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Friday, August 8, 2025


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Trump presidency: We're gathering all the latest news, updates, and analysis.
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Trump claims other countries pay his tariffs. US businesses and consumers will likely bear most of the costs.

Tariffs are collected when foreign goods arrive at the border and amount to a back-door tax increase that one analysis estimates will cost the average US household $2,400 this year.
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WBZ’s Kate Merrill is not alone: More white workers are suing over racial bias

Attorneys specializing in employment discrimination predict that similar suits will follow, given recent Supreme Court decisions and the Trump administration’s ferocious opposition to DEI policies.
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‘A disaster for Massachusetts’: Real estate groups vow to fight rent control ballot measure

Representatives for the powerful industry said they were alarmed by a proposed rent control ballot question and are prepared to spend heavily to fight it.
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Trump requires colleges turn over more admissions data in fight against diversity policies

While many universities have diminished race as a factor in whom they let in, the Trump administration has made diversity policies a centerpiece of its pressure campaign.
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Israel announces plan to retake Gaza City in another escalation of the war

The decision drew Palestinian rejection, fueled mounting international calls to end the war, and provoked worries in Israel over the fate of hostages still held by Hamas.
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Trump seeks to change how census collects data and wants to exclude immigrants in US illegally

Experts said it was unclear what exactly Trump was calling for, whether it was changes to the 2030 census or a mid-decade census, and, if so, whether it would be used for a mid-decade apportionment, which is the process of divvying up congressional seats among the states based on the population count.
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Ultra-processed foods make up over half of Americans’ calories, CDC says

The data illustrates how pervasive such foods have become as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vows to crack down on the unhealthy products that are often inexpensive and palatable.
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Cornyn says FBI will help find Texas lawmakers who left state

The Texas senator said the agency had agreed to help locate legislators who departed to try to block a vote on congressional maps. Democrats said federal law enforcement was being misused.
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Putin suggests meeting Trump in UAE as Kremlin senses advantage

President Trump’s abrupt shift from frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intransigence to a potential one-on-one meeting soon handed the Russian leader a diplomatic coup, which the Kremlin embraced Thursday.
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She survived a nine-story fall after Russian missile hit her building

She went to sleep in her bed on the ninth floor of an apartment building in Kyiv and woke up on a pile of rubble outside. She saw her leg covered in blood and cried out for help, thinking only of the pain, she would later say, and not how she had survived.
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France’s largest wildfire in decades contained

The blaze erupted Tuesday and tore through the Aude region, spreading rapidly due to hot, dry weather. Cooler overnight temperatures and calmer winds slowed its advance and allowed firefighters to make headway.
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A massacre in slow motion: Israel is responsible for mass starvation in Gaza

Every day that Israel is forcing starving Palestinians to fight over crumbs, more children are dying at Israel’s hands.
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The still unfinished business of police reform

Contentious fight over qualified immunity for cops goes into round two.
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Yep, that’s right — she was fired for dutifully reporting weak jobs data

Government employees will be afraid to release any numbers unfavorable to the president — it’s either you lie or you get canned.
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‘Not grossly disproportionate’: SJC rules it’s OK to strip ex-trooper of $1m pension after conviction in overtime scandal

The state’s highest court upheld a board’s decision to strip the former trooper of his retirement package for his “significant breach of the public trust.”
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Pierogi vendor delivers retort after Alan Dershowitz dustup on Vineyard

"Mr. Dershowitz consciously decided to befriend and defend men who have been accused of abusing and harming women," Krem Miskevich wrote on social media.
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History buffs flock to Boston for immersive 250th Revolution event

History Camp Boston's organizers said the gathering shuns the fussiness that sometimes cloaks formal academic conferences.
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Boston gives pro soccer team six more weeks to line up financing for White Stadium project

Boston Legacy Football Club expects financing to be done by Sept. 15 to help pay for its portion of redeveloping the crumbling Franklin Park stadium.
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US gymnast Frederick Richard studied abroad this summer, hoping to learn a few tricks from the Chinese and Japanese

Richard, who finished 15th in last summer’s Olympic all-around, spent a month with the Chinese and Japanese men’s gymnastics teams.
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Once known as the ‘28-3’ coach, Dan Quinn embraced his adversity and is back on top with the Commanders

Two of Quinn's lowest moments as a coach came against the Patriots in Super Bowls 49 and 51, but he's forged on.
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Kate Merrill was replaced by another white, blonde anchor at WBZ. That’s discrimination?

Merrill alleges she was forced out of her job last year because the CBS station was advancing a “DEI agenda.” It sure seems like she's trying to take advantage of our fraught political moment.
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Boston gives pro soccer team six more weeks to line up financing for White Stadium project

Boston Legacy Football Club expects financing to be done by Sept. 15 to help pay for its portion of redeveloping the crumbling Franklin Park stadium.
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Nearly 2 million Americans on unemployment, highest since pandemic era

The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since November 2021 in the latest sign of widening cracks in the labor market.
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Obituaries


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Eddie Palmieri, pioneering Latin jazz musician and Grammy winner, dies at 88

The pianist, composer, and bandleader was the first Latino to win a Grammy Award and would win seven more over a career that spanned nearly 40 albums.
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Lucian Leape, whose work spurred patient safety in medicine, dies at 94

“There might have developed a patient safety movement in health care without Lucian, but he made it happen years before it otherwise would have,” health care expert Donald Berwick said of the Tufts surgeon.
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Kelley Mack, ‘Walking Dead’ actress, dies at 33

Ms. Mack, who also appeared on the NBC drama “Chicago Med” and the Fox show “9-1-1,” died of a tumor in her spine.
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Parenting


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Does raising kids really need to be this complicated?

Scientific journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer’s new book, “Hello, Cruel World! Science-Based Strategies for Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times,” culls the best research for a variety of parenting dilemmas.
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Lifestyle


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The Lemonade Wars return to Marshvegas festival as its young organizer eyes big growth

How one recent college graduate plans to make a splash in Marshfield and beyond.
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Television


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Care to guess what Jenna Ortega’s favorite day of the week is?

"Wednesday" returns for a second season on Netflix.
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