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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has remained silent on reports of migrant crime in the city, indicating no plans to rethink its status as a sanctuary jurisdiction. Reports of crimes committed by migrants and a lack of cooperation with federal authorities have sparked worries among residents and frustration within local Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. According to a report from Fox …

Residents are up in arms about a plan to shelter hundreds of migrants inside a former Boston-area veterans’ shelter, according to the New York Post. “I can’t believe the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home, which is for the Vets, is going to [be] used for the immigrants overflow,” Massachusetts resident George Belmonte said on social media. “How about taking care of the …

At least one person is dead and several others injured after a six-alarm fire erupted in a multifamily building in east Boston on Tuesday. Dozens of firefighters from multiple locations responded after the fire was reported at the intersection of West Eagle and Meridian streets at around 5 a.m. Boston Fire Commissioner Paul Burke told reporters the blaze spread from …

Boston is preparing to house illegal migrants in former veterans housing as the city’s resources have been exhausted since Democratic Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency over the surge last summer. The Veterans Home at Chelsea will become a “safety-net site” for migrants where, beginning May 1, they will have to prove they are working to wean off …

Harvard University suffered a 5% drop in admission applications following its highly publicized antisemitism and plagiarism controversies. The Ivy League school published data on its incoming Class of 2028 on Thursday, announcing the acceptance of 1,937 students from an application pool of 54,008. This marks a small downward tick in applications from last year — approximately 3,000 fewer. HARVARD ANTISEMITISM …

Harvard University announced Wednesday that it removed the human skin binding from a gruesome book in its library. The book, called Des destinées de l’âme, was published in the 1880s by French author Arsène Houssaye. Its name means “The destinies of the soul” in English. The university explained that the owner of the book, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, bound the book …

The Boston Task Force on Reparations called on “White churches” to step up and pay the Black community back for racial inequities that root back to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, according to reports. The Boston Globe reported that Black and White clergy members met in Roxbury for a press conference intended to be held outside, though it was instead held …

A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered the case of the Boston Marathon bomber to be returned to a lower court to probe for juror bias. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the trial judge did not adequately probe juror claims from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team. The defense had pushed for the court to throw out …

A Massachusetts bill that bars someone from sharing explicit images or videos without consent was approved Thursday by the Massachusetts Senate. The bill, which now goes to conference committee to hash out differences with the House, means only South Carolina has not banned “revenge porn.” “With passage of this bill today we take another step towards closing a loophole in …

New Hampshire Republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte on Tuesday torched Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s recent comments on a migrant rape case in the Bay State. Healey, a Democrat, recently was asked on camera by Boston 25 News about the case against Cory Alvarez, a 26-year-old migrant from Haiti who is charged with raping a 15-year-old disabled girl at the Comfort …