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The state is finally renovating the Hynes Convention Center. Take a look inside.

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Trump signs order to speed review of psychedelics, including the controversial drug ibogaine

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Trump administration warms to IMF and World Bank, in rare nod to global bodies

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Business groups resist anti-immigrant bills cheered by the White House

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Iran doubles down on closing the Strait of Hormuz as the ceasefire nears expiration

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Live updates: Standoff escalates after Iran closes Strait of Hormuz over US blockade

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Chernobyl's radioactive landscape is testament to nature's resilience and survival spirit

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Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes - The Celtics enter the postseason set up for one of their more impressive runs in team history

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Father wants R.I. Supreme Court to see if state law allowing grandparent visitation is unconstitutional

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Police shoot, kill man with knife in Lexington following medical call

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Eddie Murphy receives life achievement award by AFI, drawing standing ovation at star-filled tribute

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Four Boston-area researchers honored with 2026 Breakthrough Prize, the 'Oscars of Science'

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Warren rallies for Graham Platner in Maine, calling him 'real fighter' for sweeping change

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I spent 21 hours traveling by train to avoid flights. Was it worth it?

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For US medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality

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Attleboro man sentenced to prison for possession of child pornography

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After D4vd's arrest, many still mourn the girl who never came home

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TIGERS 4, RED SOX 1 -- Red Sox missed their chances in middle innings against Tigers ace Tarik Skubal

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Rain threat forces delay of Sunday's Sox-Tigers series finale at Fenway Park

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- The 47 Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2026

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Think Earth feels darker? You're right – and NASA data proves it.

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Bob Hall has died. The father of wheelchair racing made Boston Marathon history.

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26.TRUE Marathon offers community, comebacks, and culture beyond Boston's main route

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Body, mind and spirit: Providence pastor prepares for Boston Marathon

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American marathon runners are on the rise, but can they actually win Boston?

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Weather stations along marathon route to send crucial data in real time to medical, emergency staff

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IDEAS | Stacie Nicole Smith - Trump's obsession with winning is a losing strategy - Raw power can only get a strongman leader so far.

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IDEAS | VANESSA WILLIAMSON -- Everything you know about the Boston Tea Party is wrong

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EDITORIAL -- Healey has made progress on housing. But the state still lags its goals.

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James A. Peyser -- Massachusetts promised high standards without MCAS. The results are in.

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IDEAS | Leanne ten Brinke -- Your fellow Americans are better than you think

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Power Play - What if the problem with Faneuil Hall is the company that runs it?

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NFL is not investigating Patriots coach Mike Vrabel over photos with reporter

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'I think the time has come.' After 50 years, Clarke's at Faneuil Hall closing next week, an owner says.

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Houston native Brittney Griner signed with Sun to go home, but won't look past farewell year in Connecticut

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R.I. judge acquits former Providence teacher accused of raping student

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Lawrence student charged after 'senior assassin' ambush leaves two injured, officials say

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Kennedy changes his tone on vaccines, but maybe not his plans

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Dan Shaughnessy - Younger fans may not know, but there's real history in a Celtics-Sixers playoff series, and other thoughts - Would you believe it if I told you that the last time the Sixers won one of these Atlantic corridor jousts came amid "Beat LA!" chants at the Old Garden in 1982?

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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER -- How 2026 has sucked the remaining joy out of air travel -- Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse, it did, and it's only April.

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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The government and Öztürk's legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

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Ben Volin | Sunday football notes -- Everything you need to know about a sleepy 2026 NFL Draft that is light on top prospects -- With only one real sure-fire first-rounder quarterback, and several of this year's top prospects playing non-premium positions, this year's pickfest should be different.

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It's now easier than ever to search the Globe recipe archive

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At local museums, the countdown continues to July 4 and the 250th

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'Margo's Got Money Troubles,' and an OnlyFans following, in David E. Kelley's new series

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Boston Theater Critics Association reveals list of Elliot Norton nominees

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Boston Globe Spotlight Team - Nearly 250 patients at top Mass. hospitals say they were abused by a renowned doctor. Why wasn't he stopped sooner? A Globe Spotlight investigation found the state's medical establishment missed key warning signs.

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Why Trump and the MAGA movement turned against Harvard -- Over a decade of political and cultural upheaval, America's most powerful university grew vulnerable to attack. There were warning signs.

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Why the middle class is disappearing in Massachusetts -- The middle class in Massachusetts is being hollowed out. Driving the squeeze is a stratospheric rise in inequality.

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Water is coming for the Seaport; the whole city will be poorer for it. -- Buildings in the Seaport fund one-tenth of Boston's property-tax base. Flood waters and sea level rise will soon put that at risk.

