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Members of the Belchertown, Mass., select board narrowly agreed Monday night to put a property tax override question on the annual town meeting ballot. If it passes, additional revenue could address a $2.1 million funding gap in next year's school budget.

Under a sweeping executive order that also targeted the parent company of Voice of America, the Institute of Museum and Library Services would be virtually eliminated. The little-known organization provides grants to cultural and educational institutions across Connecticut.

Ben & Jerry's alleges its parent company, Unilever, ousted its CEO in retaliation for social media posts supporting progressive causes. The last few years have been a rocky road for the companies.

Canadian investigators released a preliminary report into last month's Delta Air Lines regional jet rollover landing crash in Toronto. The plane was descending too quickly before it hit the runway.

A new study out this week from the museum think tank Remuseum suggests free admission attracts more visitors without increasing costs.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is studying dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Does history repeat itself? Or does it rhyme? WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends eight books that remind us the current moment is just a reprise and a remix of things humanity has seen and endured before.

This hour, a look at the cultural significance of the apple, from Adam and Eve to keeping the doctor away. Plus: growing apples, the future of apples, and we compare apples and oranges.

Even as the war in Gaza continues, Israel's prime minister says a "larger and more intense front could be opened" in the West Bank, where more than 40,000 have been displaced in the current operation.

Authors Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein argue that in order to ensure a better future, America needs to build and invent more to combat problems such as affordable housing, climate change, and food and medicine inaccessibility.