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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
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Celtics

Cooper Flagg has ‘the whole basketball world here at the tip of his fingers.’ Newport, Maine, couldn’t be prouder.

While the Flagg family has moved on as Cooper prepares to go No. 1 in the NBA Draft, tiny Newport — a 3,200-person town west of Bangor — is celebrating the state's most famous athlete. Continue reading →

Politics

Threat of Iranian retaliation sparks questions about US terrorism readiness amid Trump immigration crackdown

Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, the government has focused on preventing such attacks. But in the second Trump term, some experts worry that his deportation focus is giving the administration tunnel vision. Continue reading →

Politics

Mass. Democrats reach rules deal they say will make lawmaking more transparent

The Legislature has long been criticized for operating with a level of opacity that keeps residents from knowing what's really going on at the State House. Continue reading →

World

Iranian missile barrage strikes Israel after deadline Trump announced for cease-fire passes

Iranian state television reported Tuesday that a ceasefire had begun in its war with Israel, even as Israel warned the public of a new missile barrage launched from Iran. Continue reading →

Politics

Supreme Court allows Trump to restart swift deportation of migrants away from their home countries

The high court’s action came after immigration officials put eight people on a plane to South Sudan in May, a move that a Boston judge found violated his order. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Supreme Court to hear Rastafarian prisoner’s suit over shaved dreadlocks

The Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide whether a Rastafarian man may sue prison guards in Louisiana who shaved off his dreadlocks in seeming violation of an appeals court’s ruling about how the state must treat members of his faith. Continue reading →

Nation

The number of abortions kept rising in 2024 because of telehealth prescriptions, report finds

The number of abortions in the United States rose again in 2024, with women continuing to find ways to get them despite bans and restrictions in many states, according to a report out Monday. Continue reading →

Nation

How covering your face became a constitutional matter: Mask debate tests free speech rights

Many of the protesters who flooded the streets of Los Angeles to oppose President Trump’s immigration crackdown wore masks or other face coverings, drawing scorn from him. Continue reading →

The World

World

Zelensky arrives in UK after Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least 9

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived in Britain on Monday to press for more military support for his embattled nation. Continue reading →

World

Group that vandalized Trump golf course faces UK ban as terrorist

The British government said Monday that it would ban a pro-Palestinian organization as a terrorist group. Continue reading →

World

Vera Rubin scientists reveal telescope’s first images

Smile, universe! It is time for your close-up with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Editorials

A cease-fire between Israel and Iran should be a prelude to peace

Diplomacy, hard and soft, and truth telling to Congress must follow the military win. Continue reading →

Columns

Iran could have chosen the road away from nuclear weapons. It refused.

President Trump was clear about his red line against an Iranian nuclear bomb. Tehran kept marching toward that goal anyway. Continue reading →

Columns

What do masked ICE agents have to hide?

Trump wants to ban masks at protests — but not on ICE agents arresting immigrants. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime & Courts

Prosecutor in Karen Read case says evidence led to ‘one person, and only one person’

“The harassment of these innocent victims and family members is deplorable and should never happen again in a case in this Commonwealth,” Hank Brennan said. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

The view from Old Orchard Beach: many French Canadians say ‘non merci!’

This year, things feel different. In a beach town famous for hosting French Canadians, French is heard less. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

How Boston’s homeless are navigating the summer swelter

The city has outreach teams providing water to homeless people and opened emergency shelters during the heat emergency, declared for Sunday through Tuesday. Continue reading →

Sports

Bruins

Is Tuesday the day former Bruins captains Zdeno Chara and Joe Thornton get the call from the Hockey Hall of Fame?

Chara and Thornton retired following the 2021-22 season and are among two-dozen-plus players eligible for consideration for the first time, following the standard three-year waiting period. Continue reading →

Bruins

Bruins sign defenseman Mason Lohrei to two-year contract extension

The two-year deal will pay the 24-year-old an average of $3.2 million per season. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Marcelo Mayer ready to play second base when Red Sox need him to

Alex Bregman appears on track for an early or mid-July return, so the Mayer position question will need an answer. Continue reading →

Business

Energy

Northeast, Mid-Atlantic states seek electric transmission ideas

Massachusetts and eight nearby states are soliciting ideas for potential electric transmission infrastructure projects that could strengthen the grid and save money for ratepayers from Maine to Maryland. Continue reading →

Economy

Investors exhale after hectic day of Mideast strikes and counterstrikes

Stocks rose, oil fell as Iran’s response to the US bombing on the weekend was muted. Continue reading →

Bold Types

After a quarter-century building Eastern Bank’s foundation, Huntington Stager exits

Healey beats the drum at BIO; Suffolk’s Nucci retires; Boston Marathon brings in record charity haul. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Terry Louise Fisher, a creator of ‘L.A. Law,’ dies at 79

A former Los Angeles prosecutor, she also produced and wrote for the police series “Cagney & Lacey.” Continue reading →

Obituaries

Walter Brueggemann, theologian who argued for the poor, dies at 92

It was, in his view, the church’s role not to reinforce established social realities but to question systems of power and inequality at every turn. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Love Letters

What can be done about a partner’s bad moods?

Do I have to be upset too? Continue reading →

Television

Matt Damon teams up with Ken Jennings to face old nemesis Jimmy Kimmel on ‘Millionaire’

Damon is taking on his old nemesis next month, and he’s getting a little help from the "Jeopardy!" host. Continue reading →

Books

These are the 2025 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners and honorees

The celebration of literature for young readers recognizes "children’s book creators whose work is so uniquely their own.” Continue reading →