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The Great Divide

Nearly a dozen Massachusetts districts faulted for asking parents to sign away special education rights

The state says Granby and at least 10 other Massachusetts school districts, including Beverly, Malden, and Norfolk, violated state and federal special education laws by asking parents to absolve school districts of key special education responsibilities.

Portland mayor gets tear gassed by federal agents at a protest against their presence

Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, said it was the first time he?d been tear gassed and appeared slightly dazed and coughed as he put on a pair of goggles someone handed him. He didn?t leave his spot at the front, however, and continued to take gas.

Portland?s ?Wall of Moms? faces off with federal officers at tense protests Photos: Portland protests swell Baker on fed push in Portland, Ore.: Locals know what?s best for their city Trump deploys more federal agents under ?law-and-order? push

Boston schools tentatively plan ?hybrid? approach for fall

Students in Boston will likely attend school in-person a couple of days a week this fall on a rotating basis. On the days they don?t attend brick-and-mortar classes, they would learn from home, said Tammy Pust, a senior adviser to Boston?s superintendent of schools.

What happens when a student or staffer gets sick at school this fall?

A tale of two tests: Vermont city left puzzled by positive, then negative, COVID-19 results

A community on edge was now a community confused. Had there been an outbreak? The state?s health department said no, while the clinic stood by its findings that showed positive test results.

Ideas: What does a negative coronavirus test really reveal?

UMass Amherst reopening plan draws sharp criticism from town officials, residents

Amherst Town Manager Paul Bockelman warned that the flagship public university?s decision to hold most classes online but invite students to return to campus was shortsighted.

Should the person with the most number one votes always win?

A question on November?s ballot proposes voters rank their preferred choices in both primary and general elections. Implementing the new system would mean in a race with several candidates, the person who receives the most first-place votes could, in fact, lose.

Task force examines use of body cameras, solicits input amid review of police

In an Internet conference room, citizens peppered task force members with questions about body camera requirements for Boston police and the privacy rights of citizens.

Opinion

Abdallah Fayyad

Prisoners should be allowed to vote while serving

Voting is a privilege that prisoners rightly forfeit

Failure not an option on Beacon Hill police reform

IDEAS | MARCELLA BOMBARDIERI

The best route for moving up is in danger of being blocked

Coronavirus

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

California surpasses New York state in confirmed COVID-19 cases; worldwide cases near 15 million

Elegies for those lost to coronavirus

Baker expects to see quicker time for COVID-19 test results

TOM FARRAGHER

After 53 years, a beloved shopkeeper is hanging up his apron at his rambling country store

Currier?s Quality Market has been Jim Currier?s domain for 53 years now, a place where he greets patrons by their first names, feeds wood into a century-old boiler, and sells 8 ounces of pure raw honey for $4.90.

Analysis

The GOP is in disarray. Is it a glimpse of the post-Trump Republican Party?

From the House to the Senate to the White House to Republican Governors, no one seems to be on the same page.

Shirley Leung

Eastern Bank, State Street each give $5m for racial equity effort led by Black and brown executives

The New Commonwealth fund hopes to raise more than $100m to help organizations working on issues such as police reform, health care equity, and economic empowerment.

Peter Abraham I On baseball

Mookie Betts?s megadeal with the Dodgers magnifies the Red Sox? failure

The Dodgers believed that Betts was worth $365 million, a price the Red Sox were not willing to pay.

Betts agrees to sign 12-year, $365 million contract extension with Dodgers

Greater Boston house prices are up again amid the coronavirus pandemic

Real estate agents say more people have been looking to move to the suburbs in the age of COVID-19.

President Trump was maskless in the lobby of his D.C. hotel. The city plans to investigate

The president?s maskless appearance at Trump International Hotel this week caught the attention of local authorities, who inspected the hotel on Wednesday to check for compliance with city rules.

?It was a near-death situation?: Mother recounts rescue of daughter buried in sand on Chatham beach

The 15-year-old girl was rescued after a hole she dug on a beach in Chatham Sunday collapsed around her, trapping her in wet, heavy sand.

A Black 14-year-old offered a stranger a doughnut. He was bombarded with racial slurs

Newburyport police are investigating after a white man yelled profanity and racial slurs at a Black 14-year-old as a crowd gathered around them in the city?s downtown last Thursday, according to city officials and video of the incident.

More Recent headlines

Hundreds of small businesses polled in Mass. have seen revenues drop by more than half

Berklee College of Music to offer only online classes this fall

Billboard facing Mass. Pike near Fenway Park says ?Black Lives Matter?

