Todd Prussman

Haverhill

City Editor at Boston Herald

City editor at the Boston Herald, dad, photographer

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Ticker: Bay State home prices up 4.7%; Nippon Steel finalizes $15B takeover of US Steel

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Todd Prussman

The median sale price for a single-family home in Massachusetts climbed to just more than $666,000 in May. Real estate market analysts at The Warren Group said Tuesday that there were 4,010 single-family home sales in the Bay State last month, a 2.4% increase over May 2024’s sales. The median price paid for those homes was up 4.7% year-over-year basis to hit $666,125, the organization said.
Fed stands pat on rates: Trump blasts Powell, renews call to lower borrowing costs

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Todd Prussman

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials expect inflation to worsen in the coming months but they still foresee two interest rate cuts by the end of this year, the same as they projected in March. The Fed kept its key rate unchanged for the fourth straight meeting Wednesday, and said the economy is expanding at “a solid pace.” Changes to the Fed’s rate typically — though not always — influence borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards, and business loans.
Beloved retired Revere police officer killed in fast moving blaze

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Todd Prussman

A fast-moving house fire has claimed the life of a beloved retired Revere police officer. Former police officer Richie Serino, 77, was killed in the blaze which broke out after 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. Serino was identified as a victim of the blaze this morning. “Richie Serino was a community staple, who took pride in his home and his family.
US shifting ships, jets toward Middle East

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Todd Prussman

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is shifting military aircraft and warships into and around the Middle East to protect Israel from Iranian attacks as President Donald Trump warns Tehran to step back from the conflict. Trump’s social media posts saying his patience with Iran was “wearing thin” have raised the possibility of deepening U.S. involvement, perhaps by using its bunker-busting bomb to strike a key Iranian nuclear site built deep underground in the mountains.
Lawmakers plan $1.3B surtax budget debate

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Todd Prussman

House and Senate Democrats have struck agreement on a compromise $1.3 billion surtax surplus spending bill, preparing it for final passage this week. Each branch this spring passed a $1.3 billion supplemental budget to put into use surplus funds collected through the 4% surtax on household income above about $1 million annually.
2 detainees recaptured after escape

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Todd Prussman

NEWARK, N.J. — Two detainees who escaped from a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey last week have been recaptured, while another two remain at large, FBI officials said Sunday. The four men busted out of the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark during reports of disorder there by breaking through an interior wall that led to an exterior one, and were able to escape from a parking lot, according to U.S. Sen. Andy Kim, a New Jersey Democrat, and Homeland Security officials.
Ticker: Court won’t vacate Alaska oil project; Zelenskyy says oil surge could help Russia

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Todd Prussman

A federal appeals court panel refused to vacate the approval of the massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope though it found flaws in how the approval was reached. The decision late Friday from a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes in a long-running dispute over the project, most recently greenlit in March 2023 by then-President Joe Biden’s administration and under development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska by ConocoPhillips Alaska.
'How to Train Your Dragon' flies to the top

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Todd Prussman

LOS ANGELES — “How to Train Your Dragon” took flight at the box office this weekend, proving that some remakes still have teeth. The Universal live-action adaptation of the beloved animated franchise soared to a strong $83.7 million debut in North American theaters, according to Comscore estimates Sunday. The film, directed by franchise veteran Dean DeBlois, follows the unlikely friendship between a young Viking named Hiccup (Mason Thames) and a dragon called Toothless.
Canadian club: G7 leaders gather for summit amid trade wars

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Todd Prussman

KANANASKIS, Alberta — Leaders of some of the world’s biggest economic powers are gathering in the Canadian Rockies for a Group of Seven summit this week, overshadowed by an escalating conflict between Israel and Iran and U.S. President Donald Trump’s unresolved trade war with allies and rivals alike. Israel’s strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliation, which appeared to catch many world leaders unawares, is the latest sign of a volatile world.
Russia says it struck Kremenchuk oil refinery in Ukraine

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Todd Prussman

Russia said its overnight missile and drone barrage struck the large Kremenchuk oil refinery in central Ukraine, which was previously targeted by Kremlin forces in 2022. “A group strike with precision-guided air and sea-based weapons, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles” hit the facility in the Poltava region, Russia’s defense ministry said in a Telegram statement.