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Massachusetts House and Senate leaders are signaling there's agreement on the framework of a tax relief package that builds on a plan to give $500 million in rebate checks to eligible residents.

No album in the history of the Billboard album chart has ever had a longer gap between stints at No. 1. Elsewhere, Christmas music dominates for one last week.

Last year's historic Best Picture debacle prompted the accounting firm responsible for the security of envelopes to come up with new fail-safes. Most important: Stop tweeting and put away that phone.

Despite penguins, lions and gorillas battling for Hollywood supremacy, 2005 will go down as a box office disappointment. But NPR critic Bob Mondello says the year's films were high on quality.

President Biden is having a tough time convincing people that he's taking care of the economy. He took another crack at this in the State of the Union.

Biden's novel step of preemptive pardons is meant to protect people from the threat of "unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions."

The man convicted in the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City has had his conviction thrown out. A jury convicted Pedro Hernandez following his confession in the notorious abduction.

A lawsuit accuses the Alabama Republican of helping incite a pro-Trump mob into storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. Named alongside Brooks in the suit are former President Donald Trump and others.

Adam Hochschild's pensive narrative history, To End All Wars, focuses on those who fought — and also on those who refused. Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged.