Today's Headlines
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Today's Headlines
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Rhode Island Crime

Brown University custodian says he saw shooting suspect casing building over several weeks, flagged security

Derek Lisi, who has worked at Brown for 15 years, said he had taken note of a man pacing the hallways, peering into classrooms, and ducking into a bathroom to avoid being seen. Continue reading →

Healthcare

MGB bolstered its bottom line this year. Other state hospital groups have reported multi-million losses.

The state’s largest health system reported $2.4 billion in surplus, most of it from investment income. Continue reading →

Rhode Island

Everyone was running out. They ran in.

In a modern world of mass shootings and other tragedies, firefighters have demands and duties like never before. Continue reading →

Climate

Trump administration suspends five offshore wind projects, including Vineyard Wind, escalating attack on renewables

Vineyard Wind is nearing the completion of construction off Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard and is currently capable of producing some 572 megawatts of power. Continue reading →

Nation

Ex-CIA chief asks to keep Justice Department from steering case to favored judge

Former CIA director John O. Brennan sought on Monday to prevent the Justice Department from steering a sprawling investigation into political adversaries of President Trump to a judge in Florida who issued rulings favorable to Trump during his classified documents case. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Their death sentences were commuted by Biden. They could face execution again.

President Trump issued an executive order in January encouraging state and local prosecutors to seek new charges against those inmates, which could subject them to new death sentences. Continue reading →

Nation

Epstein victims ask Congress to ensure Justice Dept. releases all files

Jess Michaels, who has said that Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, said she was so upset over how the Justice Department was releasing its investigative files on the disgraced financier that she called her lawyer to draft a letter. Continue reading →

Nation

In Congress and at home, Omar faces Trump’s anti-Somali attacks

“I have carried my passport with me since he first became president,” Omar, a Somali-born refugee who immigrated to the United States when she was 12, said in an interview on Capitol Hill this week. Continue reading →

The World

World

For fallen Syrian dictator Assad and family, an exile of luxury and impunity

Just a few weeks after a whirlwind rebel offensive seized control of his homeland last year, a Syrian expatriate in Moscow treated himself to a meal in the city’s tallest skyscraper. Continue reading →

World

Lynching of a Hindu in Bangladesh fans fears of rising intolerance

The threats to Hindus in Bangladesh have drawn widespread concern in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has repeatedly voiced alarm. Continue reading →

World

Christmas is back in Bethlehem, but peace and joy have yet to arrive

With a fragile cease-fire largely holding, Christians in the West Bank, who make up less than 2 percent of the population there, are trying to revive the holiday spirit. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Editorials

Rescheduling marijuana opens opportunity for research, tax fairness

Trump’s executive order is a reasonable next step. Continue reading →

Columns

Why putting Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center is so wrong

This name combo pits two extremely contradictory concepts of style, values, and leadership against each other in a way that really rocks the brain. Continue reading →

Letters

A painful recovery ahead for Brown and the wider community

Readers react to the Globe's many angles of coverage of the shooting at Brown University. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime & Courts

POST Commission suspends certification of former trooper Michael Proctor, fired for Karen Read case misconduct

Proctor can request a hearing before the commission before it takes further action. Continue reading →

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