Stephanie Ebbert

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.”

The Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday that Sherri Ann Charleston is accused of plagiarizing multiple passages of her dissertation and improperly taking credit for her husband’s earlier research in a paper they later coauthored, allegations corroborated by a Globe analysis.

The motel is one of the scores of sites utilized to accommodate a growing number of families with nowhere to live, amid a surge of thousands of migrants making their way to Massachusetts.

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.

State inspectors have yet to set foot in most of the hotels rented at taxpayer expense, failing to ensure that the hastily arranged accommodations meet basic health and safety standards. When they do, the results are often dismal.

The homeless and migrant crisis has been expensive for taxpayers, but it’s been a boon for some hotel owners, including two Massachusetts companies.

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.