BETH TEITELL - The Boston accent is disappearing. How much longer will its music linger? From call-in radio shows to corner bars, the accent that defined Boston is losing ground. A Dartmouth linguist has research to prove it.

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Looking back on the last 50 years with Boston's Bicentennial photographer -- As the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, Lou Jones's work from a half-century ago is receiving renewed attention.

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Oral history of New Bedford's fishing industry to hit the road, with state grant funding -- The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center received a nearly $20,000 state grant to have the exhibit visit three locations in the southcoast city.

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'Sugar and spite': After anti-ICE cookie goes viral, Western Mass. bakery deals with death threats and surge in demand

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Renee Good was concerned about ICE, a lawyer says, but wasn't following agents

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A surprise at the National Zoo: An endangered terrapin hatchling

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Somerville state representative posts video saying, 'We need to get ICE the [expletive] out of Massachusetts' -- Erika Uyterhoeven, a Somerville state representative, took to social media to voice her concerns.

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ICE says a Cuban man died during a suicide attempt. A witness says a guard fatally choked him.

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Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don't back the US controlling Greenland -- President Trump for months has insisted that the US should control Greenland, and said earlier this week that anything less would be "unacceptable."

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Teen who allegedly killed paddleboarder in Maine had previous violent episode, records show -- Court records about the July murder have been sealed because the alleged killer was 17 at the time.

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Grand jury brings additional charges in fatal shooting at N.H. country club -- Hunter Nadeau, 24, is now facing a total of six charges in relation to the shooting on Sept. 20, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said.

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'Two guys from Rhode Island' on how to correctly pronounce the 39 cities and towns in the Ocean State -- Those 'three guys from Boston' aren't the only ones with wicked regional accents.

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Jim Braude - Everyone can serve. Today, everyone should. As isolation deepens and civic trust collapses, shared national service could rebuild connection, responsibility, and democracy itself.

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EDITORIAL -- Beyond the boot camp: State Police academy shows progress

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Deborah Ramirez -- Why are the feds blocking a state probe of the ICE killing of Renee Good?

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JEFF JACOBY -- From two midwives in Egypt to Martin Luther King

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Fire breaks out on Mass. Maritime training ship near Puerto Rico; no injuries reported -- The ship is traveling to the Panama Canal, officials said.

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Boston Public Schools implementing partial hiring freeze to confront budget deficit -- "This year's shortfall requires immediate action and a strategic plan to address it," the school system's superintendent, Mary Skipper, said in a memo to staff.

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Antisemitic incidents surge to become most common type of hate crime in Massachusetts, data show -- Antisemitic incidents now account for one of every four hate crime reports police take in Massachusetts.

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Woman's body recovered from water off Plum Island in Newbury -- Newbury police received a report of a body found in the water near Harvard Way around 11:45 a.m. Thursday, officials said.

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What is happening on MIT campus this weekend? We have a clue. Sort of. The annual Mystery Hunt returns to the Cambridge campus for MLK Jr. weekend, bringing thousands of puzzle hunters together for one epic quest.

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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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Ray Takeyh -- Iran's uprising is similar to 1979 — but it's not a revolution yet

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JEFF JACOBY -- When America votes in the UN General Assembly, it ratifies a charade

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MLB -- It was a surprise when the Nationals hired 33-year-old Blake Butera to be their manager — except to those who knew him at BC -- BC baseball people view Butera not just as one of them. He is one of the best of them.

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Patriots Notebook -- Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez clears concussion protocol, set to play Sunday against the Texans -- Gonzalez sustained a head injury in last week's 16-3 wild-card win over the Chargers, and was in the concussion protocol early in the week.

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CELTICS BEAT WRITER'S NOTEBOOK -- Everyone knows Sam Hauser can shoot, but he provides the Celtics with so much more

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OLYMPICS -- Ice dance champ Gabriella Papadakis says she lost Olympic commentary role for NBC over dispute with ex-partner

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The Texans have ruled out star receiver Nico Collins (concussion), but do they still have enough weapons to beat the Patriots?

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Mass. awarded $21.2m to combat unauthorized drone activity ahead of World Cup

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Trump delays plan to seize wages of student borrowers amid affordability push

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No. 1 Indiana looking for a storybook ending to complete this real-life Hollywood script at Miami

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With Ranger Suárez signed, the Red Sox can turn back to the pursuit of position players

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Justice Department investigating whether Minnesota's Walz and Frey impeded immigration enforcement

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Trump administration delays plan to withhold wages for student loan borrowers in default. Follow live updates.

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Trump sets fraudster free from prison for second time

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Iran protests quelled since deadly crackdown, residents say

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A sanctuary for Black artists, born in the violent racial tumult of Boston's past, finally gets its day

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Mark Brnovich, Arizona attorney general during Trump's push to find 2020 election fraud, has died

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