“If you’re just an average citizen, you can’t even get in the line,” said a lawyer rep'ing a man seeking a pardon for decades-old tax crimes. “I told my guy he’d probably be better off if he broke into the Capitol or made a major donation to Trump’s inauguration.”

A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong. open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo...

“Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” he said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”

Massachusetts mandates insurance coverage for IVF. But nearly a quarter of women in the state likely have no coverage. Jess Bartlett explains why: apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/busi... Informative graphics by @kirklandan.com & @lrendon.bsky.social. Beautiful photos by Suzanne Kreiter

Parking lot drug exchanges. A $300,000 baby. In Massachusetts, fertility coverage shortfalls cost patients dearly. Massachusetts is known as the promised land for fertility coverage. So why are so many women left out? Important story from Jess Bartlett apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/busi...

A federal judge in Mass. just sided with pro-Palestinian protesters in ruling the Trump admin violated the free speech of noncitizens. The judge led the ruling with a copy of a postcard containing a threat he received, and his response: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/30/n...

"Food destined for starving people in Sudan, Bangladesh, Gaza, Syria and Myanmar rotted in warehouses. Clinics rationed HIV treatment to control and prevent transmission to newborns in Kenya. Medicine never made it to conflict-ridden Sudan, leaving sick people to die of preventable diseases."

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

Very cool interactive playoff scenario simulator by the great @daigofuji.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/s...

Somerville's incumbent mayor won just two precincts in Tuesday's prelim. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/m... via @kirklandan.com

Trump's approval rating and favorability by age. www.pbump.net/o/tracking-h...

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:

Michelle Wu won 264 of the 275 precincts in Boston's mayoral prelim Tuesday. Josh Kraft took a handful of South Boston & Neponset precincts. #bospoli Some of her strongest pockets of support were in JP & Fenway. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/11/m... via @johnhancock.bsky.social

Inequality is going in the wrong direction: while the richest millennials are wealthier than the richest boomers were at their age, the average millennial is worse off. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

Josh Kraft pours another $3.5 million into his campaign, bringing his total to $5.5 million as he trails Michelle Wu by double digits in a July poll.

The Trump administration is hinting about a federal takeover of South Station over crime concerns. The Globe looked at the data, and it tells a different story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/d...

High rip current risk along the New England shoreline today #Erin #Bostonwx www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/19/m...

See the man circled here? That's E.J. Antoni, Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, walking through a crowd of Capitol rioters. #ICYMI, we've got an archive of 500+ Parler videos taken during Jan. 6. You can spot Antoni starting at around 1:41 here: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...

Please enjoy these dog photos:

Lots of smoke out there this morning from wildfires in Canada. 📈 via @johnhancock.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/07/m...

How the information ecosystem works on X today: A random account aggregates my reporting, recounting scoops from our Media Matters story, and uses it to drive subscriptions to their Substack. Elon Musk sees it and endorses it, with apparently no idea he's reading the NYT, a publication he hates.

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

For Catholics in the Ocean State, the divine feels a bit closer to home these days after Pope Leo XIV declared a miracle happened at a Pawtucket hospital in 2007. "That something can happen here in Rhode Island is wonderful." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/21/m...

Why local news is a critical infrastructure: these cases are common and always local.

Federal funding is gone. But we're not going anywhere.

Amazing: In Massachusetts, "apartment buildings with four units or more can only be built, under current local zoning rules, on roughly 4 percent of the land." @andrewbrinker.bsky.social‬ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/b...

What'd you do over the weekend? Public Works began resurfacing the street in front of the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense

At least 17 people, mostly children, were killed by an Israeli strike while waiting for food supplements in Gaza, health officials say.

A breakthrough in a Harvard lab led to a new cancer drug. Could it save a man with six months to live?

A new ProPublica data analysis adds empirical weight to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of miscarriage — which occurs in up to 30% of pregnancies — far more dangerous.

Stop judging me, Chrome

Some immigrants have gone a week without showers. Others sleep on bare floors. Medications have gone unprovided. As detentions have soared, former detainees, lawyers, family members and lawmakers tell us conditions in facilities across the country have become intolerable.

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Temperatures fast approaching 90 (with a heat index of 95) before 9AM in #Boston. But on Mt. Washington, it's a chilly 57 degree morning.

This is nothing like Iraq or Afghanistan from a public opinion standpoint. In both cases, large majorities supported military action. This time, large majorities oppose it. Chart from the great @gelliottmorris.com. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...

After more than three months in detention by the Trump administration, a judge ordered Mahmoud Khalil released on bail. He was met on Saturday at Newark airport by his wife, their son and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along with other supporters. nyti.ms/44sUa1y

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

About 40% of those surveyed in MA/NH/RI have been personally affected by DOGE cuts or know someone who has: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/10/m...

BREAKING: The Washington Bridge on Interstate 195 West is expected to rebuilt by November 2028 and cost up to $427 million in total to reconstruct, Governor Dan McKee said Friday. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/06/m...

The student, a junior whose name hasn't been released, had been in the country since he was 5 years old, a school administrator said.

Market Basket board puts CEO Arthur T. Demoulas on paid leave in dispute over management approach

RFK Jr announces he is unilaterally removing routine COVID boosters from the CDC vaccination recommendations for pregnant women and healthy children. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...

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A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

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.

More US women died around the time of childbirth last year, reversing two years of decline, according to provisional data posted Wednesday.

Antiviolence group Roca lost millions in federal grants when the Trump admin said Roca no longer aligned with Trump's priorities. The priorities? "Combatting violent crime, protecting American children, supporting victims of trafficking and sexual assault, and working with law enforcement"