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A wicked busy sports Sunday: fans takeover Boston before Monday's marathon

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8 children are dead after mass shooting in Louisiana, police say

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Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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The state has spent $4.8 million on eminent domain for the Sagamore Bridge project. That number will grow.

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Police shoot, kill man with knife in Lexington following medical call

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Warren rallies for Graham Platner in Maine, calling him 'real fighter' for sweeping change

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The state is finally renovating the Hynes Convention Center. Take a look inside.

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Beacon Hill's effort to restrict social media use by teens is clumsy and invasive, critics say

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Father wants R.I. Supreme Court to see if state law allowing grandparent visitation is unconstitutional

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Four Boston-area researchers honored with 2026 Breakthrough Prize, the 'Oscars of Science'

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US negotiators will be in Pakistan for talks with Iran, Trump says, even as he issues new threats. Follow live updates.

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They're young. They're conservative. And they're split over the war.

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The 47 Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2026

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Newbury Street gets a splashy new Peruvian restaurant and a Greek seafood temple

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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER - Inside Allston's Atlas Hotel: Where stunning design meets bland rooms

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Where to eat, drink, and celebrate on Boston's Marathon Monday

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I spent 21 hours traveling by train to avoid flights. Was it worth it?

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Here's the latest Boston Marathon forecast breakdown

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26.TRUE Marathon offers community, comebacks, and culture beyond Boston's main route

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More cowbell! Wellesley students to pump up the volume at Marathon 'Scream Tunnel'

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American marathon runners are on the rise, but can they actually win Boston?

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Body, mind and spirit: Providence pastor prepares for Boston Marathon

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IDEAS | Stacie Nicole Smith - Trump's obsession with winning is a losing strategy - Raw power can only get a strongman leader so far.

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IDEAS | VANESSA WILLIAMSON -- Everything you know about the Boston Tea Party is wrong

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EDITORIAL -- Healey has made progress on housing. But the state still lags its goals.

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James A. Peyser -- Massachusetts promised high standards without MCAS. The results are in.

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IDEAS | Leanne ten Brinke -- Your fellow Americans are better than you think

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Power Play - What if the problem with Faneuil Hall is the company that runs it?

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NFL is not investigating Patriots coach Mike Vrabel over photos with reporter

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'I think the time has come.' After 50 years, Clarke's at Faneuil Hall closing next week, an owner says.

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Trump signs order to speed review of psychedelics, including the controversial drug ibogaine

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R.I. judge acquits former Providence teacher accused of raping student

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Lawrence student charged after 'senior assassin' ambush leaves two injured, officials say

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Kennedy changes his tone on vaccines, but maybe not his plans

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Dan Shaughnessy - Younger fans may not know, but there's real history in a Celtics-Sixers playoff series, and other thoughts - Would you believe it if I told you that the last time the Sixers won one of these Atlantic corridor jousts came amid "Beat LA!" chants at the Old Garden in 1982?

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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER -- How 2026 has sucked the remaining joy out of air travel -- Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse, it did, and it's only April.

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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The government and Öztürk's legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

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Ben Volin | Sunday football notes -- Everything you need to know about a sleepy 2026 NFL Draft that is light on top prospects -- With only one real sure-fire first-rounder quarterback, and several of this year's top prospects playing non-premium positions, this year's pickfest should be different.

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

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'The Real Housewives of Rhode Island' stars bring the party to Boston for Bravo Night at Fenway

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A new Mark Wahlberg comedy, 'The Pitt' season finale, plus more movies and TV to stream this weekend

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At local museums, the countdown continues to July 4 and the 250th

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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 | JOHN HALPIN AND RUY TEIXEIRA -- We built a publication that urged Democrats to change their ways. They wouldn't listen.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- The Trump administration doesn't want these refugees. But they have nowhere else to go.

