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Sunday, November 23, 2025
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Politics

The next Epstein files fight could be over his financial records as lawmakers try to follow the money

The focus in Congress now is turning to obtaining bank and regulatory financial records that could shed more light on his alleged crimes and clients. Continue reading →

Real Estate

A sprawling Southie real estate project, a state senator’s brother, and $143 million in lawsuits

Investors suing Andrew Collins are alleging a series of unmet promises and unpaid debt related to a promise to revitalize an industrial stretch along Dorchester Avenue. Continue reading →

Arts

Plunder New England: The Louvre heist grabbed attention, but smaller museums are the more likely targets

High stakes museum thefts garner headlines, but thieves routinely target smaller, more vulnerable museums in New England. Continue reading →

Spotlight

The DEA cast him as a cartel member. He calls himself the poster child of America’s drug crisis.

The DEA tore through a small New Hampshire city and rounded up what they called "high-ranking" members of the Sinaloa Cartel. Among those arrested? A man who has had few sober days since 1999. Continue reading →

World

Ukraine’s allies push back on a US peace plan seen as favoring Moscow

Ukraine’s Western allies have rallied around the country as they push to revise a U.S. peace plan seen as favoring Moscow. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

Killington’s independent era is starting. Will it change skiing in New England?

The sale of Vermont’s Killington to local investors has made waves across the region, where many hope it signals a return to a more authentic experience. Continue reading →

When my parents died 28 days apart, I was left with grief — and a lot of stuff

Sorting through old yearbooks, VCRs, and so much more brought up guilt. So I developed a system. Continue reading →

Homes for the holiday in Plymouth

Host your Thanksgiving celebration in the same place the Pilgrims first did. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

In one week, Trump moves to reshape US environmental policy

The Trump administration this past week moved to weaken the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, two bedrock laws, among other deregulatory moves. Continue reading →

Politics

Potential presidential candidates are less coy about 2028 plans: ‘Of course I’m thinking about it’

With no clear party leader and Democratic voters raring for a fight, some could-be candidates are being far more transparent about their intentions. Continue reading →

Nation

New Orleans, a city of service workers, braces for an immigration crackdown

The New Orleans area is expected to be the next focus of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, and many were bracing for masked federal agents to swoop in, carrying out the kind of raids that residents of Chicago and Charlotte, North Carolina, have seen this fall. Continue reading →

The World

World

Pope Leo XIV accepts resignation of Spanish bishop accused of abuse in first known case for pontiff

A one-line statement from the Vatican said Leo had accepted the resignation of Cádiz Bishop Rafael Zornoza, 76. It didn’t say why, but Zornoza submitted his resignation to the pope last year when he turned 75, the normal retirement age for bishops. Continue reading →

World

Trump offers a Ukraine peace plan the Kremlin can love

Many of the 28 points in the proposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan offered by the White House read like they had been drafted in the Kremlin. Continue reading →

World

Oil producers, but maybe not the planet, get a win as climate talks end

Global climate negotiations ended Saturday in Brazil with a watered-down resolution that made no direct mention of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Letters

Watson’s legacy points to what’s at stake in today’s assault on science

Funding cuts, visa restrictions, and assaults on the scientific enterprise itself threaten to turn the next generation’s innovators away from our borders or away from science altogether. Continue reading →

Letters

Don’t confuse addiction with stubbornness

The physiological dependency that characterizes cigarettes and liquor is a major factor making it hard for users to give them up even as their commercial suppliers ratchet up the price. Continue reading →

Editorials

Uptick in prison suicides cries out for humane solution

Incarceration wasn’t meant to be a death sentence. Continue reading →

Metro

Rhode Island Politics

ICE wrongfully detained a R.I. Superior Court intern, as demand grows for access to virtually appear in court

The intern, a high school student, was detained outside the courthouse on Thursday afternoon, releasing the minor only after a judge intervened. Continue reading →

Investigations

Under increased scrutiny, Harvard enhances screening of international participants at trainings and events

Harvard has started to tighten its screening of foreign participants in its various programs and academic events, particularly those held abroad. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Contractor in Yarmouth trench collapse had prior safety violation, was suing town, records show

Even before the fatality last Tuesday, Revoli Construction Co. of Franklin already was fined nearly $7,000 for a safety violation that occurred just feet from where the trench collapsed, according to OSHA. Continue reading →

Sports

Patriots

Even with the Patriots ‘on to Cincinnati’ again, there’s very little sports history between our cities, and other thoughts

Sunday’s matchup has me in a mood to stoke the flames of famous Boston-Cincinnati sports moments. Too bad there are almost none. Continue reading →

Patriots

‘He walks around like Encino Man’: Inside the eccentricities fueling Patriots wide receiver Mack Hollins

Although Hollins is confident in his choices, he doesn’t judge others for theirs. Nor does he think everybody should adopt his regimen. To each his own, he says. Continue reading →

Red Sox

‘We’re like brothers.’ Fred Lynn reflects on Red Sox teammate Jim Rice, Boston as second home, and more.

Lynn, in town as a Tradition honoree, also checked in about current Red Sox outfielders Ceddanne Rafaela and Roman Anthony. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

Ideas

What a ’90s sitcom can teach us about male and female friendships

A digital divide is driving the sexes apart like never before. Continue reading →

Ideas

Democrats just won back voters who’d embraced Trump. Will they stick around?

American politics could be entering a new phase of volatility. Continue reading →

Obituaries
Arts & Lifestyle

Music

Pianist Eric Lu risked his reputation entering one of the world’s toughest competitions a second time. Then he won.

He had attempted to win the Chopin Competition in Warsaw at 17. Ten years later, with a thriving career at stake, he wanted to try again. Continue reading →

Visual Arts

Revisiting a Black artist who rearranged history to uncloak difficult truths

The work of Fred Wilson, which confronts race in revealing and groundbreaking ways, is on view at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum. Continue reading →

Visual Arts

From Locke-Ober to the Franklin Public Library

What they have in common is the Gilded Age painter Tommaso Juglaris. Continue reading →

Travel

Travel

These are the airlines most likely to experience Thanksgiving delays

The good news is Logan isn't among the worst airports for Thanksgiving delays, but it's also not among the best either. Continue reading →

Travel

JetBlue adds daily flights from Logan to Barcelona and Milan, challenging Delta

The Barcelona route is seasonal and launches on April 16. Boston to Milan begins May 11. Continue reading →