
This Mass. native once celebrated Trump’s defeat. Now he’s helping him — and Elon Musk — upend the federal government.
Jeremy Lewin, 28, has been appointed to a top position at USAID, as the Trump administration dismantles the foreign aid organization.

‘Ravenousness was in my job description.’ What happens when a food writer goes on a weight-loss drug?
For a variety of reasons, Globe Food contributor Kara Baskin took the leap and started Zepbound. But first she worried: "What if I just wasn’t hungry anymore?" Here's how it's going.
Trump is threatening Harvard with funding cuts in the billions. But what does he want the university to do?
The administration's antisemitism task force launched a "review" of nearly $9 billion of funding tied to Harvard.
Independent audit of Canton police flags evidence-handling concerns, lapses in crime scene protocol in Karen Read case
The 200-page report pointed out several concerns in how the department handled evidence and interviewed witnesses in the 2022 killing of Boston police officer John O’Keefe outside a Canton home.
There was no Tracy Stallard at TD Garden, just a view of greatness as Alex Ovechkin kept closing in on Wayne Gretzky
Not much has gone right for Jeremy Swayman this year in the Bruins net. At least he was spared being “that” guy — the goalie of record to surrender Ovechkin’s big one.

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