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Justice Department suing Georgia over voting laws

The move comes as pressure grows on the Biden administration to respond to GOP-backed voting laws being pushed in the states this year.

Senator Susan Collins.
Senator Collins gets another GOP rebuke for impeachment vote
More than five months after after her impeachment vote, Republican Senator Susan Collins has been rebuked by members of her own party in Kennebec County, home to the state capital.

Probe begins after off-duty R.I. officer shoots teen driver

The incident started on Route 95 and continued off the highway in West Greenwich, R.I., where the shooting was captured on a pizza store’s surveillance video.

Arrests, incidents prompt earlier closure of Carson Beach bathrooms

The decision to lock the bathrooms earlier at the state-run beach followed a Monday night incident that resulted in the arrests of five teenagers. State Police said Tuesday that a group of about 70 teens had descended on the beach’s bathrooms and were “causing a disturbance” the previous evening.

A George Floyd statue by artist Chris Carnabuci is unveiled as part of Juneteenth celebrations in Brooklyn, New York on June 19, 2021.
George Floyd statue in Brooklyn defaced with hate group’s symbol
A statue of George Floyd that was installed in Brooklyn less than a week ago was spray-painted and marked with a white supremacist group’s logo in an act of vandalism that the police were investigating as a hate crime, officials said Thursday.

Derek Chauvin will be sentenced today

‘Everybody is going through the same thing’: Restaurants face reopening challenges

As restaurants emerge from the pandemic, they're wrestling with labor shortages, supply chain challenges, and a flood of returning patrons.
‘You can’t do anything but keep searching’: Despite hiring push, summer jobs can still feel hard to come by
Jerell and Valeria on their Zoom blind date.
Dinner with Cupid

Zoom blind date: ‘It was a nice change to arrive to a date and not have to wait around drinking alone’

Will these daters connect over having a healthy respect for the sea?
Closed due to the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Harris Cyclery in Newton served generations in the cycling community for nearly 70 years.

‘We had people with tears in their eyes’: West Newton bicycle shop closes after 70 years

Harris Cyclery closed its doors June 13 after nearly 70 years due to the economic impact of the pandemic, according to the business’s founder.
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MATTHEW GILBERT

The 10 best TV shows of 2021 (so far)

From “Beartown” to “Easttown,” it’s been a heckuva half-year. Here are 10 top shows to consider.
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
Vaccinations
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SOURCE: Mass. Dept. of Public Health

A view of the Space Needle, in Seattle.
Record heat to scorch Seattle, then spread across the western US
Seattle on Sunday could reach 103 degrees Fahrenheit, tying its all-time hottest reading and breaking the 96-degree mark for its warmest June day.

DCR employees arrived Friday morning carrying "no swimming" signs they were going to post at Turtle Pond after a man drowned Thursday.
Hyde Park drowning victim, 19, identified
State Police on Friday identified the 19-year-old man who drowned the day before while swimming at a pond in Hyde Park as Jason Peri Bonilla, of Roxbury.

Seiko Hashimoto is president of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee.
Olympics official says it is still possible there won’t be spectators at the Tokyo games
“The situation is changing from time to time so that is why we need to remain flexible and prompt in responding to any change," the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Friday.

Connections | Magazine
Rabbi Jen Gubitz and her husband, Matan BenYishay, on their wedding day last July.
Always a rabbi, one day a bride
It seemed my title of “rabbi” was a man repellent.

There were 18 drownings in Mass. in May alone. Here’s why such tragedies may be on the rise

A host of factors, from a receding pandemic and exceptionally warm weather to a shortage of lifeguards and swimming lessons, may have contributed to the surge of fatalities this spring, water safety specialists said.

Reset your password: Wegmans notifies customers about data breach

Wegmans Food Markets notified its customers that some of their personal information was exposed due to a security data breach that started in April.

