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Harvard has strong legal arguments against Trump administration, analysts say

Harvard is likely to prevail in court in its battles against the Trump administration, yet both sides have reasons to agree to a compromise, legal observers say.
Trump administration restores the status of thousands of international studentsTrump’s first 100 days have brought chaos and change to New EnglandGeorge Washington University may decline to battle Trump administration

Trump says Columbus Day will now just be Columbus Day

Trump on Sunday used a social media post to declare, “I’m bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.”

Senator Chris Murphy’s ‘emergency’ message about Trump is connecting with Democratic voters

‘Uncharted waters’: As Trump administration remakes the government’s relationship to nonprofits, social services are at risk

Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing

Winners and losers from the final day of the 2025 NFL Draft
Which teams came away with some late-round gems? And which quarterback should have hit the transfer portal instead of the draft?

In CBS Sunday Morning interview, Bill Belichick talks new book — and clams up about Robert Kraft, Jordon Hudson

Hudson, who was in the room during the interview, shut down a line of questioning about how the pair met.

Patriots free-agent signing tracker: Which undrafted players are signing deals or getting tryouts?

NFL Draft day 3 recap: See the Patriots’ 11 picks, plus free-agent signings

Celtics at Magic | 7 p.m. (TNT, NBCSB)

Celtics-Magic Game 4 preview: Jrue Holiday out as Boston hopes to leave Orlando with 3-1 edge

The Celtics are 0-3 in Orlando this season, including Friday's loss in Game 3 that pulled left Boston ahead 2-1 in the first-round series.

More than 100 immigrants detained at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado
More than 300 law enforcement officers and officials from multiple agencies responded to the nightclub, which had been under investigation for several months for alleged activities.

At least 11 killed as a vehicle plows into a Filipino street festival in Vancouver. Police rule out terrorism.

A man drove into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver, killing at least 11 people and injuring others, police said.

‘This is not a good trajectory’: Juvenile detention reaches highest level since 2018, prompting warning from youth advocates

A rise in juvenile detentions threatens to undermine decades of effort to undo the increases seen during the 1990s, when fears of a youth crime wave led to strict penalties for young defendants.

Maine fisherman, 26, dead after rope snaps on fishing boat off North Shore, officials say

Jaxson Marston, of Addison, Maine, died after a rope snapped on a fishing boat off the coast of Nahant.

A bird strike forces British Airways to make an emergency landing in Boston

Flight 216 was diverted to Boston after the crew reported a possible bird strike and detected fumes inside the aircraft.

Teenager drowns after canoe capsizes in N.H.

A 15-year-old boy’s body was found by rescue divers in a New Hampshire lake.

As cardinals prepare to elect a pope, one motto is ‘unity.’ That’s divisive.
The discussions leading up to the election are likely to touch on whether a successor to Francis should push forward, or roll back, deeply contested issues.

Arrest made in Kristi Noem’s purse snatching, officials say

A new medicine spares cancer patients from difficult surgeries and therapies

FORECAST | DAVE EPSTEIN

Don’t fret over this weather. Warm, abundant sunshine returns to close out April.

Monday will bring us back into the 70s across much of the area, and even Cape Cod will feel unseasonable.
Dave Epstein: Spring is a great time to welcome birds with a little backyard haven
Obituary

Rob Stull, comic book creator and MFA artist-in-residence, dies at 58

Mr. Stull's wide-ranging work included "The Mural Project," which highlighted intergenerational connections in hip-hop culture.
Love Letters

I know he’s not husband material

But I do love him.
Opinion
RENÉE GRAHAM

Elon Musk messed around — and now he’s finding out

As public disdain for the billionaire rises, Tesla stock price and car sales are plunging.
TANZINA VEGA

From pandemic solitude to school days: A single mother’s five-year journey

EDITORIAL

At the Museum of Fine Arts, a chance for justice

JEFF JACOBY

The purpose of manufacturing is to make things, not jobs

IDEAS | SARAH RUHL

What Greek tragedy could teach us about the decline of our democracy

Spotlight

Explore the project: Snitch City

In a nation addicted to drugs, local police are addicted to informants.
Listen to the Snitch City podcast

More recent News

‘Hew out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope,’ MLK’s son says at Boston’s reimagining of 1965 Freedom Rally

Rhode Island College suspends 20 degree programs, citing low demand
Fifteen other programs and concentrations will be consolidated, according to college President Jack R. Warner.

