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Wednesday, August 27, 2025


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Massachusetts


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At Camp Jabberwocky, attacks on disability community feel worlds away

The camp on Martha's Vineyard is the oldest sleep-away camp for people with special needs in the country, and it has an even more profound meaning this summer.
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Cape Cod and Islands


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Architect of Nantucket’s topless beach law faced shunning and prediction of mayhem. Years later, measure is no big deal.

For the past three summers, anyone, regardless of gender, has been able to go topless at Nantucket beaches under the law, which passed in the winter of 2022.
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Rhode Island Education


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Trump is demanding colleges and universities prove they are not considering race or sex in admissions. Will the Ivy League survive?

Higher education leaders say the administration’s new rules could dismantle tools that have long proved to balance equity with academic excellence.
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Trump once signed a bipartisan criminal justice reform law. Now, he’s calling for more incarcerations in D.C.

President Trump has increasingly tasked federal law enforcement agents and national guardsmen with patrolling the streets of the nation’s capital, which he claims is overrun by violent crime.
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Seeking to Control the Fed, Trump risks upending a pillar of the global economy

If President Trump is able to fire Lisa Cook, that raises the possibility he could fire other Fed officials as well if they refuse to approve the interest rate cuts that he has demanded.
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DOGE put Critical Social Security data at risk, whistle-blower says

The account by the whistle-blower underscores concerns that have led to lawsuits seeking to block software engineers at the agency built by Elon Musk from having access to confidential government data.
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Active shooter hoax calls increase around the US

The calls have prompted universities to issue campus-wide texts to “run, hide, fight.” Students and teachers have rushed to find cover, often cowering in classrooms for safety.
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Ted Cruz wants a real space shuttle in Houston

Texas’s two senators are on a crusade to bring one of NASA’s retired space shuttles to Houston, logistical difficulties be damned.
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Rabbis emerge as growing voice of criticism of Israel’s tactics in Gaza

As Israel's tactics in the Gaza Strip have increasingly provoked international condemnation, rabbis from across the world are taking the unusual step of speaking out against the Israeli government's conduct in the war, on moral and religious grounds.
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Israeli military says strikes on Gaza hospital targeted a Hamas camera, without providing evidence

The Israeli military says its double strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera,
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Russia and Ukraine target energy sites, seeking leverage away from the front

Just as world leaders are attempting to jump-start peace talks, the energy war between Kyiv and Moscow is heating up as each side tries to weaken the other’s hand in negotiating an end to the war.
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Editorials


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BlueHub’s loans might save homeowners. But they need to understand the catch.

A judge ruled last week that the company had violated consumer protection laws with its mortgages to distressed homeowners, and the attorney general is proposing new regulations.
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Mayor Wu is a social media clapback maven

In defense of Boston, the city she wants to continue to lead, Wu is challenging the Trump administration across various platforms.
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OpEds


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My DACA friend was taken by ICE

I worked with Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago on the campaign to allow all immigrants — documented and otherwise — to apply for a driver’s license in Massachusetts. Her presence is electric.
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K-12


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What Massachusetts parents should know this back-to-school season

To make the transition smoother, school psychologists and education advocates recommend parents to be proactive.
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Health


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Estimates say hundreds of thousands in Mass. could lose Medicaid coverage, public food assistance due to Trump’s bill

A Center for Budget and Policy Priorities analysis painted a bleak picture of the social service cuts, which are scheduled to phase in over the next four years.
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Pressley, more than 100 other lawmakers call for surge of baby formula into Gaza

The lawmakers are calling for the Trump administration to demand the Israeli government "facilitate a massive surge of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza."
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Red Sox put Richard Fitts on injured list, creating need for another new No. 5 starter

The righthander has what the team called right arm neuritis, a temporary diagnosis until Fitts sees team doctors Friday in Boston.
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Red Sox cruise to another win over Orioles behind stellar outing from Lucas Giolito

The righthander went eight scoreless innings, scattering four hits while striking out eight and walking one.
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Following the money in women’s golf: How the bar is being raised for LPGA Tour purses

The total purse over 32 tournaments this year. Last year, 34 golfers earned at least $1 million in prize money. Just four years ago, that number was 15.
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Study says AI chatbots need to fix suicide response, as family sues over ChatGPT role in boy’s death

The study came on the same day that the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT coached the California boy in planning and taking his own life earlier this year.
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‘I didn’t think anyone cared’: A Canton-born makeup brand went viral for going head-to-head with Urban Decay

Skindinavia CEO Allen Goldman knew he had to take action when he saw how Urban Decay was promoting its new, in-house-made All Nighter setting spray.
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Biotech


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‘Disheartening? Yes. Surprising? No.’ Report on the future of biotech in Mass. gives a grim outlook.

Both public and private funding have plummeted as federal policy changes have thrown the biotech sector into an era of uncertainty.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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Maurice Tempelsman, diamond magnate and Jackie Onassis’s companion, dies at 95

Maurice Tempelsman, the enigmatic and politically connected Belgian-American diamond magnate who drew news media scrutiny for his business dealings in Africa and was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' companion for more than a decade before her death in 1994, died Saturday in New York City. He was 95.
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Sheila R. Canby, curator at the Met who humanized Islam, dies at 76

Sheila R. Canby, a leading authority on Islamic art who curated a humanizing portrait of Islam through its cultural treasures at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, offering an alternative to the hostile narratives of religion and politics after 9/11, died Aug. 17 in Milford, Delaware. She was 76.
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Joe Hickerson, 89, dies; helped preserve America’s folk song tradition

Joe Hickerson, a singer and songwriter who as the lead archivist for folk music at the Library of Congress for more than 25 years helped expand and preserve America's trove of field songs, sea shanties and other traditional tunes, died Aug. 17 in Portland, Oregon. He was 89.
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Music


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It’s a love story, and she said yes: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged

“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” the caption of their joint Instagram post read.
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Arts


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MIT’s Student Lending Art Program encourages students to get up close and personal with art

Students get to take art home and live with it, in some cases creating transformative experiences.
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Justin Won didn’t go to Harvard as planned, but now he runs a food stall at MIT

Sometimes, life has a way of working out.
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