Today's Headlines
All of the headlines from today's paper.
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Today's Headlines
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Museums

As MFA director steps down, a look at a decade of tumult

Matthew Teitelbaum has presided over the MFA as museums across the country have become arenas of cultural struggle. Continue reading →

K-12

Family of 5-year-old killed by BPS bus asks: Where is the accountability?

There have been few answers in the nearly two months since a Boston Public Schools bus struck and killed Lens Joseph on April 28. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

At 80, he’s a legend in plumbing supply circles. But what happens when he retires?

For decades, plumbers have turned this 80-year-old to solve supply mysteries and track down fittings. What will our aging plumbing systems do when he’s off the job? Continue reading →

Politics

Food for starving children worldwide is still sitting in a Rhode Island warehouse. It’s a case study in DOGE aftermath.

A nonprofit in North Kingstown is an example not only in how DOGE disrupted the federal government, but how long it is taking to undo its mistakes. Continue reading →

Higher Education

Universities in red states and heartland may be winners as Ivy League contends with Trump onslaught

The Trump administration’s assault on elite East Coast schools, which the president says must be punished for indoctrinating students with leftist ideology and allowing antisemitism to flourish, barely registers with universities in the Midwest and South. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

She was a quiet bird expert. Then she was called to investigate a murder in Maine.

A mild-mannered scientist, a brutal murder in Maine, and the birth of forensic ornithology. Continue reading →

After finding buried WWII dog tags, a Dutch man spent years trying to return them to the owner’s family

How a “bucket list” discovery with a metal detector led back to a Massachusetts family. Continue reading →

Six tips and tricks to being an awesome wedding guest

Know your limits when it comes to offering a toast and other tips for being an awesome wedding guest. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Here’s another use for ice: creating secret codes

Although the researchers aren't expecting you to ditch your smartphone, their study speaks to the remarkable properties of frozen water. Continue reading →

Nation

At 100, this globetrotting Catholic priest still bakes pies, enjoys opera and celebrates daily Mass

The Rev. James Kelly baptized and married thousands of people, ministered to the ill at hospitals, and traveled the world Continue reading →

Nation

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America. Continue reading →

The World

World

Israeli strikes kill at least 72 people in Gaza as ceasefire prospects move closer

Three children and their parents were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in Muwasi near the southern city of Khan Younis. They were struck while sleeping, relatives said. Continue reading →

World

Hundreds of thousands mourn top Iranian military commanders and scientists killed in Israeli strikes

The caskets of two generals and others were driven on trucks along Tehran’s Azadi Street as people in the crowds chanted: “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” Continue reading →

World

Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride in open defiance of Hungary’s ban

Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and heavy fines to participate in the 30th annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed in March by Orbán’s right-wing populist governing party. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Editorials

RMV’s answer to unpaid tolls amounts to debtor’s prison

Lifting the driver's licenses of debtors is today's version of 'debtor's prison' Continue reading →

Letters

History, schmistory — MAGA has its eyes on the fu