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Nation

Texas county flagged need for flood alarm months before tragedy

The warning last fall was, in retrospect, achingly prescient. Continue reading →

Obituaries

David Gergen, Washington veteran who advised four presidents, has died

Gergen, an inside-the-Beltway veteran who helped shape the public images of four presidents, mostly Republicans, died Thursday in Lexington. Continue reading →

Metro

Nantucket reaches $10.5 million settlement with GE Vernova over offshore wind turbine blade collapse last year

The collapse sent fiberglass debris into the ocean and onto Nantucket beaches. GE Vernova said a manufacturing issue was the reason for the failure. Continue reading →

Cambridge and Somerville

Amid fears of collapse, Cambridge plans to take control of troubled condo building to demolish it

The concrete Riverview building along the Charles poses a threat to public safety, city officials say. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

What’s the oldest bar in Boston? Depends on who you ask.

There’s often ambiguity in historical proclamations, as interior spaces are usually gutted and revamped over the decades and centuries, leaving little that is original. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

Appeals Court overturns plea deal in 9/11 case

A federal appeals court Friday overturned a plea deal to resolve the Sept. 11, 2001, case with life sentences, a decision that could restart proceedings toward a lengthy death penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay. Continue reading →

Nation

Trump tours Texas flood damage as the disaster tests his pledge to do away with FEMA

President Trump toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn residents fast enough that a deadly wall of water was coming their way. Continue reading →

Nation

‘Odds are high’ for Trump-Xi meeting, Rubio says

President Donald Trump could soon meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said after his first encounter Friday with his Chinese counterpart. Continue reading →

The World

World

ICC cites evidence of ‘war crimes’ in Sudan’s Darfur

“People are being deprived of water and food. Rape and sexual violence are being weaponized. Abductions for ransom and to bolster the ranks of armed groups have become common practice,” Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan told the Security Council on Thursday. “We have reasonable grounds to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been and continue to be committed in Darfur.” Continue reading →

World

Thousands gather in Srebrenica on 30th anniversary of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since WWII

Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world are gathering in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men. Continue reading →

World

Unexpected fuel cutoff preceded Air India plane crash, preliminary report says

Indian investigators probing the crash of Air India flight 171 said that both engines stopped receiving fuel shortly after takeoff. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OpEds

Trump’s attack on Harvard underscores existential risk of weaponizing college accreditation

Accreditation, once an esoteric, peer-driven mechanism for ensuring institutional integrity, has become another proxy battlefield in the nation’s higher education wars. Continue reading →

Letters

Dear Canada: Let us explain

While views come from a variety of vantage points, the overwhelming message is: Don’t give up on us yet. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Nantucket reaches $10.5 million settlement with GE Vernova over offshore wind turbine blade collapse last year

The collapse sent fiberglass debris into the ocean and onto Nantucket beaches. GE Vernova said a manufacturing issue was the reason for the failure. Continue reading →

Metro

Fanny Howe, acclaimed writer of poetry and novels, dies at 84

Honored for her poetry and her fiction, Ms. Howe "was truly one of the great poets of Boston and Cambridge," said poet and professor Peter Gizzi. Continue reading →

Metro

Convention center renaming honors Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s vision for the city

The building of the convention center stands as one of Menino’s undisputed signature accomplishments. As well as one that was, in some ways, wildly out of character. Continue reading →

Sports

Bruins

Q&A: Marco Sturm maps out vision, expectations for Bruins’ 2025-26 season

New Bruins coach Marco Sturm has been busy since being named the franchise's 30th coach on June 5. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Playing nine innings with the Red Sox: In hindsight, Craig Breslow got a lot of things right last offseason

Those early extensions for Ceddanne Rafaela and Brayan Bello look pretty good right now. Continue reading →

Celtics

Cooper Flagg’s NBA Summer League debut may not have been up his lofty standards, but he clearly showed he belongs

Flagg came away unimpressed with his performance, having missed 16 of his 21 shots overall and going scoreless in the second half. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Heavy rain interrupted travel and flooded streets in New England. Should you get flood insurance?

Insurance brokers say more people are asking whether they should buy flood insurance — even if they don’t live in high-risk areas. Continue reading →

AI/Robotics

AI is making sure you pay for that ding on your rental car

Hertz, one of the world’s largest car rental companies, debuted the technology last fall at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and it’s now in use at five other US airports. Continue reading →

Business

‘A good year for rats’: Trash piling up at businesses as impact of garbage strike spreads to Boston and beyond

The strike is affecting more than municipal trash collection. In Greater Boston communities, commercial customers are waiting for the company to empty overflowing bins. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

David Gergen, Washington veteran who advised four presidents, has died

Gergen, an inside-the-Beltway veteran who helped shape the public images of four presidents, mostly Republicans, died Thursday in Lexington. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Lee Elia, former major league manager known for his profane rant, dies at 87

He managing the Cubs in 1983 when he famously criticized the team’s fans in a memorable postgame tirade. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Henry Mount Charles, whose castle was a mecca for rock, dies at 74

In 1976, Henry Mount Charles was 25 and living happily in London when his father summoned him home to Ireland to save the family castle from bankruptcy. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Pop Culture

Ayo Edebiri talks getting her own day and Dunkin’ tasting better in Boston on Conan O’Brien’s podcast

A very Boston episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” dropped on Monday, as the Brookline comedian chatted with Ayo Edebiri. Continue reading →

Books

Boston Book Festival announces keynote speakers for 2025

Among the lineup are Julia Quinn, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and more. Continue reading →

Pop Culture

Director Sandi DuBowski used 1,800 hours of footage to make ‘Sabbath Queen’

Q&A with Harvard alum Dubowski, whose film follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, a descendant of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis, the creator of drag persona Rebbetzin Hadassah, and a queer dad in Brooklyn advocating for peace in Gaza. He's scheduled for a talkback at Coolidge Corner Theatre on Sunday following a screening of the film. Continue reading →