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Subject Today's Headlines: COVID-19 put the spotlight on the region’s health equity leaders. Five years later, they are targets.
Date April 7, 2025 8:54 AM
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Monday, April 7, 2025


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COVID-19 put the spotlight on the region’s health equity leaders. Five years later, they are targets.

The pandemic laid bare inequities that Boston's greatest minds worked hard to address. Five years later, some of these actions are under fire from the Trump administration.
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Healthcare


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Mass General Brigham said layoffs would largely spare front-line clinicians. Then the cuts came.

Among the employees who have been dismissed are chaplains for grieving families, a counselor for abuse victims, and a specialist in helping patients quit smoking.
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His father was a disgraced Massachusetts judge. Now he’s the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee.

“Rules are important, boundaries are important, and the pursuit of virtue in public office is really important,” Mark DeSaulnier said.
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Media


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As Trump targets campus protesters, student newspapers wrestle with coverage

Student journalists are struggling with how to capture this divisive moment without either censoring their work or endangering the people they cover.
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Trump says he’s not backing down on tariffs, calls them ‘medicine’ as markets reel

The higher rates are set to be collected beginning Wednesday, ushering in a new era of economic uncertainty with no clear end in sight.
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Judge slams US contentions in case of wrongly deported Salvadoran man

A federal judge rebuked the Trump administration Sunday for refusing to take steps to return a man wrongly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, saying that officials have offered “no evidence” he was a gang member and that the federal government has the authority to bring him back.
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Nation


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Kennedy attends funeral in Texas of girl who died of measles

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation's health secretary, attended the funeral Sunday of an 8-year-old girl who died of measles amid an outbreak that has burned through the region and called into question his ability to handle a public-health crisis.
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Nation


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Republicans want to make the Trump tax cuts last forever

When Republicans cut taxes in the past, they did so only temporarily, bowing to Washington’s arcane budget rules that limited how much they could add to the federal deficit. They gambled — mostly successfully — that the tax cuts would not actually end because Democrats would eventually vote to continue them.
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World


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Russia strikes Kyiv as Ukraine mourns deadly attack on Zelensky’s hometown

Russia bombarded Ukraine with ballistic missiles and drones that killed one person and wounded at least seven others.
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Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 32, mostly women and children

Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 32 people, including more than a dozen women and children, local health officials said.
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Recovering Pope surprises pilgrims with a public appearance

As entrances go, this one was both unexpected and welcomed. That much was clear from the thunderous applause and cheers Sunday as Pope Francis made his first public appearance since leaving a Rome hospital two weeks ago.
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Editorial & Opinion






LETTERS


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Blacklists of campus activists send a chill

"When we tolerate such action, we are the ones who betray our country," writes one reader. Another: "Students privileged to attend American universities are interfering with the [schools'] core mission."
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13 ways of looking at Cory Booker’s speech

‘This is a moral moment,’ he said in his 25-hour speech to the Senate. ‘It’s not left or right. It’s right or wrong.’
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EDITORIAL


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Huge turnout for youth jobs fair was a reminder of the program’s importance

Turnout for a recent Roxbury jobs fair was so overwhelming that it became disorderly.
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Crime & Courts


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Boston’s police oversight agency has not met expectations. Its director says that’s about to change.

Boston's Office of Police Accountability and Transparency was created with a historic mandate after the killing of George Floyd in 2020, but critics say it has not lived up to that promise.
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Massachusetts


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Audit of Canton Police finds no evidence of corruption in Karen Read investigation

Matthew Germanowski, a director for 5 Stones Intelligence, said his firm’s audit did not discover any evidence of corruption, evidence tampering or conspiracy.
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Health


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Trump administration terminates advisory committee guiding states on newborn screening for rare genetic diseases

Advocates say the move could worsen health disparities.
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UCONN 82, SOUTH CAROLINA 59


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Sarah Strong, Azzi Fudd lead UConn women to a 12th national championship

Paige Bueckers capped her stellar career with the Huskies’ first championship since 2016, ending a nine-year title drought for the program.
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GAME 1: RED SOX 5, CARDINALS 4 (10 inn.) | GAME 2: RED SOX 18, CARDINALS 7


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Home again where the hits are as Wilyer Abreu, Red Sox hammer Cardinals in doubleheader sweep

Boston scored twice in the ninth against Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley to force extra innings of Game 1.
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Celtics 124, Wizards 90


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Low-stress stretch continues for Celtics with rout of Wizards

The Celtics led by as many as 16 points in the first quarter, 23 points in the second and 36 in the third.
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Mass Audubon scores court victory in quest to turn old Chelsea factory into waterfront park

The conservation group hailed the decision that allows them to buy the nearly 18-acre site for $8.36 million — but the current owner isn't going down without a fight.
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Trump’s tariffs hit a sour note in landmark NYC emporium of sweets

Few corners of the American economy are untouched, directly or indirectly, by the sweeping tariffs being imposed by Trump. Even a little store like Economy Candy.
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Obituaries


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Philip W. Johnston, former state Democratic chairman and Health and Human Services leader, dies at 80

"He devoted his professional life to improving life for poor and vulnerable people," said Andrew Dreyfus, former president and chief executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. "This wasn’t an occupational mission. This was a lifelong passion for him."
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Jean Van Leeuwen, 87, dies; wrote ‘Oliver Pig’ series of children’s books

Jean Van Leeuwen, an award-winning children's book author whose popular characters included the wholesome siblings Oliver and Amanda Pig and an adventurous, cocksure mouse named Marvin the Magnificent, died March 3 at her home in Chappaqua, New York. She was 87.
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Cedric Dempsey, the former NCAA president who led in time of transition and growth, dies at 92

Cedric Dempsey, the former NCAA president who helped turn Arizona into a national power as athletic director before leading the national organization through key years of transition and growth, died Saturday in San Diego, the NCAA said.
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Boston at a Bargain


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Free Ben & Jerry’s cone plus ABBA dance party, pre-Easter celebrations, and more

Here are some outdoor and indoor activities for the first full week of April that won’t make your wallet gloomy.
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YOUR TV GPS


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This week’s TV: ‘A Year with the Red Sox,’ the return of ‘Hacks’ and ‘The Last of Us,’ and more

Plus, a Prime Video streaming thriller starring Viola Davis.
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After an affair, ex wants to tell former wife’s family the truth

Advice from R. Eric Thomas.
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