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The Red Sox have surged into contention despite some very real issues on offense. These stats tell the story.

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Mind the gap: What to know about the MBTA's looming summer shutdowns, including next week on the Red Line

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JJ Foley's opens a beer garden on the Cape with mini golf and food trucks. It's a far cry from the storied South End bar. Think sea breezes, sunshine, and families with kids. Lots of kids.

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RESTAURANT REVIEW | ★★☆☆☆ -- This is one of Boston's hottest Italian restaurants. The food is just lukewarm. -- Review: It's one of Boston's hottest Italian restaurants. But the food is just lukewarm.

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Brown professor says students used AI to cheat — and made this 'very basic strategic mistake' Economics professor Roberto Serrano believes AI can be useful, but "the line should be drawn if a user of AI essentially is choosing to become an idiot and stop thinking," he said.

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Symphony Hall is a house divided. The stakes could not be higher for the BSO.

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A witness recounts Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero's words to federal agents before he died

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CHAD FINN -- After a months-long debacle turns into a current delight, Craig Breslow's future running the Red Sox is now

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Graham Platner's collapse underscores Elizabeth Warren's endorsement woes in key Senate races

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Forecast | Ken Mahan -- New England isn't done with smoke-laden skies. How long will they last?

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Where is all this smoke coming from? These maps show the source.

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Wu, City Hall remain reticent on key details in crash that killed Boston transit planner

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'We have had a great week': The tall ships depart Boston Thursday morning

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UK urges FIFA to investigate Argentina over Falklands banner at World Cup

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The North Shore clam flats have reopened, for now

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How an Italian sculptor created the World Cup trophy that became an icon

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IDEAS | KEVIN CULLEN - The World Cup and a lost opportunity - Combining the soccer federations in Ireland and Northern Ireland could go a long way toward having a more united island.

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EDITORIAL -- AI poses real dangers. Massachusetts needs strong safety guardrails now.

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Byron Williams -- The promise and paradox of the Declaration of Independence

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Paul Schimek -- The preventable blind spot trap killing Boston's cyclists

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IDEAS | HILARY BURNS -- Who's really changing the world? While elite colleges stay small, HBCUs are in growth mode.

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Rhode Island coastal regulators reluctant to shore up entire Newport Cliff Walk

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Midwives break ground ceremonially for Boston's first freestanding birth center in Roxbury

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New Hampshire's tiny Seacoast is a beachy tax haven for Massachusetts buyers

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US Mint produces a $1 coin bearing Trump's face to help celebrate America's 250th birthday

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Driver had nine drinks in 3.5 hours at Saugus bar before wrong-way crash that killed state trooper, prosecutors say

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Ex-captain pleads guilty to drugging and raping a US Merchant Marine Academy cadet on a cargo ship

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GETTING SALTY -- This veteran Boston steakhouse server knows a scam when he sees one -- "They claimed they found a tooth," he says. "Nobody was missing a tooth."

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Director Sasha Waters on creating a 'poetic visual experience' for 'Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World'

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Claire Vaye Watkins somehow makes environmental tension and midlife stress hopeful in 'Yellow Pine'

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New Hampshire native Kayda Bosse finishes fourth in 'Love Island USA' finale

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This week's TV: Will Ferrell as a golfer in 'The Hawk,' Anya Taylor-Joy in 'Lucky,' and more new TV

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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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WORLD CUP -- Eight World Cup teams are coming to Boston. Here's a look at their playing style and their predicted finish. -- Some of the world's best — Kylian Mbappé, Harry Kane, and Erling Haaland — will play at Gillette Stadium. Learn about each team's local connections, how they got here, and more.

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IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD -- I'm a birthright citizen

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EDITORIAL -- The importance of stemming campus suicides

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James Aloisi -- 'The time has come': Blue Hill Avenue deserves proposed bus transit upgrades

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IDEAS | CAREY GOLDBERG -- Sorry, we just can't cover those effective drugs

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Eugene Scott -- The mayors showing Washington how to govern

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IDEAS | Yifan Xu Miller -- Who's actually running that robot?

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As election looms, Providence mayor accuses City Council of 'obstructing' housing help - City Council leaders have endorsed Smiley's progressive challenger, David Morales, in the Sept. 9 primary.

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COMMENTARY | Claudette Nshimiyimana -- The world cheered Congo's team at the World Cup. It should also pay attention to the nation's enduring struggles. -- For the first time in years, millions are paying attention to the Democratic Republic of Congo for reasons other than war. The challenge is ensuring that does not disappear when the tournament ends, writes a former director of the Center for Refugee Advocacy and Support in Providence.

