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Red Sox notebook -- Tigers ace Tarik Skubal a big fan of Fenway Park -- Skubal is 0-2 while allowing 11 runs (10 earned) in 10 innings in his career at Fenway.

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State's higher ed leader denounces former Cape Cod Community College president over student relationship

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Cape Cod campus reeling after learning of former president's inappropriate relationship with student

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YVONNE ABRAHAM - Mass. is the only state in New England with an age of consent loophole. The time to close it is now.

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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey

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Read Öztürk's full statement on her return to Turkey

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'I think the time has come.' After 50 years, Clarke's at Faneuil Hall closing next week, an owner says.

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Peek inside the most wishlisted Airbnb in Massachusetts

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Todd Lyons, ICE head and South Boston native, on why he's leaving the Trump administration - Lyons told the Globe in an interview Friday he is leaving "on my own terms."

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Oil prices fall sharply and Wall Street rallies to a record as Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz. Follow live updates.

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Trump's lawyers are in talks with the IRS to resolve president's $10 billion lawsuit

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R.I. judge acquits former Providence teacher accused of raping student

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MBTA announces May service suspensions across multiple lines

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Landmark release: Ireland's 1926 census — its first as a free state — goes digital

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The Stage at Suffolk Downs, a music venue that debuted in 2023, has no shows scheduled this season

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American Airlines says it won't merge with United

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Rescuers break sunroof to save man from submerged car in Waltham

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Driver charged with vehicular homicide in death of 10-year-old Webster girl

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Building 19 used cheap jokes to sell cheap crap. These two guys think it was art.

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Bruins' David Pastrnak has NHL's best nickname according to NHLPA poll

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For 26 years, he installed the Boston Marathon finish line. This year, his family did the honors in his absence.

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With both defending champs returning, and stacked fields behind them, could Boston records fall again?

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Forecast | Ken Mahan - Here's your latest Boston Marathon forecast

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For elite athletes, planning pregnancies requires careful timing. Here's how these Boston Marathoners do it.

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EDITORIAL - Low-balling the Boston police overtime budget is not a strategy - Low-balling the Boston police overtime budget isn't a winning strategy.

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IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD -- Hungary's hidden blueprint for the post-Trump MAGA movement

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Moddie Turay -- Mass. housing crisis can't be solved by new construction alone

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Elissa Ely -- On the same side, until we weren't

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Jill Abramson -- Are mainstream news media finally ready to examine Trump's mental fitness?

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Power Play - What if the problem with Faneuil Hall is the company that runs it?

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Employee attacked at Tewksbury Hospital in third recent assault at facility

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Retired BPD officer accused of raping minor permitted to travel out of state

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Four men face total of 75 charges in daytime Haverhill shooting

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Wrentham man previously convicted of defrauding feds charged with child porn possession

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Patients and dental community mourn Dr. Cerina Fairfax, killed by Virginia's ex-lieutenant governor

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Woburn biotech to lay off more than 200 after second FDA rejection of skin cancer treatment

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Dan Shaughnessy - Younger fans may not know, but there's real history in a Celtics-Sixers playoff series, and other thoughts - Would you believe it if I told you that the last time the Sixers won one of these Atlantic corridor jousts came amid "Beat LA!" chants at the Old Garden in 1982?

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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER -- How 2026 has sucked the remaining joy out of air travel -- Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse, it did, and it's only April.

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'Pass the torch.' Dark-money group, led by a Moulton donor, targets Markey's 50-year tenure in Washington - MA Progress Action, a self-described 501(c)(4) organization, on Wednesday unveiled an ad invoking a fictional ailment: "Chronic Reelection Disorder."

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

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At local museums, the countdown continues to July 4 and the 250th

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'Margo's Got Money Troubles,' and an OnlyFans following, in David E. Kelley's new series

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Boston Theater Critics Association reveals list of Elliot Norton nominees

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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 -- The Trump administration doesn't want these refugees. But they have nowhere else to go.

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EDITORIAL -- House budget proposal reflects austere times

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Why is Mike Vrabel skirting the fallout of those Page Six photos?

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

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A college president paid 'excessive' attention to one student. She sought a no-contact order against him. -- John Cox had an unprofessional relationship with a 23-year-old female student, according to an external investigation commissioned by the college and obtained by the Globe.

