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'Iran is being destroyed in front of our eyes': Tehran is gripped by fear

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Americans are feeling the Iran war's economic pain with hints of worse ahead

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Golden statues of himself, a 747 inside: Trump's presidential library rendering is unsurprising — and unlikely to become reality

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DAN SHAUGHNESSY -- A new season at Fenway, as it always does, conjures up the memories

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This New Jersey family never misses the Red Sox home opener. Globe photographers captured their journey over the years.

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Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes -- Some MLB teams willing to trust projections go contract extension-prospecting with players still in the minors

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YVONNE ABRAHAM - Looking for hope in hopeless times? You'll find it in an office park in Burlington.

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Why travelers at Logan avoided those long lines during the TSA budget impasse

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'It's been terrible': Tough year for maple syrup production in Eastern Mass.

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A former first daughter, an astronaut, a Love Island winner: Here are some notables running the Boston Marathon

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Man indicted on murder charges for killing two at child's birthday party in Carver

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At his invitation, Merrimack College students meet Pope Leo XIV during Italy trip

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One person killed in early morning Brockton house fire

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N.H. eliminates use of student IDs as valid voter identification

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Christina Applegate is 'an honesty missile,' talking abuse, anorexia, cancer, and MS in new memoir

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Ben Volin | Sunday football notes - Coaches serve up some thoughts at NFL owners meetings, with injury updates, Super Bowl spoils, and more on the menu

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Five new movies and TV shows to stream this weekend

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Doug Mishkin - Don't wager against sports prediction markets - When pro leagues like the MLB are presented with an opportunity to help shape the regulatory framework — and generate significant revenue in the process — the decision seems inevitable.

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Jonathan D. Cohen -- Major League Baseball's bad bet on Polymarket

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Renée Loth -- A death sentence shouldn't turn on rap lyrics

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EDITORIAL -- Trump's dollar coin is pathetic

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As Vermont defends its climate superfund law, the state prepares to bill Big Oil

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Can Kennedy lineage and hype over 'Love Story' help send JFK's grandson to Congress?

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Boston pays $12 million settlement to man freed from prison amid revelations of police misconduct

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Three people arrested after daytime shootout in Roxbury

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Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon

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No one would challenge the toughest State Police recruit to box. Enrique Delgado-Garcia got in the ring and died days later. The State Police recruit's death has raised lingering questions about the infamously grueling nature of the police academy.

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Trump's at the Supreme Court, cable news, and your favorite sporting event. Are voters growing 'weary' of his presence? -- A constant presence on cable news, Trump also tries to stay in the spotlight by showing up at events presidents have rarely, if ever, attended.

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In Back Bay's historic Burrage Mansion, a $6.3m modern penthouse -- The Burrage Mansion was built as the winter home of copper tycoon Albert C. Burrage and his family in 1899.

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The secret life of Boston's street corner fire alarm boxes -- Boston's telegraph-based fire alarm system predates the telephone and is still in use today.

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

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The Boston-based dark comedy 'The Drama' stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. Our critic gave it zero stars.

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Cardi B ditches the drama at sold-out TD Garden show

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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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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Trump showed up at the Supreme Court. It didn't go well for him.

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IDEAS | Liam Kerr -- Baseball's new robo-umpire shows how to rescue American institutions

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Is Platner the pearl in the oyster for Maine Democrats?

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

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RI Crime -- Coverage of the Brown University shooting and the killing of the MIT professor in Brookline -- Neighborhoods shattered. A campus forever changed. Victims mourned. Heroes lauded. Here is the Globe's full coverage of these intertwined stories.

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Weekend outlook: Mild air stays around with rain chances arriving Sunday -- On Saturday, with a Southwest flow of air, you can expect temperatures to get into the 60s to the lower 70s.

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Bruins at Lightning | 5 p.m. (NESN+) -- Bruins at Lightning preview: A matchup with consequential playoff ramifications -- The Bruins are yet to best Tampa Bay in a pair of meetings this season.

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Padres at Red Sox | 4:10 p.m. (NESN) -- Game 8: Padres at Red Sox lineups and notes as Boston looks for consecutive wins -- Snapping a five-game losing streak, the Red Sox hand the ball to Connelly Early for his second start of the season.

