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Christopher Muther - According to Trump, there's a gay national anthem, and it helped him do 'very well' with gay voters

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A year later, promised review of State Police academy still pending

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Amid Trump attacks, Boston nonprofits' payments to city remained flat

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Starting Point - How Rhode Island are these 'Housewives'?

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COMMENTARY | MARY HAY HARRIS -- Here's why one Providence city councilor is voting for rent stabilization -- Are we a city only for those who can afford luxury housing? Or are we a city where working people from all backgrounds can live and thrive, asks Councilwoman Mary Kay Harris.

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Goodbye 'Geeky Hunk'? Gmail users can change their usernames.

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Trump says US 'objectives are nearing completion' in Iran war

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Analysis | James Pindell - Three takeaways from Trump's address to the nation - The decision to deliver an address without making any real announcement may have been the clearest signal yet that the White House understands how unpopular US involvement in this war has become.

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A look at false claims Trump made as he addressed the nation about Iran

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Trump says Iran will be hit hard for next 2 or 3 weeks. Follow live updates.

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Local election leaders dismiss Trump's order to overhaul mail-in voting as confounding, likely to fail

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Democrats sue to block Trump's executive order targeting mail ballots

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Brody Bumila is 6 feet 9 inches and his fastball touches 101 miles per hour. Could MLB come calling?

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Exploring one of Ted Landsmark's lesser-known passions: Antique banjos

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VTDigger is losing its top editor and CEO. What's driving the departures at a nonprofit news pioneer?

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Head of Boston's World Cup organizing committee breaks silence, acknowledges fund-raising woes

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Artemis II astronauts are bound for the moon in historic space flight

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High-speed chase involving ICE agents ends in crash in Medway; suspects flee on foot, police say

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UMass Boston police sergeant arrested for alleged role in New York City corruption case

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Review finds State Police gave no notice that sergeant was involved in drunk-driving crash

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'Bob's Burgers' star Eugene Mirman rescued from fiery crash in N.H.

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Four cannabis businesses sue to block marijuana ballot question

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CHAD FINN -- Sure, it's early, but not so early that we can't vent a little about the Red Sox and their 1-5 start

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Tara Sullivan -- Men, women, doesn't matter: Every year, you can count on UConn playing deep into the NCAA basketball tournament

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EDITORIAL - The answer to Boston's budget woes: Spend less, grow more - The answer to Boston's budget woes? Spend less, grow more.

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IDEAS | Liam Kerr -- Baseball's new robo-umpire shows how to rescue American institutions

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Is Platner the pearl in the oyster for Maine Democrats?

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Eugene Scott -- The latest target in the culture wars

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LETTERS -- Faced with growing deer numbers, what's a policy maker to do?

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Attleboro mayor to tap city reserves to keep Capron Park Zoo open

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Lynn man sentenced to 12 years for sex trafficking during pandemic

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Methuen maternity ward set to shutter, 13th such closure in a decade

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Norfolk schools to seek criminal complaint against school bus driver for allegedly reckless operation

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N.H. public health officials frustrated by uncooperative, unhoused man with active tuberculosis

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Hudson man accused of fatally beating 90-year-old grandmother with skateboard

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK | DEVRA FIRST - How can the James Beard Awards not include a single Massachusetts restaurant? The James Beard Awards tell a story about the state of cuisine in this country. If you're reading this year from Boston, the story is that there is no story.

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It's the season Mass. dumps 500,000 trout in local ponds. Not everyone is pleased. -- The state stocks ponds and rivers with lots of non-native trout. Not everyone thinks that's a good idea.

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AI scribes were supposed to free up doctors. New study involving Mass General Brigham reveals whether that happened. -- Primary care clinicians saw a bigger benefit than other specialties.

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'He really believed that it would work': Inside the financial scandal that upended the Croft School -- Founder Scott Given "conflated hope with facts," said one parent: "I feel like he really believed that it would work."

