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NEW ENGLAND TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS -- Three individuals, two relays from Massachusetts capture New England indoor track titles -- Natick senior Chloe Elder won the 300-meter dash, teammate and classmate Emmanuella Edizen topped the 55 hurdles, and Oliver Ames junior Mitchell Callender championed the shot put.

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MIAA ALL-STATE GYMNASTICS -- Newton North's first girls' gymnastics state title since 1972 was anything but routine

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Patriots -- These draft prospects could do the Patriots' offensive line some good

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Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu brings her joy, inspiration to figure skating exhibition at Skating Club of Boston

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A dominant showing from Sam Griswold (44 saves) powers Concord-Carlisle boys' hockey to upset of Woburn

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Trump says Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead

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Trump calls Khamenei's death 'single greatest chance' for regime change in Iran. Follow live updates.

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In Boston, displays of fear, celebration over US-Israeli attacks on Iran

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Did climate change contribute to the record-setting New England blizzard? -- This winter is shaping up to be one of the snowiest on record. How does that square with climate change?

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At Boston's snow farms, blizzards meet a watery end -- Thanks to mechanical melters, thousands of truckloads of the white stuff have been transformed almost instantaneously into water at 14 "snow farms" from Hyde Park to East Boston.

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Red Sox Notebook - Garrett Whitlock broke the news of his Team USA selection in an emotional call with his father, Larry, a Vietnam veteran - The righthander pitched a perfect third inning in Saturday's 13-8 victory against the Twins.

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YVONNE ABRAHAM - It's a cruel world. The lasting damage from a Tinder sting gone wrong at Assumption University - We live in an era that sets our worst moments in stone, to be scrutinized and judged forever.

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Pentagon assault on Anthropic sends shockwaves across Silicon Valley

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Man allegedly kills co-worker's boyfriend in R.I., then causes car crash in Mass. that leaves two dead

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Flyers 3, Bruins 1 -- Bruins stumble in the third period of a road loss against the Flyers

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GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL -- Celtics, sitting in a top playoff position in the East, focus on self-improvement and integrating Nikola Vucevic

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In return to action after the Olympic break, first-place Fleet stay hot despite injuries down the lineup

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IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER - Donald Trump's doomed war in Iran - America's interventions in the Middle East never go well.

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Richard Florida and Carlo Ratti -- Beyond the 'tourists go home' signs

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IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD -- A litmus test Democrats should face in the midterms and 2028

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Nada Bakri -- The coat that put me in my place

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LETTERS -- Mass Save is worth saving

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Vatican removes salty white film coating Michelangelo's 'The Last Judgment' -- The Vatican on Saturday gave the media a sneak peak to the cleaning operation, which is taking place on a floor-to-ceiling scaffolding that has obscured the imposing fresco of heaven and hell that dominates the front of the chapel.

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A Supreme Court case over whether marijuana users can own guns is creating unusual alliances -- Should marijuana users be able to own guns?

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Police release body-worn camera footage from Pawtucket rink shooting -- The video is blurred, but the audio is clear and shows how bystanders, police, and first responders worked together to try to save lives.

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Man, 23, charged with kidnapping after 13-year-old discovered in his car during Northborough traffic stop -- Jason James Hores pleaded not guilty at his arraignment, records show.

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Seneca Boston, a Nantucket legend whose 18th century home still stands - For historians and archaeologists, Seneca Boston's Nantucket home offers something rare: continuity.

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Dan Shaughnessy -- 'I don't put a ceiling on us ever': Celtics president Brad Stevens not surprised his team is playing so well this season -- A lot of us figured the Celtics would be candidates for the lame, postseason play-in tournament. Wrong. They are a legitimate NBA contender.

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KEVIN CULLEN -- Seamus Culleton went from sympathetic Everyman to undesirable immigrant almost overnight -- Culleton, an Irish immigrant who runs a business out of Wakefield, is facing imminent deportation to a country that doesn't seem especially anxious to have him back.

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GLP-1 weight loss drugs help drive another year of historic losses at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass. The $380.5 million operating loss demonstrates just how challenged the health care market has become amid soaring spending.

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

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'Paradise,' a Paul McCartney doc, plus more new movies and TV shows to stream this weekend

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A Black and Indigenous sculptor used an old form to tell subversive stories

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When the Oscar feels more owed than deserved

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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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Alex Beam -- Why hasn't the United States been banned from international sports?

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EDITORIAL -- Is Mass. really an educational leader when reading scores lag behind Mississippi?

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ALAN WIRZBICKI -- It's not you. Headlights really are more blinding.