Opinion

Taylor Swift performing at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, June 25, 2011, before the rain.
IDEAS | RYAN DAVIS

Taylor Swift’s miracle in the rain and the mystery of shared experience

Something blew my mind at Gillette Stadium 10 years ago. Why doesn’t everyone remember it the way I do?
The Independent System Operator, New England, has intentionally put rules in place that make renewable energy sources, like solar, less competitive.
Bradley Campbell and Stephan Roundtree

Why Massachusetts is in a bind on emissions goals
A cell infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.
IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

A potential saving grace in the next cold and flu season
Councilor Lydia Edwards listens to the discussion about Acting Mayor Kim Janey’s operational budget on June 23.
EDITORIAL

Boston City Council’s power grab won’t end well
Alex Beam

Florida man, meet New Hampshire man

THE GREAT DIVIDE ⟶

See the latest from our education team focused on race, class, and opportunity in schools.

RHODE ISLAND ⟶

See the latest from Globe Rhode Island.

NEWTON ⟶

See the Globe’s expanded Newton coverage in partnership with Boston University.

Recommended reads

CNA Uvalyn Davis served lunch to resident Jane Mellis, 94 at the Leavitt Family Jewish Home in Longmeadow. “I almost died, but I wanted to come back.” Davis said about her coming down with COVID-19 in March of 2020. She has been at the facility for 24 years and is an ambassador trying to get unvaccinated staff to get their shots.

Nursing homes struggle to reduce a serious COVID risk: many employees resist vaccination

The failure of many nursing home staff members to get vaccinated has emerged as one of the most serious gaps in the United States’ defenses against COVID.

Katie Boisseau's husband, Phil, died of COVID-19 in early May. She is photographed at Phil's childhood home in Westfield with their 2-year-old son, Bryce.
There are still people dying of COVID-19 nearly every day. For their loved ones, the world is far from normal
For those families, grief is complicated by the sense that the worst of the pandemic was behind them only to see the virus find their loved one.

Red Sox
Dustin Pedroia spent his entire pro baseball career in the Red Sox organization.
‘Everybody has their Pedroia stories.’ Here are some of the best tales from the Red Sox star’s rise to the majors
Dustin Pedroia, who will be honored at Fenway Park Friday, showed an intense competitive fire and left a lasting impression at every stage of his development.

Summer Living
Alison created a melamine plate wall with pieces she found online at Ballard Designs; The Enchanted Home; Pomegranate; Replacements, Ltd.; and WebstaurantStore.
Small plunge pool + plastic privacy hedge = instant backyard oasis in Cohasset
Needing a pandemic project, this family turned a little-used side yard into one of their favorite places to lounge and spend time together.

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Special Projects

EDITORIAL

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.
Jeneé Osterheldt

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

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

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Brandi Levy, outside of Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pa., had expressed her dismay on Snapchat over not making the varsity cheerleading squad. The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a Pennsylvania school district had violated the First Amendment by punishing a student for a vulgar social media message sent off school grounds.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Cheers and swears: How a cheerleader’s F-bombs strengthened the First Amendment
Servicemen of the Russian national guard gather in Moscow on Fe. 2, after a Moscow court granted a prosecutors' request for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to serve prison time for violating the terms of his parole.
Bill Keating

It doesn’t take a summit to force change with Russia
A child holds a Chinese flag near the museum of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party during a media tour organized by the local government in Shanghai on June 22, 2021, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the party's founding on July 1.
H.D.S. Greenway

How Woodrow Wilson betrayed China and helped give rise to the Chinese Communist Party
Boston Latin School
EDITORIAL

Yes, Boston can have excellence and equity at its exam schools
A person receives Holy Communion on Easter.
Joan Vennochi

In Communion debate, will Cardinal O’Malley find middle ground?
Roca educator Sutton Bradbury-Koster (right) pauses with program participant Alexis Feliciano outside the organization’s office in Lynn. Roca is using a version of cognitive behavioral therapy to teach young people how to recognize and stop self-destructive behavior.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

A cure for violence

Metro

‘I can do everything using the bike path’: Trail links cities north of Boston to the sea

The car-free Northern Strand Trail is used by many residents for exercise, commuting, errands, socializing, and capturing a bit of serenity.

