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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Today's Headlines

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Boston Mayoral Race

Mayor Michelle Wu, rival Josh Kraft will face off in November general election

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Wu had drawn 71.6 percent support to Kraft’s 23.3 percent — a staggering 48 percentage point advantage. Continue reading →

Rhode Island Business

The end of play in Pawtucket: How Hasbro’s move to Boston could impact a city trying to reinvent itself

Hasbro’s departure is a symbolic and economic blow to Pawtucket and Rhode Island, stripping the state of one of its few corporate headquarters and raising questions about its ability to retain legacy employers. Continue reading →

Gambling

More Mass. gamblers say it’s affecting their personal relationships, two years after sports betting legalization

The survey of habitual gamblers shows worrisome rise in those who say harms of gambling outweigh benefits. The amounts they say they wager has also shot up. Continue reading →

Transportation

Bostonians from neighborhoods of color nearly 4 times more likely to be struck by cars across city, data show

Residents of predominantly non-white neighborhoods are more likely to commute longer distances without a car, putting them at greater risk, researchers said. Continue reading →

Politics

Latest revelations complicate Trump’s sweeping denials about Epstein

The White House has denied for weeks that Trump sent a bawdy birthday note to Epstein in 2003, the subject of an earlier Wall Street Journal report. But on Monday, the House Oversight Committee obtained the document and released it. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Reading skills of 12th-graders hit a new low

The reading skills of American high school seniors are the worst they have been in three decades, a worrying sign as teenagers face an uncertain job market and an information landscape challenged by artificial intelligence. Continue reading →

Nation

Firefighters race to save treasured sequoia grove in California

Giant sequoias have been killed in stunning numbers in recent years, with devastating wildfires destroying roughly a fifth of all mature sequoias since 2020. Continue reading →

Nation

Wildfire fighters to mask up after decades-long ban on smoke protections

The Forest Service posted new guidance Monday acknowledging for the first time that masks can protect firefighters against harmful particles in wildfire smoke. Continue reading →

The World

World

Nuclear sites dotted across Ukraine pose threat of radiation disaster

The longer the war drags on, the greater the risk of a strike that could spread radioactive material across a wide area. Continue reading →

World

Israeli strike targets Hamas leadership in Qatar, a Gaza War mediator

Hamas said Israel had failed to kill senior officials in the group, without specifying whether they had sustained injuries. Continue reading →

World

Macron has no good options after repeat collapse of French government

After a succession of failed center-right prime ministers, there is speculation that Macron may turn to Eric Lombard, the outgoing minister of the economy, who worked in Socialist governments in the 1990s and still has close ties to the party. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Columns

The rarest political comeback: repentance

Most politicians treat scandal as something to be brazened through. An uncommon few choose a different path. Continue reading →

Editorials

Some 4,000 poor defendants need lawyers now, not some day

Massachusetts criminal courts need a permanent fix that only the Legislature can make. Continue reading →

Letters

Unhoused people at South Station need services, support, not federal crackdown

The charges unsheltered people face are disproportionately related to property charges such as loitering and trespassing; as such, jailing this population is unlikely to reduce violent crime. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

At-large, District 7 Boston City Council races will be key in shaping next two years

The citywide at-large race is narrowing a field of 10 down to eight. In November, voters will choose four to sit on the council. Continue reading →

Vermont

Children were abused at a Catholic orphanage in Vermont. A new memorial prompts reflection in their name.

A new memorial pays tribute to the children who were victimized at a Catholic orphanage in Burlington, Vt. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Judge nixes DOJ subpoena demanding details on transgender patients from Boston Children’s Hospital

US District Judge Myong J. Joun granted the hospital’s motion to “quash,” or set aside, the subpoena and dismiss the case, according to a copy of the decision. Continue reading →

Sports

Patriots

Three up, three down, and three to watch for the Patriots in Week 2 against the Dolphins

The Patriots elected to go with the rookie kicker after their training camp competition, so they’ll have to accept the growing pains that come with that decision. Continue reading →

Bruins

‘We have to get our standard back:’ Sitting down with Bruins coach Marco Sturm as his first training camp nears

Sturm thinks the Bruins have the goaltending and defensive corps to compete after missing the playoffs last season for the first time since 2016. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Connelly Early dazzles in big league debut as Red Sox blank Athletics

Connelly Early recorded 19 swings and misses. The only other Red Sox pitcher to reach that mark this year: Garrett Crochet (5 times). Continue reading →

Business

Housing

To accelerate new housing, Healey vows to speed environmental permitting

The Healey administration on Tuesday unveiled a series of reforms to the environmental regulations for housing projects, with the goal of getting shovels in the ground faster. Continue reading →

Business

Cracker Barrel suspends plans to remodel restaurants after logo blowup

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

Real Estate

In largest lease deal of year, Boston passes GO, collects 700 jobs with Hasbro

Hasbro's move to the Seaport is a big win for the beleaguered Boston office market. Continue reading →

Obituaries
Arts & Lifestyle

Television

In HBO’s ‘Seen & Heard,’ a hopeful history of Black representation in TV

The series was executive produced by Issa Rae of "Insecure." Continue reading →

Movies

A series best ‘Knives Out’ movie, and more at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival

The delightfully dark “Wake Up Dead Man” is just one of almost 300 movies unspooling at TIFF. Continue reading →

Food & Dining

Kevin Liu loved eating at restaurants, so he figured: Why not open a few?

His newest spot, Mai, brings affordable Japanese food to the Seaport. Continue reading →