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

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Governor Healey joins Watertown social media star for a Guinness and Bob Seger tunes

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Netflix reveals cast and first look at Michael Fassbender as Joe Sr. in 'Kennedy' series

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PAX East 2026: From Pokémon to 'Backyard Baseball,' millennial nostalgia was on full display in Boston

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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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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- A win for the religious right disguised as a free-speech ruling

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Tom Moroney -- The last slice of tradition: Farewell to a century-old Framingham bakery

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IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER -- The deafening silence of Tulsi Gabbard

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

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LEGACY -- Despite scoring just one goal in three matches, Legacy not in a rush to make changes -- The team returns to Gillette Stadium to host San Diego Friday at 7 p.m., where it will look to generate more consistent offense.

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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' LACROSSE -- Eastern Mass. boys' lacrosse: Players of the Week for March 26-31

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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' LACROSSE NOTEBOOK -- After years stuck in the same pattern, is BC High boys' lacrosse ready to break through?

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TALKING POINTS -- Keurig Dr Pepper taps JDE Peet's CEO to lead coffee company

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CONNECTIONS -- Growing up, I wanted to connect with my half-sister

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Your Home | Renovations -- A glassy addition to a split-level home gives an Arlington family more space

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Alex Speier -- Venezuelan players are integral to the Red Sox' success. Turmoil back home is never far from their minds.

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- New England's 50 fastest-growing companies for 2026

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Globe Top 20 boys' lacrosse poll: Every spot from 3-8 shuffles after first week

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Celtics score a franchise-record 53 points in first quarter in rout against Heat

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Jayson Tatum said Duke's last-second loss to UConn made him 'sick'

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Apple's 50-year odyssey has redefined technology, pop culture, and comeback stories

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MIT seeks to unleash faculty and student startups amid AI boom

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Top official predicts 'price crash' will bring back GLP-1 coverage

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Iran fires missiles at Israel and Gulf neighbors as Trump talks of winding down Mideast war

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Key justices appear skeptical of limiting birthright citizenship

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NASA's Artemis II lifts off on historic moon mission

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Record low Colorado mountain snow doesn't bode well for drought-stricken West

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Warming winters lead to more nitrate pollution in the drinking water near farms

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UK gathers more than 30 countries to plot ways of reopening the Strait of Hormuz

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Iran is skeptical about diplomacy for now, US intelligence says

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Placing US troops in Middle East hotels may violate laws of war

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Small steps can save struggling farms

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A libel as old as the Pyramids

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Fast furniture isn't built to last. Here's how to find quality pieces that are still affordable.

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Why isn't there a 'Real Housewives of Boston'?

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A Boston-area wine legend is retiring. Here's what's changed over 50 years in the business.

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Clover Food Lab tells state it will close this spring without a buyer

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American Express to open a two-story lounge at Logan with a terrace and a view

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More and more Americans are leaving the US. For companies that help them move abroad, business is booming.

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'How did I know my work was special?'

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Melvin Edwards, sculptor who wove Black history into art, dies at 88

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Will this book make you understand space-time? Maybe. Will this book thrill and entertain you? Yes.

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Women have been this country's trailblazers, says Norah O'Donnell

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It's rabbit season! A looney love letter to Bugs Bunny

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'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' sends Mario and Luigi into outer space

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The Boston-based dark comedy 'The Drama' stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. Our critic gave it zero stars.

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With roots in TV, they're changing the channel to Broadway

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Riddles, mysteries, and enigmas: Exploring TV's great puzzle box shows

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Reborn in Porter Square, Toad celebrates its first anniversary under new ownership

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To be or not to be Hamlet?

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'The Outsiders' came out in 1967. Its vision of young men trapped in cycles of violence is still prescient.

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Robert White, tenor renowned for Irish ballads, dies at 89

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Mary Beth Hurt, Tony-nominated Broadway and film actor, dies at 79

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