“If people can’t get out of detention on bond, it means people are looking at weeks, maybe months, maybe years where their human rights are being violated on a regular basis,” Sarah Sherman-Stokes, a professor of immigration law at Boston University, said. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/18/m...

Law360 is requiring all stories pass through an AI "bias indicator" before publication. The new policy came weeks after an executive from its parent company, LexisNexis, accused the newsroom of liberal bias in its Trump admin coverage. My latest for @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/law3...

It’s a place where staff notice when a student got caught in the rain walking to school and offer them dry socks, where students insist as part of a “week of joy” on helping organize their teachers’ offices, and where many students and families wish they could stay longer. @bostonglobe.com

This is heartbreaking, and so well-told, by @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social

Fifty years ago, the United States made a pledge: No child, no matter how complex their disability, would be deprived an education. That pledge never came true. via @bostonglobe.com

California Governor Gavin Newsom told MSNBC he plans to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration to roll back the National Guard deployment, which he called “an unconstitutional act.” Follow live updates.

The woman fired from her job at Boston City Hall last month amid a controversy over a domestic violence arrest claims Mayor Michelle Wu unfairly cut her loose in an attempt to contain an election-year scandal.

The number of people living on the streets and in shelters has risen sharply across Massachusetts over the past several years. Nowhere has that surge been more pronounced than in the mid-sized cities that ring Greater Boston.

Each year, thousands of Massachusetts drivers face the possibility of losing their legal authority to drive because of unpaid tolls and other debts unrelated to road safety. Sometimes the only fix carries an insurmountable cost.

More than 12,000 Harvard alumni, 21 state attorneys general, and two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, filed or plan to file amicus briefs backing Harvard in its court battle with the Trump administration, court records showed.

Journalism is not a crime www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Federal immigration authorities carried out enforcement activities at businesses across Los Angeles on Friday, prompting clashes outside at least one location as authorities threw flash bangs to try to disperse a crowd that had gathered in protest.

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I was in shock, I didn’t know what was going on.’ Milford teen released from ICE detention after immigration judge’s ruling www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/m...

When you went to the Iowa Writers Workshop but ended up in journalism

NEFAC's Justin Silverman and Gregory V. Sullivan recently spoke to @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social at @bostonglobe.com about why we're left in the dark about a bus operator who struck and killed a 5-year-old boy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/04/m... #opengov

ICYMI: Boston wanted tax-exempt institutions to chip in more to help pay for city services, by reforming its 'payment in lieu of taxes,' or PILOT, program. Under Trump, it’s looking unlikely. #bospoli My latest for @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/31/b...

ICE officials said they originally intended to arrest the father of Milford High School student Marcelo Gomes da Silva when they detained the teen over the weekend.

A few GBH updates: - Layoffs heavily impacted the children’s media and education department, which suffered from the Trump admin canceling the Ready to Learn grant program - Eight staffers from “The World” radio program were laid off - Two newsroom employees were laid off

“I don’t care that they’re 18 — he’s just a kid." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/31/m...

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

Sen. Joni Ernst was repeatedly pressed on cuts to Medicaid in the House's budget bill at a town hall in her home state, pushing back on an attendee who said the cuts would lead to deaths. "People are not — well, we all are going to die, so, for heaven’s sakes," she said.

There's no shortage of issues to debate in this year’s Boston mayor’s race. But so far, the one taking center stage is money: who’s giving it, who’s spending it, whose dad has a lot of it, and how much of it is funding attack ads. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/m... with @nikigriswold.bsky.social

in 2020, dozens of boston group pledged to spend $$$ towards racial equity. but where did it go? @vincedixon.bsky.social and i tried to figure out where a billion of those dollars went. but it’s painstakingly hard to do so. for @bostonglobe.com:

The Boston Globe interviewed more than two dozen young scientists since March who say they are weighing whether to leave the United States — or abandon scientific research entirely — because of the Trump administration’s widening assault on scientific research. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/m...

Harvard has long said its $53 billion endowment is not a piggy bank to be tapped in emergencies. But as Trump's attacks intensify, will the university's budget crunch will be enough to warrant — or force — a change of course? My latest @bostonglobe.com story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/b...

