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JOHN POWERS | ON SOCCER -- After a World Cup opportunity lost, what does the future hold for the United States men's team?

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YVONNE ABRAHAM -- This Massachusetts sheriff says his contract with ICE overrides state law

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RENÉE GRAHAM - How Trump's ugly World Cup power play marred the beautiful game - The peculiar tyranny of a president who ruins everything.

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EDITORIAL -- Can NATO be saved from presidential petulance?

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Dave McGlinchey -- Why is one sewage spill an emergency and another routine?

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Charles F. Bass and Richard N. Swett -- The populist tide is rising. Can we control it?

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Vermont drowning victims identified by authorities as brother and sister

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The big restaurant brands are coming for Boston -- Once overlooked by celebrity chefs, Boston is now drawing hospitality groups from around the globe. The reasons have as much to do with finance and real estate as they do with the actual food.

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THE BIG DAY - Their romantic storyline runs through community theater - Mordecai and Gabrielle fell in love on stage in Jamaica Plain, and married in a ceremony rich in Korean culture.

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The father-daughter wedding dance gets an upgrade

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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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Mariel Garza -- California's billionaire tax proposal is the fight the ultrarich feared

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IDEAS | Rich Benjamin -- Trump's Task Force 250 is a project of collective amnesia

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Jason Margolis -- Inside the fields wars: What student athletes think of artificial turf vs. grass

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IDEAS | Michael Shermer -- The science of the Declaration of Independence

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Heavy rainfall makes for 'a wet day' in parts of southern New England -- The heaviest rain fell along the southern New England coastline from Connecticut to Cape Cod and the Islands, though some isolated inland areas also saw heavy downpours.

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RED SOX notebook -- American League All-Star team adds Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras to roster -- Conteras, an injury replacement for the Blue Jays' Vladimir Guerrero Jr., joins Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman and starter Ranger Suarez on the AL roster.

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Unrelenting rain suspends Round 2 of the Massachusetts Amateur at Winchester Country Club -- Patrick Kilcoyne of Woodland Golf Club was the only player among a trio of Round 1 leaders who finished his second round with a 1-over 72.

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Yale Law School fights to stop Trump deal

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Boston museum displays an original copy of the Declaration of Independence

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Judge Rya W. Zobel, first woman to serve on federal bench in Massachusetts, dies at 94

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