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White House lawyer Ty Cobb gets into his car at the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 17, 2018. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)

Ty Cobb once advised President Trump. Now he calls him ‘evil’
The Trump administration is building a new wall where a wall already exists. The double wall is designed to deter migrants from crossing into the United States. (Courtesy of Myles Traphagen)

As anger mounts, feds tell border wall contractors to stop drilling for water in New Mexico
Shoppers look at items displayed at a Macy's store at the Newport Centre mall on Sunday, December 15, 2024 in Jersey City. N.J. (AP Photo/Anne D'Innocenzio)

Why women’s clothing sizes are so confusing
Marine One, left, with President Trump aboard, lifts off from the Ellipse, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Helicopter carrying Trump and commercial flight have close call over Washington
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Could ‘predistribution’ shrink America’s wealth gap?
A photo of Stephenson King Jr. displayed at the Roxbury church where his family met with reporters this week. (Eve Zuckoff/WBUR)

Civil rights group sues Boston police for footage of fatal shooting of Dorchester man
Norwood Hospital as seen on Aug. 4, 2026. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

2 hospital operators in talks to take over Norwood Hospital, says Lynch
Brown University President Christina Paxson in 2013. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

Brown University President announces plan to step down
Catcher Adley Rutschman speaks to media during the 2026 MLB baseball All-Star Week. (Matt Rourke/AP)

Red Sox bring in All-Star Adley Rutschman, ship out Marcelo Mayer in separate trade deadline deals
The Old Bank Street Firehouse in Harwich has been repurposed to meet modern needs, including housing, seen on July 16, 2026. (Jennette Barnes/CAI)

Cape Cod and island towns try adapting older buildings to alleviate the housing crunch
The pu pu platter at the Kowloon restaurant in Saugus. (John Blanding/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

The unique history of Chinese food in Greater Boston
The cover of "Regime Change" beside co-author Maggie Haberman. (Courtesy)

‘Regime change’: How Trump transformed the presidency
Art from the upcoming crossover between Dungeons and Dragons and World of Warcraft (Courtesy of Wizards of the Coast)

‘Star Wars,’ ‘World of Warcraft’ partner with ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ in play for new audiences
Headshot of Paige Sutherland

Your fitness resolution is 200 years old
Norwood Hospital as seen in 2024. The hospital closed in 2020 after it flooded. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR file)

Lawmakers send Healey eminent domain bill in bid to revive Norwood Hospital
Campers run through the shallow water in the swimming area at Hale Education's day camp in Westwood. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Bad air and hot days: Summer camps grapple with climate change
Chris Osgood in a file photo from 2018. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

After cyclist’s death, Wu shakes up ‘Streets Cabinet’ leadership
Lynette Couture sits beside her walker on April 10, 2026, at her home in Wareham, Mass., reviewing the journal she kept during her stay in the recovery unit at Plymouth Harborside Healthcare's rehab. (Eleonora Bianchi/The New Bedford Light via AP)

Half of all nursing homes in Massachusetts are understaffed
The author's basil plant in the windowsill. (Courtesy Blake Turck)

What growing basil teaches me, year after year
WHOI Research Associate Andria Salas and Senior Scientist Aran Mooney inspect underwater recording devices called SoundTraps after retrieving them from Tisbury Great Pond on Martha’s Vineyard. July 15, 2026 (Barbara Moran/WBUR)

A mixtape for oysters: Researchers test if sounds of home can help restore reefs
The price of power: Why your energy bills keep rising

The price of power: Why your energy bills keep rising
The Markley datacenter in Lowell, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Residents want a judge to pause Lowell data center expansion
The eBay app icon is seen on a smartphone, Feb. 28, 2023. (Matt Slocum/AP, File)

eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to Mass. couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask
Ross McElwee in his 2026 documentary "Remake." (Courtesy Music Box Films)

Filmmaker Ross McElwee’s ‘Remake’ preserves life’s fragile memories
Vitalii Volna drives a jet ski on Lake Powell at the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Wednesday, July 15, 2026, near Big Water, Utah. A bathtub ring of light minerals shows the high water mark of the lake. (John Locher/AP)

What palliative care can teach us about climate change
Troy Jackson speaks at a Labor Day rally on Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. (Rebecca Conley/Maine Public)

Troy Jackson is about to go under the national microscope. Here’s a look at his past
Dan Goulart, coastal program manager for The Nature Conservancy in Massachusetts, rakes out piles of oysters freshly deposited onto the reef. (Amy Kolb Noyes/CAI)

