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Massachusetts' largest private employer began cutting management and administrative jobs to close a $250 million budget gap, about 1,500 positions across two rounds.

Ruling from the bench in Boston, Judge William Young found NIH's termination of about 800 research grants on diversity and LGBTQ health "arbitrary and capricious" and ordered payments to resume, calling the record racial discrimination.

A Norfolk Superior Court jury in Dedham acquitted Karen Read of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2022 death of Boston police officer John O'Keefe, convicting her only of drunken driving.

Logan Airport reached 102 degrees on 24 June 2025, beating Boston's 100-degree June record from 2021, 1952 and 1925, with a heat index near 110. It fell just 2 degrees short of the city's all-time high of 104, set on 4 July 1911.

Mayor Michelle Wu took 71.9% to Josh Kraft's 23.1% and won every ward; both advanced to November, but the 49-point margin ended Kraft's run two days later.

The Blizzard of 2026 dropped 17.1 inches on Logan Airport on 23 February 2026 and more than three feet on parts of southeastern Massachusetts, with a 68 mph gust at Logan and Boston's first blizzard warning since January 2022.

A year after its $9.1 billion takeover, Sanofi is laying off 229 former Blueprint Medicines staff and closing Blueprint's two Sidney Street offices in Cambridge, with separations from 9 October 2026 to late June 2027.

All 13 Boston City Council seats, nine district and four at-large, are up for their regular two-year election, the first test of the council after Wu's re-election.