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House Republicans Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and program cuts after all-night session. Follow live updates.

With last-minute concessions and stark warnings from Trump, the Republican holdouts largely dropped their opposition to salvage the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that’s central to the GOP agenda.

Trump’s big tax bill has ed the House. Here’s what’s inside it.

House Republicans approved a legislative package that combines tax breaks, spending cuts, border security funding, and other priorities.

A Vermont family came to the US legally from Nicaragua. Now, they’ve chosen to self-deport amid Trump’s immigration policies.

Two teenagers who immigrated legally from Nicaragua reflect on their last days in the US before choosing to leave the country because of President Trump's immigration policies.

Trump once swore revenge on the Pritzker family. Decades later, Penny Pritzker is helping lead Harvard’s resistance against him.

For those who know Pritzker, the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, it is no surprise that the 66-year-old Chicago billionaire wants the university to fight back, even if the costs are steep.
CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Hydro-Quebec shut off the spigots for New England power in March and hasn’t turned them back on. Why?

The surprisingly long dry spell should serve as a warning to New England policy makers that the days of cheap, plentiful, low-carbon power from the north hitting the spot market are no longer guaranteed.

‘Who’s going to milk the cows?’: Vt. farmers, migrant workers fear Trump crackdown could cripple dairy farms

Sanctuary city ban to become law in N.H., as local police in federal immigration enforcement

Spotlight | Snitch City

How police in your community use confidential informants

Dozens of agencies, including the police department in Brockton, one of the state’s largest cities, currently have no policy governing the use of informants.

Globe sues 5 Mass. police departments in effort to shine light on shadowy world of confidential informants

The newspaper sought information from each of Massachusetts' 400-plus police departments about how they handle confidential informants.
Snitch City: See the complete Spotlight series
Starting Point

As the WNBA surges in popularity, can the Connecticut Sun meet the moment?

The team aims to become another must-see regional franchise. A rebuilt roster and potential sale could complicate that.
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Two staff of Israeli Embassy killed in shooting near Jewish museum in DC

They were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum when the suspect approached a group of four people and opened fire, the Metropolitan Police Chief.
Here's what we know about the shooting
Forecast | Dave Epstein

Up to 50 mile-per-hour gusts possible with rain-soaked nor’easter. Here’s the latest forecast.

Any showers Thursday morning will turn to a steady windswept rain through the evening commute.
How will the nor’easter impact Memorial Day weekend weather?

These maps show how Thursday’s rain-soaked nor’easter will unfold

Massachusetts leads the nation in lost NSF research funding

Trump-era grant terminations halted hundreds of millions in science research — with ripple effects across New England.

Pieces of plastic found on John O’Keefe consistent with pieces from Karen Read’s broken taillight, analyst testifies. Here’s how the day unfolded.

Judge Cannone sent jurors home for the week shortly after 3 p.m. Testimony resumes next Tuesday.
We’re answering your questions about the Karen Read retrial. us Thursday at 10 a.m. for a live Q&A.

‘When it comes to immigration enforcement, the scale is stacked against us’: Mass. AG says she can do little against ICE

Attorney General Andrea Campbell said that her office is limited in what it can do to push back on immigration enforcement activity in Massachusetts.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, 65, dies; helped turn team into perennial title contender
Irsay worked his way up through the organization, learning how to run a football team, restoring the Colts’ once-proud tradition to glory.

Over boos, Columbia University president notes Mahmoud Khalil’s absence at graduation

Scituate preschool teacher charged with assaulting students at school, district attorney says

Elizabeth Banks drew on her Pittsfield roots for ‘The Better Sister’

Boasting a creative team with ties to "Deadwood," the show delves into the mysterious death of a man tied to two sisters, played by Banks and Jessica Biel.

My cousin*, the pope

I share an ancestral connection with Pope Leo XIV. What does that story say about race, religion, and ancestry in America?

Boston Calling 2025: New England artists to watch this weekend

Here’s what you need to know about this year’s lineup of performers with ties to the region.
Your guide to Boston Calling 2025Day-by-day Boston Calling weather forecast
Opinion
IDEAS | Steven Levitt, Jeffrey Severts, and Michael D. Smith

Higher education needs an overhaul — but not the one Trump envisions

Four-year colleges are becoming engines of inequality. The solution is a new kind of GED exam.
EDITORIAL

Rezone Devens to build more housing

IDEAS | ROB HENDERSON

‘Adolescence’ is great TV — but not because it’s realistic

JOAN VENNOCHI

Out of Boston City Hall love spat come serious questions for Wu

LETTERS

Our own mess draws bears. We have some nerve killing them.

