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With the World Cup weeks away, Boston and the T clash over Summer Street closure

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Region faces record-setting Florida heat. So what's behind this unusual weather?

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Farewell and welcome: Boston College celebrates historic 150th commencement, the first for new Messina College

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A candidate with no hand and the senator who doesn't look like the senator: AI seeps into state House campaign materials

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Bill Belichick talks Doug Flutie's drop kick, Randy Moss, and his history with the Jets in podcast appearance

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Watch: In Georgetown commencement speech, Tom Brady takes jab at Bill Belichick

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What to watch in Tuesday's primaries as Trump's endorsement is put to the test

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Follow live updates on the Trump administration

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'He was looking for women he could rape': Alvin Campbell's rape trial begins

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America's Test Kitchen lays off 24 employees, 10 percent of its workforce

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Police were searching for teens behind San Diego mosque shooting before the bloodshed began

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What to know about the deadly attack

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Despite R.I. court decision, Texas judge demands medical records of trans youth by Tuesday

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Larry Edelman | Trendlines - Breaking bad: Ex-Goodwin Procter lawyer allegedly ran a decadelong insider-trading scheme

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Officials roll out 'blue carpet' for Boston to host 2028 Democratic convention

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Boston wants to use nearly $70 million in reserve funds to plug city, BPS budget deficits

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Beginning in June, Logan passengers can check bags and go through TSA screening remotely

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What to know about the explosion at a Maine lumber mill that killed a volunteer firefighter

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Red Sox 3, Royals 1 -- Sonny Gray's arm, Willson Contreras's bat all Red Sox need for 3-1 win over Royals

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JOAN VENNOCHI - Can Seth Moulton convince voters it's time to thank Ed Markey for his service and elect him instead? He's making the case that voters can't afford to wait for change.

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IDEAS | MIKE MARIANI -- The NBA is in crisis

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EDITORIAL -- In Chelsea, a budget crunch prompts leaders to consider a third rail: loosening inclusionary development rules

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Khameer Kidia -- What RFK Jr. gets right – and wrong – about mental health

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IDEAS| Miles Howard -- Why aren't there more COVID-19 memorials?

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Three-year-old girl rescued from river in Seabrook, N.H. by father and one other person

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Harvard asks federal judge to dismiss Trump antisemitism lawsuit

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Driver dead after pickup truck rolls over and crashes into home in Hanson

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Suspect in Beverly mansion heist indicted on 10 charges

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Boston man sentenced after being found guilty of drugging and raping girlfriend on Valentine's Day

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Former McDonald's manager charged with contaminating ex-girlfriend's fries

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AS I SEE IT - 'Great Thanks, Bruce Springsteen' "As I See It," a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers.

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Across Massachusetts, residents are pushing back against their new neighbors: data centers -- Plans to build or expand data centers are coming under fire from local governments and grassroots activists around the state.

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They're both Marines, 40-somethings, and waging generational fights. So why aren't Seth Moulton and Graham Platner allies? -- Representative Seth Moulton has backed service members across the country for years, including as he mounts a Senate bid in Massachusetts. But there's one glaring exception to his endorsement list — Graham Platner, the veteran also running for Senate in Maine.

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BETH TEITELL - In the Seaport, where the babies have good hair and the dogs have veneers, the socializing has gotten competitive - How many boozy adult playgrounds can one neighborhood take?

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

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80 fun concerts, festivals, shows, and more to check out around Boston this summer

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ART's 'Black Swan' brings the movie's saga of dance and ambition to the stage

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What's your 'type'? Because this man's type is ... very specific.

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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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IDEAS | Perri Klass -- My mother always said Mother's Day was a racket — my inbox agrees

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IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER -- In foreign policy, the best modern presidents have been Republicans — present company excluded

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IDEAS | ARINDRAJIT DUBE -- How to save the middle class

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

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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' LACROSSE NOTEBOOK -- In girls' lacrosse, Division 1 is loaded with legitimate state title contenders -- In the MIAA power rankings, Division 1 has 12 teams with a rating above 8, while the other three divisions have seven combined.

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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' LACROSSE -- Eastern Mass girls' lacrosse: Players of the Week, May 4-10 -- Career milestones hit by stars from Westford Academy, Marblehead, and Mashpee, while snipers from Nauset, Apponequet, and Lynnfield join a rookie goalie from Hingham.

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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' LACROSSE -- Globe Top 20 girls' lacrosse poll: Spelling out the new No. 1 in three letters -- The top-ranked team in Division 1 has won 15 in a row to climb atop our rankings.

