HIGH SCHOOL TOP 20s -- The final Globe Top 20 polls of the 2026 spring season -- Who finishes the year atop our baseball, softball, boys' lacrosse, girls' lacrosse, boys' volleyball, girls' tennis, and boys' tennis rankings?

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Patrice Bergeron has Martin Lapointe to thank for 37 being the number retired by the Bruins

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

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MBTA boss Phil Eng apologizes for pulling employee's hair. 'It was insensitive.'

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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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State's high court sent shockwaves when it nixed ballot question to cut income tax. Here's how it happened.

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

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

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Boston police investigating dead body found in Roxbury Friday afternoon

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

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

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

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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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For visiting World Cup fans and players, the biggest adjustment isn't the weather so much, but perhaps the light

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Duck parades, outdoor drinking, and Gronk in a kilt. Here's how Friday's World Cup festivities unfolded.

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

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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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Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes -- Forty years later, a look back at how the death of Len Bias impacted the Celtics on and off the court

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

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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

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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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'I swear I'm on the team bro': Knicks player from Rhode Island mistaken for fan during team's championship parade

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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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Police oversight board suspends certification of former Canton sergeant who testified in Karen Read case

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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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A cutting-edge electric aviation company has a surprising secret weapon: Vermont - In less than a decade, South Burlington-based Beta has emerged as an unlikely frontrunner in the race to create an entirely new industry: electric airplanes that take off and land like a helicopter.

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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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Larry Edelman | Trendlines -- MIT trained them. San Francisco just made them fabulously rich. -- Cursor's four cofounders launched the AI coding startup while still going to school in Cambridge. Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday agreed to buy their San Francisco-based company for $60 billion.

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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.

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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 -- 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

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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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World Cup -- Brian Brobbey and Cody Gakpo each strike twice as Netherlands routs Sweden, 5-1, to lead Group F -- Brobbey, who didn't start in the World Cup opener, got the nod and scored twice in the first 17 minutes.

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ALEX SPEIER | ON BASEBALL -- In 2014, the disappointing Red Sox had a massive selloff at the trade deadline. Are the 2026 Sox headed in that direction? -- The dynamics are almost eerily familiar, including a team coming off a "restoration" year and believing that an emerging young core had created a title window.

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Red Sox at Mariners | 10:10 p.m. (NESN) -- Game 74: Red Sox at Mariners lineups and notes

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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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Egg prices are way down. And many farmers are not happy. -- Egg prices skyrocketed last year as bird flu swept through the nation's hens. But since then prices have plummeted, putting pressure on small farmers.

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

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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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Very nice weather underway for Father's Day weekend

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Small spaces, big dreams: How the World Cup is spawning 'mini-pitches' across New England

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Attilio Biasca eager to show Bruins how fierce of a competitor he can be: 'I'm not afraid to have the puck'

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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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Student cheating is becoming impossible to detect in an AI era

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Californians get stingier at the ballot box as costs rise

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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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Mexico's laws have a new target: journalists

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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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Anne Hathaway is pregnant with her third child

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My father's second death

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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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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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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

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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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