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Inconsistent drill instructors and a 'frenzy-like environment': Report says State Police academy needs reform

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Forecast | Ken Mahan - Not letting up: More heat grips New England, possible thunderstorms later - Wednesday's high temperatures won't be as intense or last as long as Tuesday's hot weather.

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Mass General Brigham Home Care clinicians clear the way for a possible strike -- The clinicians have engaged in 26 bargaining sessions over the last year in their bid for their first contract.

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These 14 New England colleges now cost more than $100,000 a year

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Building permits slow to a trickle for Boston housing construction. Are the city's policies to blame?

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Officers who faced Jan. 6 rioters sue to block payouts from $1.8b 'anti-weaponization' fund. Follow live updates.

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Protein maxxing? Try this bag of chips.

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Barney Frank, groundbreaking gay congressman who coauthored key Wall Street legislation, has died

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Opinion | Chris Dodd - Barney Frank was the perfect partner during the financial crisis

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Photos: Barney Frank throughout the years

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Harvard faculty vote to cap number of A's in effort to reduce grade inflation

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Legal battle launched to integrate Massachusetts public schools

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She tried unionizing a Bellingham Amazon facility. Then she was fired.

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Starter homes becoming 'thing of the past' in Greater Boston as buyers enter market at age 40

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Cape Cod lawmaker rips detention of father, son taken into ICE custody while fishing off Martha's Vineyard

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Unresponsive boy pulled from Andover pond and flown to Boston hospital

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Two hospitalized and five displaced after fire roars through Dorchester home

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With exclamation points and indignation, a federal judge from South Natick infuriates Trump

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Platner earns backing of influential, big-spending Democratic veterans group in Maine Senate race

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YVONNE ABRAHAM -- You're headed to work. A man lies at the bottom of a T station escalator. What do you do?

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High Schools -- What will Masters Academy International, the new sports academy in Stow, look like when it opens this fall?

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Power Play -- How Boston's World Cup organizers blew a sponsorship deal with Airbnb

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Gun control, but for robots: Lawmakers want to make Mass. first state to ban outfitting drones with weapons

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Tara Sullivan -- Jaylen Brown often rubs people the wrong way, but that doesn't mean he's not making some good points

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RED SOX -- For Sox coach Chad Epperson, Tuesday was a one-of-a-kind family reunion

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Howard Husock - How Barney Frank helped reinvent Boston - He and other ambitious, outsider-minded aides steered the city away from parochial politics and toward lasting change.

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Karen Stabiner -- Friendship without age limits

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IDEAS | RACHEL BRODSKY -- Hollywood picks up on the OnlyFans moment

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Bill Cassidy traded his conscience for capitulation to Trump. He still lost.

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EDITORIAL -- As online sexual exploitation grows, laws need to catch up

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Cambridge City Council votes to nix controversial gunshot detection service

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Boston firefighters rescue person from Charles River

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Canada man living in Saugus charged with illegally voting in elections since at least 2016, prosecutors said

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In a rare rebuke, Governor Healey's latest Parole Board pick faces uphill battle

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Defense at Alvin Campbell's rape trial grills accuser about text message

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Three people stabbed at Narragansett Town Beach

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Tensions mount in Sudbury schools over LGBTQ+ policy and effort to oust School Committee - The School Committee faces a no-confidence vote at a Special Town Meeting on May 20.

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Rhode Islanders and 'Real Housewives' are obsessed with this snack. So why hasn't anyone in Mass. heard of it? -- Rhode Islanders know not to bring pizza to the beach, because no one wants to deal with "cheese in the sun."

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Chad Finn - Here's why the Celtics should trade Jaylen Brown for Giannis Antetokounmpo - Brad Stevens said himself the roster is not good enough as currently constructed. He needs a big swing and the Bucks' two-time MVP could be it.

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Massachusetts finally banned broker fees. Why are renters still stuck paying them? -- As apartment hunting season enters full swing, the Globe identified dozens of online listings that include tenant-paid broker fees, oftentimes equivalent to one month of rent.

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

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80 fun concerts, festivals, shows, and more to check out around Boston this summer

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ART's 'Black Swan' brings the movie's saga of dance and ambition to the stage

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What's your 'type'? Because this man's type is ... very specific.

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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 | ABDALLAH FAYYAD -- Massachusetts primaries are broken. Here's how to fix them.

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IDEAS | MIKE MARIANI -- The NBA is in crisis

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Khameer Kidia -- What RFK Jr. gets right – and wrong – about mental health

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

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Boston shatters record highs, hitting 96 degrees on Tuesday, for second-hottest spring day -- Providence, Milton, and Manchester, N.H., also broke record highs, while Springfield and Hartford registered their first heat wave this year, marked by three straight 90-degree or hotter days.

