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Scotland's World Cup run in Boston is sadly over. It's something we won't soon forget.

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Chad Finn | Sports Media - Even Alexi Lalas's Fox teammates for the World Cup have grown tired of his act

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Coach says Iran still being treated poorly by US at World Cup ahead of second match

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'A true national holiday': Boston celebrates Juneteenth in Franklin Park

7 hours ago

US Vice President JD Vance lands in Switzerland to launch talks with Iran on its nuclear program

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Secret vetting and blocked promotions: Inside Hegseth's war on diversity in US military

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Egg prices are way down. And many farmers are not happy.

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FAA investigates incident that forced a Delta flight to abort landing

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The bobcat is the only wildcat in Mass. So why are so many people sure they're seeing mountain lions?

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Larry Edelman | Trendlines - MIT trained them. San Francisco just made them fabulously rich.

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Healey says she 'absolutely' has confidence in Phil Eng's leadership

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A cutting-edge electric aviation company has a surprising secret weapon: Vermont

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What happens when your sailboat takes on water 300 miles from shore? They found out.

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Woman fatally struck by allegedly stolen vehicle on Blue Hill Avenue, police say

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Wrong-way driver dies in head-on crash in Millbury after allegedly fleeing police

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Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes -- Money can't always buy happiness. Just ask some of baseball's biggest spenders, the Sad Six.

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- I let my Fitbit be the boss of me. I regretted it.

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My father's second death

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Splurging on a lobster roll? These 7 spots are the best in the Boston area

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When you're feeling fancy, these 13 restaurants around Boston are worth the splurge

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A roller skating rink, a wildlife preserve, and nine other fun places to take your kids this summer

15 days ago

More from the Boston Globe's Best of the Best

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Eugene Scott - World Cup can get America's kids off the couch - A wave of excitement over professional and international sports should be harnessed to combat declining youth physical activity.

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IDEAS | Bob Brody -- Dad, wannabe hero

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LETTERS -- When the will to live is gone, fighting for the agency to die

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EDITORIAL -- Make sure a high school diploma means something

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Susan Rigetti -- A century later, Roger Ackroyd still gets away with murder

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Taylor Swift wedding speculation heats up (again) near her R.I. mansion

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Sunday marks the first day of astronomical summer. Here's what to know about the solstice.

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Coca-Cola to lay off 175 workers at Northampton plant

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Two tornadoes touched down in Vermont, NWS confirms, as communities assess damage

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Seaside Beverly mansion targeted in heist listed for $23 million. See the photos.

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Money, Power, Inequality - A white mob chased Black Bostonians celebrating the abolition of slavery in the early 1800s - In the 1810s, one of the earliest celebrations of the abolition of slavery turned violent.

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Dan Shaughnessy -- Eddie Andelman gave us sports talk radio gold with his no-holds-barred interview of Wade Boggs in 1989 -- Ever embroiled in controversies, Wade Boggs was a favorite Eddie target and didn't like Boston's favorite blab-master.

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What to watch this weekend: 'Project Hail Mary,' plus more movies and TV shows to stream

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'I Will Find You': In Netflix's new Boston-set mystery, a Revere dad and a former Globie search for the truth

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Watch: Matt Damon goes full 'Odyssey,' sneaks onto 'Kimmel' in a mini Trojan horse

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Woody, Buzz, and Jessie discover the evils of tech in 'Toy Story 5′

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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.

5 months ago

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.

5 months ago

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.

5 months ago

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.

3 months ago

EDITORIAL -- Small development, big problems in Boston's housing pipeline

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

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Ideas | Deborah Cramer -- The horseshoe crab has protected our health for decades. Now it's time to return the favor.

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Laura Goldstein -- Before it's too late, let my husband choose how his story ends

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

3 months ago

Andover boy dies a month after being pulled from pond, school district says -- Cody Nguyen was pulled unresponsive from Field Pond at Harold Parker State Forest on May 19.

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AUTO RACING -- Shane van Gisbergen captures the pole for inaugural NASCAR race at Naval Base Coronado -- The New Zealand driver turned in a 2-minute, 14.788-second lap around the 16-turn, 3.4-mile street course in the inaugural race.

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CURACAO 0, ECUADOR 0 -- Curacao's Eloy Room makes 15 saves, secures first World Cup point in draw with Ecuador -- His save total was one shy of the record — since saves became an official stat in 1966 — of 16 set by Tim Howard of the United States against Belgium on July 1, 2014.

