Catholic bishops nationwide recently announced “You Are Not Alone,” a program that lays out ways for Catholics across the country to provide direct aid and solidarity to immigrants in the U.S.

Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.

Maine described its HIV outbreak as a significant health concern, but the government shutdown has kept a CDC team from coming to the state's aid.

A video is going viral of a man in Fitchburg who appeared to suffer a seizure while holding a baby as immigration authorities tried to detain him.

“There aren’t words to describe … the sense of hope, that I have for the future of my children, that someone has finally been able to break that barrier.” My latest for @bostonglobe.com is about what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s election in New York means for Muslims in New England.

The sixth and most recent fatality occurred Sunday at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, where the prisoner died of an apparent suicide, the agency said in a statement. The death occurred five days another apparent suicide at the facility last Tuesday. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/m...

Hurricane Melissa has devastated the Caribbean, and it’s also taking a toll on migratory songbird species that overwinter there. The impact could be felt in New Hampshire and the Northeast, where the birds return to breed during the summer months.

In US first, New Mexico launches free child care for all reut.rs/47yNiQJ

The federal agency SAMHSA funds programs focused on suicide prevention, teen alcohol use, opioid addiction treatment, and school-based mental health, among others. Amid a continued addiction and mental health crisis, it's being stripped of power: www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/s...?

New proposal would allow sewage and rainwater to be released into the Charles in perpetuity. It's "like it’s the 1700s and we don’t understand modern sanitary management," @emnorton.bsky.social told me. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/30/s...

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August. A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.

Will Massachusetts’ new pay transparency law, which takes full effect today, succeed in reducing gender and racial wage gaps? Today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point explores: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/n...

“We Survived the Night”: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History l Democracy Now www.democracynow.org/2025/1...

In Massachusetts, 665,000 households rely on SNAP benefits, at an average of $323 a month, and more than one in three households have reported not having enough to eat, according to a recent study by the Greater Boston Food Bank. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/26/m...

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Russia tested new nuclear-powered cruise missile, top general says reut.rs/4qruziv

Despite Indian Country bearing some of the highest fatality rates of the #overdose crisis, there is a woefully insufficient number of programs that provide clean needles in Indian Country to reduce death and the spread of disease. Read More below ⬇️ nativenewsonline.net/health/needl...

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Quinn Haberl believes his disability and diminutive stature are precisely why federal agents descended upon him outside the ICE facility in Portland last weekend. oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/blind-protester-dragged-detained-by-feds-says-agents-picked-the-weakest-person-they-could-find.html

The Women’s Pro Baseball League is set to begin play in 2026. Boston is one of four cities to be awarded an inaugural franchise.

Patriotic symbols were all over this weekend’s 'No Kings' rallies. Today's Starting Point explores how adopting icons of American patriotism is often a smart tactical choice for protest movements.

A shell prematurely blew up on Saturday during a military event in California. Debris fell onto California Highway Patrol vehicles near a major freeway that had been ordered closed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who had warned that the plans to fire shells over Interstate 5 could pose hazards for motorists.

"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier" on.ft.com/4n9nlNd

Women are the fastest-growing group of veterans, and cuts to health care at the VA will hit them hardest. Sixty percent say their time in the military negatively affected their health, but many VA studies don’t include women as subjects. From Suzanne Gordon: trib.al/qevHvtw

Consternation and confusion about vaccines means pediatric practices are facing an ethical dilemma: Should they drop unvaccinated families to protect other children in their waiting rooms?

Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/federal-officers-delayed-threatened-to-shoot-and-arrest-ambulance-crew-at-portland-ice-facility-report-says.html

Reporters must promise not to publish unauthorised material to obtain press credentials.

Former Polish president and Nobel prize winner Lech Wałęsa spoke about the rise of authoritarianism and lessons from the Solidarity movement before a packed room Monday night in Boston.

Poland has almost doubled the size of its military and boosted military spending to nearly 5% as Russia has grown more assertive.

Drug Rehabs Lure In Patients for Insurance Money—Then Leave Them on the Street

NEW: ICE is attacking journalists in Chicago, and the @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social is fighting back. "Journalism is not a crime," @jschleuss.com told @axios.com. The 1st Amendment makes press freedom a cornerstone of our democracy, and we will fight to defend it. www.axios.com/2025/10/06/d...

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

How to negotiate with Putin: First, make sure he knows he can't win From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

A Gloucester teen’s death in 2018 represents the most alarming outcome of a near-daily occurrence: A child in Massachusetts’s care running away and going missing. Some return quickly. Some spend weeks or months on the run. Others are never found.

My review of Rob Dunn's new book THE CALL OF THE HONEYGUIDE, which explores relationships known as "mutualisms" between human and nonhuman species - from cats to yeasts to birds to whales. It joins a growing literature that focuses on nature's cooperative side. 🌎💙📚🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...

Before he became a top attack dog on all things DEI, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was a Harvard University master’s degree candidate who described closing racial achievement gaps as a “laudable goal,” and backed “equality, diversity, and accessibility.”

In yesterday's Boston Globe Magazine: My story on the Southern Surge and the Northern Nosedive.

Activists connected through an immigrant advocacy group called LUCE are documenting arrests throughout the state. The "ICE watchers" record the names of those detained to make sure they’re accounted for, and help family members connect to resources.

‘Positive Obsession’ Is a Fresh Look at #OctaviaEButler -- A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her books. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b....

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Italy paralysed as Gaza protests mount pressure on Meloni on.ft.com/433zjAJ

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society 22% in 2022 47% in 2025 No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Cappello isn't the only one to report such allegations. Todd started to draw complaints as early as 2012, according to interviews. Here's what a Globe Spotlight investigation found.

🧵 Nearly 250 patients have filed civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by Dr. Derrick Todd, a renowned doctor at top Boston hospitals. He also faces two criminal charges of rape. A @globespotlight.bsky.social report found he could have been stopped earlier.

‘Yankees suck!’ The rise, fall, and healing power of Boston’s most famous chant, from the great @bethteitell.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/01/l... @bostonglobe.com

ICE brutalizing journalists is nothing short of an act of political violence and an assault on the free press. We strongly condemn these cowardly actions by masked agents. www.amny.com/immigration/...

When Carol Stuart was murdered in 1989, Boston was all too willing to believe her husband’s story: A Black man did it. Within hours, the killing had the city in a panic, and Boston police were tearing through Mission Hill looking for a suspect.

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