Nation

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending

The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term that will examine whether it violates the Constitution to restrict the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with individual candidates on advertising and other communications. Continue reading →

Nation

EPA workers warn Trump is politicizing their work

More than 270 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency signed a letter Monday denouncing what they described as the Trump administration’s efforts to politicize, dismantle, and sideline the main federal agency tasked with protecting the environment and public health. Continue reading →

Nation

Combs jury ends first day of deliberations without a verdict

A jury in the federal trial of music mogul Sean Combs began deliberating around 11:30 a.m. Monday, and soon sent two notes to the judge. Continue reading →

World

Russia says Moscow now occupies all of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, illegally annexed in 2022

A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region said Monday that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it — one of four regions Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in September 2022, despite not fully controlling a single one. Continue reading →

World

74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food

Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza on Monday with airstrikes that left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire that left 23 dead as Palestinians tried to get desperately needed food aid, witnesses and health officials said. Continue reading →

World

Dangerous heat grips much of Europe, with more to come

A heat wave sweeping much of Europe showed few signs of relenting Monday, when temperatures soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or 37.8 Celsius, in many places in the south. Continue reading →

Editorials

Decade of Holyoke receivership ends with mixed results

Test scores are still low, but graduation rates are up. Continue reading →

OpEds

The gym at middle age — the place where hot body dreams go to die

Pursuing a hot body became as much a part of my past as estrogen. I began to love my no-frills gym and all its members in their spectacular ordinariness. Continue reading →

Letters

A wife and mother in a police family decries ICE agents’ masks

It is an insult to all law enforcement that many Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wear masks. Continue reading →

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