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Interstate 95 shut down during armed standoff.

State Police: 11 in custody during standoff with group of armed men on I-95 in Wakefield area

The incident began at about 1:30 a.m. when a state trooper pulled over on Interstate 95 to assist two vehicles in the breakdown lane.
See photos from the standoff on Interstate 95

THE GREAT DIVIDE
Protesters last year who called for Boston schools to keep the admission exam for the elite exam schools rallied outside of Boston Latin School. On Friday, a judge issued denied a request on by school officials for more time to prepare for an upcoming July 9 hearing regarding a temporary admission plan for Boston’s exam schools.
Judge in exam school case calls allegations of withholding text messages ‘potentially fraud on the Court’
The judge denied Boston school officials’ request for additional time, making it clear he views the plaintiffs’ request to reconsider his ruling as urgent.

Workers were at the site of the collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, on Friday.
Two more bodies are recovered from collapsed condo building, bringing death toll to 24
Twenty-four people are confirmed dead in the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, with scores more unaccounted for.

Sha'Carri Richardson competed for LSU in college.
Tara Sullivan

Sha’Carri Richardson isn’t a cheater. She’s human. And she got caught up in a system that might need to change

It’s probably time for organizations like the World Anti-Doping Agency to recognize the good that marijuana can do for the mental health of some athletes.
Jeneé Osterheldt: Gwen Berry, and the hammers thrown at Black womanhood Swim caps for thick, curly hair not allowed at Olympics Sign up for the Globe’s Tokyo Olympics newsletter
One of the original 13 copies of the Declaration of Independence that was signed by John Hancock and sent to the colonies during the early days of the Revolutionary War in 1777. This copy was restored in 2018 through a delicate process that cost $16,800 and took 14 weeks to complete. It's housed at the Rhode Island State Archives.

R.I.’s copies of the Declaration of Independence were nearly destroyed. The state restored them. Take a look

The $16,800 restoration uncovered a surprise on the back of Rhode Island’s copy of the document
Juliet Bernstein sits in a bedroom of her Chatham home.

At 108 years old, Cape Cod woman starts fund-raiser to allow her to keep living at home

Although Juliet Bernstein was born before World War I, at a time when the telephone was considered high technology, she has settled on a 21st-century path toward her goal: a GoFundMe account to help pay for home care.
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
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Early morning rain on Beacon Hill. Record cold temperatures are possible on Saturday, forecasters say, along with scattered showers and embedded downpours.
Record-breaking low temperatures (you heard that right) are possible Saturday
The low temperature records for the day to beat on Saturday are: 61 in Boston, Hartford, and Worcester, and 60 in Providence, all of them set in 1914.

An undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mexico’s Pemex suffers huge gas pipeline fire in Gulf
Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending flames boiling to the surface in the Gulf waters.

Former Dedham veteran’s agent/parking clerk indicted for alleged theft
William Aitken, 54, was indicted by Norfolk County grand jury on 12 counts, including multiple charges of larceny of $1,200 or less, prosecutors said in a statement. He is due to be arraigned Wednesday, 2 p.m. in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham.

celtics
Will Hardy (right) was a Spurs assistant coach for 10 years.
Ime Udoka’s Celtics coaching staff takes shape with addition of Will Hardy, departure of longtime assistants
A league source confirmed Friday that longtime Spurs assistant Will Hardy will be hired as one of Boston’s top assistants, while Jamie Young and Jay Larranaga will depart.

Adam Himmelsbach: Can Ime Udoka juggle Olympic team and Celtics’ Summer League team and other observations

Easing back
Bartender John Everett Martin, back left, raised a toast to his friend Neil Leonard who recently passed away. Leonard’s husband, Henry Goodrow, center, joined in while surrounded by friends. Goodrow and his husband, along with their friends, were regulars at the Sevens for over 20 years, stopping by weekly to visit Martin, watch sports, or play board games.
On Beacon Hill, a neighborhood fixture toasts the return of old friends
“We rekindled quick here,” bartender John Everett Martin said of the family-owned and operated pub that features a large silver beer stein on its overhead sign at 77 Charles St.

Jessica Stern, head of Outright International, speaks during the OutSummit in New York.
New US LGBTQ rights envoy sees reasons for hope and worry
Jessica Stern, soon to become the State Department’s special diplomatic envoy for LGBTQ rights, sees a mix of promising news and worrisome developments almost everywhere she looks, both at home and abroad.

Opinion

EDITORIAL

Should you know if your neighbor owns a gun?

The Winthrop case highlights the importance of knowing where and how gun-owners obtained a permit.
NASA and some of the world’s leading engineers and space scientists are at work on a plan to avoid the destruction of Earth by an errant asteroid.
IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN

The following asteroid collision is only a test
A Black Voters Matter’s “Freedom Ride for Voting Rights” bus, at the National Mall, in Washington, June 26. This year is the 60th anniversary of the launch of the original Freedom Rides from Washington, D.C. throughout the South to challenge segregation in busing and public facilities.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr

The Supreme Court took a hammer to voting rights, proving Douglass’s words still true
Bill Cosby outside his home in Elkins Park, Pa., on Wednesday, after he was released from prison. Pennsylvania's highest court overturned his sex assault conviction because it said an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented Cosby from being charged in the case.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Black America deserves justice. Bill Cosby’s release from prison isn’t it.
After a June 24 drowning at Turtle Pond in Hyde Park, new "No Swimming" signs have been posted. But people continue to go in the water.
MARCELA GARCÍA

More investment in swimming supervision would save lives

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Recommended reads

ICA Teens in Virgil Abloh (from left) Andre, Evan, Zaryah, Fei-Fei, Hibi, and Mintou.
Jeneé Osterheldt

Keeping it two Virgils: ‘Figures of Speech’ is Beauty and the Hypebeast

Virgil Abloh brings “Figures of Speech” to the ICA. When you peel back the hype, you see the celebration of Blackness and community.

