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These Massachusetts organizations received donations from MacKenzie Scott

A number of Massachusetts organizations received millions of dollars in donations as part of Mackenzie Scott’s latest, $2.7 billion round of philanthropic gifts.
MacKenzie Scott donates $1.5 million to Rhode Island music program

Study says COVID-19 was likely present in Mass. as early as December 2019

The federal National Institutes of Health said it had found evidence that the coronavirus was in Massachusetts and four other states far sooner than previously thought.
Mass. reports 55 coronavirus cases, 2 deaths, and 47,980 vaccinations

Baker announces 'VaxMillions' lottery program, offering $1 million cash prizes to boost vaccination rates

Fully vaccinated residents 18 and older will have the opportunity to enter to win one of five $1 million cash prizes. Fully vaccinated residents between ages 12 and 17 can enter for the chance to win one of five $300,000 scholarship grants.
Five things to know about the VaxMillions lottery sweepstakes in Mass. Other states are using lotteries to increase vaccine rates, and Mass. has joined them

The state of emergency in Massachusetts has lifted. What does this mean for residents?

Residents might be wondering how the state of emergency being lifted changes anything about the situation in Massachusetts. Here’s what to know.
Charts: A good summer in Mass. appears on the horizon as coronavirus numbers drop to low levels How a city emerges from a 462-day state of emergency
Mount Lafayette, the ninth highest peak in the White Mountains is seen from Franconia.

‘People are awesome’: Dog rescued from White Mountains

A group of hikers helped carry a dog down the Ammonoosuc Ravine in New Hampshire’s White Mountains last week, a rescuer posted on Facebook.
Christian Santos, 17, holds the bottle he found floating in the water while he was spear-fishing in the Azores in June 2021. Inside the bottle was a note, apparently written in 2018 and thrown into the ocean in Rhode Island.

Message in a bottle, tossed into the sea in Rhode Island, found in Azores

The note was written in 2018 by a 13-year-old who was visiting family in Rhode Island.
Pitchers will be under increased scrutiny, though Garrett Richards's spin rates have actually increased since the crackdown was announced.
chad finn

A few sticking points with MLB’s new ‘foreign substance’ policy, and other thoughts

Commissioner Rob Manfred had to do something, but there is a bit of hypocrisy here, as well as an overcorrection.
Peter Abraham: MLB’s crackdown on sticky substances is a move to re-balance a changing game
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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SOURCE: Mass. Dept. of Public Health

Cam Newton (left) and Jarrett Stidham get their arms loose at practice Tuesday.
Cam Newton says he was ‘overthinking’ the Patriots offense last season
Newton was forced to play catch-up in the system last year but is far ahead of where he was then, and Bill Belichick agrees.

Documents shed new light on case of MIT grad student accused of murder in Connecticut

An MIT graduate student who allegedly fatally shot a Yale graduate student in February in New Haven knew the victim’s fiancee at MIT and had shown an interest in her, according to a newly unsealed arrest warrant.

THE GREAT DIVIDE
US Representative Ayanna Pressley.
Pressley urges Mass. lawmakers to shift funding away from school police to counselors, nurses
School discipline policies in the hands of law enforcement often are used to disproportionately punish students of color, Pressley said, pointing to a study published by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality.

Christine Lugo, 40, was killed on June 5 in Philadelphia.
Former Mass. resident slain in robbery in Philadelphia remembered as ‘kind, caring person’
Christine L. Lugo, 40, was killed during an armed robbery in Philadelphia on June 5.

Tim Dibble, a partner in the private equity firm Alta Equity, has secured a transfer of the liquor license and an entertainment license for the Cantab Lounge, which was put up for sale last July.
‘This was one thing we could save’: Cantab Lounge moves a step closer to reopening
The Cantab Lounge, which has not reopened since the pandemic shuttered it last March, may see a revival under new ownership following the recent transfer of the bar's liquor and entertainment licenses.

Jim Lyons, chairman of the Massachusetts GOP, has aligned with the conservative wing of the state party.
Texas Republican congressman cancels event with MassGOP over internal drama
GOP Chairman Jim Lyons, already a controversial figure in a state party divided between social conservatives and establishment moderates, has been under fire in recent weeks for his handling of anti-gay remarks made by a fellow Republican.