On StatNews.com

Confusion spreads over system to determine priority access to Covid-19 vaccines

Pharma promises lawmakers industry won?t cut corners with Covid-19 vaccines

Coronavirus

The latest COVID-19 numbers from Massachusetts

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

11 coronavirus vaccines to keep an eye on

Have a tip about wrongdoing or injustice for the Globe?s Spotlight Team? We want to hear from you

Comfort Zone

5 classical podcasts for a summer without live music

Missing live music at the ballpark? Stream the ?Fenway Sessions? on Facebook

Ellen Goodman and Lynn Sherr team up for a podcast about women voters and the power of persistence

Seeking the light: A coastal drive to north-of-Boston lighthouses

Recommended Reads

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

I?m throwing my arms around Providence

An empty college town during the summer ? any summer ? can be a glorious thing. It just so happens that Providence is perfect for our purposes this summer.

COMFORT ZONE

The long road from hardship to Harvard Law

Sanitation work helped him get through college. This year, Rehan Staton got the acceptance letter his dad and brother always knew he deserved.

Love Letters

A toxic ex-boyfriend got in touch to ?apologize? during the pandemic

What's the best way to deal with such unwanted attention in these times?

Rhode Island

As R.I. nears 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, Raimondo says schools reopening will be guided by science

With the beginning of the school year just weeks away, the governor said that the science about the coronavirus pandemic will guide the state's reopening plans.

R.I. political operative rejects deal, heading to trial in money-laundering case

Pens? Check. Laptops? Check. Proton packs? Uh ... R.I. schools face unusual buying decisions

Newton

Special report

The virus?s tale

Track the coronavirus pandemic in Massachusetts to its roots and you find a story driven by heroics, ingenuity, error, pain, and a hard question: How could a state famous for health care excellence have suffered such a vast loss of human life?

Seven takeaways from ?The virus?s tale,? an inside look at the spread of coronavirus in Massachusetts The first victims of coronavirus coped with an unexpected feeling: shame The virus's tale: a live discussion

Novella

Read ?The Mechanic? by Ben Mezrich

All chapters are available now for this fictional thriller that entwines a card shark, the legacy of Paul Revere, and the Gardner art heist.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Mayor Walsh, give Brenda Cassellius a chance to lead Boston Public Schools

The sorcerer?s assistants need to debunk Trump?s illusions

Enough is enough. There?s a better path forward for America

MICHAEL A. COHEN

If you can land a man on the moon ...

Prevent drunk driving first offenders from taking the wheel drunk

The future of food

VISUAL STORIES

Take a look at what the Red Sox have been up to inside Fenway Park

A night at the Wellfleet drive-in, still a Cape Cod staple

Food for the soul ... and the community

Photos from the protest and vigil in Boston on Tuesday

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Obituaries

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Globe Local

Berklee College of Music to offer only online classes this fall

The announcement signals a change of course for the Boston school, which had announced last month it would offer a hybrid model that allowed in-person and remote learning.

Boston schools tentatively plan ?hybrid? approach for fall

Students in Boston will likely attend school in-person a couple of days a week this fall on a rotating basis. On the days they don?t attend brick-and-mortar classes, they would learn from home, said Tammy Pust, a senior adviser to Boston?s superintendent of schools.

Boston will resume ticketing during street sweeping but won?t tow cars for now

Before enforcement begins on Aug. 10, courtesy flyers with street sweeping information printed in 10 languages will be placed on parked cars.

Should the person with the most number one votes always win?

Task force examines use of body cameras, solicits input amid review of police

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Bruins

Cam Newton arrives in New England ahead of training camp: ?Go Pats?

Newton told WHDH he was ?extremely ecstatic? to be with New England this year.

Red Sox? Mitch Moreland says camp went by ?pretty fast'

Moreland said the competitive juices are starting to flow with Opening Day on Friday.

Wednesday?s Red Sox report: Starter Zack Godley pitches three hitless innings

Rain ended the exhibition game in the bottom of the fifth with the Blue Jays leading, 2-0.

Red Sox notebook

Is J.D. Martinez the Red Sox? new No. 2 hitter?

Scrimmage in bubble gives a sneak peak at NBA?s new normal

NFL

Masks will be required at all NFL games this season

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The world needs Covid-19 vaccines. It may also be overestimating their power

In a medical first, doctors treat Parkinson?s with a novel brain cell transplant

A cancer patient reconsiders her end-of-life wishes amid Covid-19

Covid-19?s future: small outbreaks, monster wave, or ongoing crisis

Stay up to date with STAT?s Covid-19 Tracker

Business

Hundreds of small businesses polled in Mass. have seen revenues drop by more than half

Survey of nearly 1,900 businesses shows the hardest-hit sectors are salons, bars, restaurants, health care, and retail.