Spotlight

Explore the project: Snitch City

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

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Ben Volin | On football
In keeping the Tush Push for 2025, NFL owners remind Roger Goodell he’s an employee, not the boss
Goodell and NFL officials did their best to hide their disappointment that the Tush Push will remain a legal play after coming up just two votes short.

ICC prosecutor says Netanyahu arrest warrant should remain as Israel jurisdiction challenge is heard
International Criminal Court prosecutors have urged judges to reject a request by Israel to scrap arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister while the court reconsiders its jurisdiction over Gaza and the West Bank.

Uncle of George Floyd speaks at State House rally five years after nephew’s murder
Even after nationwide protests following his nephew’s killing, and federal and state legislation banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants, police misconduct continues to be too high, Selwyn Jones said.

Four-year-old boy suffered fatal gunshot wound at home in Lewiston, Maine, authorities say

Jasper Smith was pronounced dead at 7:08 a.m. on Saturday at Central Maine Medical Center, Maine State Police said in a statement.

With White Stadium still under construction, NWSL’s Boston Legacy FC will host debut home season at Gillette Stadium

The team will share Gillette Stadium with the New England Revolution, as well as work around seven FIFA World Cup matches scheduled there in June and July 2026.

Class action lawsuit brought by 150 Souza-Baranowski prisoners settles for over $6 million, policy reforms

More than 150 inmates at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley alleged they were brutalized by staff in retaliation for an attack on guards in 2020 involving a small number of inmates.

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Screech! Crash! Bang! This car collision chronicler has been snapping pictures of the (many) by his apartment.

A Somerville resident kept hearing and seeing crashes out his window. So he got to work.

14 New Englanders assess the Trump istration
Where do voters stand on Donald Trump? We asked a to check in with us periodically.

A sad gas station becomes a happy gathering space in Jamaica Plain
Making Sad Things Happy and Roundhead Brewing team up for a new weekend destination.

Are the rumors true that former Patriots coach Bill Belichick and girlfriend Jordon Hudson are engaged?
Rumors swirl around Bill Belichick's engagement to Jordon Hudson, with speculation surrounding the meaning of his boat's new name.

Culture & Lifestyle

Walking (and T-ing) Boston’s public art Triennial

Set times, forecast, and what’s new: A fan’s guide to Boston Calling 2025

W. Kamau Bell isn’t backing down on keeping politics in his act

‘Lilo and Stitch’ is a live-action alien resurrection

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

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Don’t blink. The arrest of a lawmaker is a constitutional crisis in motion.

Erin Murphy

City Council can’t remove Fernandes Anderson, but we can stand up for what’s right

DAVID SHRIBMAN

What the Whigs can teach us

JEFF JACOBY

An ugly tax in a ‘beautiful bill’

Renée Graham

Trump has lots to say about Biden’s health. His own? Not so much.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Up to 50 mile-per-hour gusts possible with rain-soaked nor’easter. Here’s the latest forecast.

Any showers Thursday morning will turn to a steady windswept rain through the evening commute.
Forecast | Dave Epstein

These maps show how Thursday’s rain-soaked nor’easter will unfold

The timeline for this rare May nor'easter indicates the heaviest windswept rain arriving during the afternoon, impacting the evening commute.

‘When it comes to immigration enforcement, the scale is stacked against us’: Mass. AG says she can do little against ICE

Attorney General Andrea Campbell said that her office is limited in what it can do to push back on immigration enforcement activity in Massachusetts.
Starting Point

As the WNBA surges in popularity, can the Connecticut Sun meet the moment?

The team aims to become another must-see regional franchise. A rebuilt roster and potential sale could complicate that.

Sports

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, 65, dies; helped turn team into perennial title contender

Irsay worked his way up through the organization, learning how to run a football team, restoring the Colts’ once-proud tradition to glory.
Starting Point

As the WNBA surges in popularity, can the Connecticut Sun meet the moment?

The team aims to become another must-see regional franchise. A rebuilt roster and potential sale could complicate that.
ncaa lacrosse championship

NCAA championship weekend at Gillette Stadium takes BC women’s lacrosse back to where it all began

The second-seeded Eagles will face Northwestern in the NCAA semifinal on Friday at 5:30 p.m. on ESPNU.
Celtics

Celtics roster evaluation, Part 2: Reviewing the top players off the bench and coach Joe Mazzulla

Bruins

Could offer sheets to restricted free agents be a useful tactic for the rebuilding Bruins this offseason?

Christopher L. Gasper

In Vrabel They Trust: With new head coach, Patriots’ long search for a new identity is finally over

Business

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Hydro-Quebec shut off the spigots for New England power in March and hasn’t turned them back on. Why?