Arrests, incidents prompt earlier closure of Carson Beach bathrooms

The decision to lock the bathrooms earlier at the state-run beach followed a Monday night incident that resulted in the arrests of five teenagers. State Police said Tuesday that a group of about 70 teens had descended on the beach’s bathrooms and were “causing a disturbance” the previous evening.

Should school lunches be free for all children in Massachusetts public schools?

Read two views and vote in our online poll.

Hyde Park drowning victim, 19, identified

State Police on Friday identified the 19-year-old man who drowned the day before while swimming at a pond in Hyde Park as Jason Peri Bonilla, of Roxbury.

Sports

New Celtics coach Ime Udoka has to get Jayson Tatum (left) and Jaylen Brown (right) on the same page.
dan shaughnessy

Some unsolicited advice for new Celtics coach Ime Udoka, and other thoughts

At the very least, Udoka needs to create a culture in which his players care at least as much as Celtics fans.
Could the Patriots bring back their helmets with the "Pat Patriot" logo on them?

NFL teams will be able to use alternate helmets again in 2022 season

The NFL approved the use of a different helmet, ending a nine-year hiatus that started because of concerns about player safety.
Seiko Hashimoto is president of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee.

Olympics official says it is still possible there won’t be spectators at the Tokyo games

“The situation is changing from time to time so that is why we need to remain flexible and prompt in responding to any change," the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Friday.
Tennis

Injury forces defending Wimbledon champion Simona Halep to withdraw from 2021 tournament
Yankees at Red Sox | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 76: Yankees at Red Sox lineups and pregame notes
PETER ABRAHAM | RAYS 1, RED SOX 0

You should hate that starter Nick Pivetta was lifted in the seventh inning of a no-hitter. But it had to be done

Business

Developer unveils design for new Back Bay tower

Renderings depict a glass-covered, rounded structure with a stack of offset segments that create several wide terraces jutting out to the building’s corners.

Reset your password: Wegmans notifies customers about data breach

Wegmans Food Markets notified its customers that some of their personal information was exposed due to a security data breach that started in April.

‘Everybody is going through the same thing’: Restaurants face reopening challenges

Biden extols bipartisan infrastructure deal as a good start

Comfort Zone

From left: Steve Carell, John Krasinski, and Rainn Wilson in "The Office."
ASK MATTHEW

Why we’re still in a relationship with some classic sitcoms
Larry Pierce, left, and Paul Goodnight kicked off the project with a temporary mural called "No Strings Detached."

‘Mentoring Murals’ shows off generations of Black artistic talent
Boston duo Damon & Naomi recently recorded a show at Peabody Essex's Plummer Hall.
MUSIC

Peabody Essex puts performance in stunning historic venue
Ethan Murrow's 75-foot panoramic mural at the Cahoon Museum of American Art honors the region's natural history.

An artist evokes the oaks of Cape Cod’s past

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.

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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
Alison created a melamine plate wall with pieces she found online at Ballard Designs; The Enchanted Home; Pomegranate; Replacements, Ltd.; and WebstaurantStore.
Summer Living

Small plunge pool + plastic privacy hedge = instant backyard oasis
Perspective

Anger lessons from my kids: ‘I’m mad because I am sad! Duh!’
Miss Conduct

When to tip, and why tipping isn’t charity
Korean spicy chilled noodles (bibim guksu).
Cooking

Recipes: 3 cold noodle salads that help beat the heat

metro

DCR employees arrived Friday morning carrying "no swimming" signs they were going to post at Turtle Pond after a man drowned Thursday.

Hyde Park drowning victim, 19, identified

R.I. House approves $13.1b state budget along party lines

PASA, one of Rhode Island’s top nonprofits, is getting a new leader

sports

Simona Halep has won two grand slam events, including Wimbledon in 2019.

Injury forces defending Wimbledon champion Simona Halep to withdraw from 2021 tournament

Game 76: Yankees at Red Sox lineups and pregame notes

You should hate that starter Nick Pivetta was lifted in the seventh inning of a no-hitter. But it had to be done

business

President Joe Biden spoke with Senator Rob Portman and other bipartisan senators.