United sees revenue stalling at 50% without a virus vaccine

Times Co. names Meredith Kopit Levien as chief executive

Amazon opens delivery center in former Necco candy factory

Pfizer, BioNTech reach $1.95 billion COVID-19 vaccine deal with US government

Eastern Bank, State Street each give $5m for racial equity effort led by Black and brown executives

Politics

House votes to remove Confederate statues from Capitol

Trump deploys more federal agents under ?law-and-order? push

Biden says Trump is America?s first ?racist? president

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Marijuana

East Boston marijuana store, city?s second, now open

Regulators, advocates press Legislature to follow through on promise of marijuana equity

magazine

How a suspicious fire saved a homeless shelter for women

Growing up Black in all the wrong places

Young people believe activism can help. But voting? That's different

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do online, July 20-26

sports

NFL quiet on Woody Johnson report

Mookie Betts?s megadeal with the Dodgers magnifies the Red Sox? failure

Russell Westbrook returns to practice after testing positive

metro

Berklee College of Music to offer only online classes this fall

Boston schools tentatively plan ?hybrid? approach for fall

Boston will resume ticketing during street sweeping but won?t tow cars for now

Nation

?What choice do we have??: Portland?s ?Wall of Moms? faces off with federal officers at tense protests

Oregon urges judge to rein in US agents deployed in Portland

President Trump says he?ll send agents to Chicago and elsewhere

World

Virus deaths top 600,000 and Hong Kong warns of resurgence

Kuwait?s ruler, 91, undergoes a ?successful? surgery

Arson inquiry launched for French cathedral fire in Nantes

politics

Trump deploys more federal agents under ?law-and-order? push

Biden says Trump is America?s first ?racist? president

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejects GOP colleague?s apology in verbal spat

business

Hundreds of small businesses polled in Mass. have seen revenues drop by more than half

United sees revenue stalling at 50% without a virus vaccine

Times Co. names Meredith Kopit Levien as chief executive

lifestyle

Discovery Museum reopens free of charge on July 28

The long road from hardship to Harvard Law

I?m throwing my arms around Providence

marijuana

East Boston marijuana store, city?s second, now open

Regulators, advocates press Legislature to follow through on promise of marijuana equity

Mass. marijuana regulators fine Acreage Holdings $250,000 for attempting to exceed license cap

opinion

The best route for moving up is in danger of being blocked

Failure not an option on Beacon Hill police reform

Voting is a privilege that prisoners rightly forfeit

food & dining

Night Shift?s Nite Heavy is worth celebrating, even if we can?t do it together

Recipe: Refreshingly cold gazpacho with melon, cucumber, and grapes is the antidote to hot summer nights

Hospital worker by day and DJ by night, James Clements updates a longtime Dorchester watering hole

travel

I?m throwing my arms around Providence

?This hotel has only ever known a pandemic?

What to know before you visit Rhode Island

Books

Review: ?Jeopardy!? host Alex Trebek searches for answers in new book

When it comes to books, he?s listening

Local bestsellers for the week ending July 12

Movies

Parenting is a team effort in ?Babysplitters?

In scary ?Rental,' who needs a haunted house when you can have a haunted Airbnb?

In ?Radioactive,? Madame Curie is on the screen in the lab

Television

?Perry Mason? rebooted ? and now renewed

Billy Eichner to star in Paul Lynde biopic

You can be in a relationship with a streamer that doesn?t have to last forever

music

It?s Lori McKenna?s party, and she?ll cry if she wants to

Missing live music at the ballpark? Stream the ?Fenway Sessions? on Facebook

Europe is reopening. American musicians are missing out.

Theater/Dance

In a disrupted summer, theaters are revising the script

Theater closures in Boston bring layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts

Are you ready to dance again?

globe local

After 53 years, a beloved shopkeeper is hanging up his apron at his rambling country store

Meals for kids, library donation, and phone photography

Wellesley Fire Department receives grant for PPE amid coronavirus pandemic

Obituaries

Journalist Christopher Dickey dies at 68; he wrote of conflicts far away, and in his own family

Zizi Jeanmaire, alluring ballerina and singer, dies at 96

Marilyn Abel, who opened the world of music to special needs students, dies at 90