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A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population? -- The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike is still mostly a pipe dream, but some developers are getting closer.

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Money, Power, Inequality - 'Things are just tight': Mass. middle-class household budgets increasing faster than inflation, data show - Middle-class financial strain is worse than traditional inflation measures show, according to MassINC Policy Center.

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Former Fed Chair Powell, Minnesota Twin Cities community leaders accept JFK Profile in Courage awards

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Caroline Kennedy remembers late daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, at Profile in Courage Award ceremony at JFK library

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'It sounded like a bomb': Rare meteor explosion shakes homes across New England Saturday

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Corrections officer dies after medical emergency at Gardner jail

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Almost half of signature-gatherers for Maine ballot question on trans athletes were from out of state

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SJC Justice Barbara Lenk, a 'judge's judge' and pioneering LGBT jurist, dies at 75

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Forecast | Dave Epstein - Cool start to the work week with mostly dry conditions

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Wu is again considering tax breaks to jump-start apartment buildings in Boston

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State Police trooper injured after wrong-way driver strikes cruiser on Route 1 in Peabody

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Friend of Worcester woman killed in Virginia I-95 crash 'cannot believe she is gone'

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'Our hearts broke right away': Relatives, Greenfield community shattered after family killed in Virginia bus crash

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A year to the day after ICE arrest, Milford teen graduates from high school

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'It really felt like climbing in a dream.' Massachusetts Everest climber recounts setting record time on world's highest mountain.

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High-stakes world of organ transplants is seeing a revolution, led by two Mass. companies

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Patriots quarterback Drake Maye's first celebrity softball game a big hit, and 'a fun time'

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Red Sox 9, Guardians 4 -- Seventh-inning surge leads Red Sox to game and series win over Guardians

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FRANK DELL'APA | ON SOCCER -- Strong United States performance against Senegal offers some answers to looming World Cup questions

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RENÉE GRAHAM - Enough with the streaming services. I'll stick with CDs, albums, and DVDs. Give me the "inconvenient" life.

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EDITORIAL -- Mass. is getting more granny flats. But it's still hard to build them.

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Ideas | Duncan Levin -- No, my grandfather did not invent lamination

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IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA -- The future of philanthropy is female

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Cailin Marcel Manson -- Classical music is bigger than its elite institutions

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Pulling customs from 'sanctuary' city airports would cause chaos, business groups say

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China's biotech ascent forces US industry to choose: Is the country an ally or an existential threat?

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In UFO files, some Christians see vexing questions — and demons

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Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer

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Two elderly people found dead in Derry N.H. home identified

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Boston College, Northeastern knocked out of NCAA Division 1 baseball tournament

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His schizophrenia was managed for decades, until a change in meds sent him spiraling — with deadly consequences - As William Haney Jr.'s delusions worsened, his mother tried desperately to help. Days later, a prominent art collector was dead.

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Trapped in The Dark Web - Her boyfriend created illicit images of her teen daughter. In Massachusetts, that's not a crime. Massachusetts is one of five states where it's not against the law to use AI to create illicit images of children.

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Graham Platner's wife told campaign of his past explicit texts to other women, according to report -- Graham Platner's wife privately flagged his sexually explicit texts to other women to his campaign last year.

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Why are so many arena and stadium tours getting canceled? Blame 'blue dot fever.'

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Ready to get into summer reading? Here are 75 books to keep you reading all season long.

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

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

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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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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Jim Crow 2.0 is already working as the Supreme Court's conservatives intended

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- At the Supreme Court, a small victory against racial discrimination

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Auchincloss vs. Platner is about more than a tattoo

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RIGHT, LEFT, AND CENTER -- The millionaires tax is thriving. So why are residents still leaving?

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IDEAS | WILSON BAILEY -- True believers in academic freedom are becoming harder to find

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

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HIGH SCHOOLS -- Sunday's nine high school tournament takeaways, including major upsets and Bumila's first playoff start -- Not only were five state championship track meets held, but it also marked the first day of real upsets in what has been a mostly chalky tournament — across all sports — thus far.

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MIAA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT -- Sunday's softball roundup: Silver Lake scratches its way past Leominster for first-round victory -- The Lakers scored twice in the fifth inning to take the lead and improved to 8-0 this season in one-run games.

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BISHOP FEEHAN 8, ANDOVER 0 -- Brody Bumila dazzles on the mound and at the plate as Bishop Feehan opens playoffs with shutout of Andover -- The lefthander allowed one hit over five innings, striking out 12 on 85 pitches.