We’ve all but wiped out wild oysters. Bringing them back could help solve some big problems
Large tin roosters decorate the entrance to the home of David and Sarah Leblanc, which is attached to their breakfast restaurant, The Omelette Factory, at left, in Ogunquit, Maine on July 22. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

Spat over 6-foot-tall roosters in seaside Maine gets national attention
Produce at the Brookford Farm store in Canterbury. (Elena Eberwein/NHPR)

Lettuce lovers turn to local N.H. farms for fresh produce amid cyclospora outbreaks
Attendees sing during a vigil in Lewiston, Maine on July 14, 2026.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

What immigrants say it means to assimilate in the U.S.
Troy Jackson speaks at a Fighting Oligarchy rally in Portland on Monday, May 25, 2026. (Tulley Hescock/Maine Public)

Maine Democratic delegates choose Troy Jackson as new nominee to face US Sen. Susan Collins
Lindsay Clancy waits for Judge Sullivan to call a prospective jury member into court on day three of jury selection. (Pool photo: Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger)

Judge limits sharing of autopsy photos, 911 call as murder trial for Lindsay Clancy gets underway
State Sen. Nick Collins, center, at the rally Aug. 28, 2024, protesting the closures of the Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center. (Sam Doran/SHNS)

Amid reelection fight, Southie state senator pitches rival property tax proposal
In this July 26, 1956 photo, the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria keels far over to starboard before sinking 225 feet to the bottom of the Atlantic 45 miles off Nantucket. (John Rooney/AP file)

70 years ago, one of the largest maritime rescues happened off Nantucket
The Midnight Rebellion Podcast

Got questions? Ask us anything on August 12!
Troy Jackson speaks during a May Day rally organized by local unions outside Portland City Hall. (Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)

With Platner out of Maine Senate race, can an Allagash logger take on Collins?
Boston Red Sox's Jarren Duran passes the scoreboard while trailing the Baltimore Orioles by four runs in the top of the first inning during the second baseball game of a doubleheader on July 22 in Boston. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Red Sox match club record of 15 straight wins, then lose nightcap of doubleheader with Orioles
While collecting data at the dock in Newport, Pete Emerson, left, holds up a brown bullhead with melanomas on the left, while a colleague holds up a healthy fish. Both were caught in Lake Memphremagog in May 2023. (Abagael Giles/Vermont Public)

Scientists confirm rare ‘parasite-like’ cancer in bullhead catfish from Lake Memphremagog
The Hawthorn Medical Associates building is seen in Dartmouth, Mass., July 15, 2026. (Eleonora Bianchi/The New Bedford Light via AP)

Mass. Senate wants to address primary-care doctor shortage
Inside a botched ICE raid in Vermont, based on review of 130 hours of body cam footage

Inside a botched ICE raid in Vermont, based on review of 130 hours of body cam footage
Revenue from the state's so-called "millionaire's tax" has surpassed earlier state estimates for a third year. (Thana Prasongsin via Getty Images)

‘Millionaire’s tax’ supporters say $3.4B haul shows wealthy are staying in Mass.
An impromptu memorial for Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero at the intersection in Biddeford where he was shot and killed by an ICE agent on Monday, July 13, 2026. (Ari Snider/Maine Public)

Biddeford, long a city of immigrants, grapples with shock and grief after ICE shooting
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Shorebird Monitor Allison Ruhl carries an adult oystercatcher at Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge in South Kingstown, R.I., June 19, 2026. (Jessica Hill/AP)

Oystercatchers, known for sharp bills and beady eyes, are making a comeback thanks to conservation
Boston Red Sox's Caleb Durbin celebrates after defeating the Baltimore Orioles following a baseball game, Monday, July 20, 2026, in Boston. (Charles Krupa/AP)

The Red Sox have won 14 straight. They need 1 more to match an 80-year-old franchise record
A makeshift memorial forms at the Clancy's Duxbury home in January 2023. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images file)

Murder trial for Duxbury mom begins. Defense expected to focus on postpartum depression
Troy Jackson speaks to a crowd of over 6,000 at a "Fighting Oligarchy" rally at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. (Rebecca Conley/Maine Public, file)

Troy Jackson appears headed for Maine Democratic nomination in race against Sen. Susan Collins
A shopped looks at video games at GameStop in Palo Alto, Calif. (Paul Sakuma/AP)

Physical media are disappearing. Video games are next
Jeremy Cohen, New England Jazz Collaborative founder and member composer, conducts the collaborative's big band during a rehearsal. (Courtesy Isabelle Cordova)

Jazz collaborative releases debut album of works by New England musicians
Carlos Morales, director of the Food Access Program at La Colaborativa, was among those on hand Friday helping load supplies onto Amazon trucks bound for Miami. La Colaborativa provided logistical support to a group of local Venezuelans marshaling donations for the country. (Simón Rios/WBUR)