Boston will turn to a former federal prosecutor to conduct an independent investigation of its public schools transportation contractor, 25 days after a 5-year-old was killed in a school bus crash in Hyde Park, Mayor Michelle Wu and Superintendent Mary Skipper said. @bostonglobe.com

dear Boston, is this your iPhone? I'm turning it into MBTA Police at South Station.

Massachusetts residents are increasingly pushing back on federal immigration officials' efforts to detain and deport immigrants under the Trump administration.

Globe journalism was never meant to be a permanent obstacle to someone’s success, with the worst decisions and moments in regular people’s lives accessible by a few keystrokes for the rest of time. Fresh Start aims to empower all people who want to start over.

"And to walk around [Canton] and ask a local about Karen Read is to stroll through Southie during Whitey’s heyday and casually inquire about what kind of guy he is." @bostonglobe.com

In an at-times heartrending service, family, loved ones, and friends bid goodbye to 5-year-old Lens Arthur Joseph inside a Hyde Park church’s packed worship space. @bostonglobe.com

The Trump administration has moved to terminate scores of research grants at Harvard University and its medical school, imperiling scores of research projects and potentially upending the futures of dozens of young scientists.

Last week, Worcester police responded during an ICE operation. Today, the city released some body camera video of it. In it, a teen runs after the vehicle agents used to take her mother away and is arrested. To see the full video, visit youtube.com/bostonglobe.

A Mass. mother has alleged staff at her son's school reported her to local police and the state's child welfare agency in retaliation after she raised concerns that her son was repeatedly placed in a timeout room. @bostonglobe.com

The Boston Public Schools bus driver who struck and killed a 5-year-old boy in Hyde Park in late April resigned Wednesday ahead of a scheduled termination hearing. The driver, Jean Charles, had an expired state-required certification on the day of the crash, they said. @bostonglobe.com

STORY: As Mayor Wu seeks a second term, some fear her commitment to progressive causes has dimmed #bospoli My latest with @emmaplatoff.bsky.social for @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/14/m...

NEW: After President Trump slashed the workforce at the US Dept. of Education and closed the Boston office that investigated civil rights violations in New England, families tell us they fear their pending complaints will never get investigated. w/ @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social

Nearly two months after she was arrested on the streets of Somerville and sent to Louisiana to await deportation, Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, returned to Massachusetts on Saturday night. @bostonglobe.com

Tufts PhD candidate Rümeysa Öztürk is out on bail pending immigration proceedings. A federal judge in Vermont ordered her immediate release on Friday. @bostonglobe.com

The driver of a Boston Public Schools bus that struck and killed a 5-year-old boy in Hyde Park last week tried to flee afterward, according to recordings of police calls reviewed by @bostonglobe.com That bus hit at least two parked cars in Mattapan while children were on board, then drove away.

Four more minutes to the next Orange Line train. Four more minutes of this:

Still letting it sink in: I’m heading to Harvard as part of the 2026 Nieman Fellows! Deep thanks to @amlwhere.bsky.social, Henry Chu + @niemanfoundation.bsky.social for the opportunity. Beyond excited to learn alongside journalists from around the world. Cannot wait to begin!

Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft released his plans for how he would address Boston Public Schools’ challenges, unveiling a platform that includes adding more exam school seats, changing the district’s leadership structure, and moving to a partially elected School Committee. @bostonglobe.com

It’s a generation permanently scarred. Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Massachusetts students remain far behind where they were when the global health catastrophe struck and school leaders undertook the drastic step of shutting in-person learning down for months. @bostonglobe.com

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

The Globe higher ed team (and me!) will be answering questions about the Harvard-Trump standoff live on Thursday at 11 a.m. And we're taking questions until then here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/m...

Cutting federal funding wouldn't just threaten smaller public media orgs, such as New England community radio stations. The impact would ripple across public media — putting national shows, shared music licensing costs, and more at risk. My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/b...

‪Foreign contributions for Harvard are in the limelight, again, as the DoE levies its second attempt (but first in this term!) to probe donations to the school from abroad. Data shows the money funds $$ aid for Arab students, Chinese trees, and much more. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/18/b...

Sometimes as a climate reporter, it feels like the job is saying "You know that fun thing? Well let me tell you ..." Anyways ...