The surprisingly long dry spell should serve as a warning to New England policy makers that the days of cheap, plentiful, low-carbon power from the north hitting the spot market are no longer guaranteed.

Trump once swore revenge on the Pritzker family. Decades later, Penny Pritzker is helping lead Harvard’s resistance against him.

For those who know Pritzker, the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, it is no surprise that the 66-year-old Chicago billionaire wants the university to fight back, even if the costs are steep.

The crypto industry saw Trump as a champion. Some now fear he’s putting personal profits first.

Senate clears way to block clean air standards in California, including vehicle emission rules

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GLOBE MAGAZINE

Eight sons at war: The untold story of a Melrose family’s WWII sacrifice

DINNER WITH CUPID

Blind date: ‘We stayed at the restaurant till close’

Connections

When I ran into one of my patients at the train station, I also faced my conscience

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, May 19 - June 1

metro

What promises were made in the battle for the R.I. Senate leadership?

How police in your community use confidential informants

Globe sues 5 Mass. police departments in effort to shine light on shadowy world of confidential informants

sports

Football plays at Gillette. Hockey at TD Garden. So why might the boys’ lacrosse finals be held at a high school?

Globe Top 20 boys’ lacrosse poll: Billerica’s 16-game win streak has it climbing rankings

Eastern Mass. boys’ lacrosse: Globe Players of the Week for May 14-20

business

How ‘no tax on tips’ would affect waiters, drivers, and diners

Bitcoin hits new price highs as crypto industry scores wins

Dow drops 816 as the weight of jumping Treasury yields and US debt worries

politics

Two staff of Israeli Embassy killed in shooting near Jewish museum in DC

Here’s what we know about the DC shooting where 2 staff of the Israeli Embassy were killed

House Republicans Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and program cuts after all-night session. Follow live updates.

Nation

My cousin*, the pope

Kermit the Frog to deliver commencement address at the University of Maryland graduation

What to know about Kid Cudi, the rapper testifying against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

World

UK court puts last-minute block on a deal to hand Chagos islands to Mauritius

ICC prosecutor says Netanyahu arrest warrant should remain as Israel jurisdiction challenge is heard

Israeli politician critiques the Gaza war’s toll on Palestinians and sparks an outcry

opinion

City Council can’t remove Fernandes Anderson, but we can stand up for what’s right

Georgia’s abortion law has reduced a woman to the role of incubator

AI can’t really be your ‘companion.’ We need new words for things like that.

lifestyle

Rough night ahead? Try sleep banking to stay alert.

Are the rumors true that former Patriots coach Bill Belichick and girlfriend Jordon Hudson are engaged?

A sad gas station becomes a happy gathering space in Jamaica Plain

food & dining

‘We’re all in mourning’: After fire guts beloved Matunuck Oyster Bar, Rhode Islanders pledge to help

At Taberna de Haro, all (still) seems right with the world

Matunuck Oyster Bar in South Kingstown, R.I., damaged in ‘major fire’

travel

Hitting the road for Memorial Day? Here are the best and worst times to start your road trip.

13 great under-the-radar Maine breweries

Deer Isle, Maine: The way life used to be

Arts

William H. Luers, diplomat and Met museum leader, dies at 95

On the sunny side with artist Andy Li

What South Korean cameras have been capturing

Books

Local bestsellers for the week ended May 18

Can a river be a person?

Under Trump, book bans have gone federal. Some readers are fighting back.

Movies

‘Sister Midnight’ finds a very gory solution to the tedium of young married life

‘Lilo and Stitch’ is a live-action alien resurrection

‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ or: What happens when AI actually works

Television

Elizabeth Banks drew on her Pittsfield roots for ‘The Better Sister’

George Wendt’s Norm Peterson was the bar fly’s bar fly

George Wendt, who played a beloved barfly on ‘Cheers’ and found another home onstage, has died

music

Boston Calling 2025: New England artists to watch this weekend

Springsteen doubles down on political criticism with a digital EP that includes his anti-Trump comments

Berklee community takes the stage at Boston Calling

Theater/Dance

W. Kamau Bell isn’t backing down on keeping politics in his act

You’re looking (and sounding) swell, Dolly

David Dorfman Dance looks for peace with ‘truce songs,’ at the ICA

Health

Massachusetts leads the nation in lost NSF research funding

Rough night ahead? Try sleep banking to stay alert.

Moderna pulls application for flu-COVID combo shot in setback

Obituaries

George Wendt, who played a beloved barfly on ‘Cheers’ and found another home onstage, has died

William H. Luers, diplomat and Met museum leader, dies at 95

Steve Kiner, Patriots linebacker who was open about drug use, dies at 77