Stephanie Ebbert

Reproductive Equity Now, an advocacy group that endorsed candidates for last week’s state elections, is now asking those representatives to deliver on an array of proposals to advance reproductive rights in their communities.

Gregory T. Antonelli, a well-connected contractor and developer in Everett, has been fined $6,000 for illegally funneling excessive campaign contributions to Mayor Carlo DeMaria through family members, according to the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance.

The vote is expected to put the town in compliance with the state’s historic law requiring communities served by mass transit to rezone to help alleviate the region’s housing crisis.

Several academics said Gay’s work clearly appeared to violate Harvard’s policy on plagiarism, which calls for strict delineation between a writer’s ideas and those that originated with others.

On social media, the combative billionaire investor has described his campaign since the day Hamas attacked Israel as “an effort to save higher education from itself.”

A Globe review of state contracts offers a glimpse at the nearly $1 billion emergency shelter system the state is now operating for homeless families, about half of them migrants from other countries.

After the Globe identified sex offenders in hotels housing new migrants and homeless families, the state said it is moving the individuals.

Healey administration conceals key information about state shelter system even as it triples spending

A Haitian national was arrested for the rape and assault of a pregnant woman in a Peabody hotel shelter. It was a case of domestic violence, the state says.

Hundreds of women in communities across the state are far from their extended families, facing the profound emotional and physical toll of pregnancy in a foreign land with no place to call home.