You can now pass through TSA PreCheck at Logan using only your face. Should that make us nervous? TSA launched a new biometric system at Logan Airport this year, allowing PreCheck flyers to pass through security showing only their face.

You can now pass through TSA PreCheck at Logan using only your face. Should that make us nervous?

To some electronic privacy and civil liberties advocates, TSA’s facial recognition expansion comes as more of a dystopian omen than a cutting-edge marvel. ⬇️
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Here’s why readers support voter ID laws, even as some take issue with SAVE America Act While some readers were against voter ID requirements, many favored an ID policy — whether through the SAVE act or other means.

We asked @boston.com readers if they want Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, and they were largely in favor of some form of voter ID policy.

In fact, a couple felt *so* strongly about the need to curb possible voter fraud, they cast hundreds of duplicate votes.
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Review & setlist: James Taylor brings folksy jam sesh back to Boston James Taylor brought his songbook to life with a voice that fell somewhere between nostalgic folk and playful blues.

In case you're wondering whether @jamestaylor-com.bsky.social has still got it, he does. Read more about last night's show at MGM Music Hall in #Boston ⬇️

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‘You’re going to regret this,’ R.I. prosecutor threatens police during Newport arrest Footage from Special Assistant A.G. Devon Flanagan’s Aug. 14 arrest shows the prosecutor demanding officers turn off their bodycams.

“Buddy, you’re going to regret this,” Rhode Island prosecutor Devon Flanagan threatens an officer in bodycam video of the Aug. 14 incident. Flanagan's boss, R.I. AG Peter Neronha, called her alleged behavior “inexcusable.”

Watch the whole video via @boston.com ⬇️

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How did a ceiling fan become a leading visual in the Karen Read murder trial? The courtroom ceiling fan has been described by some Karen Read trialwatchers as “oddly mesmerizing” and “David Lynch-coded.”

How did a ceiling fan become a leading visual in the Karen Read murder trial?
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Are we more prepared for the next pandemic? Or less? Local health experts say Greater Boston is generally more prepared for a pandemic now than it was in 2020, but headwinds still remain.

Are we more prepared for the next pandemic? Or less?

“From my perspective, I think if you look at where we are in our pandemic preparedness currently, it’s really a mixed picture,” said Dr. Paul Biddinger of Mass General Brigham. “We have learned an awful lot of lessons.”

Six people from Boston-area skating club among DC plane crash victims, director says A Boston-area skating club reportedly lost two skaters, their mothers, and two coaches in the mid-air plane collision in Washington, D.C.

Six people with ties to The Skating Club of Boston are among the victims of the D.C. plane crash, the club's director said. They include two teen skaters, their moms, and two decorated coaches.

Executive director Doug Zeghibe called the loss a “horrific tragedy.”

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Are we heading for a bird flu pandemic? Experts weigh in Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious disease expert.

Recent cases of bird flu (avian influenza, or H5N1) among U.S. farmworkers have been overwhelmingly mild, but also “curious and poorly understood,” according to Tufts Medicine's Dr. Shira Doron. www.boston.com/news/health/...