In light of recent sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the administration at Harvard Law School announced Monday in an email to students that the judge will no longer be invited to teach at the university in January 2019.

The family of a 7-year-old boy who drowned at a Boston beach sued the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Tuesday, claiming that the state did not do enough to enforce safety procedures that could have prevented the boy’s death.

In response to the upcoming retirement of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justices Francis Spina, Robert Cordy and Fernande Duffly, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced a Supreme Judicial...