OpenAI fired executive Ryan Beiermeister in January, citing sexual discrimination, after she opposed the planned AI erotica feature in ChatGPT, sources tell @wsj.com. “OpenAI told her the termination was related to her sexual discrimination against a male colleague.”

“Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio showed us what it is to love who you are and where you come from so deeply and freely that the love welcomes everyone in.”

“Remember this team fondly. Just try not to think about the last game. It was bad.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle.

In Providence, four boys, ages 11 and 12, are charged with murder after police say they attacked Rony Alonso, 51, last month. He died three days later. Now, there’s one question everyone is asking: How could this have happened? W/ @stephmachado.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/m...

🎙️🥇As Olympic athletes prepare to compete, politics will also be at play. On the #RIReport podcast, @salvereginauni.bsky.social's Erin Redihan talks about Russia’s ban, the history of doping, the presence of ICE, and Lindsey Vonn www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/m...

For a lot of Greater Boston residents, the rent is too damn high. So some moved to Taunton, this city of 60,000 with a new stop on the commuter rail. My latest at @bostonglobe.com is looking at how high rental prices in Greater Boston are reverberating across other places in Massachusetts.

“If Warsh is confirmed, she warned, he could destroy the central bank’s independence on monetary policy, a core tenet designed to keep Fed officials from making interest rate decisions based on politics instead of economics.”

The Pawtucket police went into another city, tackled a man in his home, and seized his dog. Turned out, they had the wrong man. Now, they refuse to talk about what happened & why they violated basic police protocol. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/29/m...

“It just doesn’t feel like we’re living in the United States of America,” said Alexis Worn, who witnessed an ICE arrest outside her kitchen window Tuesday morning.

Breaking: The Providence City Council is set to unveil a rent control proposal with a 4% limit on rent increases and significant exemptions, including for smaller landlords and new construction. Here are all the details: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/20/m...

‘Two guys from Rhode Island’ on how to correctly pronounce the 39 cities and towns in the Ocean State. Those ‘three guys from Boston’ aren’t the only ones with wicked regional accents. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/16/m...

“For a long time, the immigrant community has been living in fear, certainly over the past year,” said Alexandra Peredo Carroll, an immigration attorney with the Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice. “And who knows what’s coming next? Are we eventually going to ban the entire world?”

🎙️#RIReport podcast - From incarceration to graduation: One man’s academic journey in and out of prison. Meko Lincoln spent 17 years behind bars before earning associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees from the Roger Williams University Extension School www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/15/m...

By @chrisgavin.bsky.social -- Providence to seek outside review of the city’s response to the shooting at Brown University www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/14/m...

BREAKING: A newly released video shows the Brown University gunman fleeing campus. The video was captured on a university shuttle van. @bostonglobe.com @globeri.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/14/m...

NEW: I spoke with some kosher and halal businesses on how the cost of living crisis is impacting them. Here is what they told me.

In his State of the State address, Gov. Dan McKee details tax cuts in his "affordability for all" agenda, but does not mention in prepared remarks the new surtax on millionaires he plans to introduce in his budget on Thursday www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/13/m...

Judge reverses police panel’s decision to reinstate R.I. sergeant who assaulted handcuffed man www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/14/m...

NEW: Most Rhode Island colleges do not arm their campus officers. Should they? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/14/m...

“The move represents an unprecedented escalation in President Donald Trump’s battle with the Fed, an independent agency he has repeatedly attacked for not cutting its key interest rate as quickly as Trump prefers.”

"Last year, the economy gained just 584,000 jobs, sharply lower than that more than 2 million added in 2024. It’s the smallest annual gain since the COVID-19 pandemic decimated the job market in 2020."

RI Attorney General finds Pawtucket police officer was “legally justified” in shooting of mentally disabled man holding a toy gun. However, @riaclu.bsky.social questions police failure to follow policies on bodyworn cameras. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/07/m...

My latest: AI-generated images of the Brown University shooter across social media complicated the investigation. Law enforcement officials and AI experts say this flood of digital “slop” is no longer a fringe problem. @bostonglobe.com @globeri.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/07/m...

The suspect in the Brown University mass shooting and the killing of an MIT professor confessed to the attacks in a series of short videos that authorities discovered on an electronic device after his death by suicide last month, officials announced. By Boston Globe’s Shelley Murphy and Lea Skene.

