Today's Headlines
All of the headlines from today's paper.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Today's Headlines
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Crime & Courts

A Rembrandt hidden in a chicken truck. An informant named Meatball. Retired FBI agent offers new intel on Gardner Museum heist.

Author Geoffrey Kelly led the investigation into the infamous theft for 22 years before he retired two years ago. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Boston’s police commissioner says he’s reforming the department. The citizen oversight board says it’s being shut out.

An unwelcome spotlight has landed on Michael Cox's contentious relationship with Boston’s first-ever Office of Police Accountability and Transparency. Continue reading →

Revolution

After a bitter standoff, Foxborough reached a deal with FIFA on World Cup security. Here’s how it got done.

The conflict emerged in early February, when federal funding that would have met the bulk of the town’s security needs failed to materialize. Continue reading →

Education

Croft School board tells families it needs $5 million to keep doors open after founder allegedly lied about finances

The board said that the school's leader, who has been suspended, lied for years about its financial health and hid $13 million in debt. Continue reading →

Travel

Logan is adding technology that will tell you how long the TSA wait is before you arrive at the airport

As security lines grow across the country, Logan will let passengers know what to expect. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

When an Alabama leprechaun became video gold

Around St. Patrick's Day in 2006, a morning news program in Mobile​, Alabama, aired a story​ that turned heads: Someone claimed to have spotted a leprechaun in the neighborhood of Crichton. Continue reading →

Politics

Republicans launch voting bill debate that could last days or even weeks

The Senate voted 51-48 Tuesday to begin the debate, with Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski the only Republican voting against moving forward on the bill. Continue reading →

Politics

Trump’s top counterterrorism official resigns over Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat

Joe Kent said on social media that "it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby." Continue reading →

The World

World

Peter Thiel fears the Antichrist is coming. In Rome, some call his view heresy.

For months, Peter Thiel, the right-wing tech billionaire, has warned of what he sees as an imminent threat from the Antichrist, an entity portrayed in some Christian traditions as one of Jesus' ultimate enemies. Continue reading →

World

Afghanistan blames Pakistan for Kabul hospital airstrike with over 400 are feared dead

The casualties were taken to several hospitals in the area, where crowds gathered to search for their loved ones among the injured and the dead. Continue reading →

World

Israel urges Iranians to revolt but privately assesses they’ll be ‘slaughtered’

The regime killed thousands during wide-scale anti-government demonstrations earlier this year. Continue reading →