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We asked 14 New Englanders what they really think of the Trump-era economy. This is what they told us.

“I’m not sure who this is supposed to help.” “Necessary, but it’s going to hurt.” “I’m just getting ready.” Introducing Voter Vibes, a periodic check-in with a wide range of voters in the region.

Listen | Voter Vibes Podcast: How is the economy doing?

‘I don’t want to think beyond a couple months … for the sake of the uncertainty going on.’

Ivan Sanchez, a Johnston, R.I., resident who voted for President Trump

Starting Point

Politically, New Hampshire stands apart from the rest of New England. Here’s why.

The state’s geography and history, plus the evolution of the national GOP, have created a delicate balancing act for state-level Republicans.

Mass layoffs begin at Department of Health and Human Services. Follow live updates.

The major overhaul is expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people.

What is President Trump’s so-called April 2 ‘Liberation Day’?

Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Capitol in Washington.

Watch: New Jersey Senator Cory Booker carries all-night floor speech into the morning to protest Trump’s agenda

Booker took to the Senate floor on Monday evening saying he would remain there as long as he was “physically able.”

Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford, candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, greets supporters during a campaign stop on March 29, 2025 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

ANALYSIS

Do Democrats have something brewing politically? What Tuesday’s elections might show us.

Should Democrats do exceptionally well on Tuesday, it would signal more than just political enthusiasm — it could indicate a genuine shift in voter sentiment.

“Every morning when I wake up, I check to see whether our grants have been affected," said Dr. Bruce Fischl, professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School who runs a neuroimaging lab at Mass. General that develops tools to treat Alzheimer’s.

‘We are all terrified’: Mass General Brigham to lose millions in medical research grants under Trump cuts

Several universities and hospitals are seeing their funding disappear in areas ranging from reproductive health to pandemic preparedness.

Retailers from T.J. Maxx to Temu sell cheap goods, and plenty of them. Under Trump’s tariffs, that could change.

Harvard president issues letter of ‘resolve’ amid Trump threat to $9 billion in federal funding

Spotlight | Snitch City

Spotlight: Snitch City episode 5 | All This For Nothing

Two former New Bedford informants tell their shocking stories and the Spotlight Team searches for accountability.

See the complete Spotlight report

Marlins field coordinator Aaron Leanhardt (left) developed the "torpedo bat" while working for the Yankees.

TARA SULLIVAN

‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ This MIT-educated physicist turned baseball coach may be changing MLB with his ‘torpedo bat.’

The result, which looks something like a bowling pin, is a simple yet remarkable feat of engineering invented by Aaron Leandhardt.

Red Sox lock up lefthander Garrett Crochet with six-year, $170 million extension

‘A pain in the ass’: Northampton school leaders caught on hot mic disparaging dad who pushed for his disabled kid’s rights

In the exchange, caught by a transcription app, unnamed speakers admit to denying special education services.

State Secrets

‘Ripe for corruption’: Lobbyists in Mass. skirt campaign finance laws by donating to nonprofits run by lawmakers

“A donation like this is like a gift to the official and therefore should be disclosed,” said one expert.

Bill Parcells to enter Patriots Hall of Fame as a contributor, Robert Kraft says
Parcells coached the Patriots from 1993-96 and helped lift the franchise out of the NFL’s lowest ranks.

Jury selection for Karen Read retrial begins
Some two dozen Read supporters gathered outside the courthouse before it opened. Jury selection could take weeks.

See a timeline of the Karen Read caseLegal experts expect new approach from prosecutors in second trial

Connecticut man held captive for 20 years asks prosecutors why stepmother is free after being charged
An attorney reported the victim said, "‘Why is she out walking around when I was locked up in a room for 20 years?‘”

Forecast | Dave Epstein

April kicks off with clearing skies and the return of sunshine, but a tad cooler

This afternoon and Wednesday are the only two bright sunny days, with Wednesday a little cooler.

Boston judge holds ICE agent in contempt over detention of defendant midtrial

The judge accused an ICE agent of violating the defendant's rights to due process and a fair trial.

Point32Health lays off workers, after rising prescription drug costs lead to major losses

The state’s second-largest insurer is grappling with heightened health care spending and a market that is increasingly unable to afford the premiums required to pay for it.

Red Line signal problem, shuttle buses slow morning commute

Brighton house fire sends five residents, one firefighter to hospital

Volcano begins erupting in southwestern Iceland after a nearby town and spa are evacuated

Peyton Wilson and Jordan Warnock wed at Saint Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church on Feb 1; their celebration continued at the Langham Boston.

The Big Day

Their first date was simultaneously the ‘worst’ and ‘best’ of her life

Southerners Peyton Wilson and Jordan Warnock’s first meeting was almost a fiasco. Nearly four years later, their very Boston wedding warmed hearts in the midst of a snowstorm.

