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Following its win over Australia, the US is sitting pretty in the World Cup, maintaining its momentum through a relentless attack

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

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US defeats Australia and Morocco downs Scotland to highlight Friday's World Cup action. Here's how the day unfolded.

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Morocco silences Scotland's Tartan Army with second-minute tally

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With the addition of attacking spice, Morocco's dream of an African World Cup finalist (or champion) might be doable

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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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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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Lowell High School student, 15, found dead outside Salem, N.H., home, officials say

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James Burrows, director of classic TV comedies including 'Cheers' and 'Friends,' has died

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

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How the ballot question to cut Massachusetts' income tax fell apart over email

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

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

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Two tornadoes touched down in Vermont, NWS confirms, as communities assess damage

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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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Taylor Swift wedding speculation heats up (again) near her R.I. mansion

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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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Susan Rigetti -- A century later, Roger Ackroyd still gets away with murder

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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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EDITORIAL -- Make sure a high school diploma means something

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Barack and Michelle Obama surprise first visitors to newly opened presidential center

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Anne Hathaway is pregnant with her third child

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Jean Houston, 'midwife of souls' who advised Hillary Clinton, dies at 89

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New England Aquarium helps rescue injured African penguins

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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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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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More details released on the two confirmed tornadoes that touched down in Vermont -- Both EF1 tornadoes, the second-lowest rating for twisters, had maximum winds of around 100 mph.

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Brazilians and Haitians gather to watch their teams play against one another in the Boston Common -- As the sun sets, the crowd only seems to grow as Brazilians and Haitians from all over Massachusetts arrive to the Boston Common watch party.

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Moroccan fans come from far across the Middle East to the Boston Common -- From Libya to Yemen, Moroccan fans come from all over the world to the Boston Common watch party to watch the team play against Scotland.

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Red Sox 6, Mariners 2 - Ranger Suarez flirts with no-hitter as Red Sox batter Mariners late, break four-game losing streak in Seattle - The Mariners' unorthodox approach to pitcher management backfired when the Red Sox opened up the game with a four-run rally in the seventh inning.

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Haiti fans arrive to the Boston Common watch party

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Photos: Boston comes alive for a big day of World Cup action

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Yankees 5, Reds 0 -- Cam Schlittler strikes out career-high 13 in six innings as Yankees shut out Reds

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Dairy Farmers of America to 'idle' its St. Albans plant in Vermont, affecting 80 employees -- The closure is a blow to Franklin County's dairy economy, removing a longtime processing hub in a region built heavily around the industry that has recently faced similar dairy production shutdowns.

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Coca-Cola to lay off 175 workers at Northampton plant -- The soft drinks giant formally notified regulators of the layoffs earlier this week.

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

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Logan Airport food and hospitality workers vote to authorize strike amid World Cup crowds

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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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'Dima Maghreb': Moroccan fan fervor grips Greater Boston

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Matheus Cunha scores two goals, breaks out surfing celebration, as Brazil eliminates Haiti

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Marina Mabrey scores career-high 37 points and ties WNBA record with nine 3-pointers to lead Tempo

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Moroccan fans erupt in celebration after World Cup win

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Here's who won and who lost in the SJC's stunning income tax decision

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

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

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Israel and Hezbollah agree to halt fighting, officials say, as US-Iran talks hang in the balance

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President Trump unveils the new Air Force One, a converted Qatari jet

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Californians get stingier at the ballot box as costs rise

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How the Nashville Zoo became the latest face of data center opposition

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Cargo ship's chief engineer charged in 2024 Francis Scott Key bridge collapse in Baltimore

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The unquiet American: Charles Kushner brings Trump diplomacy to France

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Lebanon cease-fire bolsters US-Iran truce, after a shaky start

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Italy doesn't 'beg,' Giorgia Meloni tells Trump

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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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Is my husband defensive because he's guilty?

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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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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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In the sitcom world, everyone knew 'Cheers' co-creator James Burrows's name

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

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