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Red Sox 4, Athletics 2 -- Ceddanne Rafaela thought he hit a pop-up. Instead, his improbable grand slam leads Red Sox to win.

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Red Sox newcomer Curtis Mead leaves first game after getting hit by pitch

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Police find a woman, 21, dead in a Cranston apartment, and find her mother with 'self inflicted' wounds

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Two eclipses are taking place in August. Here's where you can view them.

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Joe Biden interviews with memoir ghostwriter reveal him discussing sensitive information

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'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' is the same old story

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At trial, former husband faces Lindsay Clancy for first time since their three children were killed

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YVONNE ABRAHAM -- Prosecutors make monsters out of ill mothers. We're already seeing it in the Clancy trial.

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Starting Point -- New England is about to experience a potent storm system

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Roiled waters: Vermont's new wake sports rules have pitted lake neighbors against one another

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DEVRA FIRST | ★★★★★ -- This could be the Cape's best restaurant right now

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After shuttering restaurants, Barbara Lynch launches a culinary comeback

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The Governor Bradford in Provincetown has new owners again. Here's what's changed.

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'Our sector does not function without immigrants': Employers grapple with loss of Haitian TPS holders

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New immigrant student enrollment plunges 20 percent in Mass. high schools, report says

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Denaturalization case filed against N.H. mother as Trump cracks down on foreign-born American citizens

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Margo Howard, advice columnist and daughter of 'Ann Landers,' dies at 86

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EBay and former execs will pay $56 million to settle lawsuit for bizarre harassment of Natick couple

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'Like an earthquake': Mass General Brigham fumbled hospital merger, former executive says

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MBTA extending some summer discounts through November, plans to offer free fares for older adults

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A magnitude 6.8 earthquake shakes part of southern Japan but no tsunami detected

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JAMES PINDELL | ANALYSIS -- The DNC snubbed the New Hampshire primary. So what happens now?

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Kamala Harris endorses Troy Jackson in Maine's US Senate race

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Lindsey Graham's funeral to draw Trump remarks and world leaders in Washington

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The Scrum -- The end is (sort of) near for the Massachusetts Legislature

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In Milton, a 1929 bank gets a second life as a neighborhood market

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Cape Cod soap star's inflammatory breast cancer battle inspires new bill

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Asian lifestyle retailers are reshaping some of Boston's most coveted shopping districts

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IDEAS | Theo Zenou - Why Chanel is making movies and LVMH is buying a soccer club - Reputation no longer guarantees survival, so fashion houses are branching out to stay in vogue.

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EDITORIAL -- 'You need the arts when it's a cloudy day': Why BU is doubling down on art now

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Auchincloss was quick to break with Platner — but slower to break with Israel

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MARCELA GARCÍA -- Tram Nguyen is being outspent. Don't count her out.

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Carlos Maldonado -- When a life sentence is a death sentence

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BSO's Chad Smith withdraws from 'future of orchestras' talk at Tanglewood

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R.I. fugitive who spent decades on the run makes first court appearance since he was captured aboard his sailboat

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School bus company colluded with competitor to raise prices in three communities, lawsuit says

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Man, woman found dead in Lawrence in Sunday died in murder-suicide, authorities say

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Dorchester driver charged with murder after allegedly running down scooter rider, police say

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AS I SEE IT - Casting a designer's eye on Boston City Hall Plaza - "As I See It," a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, takes a critical and empathetic look at City Hall Plaza.

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BETH TEITELL - Ogunquit vs. lawn roosters: How a zoning issue became a viral autism campaign - Nearly $1,000 in fines over lawn roosters sparked accusations of municipal overreach. Now, people from Maine to Florida to New Zealand are displaying roosters in support.

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'Music has always known when to arrive.' Facing Parkinson's and skin cancer, Carly Simon finds solace in song. -- Simon, who turned 83 last month, is set to release "Comes in Waves," her first album of new material in nearly two decades, on Aug. 14.

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Mass. utilities are raising rates in August. See if you're affected. -- Massachusetts electric utilities will raise the cost of electricity by about 2 cents per kilowatt-hour, but most consumers won't pay the difference.

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Globe readers: What do you think is wrong with audiences these days?

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Richard Pryor's daughter takes a scholarly and personal lens to a notorious word

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Your guide to discovering down-bill acts at the Newport Jazz Festival

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We talked with Matt Damon about his intense 'The Odyssey' experience and why Boston will always feel like home

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YVONNE ABRAHAM -- A mentally ill mother did something horrific. The prosecutor insisted she was playing 'the crazy card.' -- A Globe Spotlight investigation found the state's medical establishment missed key warning signs.

