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Milford teen leaves State of the Union early after DHS post

The Department of Homeland Security singled him out in a post during President Trump's speech.

Politics

A Milford teen who was briefly detained by federal immigration agents last year went to the <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="State of the Union" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/25/2026-state-of-the-union-trump-key-moments" data-vars-content-id="b002d20b-4301-43ac-9a1c-070e816b1f9f" data-vars-headline="Milford teen leaves State of the Union early after DHS post" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/25/2026-state-of-the-union-trump-key-moments" target="_self">State of the Union</a> as a guest Tuesday — only to leave partway through after getting singled out online by the Trump administration.Why it matters: Marcelo Gomes da Silva <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="became a poster child" data-vars-click-url="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-volleyball-arrest-eighteen-gomes-da-silva-milford/" data-vars-content-id="b002d20b-4301-43ac-9a1c-070e816b1f9f" data-vars-headline="Milford teen leaves State of the Union early after DHS post" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-volleyball-arrest-eighteen-gomes-da-silva-milford/" target="_blank">became a poster child</a> for opponents of Trump&#x27;s immigration agenda, who say federal agents have kidnapped young, undocumented people with no criminal records who contributed to their communities.

Why John Henry probably won't bail like Bezos on the Globe

It comes down to money, power, and who has something to lose locally.

News

Massachusetts&#x27; own benevolent billionaire newspaper owner has every reason to stick around and almost none of the pressures that led <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Jeff Bezos to decimate the Washington Post" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/washington-post-layoffs-bezos" data-vars-content-id="56d1870f-9318-4ee0-9c9a-c0f806ce06d5" data-vars-headline="Why John Henry probably won&#x27;t bail like Bezos on the Globe" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/washington-post-layoffs-bezos" target="_self">Jeff Bezos to decimate the Washington Post</a>.Why it matters: There are fundamental differences behind why Bezos and Boston Globe owner John Henry bought a newspaper in the first place and what it costs them to keep it.

Larry Summers resigns from Harvard professorship amid Epstein probe

Summers' exit is the latest in a reckoning on college campuses over ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Education

Larry Summers, the former treasury secretary and Harvard president, is officially out of a job at the university.Why it matters: <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Summers&#x27; exit" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/epstein-larry-summers-relationship-resignation" data-vars-content-id="563e3826-3363-4758-a31e-63e15953b48c" data-vars-headline="Larry Summers resigns from Harvard professorship amid Epstein probe" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/epstein-larry-summers-relationship-resignation" target="_self">Summers&#x27; exit</a> from his professorship at Harvard is the latest in a reckoning over U.S. college leaders&#x27; ties to sex offender <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Jeffrey Epstein" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/epstein-files-fracture-trump-coalition-bondi" data-vars-content-id="563e3826-3363-4758-a31e-63e15953b48c" data-vars-headline="Larry Summers resigns from Harvard professorship amid Epstein probe" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/epstein-files-fracture-trump-coalition-bondi" target="_self">Jeffrey Epstein</a>.

Dunkin' is selling a 48oz "Bucket" for the iced coffee obsessed

The coffee giant is leaning into its New England roots with massive new cups and a single insulated mitten.

Dunkin&#x27; has been leaning hard into its New England roots this winter with two new releases that seem a bit too on the nose for the &quot;iced-coffee-in-a-blizzard&quot; crowd:<ul><li>A single insulated mitten for your iced coffee hand</li><li>And a massive 48oz &quot;Bucket&quot; size the likes of which are usually only found around PS Gourmet locations.</li></ul>

How to save a "stunned" sea turtle on the Cape

Mass Audubon is urging coastal residents and visitors to help sea turtles that wash ashore.

Environment

<a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Mass Audubon" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/04/09/mass-audubon-wins-bid-for-chelsea-park" data-vars-content-id="35a37ef5-a4a8-40bc-ba64-8846dd840802" data-vars-headline="How to save a &quot;stunned&quot; sea turtle on the Cape" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/04/09/mass-audubon-wins-bid-for-chelsea-park" target="_self">Mass Audubon</a> is urging coastal residents and visitors to help stunned turtles that wash ashore as temperatures dip.Why it matters: Some turtle species get &quot;cold-stunned&quot; in waters below 55 degrees Fahrenheit if they get stuck along the Cape or can&#x27;t swim south to warmer waters fast enough.

Tracy Chang makes the case for eating green crabs

Chang and The Nature Conservancy want locals to try cooking with green crabs.