Boston rock group the Remains, ‘America’s Lost Band,’ subject of new short film

The half-hour documentary is a reworked version of a feature of the same name, which debuted at the Boston Film Festival in 2008.

Stephen DiRado, "Dinner Series: Lights Out, Chilmark, MA, July 5, 1998."

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW | MARK FEENEY

At Fitchburg Art Museum, a sense of lives being lived and shared

Looking at the career of photographer Stephen DiRado.

Opinion

A bag of the Snow Panda strain is displayed in the vault at Tree House Craft Cannabis in Colrain on April 10, 2024.

EDITORIAL

Dude, where’s my Cannabis Control Commission reforms?

There’s widespread agreement that the CCC is a mess and needs to be overhauled. How to do that is less clear.

MARCELA GARCÍA

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Alan Solomont

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JOAN VENNOCHI

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IDEAS | Christine Mehta

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Illustration of 2 people talking in a parking garage

Snitch City

In a nation addicted to drugs, local police are addicted to informants. This new Spotlight series begins in an American city that, like so many others, is enmeshed in the war on drugs.

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President Trump issued a new warning to both the Houthis and their main benefactor, Iran, describing the group as having “been decimated” by the campaign of strikes that began March 15.

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It was the first time in franchise history the Celtics finished a six-game road trip undefeated, and they can thank the resurgent Horford and Holiday.

In reversal, developer Thomas O’Brien says he won’t challenge Mayor Wu after all

The prominent developer had planned to announce his candidacy this week for mayor of Boston.

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Somerville’s PorchFest clogged the streets of the 80,000-person city. Now, the event will have more rules.
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FDR started Social Security. Ninety years later, his grandson, Boston lawyer Jim Roosevelt, wants to save it.
Amid the Trump administration’s cuts, the 79-year-old sees "a direct threat to the most popular government program that has ever existed."

Culture & Lifestyle

Boston Ballet's Misa Kuranaga and Jeffrey Cirio in George Balanchine's "Jewels"; the performance will open the Ballet's 2025-2026 season at the Citizens Bank Opera House Nov. 6-16.

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Founding artistic director Rubén Polendo adapting the audio and visual components of "Utopian Hotline" for the Museum of Science Planetarium. The production started with the question, "How will we imagine the future as communities, as people, as individuals, or families?," he said.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Freight trucks queue to enter Mexico via the border crossing in the Otay Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, Feb. 1.

Kris James Mitchener

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Patrick Tutwiler, the state secretary of education, voted against a proposal to expand the number of seats at a popular charter school in Lynn.

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Sorry, Republicans. Exceptions to abortion bans don’t make any sense.

As domestic stocks of sharks have been decimated, the Sri Lankan fleet moved into the high seas, including the Saya de Malha Bank.

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The Department of Homeland Security’s ICE detention facility in Jena, La.

Matthew Bunn

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The photos on these banners in a Beirut suburb say a lot about the governance of Lebanon. On the left is the speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri. On the right is Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli strike on Sept. 27. Lebanon hasn’t had a president for two years because Hezbollah keeps blocking candidates.

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Metro

Connecticut man held captive for 20 years asks prosecutors why stepmother is free after being charged

An attorney reported the victim said, "‘Why is she out walking around when I was locked up in a room for 20 years?‘”

RHODE MAP

401Gives is a lifeline for Rhode Island’s 650 nonprofits

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Red Line signal problem, shuttle buses slow morning commute

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If the drought doesn’t resolve soon, New England could be in for a rough summer

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Sports

Bill Parcells (left) and Robert Kraft haven't always been on the best of terms.

patriots

Bill Parcells to enter Patriots Hall of Fame as a contributor, Robert Kraft says

Parcells coached the Patriots from 1993-96 and helped lift the franchise out of the NFL’s lowest ranks.

Former North Kingstown High School basketball coach Aaron Thomas, left, with his lawyer John MacDonald, at Washington County Superior Court House in 2022.

COURTS

Trial of former R.I. high school basketball coach accused of ‘naked fat tests’ of boys begins

Aaron Thomas, 57, the once-celebrated veteran coach of North Kingstown High School, is being tried on charges of second-degree child molestation and second-degree assault that took place over decades.

TARA SULLIVAN

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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' LACROSSE

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Business

What is Trump’s so-called April 2 ‘Liberation Day’?

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Europe says that it holds a lot of trade cards on the eve of Trump’s tariff ‘Liberation Day’

President Trump has promised to roll out taxes on imports from other countries on Wednesday. He says they will free the US from reliance on foreign goods.