Opinion

People talk before the start of a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools, at the Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg, Va., on June 12.
RENÉE GRAHAM

How white supremacy weaponizes ignorance

Racists have always understood that if they can censor what people learn, they can control what people believe.
Boston Latin School
Magda Hernandez

BPS shouldn’t permanently eliminate entrance exam
President Biden's administration released the first-ever national strategy for countering domestic terrorism, bringing the United States closer to the approaches used by our allies overseas to combat far-right extremism.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Biden strategy takes on homegrown extremism
Mayoral candidate Annissa Essaibi George.
Joan Vennochi

Annissa Essaibi George says she’s ready to lead Boston, but where?
Assistant Medical Director Brian Clark checks vital signs in the Sobering Unit at the Restoration Center in San Antonio, Texas, in 2016.
EDITORIAL

Where mental illness and criminal justice meet

Recommended reads

In this May 15, 2015 courtroom sketch by Jane Flavell Collins, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands with his defense attorneys as a death by lethal injection sentence is read at the Moakley federal courthouse in Boston.
Death penalty should be reinstated for Tsarnaev in Boston Marathon bombings case, Biden administration tells US Supreme Court
The Biden administration is asking the US Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon terror bombings that killed three people and wounded hundreds more.

A Milton gay couple was harassed anonymously for years. Then a piece of handwriting unraveled the mystery

After years of dead ends, police recently were led to a suspect, a neighbor who lives a few doors from the couple and had shared hellos, waves, and casual conversation with them.

His murder conviction was overturned. But the state is fighting his claim for compensation

The state acknowledges that Frederick Weichel spent 36 years in prison for a crime he may not have committed. But that’s not enough to earn him compensation from the state for wrongful imprisonment, according to the Attorney General’s office.
TRAVEL

‘You’re on your own up there’: The rise of air rage in the era of COVID

Mask requirements have contributed to an increase in confrontations on planes, and threats of steep fines don’t seem to be deterring bad behavior.
dan shaughnessy

Honoring John Calipari and Marcus Camby with statues is not a good look for UMass

Camby and Calipari were basketball greats at UMass but brought disgrace to the school when the 1996 Final Four appearance was vacated because of NCAA violations.

metro

Ms. Banes

Lisa Banes, film and stage actress, dies at 65

Lisa Banes, a versatile actress who came to prominence on the New York stage in the 1980s and went on to a busy career that also included roles on television and in the films “Cocktail” and “Gone Girl,” died Monday of head injuries she sustained 10 days earlier when she was struck by a scooter in Manhattan. She was 65.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

A lottery for exam schools in Boston? Mayoral hopefuls react to the idea
Newton

Newton to reopen Gath Pool, Crystal Lake

Sports

Dont'a Hightower spent last season with his wife, Morgan, and their son Grayson.

Patriots’ Dont’a Hightower is at minicamp to play football, and he can’t be any clearer

Hightower opted out last season because of the pandemic.
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON HOCKEY

Don Sweeney, Cam Neely know change is needed to improve Bruins’ chances at winning another Stanley Cup
Baseball notebook

Rays’ Tyler Glasnow has torn elbow ligament, but will wait on surgery

business

ZUMIX Walk For Music 2017.

These Massachusetts organizations received donations from MacKenzie Scott

Beth Israel Lahey Health agrees to acquire Joslin Diabetes Center

Targeted by short sellers, DraftKings gets aid from Reddit’s online brigade

politics

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi says the House will move forward with Jan. 6 investigations

Trump pressed official to wield Justice Dept. to back election claims

White House to host July 4 ‘independence from virus’ bash

Living Arts

Mae Martin (left) and Charlotte Ritchie in "Feel Good."
TELEVISION

‘Feel Good’ maintains mix of romance and conflict to the end

Have a unibrow? Boston Casting wants you.

‘Kalamata’s Kitchen’ aims to open up a whole new world to kids

education

US Representative Ayanna Pressley.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Pressley urges Mass. lawmakers to shift funding away from school police to counselors, nurses

Conn. towns face losing funds if tribal team mascots don’t change
THE GREAT DIVIDE

In seismic shift, a lottery might govern admission to Boston’s exam schools

rhode island

A sign for North Providence Urgent Care and North Providence Primary Care, two of the six medical facilities for which Dr. Anthony Farina is the president or director.
RI HEALTH

OSHA cites Rhode Island medical practice for exposing employees to COVID-19
RI BUSINESS

MacKenzie Scott donates $1.5 million to Rhode Island music program
RI HEALTH

Blood shortage in Rhode Island is now an emergency

Newton

Newton has opened its ‘doors’ to a new public arts initiative for the summer

Special Projects

EDITORIAL

Future-proofing the presidency

Donald Trump brought our democracy to the brink and exposed its weak spots. Here’s how to thwart the next American tyrant.

On the Street

The MBTA commuter rail overpass frames the mural “The Stories of Lynn” by David Fichter, Yetti Frenkel, and Joshua Winer in Central Square.

North of Boston, an old industrial city gets a second look
A bicyclist made his way across Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner.

