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HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL -- Globe Top 20 softball poll: An out-of-state loss, and still No. 1 -- Though No. 1 Taunton and No. 2 Dighton-Rehoboth lost this week, they both maintain their spots at the top of this week's Globe Top 20 softball poll.

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HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL NOTEBOOK -- Newton North softball's terrific pitching trio features a variety of looks, and has kept the team on top -- Senior lefty Sophia Boehmer and junior righthanders Nora Hamel and Paige Elman have been central to their team's success this season.

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HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL -- Eastern Mass softball: Players of the Week, April 21-27 -- Sophomores from Reading, St. Mary's, and Greater New Bedford highlight the week's performances.

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This Boston distillery's new nonalcoholic cocktails are spritzy and delightful

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Joel Embiid helps 76ers stave off elimination in stunning Game 5 win over the Celtics

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Gary Washburn | On basketball -- Celtics succumbed to their fourth-quarter offensive frustration in Game 5

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White House without evidence blames Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren, for 'inspiring violence' against Trump

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KEVIN CULLEN -- The Washington press corps might want to reconsider its choice of guests

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FCC orders review of ABC broadcast licenses after Kimmel remarks

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Thirty-five years ago, Representative Neal boycotted the Queen. With the King's visit, things have changed.

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King Charles III and Queen Camilla to visit 9/11 Memorial and other NYC landmarks

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White House says funds to pay TSA and other Homeland Security workers will 'soon run out'

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Ex-FBI Director Comey indicted again, in a probe over an online post officials call a Trump threat

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Bruins beat Sabres in Game 5 to keep first-round playoff series alive

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Two suspected of bank robbery in Everett apprehended, police say

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Police hunt for armed suspects in two bank robberies in Roxbury and Roslindale

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Somerville family hunkers down at home under measles quarantine after exposure at Logan

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Parent allegedly assaulted Canton school bus driver in front of children

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New details about discovery of slain children in Wellesley emerge in police dispatch recordings

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Many residents balked at a 26-story Davis Square tower. The developer said he would compromise at 24.

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Power Play -- For this Kennedy, energy is the new politics

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Supreme Court to weigh Trump administration push to end protections for Haitian, Syrian migrants

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Forecast | Ken Mahan -- A mostly cloudy Wednesday will give way to steady rain starting late

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Boston agrees to $850,000 settlement in lawsuit over police force during 2020 George Floyd protests

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Salem's beloved Dairy Witch Ice Cream shutting down after 74 years: 'It meant summer was close'

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Blue Jays 3, Red Sox 0 - Red Sox starter Payton Tolle no match for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Blue Jays

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Tick season is back with a vengeance as ER visits climb to a 10-year high

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Has coach Mike Vrabel become a distraction for Patriots players? Hunter Henry and Robert Spillane say no.

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RENÉE GRAHAM - We are all conspiracy theorists now - A decade of Trump has warped our sense of truth and facts. That won't end when his presidency does.

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EDITORIAL -- Massachusetts political conventions are an antidemocratic relic

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Ideas | Stephen O'Connor -- My dog doesn't read your lawn signs

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Susan Rigetti -- Emperor penguins survived everything — until us

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Matthew Farwell appears before US judge to seek bail in Sandra Birchmore case

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Massachusetts residents sue Trump administration over pause on citizenship applications

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Thermo Fisher opens new facility for vaccine, gene therapy development

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Plymouth woman allegedly faked cancer, Irish citizenship, and her own death to avoid criminal charges

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Jon Hamm tells Amy Poehler that he 'was making fun of' Ben Affleck with his Boston accent in 'The Town'

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Tom Brady and John Kerry to be commencement speakers at Georgetown University

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This tiny island in New Hampshire offers rustic off-the-grid living for $337,700. See the photos. A tiny island in Milan, New Hampshire, offers rustic off-the-grid living for $337,700.

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'This is absurd': N.H. lawmaker defends Holocaust reference he made on social media as a joke -- Republican Representative Travis Corcoran struck a defiant tone as colleagues heard testimony on whether he should be reprimanded or perhaps even expelled from the Legislature over his inflammatory social media posts.

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Boston restaurants love this luxury ingredient. Protesters say it's inhumane. -- It's a staple of high-end restaurants around Boston. But lately, protests around the ingredient have mounted.

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THE BIG DAY - High school sweethearts from New York choose a classic Boston wedding - For young New York natives Chloe and Ryan, it's being together — and being in New England — that feels like home.