‘We are all terrified’: Mass General Brigham to lose millions in medical research grants under Trump cuts

Retailers from T.J. Maxx to Temu sell cheap goods, and plenty of them. Under Trump’s tariffs, that could change.

magazine

Architect/homeowner Lyle Bradley swapped the home’s exterior siding, rebuilt the porch, and bent wood for the portico’s fan detail.

Your Home | Renovations

An architect with a talent for woodworking remakes his 1840s East Boston home

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘What a relief it was that we saw the world the same way’

A view of the Jamaicaway Tower and Townhouses from across Jamaica Pond.

CONNECTIONS

Unexpected lessons in a Jamaica Plain high rise

Hall of Fame broadcaster Joe Castiglione addresses fans before a game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in late September.

PERSPECTIVE

Baseball season is back. It won’t be the same without Joe Castiglione.

metro

Karen Read enters Norfolk Superior Court as jury selection begins in her retrial.

Jury selection for Karen Read retrial begins

Brighton house fire sends five residents, one firefighter to hospital

‘Fat Ham’ is a frivolous but fearless re-conception of ‘Hamlet’

sports

UConn guards Paige Bueckers (left) and Ashlynn Shade reacts after earning a spot in the women's Final Four.

Paige Bueckers (31 points) carries UConn to record 24th women’s Final Four with win over shorthanded USC

Al Horford, Jrue Holiday provide veteran spark as Celtics beat Grizzlies to cap perfect trip

Red Sox lock up lefthander Garrett Crochet with six-year, $170 million extension

business

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Japan’s Ishiba says he will push for US auto tariffs exemption

politics

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services and President Trump.

Mass layoffs begin at Department of Health and Human Services. Follow live updates.

Watch: New Jersey Senator Cory Booker carries all-night floor speech into the morning to protest Trump’s agenda

Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching, and regulating food

Nation

Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, center, spoke after the arrival of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, on March 24.

Judge pauses Trump administration plans to end legal protections for Venezuelans

Wisconsin voters see state Supreme Court race as referendum on Trump

Their kids died at Sandy Hook. Their tip line prevents school shootings.

World

A Ukrainian military boat CB90 of Military Naval Forces patrols Black Sea coast line of Odesa region, Ukraine, on March 27.

Germany sees Ukraine truce efforts as deadlocked while China says the talks are encouraging

A woman is rescued from rubble in Myanmar but hope is fading for more earthquake survivors

Gas fire in Malaysia injures more than 100 people and damages 49 houses

opinion

Green pepper plants grow at a farm in Hadley. Massachusetts, while not a major farm state, has around 7,000 farms, many of them small operators in the western part of the state.

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Sorry, Republicans. Exceptions to abortion bans don’t make any sense.

Last Tuesday it was Rumeysa Ozturk. Who will it be next?

lifestyle

Their first date was simultaneously the ‘worst’ and ‘best’ of her life

After IVF success, a painful dilemma: What to do with the remaining embryos

10 years later, does this advice hold up?

food & dining

A staple in Portugal, pastel de nata (egg custard tarts in a puff pastry crust) baked at Flake Bakery in Brookline.

At Flake, pastel de nata is the only star of the show

These food storage containers are easier to organize

Recipe: Young, aged, and smoked Gouda all go into this delicious, indulgent mac and cheese

travel

Vienna is filled with grand buildings and boulevards.

A new-and-improved Vienna waits for you

Now boarding: a dazzling portal into the golden age of aviation

Veteran skiers — let’s call them super seniors — are all around us

Arts

At Fitchburg Art Museum, a sense of lives being lived and shared

Fitchburg looks to the arts to jump-start its economy

At the MFA, van Gogh’s brief time in the sun

Books

N.H. left the American Library Assocation. What does it mean for book bans and other battles in the Granite State?

Author readings around Boston through April 5

Befuddled by ‘adulting’? Gretchen Rubin has some words of wisdom for you!

Movies

Rod Serling, creator of "The Twilight Zone," in an undated photo.

R.I. plays a starring role in forthcoming Rod Serling documentary

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Television

(L to R) Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller and Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in "Adolescence."

‘Adolescence’ will be shown in schools across the UK to spark conversations on social media harm

This week’s TV: Michelle Williams in ‘Dying for Sex,’ Kevin Bacon in ‘The Bondsman,’ and more

Mikey Madison hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Morgan Wallen performs

music

Boston rock group the Remains, ‘America’s Lost Band,’ subject of new short film

Guster on joyfully protesting the Kennedy Center takeover from its stage

Jon Batiste on his Super Bowl performance and the need to be authentically himself

Theater/Dance

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Health

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Top vaccine official’s ouster sends biotech stocks tumbling

The US approved an Alzheimer’s drug. Seven patients subsequently died.

Obituaries

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