Known for its diversity, Fields Corner now must make room for development

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

More

Jeneé Osterheldt
A Beautiful Resistance
Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

Here’s your official summer reading list
These are the 70 best books of the season to pop into your travel bag.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting
Blind Spot
An 11-month Globe investigation found that people nationwide are dying in crashes caused by drivers who should have had their licenses suspended. One in 10 US drivers has at least one offense — from speeding to vehicular homicide — that isn’t reflected on their driving record.

video

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
18-year-old Brandon Greenstein of Lynnfield, who creates music under the name The BreakBomb Project, is working on his second album.
An EDM whiz kid from Lynnfield cracks a million streams on Spotify
Brandon Greenstein has been creating music under the moniker The BreakBomb Project since he was 15.

DAD'S DAY OUT
Comedian Dave Chappelle is coming to Foxwoods. And what dad with a good sense of humor wouldn't want to go see Dave Chappelle?
Step away from the house and into the fun zone with one of these father-friendly outings
We have some ideas for what to do with dad this Father’s Day.

BOOKS
Boston Book Fest held a Lit Crawl in the Back Bay in 2019.
The Boston Lit Crawl pops up in Central Square
Mingle with poets, writers, and scientists at this roving party in Cambridge.

Podcast
Ibram X. Kendi launches "Be Antiracist" podcast
Ibram Kendi’s new podcast, ‘Be Antiracist,’ encourages listeners to help build a ‘just and equitable society’
"It’s about each of us entering these conversations not only with an open mind but also in openness to transform ourselves."

MURRAY WHYTE
James Turrell's "C.A.V.U." reserves its best show for dawn and dusk.
At twilight, Mass MoCA’s new Skyspace becomes a roller coaster for the eyes
James Turrell's "C.A.V.U." reserves its best show for dawn and dusk.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Assistant Medical Director Brian Clark checks vital signs in the Sobering Unit at the Restoration Center in San Antonio, Texas, in 2016.
EDITORIAL

Where mental illness and criminal justice meet

Mayoral candidate Annissa Essaibi George.
Joan Vennochi

Annissa Essaibi George says she’s ready to lead Boston, but where?
Benjamin Franklin Institute.
Rachelle G. Cohen

A win-win city project stuck in neutral
A new high-speed Acela train pulls into Union Station in Washington in June, 2020. Testing for prototypes of the train is underway in the Northeast Corridor and at a federal facility in Pueblo, Colo.
Northeast Region Leaders

A North Atlantic Rail network would support the economy, climate, and equity
A worker at Hope House, an organization that sponsors the use of cryptocurrencies in El Zonte beach, makes a purchase at a small store that accepts Bitcoin, in Tamanique, El Salvador.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Why El Salvador sees a future in Bitcoin
Movie stills from the film "Blue Hill Avenue."
IDEAS | GREG LEE JR.

The unheralded movie that brought Boston alive for me

STAT

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (UK B.1.1.7 variant), isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID
We know a lot about Covid-19. Experts have many more questions
More than two dozen virologists, epidemiologists, and others responded to STAT's question about what they still most wanted to know.

Boston, MA -- 03/16/21 -- The cover of the summary report of the review hearing for Jospeh Messere, is seen on March 16, 2021, provided by his attorney David Apfel.(Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Cement Head’s last fight: He was denied parole six times — until he was about to become a Covid-19 statistic
In lawyers' view, the Department of Correction was trying to make it seem like it had fewer Covid-19 deaths on its hands than it really did.

JAMA illo
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
Critics say editors have asked authors to scrub the term racism from their articles even as they publish others that include racist notions.

SCT illo
Despite resistance, researchers investigate the possibility of a new mental health disorder
Many researchers say the study of sluggish cognitive tempo, which is still in its early stages, can’t yet support a formal diagnosis.

magazine
Scenes from "Blue Hill Avenue."
On the cover

‘The best Boston movie no one’s ever seen’: ‘Blue Hill Avenue’ at 20

Illustration
Globe Magazine

Searching for a summer of Black joy in a season of dread
This 17-pound cat specializes in interrupting the writer’s deadlines at inopportune moments.
Perspective

I’ve been working at home with cats. Will I ever be fit for the office again?

Rib-Eye Steaks With Rosemary and Pomegranate Molasses.
Cooking

Recipes: A Father’s Day feast of rib-eye steak and more

sports

The Bruins missed Brandon Carlo's talents after the defenseman was injured during the loss to the Islanders.

Once again, Bruins left looking for a key contributor on defense

Cam Newton says he was ‘overthinking’ the Patriots offense last season

MLB’s crackdown on sticky substances is a move to rebalance a changing game

metro

A sign for North Providence Urgent Care and North Providence Primary Care, two of the six medical facilities for which Dr. Anthony Farina is the president or director.

