-old signing a contract to officially join the country’s armed services as it enters its 25th month of war against Ukraine.

A tip would blow open the doors to a dark but not-so-secret nationwide network, leading investigators into the Harvard morgue and a gruesome American market.

To contemplate how a man could kill 18 people in Lewiston is to contemplate how society shunts responsibility and ignores red flags, and how ill-suited existing systems are to address acute mental illness.

According to the Army, Card joined the reserves in December 2002 and remains an active duty member of the reserves. He holds the rank of first sergeant and has the military specialty of “petroleum supply specialist.”

The city’s last, best hope is that a relatively new state commission created to address police misconduct will end the saga once and for all. But that’s likely wishful thinking.

The group’s unflinching embrace of Nazism and pledges of violence have landed them on the radars of extremism researchers across the country. Most worrisome, the experts say, is that the group’s ranks include a cadre of service members.

In the last five years, at least 82 current and former military service members have been arrested and exposed as harboring far-right, antigovernment, or neo-Nazi ideologies, according to a Globe analysis of court documents, media reports, and studies compiled by independent researchers.

For years, locals have described the Franklin County bridge as a “loaded gun” for people in crisis. Why did it take so long to get suicide-prevention barriers installed?

Charles “Stormy” Mayo, expert on right whales, said the number of whales is likely conservative and there could be up to 100 whales off the Cape.