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IDEAS | MIRANDA FEATHERSTONE -- I work in a school that isn't what it seemed

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EDITORIAL -- House budget proposal reflects austere times

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Why is Mike Vrabel skirting the fallout of those Page Six photos?

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

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As Boston's 130th Marathon nears, excitement builds and the city comes alive -- Runners, spectators, and volunteers crowd the finish line and share their thoughts on how the city transforms for the global event.

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Boston Marathon -- Your guide to the Boston Marathon: Previewing the elite field, start-line procedure changes, how to watch, and more

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tigers at red sox | 4:35 p.m. (NESN+) -- Game 21: Tigers at Red Sox lineups and notes

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Boston Marathon -- How to watch, tracking a runner, and Fan Fest details: A fan's guide to the 130th Boston Marathon

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Trump administration warms to IMF and World Bank, in rare nod to global bodies

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Business groups resist anti-immigrant bills cheered by the White House

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PERSPECTIVE -- Think Earth feels darker? You're right – and NASA data proves it.

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The College Issue -- Blind date: 'We're both in accounting, which made it easy to relate to each other'

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THE BIG DAY -- Their goal: The nicest, lowest-cost wedding possible in Newport

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Weekend forecast: Wet Sunday weather, warms a little

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Game 1 preview: In playoffs, Celtics will take on 76ers with full complement of stars for first time this season

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Game 1 preview: Bruins take on Sabres as Buffalo hosts playoff hockey for first time in 15 years

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An energy blockade on Cuba pulls the plug on Havana's legendary nightlife

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US backs South African rare earths project despite diplomatic tensions

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Resignations and firings have depleted the FBI and Justice Department. They're scrambling to rebuild

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Iran fires on ships in Strait of Hormuz as Tehran imposes restrictions again. Here's what happened.

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Trump says US negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for talks with Iran

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British police investigate if arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are work of Iranian proxies

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Iranian official says US 'maximalist' demands stall face-to-face talks

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Hungary's hidden blueprint for the post-Trump MAGA movement

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Mass. housing crisis can't be solved by new construction alone

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Today Hungary, in November the United States

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Why you should take a break from audio and be comfortable with silence

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That eyeliner makes you look so ... millennial

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Providence lawmakers, looking to cash in on the World Cup, consider letting bars stay open all night

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Raspberries for $18 a pound? $10 for strawberries? Here's why produce is so expensive in Mass. right now.

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What consumers can do as the Iran war impacts the cost and availability of flights

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American Airlines says it won't merge with United

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The Eric Carle Museum takes a look at an overlooked genre: Picture books with actual photographs

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Zoo animals eat famous flowers from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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The best local book events this week

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Doris Kearns Goodwin's memoir set for film adaptation by Oscar-nominated writer of 'The Holdovers'

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The novelist Jayne Anne Phillips took to nonfiction to remember her roots in 'Small Town Girls'

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'The Insider' is a killer journalism thriller (and more relevant than ever)

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Boots Riley's next movie, a documentary about selling Girl Scout Cookies, and more at IFFBoston

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The brilliant, brutally honest 'Freaks and Geeks' was too good to last

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At TD Garden, Romeo Santos and Prince Royce host a cross-generational toast to bachata

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The Stage at Suffolk Downs, a music venue that debuted in 2023, has no shows scheduled this season

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Singer D4vd is arrested in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

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Boston Theater Critics Association reveals list of Elliot Norton nominees

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Tony-winning 'Purpose' will launch the new season at the Huntington

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ART announces new season, with a rock opera from Dispatch's Chadwick Stokes

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Obesity drugmaker Kailera soars 63% after $625 million IPO

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Woburn biotech to lay off more than 200 after second FDA rejection of skin cancer treatment

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Carol Greitzer, tireless defender of Greenwich Village, dies at 101

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Barbara Gordon, who wrote memoir of pill addiction, dies at 90

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Boston Marathon wheelchair racing legend Bob Hall remembered as a visionary who shaped the sport

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