Cases of human trafficking are rarely prosecuted in the US despite a recent surge of federal and state laws aimed at combating modern day slavery, a report released Wednesday found.

Barcelona and the Catalonia region of Spain came to Northeastern University to give Boston a lesson on how to invest in regional transportation.

“Polka dot, afro” has been punctuating children’s commercial television about every five minutes for the last month, it seems to me, but a letter just filed with the Federal Trade Commission has a far more serious complaint about the marketing of Madagascar 3: That it links the movie’s comic animal characters with an over-the-counter drug […]

Public health advocates are charging that Merck’s entertainment product tie-in campaign for children’s Claritin with the movie Madagascar 3 is deceptive and dangerous because it could cause children to confuse medicine with candy.

Vicki Kennedy and Senator Scott Brown – representatives of the old and new guard in Massachusetts politics – reached an ­impasse in an escalating battle of wills Tuesday, all but dooming a high-profile US Senate debate in the fall.

This week’s Twitter roundup of happenings in the business school world includes a pledge by B-school deans to pay more attention to sustainability in management courses, an MBA alum featured in a prominent department store ad campaign, and an undergraduate business student who’ll carry the Olympic torch next month.

Economists regard the unemployment rate as a “lagging indicator” because it tends to move well after other gauges of economic strength. But unemployment is the indicator to which normal people pay the most attention.

The iCRAFT is short for ‘Eye-Controlled Robotic Arm Feeding Technology’ and was designed by a team of electrical and engineering students at the Northeastern University. The tool would allow disabled people or the elderly to feed themselves by utilizing eye-tracking technology.

Several years into her marriage, Jessica Carr discovered a receipt on her husband’s desk for a late lunch at a waterfront restaurant in Seattle, 45 miles from the farm she shares with him in Orting, Wash. He had told her he’d spent that whole day in business meetings.

Former governor Michael Dukakis will moderate a forum on the state of national health reform at 7 p.m. June 27 at the Brookline Senior Center, 93 Winchester St. The panelists will be Stu Altman, professor of national health policy at Brandeis University; Dr. Donald Berwick, outgoing administrator of the National Centers for Medicare and Medicaid; […]

Sameer Ahmed Darraj thanks God that his family of six made it safely to Jordan after suffering a siege in his hometown of Homs. He’s also grateful he found an apartment in Madaba, a small village southwest of Amman, to shelter his wife, two young children, mother and nephew.

Ex-convict William Clyde Gibson III once said there were four crimes he wanted to commit, according to former girlfriend Kelly Bailey: bank robbery, auto theft, rape and murder — “just to see if I can get away with it.”