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Wednesday, May 7, 2025


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Trump presidency: We're gathering all the latest news, updates, and analysis.
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Education


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As Trump attacks on Harvard gain momentum, researchers scramble: ‘Everyone can read the writing on the wall’

What would Harvard University be without its research arm? That's the existential, $9 billion question facing the university and its researchers after the Trump administration's latest threat.
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‘I’m the Republicans’ worst nightmare.’ Some former federal workers are weighing a run for office.

For some former federal workers, the best way to get even with the Trump administration is a run for public office.
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Trump boasts about securing ‘trillions of dollars’ in new private investments, but it’s not all his doing

Presidents often claim credit for the good things that happen while they’re in office. But Trump is taking things to a new level.
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Boston Mayoral Race


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Josh Kraft is focused on persuading Black voters in Boston’s mayoral race. Is it working?

A first-time candidate up against a savvy incumbent, Kraft believes his narrow path to victory runs directly through Roxbury and Boston’s other communities of color.
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Housing


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‘The numbers should work, and they just don’t’: Is Cambridge’s affordable housing rule backfiring?

Housing is so expensive to build right now that some developers say the city's requirement that 20 percent of units be aside at below-market rents is making otherwise profitable projects too costly.
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Nation


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Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Californians are deeply skeptical.

When Alcatraz closed in 1963, it was in such bad shape that the federal government ruled it would be more cost effective to abandon it and open another prison elsewhere.
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Politics


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Supreme Court lets Trump enforce transgender troop ban

The Supreme Court’s order came against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s broad attacks on transgender rights.
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Politics


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Spy agencies do not think Venezuela directs gang, declassified memo shows

The memo shows US intelligence agencies reject a key claim President Trump put forth to justify invoking a wartime statute to summarily deport Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.
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The World






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Germany’s Friedrich Merz named chancellor after parliamentary setback

Merz' appointment ends six months of political deadlock in the country after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government in November.
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Carney, in White House visit, tells Trump that Canada ‘is not for sale’

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada had one key goal in his high-stakes meeting with President Trump on Tuesday. He needed to say, in no uncertain terms, that Canada is not going to become the 51st US state, while avoiding a public fight.
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Israel moves to tighten control of aid and rights groups

Israel’s government and lawmakers are moving to escalate a crackdown on humanitarian and human rights organizations that provide aid to or monitor human rights violations in Palestinian territories.
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Editorials


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RFK Jr.’s effort to undermine COVID boosters is unethical

Requiring placebo testing would make it impossible to release annual shots.
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Columns


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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s self-inflicted downfall

After months of lurid accusations, the disgraced entertainment mogul’s trial has begun.
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Letters


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Voc-tech schools are a golden ticket just out of reach for many

"The current admissions process limits access for many of the students who could most benefit," writes one reader. Another: "Shifting to an admissions lottery would limit the supply of" qualified future workers.
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Metro






Politics


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There’s a $500 million problem forming on Beacon Hill: How much money will legislators give the MBTA?

Massachusetts Senate leaders on Tuesday unveiled a $61.3 billion state budget plan that, combined with other legislation, would offer hundreds of millions of dollars less to the cash-strapped agency than what Governor Maura Healey and the House sought.
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With REAL ID deadline imminent, last-minute dashes to RMV

Starting Wednesday, plane passengers 18 and older will have to present REAL ID-compliant cards as a form of verification. Travelers can still use passports and other acceptable forms of ID to fly, but those without may face delays.
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Higher Education


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Cases of two international students detained by Trump administration heard in appeals court

The government's effort to deport Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi for speaking out about the war in Gaza was scrutinized by a panel of three federal judges.
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Sports






Red Sox


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Red Sox stay cold, as Nate Eovaldi, Rangers roll to 6-1 win

On a chilly, wet night at Fenway, Boston was held to six hits and struck out 12 times as the Sox lost their third straight.
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Celtics


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Game 2 is a must-win for the Celtics, and it’s their own fault

Blowing a 20-point lead was the kind of harsh lesson that these Celtics should be beyond having to learn.
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Masataka Yoshida won’t return to Red Sox until he can throw pain free

Until Yoshida is ready to play the outfield, the Sox have no plans to add him to the roster.
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Healthcare


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One year after Steward bankruptcy, Warren, Markey demand criminal probe

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey are pushing the Justice Department to investigate Steward chief executive Ralph de la Torre for contempt of Congress.
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How a mobile phone game is helping teens deal with the trauma of war

App developer Attensi, based in Boston and Oslo, developed the Helping Hand game with advice from psychologists and therapists.
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CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS


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Listen in on the earnings calls of GE Vernova, Hasbro, and Boston Beer Company, and you’ll hear one word: tariffs

Chief executives are scrambling to translate President Trump’s trade war into tangible numbers they can share with analysts and investors.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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Sybil Shainwald, lawyer who fought for women’s health, dies at 96

For nearly half a century, she represented women whose health had been irreparably and often catastrophically harmed by poorly tested drugs, medical devices, and contraceptives.
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Obituaries


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Tom Brown, who had clinching interception for Packers in 1966 NFL title game, dies at age 84

Mr. Brown was the first person to play in the major leagues and in the Super Bowl.
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Arts


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Local arts groups count losses as NEA cancels grants

With the latest Trump cuts, local programs offering music education to underserved communities and expanded opportunities in schools are among those taking severe hits.
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Theater


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A Florence setting helps a mother and daughter be their truest selves in ‘The Light in the Piazza’

The musical was a Tony winner on Broadway in 2005-06.
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AC/DC can still hit the big notes

The band played Gillette on May 4.
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