New England Journal of Medicine swept up in US attorney inquiry into alleged bias
Targeting of prestigious publication — and perhaps others — could signal a coming clash between journals and the Trump administration.

Israeli airstrike kills 10 people, half of them children, as mediators try to restart a ceasefire

The dead in the early morning airstrike in a neighborhood in western Gaza City included three women and five children, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies.

Suspect arrested and charged in connection to fatal Chelsea shooting, police say
Carlos Utrera, 27, was charged with murder for the killing of a 20-year-old man

Climate change gets the spotlight at Rise Up Boston in the Museum of Science

Crystal Johnson, the assistant secretary for environmental justice in Massachusetts, gave a keynote address on the potential of young people to help mitigate climate change.

Recommended reads

Pope Francis is laid to rest with thousands of mourners attending. See photos from Rome.

Francis was honored Saturday in a funeral he helped design, as 250,000 mourners and world leaders gathered to pay tribute to him.

After Francis, who will speak for the dispossessed?
He changed the tone and style of the papacy, making it less about power and more about regular people.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines
The state’s unemployment system is a fiscal time bomb. Can Healey defuse it?
The state’s jobless trust fund, paid into by employers, is running out of money. A weakening local economy will only make matters worse.

His wife died of cancer. Who gets to decide whether her parents can visit with his child?
The grandparents want the toddler to know her mother’s side of the family. The father thinks the visits are detrimental to his daughter.

Culture & Lifestyle

‘The Center Will Not Hold’ brims with creative energy

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

‘You,’ ‘Conclave,’ and more TV shows and movies to stream this weekend

Where to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day in Greater Boston

Special Projects

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

The Boston Globe’s Best of the Best

Our ultimate guide to more than 200 winners for Boston's best food, drinks, and fun things to do.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

When Pope Francis blessed my iPad

TANZINA VEGA

From pandemic solitude to school days: A single mother’s five-year journey

Lisa Randall

Academic freedom vs. funding: A ‘Sophie’s Choice’ for universities

LETTERS

Kids already seek sex details. School’s survey at least stirs talk.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Falsehoods about Mayor Michelle Wu are spreading — now what?

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Don’t fret over this weather. Warm, abundant sunshine returns to close out April.

Monday will bring us back into the 70s across much of the area, and even Cape Cod will feel unseasonable.

Rob Stull, comic book creator and MFA artist-in-residence, dies at 58

Mr. Stull's wide-ranging work included "The Mural Project," which highlighted intergenerational connections in hip-hop culture.

Teenager drowns after canoe capsizes in N.H.

A 15-year-old boy’s body was found by rescue divers in a New Hampshire lake.

Alexis Herman, labor secretary raised in segregated South, dies at 77

Ms. Herman’s ascent in Washington began as head of the Labor Department women’s bureau in the Carter administration in the 1970s.

Sports

Celtics at Magic | 7 p.m. (TNT, NBCSB)

Celtics-Magic Game 4 preview: Jrue Holiday out as Boston hopes to leave Orlando with 3-1 edge

The Celtics are 0-3 in Orlando this season, including Friday's loss in Game 3 that pulled left Boston ahead 2-1 in the first-round series.
nfl

In CBS Sunday Morning interview, Bill Belichick talks new book — and clams up about Robert Kraft, Jordon Hudson

Hudson, who was in the room during the interview, shut down a line of questioning about how the pair met.

Winners and losers from the final day of the 2025 NFL Draft

Which teams came away with some late-round gems? And which quarterback should have hit the transfer portal instead of the draft?

Patriots free-agent signing tracker: Which undrafted players are signing deals or getting tryouts?

red sox at guardians | 1:40 p.m. (NESN)

Game 30, Red Sox at Guardians preview: Brayan Bello gets his second start as Boston looks to take series

SUNDAY SITDOWN

Sunday Sitdown: After four college stops, New Bedford’s Brycen Goodine offers unique insight on the transfer portal

Business

Trump suggests new income tax in bid to ease effect of tariffs

President Trump said Sunday that his sweeping tariffs would help him reduce income taxes for people making less than $200,000 a year.

A massive explosion at an Iranian port linked to missile fuel shipment kills 8, injures around 750

No one in Iran outright suggested that the explosion came from an attack. However, even Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday acknowledged that “our security services are on high alert given past instances of attempted sabotage and assassination operations designed to provoke a legitimate response.”

