Today on The Point, it’s our monthly Bird News with Mark Faherty.

Twice a week, the Family Table Collaborative's donated food truck pulls into Cape Cod parking lots, offering meals to anyone who shows up, no questions asked. What began as a pandemic stopgap has grown into a weekly lifeline serving up to 700 people, built almost entirely on volunteer labor and local generosity.

Nellie and Nathan Zalewski try to catch crabs. Produced by Mae Nagusky and Atlantic Public Media.

The Garden Lady started off with a postcard from trees, and C.L. Fornari's guest today was Scott Lajoie Communications Director of the Buzzards Bay Coalition. They spoke about significant trees. Callers were wondering about planting garlic, shrub recommendations, beefing up a lawn, and ground covers for "socks and shoes" around shrubs.

We round up the week's local news with our region's leading journalists.

In 2024, the ruling Taliban pledged to use flogging as well as stoning to punish people for not following certain of their precepts — committing adultery, running secret schools for girls. Have they followed through?

Canada's retaliatory tariffs against U.S. imports went into effect early Tuesday, escalating the trade war between former close allies.

Chrystia Freeland understands the U.S.-Canada relationship from her time at the negotiating table. Here's what she sees now.