Today's Headlines
All of the headlines from today's paper.
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Today's Headlines
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Massachusetts

In Fall River, a hellish nightmare of a fire

Visibility was near zero as smoke rapidly filled Gabriel House, an assisted living facility with 69 residents. People were screaming for help; some stayed in their rooms and called loved ones, some invoked the Almighty. Continue reading →

Politics

‘Like a horror’: A Harvard scientist studied the mysteries of aging. Now her future is in peril.

Kseniia Petrova’s future has hung in the balance since she allegedly failed to declare frog embryos that she was bringing back from France for research. Continue reading →

Travel

Summer is here. The international tourists are not. Why the US is losing billions in visitor revenue.

Trump, tariffs, and talk of the 51st state continue to drive international tourists away. Continue reading →

World

Dry Taps, empty lakes, shuttered cities: A water crisis batters Iran

Water supplies for Tehran are predicted to run out in just a few weeks, officials said, pleading with the public to reduce water consumption. Continue reading →

World

No proof Hamas routinely stole UN aid, Israeli military officials say

An internal US government analysis came to a similar conclusion. It found no evidence of systematic Hamas theft of US-funded humanitarian supplies, the report said. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

‘I want Daddy.’ As ICE detains parents, children are left behind.

Often too young to understand where their mothers and fathers are, children of detainees suffer — and wait. Continue reading →

Canadians are livid. Most Americans have no clue.

The relationship between our two countries has fundamentally fractured. Continue reading →

Wildfires, EEE, rainy weekends. What happened to summer?

Maybe it’s environmental calamities or our over-scheduled lives, but the season feels like it’s picking up speed. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

A professor’s hunt for the rarest Chinese typewriter

A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find. Continue reading →

Nation

DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations

The tool is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to determine which can be eliminated because they are no longer required by law, according to a PowerPoint presentation Continue reading →

Nation

Trump’s MAGA allies zero in on Ghislaine Maxwell as Epstein furor persists

Some of MAGA’s most prominent voices say that Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking girls for Epstein, has inside knowledge that would help law enforcement bring untold elites to justice. Continue reading →

The World

World

Drivers vs. cyclists: a battle for the streets in Canada’s largest city

Some of the most popular bike lanes were making Toronto’s notorious traffic worse, according to the provincial government. So Ontario passed a bill to rip out 14 miles of the lanes from three major streets that serve the core of the city. Continue reading →

World

Pope Leo says migrants and refugees can bring light and aspiration from dark corners of the world

“In a world darkened by war and injustice, even when all seems lost, migrants and refugees stand as messengers of hope," the pontiff said in a letter. Continue reading →

World

Trump’s trip to Scotland echoes an earlier visit, when he applauded Brexit

The populist wave that Trump predicted would wash across Europe has ebbed and flowed, leaving a fragmented political landscape with a handful of populist leaders whose fortunes are mixed. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Editorials

Boston needs to talk about housing for the middle class

A strong body of evidence suggests the city is becoming a place for the rich, who can afford the city’s exorbitant prices, and the poor, who qualify for subsidies. What about everyone else? Continue reading →