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Iran disputes claims of new agreements with Trump

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Live updates:Trump hints at resuming attacks if ceasefire expires without a deal

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US extends waiver on Russian oil sanctions to ease Iran war shortages despite Bessent denial

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"I just want to be back": Thousands rush south in Lebanon under ceasefire

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Trump's lawyers are in talks with the IRS to resolve president's $10 billion lawsuit

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Tornadoes reported across the Midwest as powerful storms slam the region

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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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Joe Andruzzi Foundation teams up with Stop & Shop, Poland Spring to help cancer patients in Attleboro

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

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For 26 years, he installed the Boston Marathon finish line. This year, his family did the honors in his absence.

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How the weather affects Boston marathon runners

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Landmark release: Ireland's 1926 census — its first as a free state — goes digital

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Lawrence student facing felony charges after 'senior assassin' ambush leaves two injured, officials say

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Locals react to the advancement of a bill that would protect Haitians from deportation

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Stories of Black and Indigenous patriots come into focus as US remembers the American Revolution

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Pilot says Hawaii tour helicopter vibrated and spun before crash killed 3

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Peek inside the most wishlisted Airbnb in Massachusetts

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With both defending champs returning, and stacked fields behind them, could Boston records fall again?

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Forecast | Ken Mahan - Here's your latest Boston Marathon forecast

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For elite athletes, planning pregnancies requires careful timing. Here's how these Boston Marathoners do it.

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EDITORIAL - Low-balling the Boston police overtime budget is not a strategy - Low-balling the Boston police overtime budget isn't a winning strategy.

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IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD -- Hungary's hidden blueprint for the post-Trump MAGA movement

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

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Elissa Ely -- On the same side, until we weren't

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

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Employee attacked at Tewksbury Hospital in third recent assault at facility

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Patients and dental community mourn Dr. Cerina Fairfax, killed by Virginia's ex-lieutenant governor

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Coast Guard searching in Pacific for 6 after losing contact with boat following Typhoon Sinlaku

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White House chief of staff to meet with Anthropic CEO over its new AI technology

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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey

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That eyeliner makes you look so ... millennial

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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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Building 19 used cheap jokes to sell cheap crap. These two guys think it was art. -- Building 19? Well, it was a store that sold things. There's a word to describe those things, but we can't print it here. Let's just say it rhymes with wit, which is how they sold it.

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'Pass the torch.' Dark-money group, led by a Moulton donor, targets Markey's 50-year tenure in Washington -- MA Progress Action, a self-described 501(c)(4) organization, on Wednesday unveiled an ad invoking a fictional ailment: "Chronic Reelection Disorder."

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

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

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'Margo's Got Money Troubles,' and an OnlyFans following, in David E. Kelley's new series

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Boston Theater Critics Association reveals list of Elliot Norton nominees

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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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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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Forecast | Ken Mahan - Weekend forecast: Cooler April air moves in with some unsettled weather - It'll stay dry across the region as Saturday sits perfectly between two systems, but expect partly to mostly cloudy skies.

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State's higher ed leader denounces former Cape Cod Community College president over student relationship -- In a statement to the Globe, State Higher Education Commissioner Noe Ortega said he "[appreciated] the action the college's Board of Trustees took upon learning of the allegations" against former president John Cox.

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'A terrible stain': Cape Cod campus reeling after learning of former president's inappropriate relationship with student -- The college's board of trustees has still not publicly released the results of the investigation, and some on campus said they were upset at having to learn from the news media why Cox abruptly left.

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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' VOLLEYBALL NOTEBOOK -- These cousins have won 37 regular-season matches in a row for the Chelmsford volleyball teams -- Ridty Tauch is a junior hitter for the boys' team, which is off to a 7-0 star, while his cousin, Kyra Ward, is a junior hitter for the girls' team, which went undefeated in the regular season last fall.

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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' VOLLEYBALL -- Eastern Mass. boys' volleyball: Players of the Week for April 9-16 -- This week's top performers hail from Wayland, Natick, Milton, Billerica, Weymouth, and Chelmsford.

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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' VOLLEYBALL -- Globe Top 20 boys' volleyball poll: Milton, Chelmsford ride big wins into Top 10 -- Milton went to five sets with 2024 champion Newton North and came out on top, and the Lions swept Lowell.

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CELTICS -- Grateful Celtics star Jayson Tatum appreciates the fact he is able and ready for playoff basketball

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SUNS 111, WARRIORS 96 -- Jalen Green scores 36 points, Suns lock down Warriors, Stephen Curry to win in NBA's play-in tourney

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MAGIC 121, HORNETS 90 -- Magic rout Hornets in play-in game, advance to face Pistons in first round of playoffs

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American Airlines says it won't merge with United

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- The 47 Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2026

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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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A college president paid 'excessive' attention to one student. She sought a no-contact order against him.

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With plenty of finesse thrown in, Red Sox lefthander Ranger Suarez is making it look easy after slow start

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Friday's eight high school sports takeaways, including two big lacrosse upsets and three walkoff wins

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More walkoff magic as Red Sox defeat Tigers in 10 innings

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Padres are nearing a whopping sale for nearly $4 billion, AP source says

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Obesity drugmaker Kailera soars 63% after $625 million IPO

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Oil prices fall sharply and Wall Street rallies to a record as Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz. Here's what happened.

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Federal court temporarily freezes Nexstar's merger with Tegna

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Starmer's credibility just took another body blow over Mandelson scandal

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Are mainstream news media finally ready to examine Trump's mental fitness?

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

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Who was the 'Codfather,' and what makes fishermen so hard to regulate?

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Disappointed in my friend's role in infidelity

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School's out; screens down: Where to keep busy during April vacation

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

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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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She was Time Out Market's only vegan vendor. Now she's leaving after being asked to serve dairy.

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It's time to cheer on the fish. Here's a guide to a New England spring spectacle, the herring run.

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Where to find old-school fun in Providence

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

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Local bestsellers for the week ended April 12

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

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

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Anson Williams on his 'Happy Days' buddies, being spontaneous, and what travel has taught him

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Why 'Malcolm in the Middle' star Erik Per Sullivan turned down the reboot

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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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A 24-hour music marathon at Berklee, Susan Tedeschi headlines a block party, and more arts news

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

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In hopeful sign for biotech, obesity treatment firm Kailera raises $625 million in upsized IPO

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

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

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