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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Today's Headlines

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Politics

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser tried two different ways of dealing with Trump. Both had the same result.

An outspoken Trump critic in his first term, Bowser tried cooperation in his second. But that didn't stop the president from taking over the city's police department and sending in National Guard troops. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Immigration roundups! Tariffs! Bombing Iran! Dismantling DEI! Barrage from Trump leaves many tuning everything out.

In version 2.0 of the Donald Trump presidency, the headlines, impactful and significant, come fast and furious. Continue reading →

Boston Elections

‘Roxbury always elects a fighter’: As 11 candidates vie for open council seat, residents say housing is top issue

District 7 is the only open seat on the September preliminary ballot, after former incumbent Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges and stepped down. Continue reading →

Transportation

MBTA to extend subway service by about an hour on Friday and Saturday nights

The agency also plans to lengthen nighttime service for select bus and ferry routes. Continue reading →

Politics

When Trump meets Putin, anything could happen

Trump plans to see Putin on Friday in Alaska for the first time since his return to the White House to discuss the US president’s goal of ending the war between Russia and Ukraine. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest

The Trump administration is evaluating plans that would establish a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” composed of hundreds of National Guard troops tasked with rapidly deploying into American cities facing protests or other unrest, according to internal Pentagon documents reviewed by The Washington Post. Continue reading →

Nation

Every VA medical center has severe staffing shortages, audit finds

The independent watchdog for the Department of Veterans Affairs said the department’s health system is facing a severe staffing shortage of clinical and nonclinical workers that has worsened since last year - at the same time the department has shed tens of thousands of workers and recruited fewer medical workers. Continue reading →

Nation

They cleaned subways during COVID-19 pandemic

“It was trauma,” Baez, 53, said in Spanish about the job, which she performed from 2020 to 2023, when her contract abruptly ended. Continue reading →

The World

World

Are samosas unhealthy? Some Indians find official advice hard to swallow.

India’s health ministry on June 21 sent out a notice to all government ministries requesting that they put up posters in public spaces, such as office cafeterias and meeting rooms, showing the oil and sugar levels in certain foods. Continue reading →

World

Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan

It’s unclear how far the talks have advanced, but if implemented, the plans would amount to transferring people from one war-ravaged land at risk of famine to another, and raise human rights concerns. Continue reading →

World

Europe’s heat waves intensify

In July, as a heat wave broiled much of Europe, feelings about air conditioning became a political litmus test. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Editorials

Why you can’t visit Georges Island this summer

The Harbor Islands are cherished summer getaways, and they’re worth further investment to avoid closures like this summer’s. Continue reading →

Columns

Speaker Mariano has a problem with voters

He thinks they’re smart enough to elect him — but not to decide anything else, especially about his pay. Continue reading →

Letters

Boston’s decades-old problem with rats

One reader has documented evidence of the city's rat infestation since 2001. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime & Courts

Officials charge 13 people in alleged scam of seniors, say they stole millions by impersonating grandchildren

A sweeping superseding indictment unsealed in Boston alleges that callers tricked victims into believing they were a grandchild “in some sort of legal or medical trouble” and needed money.