Nation

Engraved bullet casings have become shooters’ manifestos

It’s a stark and alarming trend: Mass shooters engraving bullet casings with cryptic messages, leading officials to speculate about their motives and, more recently, their political affiliations. Continue reading →

Politics

Trump’s Rose Garden Club is a lavish new hangout for political allies and business elites

The Rose Garden is now the Rose Garden Club, with the iconic lawn transformed into a taxpayer-supported imitation of the patio at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private Florida resort. Continue reading →

Nation

To get people off the street, he pays for a one-way ticket home

By the time the AI transferred callers to a human, the waitlist was full of people with the same hope: that someone, somewhere, might put them on a bus or plane and let them start again. Continue reading →

World

With his pivot on Ukraine, Trump may be washing his hands of the war

Like many policy declarations by Trump, it is hard to divine his true beliefs, and impossible to assure he will not change position again. Continue reading →

World

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to 5 years in Libyan campaign-funding case

A court in Paris on Thursday found Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France, guilty of a criminal conspiracy to seek funding for his 2007 campaign from the government of onetime Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. Continue reading →

World

New look at ancient skull challenges timeline of human evolution

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged for ancient ungulates, elephants and rhinos. Continue reading →

Letters

Take in Utah governor’s healing words — they’re what we need now

What would happen if we all took Spencer Cox’s advice? What if we turned off social media and worked together to solve our common challenges? Continue reading →

Editorials

A window into the upheaval caused by immigration enforcement

The cancellation of festivals meant to celebrate immigrant communities is a sign of how the Trump administration’s actions are hurting Massachusetts. Continue reading →

Letters

Trump has thrown blocks in troops’ path to citizenship

The expedited path to citizenship for immigrant soldiers became very problematic during the first Trump administration. Continue reading →

Metro

Charlie Kirk put Massachusetts professors on a watchlist. Now, some teach in fear.

The watchlist is dedicated to finding professors who Turning Point USA claims “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda,” according to its website. Continue reading →

Vermont

Requiem for the last nice wiseguy

Carmen DiNunzio ran the Mafia in Boston as it, and his health, declined. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Federal grand juror who leaked information in Read case thought it would ‘remain private,’ lawyer says

The woman pleaded guilty to criminal contempt last month and is slated to be sentenced next week. Continue reading →

Sports

Who is Dean Metropoulos, the Patriots’ newest minority owner? Here are five things to know about him.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced he’s selling a minority interest in the family-owned business, with five percent going to Metropoulos. Continue reading →

Bruins

One-on-one with Bruins coach Marco Sturm: He’s taking a positive approach to rebuild following disastrous 2024-25

Sturm, speaking at a season-ticket holder event, said he's anxious to reestablish the bond between fans and the team. Continue reading →

Celtics

Bill Chisholm holds first press conference as new Celtics owner, and sets his sights for the team high

Chisholm takes over a team with reset expectations, and whose near future is cloudy amid superstar forward Jayson Tatum’s Achilles’ injury. Continue reading →

Housing

Lower mortgage rates are no help for Greater Boston’s frozen housing market

Home sales in the region remained relatively stagnant in August, even as mortgage rates dropped. Continue reading →

Business

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime

$1.5 billion will be paid back to consumers who were unintentionally enrolled in Prime, or were deterred from canceling their subscriptions. Continue reading →

Sports

Who is Dean Metropoulos, the Patriots’ newest minority owner? Here are five things to know about him.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced he’s selling a minority interest in the family-owned business, with five percent going to Metropoulos. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Sara Jane Moore, would-be assassin of President Ford, dies at 95

Ms. Moore was middle-aged radical and mother of four who fired two errant shots at President Gerald R. Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1975. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Akiko Tsuruga, inventive jazz organist, dies at 58

Akiko Tsuruga, a jazz virtuoso known for creating a vast array of sonic textures on the Hammond B-3 organ, both in a prolific solo career and as a longtime collaborator with the saxophone master Lou Donaldson, died on Sept. 13 in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. She was 58. Continue reading →

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Lifestyle

South Korea moves closer to legalizing tattoo artistry

South Korea’s National Assembly is expected to pass a landmark bill soon that would allow non-medical personnel to give tattoos. Continue reading →

Arts

Berkshire Museum curator says he was fired after reporting antisemitic comments

The museum's leadership strongly denied Jesse Kowalski's claims as "baseless and without merit." Continue reading →

Movies

How the Coolidge became one of four theaters in the world to screen ‘One Battle After Another’ in VistaVision

The Brookline cinema had an ongoing relationship with director Paul Thomas Anderson. Continue reading →