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Consultants assessing T safety come with high price tag

The agency has agreed to pay a group led by former US transportation secretary Ray LaHood $35,000 a month in consulting fees as part of a contract agreement signed last week.

Will Greater Boston?s commuting nightmare derail biotech?s growth?

The author of a trade group?s ?industry snapshot? worries about the state?s transportation woes.
MIT spinoff will expand into old Polaroid building

Joe Kennedy on Senate primary: ?I'm not sure this is a moment for waiting?

The congressman acknowledged Monday he is considering a run for US Senate in 2020, raising the prospect he will challenge the incumbent Edward J. Markey in a Democratic primary.
Markey's reelection bid built on long record highlighted by Green New Deal

A year later, MGM Springfield slow to make inroads in crowded gambling market

Judge reduces baby sitter?s murder conviction to involuntary manslaughter

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editorial

Trump?s latest move is another cruel blow to immigrants
Joan Vennochi

For Biden, it?s the people vs. the gaffe police
CHARLIE BAKER AND LARRY HOGAN

Governors focus on transportation bottlenecks
Cartoon | Dan Wasserman

Trump?s trade war dance

Taylor Swift wins top prize, Missy Elliott honored for lifetime achievement at VMAs

Ginsburg makes first public appearance since completing cancer treatment

?SNL? announced its fall lineup, and a former cast member is hosting for the first time in 3 decades

Children receiving treatment at Boston hospitals face deportation

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State officials elevate EEE risk for Methuen to critical

State health officials elevated Methuen?s risk for Eastern Equine Encephalitis after positive tests for a mosquito and a horse in the city.

Elizabeth Warren makes a cameo in the new season of ?Ballers? ? sort of

Senator Elizabeth Warren?s affection for Dwayne ?The Rock? Johnson is not only well documented ? it?s apparently mutual.

Takeaways from Trump?s weekend at G-7 summit in France

Here?s a look at four takeaways from the meeting of world leaders.

Judge finds Johnson & Johnson fueled opioid crisis, ordered to pay $572 million

An Oklahoma judge has found Johnson & Johnson helped fuel the state?s opioid drug crisis, and ordered the company to pay $572 million to help address the problem.

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As Planned Parenthood turns away federal funding, STD cases at record high
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Recent Local News

Swimmers on Cape Cod and Islands and Cape Ann in Gloucester face high risk of rip currents

Woman charged with reckless endangerment after leaving toddler alone in car for 40 minutes, police say

New Hampshire home where homicide happened engulfed in flames Monday

Two crashes, one fatal, reported on Route 128 in Gloucester

Sports

David Andrews is latest NFL offensive lineman dealing with blood clot issue

Politics / Business

Nation / World

New 2020 poll shows tightening race between Sanders, Warren, and Biden

Lifestyle

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Elizabeth Warren?s book made an appearance in her favorite TV show

Fashion?s Isabel Toledo, creator for Michelle Obama, dies

Rhode island

R.I. gave mayors control over certain charter schools. Now one is blocking an expansion

Mayoral academies have been successful in Rhode Island over the last decade, but they now face a challenge that their creators didn?t envision: mayoral opposition.
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Do mayors deserve a pay raise?

You rarely hear Rhode Island mayors say this in public, but it?s not uncommon for them to bicker about it behind the scenes: They believe they are paid too little to run their cities and towns.

Lawmakers and defense businesses to discuss military innovation in Rhode Island

Policymakers and defense industry representatives, including Defense Secretary Mark Esper, are coming together in Rhode Island to discuss innovation and technologies in development for the military.

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David Howse

David Howse is the executive director of ArtsEmerson, which produces and presents theatrical performances with an emphasis on cultural and contemporary works.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Opinion | Niall Ferguson

Global games of chicken are frying the planet
Opinion | Naomi Klein

The Amazon is on fire ? indigenous rights can help put it out
Opinion | Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum

The conspiracist logic of massacre
Editorial

Protecting the vulnerable from abuse
Renée Graham

Trump caves on gun reform ? again
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Greenland ? to buy or not to buy

VISUAL STORIES

Photos: Fires in the Amazon basin

Photos from Boston?s Caribbean Carnival parade

Photos: Sights from South Station

Earth?s future is being written in fast-melting Greenland

Metro

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Why couldn?t the visionaries at MIT spot a bad actor like Jeffrey Epstein?

The MIT Media Lab might have seemed like an unlikely place to be touched by the Epstein scandal, yet its financial ties to the disgraced sex trafficker have thrust it into turmoil.

New Hampshire home where homicide happened engulfed in flames Monday

The Derry, N.H. house where a man allegedly shot and killed his 74-year-old wife earlier this month was engulfed in flames early Monday morning, officials said.

Woman charged with reckless endangerment after leaving toddler alone in car for 40 minutes, police say

Police received a call Sunday afternoon from a concerned customer at the Shoppes at Blackstone Valley, who noticed the toddler inside the car with the windows closed. She told police she had waited 40 minutes for the driver to return before calling, police said.

Chasm between Baker, state GOP grows as lucrative fund-raising operation is dismantled

The moves, some in and around the party fear, could sap the long cash-strapped GOP of badly needed resources at a time when the fractures between Lyons, a President Trump supporter, and the more moderate Baker, a Trump critic, have never appeared wider.

