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Wellesley father remembers slain children at funeral service

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7 Republicans voted to convict Trump. Most are no longer in office.

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Sen. Cassidy knocked out of Louisiana Republican primary

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A buoyant mood, and some dark humor, at soon-to-close Hampshire College's commencement

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Harvard's endowment chief begins plans to depart from fund

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Eating healthy? No, they're eating biblically.

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Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'

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GARDENING | Dave Epstein -- How to prevent invasives from taking over your garden

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RENÉE GRAHAM - Women aren't 'under-babied' The Trump administration's obsession with America's fertility rate is racist, delusional, and misogynistic.

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EDITORIAL -- 'Ghost networks' make finding mental health care harder

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IDEAS| Miles Howard -- Why aren't there more COVID-19 memorials?

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IDEAS | Perri Klass -- My mother always said Mother's Day was a racket — my inbox agrees

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IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER -- In foreign policy, the best modern presidents have been Republicans — present company excluded

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Accused serial rapist Alvin Campbell, brother of state Attorney General Andrea Campbell, faces trial

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Cornell criticizes students after its president bumps them with his car

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How a nature cruise turned into a nightmare

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Volunteer firefighter killed in Maine mill explosion 'wanted to do everything,' says former chief

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Researchers stunned by a forgotten medieval book in Rome hiding the oldest English poem

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New parking permits in South Shore town misspell 'parking'

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Trapped in the dark web - Online child exploitation is spreading like a 'tidal wave.' Police can't keep up. Threats once confined to the physical world are now on children's laptops, their gaming systems, and the phones they carry in their pockets — and investigators can't keep up.

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Boat that was involved in deadly late-night crash at Logan Airport pier was taken 'without authorization,' boat club says -- The vessel was taken from a boat club in Seaport "without authorization," a company spokesperson said.

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After more than 50 years, a WPI student finally walks the commencement stage -- Kerry Lynn is graduating 50 years after when he was first supposed to from WPI. He got his degree in computer science when AI is taking over and making jobs for students difficult. He worked in the technology industry for years.

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Dan Shaughnessy - Joe Morgan, the greatest interim manager in baseball history, knows what Chad Tracy is dealing with, and other thoughts - "I never considered that there was much difference from managing at Triple-A," Morgan said.

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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 | ARINDRAJIT DUBE -- How to save the middle class

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Renée Loth -- Remote work made life easier. It also made us rusty.

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Jeffrey S. Flier and John Tomasi -- Keep politics out of commencement speeches

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Trump crashes out over perceived Supreme disloyalty with a court-packing threat

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Is Susan Collins's health fair game in the Maine Senate race?

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

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HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS -- Eastern Mass. tennis: Players of the Week for May 10-15 -- This week's stellar performances were delivered by Hamilton-Wenham, Westford, Ipswich, Monomoy, Duxbury, and Marblehead.

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HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS -- Globe Top 20 boys' and girls' tennis polls: Newton South roaring up the ranks -- The Lexington boys and Winchester girls hold onto the top spots, but Newton South is moving up in both polls, reaching No. 4 on the boys' side and No. 2 for the girls.

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HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS NOTEBOOK -- Is this the best Lexington boys' tennis team ever? The postseason will determine that. -- The Minutemen won a state title in 2023, but they've reached a new level of dominance this year, going 17-0 with a 4-1 victory over two-time defending state champ St. John's Prep.

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PGA Championship notebook -- Rory McIlroy surges into PGA Championship contention with a 66 at Aronimink

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HIGH SCHOOLS -- Saturday's eight HS sports takeaways, including a 700th coaching win and ISL Tournament semifinals

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GOLF -- Lottie Woad takes Kroger Queen City lead, leaving Nelly Korda nine shots back in bid for third straight win

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Steven Soderbergh used AI in a documentary about John Lennon. And he wants to talk about it.

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As electric bills rise, some states focus on growing utility profits

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

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PERSPECTIVE -- I'm a single mom. Here's why I can't wait to be an empty-nester.

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After a suspenseful search for Swirly, Flour Bakery welcomes new-ish mascot

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Summer on your mind? Here are Ken's top weather trends as June — and El Niño — quickly approach.

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Here's how warm it's going to get this weekend. And next week will be even toastier.

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Red Sox place Trevor Story on 10-day injured list with sports hernia, but shortstop weighing surgery and extended absence

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Sabres rally to beat the Canadiens to force Game 7

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Game 7s have been kind to Cavaliers, Pistons recently. But one will fall on Sunday

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US debt is now bigger than the economy. That's not the real problem.

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Brass bands in Beijing make way for sticker shock at home as Trump returns to escalating inflation

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Drones, bullets and cartel warfare fuel an invisible displacement crisis in Mexico

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Trump says Islamic State group leader was killed in a joint US-Nigerian mission

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Koji Suzuki, sometimes called the Stephen King of Japan, dies at 68

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Record drone attack on Moscow kills three, targets refinery

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Social workers can tell you how to solve the mental health care gap

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What chaplains really see inside immigration detention centers

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City workers should be back in the office more

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When generations collide down the aisle

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Adults relive the musical camaraderie of their youth at band camps reprised for grown-ups

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He's not sure about marriage

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This week's most notable new restaurant openings around Boston

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Scholars bar in Downtown Crossing to close after 15 years. But a replacement is on the way.

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The best places to grab a drink in downtown Providence this summer

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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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The best of Maine, on the cheap. (Yes, it's possible.)

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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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The best local book events this week

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Author Ann Patchett urges a 'breath' for books as PEN gala raises $2M amid ban surge

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Five new movies and TV shows to stream this weekend

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Inside the 'Lincoln' symphony that Philip Glass pulled from Trump's Kennedy Center

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Clarence Carter, soul singer known for 'Patches' and 'Strokin',' dies at 90

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

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Biogen advances Alzheimer's drug on suggestion of benefit

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Claudine Longet, singer and actor at center of a notorious manslaughter trial, dies

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G. Robert Blakey dies at 90; drafted the RICO anti-racketeering statute

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