Mass. Venezuelans send aid back home to quake survivors, with an assist from Amazon
Boston Latin Academy student Lila Conley, 16, works on a pre-calculus problem during the Bridge to Calculus summer program at Northeastern University in Boston on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)

Can math equations solve inequality?
A Boston Public School bus stops in Oak Square in Brighton. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

City councilor calls for independent review of Boston school bus safety
How to Dim the Sun, from Marketplace's How We Survive

How to Dim the Sun, from Marketplace’s How We Survive
Hundreds attended the vigil for Louisa Gag, a city employee and was killed during a crash in Mission Hill. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Transit advocates mourn Boston transportation planner killed while biking, demand action
Headshot of Roberto Scalese

West Nile detected in Worcester
The Boston skyline along the Charles River as seen around noon on Wednesday as wildfire smoke from Canada creates a yellow haze. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Photos: Wildfire haze cloaks Boston
People work at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington, on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP, File)

Trump is taking longer to approve disaster aid and denying Democratic states more frequently
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and a host of Massachusetts and Scottish officials look on as Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey lauds a traffic cone at Logan Airport (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Globe-trotting Scottish traffic cone gets hero’s welcome in Boston
"A New Era" director Summer L. Williams, center, sits to the left of playwright Miranda Austen ADEkoje (Courtesy photo by Lauren Miller)

5 things to do this weekend, including the play ‘A New Era’ and Somerville’s ArtBeat
President Trump talks with China's President Xi Jinping at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound, May 15, 2026, in Beijing. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP, Pool, File)

Family says Boston seismologist has been detained in China for nearly 2 years with no trial
A man lays down in the shade to keep out of the hot sun in Boston in 2018. (Jesse Costa/WBUR, File)

Boston enters its second heat wave of the summer with blistering temps Tuesday
Iranian American defendant Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi poses for a photo Friday, July 10, 2026, before heading into federal court in Boston. (Michael Casey/AP)

Mass. man found guilty of helping export tech to Iran in violation of sanctions
Tall ships fill Boston's outer harbor during the 2026 Parade of Sail. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Photos: The Tall Ships are back in Boston
Crowded sidewalks at the Brimfield Antique Flea Market in May 2015. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Insider tips for navigating the Brimfield Antique Flea Market
Headshot of Dean Russell

Repost: Haunted By Ghosting | Dear Sugars
Voters cast their ballots at the Charlestown Boys and Girls Club in Boston on Nov 5, 2024. (Jesse Costa/WBUR file)

Trump’s Justice Department to send election monitors to Mass., New Hampshire
A dark foreground with a smoke-filled sky in the background.

How AI is helping fight wildfires
Merrimack Valley transit workers on strike Wednesday. (Andrea Perdomo-Hernandez/WBUR)

Merrimack Valley Transit strike ends, with a one-year deal that doesn’t solve the Saturday issue
Registered nurse Denise Hartley, co-founder of Atlantic Hill Nursing and Wellness, demonstrates to cafe owner Diana Cardona how to administer naloxone. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Revere uses opioid settlement money to enlist businesses in the fight against overdoses
France's Kylian Mbappe celebrates scoring the opening goal during the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between France and Morocco in Foxborough. (Steven Senne/AP)

Boston’s World Cup hosting wraps with France’s 2-0 win over Morocco
POSTunderground regular Rich Shelley listens to the POSTunderground house band, Hard Bop Cafe. (Artemisia Luk/WBUR).

A hidden jazz club in Brookline carves out space for the next generation
From left, Callum Turner and George MacKay in writer-director Mark Jenkin's "Rose of Nevada." (Courtesy Steve Tanner/1-2 Special)

Odd and beguiling ‘Rose of Nevada’ will haunt viewers
Judges, Law and the New Era of Law Enforcement

Judges, Law and the New Era of Law Enforcement
Attendees of an Earlybirds Club dance party. (Courtesy Earlybirds Club)

5 things to do this weekend, including an ‘Earlybirds’ dance party and Cambridge Porchfest
A prescription is filled, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, in Morganton, N.C. (Chris Carlson, File/ AP)

The overprescribing crisis is real. But the current debate overlooks the most vulnerable patients
The author’s father pictured center at age 11 or 12, sitting on a bench with arms crossed, Herr Kroutsick and family surrounding him, Minsk, Belarus, 1942. (Courtesy Jason Prokowiew)

