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Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Today's Headlines

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Boston Mayoral Race

Michelle Wu is way ahead of Josh Kraft in polls. Could the margin in Tuesday’s preliminary election change that?

For many, Tuesday's preliminary election is functioning more like a high-stakes survey, and the only great mystery is what the margin will be between the top two vote-getters. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

‘RushTok’ madness hits New England: Sorority TikTok craze comes for Massachusetts girls

With $5,000 rush consultants, synchronized dance videos, and spray tans, Northeast girls are buying into TikTok’s sorority obsession. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Native heroes fought and died for the American revolution. Their sacrifices couldn’t protect them.

Today, tribes like the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans are working to preserve the memory of Native patriots. Continue reading →

RI BUSINESS

Hasbro will move its headquarters to Boston’s Seaport. It’s a big loss for Pawtucket.

Hasbro will relocate its Rhode Island operations to a 630,000 square-foot, 16-story building on Summer Street in Boston. The company has been in Pawtucket for more than a century. Continue reading →

Politics

Supreme Court lifts restrictions on LA immigration stops set after agents swept up US citizens

The conservative majority lifted a restraining order from a judge who found that “roving patrols” were conducting indiscriminate arrests in LA. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Trial begins for man charged in Trump assassination attempt in Florida

A trial began Monday for a man accused of trying to assassinate President Trump at one of his Florida golf courses last year, a rare scenario made all the more unusual because the man is defending himself in court. Continue reading →

Nation

Appeals court upholds Carroll’s $83 million judgment against Trump

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld an $83.3 million jury award against President Trump for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019, after she accused him of a decades-old rape in a Manhattan department store — an attack for which he was separately found liable for sexual abuse. Continue reading →

Nation

As world gets hotter, Americans are turning to more sugar, study finds

Global warming in the United States is amping up the country’s sweet tooth, a new study found. Continue reading →

The World

World

French government collapses, again, deepening paralysis

The government of François Bayrou, a centrist prime minister who has been in office for just nine months, collapsed Monday in the latest sign of a France reduced to chronic political instability and an incapacity to confront its growing financial crisis. Continue reading →

World

Gunmen attack bus stop in Jerusalem, killing at least 6

A bus packed with passengers pulled up at a crowded bus stop in the northern outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday morning. Suddenly, bursts of gunfire split the air, and people fled, screaming, as this routine commuter spot turned into a battle zone. Continue reading →

World

19 are killed in Nepal protests

The protests, which also broke out in other parts of Nepal, were the most extensive in a single day in the country’s recent history. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Editorials

The human cost of Trump’s attacks on wind farms

"I rely on my work," said one of the workers on Revolution Wind, a 65-turbine project the federal government recently halted. Continue reading →

OpEds

‘Save me’: Why Massachusetts must pass the Medical Civil Rights Act

My brother died during a mental health crisis, the last of many police encounters. Continue reading →

Letters

Between theory and practice, concerns grow over aid in dying

Readers debate a recent column by Jeff Jacoby, which examined how safeguards are followed where medical aid in dying has been legalized. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime

‘We will not stop’: Investigators of Bear Brook murders seek to understand full scope of killer’s crimes

Investigators now know the identity of the fourth victim. But what happened to her mom? Continue reading →

Immigration

ICE crackdown in Massachusetts leaves immigrants living in fear: ‘The community is really paranoid’

The latest immigration enforcement sweep in Massachusetts comes after federal authorities arrested nearly 1,500 immigrants in the Boston region last spring in a similar operation. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Confusion over COVID shots starts to ease in wake of Healey’s policy changes

Last week, Massachusetts became the first state to require insurers to cover vaccines recommended by the state instead of by the federal government. Continue reading →

Sports

Patriots

The Patriots couldn’t contain Brock Bowers. Can the secondary step up against explosive pass catchers?

Brock Bowers and fellow tight end Michael Mayer accounted for 141 of Geno Smith’s 362 passing yards on Sunday. The question is: Was this game an outlier, or an example of things to come? Continue reading →

Patriots

Breaking down the snap counts from the Patriots’ season-opening loss to the Raiders

Running back Rhamondre Stevenson took the majority of the reps out of the backfield, out-snapping rookie TreVeyon Henderson, 46-25. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Red Sox add yet another position to Kristian Campbell’s work with Triple A Worcester: right field

Campbell played right field Sunday — for the first time in more than two years — an interesting step given the team’s major league need at that spot. Continue reading →

Business

Startups

Federal program to fund tech startups is caught in D.C. crossfire, threatening some in Mass.

The funding stream that’s helped companies such as iRobot and Ginkgo Bioworks survive their early years is in jeopardy from partisan crossfire in Washington. Continue reading →

Bold Types

Yves Salomon-Fernández launches fund-raising campaign for Urban College of Boston

Under Salomon-Fernández’s guidance, the Urban College recently created a foundation committee, which includes developer Tom O’Brien and former mayor Marty Walsh. Continue reading →

Business

US health care hiring slowdown is warning for broader job market

Stories you may have missed from the world of business. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Rick Davies, co-founder and singer of Supertramp, dies at 81

Mr. Davies was “the voice and pianist behind Supertramp’s most iconic songs, leaving an indelible mark on rock music history,” the band said in a statement. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Ruth Paine, who opened her Texas home to Lee Harvey Oswald and shooed away conspiracies, dead at 92

Ms. Paine strongly believed Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Robert Jay Lifton, psychohistorian who wrote books on war and violence, dies at 99

Dr. Lifton’s best-known book, “Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima” (1968), won the National Book Award. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Love Letters

Her guy friends are in love with her

I was willing to accept them if they were normal friends, but they also buy her gifts, and it became very problematic in our relationship. Continue reading →

Arts

‘Only Murders in the Building’ returns to ‘the most murderous building in New York’

The series remains supremely entertaining in its fifth season. Continue reading →

Music Reviews

At Fenway Park, My Chemical Romance revive the drama of ‘The Black Parade’

My Chemical Romance let its heart burst at top volume while performing songs from “The Black Parade" at the historic ballpark. Continue reading →