Biden extols bipartisan infrastructure deal as a good start

‘You can’t do anything but keep searching’: Despite hiring push, summer jobs can still feel hard to come by

Catania expanding its Ayer plant

politics

Vice President Harris toured the El Paso Border Patrol Station.

Vice President Harris visits border after facing criticism for absence

Justice Department suing Georgia over voting laws

Biden says he has infrastructure deal with bipartisan group of senators

Nation

Vice President Harris toured the El Paso Border Patrol Station.

Vice President Harris visits border after facing criticism for absence

Record heat to scorch Seattle, then spread across the western US

Judge rejects Derek Chauvin’s request for new trial in George Floyd death

World

Afghan National Army soldiers from the 209th Corps prepare to board helicopters on their base in Mazar-i-Sharif.

US to move Afghans who aided troops to third countries

What else has Hong Kong lost, readers ask, as a paper is silenced

751 unmarked graves found at Indigenous school in Canada, report says

opinion

Servicemen of the Russian national guard gather in Moscow on Fe. 2, after a Moscow court granted a prosecutors' request for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to serve prison time for violating the terms of his parole.

It doesn’t take a summit to force change with Russia

Keeping arts aloft has taken a lot of creativity, and will call for a lot of support

A refreshing change of pace at the White House

lifestyle

Kathy Penny, manager of collection services at the Cambridge Public Library.

Books (and libraries) were our great escape when we couldn’t go anywhere

The secret is out about Blind Tiger in Portland

It always leads to sex

food & dining

Spaghetti at Cloud & Spirits.

Cloud & Spirits opens in Cambridge; Contessa rises in Back Bay

At The Pearl, South Bay comes out of its shell

It’s about the food. It’s about his story

travel

A guest room at Blind Tiger.

The secret is out about Blind Tiger in Portland

The guiding light of poetry and place

The new Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine opens

Arts

Sharon Berke is one of the 44 tenants at Humphreys Street Studios, which has provided affordable workspace to artists since its founding in 2002. The current owners have an agreement to sell the building.

In Uphams Corner, artists push back against the sale of their workspace

Artists keep pushing beyond the gender binary

At the MFA, Monet’s fireworks pair with the ‘pent fury’ of Jean-François Millet

Books

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin displays one of a half-dozen known original sets of the Pentagon Papers.

50 years after the Pentagon Papers, does a free press still function?

Looking forward to a ‘hot Freud summer’

A ′50s literary mystery in ‘The Vixen’

Movies

Liam Neeson behind the wheel in "The Ice Road."

‘The Ice Road,’ on Netflix, puts Liam Neeson behind the wheel

Questlove’s quest to make ‘Summer of Soul’

Doc Talk: literary lions, terrifying television, a change of habit

Television

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The 10 best TV shows of 2021 (so far)

There’s plenty to like about the Peabody Awards

Steve Martin turns sleuth in ‘Only Murders in the Building’

music

Panos A. Panay, a Berklee alum and vice president, was tapped Tuesday to helm the Recording Academy alongside Valeisha Butterfield Jones.

Berklee vice president Panos Panay tapped as Recording Academy co-president

Amplifying refugees and their musical talents

Elton John to bring farewell tour to Gillette Stadium in 2022

Theater/Dance

Christopher Lloyd will star in the title role in "King Lear" at Shakespeare & Company.

Christopher Lloyd’s journey, from kooks to King Lear

Barrington Stage’s ‘Chester Bailey’ glows in the dark

Dispatches from a pandemic in SpeakEasy’s ‘Project Resilience’

globe local

Yuzi Shrestha, Ritu Niroula, and Audrey Recupero (left to right) run on the Northern Strand Trail near Malden's Linden Square.

‘I can do everything using the bike path’: Trail links cities north of Boston to the sea

Should school lunches be free for all children in Massachusetts public schools?

After 16 months behind bars, we’re finally getting to live again

Obituaries

Judith Farr, a professor at Georgetown University, devoted her life to the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

Judith Farr, scholar of Emily Dickinson and poet in her own right, dies at 85

Rina Spence, pioneering woman in health care’s executive ranks, dies at 72

Mark Peel, who helped forge a new culinary path, dies at 66