Q & A with Jason Prokowiew, author of “War Boys: A Father and Son Memoir”
Harry Dean Stanton in director John Carroll Lynch's 2017 film "Lucky." (Courtesy Stefania Rosini/Magnolia Pictures)

Celebrating a century of actor Harry Dean Stanton at the Brattle
H. Brooke Paige, pictured here on election night in 2018, runs as a Republican candidate for multiple offices at once in statewide elections. This year, he's on the ballot for secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general and auditor. (Oliver Parini/Vermont Public)

Why one name will appear 4 times on Vermont’s Republican primary ballot
Dawn Spears loads a cart full of tomato plants at her farm. (Joshua A. Bickel/AP)

New England tribes hope Farm Bill can feed more people and preserve Indigenous culture
Someone holds an American flag as President Trump speaks at Burning Hills Amphitheatre during the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opening ceremony, Wednesday, July 1, 2026, in Medora, N.D. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

New ‘Amerigo’ documentary asks more than 1,000 Americans if the American dream is still alive
Theodore Landsmark, lawyer, architect and director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University poses for a photo in his office in Boston, Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Pictured in Landsmark's office are a sketch of King, top left, a portrait of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, bottom left, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Stanley Forman, which shows Landsmark being assaulted in 1976 by a demonstrator carrying a flagpole bearing the American flag. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Ted Landsmark was attacked with an American flag 50 years ago. What does the flag mean to him now?
Revolutionary reenactor Jeremiah Poope at one stop on his tour. (Karyn Miller-Medzon/Here & Now)

Revolutionary reenactor on the nuances of the nation’s 250th birthday
U.S. Marshals in Mass. want 250 arrests for America's 250th birthday

U.S. Marshals in Mass. want 250 arrests for America’s 250th birthday
A Brigham And Women’s Hospital sign on Fenwood Road. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Brigham and Women’s Hospital prepares for nurses strike
Environmental advocates stand outside Polar Beverages’ headquarters in Worcester, protesting the company’s opposition to updating Massachusetts’ “bottle bill” laws. The measure provides customers a refund for returning beverage containers for recycling. (Courtesy Rita Goodwin/Just Zero)

Environmentalists call for boycott of Polar Beverages, saying it opposes bottle recycling effort
Reenactors commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Siege of Boston on Evacuation Day 2026. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Massachusetts’ role in the fight for American independence, 250 years later
Headshot of Katelyn Harrop

Encore: Adrian and the whale
From left: Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton in "The Invite." (Courtesy A24)

Olivia Wilde’s ‘The Invite’ has promise but takes a misguided turn
Sara Rodrigues carries a sheet pan of pasteis de nata, or creamy custard cups, for service at Barcelo’s Bakery in Fall River. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Portuguese immigrants, long settled in Mass., say the ‘American Dream’ is being tested
Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown (7) drives to the basket against Philadelphia 76ers forward Paul George (8) during the first half of Game 2 of a first-round NBA playoffs basketball series, April 21, 2026, in Boston. (Charles Krupa/AP, File)

Celtics trade Jaylen Brown to 76ers for Paul George, draft picks
Attendees walk to the charging event during festivities to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Crow Agency, Mont., on Thursday, June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Tailyr Irvine)

Writing Indigenous people back into America’s story
Bob Ward, Haverhill’s water and wastewater director, points to the area where the sewer line broke Friday evening during a heavy rainstorm. (Miriam Wasser/WBUR)

Haverhill sewage spill that closed beaches could be stopped by Wednesday night, officials say
The Massachusetts State House. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Negotiators announce ‘agreement in principle’ on new state budget
Headshot of Suevon Lee

Feds sue Mass. to stop financial aid and in-state tuition for immigrant students
Headshot of Hilary McQuilkin

Get in, we’re going on a road trip
Headshot of Willis Ryder Arnold

The revolutionary history of Black comedy
Headshot of Dean Russell

Rewind: Location, Location, Location | Dear Sugars
Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Payton Tolle (70) is congratulated by teammates in the dugout after the seventh inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, June 26, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Red Sox lefty Payton Tolle wasn’t feeling well, and then he went out and made the Yankees look weak
In this file photo, protesters wave a Haitian flag at Boston City Hall Plaza in 2018 after President Trump announced he wanted to end the Temporary Protected Status program for Haitians. (Jesse Costa/WBUR file)

Haitians are hoping for some way to keep legal status in the U.S.
Suffolk University will offer a three-year degree in health administration starting in the fall of 2027. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

For the first time Mass. colleges will offer three-year degrees
The Chelmsford Immigration Court on Apollo Drive in Chelmsford, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Federal ruling set to upend ICE courthouse arrests in Mass., stop Burlington field office detentions