Business

Tracy Chang packed steaming hot sambus into to-go containers one chilly afternoon outside of South Station.<ul><li>With every purchase, she touted the secret ingredient in the filling: green crab broth.</li></ul>

Mass. Gov. Maura Healey takes on utility bills

Healey wants a line-by-line review. It's up to utility regulators to make that happen this fall.

Climate

No matter what&#x27;s happening in the world, Massachusetts can rely on two constants each fall: unpredictable weather and, in recent years, <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="sky-high energy bills" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/05/13/mass-gov-maura-healeys-energy-power-utility-bills-cost" data-vars-content-id="48d8cfc6-5b1f-44b8-b5da-26e0230a1621" data-vars-headline="Mass. Gov. Maura Healey takes on utility bills" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/05/13/mass-gov-maura-healeys-energy-power-utility-bills-cost" target="_self">sky-high energy bills</a>.Why it matters: Gov. Maura Healey can&#x27;t control the weather, but she can direct regulators to rein in utility costs — at least, that&#x27;s what she&#x27;s trying to do.

How Mass. CO2 emissions changed in 18 years

The state still has farther to go to meet its climate goals, which rely on clean energy production.

Massachusetts slashed its energy-related <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="CO₂ emissions per capita" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/co2-emissions-state" data-vars-content-id="3cb46758-dcb1-46c3-88e9-a2c3d3492f51" data-vars-headline="How Mass. CO2 emissions changed in 18 years" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/co2-emissions-state" target="_self">CO₂ emissions per capita</a> by more than one-third over 18 years, but it&#x27;s still far from transitioning to clean energy.Why it matters: The state&#x27;s efforts to reduce its carbon footprint are working, but the Trump administration&#x27;s cuts to wind and solar energy production may keep the state from reaching its <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="climate goals for 2030" data-vars-click-url="https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-clean-energy-and-climate-plan-for-2025-and-2030" data-vars-content-id="3cb46758-dcb1-46c3-88e9-a2c3d3492f51" data-vars-headline="How Mass. CO2 emissions changed in 18 years" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-clean-energy-and-climate-plan-for-2025-and-2030" target="_blank">climate goals for 2030</a> and beyond.

Boston-area residents, ecologists fight black swallow-wort spread

Boston-area ecologists, farmers and residents are fighting its spread.

Armed with a pair of scissors, Amy Collier slashes long pod-bearing vines that encroach on Jamaica Plain sidewalks and parks while out walking.<ul><li>Workers near the Boston Nature Center and the Bell Isle March have embarked on the same mission— to stop the invasion of the black swallow-wort.</li></ul>

Our readers weigh in: Would you swim in the Charles River?

We asked readers Friday if they&#x27;d be willing to take a dive into the not-so-dirty water of the Charles River themselves.<ul><li>51.4% of you said &quot;Hell yes I would!&quot; and 48.6% responded &quot;No way. The ick is real.&quot;</li></ul>

Boston's Charles River open for swimming for 1 day only

Axios Boston's Mike Deehan takes the plunge into once-polluted waters.

This Saturday, swimmers will plunge into the not-so-dirty water of the Charles River for the eighth City Splash event.What&#x27;s happening: From noon to 4pm at the Esplanade, Bostonians who have signed up for the event can have some fun in the river, which is normally closed to swimming.

The long, long road to taxing mileage in Mass.

Mass. could soon embark on the long, long road to taxing mileage.

Lawmakers are looking for the state to get closer to its climate-friendly emissions goal by targeting how many miles residents drive.Why it matters: Transportation accounts for 37% of all Massachusetts<a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text=" emissions" data-vars-click-url="https://transitmatters.org/blog/from-vmts-to-tmts" data-vars-content-id="be75baa4-e576-422d-adce-b2a5cf935e6c" data-vars-headline="The long, long road to taxing mileage in Mass." data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://transitmatters.org/blog/from-vmts-to-tmts" target="_blank"> emissions</a>, yet the state consistently trails behind its own goals to reduce greenhouse gases.<ul><li>Factoring miles driven into state policy — and possibly taxing them down the road — would be a sea change in the way Bay Staters move around the commonwealth.</li></ul>

What's behind the rise of urban food forests around Boston

Locals are growing Boston's greenspace, one vacant lot at a time.

Boston-area residents are bringing parks with trees, herbs and fruit to some of the most concrete-heavy corners of the metro area.Why it matters: The parks, known as food forests, are one way locals are combating extreme heat that clusters in several Boston neighborhoods.

Axios Boston Sound-off: Summer weather

What would you pick: A heat wave or weekends ruined by downpours?