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Friday, February 6, 2026


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Today's Headlines

Trump presidency: We're gathering all the latest news, updates, and analysis.
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Massachusetts


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Pats fans swarm San Francisco, with New England edge coming through

3,000 miles away from the place most call home, they are who they are. "I will never not be a Masshole," said one fan.
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Phil Eng has two ‘24/7’ jobs right now, and not everyone thinks that’s a great idea

Governor Maura Healey has so far given no indication she is trying to replace Phil Eng in either role.
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Hall of Fame snubs, Tom Brady’s indifference: The Patriots are feeling plenty disrespected before the Super Bowl

By now we know the drill: Your Pats can’t be in a Super Bowl without equal helpings of “they hate us cuz they ain’t us” and “nobody thought we could do it.”
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MFA layoffs criticized for dealing a blow to diversity

Last week's layoffs have sparked accusations of racism and a petition to reinstate curators of Islamic and Native American art.
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‘To defend our residents from federal overreach,’ Boston, five other Mass. cities step up objections to ICE enforcement tactics

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's order also directs local police to investigate any federal agents who break city or state law.
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Trump strips job protections from thousands of federal workers

The policy change makes it easier for the president to discipline or remove up to 50,000 employees, another push in the administration’s campaign to reshape the federal work force.
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Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democrats’ ICE demands

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Democrats' demands for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic.”
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Nation


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Pandemic disruptions to health care worsened cancer survival, study suggests

Researchers found that people diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and 2021 had worse short-term survival than those diagnosed between 2015 and 2019. That was true across a range of cancers, and whether they were diagnosed at a late or early stage.
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Nuclear arms control era comes to end amid global rush for new weapons

The deadline has been looming over Washington and Moscow for years. And now, the weapons' capabilities -- and the nations willing to wield them -- have been proliferating.
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Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate

People in a town east of Havana are plunged into darkness daily and forced to cook with coal and firewood, but not everyone can afford this new reality.
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Starmer faces storm of criticism over ex-ambassador’s ties to Epstein

Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain has tried to dampen some calls to step down after new revelations about the friendship between his former ambassador to Washington and Jeffrey Epstein.
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OpEds


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At the Washington Post, a mortal wound

The Post’s excellence once inspired great work across the profession. Eliminating a third of its staff is a blow to journalism.
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Editorials


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Malden’s backdoor effort to stifle cannabis shops fails in court

Judge overturns Malden’s marijuana zoning bylaw.
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Letters


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Freedom of the press is not a license to disrupt worshipers

The disruption on Jan. 18 at Cities Church shut down a religious service, terrified children, and caused congregants to flee.
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Politics


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‘The perfidious lust for unbridled power’: Federal judges sound the alarm on Trump

Let’s hear it for the judges holding off the Trump administration’s relentless assaults on democracy.
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BPS chief proposes budget with job cuts, will seek exemptions from graduation requirement

Boston Public Schools chief Mary Skipper proposed cutting 300 to 400 teachers and other staff as part of a $1.7 billion plan for fiscal 2027.
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‘We’re coming for you!’ Senior Patriots fans in Framingham warn counterparts in Seattle.

A Framingham senior living facility held a dueling rally with a sister facility in Seattle Thursday ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl.
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NFL looks to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show to expand its global reach

The Spanish-language rapper from Puerto Rico who won a Grammy for best album was one of the world’s most streamed artists in 2025.
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Amid possible anti-American sentiment as Olympics open, athletes instead want to promote unifying value of sport

Given the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigration in Minnesota, the red, white, and blue is not widely saluted on these streets — other than by the Americans who made the trip here.
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Mike Vrabel wins second NFL Coach of the Year honor after shocking turnaround season with the Patriots

The Patriots opened the year with 80/1 odds to win the Super Bowl, yet went 14-3 and got back to the title game in Vrabel's first season.
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US and Russia agree to reestablish military dialogue after Ukraine talks

The US and Russia agreed Thursday to reestablish high-level military dialogue for the first time in more than four years.
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Phil Eng isn’t worried about holding two job titles — but even ‘Train Daddy Eng’ can’t outmatch the winter

Gov. Healey seems like she wants to let MBTA manager Phil Eng run transportation until the end of the year, but this winter could force her hand.
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Healthcare


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Mass. lawmakers seek answers after apparent effort from Trump administration to wind down Cambridge research hub

The office serves a federal agency that backs biomedical and health-related research usually avoided by private-sector financial backers.
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Obituaries


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John Forté, hip-hop redemption tale, dies at 50

The Grammy-nominated rapper, songwriter, and producer rebuilt his life on Martha's Vineyard after spending seven years in prison in a drug trafficking case.
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James Sallis, novelist whose ‘Drive’ became a hit movie, dies at 81

James Sallis, a novelist who had the detectives and sheriffs of his stories investigate not merely crime but also the nature of memory and the possibility of self-knowledge, died Tuesday. He was 81.
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Movies


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Michael Keaton reflects on a decade of ‘Spotlight’ and what ‘scares’ him about the state of journalism

Keaton returns to the Boston area on Friday to accept Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year honor, with this year’s trip coinciding with the 10th anniversary of “Spotlight” winning best picture.
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Parenting


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‘Strangers’ author Belle Burden on what happens when your mate becomes a mystery

Her marriage imploded in an instant. Now, she carefully recounts the aftermath.
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Concord Museum names new executive director

Salem native Amanda Lahikainen succeeds Lisa Krassner.
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