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Watch live: Graham Platner speaks in Maine

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Red Sox Notebook -- Hard-throwing reliever Tyron Guerrero turns a page with the Red Sox -- Guerrero entered Tuesday having made five straight scoreless appearances with five strikeouts and no walks.

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MIAA SOFTBALL SEMIFINALS -- Behind Reese Taylor's brilliance, Apponequet softball ends two-year title reign of Dighton-Rehoboth -- After the Lakers scored to take the lead in the top of the seventh, Taylor struck out the side to complete a one-hit gem.

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Division 2 baseball semifinals -- Division 2 baseball semifinals: Milton stuns top-seeded St. Mary's in eight innings

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Division 4 baseball semifinals: Cooper Flynn sends Seekonk to fourth state title game in five years

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With the primary over, welcome to Platner purgatory summer

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AP: Platner wins Democratic Senate nomination in Maine

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Follow live election results from the Maine Senate primary

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Maine Senate primary takes center stage as three other states cast ballots. Follow live updates.

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WORLD CUP -- Eight World Cup teams are coming to Boston. Here's a look at their playing style and their predicted finish.

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Ranking World Cup favorites: Why these eight teams can win it all (and why they won't)

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POWER PLAY -- In a shift, Airbnb will chip in to support Boston's World Cup after all. What gives?

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US says it has begun strikes against Iran following crash of Army Apache helicopter off Oman coast

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Rays 4, Red Sox 3 -- Payton Tolle, Red Sox stumble against Rays on the road to drop 11 games below .500

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Remembering an icon of Boston: Back Bay statue to honor Jack Connors

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In new ad, she's a Democrat backing GOP gubernatorial hopeful Mike Minogue. Left unsaid: She's also his neighbor.

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Happy hour comeback? Healey, once wary of idea, says she supports local option for discounted drinks.

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Swampscott woman, 25, killed while riding her horse, was known for 'living life to the fullest'

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Authorities still investigating after historian Gordon Wood was fatally struck by car in R.I. parking lot

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26 Trinitarios gang members charged in connection with 5 murders, 19 attempted murders in Mass.

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Public defenders demand review of all cases involving disgraced officers in Karen Read case

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Three MBTA bus routes to remain free through end of year

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Social Security's retirement trust fund faces funding shortfall one year earlier than expected

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Family Partners at MGB 'fill the gaps' for high-risk pregnant patients in need

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Cargo train carrying food and drinks derailed at Framingham MBTA station, commuter rail train cancelled

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The Boston tech scene is riding a wave of optimism. Here's why.

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Meet the CEOs, founders, and other leaders on the Globe's annual Tech Power Players list - From artificial intelligence to quantum computing to energy, the 2026 honorees are on the cutting edge of the region's technology industries.

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Scott Strazik's plan to keep GE Vernova near MIT's campus is paying off

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What's boosting the Massachusetts tech pipeline? Colleges and universities, of course.

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GETTING SALTY - He runs a 50-year-old Cape Cod ice cream institution. These are the challenges he sees facing the Cape.

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Jupiter and Venus to appear for a near cosmic kiss in the night sky

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Drought conditions continue to worsen across Massachusetts

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Forecast: Heat and humidity to rise, with thunderstorms possible

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Regina, Si Cara, and seven more places to find Boston's best pizza

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Six records stores to delight music lovers who prefer the sound of vinyl

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Boston's 17 best places to grab a bite for $25 or less

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More from the Boston Globe's Best of the Best

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RENÉE GRAHAM - Trump's Obama derangement syndrome - He hates him because he ain't him.

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Jill Abramson -- The fight over '60 Minutes' is a fight over journalism's future

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Ideas | Abdallah Fayyad -- Yes, tax the rich. But how?

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Jason Kelly -- Massachusetts built biotech; China is catching up

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EDITORIAL -- House plays political games over audit, public records

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Herb Chambers has sold his dealership group, but still faces litigation in Suffolk Superior Court over overtime pay

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Vermont prohibits immigration arrests in schools but abandons ICE mask ban

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Former Norfolk jail official pleads guilty to bribery, witness tampering charges

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Card skimmer detected in East Boston prompts community alert from police

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Teen waives arraignment for allegedly killing sister in N.H.

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Maine man accused of 'satanic ritual' box cutter attack on woman in N.H., officials say

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'A deliberate crippling': NIH researchers, Mass. scientists sound alarm over new funding rules - 'The administration is attempting to change almost every aspect of how science is conducted in the United States,' one Nobel laureate said.

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Larry Edelman | Trendlines -- Who's hiring? Not the industries that made Massachusetts rich. -- Hold the applause. With the exception of health care, the state's core knowledge industries are still stuck in neutral.

