Today's Headlines
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Saturday, September 6, 2025
Today's Headlines
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Crime & Courts

Ex-city councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson sentenced to one month in prison on federal corruption charges

“There is no excuse,” Fernandes Anderson told the judge. “I feel disgusting, like I can’t forgive myself.” Continue reading →

Health

He needed a wheelchair. An experimental cancer treatment gave him a new life.

Robb Jutton took a chance on an experimental cancer treatment. It could’ve cost him his life. Instead, it saved him. Continue reading →

Politics

Boston residents demand action from city councilors on crime, drug use at Mass. and Cass

“Too much deference is being given to those committing crimes and not those living with the consequences,” said Ryan Rogers-Hammond, who lives on Pembroke Street in the South End. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

What’s going on with the CDC? Globe reporters answer readers’ questions.

On Thursday afternoon, the Massachusetts Division of Insurance and Department of Public Health announced they will require insurance carriers in the state to continue to cover vaccines that are recommended by the state public health agency, regardless of CDC guidance. Continue reading →

Business

US employers added just 22,000 jobs last month amid uncertainty over President Trump’s policies

The Labor Department said Friday that hiring decelerated from 79,000 in July. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

South Koreans are swept up in immigration raid at Hyundai plant in Georgia

Agents on Thursday arrested 475 people, most of whom are South Korean citizens, at a construction site for an electric vehicle battery plant. Continue reading →

Nation

Immigration agency to hire armed agents who can arrest immigrants

US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency responsible for managing lawful immigration, including issuing green cards, has been authorized to add armed law enforcement officers with arrest powers to its personnel, it said. Continue reading →

Nation

Two valuable satellites are in ‘perfect health’

Today the satellites are in “perfect health,” according to a government report issued in January. Now, however, the Trump administration wants to scrap them as a money-saving measure. Continue reading →

The World

World

Western troops in Ukraine before a peace deal would be ‘targets,’ Putin says

President Vladimir Putin of Russia warned Friday that Western forces would be “legitimate targets” if they arrived in Ukraine before a peace agreement was reached, directing a threat at European leaders a day after they said they were willing to send troops to secure a deal. Continue reading →

World

Israel strikes high-rise building and threatens to hit more in Gaza City offensive

Israel struck a high-rise building in Gaza City on Friday after an evacuation warning, as the military stepped up operations aimed at seizing control of the famine-stricken city of some 1 million Palestinians. Strikes elsewhere in Gaza City killed at least 27 people, health officials said. Continue reading →

World

Veteran Thai politician Anutin Charnvirakul wins vote in Parliament to become next prime minister

Anutin succeeds Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was dismissed by court order as prime minister last week after being found guilty of ethics violations over a politically compromising phone call with neighboring Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OpEds

My junk mail is obsessed with my decline and death

Too many of the messages in my mailbox exhort me to wrap it up. Continue reading →

OpEds

Trump needs someone who knows urban issues — but maybe not Eric Adams

Hearing from experienced leaders with track records of real results that go beyond optics could potentially lead to solutions that are popular with both the president’s base and the city residents. Continue reading →

OpEds

My stock sale ordeal shows why Congress needs a trading ban

Members of Congress should not be spending their time tracking investments, making trades, or filing financial disclosures. We should be doing the job our constituents elected us to do. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime & Courts

Two teenagers charged with murder in June slaying of UMass Amherst student in D.C., officials say

“His death is a stark reminder of how fragile life is and how violence too often visits us in the nation’s capitol,” said Jeanine F. Pirro, US Attorney for the District of Columbia. Continue reading →