
Spencer Buell
Reporter, Express Desk at The Boston Globe
Reporter, @BostonGlobe. Formerly @BostonMagazine @MetroBOS @The_Advocate + @TheGatepost.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Spencer Buell
Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, the Newton judge accused of letting a suspect slip out the back door of a Newton courthouse to evade an immigration agent, will answer questions again on Monday about what happened that day back in 2018.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser |Spencer Buell |Shelley Murphy
“Singling out our institution for its enrollment of international students and its collaboration with other educational institutions around the world is yet another illegal step taken by the Administration to retaliate against Harvard,” president Alan Garber added in a message to the Harvard community. Still, many on campus and in the broader academic world are stunned by the series of attacks from Trump, and wondering what could possibly blunt the fallout.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Spencer Buell
Seeking to prevent efforts by the Trump administration to strip millions of dollars in funding from sanctuary cities, Somerville and Chelsea has asked a federal court to intervene. A motion filed by the cities Tuesday seeks an injunction that would prevent the government from withholding funds from the cities while a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the president’s threats of retaliation over their immigration policies proceeds.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Spencer Buell |Maria Probert
CAMBRIDGE — Thousands of young scientists and engineers began their voyage into a rapidly evolving workplace Friday, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 2025 undergraduate commencement. It wasn’t only a day for celebrating and looking ahead, but for protest. A speech from MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles was briefly derailed by chants from students, whose voices could be heard rippling out from the crowd.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Spencer Buell
CAMBRIDGE — In anything but a typical moment for the institution, Harvard University on Thursday is preparing, as it has for nearly 400 years, to send about 9,000 students off with their degrees at its 374th commencement.
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