Lottery
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US lobster exports to China slump vs. tariffs

STAT

Grassroots group mobilizes to help toddlers access SMA gene therapy

FDA?s Sarepta rejection is rooted in the past, and will weigh on its future

A resurgence of polio? Experts fear a cautionary tale in measles

NIH study participants will soon receive their own genetic analysis

sports

Eileen Donahue to be inducted into National Field Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame

The Watertown coach has won 662 games and 18 state championships since she took the position in 1986.

Serena Williams rolls over Maria Sharapova in packed first day of US Open

Serena Williams, hitting serves at 115 miles per hour, needed just 59 minutes to beat Sharapova for the 20th time in 22 meetings.

David Andrews is latest NFL offensive lineman dealing with blood clot issue

The Chargers? Russell Okung?s future remains in doubt because of a similar health problem.

BC football will open with a bang, against Virginia Tech

In a rare bit of scheduling, the Eagles open at home against a conference rival Saturday.

Brock Holt knows there are no guarantees beyond this season
The Red Sox utilityman says he would love to stay in Boston, but his contract is up after the season.

red sox notebook
Rick Porcello believes his command has improved lately
The Red Sox righthander faces the Rockies in Tuesday?s series opener at Coors Field.

Politics

GOP Rep. Sean Duffy, former ?Real World: Boston? cast member, will leave Congress
Duffy recently learned that his ninth child, who is due in October, has a heart condition and ??will need even more love, time, and attention due to complications.??

Business

Marijuana

MARIJUANA MOMENT
DEA announces it will finally take action on marijuana grower applications
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced Monday that it is taking steps to expand the number of federally authorized marijuana manufacturers for research purposes.

magazine
Cover story

Diet advice changes by the minute. How are we supposed to figure out what to eat?

Perspective

As immigration debate rages, tension spills over into Maine school's halls
Beyond Lyme Disease

Ticks: They?re not just for hikers anymore

Dinner With Cupid

Blind date: ?I told [the host] she would have to cause a distraction if things went poorly?

sports

Rick Porcello believes his command has improved lately

Patriots center David Andrews released from hospital, treated for blood clots in lungs

Larry Bird to present Bill Fitch at Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement

metro

EPA delays stricter standards for new lobster boat engines

Chasm between Baker, state GOP grows as lucrative fund-raising operation is dismantled

Consultants assessing T safety come with high price tag

Nation

Takeaways from Trump?s weekend at G-7 summit in France

How climate ?change? became a ?crisis?

Elizabeth Warren makes a cameo in the new season of ?Ballers? ? sort of

World

Trump claims serious trade negotiations with China to begin

Photos: Fires in the Amazon basin

South Korea launches military exercise for islets also claimed by Japan

politics

Takeaways from Trump?s weekend at G-7 summit in France

Elizabeth Warren makes a cameo in the new season of ?Ballers? ? sort of

Trump says he?d meet Iran?s Rouhani under ?correct? circumstances

business

Will Greater Boston?s commuting nightmare derail biotech?s growth?

MIT spinoff will expand into old Polaroid building

At G7 conference, Trump scoffs at wind power?s future

arts

Taylor Swift wins top prize, Missy Elliott honored for lifetime achievement at VMAs

Prequel, sequel, revival series: Will they ever end?

Bow to the queens of ART?s scintillating ?Six?

lifestyle

The Internet flipped out over Popeyes? chicken sandwich. There?s more here than just a great sandwich

Elizabeth Warren?s book made an appearance in her favorite TV show

Fashion?s Isabel Toledo, creator for Michelle Obama, dies

marijuana

DEA announces it will finally take action on marijuana grower applications

How much pot in that brownie? Chocolate can throw off tests

Pot vape race heats up as store count grows

opinion

Trump?s latest move is another cruel blow to immigrants

Bob Cousy and this president ? er, rather, the president

?Manifesto? is too lofty a term for the ravings of mass murderers

food & dining

OddFellows, Brooklyn?s finest ? and most peculiar ? ice cream, comes to Chestnut Hill

Say hello to Shy Bird and soon-to-arrive Orfano

The best eco-friendly containers to save you from Sad Desk Lunch syndrome

travel

Big things are happening in a petite Montreal neighborhood

Marijuana getaways in Massachusetts: Where to buy pot and stay the weekend

The Whitney is a former nurses? dorm, transformed with care

Books

Looking back on Woodstock ? the music, the people, the money

Solving the mystery of what to read with beach house book roulette

Local bestsellers for the week ending 8/18

Movies

Harvard Film Archive floats some boats with 2019 overnight movie marathon

Doc Talk: A mother?s tale, a choral tour, a Patrick Swayze bio

In Focus: Why ?Fiddler? plays on ? and deserves to

Television

Taylor Swift wins top prize, Missy Elliott honored for lifetime achievement at VMAs

?SNL? just announced its fall lineup, and a former cast member is hosting for the first time in 3 decades

Bob Odenkirk: The ?Breaking Bad? movie has already been filmed

music

On 25th anniversary of ?Grace,? video released of Jeff Buckley performing in Cambridge

Peter Wolf on roads traveled, friendships made, and those early Boston days

Say Darling?s chemistry is a story of connections made

globe local

Obituaries

Former Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley dies at 66

Felice Gimondi, cyclist with a career Triple Crown, dies at 76

Sidney Rittenberg, American adviser to the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 98