Nation

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending

The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term that will examine whether it violates the Constitution to restrict the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with individual candidates on advertising and other communications. Continue reading →

Nation

EPA workers warn Trump is politicizing their work

More than 270 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency signed a letter Monday denouncing what they described as the Trump administration’s efforts to politicize, dismantle, and sideline the main federal agency tasked with protecting the environment and public health. Continue reading →

Nation

Combs jury ends first day of deliberations without a verdict

A jury in the federal trial of music mogul Sean Combs began deliberating around 11:30 a.m. Monday, and soon sent two notes to the judge. Continue reading →

World

Russia says Moscow now occupies all of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, illegally annexed in 2022

A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region said Monday that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it — one of four regions Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in September 2022, despite not fully controlling a single one. Continue reading →

World

74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food

Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza on Monday with airstrikes that left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire that left 23 dead as Palestinians tried to get desperately needed food aid, witnesses and health officials said. Continue reading →

World

Dangerous heat grips much of Europe, with more to come

A heat wave sweeping much of Europe showed few signs of relenting Monday, when temperatures soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or 37.8 Celsius, in many places in the south. Continue reading →

Editorials

Decade of Holyoke receivership ends with mixed results

Test scores are still low, but graduation rates are up. Continue reading →

OpEds

The gym at middle age — the place where hot body dreams go to die

Pursuing a hot body became as much a part of my past as estrogen. I began to love my no-frills gym and all its members in their spectacular ordinariness. Continue reading →

Letters

A wife and mother in a police family decries ICE agents’ masks

It is an insult to all law enforcement that many Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wear masks. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

In the oppressive heat, fear, food, and hope collide on Broadway in Chelsea

A three-hour wait for free food has become a weekly ritual outside a storefront church. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Boston police sergeant charged with child rape

Paul Downey, a 58-year-old West Roxbury resident, was arraigned Monday afternoon in Dorchester Municipal Court. Continue reading →

New Hampshire

Early prints of the American Declaration of Independence on display temporarily in New Hampshire

CONCORD, N.H. — Two historic copies of the Declaration of Independence are on display temporarily inside the New Hampshire State House, where visitors can get an up-close look at the penmanship of those who founded the United States of America some 249 years ago. Continue reading →

Revolution

In the greatest rally in team history, the Revolution displayed resolve and resourcefulness

An own goal off a Carles Gil cross, plus conversions by Gil and Maxi Urruti, provided the Revolution with the first-ever comeback from a three-goal deficit for a tie in their 30-year history. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Terry Francona, closing in on 2,000 wins, re-energized as manager of the Reds

After stepping down in Cleveland after the 2023 season because of health concerns, Francona planned on being retired for good. Continue reading →

Bruins

Can Bruins general manager Don Sweeney be an effective buyer in NHL free agency? We’re about to find out.

A large part of that will be dictated by the number and quality of the UFAs who make it to market. Sweeney might instead be forced to seek remedies for the Bruins via the trade market. Continue reading →

Housing

From Old Harbor to new housing: Ground breaks on $2b re-do of Southie’s biggest public housing complex

The redevelopment of the Mary Ellen McCormack, which officially began Monday, could last for two decades. Continue reading →

Business

Massachusetts fusion company strikes deal with Google to buy power from future plant

The deal comes even though Commonwealth Fusion Systems has yet to demonstrate that its future power plant can generate power reliably or economically. Continue reading →

Energy

No one has made fusion power viable yet. Why is Big Tech investing billions?

The reactor under construction at Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Devens, Mass., is one of at least 43 private-industry ventures or partnerships in the US and allied countries that are racing to commercialize fusion power. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Valery Panov, ballet star who fought to leave the USSR, dies at 87

He was a star of the renowned Kirov Ballet before being accused of being a traitor for seeking to leave the Soviet Union with his wife, a noted ballerina. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jane Stanton Hitchcock, 78, dies; crime novelist who mocked high society

A tart observer and a professional wit, Jane Hitchcock drew from her rarefied ecosystem in all her work, but she was most successful in her series of murder mysteries. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Former Montana US representative Pat Williams, who won a liberal-conservative showdown, dies at 87

Pat Williams, a New Deal-style Democrat who won Montana's great liberal-conservative showdown of 1992 to become the state's lone voice in the US House of Representatives, has died. Continue reading →

Television

Smaller screen + ‘bigger boat’ = ‘Jaws’?

Television played a crucial role in making everyone’s favorite sharkfest a blockbuster hit. Continue reading →

Love Letters

Not ready to get married? I don’t buy it.

What does “not ready” really mean? Continue reading →

Theater

There’s no defense for ‘Sacco & Vanzetti’s Divine Comedy’

Skillful scenic design can't make up for a script that labors for satire. Continue reading →