By | and | | Boston HeraldDavid Ismay, the Baker administration’s $130,000-a-year climate change undersecretary, has resigned “immediately,” citing his incendiary comments.In his resignation letter, Ismay wrote: “It is with great regret that I submit my resignation, effectively immediately, from the position of Undersecretary for Climate Change in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.”The resignation letter is addressed to his boss, Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Kathleen Theoharides. He emailed a copy to the Herald Thursday morning from his private...…By | and | | Boston HeraldDavid Ismay, the Baker administration’s $130,000-a-year climate change undersecretary, has resigned “immediately,” citing his incendiary comments.In his resignation letter, Ismay wrote: “It is with great regret that I submit my resignation, effectively immediately, from the position of Undersecretary for Climate Change in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.”The resignation letter is addressed to his boss, Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Kathleen Theoharides. He emailed a copy to the Herald Thursday morning from his private...WW…

By | and | | Boston HeraldThe Pennsylvania woman accused of directing pro-Trump rioters to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Capitol siege, stealing a laptop in Pelosi’s office, and allegedly trying to send it to Russia has been arrested.Federal authorities say Riley June Williams, who was on the run with possibly the laptop computer or hard drive, surrendered, according to multiple reports.The U.S. Attorney’s Office listed Williams as being “arrested 1/18/21 in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.” There were no further details available just before midnight Monday of her...…By | and | | Boston HeraldThe Pennsylvania woman accused of directing pro-Trump rioters to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Capitol siege, stealing a laptop in Pelosi’s office, and allegedly trying to send it to Russia has been arrested.Federal authorities say Riley June Williams, who was on the run with possibly the laptop computer or hard drive, surrendered, according to multiple reports.The U.S. Attorney’s Office listed Williams as being “arrested 1/18/21 in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.” There were no further details available just before midnight Monday of her...WW…

By | | Boston HeraldLast winter’s Biogen conference in Boston appears to have triggered a globetrotting COVID-19 superspreader that infected an estimated 300,000 people, a scientific study states.The of managers held at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel sent 100 attendees home with the coronavirus who then spread it to 29 states and other countries, the study reports.In all, Biogen’s two-day brainstorming session is tied to an estimated 1.6% of all coronavirus infections in the U.S., the study states.The report paints a chilling portrait of a contagion that raced out of Boston and across...…By | | Boston HeraldLast winter’s Biogen conference in Boston appears to have triggered a globetrotting COVID-19 superspreader that infected an estimated 300,000 people, a scientific study states.The of managers held at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel sent 100 attendees home with the coronavirus who then spread it to 29 states and other countries, the study reports.In all, Biogen’s two-day brainstorming session is tied to an estimated 1.6% of all coronavirus infections in the U.S., the study states.The report paints a chilling portrait of a contagion that raced out of Boston and across...WW…

By | | Boston HeraldThe young man in a MAGA hat thrust into Washington’s political wars last year has walked away with a victory. A very substantial one.Nicholas Sandmann tweeted Friday he reached a settlement in his $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post — on his 18th birthday. Nobody divulged the payout.“Today, I turned 18 & WaPo settled my lawsuit. … Thanks to my family & millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me. I still have more to do,” Sandmann stated in a tweet. The “more to do” are similar lawsuits against Gannett, ABC, CBS, the New...…By | | Boston HeraldThe young man in a MAGA hat thrust into Washington’s political wars last year has walked away with a victory. A very substantial one.Nicholas Sandmann tweeted Friday he reached a settlement in his $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post — on his 18th birthday. Nobody divulged the payout.“Today, I turned 18 & WaPo settled my lawsuit. … Thanks to my family & millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me. I still have more to do,” Sandmann stated in a tweet. The “more to do” are similar lawsuits against Gannett, ABC, CBS, the New...WW…

By | | Boston HeraldConvicted ISIS terrorist David Daoud Wright of Everett — part of a terror cell out to “kill boys in blue” — was resentenced Monday to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervision.Wright, brought back to Boston, fought back tears as he told the judge he was flawed, but he did not apologize.“I have learned more about myself in nearly three years incarcerated than I had in almost 30 years of life,” he told federal Judge Douglas Woodlock. “What exactly have I learned? I’m still learning things. … I’m an imperfect creature like everybody else in need of perfection from...…By | | Boston HeraldConvicted ISIS terrorist David Daoud Wright of Everett — part of a terror cell out to “kill boys in blue” — was resentenced Monday to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervision.Wright, brought back to Boston, fought back tears as he told the judge he was flawed, but he did not apologize.“I have learned more about myself in nearly three years incarcerated than I had in almost 30 years of life,” he told federal Judge Douglas Woodlock. “What exactly have I learned? I’m still learning things. … I’m an imperfect creature like everybody else in need of perfection from...WW…

By | | Boston HeraldArmy 1st Lt. Thomas J. Redgate is finally coming home to Massachusetts, decades after being killed in action during the Korean War.The Boston native will be buried in the National Cemetery in Bourne once the coronavirus pandemic allows family members to travel. His kin tell the Herald the closure is a relief, especially on the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Thursday.“I always felt that some day we would find out what happened to him,” said nephew Stephen Redgate, of Montana, who is also Thomas Redgate’s godson. “Tommy’s surviving family is only a hint of what could...…By | | Boston HeraldArmy 1st Lt. Thomas J. Redgate is finally coming home to Massachusetts, decades after being killed in action during the Korean War.The Boston native will be buried in the National Cemetery in Bourne once the coronavirus pandemic allows family members to travel. His kin tell the Herald the closure is a relief, especially on the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Thursday.“I always felt that some day we would find out what happened to him,” said nephew Stephen Redgate, of Montana, who is also Thomas Redgate’s godson. “Tommy’s surviving family is only a hint of what could...WW…