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RIGHT, LEFT, AND CENTER -- Boasting, bashing, and lying: Three writers on Trump's State of the Union address

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IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

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Families of D.C. plane crash victims 'devastated' after safety bill fails by one vote with R.I., Mass. lawmakers absent -- Monday's historic blizzard kept members of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island delegations from making it to Washington to vote.

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Federal prosecutors urge judge to reject Matthew Farwell's bid to dismiss charges in death of Sandra Birchmore -- Matthew Farwell denies killing Sandra Birchmore and asserts the two-count federal indictment against him is legally defective.

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Venezuelan gang's ATM jackpot scheme hits New England banks -- Moises Alejandro Martinez Gutierrez and Lestter Guerrero, alleged members of Tren De Aragua, were arrested in Maine this month, prosecutors said.

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MIAA BOYS' BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP -- Jacob Klass becomes Beverly boys' basketball's all-time leading scorer while cruising past Quincy

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QAnon faithful see validation in the Epstein files -- The theory at the heart of the QAnon conspiracy theory was simple, even if the details were not: A global cabal of elites was running a child sex-trafficking ring.

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BOLD TYPES -- Fighting between the House and Senate? Not at this event featuring Mariano and Spilka.

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Gulf countries close airspace after Iran strikes US bases

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ON THE COVER -- Assumption University students tried to set up a sting on Tinder. It all went terribly wrong.

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EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT -- Larry Bird was left out of pickup games in French Lick. He nearly slipped away entirely.

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THE BIG DAY -- How Dan and Vicki overcame a big red flag, fell in love fast, then took their time getting married

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PERSPECTIVE -- I've always been a Boston sports fan. But the women's hockey team is something different.

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Judge orders Trump administration to review Healey media director's work authorization request

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Life expectancy for Bostonians is increasing, but not for Black residents, new report shows

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Saturday's Red Sox spring training report: Jarren Duran has big day to spark victory

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Signs of spring in the downtown office market

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Iran targets US bases in Gulf in retaliation for airstrikes

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Bitcoin slides below $64,000 after US and Israel strikes on Iran

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Congress faces war powers votes in wake of Iran strikes

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Kash Patel's girlfriend seeks fame and fortune, escorted by an FBI SWAT team

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Trump's 'shock and huh?' military attack on Iran

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Greg Abel praises Warren Buffett and promises Berkshire Hathaway won't retreat from investing

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An update: Did a Brooklyn couple kill a neighbor's trees for a better view in Maine?

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In the Northwest, polyamory finds something new: legal protection

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For Trump, the Iran attack is the ultimate war of choice

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Israelis take shelter as sirens warn of incoming missiles

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One week, two very different portraits of Britain's disintegrating royal family

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Trump gives the court the cold shoulder

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Deep-sea adventurer Edith Widder says, 'We're all explorers'

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Swanky suits and silly hats: 'Love Story' sets off 'JFK Jr. effect'

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The sex stopped two years into the marriage

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In an AI world, easy ways to inject creativity into your day

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Signs of spring: Sullivan's Castle Island opens for the season Saturday

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SJ's: Eat like we did before remote work was a thing

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Soggy fries and lettuce shortages fueled Sweetgreen's $5 billion stock wipeout

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Maine's mobile merriment: How one woman turned a bus into an experience

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Have you suddenly become Canadian? You're probably going to need a new picture.

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'It's therapeutic.' Meet some of the members of skiing's 100 Days Club.

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An obscure printmaker in the chaos of mid-19th-century Paris has a message for us: Stand up to the lies

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At the Gardner, when person meets 'Persona'

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The best local book events this week

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He was gay, she was straight. They fell in love anyway.

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Justin Garcia, of the Kinsey Institute, says humans need sexual novelty and emotional intimacy

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Everything you need to know about Sunday's Actor Awards

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'EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert' is a hunka hunka Luhrmann love

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1976: When Isley Brothers and Stevie Wonder changed American music forever

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Will McAvoy's series-opening 'Newsroom' rant echoes through the years

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Triple threat Thomas Adès illuminates his own music with BSO

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Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind dozens of hits of the 1960s and '70s, has died

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Hub Theatre Company's 'The Bald Soprano' hits the high notes, but 'The Lesson' flunks

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'We Had a World' — of monotony

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Two Boston-area theaters revive plays from the '50s with very modern resonances

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From obscurity to legacy: Henrietta Lacks's immortal cells reshaped research ethics

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Mass. reports two residents diagnosed with measles. Blizzard may have helped prevent spread.

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State revives long-stalled plans to redevelop Shattuck Hospital site at Franklin Park

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Lauren Chapin, youngest child on 'Father Knows Best,' dies at 80

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Penguin Press founder Ann Godoff, a powerhouse editor of bestsellers and prize winners, has died

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Jeff Galloway, who inspired people with his run-walk method, dies

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