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

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Matthew Rhys, 'Widow's Bay' stars on why Massachusetts was the perfect place to film Apple TV's new series

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Jimmy Kimmel defends joke, reacts to Trump's call for his firing

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A Shakespearean scholar spent a year in Stephen King's private archive. Now she's sharing what she found.

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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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EDITORIAL -- Too many assaults occur at Tewksbury State Hospital

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Why I'm skipping the new film about Michael Jackson

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IDEAS | Mary Ziegler -- Republicans were once afraid to touch birth control — not anymore

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- The most deadly place for women and children: a family home

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

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TELEVISION -- 'Real Housewives of Rhode Island' episode 5: 'Schooner or Later' -- Rumors about an ongoing affair heat up as the ladies set sail on a sunset cruise and take in a polo match.

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Fed likely to leave rates unchanged at what may be Powell's last meeting, as Warsh to advance -- Wednesday will likely be a momentous day for the future of the Federal Reserve as Chair Jerome Powell could signal he will stay with the Fed even as a Senate panel is expected to confirm his replacement.

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Iran's economy has been battered. But its leaders think Trump will blink first. -- The US and Israel hit thousands of factories in Iran. Hundreds of thousands are jobless. Yet Iran's leaders are so far resolute.

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Lululemon founder has advised company rivals

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The world needs natural gas now, but the US is exporting all it can

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PERSPECTIVE -- How to protect your mental health yet stay informed about the suffering of others so you can help

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CONNECTIONS -- I found a stranger's journal. Its contents changed me.

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Mass. and Cass -- 'You are always just a kiss away from me my beautiful boy.' Their family members vanished near Mass. Ave. They won't stop searching.

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The Bruins cleaned up their turnovers and simplified their game, and they live to fight another day

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Celtics' Brad Stevens named NBA Executive of the Year

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Game 5 was a disaster, and the Celtics wasted a prime chance to end this series

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Consumer confidence unexpectedly climbs on jobs outlook

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Local tech stocks got torched by fears of AI. Now some hedge funds say AI could be the answer.

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Hegseth will be grilled by Congress for the first time since the Iran war began

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What to know about singer D4vd and the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

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Comey indicted for alleged threat against Trump

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A Supreme Court justice's personal ties to Haiti highlight stakes in asylum case

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US weighs Iranian proposal that would open Strait of Hormuz but delay nuclear talks

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Will communist Cuba ever pay back the billions it confiscated?

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Man pleads guilty to plotting attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna

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A bridge carries hikers across the Pike in Western Mass. Its replacement could help bears and deer too.

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Trump's ballroom fix ignores America's real gun violence crisis

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Transformative AI has arrived. It demands urgent global action.

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Most sunscreens harm corals. Here's what you can do.

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Finishing college, never had a boyfriend

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A Boston cocktail bar where all the drinks are alcohol-free

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Store-bought breadcrumbs are often 'weird' and powdery. This crunchy, Boston-made version is better.

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How Montreal's churches are being reborn as libraries, gyms, concert halls, and more

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Rhode Island's TF Green airport to add flights to Cabo Verde in May

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Christopher Lowrey on 'incredibly granular flight searches,' Phuket, and savoring airplane food

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When Mother Nature and art collide: Seeing weather through a different lens

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Derrick Adams and the hard work of Black repose

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At Yale: looking at faces of the 20th century, the body in decline, and a great architect's career

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A portrait of the artist in the Hebrides

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The best local book events this week

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Doug Allan, polar cameraman for David Attenborough's films, dies at 74

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'Adam's Apple' spotlights a trans New Hampshire teen and a family that leads with love

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Red Sox announce limited edition jerseys, trivia, and more for 'Heated Rivalry' Night

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Jimmy Kimmel defends joke after Trump calls for his firing

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Vivo Performing Arts announces 2026-27 season

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From Vermont winters to Storrow Drive, here are six notable New England references from Noah Kahan's new album

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Marc Minkowski to be Boston Baroque's second-ever music director

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Meet Everett-bred 'Beaches' musical producer Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso

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An ocean of feeling in SpeakEasy's 'Swept Away'

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John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany to star in ART's revival of Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros'

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Mass. lawyer with record of child advocacy tapped to lead state watchdog office

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Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of the 1960s bee-hived pop band the Ronettes, dies

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Jack Thornell, AP photographer who captured assassination attempt on James Meredith, dies at 86

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