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Politics

Trump can’t seem to quit Senator Elizabeth Warren. Here’s the latest reason why.

Warren has been pounding away at President Trump for failing to fulfill his campaign promise to lower everyday prices. Continue reading →

War on Harvard

Harvard Kennedy School now expects most international students to be back on campus for the fall

Given the threats by the Trump administration, Harvard had a backup plan to let its international students study outside the US if they were not allowed into the country. Continue reading →

Politics

In Mississippi, one of the neediest states, Trump’s federal funding cuts hit with extra heft

Some Mississippians are concerned about their future quality of life in a state with one of the worst income inequality issues in the country. Continue reading →

AI/Robotics

‘Who am I tipping now?’ As AI increases sales at Fenway Park and TD Garden, workers are left feeling underpaid.

AI is not only reducing the number of people needed to handle certain tasks, but it’s also changing the work they do, and the amount they earn. Continue reading →

World

With moves on West Bank and Gaza City, Israel defies global outcry

Israel on Wednesday approved new settlements in the West Bank and announced that it was moving ahead with plans to take over Gaza City, bucking international criticism and defying growing support for the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Fewer people are reading for fun, study finds

There is evidence that reading for pleasure has been declining since the 1940s, the researchers said, but they called the size of the latest decrease “surprising." Continue reading →

Nation

Both parties expect a GOP map in Texas to clear a big hurdle in a national fight over redistricting

The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives kicked off a heated debate over a new congressional map creating five new potential GOP seats, Continue reading →

Politics

President Trump says Smithsonian focuses too much on ‘how bad slavery was’

The comments come a week after the Smithsonian was told it has 120 days to adjust any content that the administration finds problematic. Continue reading →

The World

World

NATO defense chiefs hold ‘candid discussion’ on security guarantees for Ukraine

NATO defense chiefs held a “candid discussion” Wednesday about what security guarantees they could offer Kyiv to help forge a peace agreement Continue reading →

World

No food, no water, a broken leg: How an American hiker survived a week in Norwegian wilderness

Almost everything had gone wrong on Alec Luhn's solo hike in a national park in Norway. Continue reading →

World

Paris residents fight overtourism of beloved Montmartre neighborhood

From Venice to Barcelona to Amsterdam, European cities are struggling to absorb surging numbers of tourists. Some residents in one of Paris’ most popular tourist neighborhoods are now pushing back. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Editorials

‘Everyone closed the door on us’: Kids in Gaza need medical treatment, and US should help

The Trump administration stopped issuing humanitarian visas after far-right activist Laura Loomer raised concerns about “pro-Hamas” Gazans entering the United States. Continue reading →

Columns

Why is Trump working so hard to help Wu win reelection?

The administration’s threat of serious consequences unless Boston tosses its immigrant-friendly policies hands the mayor a national platform to defy him. Continue reading →

Letters

Echoes of FDR, Stalin, and Yalta at Anchorage summit

An ill and weakened President Roosevelt was manipulated by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Nearly 50 years of Cold War ensued. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

A rust art belt: Corroded cars, farm relics adorn yards and fields

Rusty relics become roadside attractions on Boston's South Shore. Continue reading →

Cambridge and Somerville

Bad concrete. A quick evacuation. Now, before Cambridge condo building is demolished: court.

The demolition of Cambridge’s Riverview condo building is drawing closer, as the complex effort to topple the troubled concrete structure makes its way through the judicial process. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

‘The house is empty without her,’ mother says of 13-year-old daughter killed in Marblehead crash; boy, 16, charged in death

The boy, 16, was arraigned Wednesday in Lynn Juvenile Court on charges including motor vehicle homicide by reckless operation and operating under the influence of liquor. Continue reading →

Sports

Tennis

Soon to be inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame, Maria Sharapova looks back on her special connection to New England

Sharapova will be celebrated in Newport, R.I., this weekend. Back in 2004, after she won her first major, she honored a commitment that folks in New England still talk about. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Looking back as they prepare to take on the rival Yankees, how do the Red Sox think they did at the trade deadline?

The Yankees have gone 8-8 since the deadline, but have won four straight. The Red Sox are 9-8 since the deadline but have dropped three straight and eight of their last 12. Continue reading →

Red Sox

If Rob Manfred’s latest idea about MLB expansion and radical realignment becomes reality, the fans lose out the most

Manfred's proposal would erase more of the game’s longest-standing and most recognizable traditions. Continue reading →

Business

Real Estate

Long-planned towers could soon rise along Morrissey Boulevard

Boston-based real estate development firm Copper Mill intends to start construction next year on a $450 million residential project at 75 Morrissey Blvd., where the long-empty Channel 56 building now stands. Continue reading →

Housing

Boston-area home prices dip back under $1 million. Is the housing market starting to thaw after years of stagnation?

The median-priced single-family home in the region still sold for $967,000 in July, according to new figures released by the Greater Boston Association of Realtors. Continue reading →

Retail

Stop & Shop to cut prices on 3,000-plus items in Mass. stores

Starting Friday, items ranging from store-brand Italian bread to Chobani nonfat yogurt will cost between 5 percent and 40 percent less. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Richard Lee, activist who founded a pot ‘university,’ dies at 62

Tagged "the Johnny Appleseed of pot," Mr. Lee was considered one of the country's most influential legalization activists. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Joel DeMott, whose documentary was rejected by PBS, dies at 78

Ms. DeMott's "Seventeen," a cinéma vérité documentary exploring the messy lives of high school seniors from working-class families in Muncie, Ind., was considered too raw for PBS and the sponsor, Xerox. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Arts

At 90, pianist Ran Blake has countless mentees - and an immeasurable legacy

The Springfield-born artist has maintained his own distinctive style of improvisational playing throughout a career that has spanned more than 60 years and dozens of albums. Continue reading →

Books

The Associates of the Boston Public Library announces 2025-26 Writer-in-Residence

Houston writer Zarlasht Niaz, with her coming-of-age verse novel, "Unfurling," is the recipient of this year’s fellowship. Continue reading →

Movies

‘Stand By Me’ cast to kick off 40th anniversary reunion tour in New England

Stars Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, and Wil Wheaton will reunite for a special screening event later this year. Continue reading →