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Friday, October 31, 2025


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Is a $100,000 salary enough to raise a family in Massachusetts? For some local parents, it isn’t.

The rising costs of everything from diapers to day care are hitting local families hard. Tariffs and inflation are partly to blame.
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Climate


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Dirty water, indeed: New proposal would allow continued sewage in the Charles

For decades, Boston residents have been promised a transformed Charles River. State officials are proposing an about-face on that longstanding promise.
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Money, Power, Inequality


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Working for Social Security is hard. Working without pay during the government shutdown is even harder.

Morale was already low at the Social Security office in Hanover. Now, it's in the toilet.
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Crime & Courts


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Boston judge challenges Trump administration’s assertion it cannot use emergency funds to continue SNAP benefits

US District Court Judge Indira Talwani said she hopes to file a decision today on whether to force the administration to use billions of dollars to fund food stamps after Nov. 1.
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Trump and Xi ease off the trade war, but new nuclear threat brings a chill

The agreement was a win for the world economy, but was brokered under the shadow of a new and sudden amplification of nuclear threats between global powers.
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Nation


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Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as US mission widens

The Defense Department’s newly established “quick reaction force” within the National Guard must be ready for deployment by Jan. 1, according to internal documents.
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As ICE raids upend LA, Mexican immigrants vent, and a diplomat listens

Every Monday morning, Mexico’s top diplomat in Los Angeles, Carlos González Gutiérrez, holds public forums that have become a kind of help desk for Mexican nationals whose lives have been upended by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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Nation


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Five more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge

Authorities said three of the four alleged members of the “commando” team, as French media have dubbed the robbers, are now in custody.
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Israel’s ultra-Orthodox stage ‘march of the million’ against military draft

Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis converged on Jerusalem on Thursday for a mass demonstration against efforts to enlist some of them in the military, a protest that is likely to deepen divisions in a country reeling from two years of war.
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Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destruction

The rumble of large machinery, whine of chain saws, and chopping of machetes echoed through communities across the northern Caribbean on Thursday as they dug out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa.
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King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of titles and evicts him from royal residence

The move follows revelations about Andrew’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Housing shortage can deter renters from asserting their rights

It’s well and good to advise renters on how to submit complaints about sanitary code violations. But many tenants wouldn’t dare.
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Blue Cross examining what doctors are charging, and they’ll feel a pinch

"The issue isn’t that 'outliers' charge too much," writes a retired physician. "The problem is that many physicians, at least in primary care, charge too little."
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Can a Japanese-style 7-Eleven make it in the United States?

In the stores I visited in Japan, you could buy umbrellas and underwear, stationery or sake. You could pay an electric bill, top up a metro card, make photocopies, buy tickets to events, use the spotless bathrooms.
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Crime & Courts


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Ruling in Sandra Birchmore police misconduct case kept secret for now

The decision in the case of Robert C. Devine followed secret disciplinary hearings held in June and July by the Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission.
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A state office sting and bricks of cocaine labeled ‘GOLD’: Arrest of Healey aide ‘like something out of a movie’

Governor Maura Healey, who appointed LaMar Cook to his role in 2023, said that Cook “underwent a complete background check."
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Middlebury College senior remembered as gifted student, athlete, and friend: ‘Everybody knew her’

Lia Smith, 21, was set to graduate next spring with a double major in computer science and statistics and was a decorated diver.
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When a high school football player asked for his advice, Patriots rookie Julian Ashby’s snap decision was, ‘Yes!’

This spring, Ashby was at Patriot Place picking up some dinner. That’s when Connor Vigneau, the long snapper for the Walpole High football team, spotted him.
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Bruins


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After blowing two-goal lead in the third period, Bruins need overtime to beat Sabres

Marat Khusnutdinov scored the winner 2:07 into the extra session, but the Bruins lost Elias Lindholm to injury.
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Red Sox


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One of the most competitive and dramatic baseball postseasons in recent memory goes on and on, and we love it

So far this month, there have been six winner-take-all games: three best-of-three Wild Card Series, two best-of-five Division Series, and the seven-game Blue Jays-Mariners American League Championship Series.
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Business


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Is a $100,000 salary enough to raise a family in Massachusetts? For some local parents, it isn’t.

The rising costs of everything from diapers to day care are hitting local families hard. Tariffs and inflation are partly to blame.
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The Fine Print


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How to save money in one of the most expensive regions in the country

Refinancing, batch cooking, taking the T. Here are some tips for reducing — or at least flattening — household expenses.
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The Fine Print


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Mass. regulator trims Eversource’s proposed rate increase for home-heating gas

The Department of Public Utilities action will save money for about 300,000 customers statewide, but how much is unclear.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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Maria Riva, the daughter who demystified Marlene Dietrich’s legend, dies at 100

Maria Riva, an actress and author who spent much of her life as a self-described "handmaiden" to her mother - the German-born Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich - and who wrote a harrowing biography that sought to demystify the complicated woman behind the glamorous legend, died Oct. 29 at her son's home in Gila, New Mexico. She was 100.
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Obituaries


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Arthur Waskow, 92, influential rabbi and activist for social justice, dies

Rabbi Arthur Waskow, an influential leader of the Jewish Renewal movement that sought to make worship more spirited, participatory and egalitarian and who called on followers to work actively for social justice, peace and environmental preservation, died Monday at his home in Philadelphia. He was 92.
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Pop Culture


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Chris Evans and Alba Baptista welcome first baby, according to reports

According to multiple reports, the couple welcomed their first child on Friday in Evans's home state of Massachusetts.
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Lifestyle


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Why are young people spending so much money?

A new poll found that a vast majority of Gen Z is willing to splurge on nonessentials like streaming services and dining out despite economic uncertainty.
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The 10 things that terrify me about Halloween 2025

From bad weather to expensive costumes to one other seriously scary thing just around the corner, here's what's got me worried this week.
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