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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Today's Headlines

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New Hampshire

She’s been dead for more than 130 years. Gardeners are still keeping her garden alive.

On an island dedicated to science, gardeners are working to keep the island’s history from getting lost to time. Continue reading →

Money, Power, Inequality

With migrants’ legal status revoked, Marshfield employer faces loss of 100-plus workers

A developmental disabilities provider in Massachusetts is grappling with more than 100 Haitian staffers facing the loss of their legal status. Continue reading →

New Hampshire

Long-buried claim of rapist priest at Catholic summer camp puts N.H.’s statute of limitations to the test

More than 20 years after claims of child sexual abuse rocked the Catholic Church, states are still figuring out who can be held accountable, and how. Continue reading →

K-12

Embattled schools chief Pedro Martinez to lead Massachusetts education

Though he never taught in a classroom, Martinez would go on to lead some of the nation’s largest districts in Nevada, Texas, as well as Chicago’s public schools. Continue reading →

World

Trump calls for Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ and threatens its supreme leader

President Trump declared on Tuesday that "we now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran" and called for Iran's "unconditional surrender" amid mounting evidence that the United States was considering joining Israel's bombing campaign against the country. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Poll suggests GOP budget bill faces nearly 2-to-1 opposition, with many unaware

Overall, 42 percent of Americans oppose the budget bill “changing tax, spending and Medicaid policies,” compared with 23 percent who support the bill and 34 percent who say they have no opinion. Continue reading →

Nation

NYC mayoral candidate is arrested at immigration court after linking arms with man being detained

A video of the arrest, captured by a reporter, shows a federal agent telling New York City Comptroller Brand Lander, “You’re obstructing.” Continue reading →

Nation

Minnesota shooting suspect went from youthful evangelizer to far-right zealot

Friends and neighbors of the 57-year-old say they are struggling to understand what drove him to allegedly masquerade as a police officer and shoot two state legislators and their spouses in the predawn hours of Saturday. Continue reading →

The World

World

In deadliest attack in past year, Russian drone, missile strikes on Kyiv kill at least 10

Russia pummeled Kyiv with drones and missiles overnight Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, including an American, and wounding more than 100. Continue reading →

World

G7 leaders try to salvage their summit after Trump’s early exit effectively makes it the ‘G6’

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his counterparts from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan were joined by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO chief Mark Rutte and discussed Russia’s relentless war on its neighbor at what has essentially become just the G6. Continue reading →

World

‘I’ll never try again’: for some in Gaza, seeking aid is just too risky

Saleem Abdul Kareem walked for hours just to get food aid Tuesday morning at a traffic circle in the city of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. He came upon a scene of carnage. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Columns

A decade of Trump, a decade of political violence

Even after two attempts on his life, the president has refused to tamp down his incendiary rhetoric. Continue reading →

Editorials

The US military doesn’t march well. So what?

Last weekend’s much-ballyhooed military parade in Washington didn’t exactly beat the North Koreans at their own game. That’s not a bad thing. Continue reading →

Letters

Bring on the ‘seismic shift’ — put liquor licenses under local control

My appeal to House lawmakers: We elected you to do what’s best for the general public, not an industry lobby. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

The healing memory of Lenny Zakim

“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers.