Today's Headlines
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Sunday, December 22, 2024
Today's Headlines

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Higher Education

Too much student debt? Or too many students in college? Conservatives take aim at higher education.

Conservative thought leaders want to penalize schools financially when their graduates are late on loan payments or their earnings don’t justify the cost of tuition. Continue reading →

Media

The Golden Age for the Union Leader, New Hampshire’s only statewide newspaper, appears to be over

The Union Leader’s deeply diminished audience in the digital age has cost the organization both its regional dominance and its national clout. Continue reading →

State Secrets

Massachusetts lawmakers are paid to be full-time legislators. So why do so many have second jobs and side hustles?

About two dozen lawmakers — or roughly one in eight of all 200 — reported earning more than $100,000 in addition to their legislative pay. Continue reading →

Business

Farmers are still reeling months after Hurricane Helene ravaged crops across the South

The storm's toll includes ravaged crops, uprooted timber, wrecked farm equipment, and mangled chicken houses. Continue reading →

Nation

Trump’s claims of a mandate run into reality of narrow majorities

The drama over the budget bill highlighted the limits Donald Trump faces in bending his entire party to his will. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

Biden administration weighs putting up roadblocks to Trump’s deportation campaign

The Biden administration is considering extending Temporary Protection Status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose eligibility to remain in the United States is set to expire in the first months of the Trump administration. Continue reading →

Nation

Senate Democrats find many ethical lapses by Supreme Court justices

The investigation also found that the Judicial Conference of the United States, the body responsible for looking into lapses by federal judges, has failed to adequately address the ethical issues that have repeatedly rocked the high court. Continue reading →

Politics

Congress approves full Social Security benefits for public sector retirees

The measure would allow approximately 2.8 million public pension recipients — some of them teachers, firefighters, and police officers — to collect Social Security benefits at the same level as other beneficiaries. Continue reading →

The World

World

Deception and betrayal: inside the final days of the Assad regime

Bashar Assad left his country so secretively that some of his aides remained in the palace hours after he had left, waiting for a speech that never came, according to a palace insider. Continue reading →

World

A rocket from Yemen strikes Tel Aviv, injuring 16, as Palestinians mourn 19 dead in Gaza

The attack comes less than two days after a series of Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebel-held capital, Sanaa, and port city of Hodeida killed at least nine people. Continue reading →

World

From liberal icon to MAGA joke: the waning fortunes of Justin Trudeau

For a decade, he built a brand around being a feminist, pro-immigration, and an environmentalist, pursuing the same message of change and hope as Barack Obama. Most Canadians, saddling in a soft economy, appear to be ready to move on from him. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

Over half of Americans are lonely. In Maine, potluck dinners are helping.

Sharing food and stories helps foster the connection our times so desperately need. Continue reading →

My Uncle Jimmy outdid himself as our very own Santa some six decades ago

The soul of generosity, Uncle Jimmy was a child of immigrant parents and the Great Depression. He was prosperous only in spirit. Continue reading →

My husband had an affair. Before I can move on, I need all the details.

There is no way I can fully respect him or trust him if he doesn’t. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

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