🎙️What to expect from the RI General Assembly in 2026. On #RIReport podcast, @globeri.bsky.social's @danmcgowan.bsky.social and @stephmachado.bsky.social talk about federal funding cuts, imperiled hospitals, and whether House Speaker Shekarchi will run for governor www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/06/m...

“Business owners interviewed by the Globe described an atmosphere of anxiety and uncertainty as they struggled to plan for on-again, off-again tariffs, wrestled with how much of the cost to pass on to customers, scrambled to find alternate suppliers, and scoured their operations for savings.”

For Muslim students, the shooting at Brown has been harrowing on multiple levels. They lived through a deadly shooting that claimed one of their own. Some are also saddened that Islamophobic misinformation spread online that claimed without evidence that Muslim students were involved.

R.I. gift store hoodies have raised $10,000 for Brown’s Student Emergency Support Fund. The “Hope, Power, Friendship, Providence” hoodies are inspired by an iconic poster by The Mad Peck, a Brown engineering graduate www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/m...

The Providence firefighters were treating two wounded students when they suddenly heard gunfire. That's how they realized there was a mass shooter at Brown University -- and that no one was safe. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/m...

By Jon Saltzman and @shurufu.bsky.social -- After shooting, some Brown University students head home early www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/14/m...

Two dead, eight injured in shooting at Brown University. A single gunman dressed in black was seen leaving the Barus & Holley Engineering building, and is still at large www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/13/m...

PROVIDENCE — Police were searching for a gunman after a shooting on the campus of Brown University that killed two people and critically wounded eight others in an engineering building as students were taking final exams Saturday afternoon, officials said.

Nancy Barnes, the editor of the Boston Globe, announced to staff Friday that she is stepping down from her role at the end of next week.

Citing attacks on free speech, immigration enforcement and domestic military action, URI human rights researchers say the US is at risk of committing "mass atrocities" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/12/m...

UPDATED with interview with @magaziner.house.gov: Kristi Noem said the Trump administration hasn’t deported any US veterans. Then a R.I. lawmaker featured one on Zoom. | Video www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/m...

R.I. Representative @magaziner.house.gov grills Homeland Security Secretary Noem about why veterans are being deported www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/m...

“Why is it we only take people from s—-hole countries, right?” Trump said onstage. “Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?”

Breaking News: Miami voters elected Eileen Higgins as mayor, choosing a Democrat to lead the city for the first time in almost 30 years.

“A bad fire” engulfed apartment units in Taunton Massachusetts early Tuesday morning. “What woke up a lot of the residents was the smoke detectors,” said Steven Lavigne, the city’s fire chief. ”Smoke detectors do save lives, and in this case, it saved a bunch of lives."

“People who hate Muslims, they now might feel they can do something because they have support from him,” said Saleh Mahamud, a local imam in Maine.

NEW: Rhode’s Island’s two embattled safety-net hospitals — Roger Williams and Fatima Hospital — will remain open through at least January with the help of funds from an escrow held by @peterneronha.bsky.social’s office. More: @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/05/m...

NEW: Global toymaker Hasbro is wasting no time ramping up its move to Boston, and has begun hiring for its new office. But what will happen to their Rhode Island office in Pawtucket? More: @bostonglobe.com @globeri.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/05/m...

In an exclusive interview, Jha declined to tell me who was involved in this new initiative, but said it would most likely be headquartered in the Greater Boston area, and that it would be independent of any university. @bostonglobe.com @globeri.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/04/m...

“All bets are off,” said Sarah Sherman-Stokes, an associate director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program at Boston University. “ICE is now pervasive.”

Afghans and other immigrants in Rhode Island are beginning to feel like “prey,” as if they’re being “hunted,” Omar Bah, founder of Refugee Dream Center in Providence, told @fitzprov.bsky.social.

RI legislator proposes statewide ‘zero tolerance’ anti-hazing policy for school athletics, after two incidents. “There are some traditions and rituals that may have been acceptable in the past that are no longer acceptable under any circumstances,” McNamara said. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/02/m...

After decades as a pediatrician, R.I. grandfather fighting for visitation rights said he was ‘unaware’ of rules against treating family members www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...

Republican Guckian enters R.I. governor’s race as a ‘compassionate conservative.’ Aaron Guckian calls himself a ‘prolific fundraiser,’ saying he would be able to compete with Democrats who have raised millions. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...

SCOOP: More than a week after RWU’s president informed all employees that they would have to take part in mandatory furloughs to tackle a deficit, the union representing many of these workers has warned of unfair labor practice charges. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...