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Kevin Paul Dupont | Sunday hockey notes -- Golden Knights GM Kelly McCrimmon shows sense of urgency with John Tortorella-for-Bruce Cassidy coaching swap -- In Cassidy, McCrimmon had the coach who directed his team to its lone Stanley Cup title in 2023. McCrimmon determined it was time to move on.

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Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes -- The 76ers' return to health could be coming at the right time to make a playoff run

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Spring break bills skyrocket for wealthy Americans vacationing at the beach -- Americans, especially wealthy ones, are spending more on travel, and hotel developers are struggling to keep up.

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Ship in Azov Sea in Russia Hit By Kyiv as Sides Swap Attacks

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KARA BASKIN -- Youth sports were good for kids. Then came the private club teams.

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SPRING TRAVEL -- Martha's Vineyard and Newport are wallet-busters in summer. Try shoulder season.

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Spring ARts -- What's happening this spring? Shake off winter with 20-plus events in theater, books, museums, and more.

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SPRING TRAVEL -- My mom missed her chance to see Elvis. On a whirlwind Memphis trip, we did the next best thing.

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Seasonal decrease in electricity rates to kick in for R.I. customers

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Judge rules against R.I. coastal regulator, vacating approval of contested shellfish farm

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Returning to Boston may no longer be new, but coming home never gets old for former Red Sox voice Don Orsillo

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Red Sox newcomers made the most of their second chance at a first impression in the home opener

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As a 'foundation sport,' college basketball has held a special place for more than 70 years

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Long-envisioned jazz club secures public backing to open in Roxbury

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The mystifying syndrome that makes people spontaneously drunk

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Why one Las Vegas newspaper just stopped printing its rival

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US and Iran race to find missing crew member from downed jet fighter

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A-10 aircraft hit by Iran's air defenses, AP reports, the second US aircraft to go down in Middle East. Here's what happened.

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Moms for Liberty wanted a seat on the school board. Trump gave them a voice in the White House.

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Recurring fevers, mental fog left this father 'praying for death'

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Missing airman raises concerns that Iran could gain leverage over US

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US presses search for a missing serviceman as Iran calls on public to find 'enemy pilot'

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Politics panel: A police shooting, the Maine Senate race, and Wu's political grudges

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How I became an artist in my 60s

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The answer to Boston's budget woes: Spend less, grow more

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As Trump orders UFO data released, a question hangs: If aliens exist, what would they think of us?

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What you need to know about the 'Summer House' scandal

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Celebrity sightings: Emma Stone dines in the North End, Amy Poehler visits Somerville cafe

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Are Peeps the most divisive Easter candy of all time? Hint: Yes, they are.

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This fiery Indian food pop-up is drawing lines out the door in Boston

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Saunas are becoming the new social hot spot

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How many ways can you make a Bloody Mary?

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Text your niece. She might become your ultimate travel buddy.

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'How did I know my work was special?'

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Melvin Edwards, sculptor who wove Black history into art, dies at 88

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Patrick Radden Keefe spins another tantalizing tale, but is he trying too hard to play detective?

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Midnight Books wants you to read past bedtime

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How do childhood friendships change when babies arrive?

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Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni tossed out but robust case remains

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Satyajit Ray's underseen classic 'Days and Nights in the Forest' comes to Coolidge Corner

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'Real Housewives of Rhode Island': Everything that happened in Episode 1

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A modern gunslinger returns to his old Kentucky home in 'Justified'

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You heard members of TWICE in 'KPop Demon Hunters.' Now the girl group is coming to Boston.

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According to Trump, there's a gay national anthem, and it helped him do 'very well' with gay voters

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A muddled script and reliance on cliches sinks 'The Outsiders'

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To be or not to be Hamlet?

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Lyric Stage's 'Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous' offers too much telling, and not enough showing

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Birth in Massachusetts: Falling rates, rising risks, and racial divides

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Insiders look under the hood at health care cost drivers in Mass.

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Pedro Friedeberg, whose hand chair drew outsize attention, dies at 90

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Biruté Galdikas, 79, who worked to save wild orangutans in Borneo, dies

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Bishop William F. Murphy, who weathered the clergy abuse scandal in Boston, has died

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