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Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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Investigations

Pete Hegseth railed against diversity and equity to generals. As a Harvard student, he had a much different take.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth once described closing minority achievement gaps as a “laudable goal.” Continue reading →

Politics

N.H. Senator Jeanne Shaheen plays a key role in the search for a deal to end the government shutdown

The retiring Senate Democrat has credibility on both sides of the aisle as she participates in back-channel discussions to resolve the stalemate. Continue reading →

Politics

‘Extremely dangerous’: Trump’s latest push to send troops to blue states is unprecedented in modern military history

Legal and military scholars say we are watching an unprecedented erosion of constitutional limits and checks designed to prevent the deployment of the US military against its own citizens. Continue reading →

Rhode Island

What could rent control look like in Providence? Portland, Maine, offers clues.

Portland has a complicated rent control system that has ratcheted up tensions between landlords and tenants. Continue reading →

World

A divided Israel marks 2 years since Oct. 7 attack as war in Gaza grinds on and hostages languish

Nearly 400 Israelis were killed and dozens abducted from the Nova music festival in the border community of Reim. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

Bondi dodges questions as she clashes with Democrats over claims she’s weaponized Justice Department

Bondi brushed aside with seeming disdain questions about her tumultuous tenure, flatly refusing to answer time and again as Democrats pressed her on politically charged investigations. Continue reading →

Nation

Supreme Court sharply questions law banning conversion therapy

The Supreme Court sounded deeply skeptical Tuesday about a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors, suggesting the justices may scuttle the statute and similar restrictions in nearly 30 states. Continue reading →

Nation

National Guard from Texas move to Illinois

The Associated Press saw military personnel in uniforms with the Texas National Guard patch at the US Army Reserve Center in Elwood, 55 miles southwest of Chicago. Continue reading →

The World

World

Pope Leo XIV to visit Turkey and Lebanon on first foreign trip

Leo will travel first to Turkey from Nov. 27-30, then to Lebanon from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2. Continue reading →

World

Three scientists at US universities earn Nobel Prize in physics for advancing quantum technology

The trio’s research focused on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling. Continue reading →

World

Deadly clashes erupt between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters

A deadly outburst of fighting in Syria's second largest city, Aleppo, signaled rising tensions between the central government and the Kurdish-led militia that controls much of the country's northeast. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Columns

Why is Trump so obsessed with Portland, Ore.?

Perhaps he feels betrayed that this majority-white city doesn’t support him. Continue reading →

Editorials

Trump troop deployments persist in the face of a judicial smackdown

How soon before Texas guardsmen are shipping up to Boston? Continue reading →

OpEds

An impossible choice: How Trump’s ‘compact’ threatens our universities

Former MIT president: This isn’t a compact. It’s an ultimatum. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime & Courts

Healey ‘disgusted’ by chaotic ‘street takeovers,’ pledges law enforcement crackdown on such events

The governor plans Wednesday to discuss further the chaos that unfolded in several Eastern Massachusetts communities over the weekend. Continue reading →