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Wednesday, August 13, 2025


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Michelle Wu vs. Josh Kraft: Each has raised over $1 million for the mayoral race, and
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser tried two different ways of dealing with Trump. Both had the same result.

An outspoken Trump critic in his first term, Bowser tried cooperation in his second. But that didn't stop the president from taking over the city's police department and sending in National Guard troops.
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Massachusetts


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Immigration roundups! Tariffs! Bombing Iran! Dismantling DEI! Barrage from Trump leaves many tuning everything out.

In version 2.0 of the Donald Trump presidency, the headlines, impactful and significant, come fast and furious.
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Boston Elections


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‘Roxbury always elects a fighter’: As 11 candidates vie for open council seat, residents say housing is top issue

District 7 is the only open seat on the September preliminary ballot, after former incumbent Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges and stepped down.
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Transportation


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MBTA to extend subway service by about an hour on Friday and Saturday nights

The agency also plans to lengthen nighttime service for select bus and ferry routes.
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When Trump meets Putin, anything could happen

Trump plans to see Putin on Friday in Alaska for the first time since his return to the White House to discuss the US president’s goal of ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest

The Trump administration is evaluating plans that would establish a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” composed of hundreds of National Guard troops tasked with rapidly deploying into American cities facing protests or other unrest, according to internal Pentagon documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
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Every VA medical center has severe staffing shortages, audit finds

The independent watchdog for the Department of Veterans Affairs said the department’s health system is facing a severe staffing shortage of clinical and nonclinical workers that has worsened since last year - at the same time the department has shed tens of thousands of workers and recruited fewer medical workers.
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They cleaned subways during COVID-19 pandemic

“It was trauma,” Baez, 53, said in Spanish about the job, which she performed from 2020 to 2023, when her contract abruptly ended.
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Are samosas unhealthy? Some Indians find official advice hard to swallow.

India’s health ministry on June 21 sent out a notice to all government ministries requesting that they put up posters in public spaces, such as office cafeterias and meeting rooms, showing the oil and sugar levels in certain foods.
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Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan

It’s unclear how far the talks have advanced, but if implemented, the plans would amount to transferring people from one war-ravaged land at risk of famine to another, and raise human rights concerns.
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Europe’s heat waves intensify

In July, as a heat wave broiled much of Europe, feelings about air conditioning became a political litmus test.
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Editorials


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Why you can’t visit Georges Island this summer

The Harbor Islands are cherished summer getaways, and they’re worth further investment to avoid closures like this summer’s.
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Speaker Mariano has a problem with voters

He thinks they’re smart enough to elect him — but not to decide anything else, especially about his pay.
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Letters


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Boston’s decades-old problem with rats

One reader has documented evidence of the city's rat infestation since 2001.
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Crime & Courts


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Officials charge 13 people in alleged scam of seniors, say they stole millions by impersonating grandchildren

A sweeping superseding indictment unsealed in Boston alleges that callers tricked victims into believing they were a grandchild “in some sort of legal or medical trouble” and needed money.
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Saugus schools changes admissions policy after barring children from vulnerable families

The admissions policy adopted in 2023 had required families to complete the town census with legal documents to enroll their children in school.
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Opponents of White Stadium project unveil new alternative design, with updated cost of $64.6 million

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy proposes a roughly 5,000-seat facility, compared to the 11,000-seat stadium of the current project.
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Red Sox reliever Jordan Hicks believes taking control of his pitch selection can turn his season around

“If I’m going to be giving up these kind of runs out of the bullpen, I should really be throwing the pitch I want to throw,” Hicks said after posting a 6.23 ERA in his first 14 appearances with the Sox.
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Red Sox


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Demonstrative Dustin May delivers and Red Sox destroy Astros bullpen to snap three-game losing streak

Leading 2-0 after five innings, the Red Sox blew the game open with home runs from Carlos Narvaez and Alex Bregman in the sixth, piling up 12 runs in the final four innings.
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Here are five story lines when the Patriots and Vikings line up for joint practices this week in Minneapolis

The teams will practice Wednesday and Thursday, before playing a preseason game on Saturday afternoon.
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Lawsuit of Natick couple harassed by eBay can go to trial, judge rules

David and Ina Steiner sued after eBay employees were arrested for sending them threatening messages, live spiders, and a funeral wreath, and surveilling them while they drove around Natick.
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‘It certainly taught me about resilience.’ Meet the early modern scholar leading the MFA into a new era

Terjanian, who stepped into the director role at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts last month, said his lifetime of scholarship has learned a lot that might help along the way.
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US inflation held steady as mild tariff hit offset by cheaper gas, food

Consumer prices rose 2.7 percent in July from a year earlier, the Labor Department said, the same as the previous month and up from a post-pandemic low of 2.3 percent in April.
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Obituaries


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Sheila Jordan, fearless vocal improviser, is dead at 96

Ms. Jordan was recognized as one of the great singers in jazz although she did not emphatically pursue her career until later in life.
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Gary Karr, virtuoso who elevated the double-bass, dies at 83

The virtuoso transformed the underappreciated double-bass into a star classical performer and mentored generations of musicians, including at the New England Conservatory.
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Joe Vigil, running coach who shaped champions, dies at 95

A leading expert on distance running and altitude training, he built Adams State, a little-known university in Colorado, into a dynastic cross-country and track and field power, producing 19 men's and women's national team titles and 425 All-Americans.
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Arts


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Cause of death revealed in accident that killed Jacob’s Pillow production manager Kat Sirico

Sirico died Aug. 1 while moving equipment on the dance festival's campus in Becket.
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Arts


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After a teen performer’s fall in Wrentham, Circus Smirkus cancels series of shows

The traveling youth circus, headquartered in Vermont, will resume performing next week for its final two shows of the season. The performer is expected to recover from their injuries.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra choral director departing

James Burton, who has led the Tanglewood Festival Chorus since 2017, will leave the orchestra after the Tanglewood season concludes.
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