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Nathan Philips, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Earth and Environment, and Alice Arena hold signs at Philips’ demonstration at Marsh Plaza March 5. Philips regularly uses his office window on the fourth floor of BU’s College of Arts and Sciences to display political messages to passersby along Commonwealth Avenue. PHOTO BY PHOEBE MILLER

‘Say his name’: BU faculty, graduate workers reflect on University responses to political speech

Lauren Albano March 30, 2025
With the recent executive crackdown on universities for pro-Palestine activism, the incident with Phillips’ signage sparked dialogue among BU faculty and students over administrative responses to free speech on campus.
Northeastern bombing

After Northeastern explosion, questions linger but no official answers

Daily Free Press Admin September 15, 2022
Community and law enforcement are still searching for answers regarding the Tuesday night package explosion at Northeastern University.
demonstrator holds a stop the hate sign at a stop asian hate rally in boston common

State lawmakers call for clearer definition of hate crimes

Colbi Edmonds March 30, 2021
A proposed bill looks to create a clearer definition and punishment of a hate crime in the state.
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Canceled: Concepts of terrorism

Bini Ollivier-Yamin January 24, 2021
It’s important the crowd of mangy white supremacists who broke into the Capitol a few weeks ago are labeled as terrorists. But do the same for the cops letting them into the building and posing for selfies, the cops participating in the insurrection and the cops who engage in acts of terrrorism on the daily.
Court records released Friday stated that Apple refused to assist the FBI in breaking into the iPhone of an alleged Boston drug gang member. PHOTO BY OLIVIA FALCIGNO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Apple refuses court order to unlock iPhone, assist FBI

Kennedy Davis April 14, 2016

Court documents unsealed Friday revealed a federal court order to Apple Inc. to assist the FBI in unlocking the phone of alleged gang member Desmond Crawford. In a letter from Apple’s lawyer Marc...

James "Whitey" Bulger's mugshot at Alcatraz in 1959. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

James “Whitey” Bulger attorneys claim violation of constitutional rights in appeal

Amanda Burke July 27, 2015

  Attorneys for James “Whitey” Bulger argued Monday before a panel of judges at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse to overturn multiple federal racketeering convictions, claiming...

Former Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis speaks at a press conference in 2013. Davis is calling for stronger domestic intelligence gathering. PHOTO BY MICHAEL CUMMO/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Report pushes for increased domestic counterterrorism measures

Gabriela Arriaga February 5, 2015

In the wake of the January shooting at the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the beginning of the trial for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a report compiled by...

¬The anti-terrorism program initiated by the U.S. Department of Justice is designed to deter residents from joining violent extremist groups. GRAPHIC BY EMILY ZABOSKI

Boston to serve as pilot city for counterterrorism program

Alexandra David September 26, 2014

The United States Department of Justice selected Boston as one of three cities to serve as a testing ground for a series of counter-terrorism pilot programs. The programs, announced Sept. 15 by former...

BUPD, BPD Bomb Squad investigate phoned-in threat

Daily Free Press Admin April 6, 2014

The Boston University Police Department and Boston Police Bomb Squad determined there was no threat after responding to a phone call placed Thursday morning claiming there was a bomb somewhere on BU’s...

Under the eye of the FBI

Daily Free Press Admin November 20, 2013

Writer and professor Asimov drawn into communist paranoia Among the anti-war protesters of Boston University in the 1960s, prolific science fiction writer and biochemist Isaac Asimov made a place for...

Boston Marathon bombing suspect charged in Middlesex Court

Daily Free Press Admin October 8, 2013

Although he is already being charged in federal court, the Middlesex District Attorney’s office issued a warrant Monday for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on 15 charges for his alleged...

Bulger declines testifying after eight weeks of trial

Daily Free Press Admin August 3, 2013

After James “Whitey” Bulger decided not to testify, he and his counsel rested their case on Friday after five days of calling witnesses and eight weeks on trial at the U.S. District Court in South...

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