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Thursday, July 31, 2025
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Trump presidency: We're gathering all the latest news, updates, and analysis.
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Health
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‘It breaks my heart.’ Trump’s cuts to Harvard leave Boston’s vulnerable sweltering without AC.
As part of its far-reaching assault on the university, the Trump administration rescinded the money for the project.
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Rhode Island
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Brown University reaches agreement with Trump administration to restore federal research funding
The deal settles three open investigations into the university, and does not require the Ivy League institution to admit any wrongdoing or make a payment to the federal government.
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Politics
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Boston is hosting a big lawmaker conference. Beacon Hill leaders are asking donors to give up to $250,000 each to fund it.
Massachusetts legislative leaders are soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars to help fund a massive gathering of lawmakers, lobbyists, and policy makers in Boston.
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Crime & Courts
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Beacon Hill leaders propose pay raise for court-appointed lawyers in effort to end work stoppage
Leaders on Beacon Hill also floated structural changes aimed at heading off future work stoppages like the one that has gripped the state court system for weeks.
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Fed leaves interest rates unchanged as Powell refuses to give into Trump’s pressure for the moment
The Fed’s monetary policy committee kept its benchmark rate steady at between 4.25 percent and 4.5 percent, as analysts and investors expected.
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The Nation
Nation
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The familiar suicide and final wish of the NYC gunman
The scenario has become grimly familiar to football fans: A former player experiencing cognitive issues kills himself with a gunshot to his chest, rather than his head, to allow for his brain to be examined.
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Nation
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Tsunami evacuations ordered in South America
Warnings in the first hours after the 8.8 magnitude quake sent residents fleeing to rooftops in Japan and forced tourists out of beachfront hotels in Hawaii, snarling island traffic.
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Politics
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Senate Democrats try to force release of Epstein files with little-known law
Senate Democrats moved to compel the Trump administration to release material connected to the investigation into accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, invoking a little-known law in a bid to force Republican leaders to confront the growing furor over the case.
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The World
World
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Canada will recognize a Palestinian state in September in latest push against Israel’s Gaza policies
Iddo Moed, Israel’s ambassador to Canada, said after the announcement that Canada is a “dear friend but at the moment it is an estranged friend” because it “stopped putting itself in Israel’s shoes.”
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World
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No one defies Trump like Brazil’s president
President Trump is trying to push around his nation of 200 million, dangling 50 percent tariffs as a threat. And yet, the US president is ignoring his government’s offers to talk.
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Thailand and Cambodia stepped back from war, but their temple fight remains
A key issue that brought the two neighbors to arms is their most intractable dispute: who can lay claim to the centuries-old Hindu temples along the border, dating back to the ancient Khmer Empire.
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Editorial & Opinion
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Involuntary commitment should be on the table in the opioid crisis
The issue is politically fraught, but don't law-abiding citizens have a right to live without stepping over needles or encountering violence in front of their homes?
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Editorials
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NIMBY-ism shouldn’t win in West Roxbury
The need for a shelter outweighs the concerns of local residents.
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Emil Bove and the Kavanaugh rule: Loyalty to Trump dictates judicial confirmations, not qualifications
Trump didn’t single-handedly break the Senate’s confirmation process. But a single event turned the judicial confirmation process into the kind of pure, bare-knuckled partisan cage match it is today.
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Metro
Massachusetts
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Portuguese library in New Bedford lives to see another day
Briefly slated for closure, the Casa da Saudade Library, a center of cultural and intellectual life for Portuguese speakers, has found another lease on life.
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Ozzy Osbourne, his Boston lawyer, and the bat that got its head bit off
Joseph Steinfield had never heard of Ozzy Osbourne before he saved a concert at Boston Garden in 1982.
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K-12
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Amherst middle school counselor to be reinstated after being fired for allegedly misgendering students
An arbitrator ruled the counselor had been wrongfully terminated in 2023. She is returning to the middle school this fall.
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Sports
Red Sox
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The Red Sox spoke of ‘extreme urgency’ to make the playoffs. Thursday’s trade deadline is the time to prove it.
A perfect storm is present for playoff play via one of the AL’s three watered-down wild-card slots, if the Red Sox can stomach prioritizing the present.
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Connor Wong expected to be the Red Sox’ starting catcher this season, but it hasn’t quite worked out that way
At 29, Wong has come to an unexpected crossroads. He’s a member of a contending team and surrounded by teammates he cares for. But he’s also hitting .165 with a .434 OPS and only one RBI.
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Red Sox unload, bury Twins in series finale
The Sox are off Thursday, before beginning a three-game series against the Astros Friday night at Fenway Park.
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Business
Business
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NTSB finds Army chopper in fatal midair crash with plane was above altitude limit
Investigators have found that a helicopter involved in a deadly crash with a passenger plane over Washington was flying above its height limit.
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AI/Robotics
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Want to control Spot, the four-legged dancing robot? Now’s your chance.
Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert is showing off the friendlier side of automation while his research institute cranks on robotics and AI.
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Technology
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Burlington 3-D printer company goes bankrupt after being acquired
Once pioneering tech firm Desktop Metal filed for bankruptcy this week after Israel-based Nano Dimension acquired it in April.
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Obituaries
Obituaries
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Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet of ‘percussive prosody,’ dies at 61
A photographer, drummer, and bandleader in addition to a poet, Mr. Ellis helped found the Dark Room Collective, a Cambridge-based community of Black artists.
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Laura Dahlmeier, gold medal-winning German biathlete, dies in rockfall
ISLAMABAD -- Laura Dahlmeier, a two-time Olympic gold medal-winning German biathlete, died after a mountaineering accident in Pakistan on Monday. She was 31.
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Arts & Lifestyle
Arts
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A royal send-off for Ozzy Osbourne
On Wednesday, Ozzy Osbourne, one of the founders of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, received just such a tribute in Birmingham, England — his hometown — ahead of a private family funeral.
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Arts
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The Conjurors’ Club: Boston’s next experience-in-residence might be magical
Jonathan Lang hopes to launch this fall.
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Michelle Obama, Spike Lee, and others set to appear at Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival
The festival returns for its 23rd year.
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