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She may not have read 'Walden,' but Melissa Aquiles is ready to be Henry David Thoreau

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Watch: P!nk's opening number, plus more highlights from the Tony Awards

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This week's TV: Jemaine Clement, Nicola Walker in 'Alice and Steve,' and Rebecca Hall in 'The Listeners'

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Pride Month 2026: Eight new queer romance novels with New England ties

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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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Jason Margolis -- It shouldn't be so easy to ride for free on the Green Line

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Tanzina Vega -- Women leaned in. Corporate America leaned away.

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EDITORIAL -- Providence's 'Superman' building: 13 years of empty promises over a state landmark

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IDEAS | TOM JOUDREY -- True crime is exploitative schlock. I wanted to do it differently.

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IDEAS | DANIEL HEMEL AND DAVID POZEN -- American universities are run like dictatorships

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

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Boston FBI participates in international takedown of site that catered to cybercrime -- First VPN Service offered anonymity and was used in hacking schemes, the FBI said.

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Division 1 baseball semifinals -- Division 1 baseball semifinals: Catholic Memorial one step closer to realizing preseason destiny -- Jacoby Hogencamp fired a four-hitter, striking out seven, and Liam McKinney's bases-clearing double in the second inning pushed CM within one win of its first title in 53 years.

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New York's busiest train station to get $8 billion remodel with columns, sunlight, and Trump's name -- Renderings of a dramatically redesigned Pennsylvania Station in New York City have been released by Amtrak and the developers.

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Kalshi to collect employment info from customers trading in some high-risk markets

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MIT researchers channel AI to turn hand gestures into robot training data

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THE BIG DAY -- This Hinge match wanted to get married and have kids. They didn't care in what order.

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2026 BEST OF THE BEST -- We sampled ice cream across Boston. These 12 shops churn out greatness.

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Former R.I. teacher accused of using 'FBI ruse' to exploit teenage girl

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Tuesday's tennis semifinals: Aryanna Schauer the savior as Bedford girls edge Duxbury in Division 2

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Once a team built around slugging designated hitters, Red Sox now struggle to fill the role

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Industrial 3D printers are getting cheaper

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Health risks of alcohol accelerate after one drink a day, study finds

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She's set to swim the entire California coast (sharks permitting)

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Texas teen convicted of murder in a fatal stabbing at a high school track meet

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The roar of 'cease-fire' in a once-thriving city

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Drones stray into neighboring countries as Russia and Ukraine battle

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32,000 people displaced by the Philippine earthquake that killed at least 37

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Ray Berry was an exemplary role model

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Dropped health insurance affects children

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Is Platner totally shucked?

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A government-commissioned study found drinking risks. US guidelines didn't feature its findings.

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Anthony Stewart Head starred in the most romantic coffee commercial of all time

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Happy Straight Pride Month! Because the other 11 months of the year are not enough.

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A snail-mail recipe subscription designed to 'feel and give warmth'

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This 'salami' is made from plump Greek figs

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Collectors go crazy for these plates. Now there's a new color.

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Here are a few tasty reasons to go to Martha's Vineyard this summer

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Morocco's in the midst of a tourism boom. It's easy to see why.

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Protect your private data during the World Cup

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Nashua adds four new public art pieces by guest sculptors from around the world

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Juneteenth celebration decorations found burned at Museum of African American History

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Double-fisting hot dogs and one fired from a cannon: Why is the MFA adding them to Revolutionary War paintings?

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Andrew Sean Greer's 'Villa Coco' is a fizzy summer cocktail of a novel

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Ken Burns, Seth Magaziner, and others remember historian Gordon Wood, who was fatally struck by car in R.I.

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Tillie Walden on how she created 'Charity & Sylvia,' about a 19th-century same-sex couple

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The disaster movie parody 'STOP! THAT! TRAIN!' is a bit of a drag

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In 'Disclosure Day,' the questions are more important than the answers

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Inside the real-life D-Day forecast depicted in the movie 'Pressure'

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The rise and fall of 'The Hills' star Spencer Pratt's improbable campaign for Los Angeles mayor

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Claire Danes, Matthew Rhys, and the 10 best actors and actresses working on TV today

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14 music festivals in Mass. and R.I. to liven up your summer

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Bruce Springsteen opens his music center in New Jersey

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Berklee alum and 'Frontline' composer teams up with 'The Pitt' star for new electropop project

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The Kennedy Center drops 'Trump' branding as Bill Maher's Twain Award guests are revealed

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Gloria and Emilio Estefan's lives and careers take the stage in 'On Your Feet'

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Trump administration warns more than 500 hospitals to provide more price information or face fines

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GSK to buy Cambridge-based Nuvalent, maker of targeted cancer drugs, for $10.6 billion

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Gordon Wood, American Revolution expert cited in 'Good Will Hunting,' fatally struck by car in R.I. parking lot

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Robert Coles, Pulitzer-winning psychiatrist who shaped public policy, dies at 97

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Stacey King, longtime Bulls broadcaster who played on three NBA championship teams, dies at 59

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