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COLUMN | DAN MCGOWAN -- The great Block Island pinball war -- How a decades-old arcade ban turned into one of Rhode Island's strangest political battles.

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RED SOX -- The Red Sox have surged into contention despite some very real issues on offense. These stats tell the story. -- This season represents a particularly striking departure from the team's tradition as one of the most prolific offenses since renovations to Fenway Park in 1934.

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BASEBALL -- Father's Day in July this year, as Adrian Beltré Jr. plays at Fenway Park in front of Hall of Fame dad -- Adrian Beltre, the Red Sox' third baseman in 2010, watched his namesake take the field with the Cape League's Orleans Firebirds.

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PATRIOTS POSITIONAL PREVIEW: RUNNING BACKS -- Rhamondre Stevenson and TreVeyon Henderson a strong 1-2 punch at RB, but who'll win fight for Patriots' third option?

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TALKING POINTS -- Australia to impose energy and water guardrails on data centers amid AI boom

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PERSPECTIVE -- My mom stepped up to care for my grandma. If I need to, I'll do the same.

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LOVE LETTERS -- I think I'd be happier if I ended my current relationship. Maybe...

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THE BIG DAY -- From Boston College teammates to husband and wife

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- How a Boston doctor built a following as a 'loud and unafraid' voice in the Trump era

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Maximum terror, zero accountability: Welcome to ICE's America

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At Yale, pressure mounts to follow Harvard's lead against Trump

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ESPYs return to New York and Jalen Brunson and the Knicks steal the show

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Hugo González shows he can handle bigger role in Celtics' summer league win over Kings

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British Open is trying to get ahead of fan behavior with a published conduct code

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An empty middle seat is the latest perk United Airlines will offer on some flights

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CDC nominee says she won't betray science — and also backs Kennedy's actions

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Trump is taking longer to approve disaster aid and denying Democratic states more frequently

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Follow live updates on the Trump administration

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Trump expected to make election conspiracies a focus of Thursday's national address

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Trump administration fires US attorney minutes after his appointment

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Rescuers keep searching for 3 people after a boat sank in San Francisco Bay, killing 1

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US expands strikes into northern Iran, disables ship trying to run blockade

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Protesters rally in Kyiv as Zelenskyy moves to oust Ukraine's defense minister

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More than 500 feared dead as officials investigate reports of boats capsizing with Rohingya refugees

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Brigham nurses' strike draws reaction

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No question — Boston really did it up with the World Cup

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Tell the truth about Lindsey Graham's legacy

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The $5.5 million Cape Cod mansion was threatening to fall into the sea. Now the owner is trying to make the mortgage disappear.

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George Santos' next gig? Reality TV show contestant.

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Egyptian fans still reeling after loss to Argentina last week

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Lebanese food made with love, plus artisanal ice cream in the Seaport

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An early look at Aldeia Coffeehouse, a Portuguese-inspired café in Barrington, R.I.

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This might be Boston's most luxurious omakase

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These New England cities and towns are among the most overrun tourist destinations in the US

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Historical whiplash in Sicily, where past is always present

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'Punchline II' is an exhibition meant to embrace the absurdity of an absurd world

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From Gloucester with love: Rothko, Avery, and Gottlieb's summer bond shines at the Cape Ann Museum

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At the MFA, the past and present converge in a fractious moment

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These three new novels have Bay State roots

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R.I. strategist wrote the year's smartest political book, 'How the Democrats Screwed Bernie' in 2016

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Gorgeous but self-serious, 'The Odyssey' is at sea thanks to its own bleakness.

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The 10 best movies of the year (so far)

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Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol talks #MeToo, Trump legal proceedings, and the making of her new documentary, 'Ask E. Jean'

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Apple TV's 'Lucky' is a bloody good crime thriller thick with family affairs

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Where to stream some of Sam Neill's best performances

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'Wokestock' might tick some people off and delight others. Robby Roadsteamer says that's kind of the point.

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Even amid ongoing orchestral crisis, BSO and Nelsons make beautiful music together at Tanglewood

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Ken Marino comes to Boston with touring 'Death Becomes Her' this January

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Floods, rats, and redirected flights to Logan: 30 years of Shakespeare on the Common.

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In Gloucester Stage's 'Betrayal,' the end of the affair, and the beginning

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Swing Therapeutics acquired by Needham-based medical VR platform XRHealth

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From 'kissing disease' to MS: Harvard study uncovers how a common virus triggers multiple sclerosis

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Pat Oliphant, cartoonist who skewered the powerful, dies at 90

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Jayson Conner, 48, and Jeffrey Newman, 58, die; gave thousands of backpacks to those in need

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Sam Neill, New Zealand actor who starred in 'Jurassic Park' and 'The Piano,' dies at 78

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