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US Open -- Wyndham Clark turning the US Open into a runaway. Scottie Scheffler still has hope for a slam.

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GERMANY 2, IVORY COAST 1 -- Germany coming to Foxborough after winning Group E behind two goals from substitute Deniz Undav

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OKLAHOMA 9, NORTH CAROLINA 3 -- Oklahoma a win away from national title after roughing up North Carolina ace in Game 1 of CWS finals

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Fatal Missouri skydiving plane crash renews concerns about safety loophole -- Investigation officials have complained for years that federal rules treat skydiving planes and many sightseeing aircraft more like private personal planes than commercial airliners, despite carrying paying customers. The same goes for "living history" flights involving historic aircraft.

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Iran closes Strait of Hormuz ahead of talks with US

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Lebanon fighting continues despite ceasefire, threatening US-Iran agreement

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- Maine's Wabanaki Nations want sovereignty. They got iGaming instead.

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CONNECTIONS -- Pulling into the cemetery for my dad's funeral, I remembered one of his classic dad jokes

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DINNER WITH CUPID -- Blind date: 'First dates should be more about just getting to know the person than to force chemistry'

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R.I. Democratic Committee issues no endorsement for governor, lieutenant governor, or attorney general

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Very nice weather underway for Father's Day weekend

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Isiah Kiner-Falefa heads to injured list as Red Sox lose a hot bat

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Game 74: Red Sox at Mariners lineups and notes

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The final Globe Top 20 polls of the 2026 spring season

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A top banker made a case for mining to Pope Leo XIV, who has seen its impact up close

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Dairy Farmers of America to 'idle' its St. Albans plant in Vermont, affecting 80 employees

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Congress wonders if Iran war was worth it

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Trump's name was stripped from the Kennedy Center. Now what?

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Student cheating is becoming impossible to detect in an AI era

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Utah marks a year of battling measles, with no clear end in sight

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Zelensky returns Poland's highest honor after Polish president revokes it in a spat over history

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Britain is set to test how far charisma can shift electoral dynamics

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The Second Amendment is for potheads, too

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New evidence might halt the Supreme Court's Temporary Protected Status decision

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More than a decade after their murders, the Charleston Nine remain an example of Christian compassion and inclusion

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Is my husband defensive because he's guilty?

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Anne Hathaway is pregnant with her third child

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Six years after closing during the pandemic, this Irish pub is eyeing a return to Mission Hill

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The Scots and World Cup tourists drank Boston bars dry. But what do they think of American craft beer?

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'I just want to bring back the chicken parm': Visiting Europeans find culinary shocks and delights in Boston

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Best-selling author and West Roxbury native John Kenney on getting lost and having good friends on the Cape

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Welcome to São Tomé and Príncipe, the most beautiful islands you've never heard of

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Hanscom Field debuts commercial flights to Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket

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Barack and Michelle Obama surprise first visitors to newly opened presidential center

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With 'Where's Boston? Fifty Years Later,' the Athenaeum looks at a city looking at itself.

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Trump is pushing his 250th vision of America. Boston's MFA and ICA are pushing back.

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Natalie Lemle digs into debut novel 'Artifacts'

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Patricia Park performed standup comedy to research her latest YA novel

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On the centennial of her birth, it's time to give Marilyn Monroe's acting career the respect it deserves

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James Burrows, master of the TV sitcom, dies at 85

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James Burrows, director of classic TV comedies including 'Cheers' and 'Friends,' has died

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In the sitcom world, everyone knew 'Cheers' co-creator James Burrows's name

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The bands Geese and Goose are performing in Mass. this month. What's the difference?

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State Senator invokes Noah Kahan in push for ticket pricing overhaul

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Why are there so many Ionesco productions in Boston these days?

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At Gloucester Stage, 'Bad Books' makes a case for 'shelf'-defense

7 days ago

For Black puppeteers, the hardest part wasn't the craft, it was finding each other

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Baystate's CEO, who wrote book on how to fire employees, lays off workers at Greenfield hospital, union says

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FDA advisory panel endorses Moderna mRNA flu vaccine that was subject of controversy

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Massachusetts Senate passes bill to overhaul primary care

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Danny Simmons, painter and activist from a creative family, dies at 72

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Jean Houston, 'midwife of souls' who advised Hillary Clinton, dies at 89

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