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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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Metro

‘Uncharted territory.’ Harvard and MIT freeze hiring as Trump widens crackdown on universities.

“We need to prepare for a wide range of financial circumstances,” Harvard president Alan Garber and other university leaders said. Continue reading →

Health

‘The lockdowns were never really effective’: New research shows COVID stay-at-home orders did more harm than good

Five years ago, lockdown critics faced death threats and censorship. Now they are gaining influence amid new research on the harmful health effects of prolonged isolation. Continue reading →

Climate

‘Nobody knows what to do’: New England fishermen in limbo amid sweeping federal layoffs

New England fishermen say that amid layoffs and a Trump-issued executive order to limit new regulations, it's unclear when — or if — they'll be able to fish this year. Continue reading →

Retail

Many progressive consumers are trying to ditch brands like Amazon and Target. It’s harder than it sounds.

Liberal shoppers in New England are running into issues of accessibility, affordability, and practicality, while trying to sidestep certain brands. Continue reading →

Business

Stocks' sell-off worsens as Wall Street wonders how much pain Trump will accept for the economy

The S&P 500 dropped 2.7 percent to drag it close to 9 percent below its all-time high, which was set just last month. The Dow dropped 890 points. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Supreme Court to hear challenge to law banning conversion therapy

More than 20 states have similar laws, which are supported by leading medical groups. Continue reading →

Nation

Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to halt climate change lawsuits in Democratic-led states

The justices acted on an unusual Republican effort to file suit in the Supreme Court over the Democratic states' use of their state courts to sue fossil fuel companies. Continue reading →

Nation

Pressed by Republicans, D.C. begins removing Black Lives Matter mural

Local government crews in Washington began on Monday morning to remove the Black Lives Matter mural that was painted near the White House nearly five years ago. Continue reading →

The World

World

Syria’s government signs a breakthrough deal with Kurdish-led authorities in the northeast

Syria’s interim government signed a deal Monday with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast, including a cease-fire and the merging of the main US-backed force there into the Syrian army. Continue reading →

World

Trump may resume Ukraine aid if pivotal meeting goes well, Rubio says

The Trump administration may resume US military and intelligence support for Ukraine with conditions, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters. Continue reading →

World

Trump looms over Greenland’s election, but voters have other concerns

As voters brushed snow from their coats, candidates from most of Greenland's major parties sat down in the front of the room, ready for questions. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

The peace plan Trump is peddling is one Ukraine could have reached on its own

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to explain the suffering of the Ukrainian people in their resistance to Russia. Trump humiliated him. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Six months later, no answers on death of State Police recruit

How many more troopers will cycle through the academy before the investigation into the death of Enrique Delgado-Garcia reaches a conclusion and any needed reforms can be put in place? Continue reading →

LETTERS

Work of Senate climate panel unfairly maligned

"Those who dismiss the work of the Senate climate committee fail to see what’s actually happening: collaborative, strategic leadership driving real change," writes chair Cynthia Stone Creem. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

‘Uncharted territory.’ Harvard and MIT freeze hiring as Trump widens crackdown on universities.

“We need to prepare for a wide range of financial circumstances,” Harvard president Alan Garber and other university leaders said. Continue reading →

Politics

Millions of Mass. electric customers to get $50 credit on April bills, Healey says

State officials said that every electric residential customer in Massachusetts served by either Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil will get the credit, totaling $125 million. Continue reading →

AS I SEE IT

Finding signs of spring in the Boston area

“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. Continue reading →

Sports

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Kraft soccer stadium debate moves to Charlestown, with Mayor Wu to attend Tuesday meeting

Mayor Michelle Wu is slated to appear at a public meeting in Charlestown on Tuesday to discuss the nearly 25,000-seat stadium that the Kraft Group is proposing in nearby Everett. Continue reading →

Celtics Notebook

Kristaps Porzingis says he is recovering from a viral illness and getting better

The Celtics center addressed his situation for the first time with a post on X Monday night Continue reading →

On Football

Despite spending all that money, the Patriots’ Day 1 free-agent haul still felt underwhelming

New England's start to free agency is notable as much for the players they didn’t get as the players they did. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Stocks' sell-off worsens as Wall Street wonders how much pain Trump will accept for the economy

The S&P 500 dropped 2.7 percent to drag it close to 9 percent below its all-time high, which was set just last month. The Dow dropped 890 points. Continue reading →

Business

Another challenger for Michelle Wu? Developer Thomas O’Brien considering jump into mayoral race.

O’Brien has been quietly weighing for months whether to get into the race, according to people with whom he has discussed the matter. Continue reading →

Housing

With $10m in city aid, Mattapan apartment complex will stay at affordable rents

Developer Related Beal, with financial backing from the City of Boston, is buying a 347-unit Mattapan apartment complex and setting rents at affordable rates. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

South Africa’s giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92

The South African government confirmed Fugard’s death and said the country “has lost one of its greatest literary and theatrical icons, whose work shaped the cultural and social landscape of our nation.” Continue reading →

Obituaries

Helen Schreider, intrepid world traveler, dies at 98

Ms. Schreider, a former art student who always traveled with drawing pad and colored pencils to record her wide-ranging explorations, died Feb. 6 in Santa Rosa, Calif. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

LOVE LETTERS

He wasn’t her cousin

Or … was he? Continue reading →

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

Across an uncertain media landscape, some big-name casualties in televised news

It's been a time of change for a lot of anchors and programs. Continue reading →

Theater

Athol Fugard was a model for politically engaged playwrights

The South African dramatist passed away over the weekend. Continue reading →