All of the headlines from today's paper.
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Today's Headlines

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Money, Power, Inequality

‘The government is subsidizing corporate profits’: Who employs the most SNAP recipients in Massachusetts?

In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age SNAP recipients have jobs. Continue reading →

Immigration

‘Treated like an animal’: ICE is moving detained immigrants quickly to conservative states, raising due process concerns

Immigrants in New England targeted for deportation are being whisked away quicker and to farther locations than ever before. Continue reading →

Politics

Republicans passed $50b for hospitals to offset their painful Medicaid cuts. MAHA has seized it as an opportunity.

Although they welcomed the relief, even supporters acknowledged the money would not be enough to completely compensate for the breadth of cuts coming to Medicaid. Continue reading →

Higher Education

From Harvard to BU to Brown, New England schools are enrolling fewer new PhDs this year. Why?

Elite universities are taking fewer doctoral candidates after decades of beefing up their research enterprises. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

You don’t need plane tickets to find warmer climes. Here are the best bets for escaping the New England cold.

Wary of the season’s doldrums? You don’t need plane tickets to find warmer climes. Continue reading →

‘Human nature doesn’t change.’ Ken Burns on what we learn from the American Revolution.

Fifty years after he made his first film, the legendary director is preparing to release his magnum opus. Continue reading →

Can the iconic huts of the White Mountains weather the rise of glamping?

In recent years, the Appalachian Mountain Club huts have been buffeted by two unpredictable forces. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Governments endorse greater protections for sharks amid concerns about overfishing

The measures, approved Friday at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in Uzbekistan, bans the trade in oceanic whitetip sharks, manta and devil rays as well as whale sharks. Continue reading →

Nation

Female cardiothoracic surgeons, unlocking the male fortress

Less than 10% of heart and lung surgeons in the United States are women, one of the smallest percentages of any surgical specialty. Continue reading →

Nation

A dance at a Louisiana prison gives fathers and daughters a rare moment to reunite

Assistant Warden Anne-Marie Easley said she hoped the dance would bring a sense of hope that can be elusive in a prison where many are serving decades-long or life sentences. Continue reading →

The World

World

The Ukrainians stuck in Russia’s new Gulag

Some have died in captivity, and relatively few have been released. Those who have been freed say they were tortured, nearly starved and tormented constantly. Continue reading →

World

Russian attacks kill 3 as diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine gain momentum

US officials are meeting in Florida this weekend with their Ukrainian counterparts about the Russia-Ukraine war. Continue reading →

World

An archaeologist is racing to preserve Sudan’s heritage as war threatens to erase its cultural past

Archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo is working to create an online database of Sudan's archaeological sites and museum collections, Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Letters

Public health lies will cost lives

RFK Jr. now speaks for the government. That should mean he’s held to a higher standard. Continue reading →

Editorials

Pharmacy deserts make staying healthy harder

Payment reform could shore up struggling drugstores. Continue reading →

Columns

When two families say ‘I do’

A marriage binds households into a wider circle of kin, giving children more people to count on. Continue reading →

Metro

Money, Power, Inequality

For Bostonians of color, wealth is often beyond reach: ‘There’s more survival thinking than investment thinking’

In discussions about wealth, residents of Dorchester, Roxbury, East Boston, and other Boston-area communities said a lack of financial literacy was holding them back. Continue reading →

Health

Most in Mass. disapprove of RFK Jr., but one-third give him a thumbs up

A new Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll reveals uncertainty in some Mass. voters' embrace of vaccines. Continue reading →

Politics

Years in, panel tasked with offering new Mass. flag says it needs another extension amid ‘public misunderstanding’

The effort to change the state symbols, which Native Americans have long called offensive, has been hobbled for nearly a half-decade by disagreements and delays. Continue reading →

Sports

Celtics

Jaylen Brown (41 points) can’t save the day as Celtics open weekend trip with loss to Timberwolves

Despite a late run that tied the game with 98 seconds left, the Celtics couldn’t counter the brilliance and luck of Anthony Edwards. Continue reading →

Bruins

Morgan Geekie, Jeremy Swayman spark the Bruins to a shootout win over the Red Wings

Geekie scored both goals in regulation and Swayman made 24 saves, shutting down the Red Wings on all three shootout bids in a 3-2 victory. Continue reading →

Patriots

‘I’m so thankful that God just allowed us to cross paths.’ Encounter provides a glimpse of Patriots rookie TreVeyon Henderson

Off the field, the rookie running back is quiet, humble, almost painfully earnest, and seemingly always focused on doing the right thing. Continue reading →

Business

Business

New device detects PTSD episode faster, so service dogs can better assist veterans

“It helps create new patterns,” said engineer and veteran Steven J. Brown. Continue reading →

Ideas

Ideas

What made Harvard get softer on its students

Campus battles over DEI and free speech are part of a much larger change in philosophy that took hold over decades. Will the administration show tough love now? Continue reading →

Ideas

The National Guard glitch that could come back to haunt us

Who’s in charge of a branch of the military that operates at the state level? It’s an unresolved question for President Trump to exploit. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Walter Dowdle, public health leader in times of crises, dies at 94

Walter Dowdle, a microbiologist and second-in-command at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who helped lead the nation's early response to AIDS and later worked with the World Health Organization on the global effort to eradicate polio, died Nov. 17 at his home in Hahira, in southern Georgia. He was 94. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Colleen Jones, curling champion and broadcaster, dies at 65

Colleen Jones, who won two world titles and six Canadian national championships in curling, one of the country's most popular sports, and who also became a trailblazing television personality, died Tuesday at her home in Maders Cove, Nova Scotia. She was 65. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Movies

Putting Wes Anderson into a box and a book

The Criterion Collection and a museum catalog celebrate three decades of truly one-of-a-kind filmmaking. Continue reading →

Television

‘Stranger Things’ is too big to fail

The Netflix series returns with the overstuffed first half of its final season. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

Wait, skinny jeans are back? Didn’t we just heal from that?

They’re tight, they’re back, and they’re coming for your sense of self. There’s no true escape — except vintage. Continue reading →

Travel

Travel

DOT chief Sean Duffy wants to bring back the golden age of travel. He’s living in a fantasy world.

Instead of telling passengers what to wear, the government needs to be buttressing consumer protections. Continue reading →

Travel

New Universal theme park unites dragons, Dracula, Princess Peach, and the Harry Potter pack

After three days of exploring the park, totaling 80,000 steps and one blister, here’s what was most memorable. Continue reading →