All of the headlines from today's paper.
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Today's Headlines
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Higher Education

Why Trump and the MAGA movement turned against Harvard

Over a decade of political and cultural upheaval, America’s most powerful university grew vulnerable to attack. There were warning signs. Continue reading →

Nation

They survived shootings at Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Parkland, and Columbine. Here’s their message for Brown.

Before Brown, there have been hundreds of other mass shootings each year. Survivors say there are many ways to grieve and heal. Continue reading →

Housing

Forever renters: For many in Greater Boston, the American dream of homeownership ‘no longer exists’

Home prices in Greater Boston have surged far faster than incomes, pushing ownership out of reach for many. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

The 31 best photos of 2025 by Boston Globe photographers

Discover the stories behind some of the most compelling images of the year from Globe photographers. Continue reading →

Everyone wants to be part of a village. But it takes being a villager.

My friend group works to maintain a support system so rich and tight-knit that we not-so-jokingly refer to ourselves as family. Continue reading →

As a kid, I felt like Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz just got me

Many of my friendships over the years have started with a shared love for the Peanuts comic strip. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

Trump remakes America as leader of the brand

Donald Trump’s long love affair with his own name and likeness is peaking in his second term. Continue reading →

Politics

How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency said it made more than 29,000 cuts to the federal government. But it also made many accounting mistakes. Continue reading →

Nation

Coquito was once a Puerto Rican secret. Now everybody knows.

For generations, families developed recipes and kept them top-secret. But in recent years, the drink has not been so locked down. Continue reading →

The World

World

Millions of Afghans face hunger as aid cuts deepen a humanitarian crisis

Millions of Afghans are struggling as international aid cuts sever a lifeline many relied on for food and heating. Continue reading →

World

Russia strikes Ukraine’s capital and kills at least 1 person a day before Zelensky-Trump meeting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky prepared to meet with President Trump in Florida on Sunday for further talks on ending the nearly four-year war. Continue reading →

World

Bound for Antarctica: A voyage to earth’s end is underway

Once, it would have been easy to think of Antarctica as a frozen land of nothingness. A place of interest only to explorers testing their tolerance for misery. A continent covered by ice so thick as to be eternal, changing slowly if at all. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Letters

Looks like Robert Kraft had a front-row seat to Kennedy Center renaming

Among those who reportedly voted for this change is Dr. Dana Blumberg, a Trump appointee to the Kennedy Center board and wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Continue reading →

Editorials

Getting to yes on housing in Massachusetts

Communities need to move from a default “no” on housing to a default “yes.” Continue reading →

Letters

A domestic violence incident is not a ‘dust-up’

When a Globe writer "chose the term 'dust-up' to describe a domestic violence incident in which Milan Lucic was accused of choking his wife, he diminished the severity of the incident," a reader writes. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

‘Everybody’s got the flu.’ Cases are spiking quickly in children, doctors say.

COVID levels remain low in Massachusetts, but flu activity is spiking in New England. Continue reading →

Metro

Brown University shooting brings renewed attention to the push and pull of campus security measures

Security measures on college campuses are not uniform, and approaches continue to evolve. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Retracing the improbable steps of Henry Knox, guess by educated guess

A Boston bookseller named Henry Knox led an incredible effort to bring cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge and Boston during the winter of 1775-1776. Today, Massachusetts historians are working to document his route over the Berkshires. Continue reading →

Sports

Bruins

Bruins arrive late to Buffalo following holiday break and skip day-of-game skate, but ‘ready to go’ against Sabres

A morning-of-game flight out of Bedford/Hanscom for the Bruins was delayed a couple of hours because of de-icing and airport traffic. Continue reading →

Bruins

Mat Myers knows his physical restrictions. His future in the NHL? It has no limits.

Myers, born with dwarfism, had to leave his own hockey career behind. He found a new one as the Bruins' video coordinator. He hopes to some day coach in the NHL. Continue reading →

Patriots

The Patriots’ depth is getting thin. They couldn’t ask for a better matchup than the 3-12 Jets.

Lineup changes have been coming fast at the Patriots even as they keep racking up wins. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

Ideas

How to be a better conversationalist

Asking great questions is the key to delightful social interactions. Continue reading →

Ideas

Forget ‘The Big Chill.’ The midlife crisis is getting a millennial makeover.

This year, Hollywood and popular literature wrestled with a new form of middle-aged desperation. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist in the Cure, dies at 65

Perry Bamonte, a guitarist and keyboard player in the Cure, the seminal post-punk band that brought a dark, Gothic sensibility to sparkly, upbeat hits like "Friday I'm in Love," died Wednesday at his home in the west of England. He was 65. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Annette Dionne, last of the celebrated quintuplets, dies at 91

Annette Dionne, who shared in her siblings' fame as one of the first quintuplets known to survive infancy, died Wednesday in Beloeil, Quebec. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Arts

‘Museums are targets’: Inside the ICA’s high-stakes moment under new leadership

Nora Burnett Abrams, who took over last May, says she is looking to innovative programs to "deepen our relevance in the city." Continue reading →

Museums

At a time of masked agents and racist talk from the president, a massive painting of ominous Klan figures at Mass MoCA

The 30-foot painting is part of "Just a Dream...", an exhibition of work by the artist Vincent Valdez, whose career is steeped in racial politics. Continue reading →

Music

From Geese to Karol G, these are the 30 best albums of 2025

We checked in with Globe critics over the summer to find out which albums had already impressed them this year. Here are 30 more from 2025 you won’t want to miss. Continue reading →

Travel

Travel

At long last, nonstop flights to an unspoiled slice of Caribbean paradise

A new route gives Boston travelers direct access to Anguilla. Continue reading →

Travel

In a global tourism shift, former hot spots are experiencing ‘undertourism’

Geopolitics, natural disasters, and the rising cost of living are to blame. The good news, for travelers? Places they still want to go but that seemed too pricey or congested now have more availability and lower rates. Continue reading →