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Top US colleges gave $1 billion in grants and discounts to foreign undergrads. In Trump’s America, can that continue? - The Boston Globe Efforts to attract international students are under immense scrutiny amid the Trump administration’s attacks on elite colleges and immigration.

Top US colleges gave $1 billion in grants and discounts to foreign undergrads. In Trump’s America, can that continue? @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/m...

Database: See how much financial aid US universities are giving to foreign students. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/m...

A map of air quality levels showing smoke across much of the Northeast.

Lots of smoke out there this morning from wildfires in Canada. 📈 via @johnhancock.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/07/m...

From left, Tony Winslow Jr., Jessica Adams, and Tony Winslow Sr. wore memorial shirts displaying images of 15-year-old Troy Winslow, who died along with two other teenagers in a January 2024 high-speed crash in Boston following a police pursuit. Erin Clark/Globe Staff

The car in which three out of the four occupants, all teenagers, died after accelerating at speeds that reached 106 miles per hour and then crashing as police continued to follow them on Morrissey Boulevard. Massachusetts State Police

Dash cam footage showing the response after a high-speed chase ended with three out of the four occupants, all teenagers, dead or dying. Massachusetts State Police

This map outlines the course of the 3.9 mile pursuit that began at near the intersection of Gallivan Boulevard and Morton Street by the Dorchester-Mattapan line, continued through Neponset Circle, and ended with the fatal crash on Morrissey Boulevard by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Boston police officers chased a care after being told to stop. Minutes later, three teens died in a crash. Read the
John R. Ellement and Sean Cotter report on a tragedy that could have been avoided. Video by Randy Vazquez. Map by me. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...

I’m misty-eyed with nostalgic reverie. Last night I bleached my groceries for old time’s sake.

Project 2025: Key proposals Trump could implement The conservative governing blueprint is a huge plan — roughly 900 pages — and there’s a lot the president could do. Here’s a look at which proposals could possibly be adopted.

Since taking office, President Trump has signed a wave of executive orders that align closely with Project 2025. But there could be more to come. @bostonglobe.com's Alyssa Vega explores what could be next. apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/nati...

Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true. USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone

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A screenshot of a database of the return on investment of various degrees from Harvard University.

A screenshot of a comparison tool showing the return on investment of a history degree from Harvard and Boston College.

Is a college degree really worth it? Inside the heated debate about the value of higher education. Check out Hilary Burns' story and use our database to explore/compare the ROI of different degrees from New England universities. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/12/m...

Map showing open and closed requests for pothole repairs in Boston.

Year 2 of tracking 311 pothole reports in Boston for @bostonglobe.com. Thirty-three days into 2025, and the city's 311 system has already received almost 1200 requests for pothole repairs (36 a day). apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2024/0...

Legacy of the Green Book travel guide in New England Though long out of publication, pieces of New England history live in its pages. The Globe mapped the listings.

New @bostonglobe.com project: The Green Book's legacy in New England. Though long out of publication, pieces of New England history live in its pages. We mapped the listings, highlighting places such as Western Lunch Box, Slade's, and The Pates Hotel. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2025/0...

A weather map showing 3D polygons that display snow fall totals by height and color.

A top-down view of snow fall totals represented by color-coded points on the map and snow fall contour layers across New England.

4/ In addition, we've added a list of the locations across New England with the most snowfall over the last 48 hours. Attached is a before/after view of our map with the updates. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/weathe...

3/ This contour data is provided by Baron Weather and represents data gathered from ground-based sensors and observers, quantitative precipitation estimates, and high-resolution model data for data-sparse regions.

2/ Before the update, users only got to see snow totals for areas that had an observation report in the last 48 hours from a specific location provided in the NWS' public information statements. Now, they can see broad area coverage of snowfall in addition to those reports.

Here’s a look at snowfall totals across New England See town-by-town snow totals reported by the National Weather Service over the last 48 hours

1/ Another winter season means another round of updates for our @bostonglobe.com snowfall tracker. We've implemented snowfall contours to our map to compliment the individual location reports from the National Weather Service. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/weathe...

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

Screenshot of a map of New England showing snow totals across the region for MLK day.

Speaking of weather, New England did get snow this weekend. The NWS has over 800 locations reporting snow accumulation over the last 48 hours. Keep up with snow totals across the region with @bostonglobe.com's snow tracker: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/weathe...

Some unprecedented weather along the Gulf Coast. Use the @bostonglobe.com severe weather tracker to keep up with weather alerts in New England and across the US. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/weathe...

Watched Alien: Romulus on the flight home from visiting family. While it's not the strongest entry in the franchise, I loved the return to the retro-style icons and computer screen interfaces, especially the simplistic stick-figure indicators for when gravity was on/off.

Steward Health Care regulation in Mass. What happened? The Globe Spotlight Team found Steward benefited from insufficient scrutiny from the Healey administration and other elected officials until the company imploded and it was too late.

New @globespotlight.bsky.social report out this morning looks at the accommodating relationship Massachusetts elected officials and regulators had with Steward Health Care.

Analysis | The NBA’s three-point revolution has gotten extreme. How many is too many? With the defending champion Boston Celtics leading the way, three-point shooting in professional basketball has reached game-changing heights.

When analytics eats the world… (and makes the NBA boring).

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See maps of where wildfires are burning around Mass. - The Boston Globe Fires on the North Shore are affecting air quality Wednesday. See details.

Explore our map of where wildfires are affecting air quality in Massachusetts.

Could wildfires become our new normal? - The Boston Globe In the latest flare-up, scores of firefighters from multiple communities worked to douse the blaze toward the southern perimeter of the Blue Hills.

A raging brush fire burned more than 40 acres at the popular Blue Hills Reservation this week, but the record dry weather responsible for hundreds of wildfires in the state may finally see some relief with rain in the forecast over the next few days.

According datajournalism.com, 60% of data journalists in their last survey were male. And a recent @pewresearch.org paper showed about 2/3 of "news influencers" are men.

So please share this with anyone who might be interested in broader horizons.

Representation matters!

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Man, I don't know, but I think you've just about got to the point of the original post. Lower turnout hurt Harris.

It was a fun journey. Glad we got there together. Like they say, it's not about the destination, it's about the friends you make along the way.

Let me hold your hand through it then. The differences in bar heights isn't as exaggerated, because you're showing all the votes. Try drawing a straight line from 2012 through 2024 again, and see how that works out when you make a genuine effort to do it correctly.

Or, go kick rocks. I don't care.

There is a huge contextual purpose in making the bars accurate representation of their true value: gprivate.com/6e9gn

And using your graph to paint a picture using old numbers paints a misleading picture. 80+ million votes was an anomaly. So was holding an election in the middle of a pandemic.

If you're going to conspiracy theory all over the place, you're gonna have to try harder with these shitty graphics. First, start your y-axis at 0 so the bar proportions are correct. Second, use a more up-to-date vote total for the 2024 results. You're shorting both candidates.

Map of the US showing the change in vote totals for Kamala Harris from Joe Biden in counties where Donald Trump got 105% or less of his 2020 vote total.

Voter turnout: Did Democrats stay home in 2024? In counties across the US where Donald Trump earned marginally more or fewer votes than he did in 2020, it can't help but feel like Kamala Harris missed an opportunity. t.co/3MmlmxJj1S

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