President Trump announced Tuesday that he has decided to exit a 2015 six-nation agreement in which Iran agreed to limit its production of nuclear weapons material. "I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal," Trump said. He said the U.S. will re-impose economic sanctions that were lifted as part of the U.S. commitments made in the deal. The U.S. has been repeatedly waiving sanctions that curtail Iran's oil sales but those sanctions waivers face a...

Updated at 12:10 a.m. ET on Tuesday New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a vocal critic of President Trump who has championed many women's causes, has resigned following a New Yorker article that detailed allegations by four women that he physically abused them. "In the last several hours, serious allegations, which I strongly contest, have been made against me," he said in a statement. "While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office,...

Charles Neville died on Wednesday, April 25, aged 79, at his home in Huntington, Massachusetts. He'd been ill for several months with pancreatic cancer. His brother Aaron, who appeared at a tribute concert for Charles at the Academy of Music in Northampton in February, confirmed his passing with WWL-TV in New Orleans on Thursday (click here to hear Aaron speaking with news anchor Eric Paulson about his brother), and the sad news gradually reached us here in Western Mass where the second...

The tall, gangly man twists a cone of paper in his hands as stories from nearly 30 years of addiction pour out: the robbery that landed him in prison at 17; never getting his GED; going through the horrors of detox, maybe 40 times, including this latest, which he finished two weeks ago. Hes now   in a residential unit for at least 30 days. Im a serious addict, says Julio Cesar Santiago, 44. I still have dreams where I’m about to use drugs, and I have to wake up and get on my knees and pray,...

Sailors in the around-the-world Volvo Ocean race are coursing through the Atlantic Ocean on their way to New England.

Public health officials are urging use of bug repellent this season as cases of tick and mosquito-borne disease are on the rise. The insects have been expanding their range across the U.S., including here in the Northeast, and a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a significant increase in reported infections. More moderate winters are likely to blame, allowing ticks and mosquitos to thrive in areas that would have previously been uninhabitable. The...