Massachusetts

Editor’s Note: The article has been updated with a comment from Amazon. Amid the bustling holiday season, an Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) driver left 80 packages in a wooded area in Lakeville, Massachusetts. This incident occurred because the company faced intense pressure to meet delivery...

Veteran Democrat Elizabeth Warren has triumphed in securing a third term in the Massachusetts Senate, outpacing her pro-cryptocurrency opponent John Deaton. What Happened: The Associated Press declared Warren the winner at 8:00 p.m. EST, as results of the high-stakes presidential and congressional...

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), has not shied away from exhibiting his disdain for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and has used public platforms to target the leading cryptocurrency over the years. What happened: One of many such attacks came at the Institute of International...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and her Republican challenger John Deaton exchanged blow for blow over the subject of cryptocurrencies in the first debate between the two Senate hopefuls on Tuesday. What happened: Co-sponsored by the WBZ News and The Boston Globe, the two politicians with...

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell made it clear that her office will make sure the Sackler family that owns Purdue Pharma will make reparations to families negatively affected by the opioid epidemic, following the Supreme Court‘s 5-4 decision on Thursday to dismiss the...

The future of ride-share drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. (NYSE:UBER) and Lyft Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT) in Massachusetts is uncertain as the state’s supreme court is set to hear arguments on their employment classification. What Happened: The court will determine whether drivers for these...

On Tuesday, an odd Twitter altercation took place between Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), involving references to the Ku Klux Klan and bathrooms. What Happened: McGovern, the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, tangled with Greene on X, formerly Twitter...

Massachusetts voters, backed by advocacy group Free Speech For People and civil rights firm Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C, are seeking to enforce the 14th Amendment to block Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s primary and general election ballot. What Happened: The objection, first...

Tesla Inc's (NASDAQ: TSLA) Megapack is a large-scale energy storage solution designed to bolster the reliability and sustainability of power grids. Each unit boasts an energy storage capacity of 3 MWh, enough to power an average of 3,600 homes for an hour. Tesla has now secured contracts...

A Massachusetts father paid $21,000 to get last-minute tickets for his daughter and her friends to a Taylor Swift concert.  According to a report from WCVB, Anthony Silva bought the tickets on StubHub last year by paying $1,800 as a Christmas gift to his ...

A Massachusetts man has been reportedly charged for illegally mining cryptocurrency in a school crawl space. What Happened: Nadeam Nahas, a Cohasset MA municipal employee, has been accused of fraudulently using electricity and vandalizing public property, according to a report in the Washington...

Massachusetts-based BankProv announced it would no longer offer loans collateralized with crypto mining machines. What Happened: In a Tuesday filing with the SEC, the bank's holding company, Provident Bank, stated the bank's portfolio of digital-asset loans had declined by 50...

Activists in Massachusetts are looking to decriminalize psychedelics locally and at the state level: a new campaign by the Bay Staters for National Medicine is gathering signatures to include a decriminalization measure on the November ballot, Marijuana Moment reported. The Worcester...

Amid the green wave expected in the northeast including New Jersey, Connecticut, New York and Virginia, Pablo Zuanic, analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald reviewed economic trends in four states that have legalized the recreational use of cannabis: Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts and Arizona. Except for...