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Red Sox at Royals | 7:40 p.m. (NESN) -- Game 49: Red Sox at Royals lineups and notes -- Connelly Early will be on the mound when the Red Sox go for the sweep in Kansas City.

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Bruins -- How will the Bruins attack the offseason? Let's examine ways they could enhance their forward group.

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World Cup -- The US men's national team World Cup roster is out Tuesday. Who's making the cut, and might be left out?

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James Murdoch, intent on 'thoughtful journalism,' buys half of Vox Media -- The media scion is buying Vox Media's podcast network, New York magazine, and Vox.com for more than $300 million.

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Stephen Colbert's long goodbye is coming to an end, leaving a void

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CONNECTIONS -- I first scaled Mount Washington in 1954 at age 4. I kept going back.

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- Could patient portals be less baffling and more helpful? A cartoon explainer.

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DINNER WITH CUPID -- Blind date: 'We talked a lot about her dog, Clementine, a sheepadoodle'

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- In 1970s Boston, young hustlers made easy money selling smart term papers to college students

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In the face of 'great stress,' nonprofits are adapting, retiring N.H. Charitable Foundation leader says

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Boston College baseball, coming off one of its best seasons ever, enters ACC tournament with big hopes

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Globe Top 20 softball poll: With major tests, there's a few minor shakeups

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Staying patient through tough times paying off for Bellingham softball

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New life for the Carney? Developers plan $850m revamp of shuttered Dorchester hospital.

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Trump is at his weakest nationally yet flexing power with his base

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South Carolina House backs congressional map favoring GOP but bill faces a more skeptical Senate

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San Diego mosque shooters met online and left writings expressing hate, FBI says

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Fears surge on the ground in Congo over the spread of rare type of Ebola

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Taiwan's Lai says he'd tell Trump he hopes to continue arms purchases from US, if given a chance

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Xi and Putin highlight their friendship and cooperation on energy and other issues in Beijing visit

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Questions after a tragedy at Davis

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Boston wants an inclusive World Cup, but time is running out

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Time for DiZoglio, Campbell to move on from audit fight

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A mop, a broom, and a calmer mind: Why some find mental health benefits in everyday tasks

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Would you pick lint off someone else's sweater?

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In the Seaport, where the babies have good hair and the dogs have veneers, the socializing has gotten competitive

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Ice cream in Boston is so unhinged right now

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'There must be free beer': Lines stretch down the block at Boston's outdoor bars and breweries

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Beginning in June, Logan passengers can check bags and go through TSA screening remotely

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JetBlue to pull out of N.H.'s largest airport amid 'capacity crisis,' officials say

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A piece of New England hotel history gets a multimillion-dollar makeover. Take a peek inside.

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Mural being painted in Nashua's Renaissance Park features nod to city's French-Canadian heritage

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In art history, 'nude' almost always meant nude women, painted by men. An MFA exhibit documents a contemporary rebuttal.

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Unearthly light: Abstraction Expressionism's Gloucester connection

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A young woman sees spirits in an '80s East Village, shadowed by AIDS

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The quiet man whose comic strips spoke to and for a generation

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Jill Lepore adds a Pulitzer to her laurels, but she's nowhere near ready to rest

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Sorry to bother you! 'I Love Boosters' is lots of fun

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The Mandalorian, Grogu ... and Martin Scorsese?

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'The Sheep Detectives' is a lamb good movie

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PBS gears up for the 250th with a rebroadcast of 'The American Revolution'

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New PBS documentary captures 'Rebel' W.E.B. Du Bois in all his complexity

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A fan in Boston confessed to stealing a lead singer's identity — then he inspired the band's next album

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When is an orchestra not an orchestra? By any label, Handel and Haydn's ensemble shined at Old South Church.

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Felicity Lott, elegant soprano in opera and song, dies at 79

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A gripping update to Greek tragedy in Huntington's 'Oedipus El Rey'

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Chris Fleming, used to 'scheming in the shadows,' is adjusting to wild success in the spotlight

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Drug companies spurned by Supreme Court on price negotiation law

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AI startups can succeed in Massachusetts. This billion-dollar deal shows why.

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Blue Cross, Point32Health insurers rebound after years of GLP-1 drug-related losses

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Greg Hyman, co-creator of Tickle Me Elmo, dies at 78

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Mark Fuhrman, former LA police detective convicted of lying during testimony at OJ Simpson murder trial, has died

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