OSHA cites Rhode Island medical practice for exposing employees to COVID-19

Documents shed new light on case of MIT grad student accused of murder in Connecticut

With housing at center of Boston mayor’s race, labor and developers are organizing to push candidates

Nation

Alice Kobres was the last person to receive the Covid-19 vaccination at Gillette Stadium on Monday evening. The mass vaccination site at Gillette Stadium administered its final doses before closing down as the Baker administration continues to shift its vaccine campaign to focus on more local and targeted outreach.

55 cases, 2 deaths, and 47,980 vaccinations: See today’s new COVID-19 data from Mass.

Senate bill would ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in makeup, which new study found are often unlabeled

New emails detail Trump’s efforts to have Justice Department take up his election fraud claims

World

Jewish ultranationalists waving Israeli flags participate in the "Flags March" next to Damascus Gate, outside Jerusalem's Old City, on Tuesday.

Far-right march tests Israel’s new governing coalition, amid threats from Hamas

China, its military might expanding, accuses NATO of hypocrisy

Donated US vaccines arrive for Mexican border cities

politics

President Biden.

Biden and Putin are set to meet this week. But the big theme of Biden’s first foreign trip? Containing China

Biden rallies NATO support ahead of confrontation with Putin

Biden rallies NATO support ahead of confrontation with Putin

business

MacKenzie Scott donates another $2.7 billion to charities

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning off an NFT with his original code

Trump’s FDA commissioner joins Flagship, the Cambridge firm that launched Moderna

lifestyle

Spicy Fish Cakes with Carrot-Cucumber Slaw.

Recipe: Stir quinoa into spicy fish cakes and serve with a crisp carrot-cucumber slaw

Recipe: For a bright pasta primavera, toss penne with lots of herbs and green vegetables

Who wants a treat? These ice cream trucks are just for dogs

marijuana

Former Celtics player Paul Pierce earlier this month in Miami Beach, Fla.

Paul Pierce to launch ‘Truth’ marijuana brand in Massachusetts

Taunton microbusiness makes state’s first-ever recreational marijuana delivery — to founder’s house

Marijuana legalization prompting police K-9 retirements

opinion

Boston Latin School

BPS shouldn’t permanently eliminate entrance exam

How white supremacy weaponizes ignorance

Biden strategy takes on homegrown extremism

food & dining

The cover of the book "Kalamata’s Kitchen," the first of a series from Random House.

‘Kalamata’s Kitchen’ aims to open up a whole new world to kids

Here’s how you can receive $100 in dining vouchers through the ‘Dining Passport’ program

Jamaican jerk marinades from a hot-sauce maker raised in Milton

travel

Travelers boarded a Jet Blue flight from Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Fla., to Washington Reagan Airport, on March 1, 2021. The number of disruptive incidents reported by the FAA averages out to one per 1,277 flights.

‘You’re on your own up there’: The rise of air rage in the era of COVID

Planning to travel? See how vaccinated your ideal destination is

A cabin on a lake for $50 a night, or a posh inn at $250 a night? Scoping out the best way to experience Vermont

Books

Here’s your official summer reading list

Aaron Lecklider on the queer activists who came before

A novel set in Havana, a new set of poets laureate for Massachusetts, and the return of the Nantucket Literary Festival — with a virtual Juneteenth panel

Movies

Now this is a unibrow.

Have a unibrow? Boston Casting wants you.

The Brattle to reopen at last on July 2

‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’: It isn’t necessarily the character who needs protecting

Television

Mae Martin (left) and Charlotte Ritchie in "Feel Good."

‘Feel Good’ maintains mix of romance and conflict to the end

Network TV is where originality goes to die

This week’s TV: Novel ideas, getting ‘Physical’ in the ’80s, and a Juneteenth celebration

music

18-year-old Brandon Greenstein of Lynnfield, who creates music under the name The BreakBomb Project, is working on his second album.

An EDM whiz kid from Lynnfield cracks a million streams on Spotify

The Boston Pops to stage Fourth of July concert at Tanglewood

Springfield Symphony musicians to raise their instruments in protest

Theater/Dance

Nael Nacer and Celeste Oliva in Gloucester Stage Company's "Tiny Beautiful Things" at Windhover Center for the Performing Arts in Rockport.

In ‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’ hard-earned words of wisdom

Everyone loves a comeback story. John Mulaney has 21 sold-out shows to prove it.

American Repertory Theater’s 2021-2022 season to feature a pre-Broadway revival of ‘1776’

globe local

The Harry Gath Memorial Pool in Newton.

Newton to reopen Gath Pool, Crystal Lake

Former Mass. resident slain in robbery in Philadelphia remembered as ‘kind, caring person’

In a post-COVID world, there’s a craving for outdoor dining to stay on the menu

Obituaries

Ms. Banes

Lisa Banes, film and stage actress, dies at 65

Karla Burns, who broke a ‘British Tonys’ color barrier, dies at 66

Rudolph Kass, judge whose writing flair illuminated legal principles, dies at 90