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Sunday, June 1, 2025
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Metro

A $2 million Dutch painting was stolen from a Worcester home decades ago. How did a $18 pillow lead to its recovery?

Online sleuthing yielded the return of an artwork nearly 50 years after thieves snatched it from a Worcester home. Continue reading →

Boston Elections

Personal wealth, outside spending take center stage as Michelle Wu and Josh Kraft compete in fiery Boston mayor’s race

Outside spending and immense private wealth are hardly new concepts in Massachusetts politics. But the sums reported so far could set the city on a course to its most expensive mayor’s race yet. Continue reading →

Health

Funding is drying up, and so are career options. Some budding scientists are debating abandoning their research.

Across New England and the US, thousands of young scientists have awoken to a stark new reality amid the Trump administration's cuts to research, one they couldn't have imagined just six months ago. Continue reading →

Higher Education

Can Harvard outlast the Trump administration and its unrelenting onslaught?

President Trump is trying to apply enough pressure to force the university to cave, while Harvard, a nearly 400-year-old institution, is aiming to play a long game against an aging president in his final term. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

Even the MBTA can’t stop Phil Eng

For decades, the chronically underfunded and crumbling T resisted even modest fixes. Has it finally met its match? Continue reading →

Trump vs. Massachusetts: How one state represents everything the president despises

Massachusetts may be uniquely positioned to suffer in President Trump’s second term. Continue reading →

Our refrigerator art is a gallery of our life as a family

Every time I reach for the milk, the eggs, or a beer, I see photos of loved ones in our refrigerator collage. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Millions of honeybees escape after truck overturns in Washington state

The plan is to allow the bees to return to their hives and find their queen bee. Continue reading →

Nation

An expensive Alzheimer’s lifestyle plan offers false hope, experts say

The suggestion that Alzheimer’s can be reversed through lifestyle adjustments has outraged doctors and scientists in themedical establishment, who have repeatedly said that there is little to no proof for such a claim and expressed concern thatthe idea could harm a large group of vulnerable Americans. Continue reading →

Politics

For these Trump voters, a rubber-stamp Congress is a key demand

In focus groups, older Trump voters consistently praised lawmakers who displayed “loyalty” to President Trump and disparaged those whom they viewed as failing to fall in line behind him. Continue reading →

The World

World

Hamas seeks amendments to Gaza ceasefire proposal but US envoy calls it ‘unacceptable’

The Hamas official said the proposed amendments focused on “the US guarantees, the timing of hostage release, the delivery of aid, and the withdrawal of Israeli forces.” Continue reading →

World

India and Pakistan’s air battle is over. Their water war has begun.

The Indus Waters Treaty covers a river system that tens of millions of people rely on for their livelihoods and survival. After 60 years, it is under extreme stress. Continue reading →

World

North Korea gets a weapons bonanza from Russia

Analysts warn that the growing expansion of military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, if left unchecked, could threaten a delicate military balance around the Korean Peninsula. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Letters

The right’s anti-DEI push masks an underlying prejudice

Neither the president nor the ruling party in Congress is inclined to transparently define the driving force for attacking DEI. Continue reading →

Letters

ICE tactics don’t play fair, but they play to the base

We’re seeing arrests of people who haven’t been convicted of anything and in some cases haven’t even been charged. Continue reading →

Letters

Expect a world of pain from Trump’s budget bill (unless you’re rich)

Is this what all those economically distressed MAGA folks out there really voted for? Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

A $2 million Dutch painting was stolen from a Worcester home decades ago. How did a $18 pillow lead to its recovery?

Online sleuthing yielded the return of an artwork nearly 50 years after thieves snatched it from a Worcester home. Continue reading →

Vermont

When evil dies: Victims of disgraced priest James Talbot are indifferent to his death

Talbot died on Feb. 28 at a hospice center in St. Louis. His victims want his death to be known far and wide. Continue reading →

Immigration

Massachusetts immigrants left with ‘mass confusion and concern’ after Trump ends humanitarian parole

The Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow the Trump administration to proceed with plans to end a form of legal protection for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Continue reading →

Sports

Red Sox

Craig Breslow offers vote of confidence to Alex Cora in Atlanta, but says Red Sox have to ‘question everything’

"We obviously made a commitment to Alex. We’re going to see that through," Boston's baseball boss said as his Red Sox sit mired in fourth place in the American League East. Continue reading →

High Schools

Demanding parents. Stressed-out students. Pressure to win. Welcome to life as a high school coach.

Gone are the days of "my way or the highway." X's and O's are trumped by managing personalities when athletes aren't used to direct feedback. And all the challenges make it hard for coaches to stick around. Continue reading →

Celtics

There’s a silver lining to the NIL spending bonanza: Better basketball for all

Instead of fleeing for an uncertain NBA future, talented college basketball players can run it back on campus, where they can get paid, improve their craft, and show up to the pros better prepared. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

Ideas

I experienced what’s wrong with Harvard, but I’m rooting for it over Trump

As a kid from rural Maine, I saw how out of touch the university is. I also believe it can still get things right. Continue reading →

Ideas

How universities die

Leading academic institutions have been toppled before in centers of learning such as Berlin and Beijing. Is Boston next? Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Actor Valerie Mahaffey, ‘Northern Exposure’ Emmy winner, dies after cancer battle, publicist says

Mahaffey’s stage, film and television work included the soap opera “The Doctors” more than 45 years ago and encompassed roles in the TV series “Young Sheldon” and “Desperate Housewives.” Continue reading →

Obituaries

George Smith, Nobel laureate who created a digital eye, dies at 95

It was while he was working at Bell Laboratories in 1969 that George Smith and a colleague, Willard S. Boyle, came up with the idea for what is known as the charge-coupled device, or CCD. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, ‘father of the abortion pill,’ dies at 98

A French biochemist, Étienne-Émile Baulieu spearheaded the development of the abortion drug mifepristone, which became a leading method of ending a pregnancy. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Theater

New Hampshire native Jennifer Simard brings trademark deadpan to Tony-nominated run in ‘Death Becomes Her’

The actress credits her mother for her "devious" sense of humor: "She was the funny one." Continue reading →

Television

‘Succession’ creator Jesse Armstrong’s ‘Mountainhead’ is a too-literal-minded satire

Tech-bro billionaires are a ripe subject, but the movie is short on laughs. Continue reading →

Theater

Two strangers carry a budding romance, and a cake, across New York

Fizzy dialogue and inventive choreography combine in a take on the rom-com. Continue reading →

Travel

TRAVEL

Disney without the crowds? Teens thinking their parents are (kinda) cool? Yes, there is such a place.

With Disney After Hours, you can get in a day’s worth of rides (maybe more) in three hours — and have fun doing it. Continue reading →

Travel

The best of Portugal? It’s located north of Lisbon.

While southern Portugal is overrun with visitors, the country’s northern half still has room to breathe. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Real Estate

Home of the Week: For $1.29m, a Boxborough Colonial with a sweet suite

Property comes with four bedrooms, 4.5 baths, a lower level with its own entrance, and a koi pond. Continue reading →