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NHL -- Canucks fire general manager Patrik Allvin. Head of hockey ops Jim Rutherford keeps his job. -- Allvin's dismissal came a day after Vancouver ended its season with a 6-1 loss to the Oilers in Edmonton. The result punctuated a season where the Canucks finished last overall with a 25-49-8 record.

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Texans' Will Anderson Jr. lands a record $150M extension, top-paid non-QB in NFL

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Oscar Schmidt, the Basketball Hall of Famer from Brazil, dies at 68

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Padres are nearing a whopping sale for nearly $4 billion, AP source says

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White House chief of staff to meet with Anthropic CEO over its new AI technology

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Obesity drugmaker Kailera soars 63% after $625 million IPO

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- The 47 Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2026

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PERSPECTIVE -- Think Earth feels darker? You're right – and NASA data proves it.

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The College Issue -- Blind date: 'We're both in accounting, which made it easy to relate to each other'

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THE BIG DAY -- Their goal: The nicest, lowest-cost wedding possible in Newport

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Joe Andruzzi Foundation teams up with Stop & Shop, Poland Spring to help cancer patients in Attleboro

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R.I. school district failed to respond appropriately to antisemitic hazing of football player, AG concludes

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Grateful Celtics star Jayson Tatum appreciates the fact he is able and ready for playoff basketball

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Supreme Court hands win to oil and gas companies fighting environmental lawsuits in Louisiana

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Oil prices drop 9% and Wall Street rallies to a record after Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz

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A Mass. youth soccer club says it sent $450,000 to a company for a European trip. Now it's allegedly ghosting them.

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Defense team in Charlie Kirk murder case says courtroom cameras are unfairly tilting case

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Mass. reports 435 confirmed COVID-19 cases in a week. See the latest data.

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Man plans to plead guilty in killing of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay while two other men went to trial

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Starmer's credibility just took another body blow over Mandelson scandal

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Myanmar frees ousted president, but not Suu Kyi

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Coast Guard searching in Pacific for 6 after losing contact with boat following Typhoon Sinlaku

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We built a publication that urged Democrats to change their ways. They wouldn't listen.

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I work in a school that isn't what it seemed

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Mark Twain saw this coming

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That eyeliner makes you look so ... millennial

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Disappointed in my friend's role in infidelity

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School's out; screens down: Where to keep busy during April vacation

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Newbury Street gets a splashy new Peruvian restaurant and a Greek seafood temple

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Raspberries for $18 a pound? $10 for strawberries? Here's why produce is so expensive in Mass. right now.

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She was Time Out Market's only vegan vendor. Now she's leaving after being asked to serve dairy.

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It's time to cheer on the fish. Here's a guide to a New England spring spectacle, the herring run.

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Where to find old-school fun in Providence

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The Eric Carle Museum takes a look at an overlooked genre: Picture books with actual photographs

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Zoo animals eat famous flowers from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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The novelist Jayne Anne Phillips took to nonfiction to remember her roots in 'Small Town Girls'

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Local bestsellers for the week ended April 12

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Barbara Gordon, who wrote memoir of pill addiction, dies at 90

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'The Insider' is a killer journalism thriller (and more relevant than ever)

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Boots Riley's next movie, a documentary about selling Girl Scout Cookies, and more at IFFBoston

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A new Mark Wahlberg comedy, 'The Pitt' season finale, plus more movies and TV to stream this weekend

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Anson Williams on his 'Happy Days' buddies, being spontaneous, and what travel has taught him

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Why 'Malcolm in the Middle' star Erik Per Sullivan turned down the reboot

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Singer D4vd is arrested in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

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A 24-hour music marathon at Berklee, Susan Tedeschi headlines a block party, and more arts news

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Tony-winning 'Purpose' will launch the new season at the Huntington

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ART announces new season, with a rock opera from Dispatch's Chadwick Stokes

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In hopeful sign for biotech, obesity treatment firm Kailera raises $625 million in upsized IPO

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Carol Greitzer, tireless defender of Greenwich Village, dies at 101

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Boston Marathon wheelchair racing legend Bob Hall remembered as a visionary who shaped the sport

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