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Bail was set at $5,000 for defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy at Wellesley College in the 1970s.

Defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy at Wellesley College in the 1970s, is due in Dedham District Court Friday.

Bail was set at $5,000 for defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy at Wellesley College in the 1970s. A not-guilty plea was entered on McCarrick’s behalf during his arraignment in Dedham District Court Friday, where he remained silent. Wellesley police charged McCarrick, now 91 and living in Missouri, more than a month…

Defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is facing charges that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy at Wellesley College in the 1970s. Wellesley police have charged McCarrick, now 91 and living in Missouri, with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office confirmed Thursday. The Boston Globe was first to report the charges. McCarrick was…

New England schools ranked among the best in the nation in a new ranking of U.S. colleges released Monday. Harvard University in Massachusetts was again second on the list of the best national universities compiled by U.S. News & World Report, trailing only Princeton University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked fourth, Connecticut’s Yale University was fourth, New Hampshire’s...

Speaking at Wellesley College Thursday, former President Barack Obama’s national security advisor gave her take on the tension between the U.S. and Iran. Susan Rice was at the Massachusetts school to promote her new memoir, “Tough Love.” She was also asked about President Donald Trump’s decision to kill one of Iran’s top leaders, Qassem Soleimani. “Which, by the way,...

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Two former U.S. secretaries of state — Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright — are planning to participate in a joint visit to their alma mater, Wellesley College.

A former college soccer player has been charged in federal court in Boston for sending death threats to at least 45 professional and collegiate athletes.

Dan Chiasson knew his “Impeach Trump” sign on the outside of his home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, was breaking town bylaws. But he didn’t care.

Prosecutors say a sex offender who allegedly climbed through an unlocked window of an Endicott College student’s dorm room and stood over her as she slept has a history of this kind of behavior. Tyler Jacquard, 33, of Melrose, was arrested last year after a peeping incident at Wellesley College. Prior to that, in 2016, Jacquard was placed on probation...

As we learn more about Michelle Obama’s new book, we are getting a glimpse into some of the more private aspects of her life — and for one Women’s Studies class at Wellesley College, it was the former first lady’s openness about a very painful point in her life that led to an enlightening classroom conversation. Obama’s new book, “Becoming,”...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s new memoir hits store shelves Tuesday.

President Donald Trump continues to back Brett Kavanaugh while the Supreme Court nominee faces sexual misconduct allegations, prompting more women’s organizations to speak out. On Sunday, a second woman came forward accusing Kavanaugh of alleged exposure at a drunken dormitory party at Yale University, according to a report from The New Yorker.

The stakes are high and the world is watching as President Donald Trump meets with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, but experts on U.S.-North Korean relations say even a tiny step forward could be progress.

When famed African-American novelist Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple,” declined the invitation to give the 1990 Wellesley College commencement address, First Lady Barbara Bush, a Smith college dropout and homemaker, was not what the graduates had in mind.

Graduates from Wellesley College recall the 1990 ceremony in which First Lady Barbara Bush made the commencement speech.

Barbara Bush, in her 1990 commencement address at Wellesley College, told the graduates: “Cherish your human connections.”
“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal,” she said. “You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend or a parent.”

Clare Egan, who grew up in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, will represent Team USA in the biathlon at the Winter Olympics.