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IDEAS | JOHN HALPIN AND RUY TEIXEIRA -- We built a publication that urged Democrats to change their ways. They wouldn't listen.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- The Trump administration doesn't want these refugees. But they have nowhere else to go.

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IDEAS | MIRANDA FEATHERSTONE -- I work in a school that isn't what it seemed

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EDITORIAL -- House budget proposal reflects austere times

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Why is Mike Vrabel skirting the fallout of those Page Six photos?

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Lost and/or found -- Ten weird but totally true Boston stories

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Sunday's Child -- Siblings hope they can join a family together -- Sunday's Child is a weekly column featuring a child or children currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

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HIGH SCHOOLS -- Eastern Mass. tennis: Players of the Week for April 10-17 -- Our first tennis stars of the week entries come from Andover, Old Rochester, Winchester, Bishop Feehan, Lowell, and Andover.

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HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS NOTEBOOK -- From across Boston they flock to play for Latin Academy boys' tennis, a co-op of 29 schools -- Started in 1998 as the second high school tennis team in the city of Boston, Latin Academy currently has athletes from five city high schools on its 35-player roster.

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GYMNASTICS -- Stoughton's Frederick Richard wins second straight all-around crown at NCAA men's gymnastics championship

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NBA notebook -- Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns lead the Knicks past the Hawks in Game 1 of their NBA Eastern Conference series

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Revolution 2, Crew 1 -- Revolution get aggressive in second half, complete perfect homestand with comeback win over the Crew

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The College Issue -- Blind date: 'We're both in accounting, which made it easy to relate to each other'

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THE BIG DAY -- Their goal: The nicest, lowest-cost wedding possible in Newport

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Lexington reenactment draws thousands in honoring the 251st anniversary of the American Revolution

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Head Start looks for help from Mass. in its mission to help young children

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Matt Boldy scores two goals in Wild's Game 1 win over Stars

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A new football coach, a D1 college transfer, and an MLB call-up among Saturday's 8 HS takeaways

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Sei Young Kim blows all but two strokes of eight-shot lead in LPGA Los Angeles

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An energy blockade on Cuba pulls the plug on Havana's legendary nightlife

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US backs South African rare earths project despite diplomatic tensions

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Iran fires on ships in Strait of Hormuz as Tehran imposes restrictions again. Here's what happened.

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Billionaire Steyer's spending binge dwarfs rival campaigns in California governor's race

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As D.C. police search for dirt biker who struck boy, his family seeks change

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Iranian official says US 'maximalist' demands stall face-to-face talks

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Hungary's hidden blueprint for the post-Trump MAGA movement

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Mass. housing crisis can't be solved by new construction alone

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Today Hungary, in November the United States

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Why you should take a break from audio and be comfortable with silence

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'The Real Housewives of Rhode Island' stars bring the party to Boston for Bravo Night at Fenway

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That eyeliner makes you look so ... millennial

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Providence lawmakers, looking to cash in on the World Cup, consider letting bars stay open all night

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Newbury Street gets a splashy new Peruvian restaurant and a Greek seafood temple

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Raspberries for $18 a pound? $10 for strawberries? Here's why produce is so expensive in Mass. right now.

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What consumers can do as the Iran war impacts the cost and availability of flights

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American Airlines says it won't merge with United

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The Eric Carle Museum takes a look at an overlooked genre: Picture books with actual photographs

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Zoo animals eat famous flowers from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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The best local book events this week

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Doris Kearns Goodwin's memoir set for film adaptation by Oscar-nominated writer of 'The Holdovers'

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The novelist Jayne Anne Phillips took to nonfiction to remember her roots in 'Small Town Girls'

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'The Insider' is a killer journalism thriller (and more relevant than ever)

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Boots Riley's next movie, a documentary about selling Girl Scout Cookies, and more at IFFBoston

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The brilliant, brutally honest 'Freaks and Geeks' was too good to last

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A new Mark Wahlberg comedy, 'The Pitt' season finale, plus more movies and TV to stream this weekend

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At TD Garden, Romeo Santos and Prince Royce host a cross-generational toast to bachata

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The Stage at Suffolk Downs, a music venue that debuted in 2023, has no shows scheduled this season

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Singer D4vd is arrested in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Tony-winning 'Purpose' will launch the new season at the Huntington

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ART announces new season, with a rock opera from Dispatch's Chadwick Stokes

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Obesity drugmaker Kailera soars 63% after $625 million IPO

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Woburn biotech to lay off more than 200 after second FDA rejection of skin cancer treatment

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Carol Greitzer, tireless defender of Greenwich Village, dies at 101

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Barbara Gordon, who wrote memoir of pill addiction, dies at 90

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Boston Marathon wheelchair racing legend Bob Hall remembered as a visionary who shaped the sport

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