BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Rafaela with a walkoff double. The Red Sox are in the playoffs.

The DOJ has begun to work on Trump’s enemies list, starting with Comey. But when it comes to actual bad actors—like Ralph de la Torre, who drove a hospital chain into bankruptcy, endangering lives, Pam Bondi can’t seem to find the time. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/26/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

Deirdre Calvert. director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, addresses the recovery rally in Boston.

Hundreds gather at the Boston Common to celebrate recovery. “If you know someone in recovery, give them a hug and a push!”

🚨 ACTION: The U.S. should welcome foreign journalists—not kick them out. DHS is trying to gut the journalist I visa program and weaken press freedom at home and abroad. ▶️ Will you join over 13,000 and submit your own comment?: newsguild.org/action-newsg...

Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority

Patients say they eat better, sleep better, feel better, and ultimately heal better in the comfort of their homes, but the federal program that allows them to do that could soon come to a standstill, a victim of the inertia on Capitol Hill.

A Leominster family who has lived in the US for more than 20 years says federal immigration agents held their 5-year-old US-citizen daughter in custody outside their home in an effort to pressure the parents to turn themselves over to agents.

What happens to America if the middle class disappears? Today's Starting Point takes a look at what could happen if the country’s wealth inequality not only continues, but increases.

The city of Boston has paid a $150,000 settlement to the two Black men who were falsely linked to the murder of Carol Stuart in 1989, a spokesperson for Mayor Michelle Wu’s office confirmed.

Border czar Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in September 2024. Trump officials have shut down the bribery investigation.

Trump administration cancels annual hunger survey The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’

Judge strikes down Trump’s $15bn lawsuit against the New York Times

States on the West Coast form an alliance against Trump’s politicization of public health, there are lessons to learn from the AIDS epidemic. trib.al/4LGqxqk

“Families who live here will not only have affordable homes, they will also have a library just steps away, a place for children to learn, for elders to connect, for workers and students to find opportunity and to do so in community together.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/b...

The largest HIV outbreak in Maine’s history — and the local factors that shaped it — can shed light on what to expect from the Trump administration’s policies on drug use and homelessness. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

The Washington Post can't claim to defend free speech while firing Karen Attiah for exercising hers. The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

Israel’s war in Gaza has displaced most of the 2.2 million Palestinians from their homes. Many of them fear it will be permanent, a reprise of the Nakba in 1948. nyti.ms/45V5mVD

Democratic senators back from Middle East trip say US complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing

If Vladimir Putin’s intention was to use an early-morning drone foray into Poland to test Nato’s air defences, the Russian president would be most pleased with the result. And, experts warn, he will probably be encouraged to go further next time. on.ft.com/3JUnOFg

Polish and NATO jets scrambled, Warsaw airport closes after Ukrainian reports of Russian drones over Poland.

A Globe photographer captured a new angle on Boston during a trip to Spectacle Island. Today's Starting Point takes a look.

“The fight for science and universities is, at its core, a fight for democracy itself,” writes Carole LaBonne. www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/h...

For many, summer camp is an annual escape. But camaraderie takes on a special meaning at Camp Jabberwocky, the oldest operating sleep-away camp for people with special needs in the country. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/26/m...

From smashing car windows to targeting people without criminal records, ICE is embracing more aggressive tactics to drive up detentions in Massachusetts and beyond. Today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point explains www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/n...

The Undiagnosed Diseases Network, a research group coordinated through Harvard Medical School, has fielded over 8,000 applications from patients looking for answers about their conditions. Nearly $7 million of its federal grant funding has now been suspended.

With member-to-member organizing, workers “get to learn from other rank-and-file workers who just won an election themselves—that’s a powerful experience,” said ‪@jschleuss.com‬. “Then it replicates itself, you win again, and then you get more member organizers.” labornotes.org/2025/08/memb...

Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist in Gaza for The Associated Press, was killed by an Israeli strike on a hospital. She was 33. During the war, Dagga regularly based herself at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. S

“Massachusetts really has become a critical refuge...” said Dallas Ducar, Fenway Health’s leader for donor engagement and external relations. “Even where legal protections exist, fear and uncertainty are pushing providers to withdraw services.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/25/m...

The number of journalists killed in Monday's strike has gone up to four, according to Palestinian health officials. More than 240 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since the war started, according to the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate reut.rs/47dAyjY

More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution & preventable deaths, according to a new @theipcinfo.bsky.social analysis released today. Read the full release: www.who.int/news/item/22...

In fact, public transit is far safer than auto travel. In NYC and everywhere else, you are far less likely to be the victim of a crime or an injury-causing crash if you take public transportation. And both crime and crash risks decline where travelers drive less www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Mayor Michelle Wu defended Boston's record in response to Attorney General Pam Bondi's repeated demand that the city change its policies on immigration: trib.al/dCcI7bM.

I just packed Narcan for my daughter’s dorm room. Public health made it possible. Narcan exists because of work that is now being defunded www.statnews.com/2025/08/11/p...

“Somebody has to wake up or people are going to start falling apart.” Patients fearing Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids are delaying or limiting their health care. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Warnings mounted for years before one of the worst medical research scandals of this century unraveled. It would prove a crucial test for Sally Kornbluth, then the dean overseeing clinical research at Duke Medical School — and now the president of MIT.

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

In a new Q. & A. with Isaac Chotiner, Alex de Waal, one of the world’s leading experts on famine, discusses the Gaza hunger crisis and why returning to the old system of delivering aid is now insufficient.

“There are not individuals that are lining up to replace the Haitian community or other immigrants that actually are filling these jobs,” said BU finance professor Mark Williams. “And we already have a labor shortage in Massachusetts.”

In a groundbreaking new study, Harvard Medical School scientists found that lithium can confer resistance to brain aging, suggesting a new approach to treating Alzheimer’s.

The Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling NIH grants, had violated a 1974 federal law www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/g...

“Imagining that you can add more complex VA patients into a private-sector system that will be reeling from, and contracting because of, funding cuts is nothing short of delusional.” prospect.org/health/2025-...

The restored grants are a fraction of the more than $3.1 billion in funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Health and Human Services that the Trump administration has canceled across New England. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/03/m...

Living in Massachusetts may have just gotten a little more affordable. As of Aug. 1, landlords can no longer require apartment tenants to pay broker fees.

“One hundred Boston residents were supposed to receive a window unit as early as June as part of a Harvard University study of making air conditioning more widely accessible, especially to those with medical conditions, as summers grow hotter and more humid.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m...

About 85% of federal detainees held in U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody at the Plymouth County detention center this year have been classified as “no ICE threat” by the agency, according to federal data analyzed by WBUR.

DraftKings, the Boston-based online gambling company, is accused of using misleading ads to entice people to make large bets in a short amount of time, a practice that public health advocates say is deceptive and fuels gambling addictions.