A new bill aims to helps Mass. farms. But some say it should help farm workers, too. Massachusetts farm workers can legally be paid as little as $8 dollars an hour. A proposed amendment could finally address that.

Did you know farm workers in Massachusetts can make as little as $8 an hour -- below our legal minimum wage? www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

AG sees ‘pathway forward’ to audit state Legislature Massachusetts’ attorney general believes her office and the auditor’s office are closer to agreeing on a way forward with the prolonged audit fight.

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Malden tries to become the first Gateway City in 35 years to approve a Prop 2 ½ tax hike On March 31, the city will ask voters to raise the total amount the city can raise in taxes by up to $8.2 million.

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Opinion | Daryl Hannah: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This?

I was wondering when we’d hear from Daryl Hannah. Here she is - and she’s mad: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

Opinion | Ukraine Has Passed a Point of No Return

Important read on state of Ukraine - Ukraine Has Passed a Point of No Return www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

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Trump Scolds CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for ‘Not Smiling’

What American woman hasn’t been told - likely many of times - to smile? Trump Scolds CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for ‘Not Smiling’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

How Russia’s War Machine Brutalizes and Exploits Its Own Soldiers Confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal patterns of wrongdoing in the ranks that are hidden from the Russian public.

Powerful reporting here from @nyt How Russia’s War Machine Brutalizes and Exploits Its Own Soldiers www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What Is a ‘Zombie Mortgage,’ and How Can You Avoid It?

I’m surprised this is still an issue. Beware new homeowners: What Is a ‘Zombie Mortgage,’ and How Can You Avoid It? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/r...

PBS cuts ties with TV program amid probe of Harvard host and Jeffrey Epstein PBS says it stopped distributing the TV series Poetry in America, first distributed by GBH, after release of new Epstein documents show relationship between host and convicted sex offender.

Even poetry getting a hit from Jeffrey Epstein's trail of trouble. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Follow our latest story in the Debt Mills series, including this short video: What's making ambulance bills so high? from @gbhnews.bsky.social

Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders “This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”

The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.

It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.

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Lexington man learns school official schemed to overcharge him for public records, hoping to discourage request - The Boston Globe “Hopefully, when I let them know the cost, they will not want to do it," an official wrote in an email.

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More people will need memory care soon. Is Massachusetts ready? For many families, the decision to place a loved one in a memory care facility is heartbreaking.

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Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Prosecutors drop 1997 Boston murder case against Rickey ‘FuQuan’ McGee He was released last month after decades in prison.

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Facility 1391: Israel's secret prison

It has been removed from maps and airbrushed from aerial photographs. But Facility 1391 certainly exists - you just have to ask the Palestinians and Lebanese who have been imprisoned and tortured there.
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A new incentive program aims to reduce backlog of defendants in Mass. Will it be enough? The program will last until Nov. 17 or until there are no defendants in Middlesex and Suffolk county district and municipal courts awaiting counsel. There are currently more than 2,000 clients without...

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Hegseth’s war on the press now a losing battle — for him - The Boston Globe No journalist will give away the right to report the truth.

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Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules - The Boston Globe Many of the reporters waited to leave together at a 4 p.m. deadline set by the Defense Department to get out of the building.

National media stands up to protect their first amendment rights. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/15/b...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Brazilian immigrants in Greater Boston are being detained by ICE in large numbers The largest immigrant community in Massachusetts is also being arrested in larger numbers since President Donald Trump took office. Fear is ricocheting through the community — even among those who onc...

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King’s Chapel unveiling first-of-its-kind statue to honor people enslaved by its forebears The statue of a Black woman releasing birds to freedom will represent the more than 200 enslaved people identified by the church.

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Unlicensed and injecting: Alleged fake Botox case shows health risks in local med spas Many people don’t realize cosmetic injections carry serious risks. Some doctors call the booming med spa industry “the wild west” and say Massachusetts needs to tighten regulations.

Anybody ever had a bad experience with Botox or other beauty treatments? Our reporter GBH News Liz Neisloss shows how weak state regulations are to protect us. www.wgbh.org/news/health/... @gbhnews.bsky.social