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NBA PLAYOFFS | GAME 1: SPURS 122, THUNDER 115 (2OT) -- Victor Wembanyama has 41 points, 24 rebounds and Spurs top Thunder double OT to open West finals

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FIRE 83, SUN 82 -- Sug Sutton makes go-ahead floater with 22 seconds left to help the expansion Fire beat the winless Sun

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ANGELS 2, ATHLETICS 1 -- A's J.T. Ginn loses no-hitter in ninth and then the game when Zach Neto's two-run homer gives Angels win

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OpenAI avoided a costly court loss to Elon Musk, but neither side is unscathed -- Elon Musk had been seeking the ouster of his fellow OpenAI co-founder, CEO Sam Altman, among other changes to the company.

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Hearings to focus on why a UPS cargo plane engine fell off, causing deadly crash -- Federal safety investigators will hold hearings this week examining why the engine flew off a UPS cargo plane last year, causing a crash that killed 15 people.

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Negotiators reach a deal to end strike on Long Island commuter rail

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BOLD TYPES -- After private equity career, Will Thorndike bets on researchers instead of CEOs

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CONNECTIONS -- I first scaled Mount Washington in 1954 at age 4. I kept going back.

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- Could patient portals be less baffling and more helpful? A cartoon explainer.

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DINNER WITH CUPID -- Blind date: 'We talked a lot about her dog, Clementine, a sheepadoodle'

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- In 1970s Boston, young hustlers made easy money selling smart term papers to college students

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A porbeagle shark is seen stranded in Point Judith Pond in Rhode Island on May 17, 2026.

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These maps detail the surge of hot summer weather expected this week across New England

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Alex Newhook delivers again, scores second Game 7 winner of the playoffs to push Canadiens past the Sabres

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Adam Scott officially set for 100th consecutive major at US Open as field starts to fill

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Roman Anthony suffers setback, feels soreness in wrist during first time swinging a bat

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Edmund Phelps, who upended the way we view inflation, dies at 92

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NextEra Energy to acquire Dominion, creating a utility giant

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Federal judge bans most arrests by federal agents in immigration courts in New York

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Lawyers for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk ask to seal evidence and parts of a key hearing

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Ebola raged for weeks in Congo before anyone raised the alarm

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Trump's Taiwan gambit is already a gift to China

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Congo will open three Ebola treatment centers as a rare strain spreads in Ituri

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There's a remote chance you'll be called back in to the office

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To the Class of 2026: Don't give up on America

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'Ghost networks' make finding mental health care harder

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Would you pick lint off someone else's sweater?

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Graduates boo commencement speech about AI in Florida

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These are the 11 best beer gardens to check out in Boston this spring and summer

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Recipe: For these flatbreads, layer pita rounds with yogurt spread, grilled lamb, and crunchy salad veggies

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JetBlue to pull out of N.H.'s largest airport amid 'capacity crisis,' officials say

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A piece of New England hotel history gets a multimillion-dollar makeover. Take a peek inside.

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Mural being painted in Nashua's Renaissance Park features nod to city's French-Canadian heritage

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In art history, 'nude' almost always meant nude women, painted by men. An MFA exhibit documents a contemporary rebuttal.

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Unearthly light: Abstraction Expressionism's Gloucester connection

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Jill Lepore adds a Pulitzer to her laurels, but she's nowhere near ready to rest

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Judith Barnard, of best-selling 'Judith Michael' fame, dies at 94

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The best local book events this week

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'The Sheep Detectives' is a lamb good movie

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Koji Suzuki, sometimes called the Stephen King of Japan, dies at 68

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Five new movies and TV shows to stream this weekend

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New PBS documentary captures 'Rebel' W.E.B. Du Bois in all his complexity

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This week's TV: A Wanda Sykes comedy special, Tatiana Maslany in 'Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,' and more

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'SNL': Will Ferrell hosts season finale, Paul McCartney performs

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Guitar gurus Joe Satriani and Steve Vai unite as the SATCHVAI Band

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Adults relive the camaraderie of youth at band camps for grown-ups

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Drake's 'Nothing Was the Same' is the album that changed my life

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A gripping update to Greek tragedy in Huntington's 'Oedipus El Rey'

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Chris Fleming, used to 'scheming in the shadows,' is adjusting to wild success in the spotlight

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Drug companies spurned by Supreme Court on price negotiation law

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AI startups can succeed in Massachusetts. This billion-dollar deal shows why.

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Blue Cross, Point32Health insurers rebound after years of GLP-1 drug-related losses

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Mark Fuhrman, former LA police detective convicted of lying during testimony at OJ Simpson murder trial, has died

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Peter G. Neumann, who warned of computer security risks, dies at 93

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