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Friday, October 3, 2025
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Lifestyle

‘Yo, you got to go’: Why more students from the Northeast are heading south for college

TikTok, tailgates, and, in some cases, cheaper tuition are a big part of the appeal. Until the SEC football hangover sets in. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

In Mass., four people were charged with assaulting ICE agents. Federal officials warn more arrests could come.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi warned that anyone who assaults an immigration officer or tries to interfere with an operation would face arrest and prosecution. Continue reading →

Rhode Island Education

Brown, MIT, Dartmouth, and other elite colleges face fresh demands from Trump administration with new compact

“Institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than those below, if the institution elects to forego federal benefits,” the compact read. Continue reading →

Politics

Trump calls shutdown an ‘unprecedented opportunity,’ and eyes deep cuts

President Trump said Thursday that he would meet with his budget chief to determine which "Democrat agencies" he could try to cut, relishing the government shutdown as an "unprecedented opportunity" to achieve his agenda and dismantle federal programs. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s bid for asylum, but he has 30 days to appeal

The judge in Baltimore on Wednesday rejected an application to reopen Abrego Garcia’s 2019 asylum case, but that is not the final word. Continue reading →

Politics

Trump ‘determined’ the US is now in a war With drug Cartels, congress is told

President Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a formal "armed conflict" with drug cartels his team has labeled terrorist organizations and that suspected smugglers for such groups are "unlawful combatants," the administration said in a confidential notice to Congress this week. Continue reading →

Nation

Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s ‘Treasure Coast’

More than 1,000 silver and gold coins thought to be minted in the Spanish colonies of Bolivia, Mexico, and Peru were uncovered this summer off Florida’s Atlantic coast, 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels LLC announced this week. Continue reading →

The World

World

Man kills 2 in car ramming and stabbing attack at English synagogue on Jewish holy day

The Metropolitan Police in London, who lead counter-terrorism policing operations, declared the rampage a terrorist attack. Continue reading →

World

A run on canned mackerel and emergency radios. The reason? Drones.

The public anxiety in Denmark over the drone incursions shows how the zone of concern over Russia is steadily growing and how a conflict that once felt far away all of a sudden can feel close. Continue reading →

World

Israeli navy intercepts most flotilla boats and arrests activists. A single boat stops nears Gaza

The Global Sumud Flotilla said that 39 of their boats were intercepted — or assumed intercepted as communication with the activists was lost — by Thursday morning in an Israeli operation that began the night before. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OpEds

Homeschooling, anti-vax, homeopathy: My left-wing childhood is back, on the right

The crunchiest elements of my left-wing upbringing are back — except this time, on the right. Continue reading →

Editorials

Programs to help low-income kids attend college hit by Trump cuts

Massachusetts colleges lose TRIO grants, seemingly at random. Continue reading →

Letters

Threat to MBTA is part of Trump administration’s tactics against Wu

A reader responds to the Trump's administration's threat to defund the MBTA, stating that Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is a formidable opponent for the administration. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

‘I know exactly what it looked like’: Boston-area Mormons respond to Michigan church attack