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The order will end that legal status for about 350,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. We hear from an immigrant in Boston who's scrambling to secure a different status to stay in the U.S. and an immigration lawyer who calls the government's move arbitrary and capricious.

The Boston winter can be notoriously brutal. But if you live here long enough, you start to recalibrate, writes Joanna Weiss. You think of 40 degrees as balmy. You contemplate an iced macchiato in February. And you start to romanticize.

Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s new training ship, the Patriot State, is heading to St. Thomas this week after stops in Puerto Rico and North Carolina. Students are taking part in a six-week voyage as part of the school’s Sea Term.

The man's lawyer says he has a family and no criminal history, but he's now listed at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center, about 50 miles southeast of San Antonio.

More than 60 WBUR listeners and readers shared their stories — and photos — with us to collectively commemorate, rage and laugh at all the wild occurrences during that snowy year. Here are some of their memories: the good, the bad, the innovative and the unfathomable.

Boston is bracing for a classic New England winter stretch, with a series of storms set to bring snow, wind and potentially messy conditions over the next several weeks.

Leah Foley, the newly appointed U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, said her office will not target local politicians or police who disagree with President Trump's immigration directives. However, she stressed that no one is "immune from federal prosecution" if they interfere with the government's enforcement actions.

Alberto Vasallo, CEO and journalist at El Mundo Boston, has spent the last week working to sort out fact from fiction when it comes to local crackdowns by federal immigration agents.

From 2019 through June 2024, more than 14,000 people filed allegations of discrimination, in employment or housing disputes, with the independent state agency. It has struggled to keep up with its caseloads, and last year, it logged a 15% increase in new filings, totaling over 3,500 claims.

Seeking safety from anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, a family left South Carolina for Massachusetts, looking for legal protections and a safer future for their children.