Today's Headlines
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Friday, March 20, 2026
Today's Headlines
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Metro

ICE tours Vermont: How activists stage elaborate performance art to highlight immigration facilities in the state

Instead of the natural wonders of the Green Mountain State, two-dozen people gathered for a bus tour in this city’s tourist hot spot to see an unwelcome transplant to Vermont — ICE, and not the frozen kind. Continue reading →

Food & Dining

Lobster rolls approach $50, but Bostonians appear happy to shell out

Chefs don't want to gouge their customers, but the cost of lobster meat is rising quickly. Continue reading →

Metro

Boston World Cup committee secures major cash infusion even as financial concerns linger

Jon Persch's departure is the latest troubling sign of financial troubles in Boston’s organizing committee. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

‘Bro, I’m going to [expletive] shoot you’: Boston policer officer charged in fatal shooting

Boston police officer Nicholas O’Malley is slated for arraignment on Thursday in Roxbury Municipal Court, prosecutors said. Continue reading →

Spotlight

Dr. Derrick Todd, disgraced rheumatologist, charged with sexually assaulting 11 additional patients

He had previously faced two counts of rape. The new charges cover conduct that allegedly occurred from 2021 to 2023. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

César Chavez’s name, once an honor, now carries a stain that officials want to scrub

Monuments, city streets, elementary schools, and other places honoring César Chavez’s name and the legacy of his labor movement stretch across states. Continue reading →

Nation

Drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live raise security concerns

US officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live, according to three people briefed on the situation. Officials have not determined where they came from, two of the people said. Continue reading →

Climate

Two dozen states, including Mass., sue EPA over repeal of ‘endangerment’ finding central to climate fight

A rule finalized by the EPA last month revoked the 2009 endangerment finding that determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. Continue reading →

The World

World

The Ukrainian soldier who came back from the dead

On his first day home after nearly four years in Russian captivity, Nazar Daletskyi took a walk to his village's small cemetery in western Ukraine. There, he gazed down at his own grave. Continue reading →

World

What the World Happiness Report reveals about social media and the world’s happiest country

Heavy social media use contributes to a stark decline in well-being among young people according to the World Happiness Report 2026 published Thursday. Continue reading →

World

White House looks for ways to soothe American jitters over surging oil prices

The White House raced to find ways to reassure Americans as oil prices seesawed again Thursday after a series of Iranian strikes on oil and gas facilities deepened a global energy crisis nearly three weeks into the US-Israeli war with Iran. Continue reading →