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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Today's Headlines

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Business

‘Practically impossible’: As the White House pushes women to have more babies, the women who want them can’t afford it

The Globe spoke with more than 20 women who harbor an interest in starting or expanding their families, but feel they’ve been priced out of parenthood by the region’s sky-high cost of living. Continue reading →

Metro

‘We’ve got to do this’: How a week in the jungle with a chess prodigy helped Joe Mazzulla become the coach the Celtics needed

Josh Waitzkin, whose childhood was immortalized in "Searching for Bobby Fischer," took Mazzulla on a life-changing trip in Costa Rica in the summer of 2023. Continue reading →

Politics

In ‘millionaires tax’ bill, House speaker carved out $25m for a parking garage in his hometown. Critics call it a ‘power play.’

Massachusetts House leaders tucked $25 million for a parking garage in downtown Quincy into a spending bill backed by revenue from the so-called millionaire tax. Continue reading →

Immigration

Detained Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk sounds alarm on conditions in Louisiana detention facility

Rümeysa Öztürk says she has endured crowded and contaminated dorms, 45-minute asthma attacks, and uncontrollable coughing. Continue reading →

World

Israel plans to seize Gaza under new plan, officials say

The new plan would push hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to southern Gaza and likely exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Trump sons’ deals on three continents directly benefit the president

A contest of sorts has played out across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East in recent days as President Trump’s two older sons have pursued a blitz of family moneymaking ventures capitalizing on their father’s name and power, each seemingly trying to outdo the other. Continue reading →

Politics

Trump administration asks court to dismiss abortion pill case

The court filing by the Justice Department is striking, given that President Trump and a number of officials in his administration have forcefully opposed abortion rights. Continue reading →

Nation

These 6 Republican ‘red lines’ could complicate Trump’s policy plans

As Republican lawmakers hammer out a “big, beautiful bill” to enact President Trump’s policy plans, they’re running into a problem: their colleagues’ growing list of red lines. Continue reading →

The World

World

Survivors urge cardinals to discuss sex abuse crisis in choosing next pope

Cardinals are not the only ones who have arrived in Rome for the conclave to pick Pope Francis’ successor. Continue reading →

World

Rwanda in early talks with US to take expelled migrants

Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the United States, the central African nation’s foreign minister said. Continue reading →

World

Bombed by Russia, Odesa now wages a cultural battle

The city is already enduring the ordeal of Russia’s invasion, with drones and missiles hitting it every other night. Now a cultural battle is dividing Odesa, with the Babel statue a flash point. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Columns

To hoard or not to hoard?

Should you be panic-buying toilet paper? Continue reading →

Editorials

House speaker reels in last-minute pork from Fair Share funds

Earmarks shouldn’t be par for the course as economic clouds gather. Continue reading →

Columns

Will the next pope do more than Pope Francis to fight clergy sexual abuse?

Activists are fighting a church that wants to put the scandal behind it and a public that may be tiring of it. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

‘We’ve got to do this’: How a week in the jungle with a chess prodigy helped Joe Mazzulla become the coach the Celtics needed