Iran says 4 people have been killed in massive port explosion

Big Tech carries Wall Street to the close of its winning, roller-coaster week

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Globe Magazine

These Massachusetts maps show where median home prices have risen (and fallen) the most

Summer Travel

Spy writer John le Carré left clues for traveling in Cornwall, England. We followed the trail.

LOVE LETTERS

My girlfriend’s father helps support her. Should I be concerned?

Perspective

The market for plus-size women’s clothing is booming. Why is shopping still a nightmare?

metro

‘This is not a good trajectory’: Juvenile detention reaches highest level since 2018, prompting warning from youth advocates

Aiden is friendly and has a positive attitude

Rain eventually moves out for a partly cloudy and cool Sunday

sports

Warriors battle through Jimmy Butler’s absence, with Stephen Curry enough to beat Rockets in Game 3

Diamondbacks’ Eugenio Suárez becomes 19th MLB player with a four-homer game

A must-see, buzzer-beater dunk gets Nuggets even with Clippers to cap a heated Game 4

business

Trump’s tariffs have launched global trade wars. Here’s a timeline of how we got here.

Trump keeps contradicting himself on tariffs, making a fragile world economy nervous

US consumer sentiment slides while inflation expectations jump

politics

Trump says Columbus Day will now just be Columbus Day

More than 100 immigrants detained at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado

Arrest made in Kristi Noem’s purse snatching, officials say

Nation

Shooting in South Carolina tourist town of Myrtle Beach leaves 11 wounded, police fatally shoot 1

Microplastics may confuse bees and other insects, hurting pollination

A new medicine spares cancer patients from difficult surgeries and therapies

World

At least 11 killed as a vehicle plows into a Filipino street festival in Vancouver. Police rule out terrorism.

Israeli airstrike kills 10 people, half of them children, as mediators try to restart a ceasefire

As cardinals prepare to elect a pope, one motto is ‘unity.’ That’s divisive.

opinion

Kids already seek sex details. School’s survey at least stirs talk.

Una mentira viral sobre Michelle Wu plantea un reto periodístico

Academic freedom vs. funding: A ‘Sophie’s Choice’ for universities

lifestyle

I know he’s not husband material

Trump’s blue suit at pope’s funeral draws attention

Was I single long enough?

food & dining

Soul on Shawmut: handmade and heartfelt

Sure-bet recipes to approximate 2025’s Kentucky Derby menu

Marky’s Caviar comes to Brookline; Gary’s Pizza opens in the South End

travel

Fort Lauderdale is easygoing and easy to get to. Let’s hear it for Miami’s little sister.

Call it ‘Ted Lasso’ tourism. It’s a kick to travel for European soccer.

The Real ID deadline is almost here. If you don’t have yours, here’s what you can do.

Arts

Chuck Connelly, combative neo-expressionist artist, dies at 70

A citywide showing of major contemporary art aims to unseat Boston’s bronze statue ideal

The achingly human art of Michelle Obama’s portraitist

Books

Where to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day in Greater Boston

Aimee Semple McPherson was ‘the Elvis of Pentecostalism,’ so why isn’t she better known today?

Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions

Movies

‘You,’ ‘Conclave,’ and more TV shows and movies to stream this weekend

‘On Swift Horses’ offers parallel journeys for Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones

In ‘The Accountant 2,’ Ben Affleck crunches more than numbers

Television

On TV, the doctor is in. Always.

‘Carême’ brings ‘yes, chef’ energy to 19th-century France

‘You,’ ‘Conclave,’ and more TV shows and movies to stream this weekend

music

Ed Sheeran and Noah Kahan teamed up at a karaoke bar in Nashville

Sharon Van Etten on adding the band name to the marquee

On its 100th birthday, the Boston Civic Symphony looks back and forward

Theater/Dance

‘The Center Will Not Hold’ brims with creative energy

Everyone improvises, everyone choreographs in Michelle Dorrance and Ephrat Asherie’s freestyle collab

Hats in the ring? Maybe. Hats on the stage? Definitely.

Health

Most US states OK Medicaid pilot for sickle cell gene therapies

Brockton Neighborhood Health Center lays off 65 people

New England Journal of Medicine swept up in US attorney inquiry into alleged bias

Obituaries

Rob Stull, comic book creator and MFA artist-in-residence, dies at 58

Alexis Herman, labor secretary raised in segregated South, dies at 77

Walt Jocketty, championship-building architect for Cardinals in long baseball career, dies at 74