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MIAA BASEBALL TOURNAMENT -- Sunday's baseball roundup: Behind Bryce Silva gem, North Attleborough pulls away from Marshfield

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MIAA DIVISION 5 TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP -- It's four in a row for North Reading girls, two straight for Weston boys at Division 5 track championships

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MIAA DIVISION 2 TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP -- Billerica girls unphased by move up to Division 2, going back-to-back as North Andover boys dominate

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As the Pentagon pushes for battlefield AI, some military leaders urge caution

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Your Home | Summer Living -- A backyard shed so charming they call it 'the teahouse'

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PERSPECTIVE -- Unpaid internships trace back to a 1947 Supreme Court ruling. It's long past time to move beyond them.

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DINNER WITH CUPID -- Blind date: 'She takes circus classes and does historically accurate medieval fencing'

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THE BIG DAY -- 'On the same wavelength': From their first date in Harvard Square, they felt the chemistry

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Sunday's tournament roundup: Natick boys' volleyball sweeps aside Somerville to begin postseason

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Lexington girls graduate to two-time Division 1 track champions, St. John's Prep sprints to boys' title

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Drake Maye, Will Campbell, and other Patriots join together for MayeDay foundation softball game

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Iran war forces farmers to seek fertilizer alternatives from cow dung to compost

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Trump is facing a new inflation warning from the bond market, adding to his midterm challenges

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Two YouTube movies with 20-something directors are surprise hits at the box office

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US military is quietly guiding ships through the Strait of Hormuz

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Israeli army captures strategic castle in Lebanon in deepest incursion into country in 26 years

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WHO chief reports 5 Ebola recoveries as a new treatment center opens in eastern Congo

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Tipping culture is out of control. The World Cup might offer a fix.

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State Police Academy heads for its overdue overhaul

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May I have a word: The noise that annoys a neighbor

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Experiencing 'phantom loyalty' to an ex

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Your 20s are weird. Here's what actually matters when you turn 30.

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Is your Google calendar gaslighting you?

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A first look inside Kowloon's new tiki bar, opening next week in Revere

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This Michelin-winning chef wants to put the South End on the fine-dining map

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What our food writers wish were going into the old Eastern Standard spot instead of a bland Italian joint

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Yes, you can do London in a long weekend. Here's how to make the most of it.

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Thom Sesma on his pilgrim credentials, Trader Joe's trail mix, and never checking a bag

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Aer Lingus issues one voucher and leaves another in limbo

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'From Iran' presents stunning and heroically scaled images of events for which there are no visual records

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It's easy to hate the new big open patch of concrete at Copley Square. Like it or not, there are reasons for it.

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She freed herself from slavery by fleeing George Washington's house. Now some are defying efforts to bury her memory.

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The best local book events this week

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From gnome shopkeepers to teen leaders in the Oval Office, 10 AAPI children's books to read all year

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AI companies used their work. Local authors are fighting back.

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Viktorina Kapitonova lights up Boston Ballet's 'The Sleeping Beauty'

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Casting a US president in a movie or TV show can result in some wild choices

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Five TV shows and movies to stream this weekend

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HBO's 'Perry Mason' was a reboot steeped in noir, complete with a bedraggled LA antihero

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Actor and Harvard undergrad Mattea Conforti on coming of age through Hulu's 'The Testaments'

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Mystery downtown Providence billboard sparks buzz with Reddit comment on 'Real Housewives of Rhode Island'

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What to know about the artists backing out of the Trump-linked Freedom 250 concerts

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James Blake on A-list collabs, the 'Sinners' soundtrack, and asking to be removed from the credits of a Ye song

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Bruce Springsteen calls out the White House and announces a protest festival

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CHUANG Stage's 'My Home on the Moon' delivers plenty to chew over

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'The Lost Boys' star Ali Louis Bourzgui changed my mind about movie-turned-musicals

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How two actors manage 30 costume changes over the course of one show

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UnitedHealth insurer defrauded MassHealth out of $100 million, AG lawsuit alleges

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'Devastating impacts': Mass. scientists urge state to invest millions to help offset federal cuts

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Blood pressure wearables flood the market after FDA relaxes oversight, concerning experts

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Diane Carlson Evans, the driving force behind the Vietnam Women's Memorial, dies at 79

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Frank Hayden, who led global growth of the Special Olympics, dies at 96

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