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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Today's Headlines

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Massachusetts

After the blizzard, the big, brutal dig

The ravages of the historic storm are lingering in the daunting form of widespread power outages, impassable roads, and a massive cleanup with no immediate end in sight. Continue reading →

Travel

I was in the middle of Puerto Vallarta’s fiery Sunday. It was an unprecedented day of fear.

The day started just like any other day in this idyllic tourist hotspot. But by 9 a.m., plumes of acrid smoke filled the sky. Continue reading →

Politics

House Democrats move to slash Mass Save budget in sweeping energy package designed to lower utility bills

House leaders are expected to vote Thursday on a bill that would spur more renewable energy in the state while slashing funding for the state’s energy efficiency program, Mass Save, by $1 billion. Continue reading →

Politics

Plans for proposed ICE facility in Merrimack, N.H., won’t move forward, governor says

“We can breathe easy again,” said the chair of the Merrimack Town Council, which had opposed the warehouse. Continue reading →

Politics

Trump uses longest-ever State of the Union to try to convince voters that US is ‘winning so much’

President Trump said he’d sparked a jobs and manufacturing boom at home while imposing a new world order abroad. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Savannah Guthrie offers $1 million for tip leading to mother’s return

Savannah Guthrie, a “Today” show host, made the new offer in a four-minute video posted on Instagram in which she acknowledged that her 84-year-old mother may already be dead, but said the family was holding out hope for a miracle. Continue reading →

Nation

15 states sue HHS over revisions to vaccine schedule

The lawsuit asks the courts to nullify the administration’s decision to reduce the number of diseases children are routinely immunized against to 11 from 17. Continue reading →

Nation

House rejects bill requiring aircraft locator systems to prevent midair collisions like last year’s

The families of the victims who died when an American Airlines jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter strongly supported the measure. Continue reading →

The World

World

Iranians brace for war beneath veneer of normalcy

Some Iranians are packing emergency bags and making plans to escape to rural areas. Others have resigned themselves to watch and wait, believing they have little means left to prepare. Continue reading →

World

Zelensky says Putin has ‘not broken’ Ukrainians as he marks 4 years since Russia’s all-out invasion

In a show of support, more than a dozen senior European officials headed to the Ukrainian capital to mark the grim anniversary of the conflict. Continue reading →

World

A bumper berry harvest has New Zealand’s weird flightless parrot in a rare mood for romance

New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing. Continue reading →