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US mass killings are down in 2025, but experts say it’s likely just a return to more typical levels

“Sir Isaac Newton never studied crime, but he says ‘What goes up must come down,’” said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. 
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What Tennessee Election Result Means For Midterms

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “Huge shifts in a Democratic direction in all counties in Tennessee’s special election last night does not bode well for Republicans in the upcoming 2026 midterms.
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US mass killings are down in 2025, but experts say it’s likely just a return to more typical levels

A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel defers vote on hepatitis B shot for babies until Friday

“We have a vaccine that is highly effective at preventing an incurable disease. We should take full advantage of that,” Neil Maniar, a public health professor at Northeastern University, told CNBC.
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US mass killings are down in 2025, but experts say it’s likely just a return to more typical levels

A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
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Meta’s Legal Shield Meets Pivotal Test in Teen Addiction Case

“Every case is a bit of a test case, and different courts and different circuits are deciding things differently,” said Elettra Bietti of Northeastern University School of Law, who signed onto a brief supporting a limited view of Section 230.
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Meta should not get a pass on accountability for potential harm of products to minors

Op-ed by Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University, whose research includes studies of social media design characteristics.
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Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions.
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It’s time to unpack Spotify Wrapped. Here’s how the music streamer compiled your 2025 recap

These recaps may signal more transparency for users, because they can see some data in their hands. And products like Wrapped have become particularly popular because they’re personalized and now designed to share online — leaving many to look forward to it as an “annual ritual” of sorts, notes Yakov Bart, a marketing professor at […]
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The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner

This year alone has delivered a scripted series (“Outrageous,” on BritBox) and a graphic biography (Mimi Pond’s “Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me”), but perhaps the most significant contribution is “Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford,” by Carla Kaplan (Harper), a professor of literature at Northeastern University. 
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It’s the end of an era for Matthews Arena (formerly Boston Arena), and other thoughts

Northeastern University’s Matthews Arena is a multipurpose athletics hall that for 115 years has been home to events featuring magic and star power on par with Fenway Park, both Boston Gardens, and the long list of gridirons that have housed your Patriots since their creation.
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What If Our Ancestors Didn’t Feel Anything Like We Do?

How a particular brain assigns meaning has to do with a person’s prior experiences—what Lisa Feldman Barrett, the director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University and the author of How Emotions Are Made, calls its “concepts and categories.”