Danny McDonald

5 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Danny McDonald

Meyer Chambers, director of the Archdiocese of Boston’s Black Catholic Choir, did not know anything about Robert Prevost when the Chicago-born cardinal became this week Pope Leo XIV, the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church and the first born in the US.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Danny McDonald |Joey Flechas

Valiente is among some local emigrés from countries that have suffered under autocracies who say Rümeysa Öztürk’s arrest — apparently for co-writing a pro-Palestinian opinion piece in a student newspaper — alongside President Trump’s broader immigration crackdown represents a source of profound unease. For some who fled authoritarian regimes, the echoes of the old country in the United States are jarring. They have seen this movie before, and it doesn’t end well.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Danny McDonald |Steven Porter |Omar Mohammed

The change, disclosed during a court hearing in Washington state, follows a flurry of lawsuits filed by students in federal courts challenging the revocation of their status, which was often done without notice or explanation. In a court filing, the Trump administration said it is developing a new system for reviewing the legal status of international students and academics, and, in the interim, would restore those who had been removed from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Danny McDonald

Marie A. Theodat had been on leave amid ongoing civil litigation that alleges she swindled a house away from an elderly relative who suffers from dementia in 2022. Last year, a trio of unions pushed for Theodat to be sidelined from her day-to-day duties during that court battle. Dolores Randolph, a spokesperson for the commission, said this week that Theodat no longer works at the commission and that her last day was last Friday.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Brian MacQuarrie |Danny McDonald

LEXINGTON — Gunfire rang out on the grassy common of this quintessential New England town just after dawn Saturday, kicking off a daylong celebration of the battles that sparked the American Revolution. Two hundred and fifty years to the day, tens of thousands of spectators watched reenactors replay the opening salvo. Drums sounded from the east on Massachusetts Avenue. More than 50 stern-faced locals stood with muskets on the grassy expanse.