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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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The End of Normalcy -- 'I hope they blow your head off': Violent threats pour into congressional offices, and it's getting worse -- The Globe asked the offices of New England lawmakers for examples of the threats they've received. The response was chilling.

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Avenue of Broken Trust -- 'Why aren't they listening?': For many Black residents, this Blue Hill Avenue transit plan repeats old problems -- Many people living near Blue Hill Avenue are deeply opposed to the bus lane proposal, a skepticism wrought by decades of broken promises.

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EDITORIAL -- Massachusetts should let cities and towns decide their own liquor licenses

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IDEAS | Abdallah Fayyad -- Susan Collins is still in trouble

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- The death of Nolan Wells and the restless ghosts of Mississippi

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IDEAS | Richard Hanania -- I had a front-row seat to the emergence of the Tech Right. It wasn't pretty.

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Desmond Ang -- When authority figures kill, communities change forever

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

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RI POLITICS - What will R.I. Governor McKee do if former speaker Shekarchi is named a finalist for state Supreme Court seat? McKee is locked in an uphill Democratic primary campaign against Helena Foulkes.

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Lindsay Clancy trial: How day 1 unfolded and what comes next -- Patrick Clancy took the stand Monday at the murder trial of his former wife, facing her for the first time since she killed their three children in 2023.

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WNBA Notebook -- WNBA's emphasis on officiating is noticeable but the players are still adjusting -- Criticism of WNBA officials was widespread in the offseason and has continued this season.

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Red Sox -- Red Sox newcomer Curtis Mead leaves first game after getting hit by pitch: 'Dodged a bullet maybe'

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ON BASEBALL -- How new Red Sox slugger Curtis Mead learned to stop tinkering with his approach and start raking

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Golf -- Lucas Glover removed his shoes on greens at 3M Open after complaints about spike marks

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SOUTH BOSTON WATERFRONT -- 'Just wanted a good paying job': How the operators of Southie's huge cranes help power New England's economy

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EXCERPT -- 'The Hours' author Michael Cunningham on finding the love of his life

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DINNER WITH CUPID -- Blind date: 'She started asking ... about cancer risk factors when she learned I was in oncology'

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PERSPECTIVE -- Glancing out my yurt window at rain-soaked tents, I wondered: Was I actually camping?

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Storm maps show where the heaviest rain and flooding could hit this week

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More injury woes for the Yankees: Cody Bellinger out 4-6 weeks with a hamstring strain

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Boston Legacy FC scores with trip to the State House

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Bruins name Trent Whitfield coach of the franchise's AHL affiliate in Providence

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Silicon Valley splits over closing the borders to Chinese AI

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Netanyahu will meet with Trump for first time since the Iran war began. Follow live updates.

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Court documents say there were at least 3 shooters at Seattle food festival, 1 among the dead

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'Tell us where to look,' Savannah Guthrie pleads 6 months into search

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Zelenskyy and Britain's new leader discuss drone projects and missile defense for Kyiv

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Maine's super PAC case could reshape campaign finance

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The hallowed BSO finds itself in crisis

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Legalized marijuana was wrong from the start. She supports its repeal.

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An artist's 'Scroll of Justice' — decades in the making — chronicles America's unraveling

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Looking for a missing parent – and finding him

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Louvre reopens Apollo Gallery after a brazen heist, but no jewels are on display

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The best local book events, July 26-Aug. 1

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Peter H. Reynolds has always dreamed big, and he hopes you will, too

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Why is it so hard to see 'The Odyssey' in 70mm IMAX?

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The Hollywood Reporter ranks Emerson College as one of the country's top five film schools

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Photos: The Newport Folk Festival returns to Fort Adams State Park

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A luminous Karen Allen and deft cast make for a poignant 'Lovesong' with Berkshire Theatre Group

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Ron Funches on his 'Traitors' stint and speaking up about his autism diagnosis

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In 'A New Era,' a lively look back at Boston's Black suffragist past

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Timeline: Lindsay Clancy was prescribed 13 different medications for symptoms including depression and psychosis

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Universities are out, AI is in under new Trump plan for science funding

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Betye Saar, artist who upended Black stereotypes, dies at 99

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Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist behind the 'Body Worlds' exhibition, dies at 81

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