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Monday, June 30, 2025
Today's Headlines

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Nation

Is being ‘big’ and ‘beautiful’ enough for Trump’s signature bill?

Within the Republican ranks, there’s little concern about the branding posing any messaging challenge. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

We asked New Englanders what they thought of Trump’s vision for US health care. Their answers were widely divided.

While the president's supporters say his plans could fix a "broken" system, New Englanders who voted against Trump in November largely reject his vision. Continue reading →

Rhode Island Business

Are the Trump administration’s cuts to federal mediators making labor strikes last longer?

There used to be 143 federal mediators across the US. After Trump’s cuts, there are just four. The change “is terrible for labor relations and, ultimately, it’s trouble for the economy,” one labor expert says. Continue reading →

Politics

Mass. lawmakers are on precipice of outlawing mandatory tenant-paid broker’s fees in $61 billion budget

Acknowledging a precarious financial moment, legislative leaders on Sunday released a spending plan that clocks in about a half-billion less than what the Senate and House passed just this spring. Continue reading →

Business

Many of the more than 58,000 laid-off federal workers are looking to move to Boston

The City of Boston has seen a boom in job applications, with positions that it once struggled to hire for now receiving a record amount of interest. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Appeals court to consider Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act

It is one of President Trump’s most contentious assertions of executive authority: a proclamation, issued in March, calling on the powers of an 18th-century law to round up and deport scores of immigrants who he claimed were members of a Venezuelan street gang. Continue reading →

Nation

Catholic bishops try to rally opposition to Trump’s immigration agenda

As the Trump administration escalates its aggressive deportation campaign, Roman Catholic bishops across the United States are raising objections to the treatment of migrants and challenging the president's policy. Continue reading →

Nation

Star witness against Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.

The Trump administration has agreed to release from prison a three-time felon who drunkenly fired shots in a Texas community and spare him from deportation in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García, according to a review of court records and official testimony. Continue reading →

The World

World

Rap duo’s anti-Israel chants prompt UK police to review Glastonbury acts

British police said they were examining videos of a band that led chants of “death to the IDF” — Israel Defense Forces — at the Glastonbury Festival. Continue reading →

World

Russian barrage of drones and missiles hits beyond usual Ukraine targets

The attack was the latest in a series of escalating Russian air assaults, with Moscow repeatedly setting new marks for the number of weapons used. Continue reading →

World

Israel’s military appears poised to expand into Gaza City amid cease-fire calls

The Israeli military issued broad evacuation orders Sunday for neighborhoods of Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, amid growing calls for a cease-fire deal from President Trump. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OpEds

Health is the foundation of American freedom

To pursue life, liberty, and happiness — not just politically but through our everyday lives — you need health. Continue reading →

Editorials

A window for peacefully ending Iran’s nuclear weapons program

President Trump has an opportunity to negotiate a meaningful, long-lasting deal. He shouldn’t squander it. Continue reading →

Letters

The MTA is compromising its mission — and its integrity

By rejecting a globally accepted definition of antisemitism, the teachers union is playing politics, not protecting educators and students. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Boston archbishop received vestment blessed by Pope Leo in a Rome ceremony

Pope Leo XIV placed a special liturgical vestment around Archbishop Richard Henning's neck, representing unity between metropolitan archbishops and the pope.