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Thursday, January 15, 2026
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Retail

From ‘the best of the best,’ to shutting down: The rise and fall of Fenway’s Time Out Market

Time Out Market opened as the first of a new wave of food halls in Boston. Six years later it's closing down. Continue reading →

K-12

Boston schools face stark truth: Shutter buildings while needing billions to renovate current facilities

Mayor Michelle Wu has declared her goal to make BPS the best school system in the country. But many children are learning in buildings older than their parents and teachers. Continue reading →

Retail

At Massachusetts stores, the demise of the penny is adding up to one big headache

Some retailers are stocking up on the one-cent coins while they still can, while others are rounding transactions to nickels. Continue reading →

Healthcare

Health insurers face new restrictions as Healey moves to end prior authorizations, long hated by many

Prior authorizations have long been hated by many, but insurers call them an essential tool they use to control spending. Continue reading →

Biotech

‘Dangerous’: Moderna cofounder warns US faces dystopian scientific times

"We won’t just slow the miracle machine, we’ll throw it into reverse," Noubar Afeyan said. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

‘Like a military occupation’: Clashes rise with federal agents in Minneapolis

Federal officers are descending on streets in what they say is an effort to find immigrants lacking legal status with criminal and dangerous backgrounds. Continue reading →

Nation

Trump administration indefinitely pauses immigrant visa processing for 75 nations

The Trump administration is halting immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, including Brazil, Iran, Russia and Somalia, the latest effort by officials to restrict legal immigration pathways. Continue reading →

Politics

Denmark has ‘fundamental’ differences with US over Greenland, diplomat says

Denmark, Greenland, and the United States have a "fundamental disagreement" over the future of the territory in the North Atlantic, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the Danish foreign minister, said Wednesday after a White House meeting with top Trump administration officials. Continue reading →

The World

World

US withdraws some forces from Middle East as Trump weighs Iran strikes

The Pentagon has begun withdrawing some US troops and assets from a key base in Qatar as a precautionary measure while President Trump weighs whether to take military action against Iran, officials said Wednesday. Continue reading →

World

Iran signals plans for fast trials and executions while promising ‘decisive response’ to US, Israel

Iranian officials signaled Wednesday that fast trials and executions lay ahead for suspects detained in nationwide protests. Continue reading →

World

Crane falls on passenger train in Thailand, killing at least 32

A crane fell on a train with about 200 passengers and crew members aboard in northeastern Thailand on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people and injuring at least 67 others, the Thai Health Ministry said. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Editorials

Gabriel House fire shows need for oversight of assisted living

A state commission has recommended stepped-up oversight of the facilities where thousands of senior citizens live. Continue reading →

Columns

Before the trial, a fight over how Lindsay Clancy is seen

The battle is already underway to define the Duxbury mother accused of killing her three children as a patient or a criminal. Continue reading →

Letters

With halt of wind projects, Trump chooses politics over affordability

Whatever your political ideology, it is undeniable that we need energy diversification to lower bills for working Americans. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

‘A true American hero’: Celebrating Tuskegee Airman ‘Woody’ Woodhouse as he turns 99

Brigadier General Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse II, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, celebrated his 99th birthday in Quincy, surrounded by longtime friends and fellow patriots — and a giant gingerbread cookie of himself. Continue reading →

Metro

Babson student’s deportation exposes the lie of Trump’s immigration policy

The deportation of a Babson College student exposes the lie of the Trump administration’s immigration policy. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Audit identifies safety and planning issues at soldiers’ homes in Chelsea and Holyoke

The audit is the latest examination of operations at the state facilities where more than 100 veterans died during the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading →

Sports

Red Sox

Red Sox agree to five-year, $130 million contract with free agent lefthander Ranger Suárez

Though Suárez has never been a workhorse, he’s averaged 26 starts and 147 innings since moving into the rotation on a full-time basis four years ago. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Willson Contreras says ‘it’s really a dream coming true’ to be a member of the Red Sox

“Boston has a history of winning teams. I consider myself a winner,” Contreras said. Continue reading →

Olympics

The Skating Club of Boston welcomes new Olympians Maxim Naumov, Emily Chan, and Spencer Howe home to prep

Naumov and the team of Chan and Howe hit the ice to begin the work for the biggest competition of their lives — February’s Winter Olympics — and met the media. Continue reading →

Business

Real Estate

MBTA bails on Alewife project, leaving fate of crumbling garage unknown

The T had initially hoped that a redeveloper could build on 13 acres in and around the station, and potentially 20 acres next door. Continue reading →

Real Estate

‘Not how we rock here in Roxbury’: Michelle Wu has a plan for Madison Park, no matter what the neighbors say

The Wu administration is once again trying to rush through a project that is upsetting the Black community. Continue reading →

Business

The Dugout, popular Fenway dive bar, to close after near-century of colorful operation

Established in 1934, the Dugout was granted one of the first liquor licenses after the repeal of Prohibition, though legend has it the spot was unofficially open years earlier. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ creator who shifted into racist, far-right commentary, dies

While working as an engineer, Adams began the doodles that became “Dilbert,” which debuted in 1989 and eventually appeared in more than 2,000 newspapers around the world. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Bahram Beyzaie, filmmaker who led Iran’s new wave, dies at 87

Bahram Beyzaie, a filmmaker, playwright and scholar who was hailed as a giant of Iranian culture for leading the nation's cinematic New Wave starting in the late 1960s, melding the history and mythology of Iran with a haunting portrayal of its political reality, died on Dec. 26 at his home in Palo Alto, California. He was 87. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Erich von Däniken, who claimed aliens visited Earth, dies at 90

Erich von Däniken, the bestselling Swiss author and self-styled maverick archaeologist who propagated the theory that thousands of years ago an advanced alien species visited Earth, mated with ancient humans and gave them the technology, and the intelligence, to erect such marvels as the Great Pyramids, died Saturday in Switzerland. He was 90. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Theater

‘Stokely and Martin’ imagines a conversation between two civil rights icons

The show runs Friday-Sunday at Cambridge's Multicultural Arts Center. Continue reading →

Music

K-pop megastars BTS to make Gillette Stadium debut this summer as part of new world tour

Get ready BTS Army because the fan-favorite K-pop band is coming to the Boston area later this year. Continue reading →

Music

Bruno Mars to make Gillette Stadium debut as part of new ‘Romantic Tour’

On Thursday, Mars announced that he will soon embark on “The Romantic Tour,” his first global headline tour in almost a decade. Continue reading →