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

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Friday marks a jam-packed day for the World Cup. Follow live updates as the action hits Boston.

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Here's your World Cup forecast for tonight's Foxborough match

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A duck led the Tartan Army on a march in Providence

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'I just want to bring back the chicken parm': Visiting Europeans find culinary shocks and delights in Boston

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Money, Power, Inequality -- A white mob chased Black Bostonians celebrating the abolition of slavery in the early 1800s

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POWER PLAY -- 'I'm a loser.' Who won, who lost, in SJC's stunning income tax decision

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What to watch this weekend: 'Project Hail Mary,' plus more movies and TV shows to stream

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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

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Know your ticks: Here's how to spot the ones that carry Lyme and alpha-gal

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We took a trip to D.C.'s troubled Reflecting Pool. This is what we found.

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How a congressional redistricting battle could gain new life for the 2028 elections

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MBTA boss Philip Eng, accused of pulling employee's hair in 2024, says it was 'insensitive interaction'

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Was it a tornado? Intense storms sweep through Vermont town.

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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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Body of a male teenager discovered outside home in Salem, N.H., officials say

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More charges filed against Harvard dorm attack suspect

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Man wanted for allegedly killing woman in Hartford found dead after police standoff in Holyoke

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Welcome to São Tomé and Príncipe, the most beautiful islands you've never heard of

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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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CONNECTIONS -- Pulling into the cemetery for my dad's funeral, I remembered one of his classic dad jokes

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Splurging on a lobster roll? These 7 spots are the best in the Boston area

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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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Kenneth L. Marcus - Williams College prided itself on residential life — until an Orthodox student arrived - A top college's policy forced a student to choose between faith and accessing his dorm.

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EDITORIAL -- Make sure a high school diploma means something

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Ideas | Elizabeth McKenna -- Protest doesn't scare the Trump administration. Organizing does.

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Alex Beam -- Becoming my parents? I should be so lucky.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- The Second Amendment is for potheads, too

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New England Aquarium helps rescue injured African penguins

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

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Anne Hathaway is pregnant with her third child

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Brookline's rainbow turkey may miss some of Pride Month for damage repairs

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'We are just beginning to scratch the surface': 15 people arrested in alleged $1.4 million benefit fraud scheme

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

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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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No more breakouts? A new acne vaccine could hold the key. -- At least two companies in the United States, both with Massachusetts ties, are developing first-of-their-kind shots that target the bacteria associated with breakouts.

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He's worked concessions at Fenway Park for 50 years. He showed us what it takes. -- Peter Dankens, a 64-year-old who sells beer in the concourse behind first base, has been at the ballpark since 1976 — and he's in good company.

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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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'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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Get to know four artists opening for legacy acts this summer

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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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RENÉE GRAHAM -- More than a decade after their murders, the Charleston Nine remain an example of Christian compassion and inclusion

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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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Trees block roadways in Quechee, Vermont -- The Hartford Department of Public Works responded to several trees blocking roadways in Quechee, Vermont after Thursday's storm

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Winds uproot trees in Vermont -- Severe winds uprooted multiple trees Thursday on the Quechee Club's Lakeland Golf Course in Vermont

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BLOTTER TALES - Pasta poacher in hot water, more uplifting duckling rescues, and a boat catches on fire - Ducklings are saved from storm drains, someone breaks into a pasta shop, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.

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Red Sox at Mariners | 10:10 p.m. (NESN) -- Game 73: Red Sox at Mariners lineups and notes

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Logan Airport food and hospitality workers vote to authorize strike amid World Cup crowds -- Over 100 airport workers with the food and hospitality union are poised to walk off the job this month if a contract is not secured.

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Why the nonprofit Buzzards Bay Coalition took over the South Coast Almanac lifestyle magazine

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- Maine's Wabanaki Nations want sovereignty. They got iGaming instead.

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Outside The Dubliner, it feels more like Edinburgh than Boston

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Patrice Bergeron arrived in Boston as a baby-faced rookie. On Monday, he could be called to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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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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Tell us: Are you setting up a Trump Account for your child?

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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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A city's push for facial recognition on public buses ignites debate over security and privacy

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Friction between Trump and Republican senators is growing before the pivotal midterm elections

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Pingree and Charles will compete for Maine governor and Dunlap gets Democratic nod for US House

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World Cup ticket buyers are left stranded as resale purchases fall through

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Obama Center opens in Chicago with a call to defend democracy and a celebrity crowd

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Mass. reports 66 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 0 deaths in a week. See the latest data.

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Starmer vows to fight as Burnham's election win fuels a Labour leadership showdown

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About 300 children and teachers evacuated or rescued after fire breaks out at a Tokyo school

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Ukraine bombards Moscow with one of biggest drone attacks of war

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Who's actually running that robot?

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The horseshoe crab has protected our health for decades. Now it's time to return the favor.

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Their fervor for the World Cup runneth low

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My father's second death

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Sharing emotions. Embracing vulnerability. This DCF program helps dads heal their inner child.

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One of Greater Boston's most exciting local restaurant scenes is now in ... Groton?

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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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United changes passenger's flight but no notification is received

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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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Sex, drugs and cyberstalking: On TV, the kids are definitely not all right

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Colin Farrell and 'Sugar' are back for a second season, the big secret out of the bag

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State Senator invokes Noah Kahan in push for ticket pricing overhaul

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Over 250 pieces of Smiths memorabilia coming to Worcester for the 40th anniversary of 'The Queen Is Dead'

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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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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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John Reinstein, ACLU attorney who expanded abortion protections and other civil rights, dies at 83

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The Major Oak, ancient tree of Robin Hood legend, has died

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Carlo Ginzburg, who told the history of the obscure, dies at 87

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