Marjorie Salvodon, a tenured professor of world languages and cultural studies at Suffolk University.
Black women are largely shut out of coveted tenure-track positions at Mass. colleges and universities
Female Black instructors represent less than 3 percent of faculty at major universities in the state. Higher education experts cite white-dominated departments and lack of mentorship as barriers.

Ocean House, which was named one of the best beach resorts in the U.S. by Travel and Leisure, sits on the southwestern tip of Rhode Island.
This Rhode Island hotel has been named one of the 15 best beach resorts in the US
Ocean House, a 13-acre coastal property in Watch Hill, has just been named one of the best beach resorts in the country by Travel and Leisure.

KEVIN CULLEN
Steve Thomas at his farm in Chelsea, Vt. He and his wife, Kate, created a neighborhood watch to combat crime and are supporters of Wayland Childs, a local mechanic who faces charges for holding a suspected thief at gunpoint.
In a small Vermont town, they stand with Wayland
The arrest of Wayland Childs, a mechanic who stepped up in the absence of police action, has exposed the frustration of small, rural Vermont towns where the police are rarely seen and drugs damage the quality of life.

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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

A thermometer reading 116 degrees during a heat wave in Portland, Ore., on Monday. The rare and powerful heat wave that shattered records across the Northwest took a bruising toll on the region's infrastructure — buckling highways, hobbling public transit, and triggering rolling power outages.
SCOT LEHIGH

Use record temps to turn up the heat on GOP to act on climate
An epidemic of loneliness is taking a toll on the mental and physical well-being of millions of Americans.
IDEAS | ELIZABETH PRESTON

Feeling lonely? You’re not alone.
A Black Voters Matter’s “Freedom Ride for Voting Rights” bus, at the National Mall, in Washington, June 26. This year is the 60th anniversary of the launch of the original Freedom Rides from Washington, D.C. throughout the South to challenge segregation in busing and public facilities.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr

The Supreme Court took a hammer to voting rights, proving Douglass’s words still true
US Labor Secretary Marty Walsh arrives for the daily press briefing at the White House, April 2.
Joan Vennochi

Boston voters still like Marty Walsh. What does that say about the mayor’s race?
A group comprised primarily of volunteers for the Board of Elections count absentee ballots for the New York City mayoral race at Queens Borough Hall in Queens on Wednesday.
EDITORIAL

Blame election officials, not ranked-choice voting, for New York’s mess
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

Metro

See photos from the standoff on Interstate 95

Interstate 95 in Wakefield was closed Saturday morning during a standoff between State Police and armed men.

I-95 shut down, two suspects arrested in standoff

Interstate 95 between Lynnfield and Stoneham is shut down due to a standoff between police and armed individuals.

State Police: 11 in custody during standoff with group of armed men on I-95 in Wakefield area

State Police have made two arrests in an “ongoing situation involving several armed persons” that began early this morning on Interstate 95 in Wakefield, according to police.

Wake to be held for Ramona Cooper, killed in Winthrop attack

Visiting hours will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at Ruggiero Family Memorial Home in East Boston. Burial will be private.

Sports

Red Sox relief pitchers head for the bullpen before the start of a recent game.
Dan Shaughnessy

After all we’ve been through, baseball is really helping the recovery, and other thoughts

We have lived through a horrible 16 months, but the steady rhythm of baseball provides everyone with a a unique way to cope.
Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima on the day the first atomic bomb was dropped, carries the torch up to light the cauldron and start the 1964 Olympic Games.
John Powers | On Olympics

More than 50 years later, a much different Olympic Games are set to return to Tokyo

The number of countries, athletes, and events has more than doubled and the official cost has grown more than 50-fold since 1964.
Sha'Carri Richardson, who said that she self-medicated with marijuana upon learning of her mother’s death, said that it would be a “blessing” were she allowed to compete in the Olympics.
John Powers | Olympic notes

Even with uncertainty surrounding Sha’Carri Richardson, US track and field athletes poised to set the gold standard in Tokyo

Based on this year’s top global marks, the Americans would win 14 individual events (seven men’s, seven women’s) and collect 40 medals.
Bob Ryan

Baseball’s father/son duos feature some kids with a lot of pop in their bats
Chad Finn | Sports media

How excited is Sean McDonough to be ESPN’s lead play-by-play voice starting next season?
Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Jerry Colangelo has one goal for Team USA — and it’s golden

Business

Mexico’s Pemex suffers huge gas pipeline fire in Gulf

Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending flames boiling to the surface in the Gulf waters.

Ransomware hits hundreds of US companies, security firm says

A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 US companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident.

CSX tries to get acquisition of New England freight network back on track

U.S. hiring accelerated last month as workers see pay gains

Comfort Zone

What can we learn from wedding announcements? Cate Doty answers with "Mergers and Acquisitions: Or, Everything I Know About Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages"

What we can learn from wedding announcements
Conductor Keith Lockhart was photographed Friday at Symphony Hall. The 2021 Boston Pops July Fourth Spectacular will mark the conductor's reunion with live audiences.
MUSIC

Keith Lockhart on July 4: ‘The theme of this concert, in my mind, is about rebirth’
Carolina Aragón's "FutureSHORELINE" represents climate threats as well as solutions proposed by scientists.
ART

In Fort Point, public art helps visualize rising sea levels
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

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
Among the top stories for the magazine so far in 2021 have been a piece about the origins of William Shakespeare's work (left), a story on Black joy (top right), and the annual Top Spots to Live story (bottom right).
Recommended reading

Ten of the best Globe Magazine stories from 2021 (so far)
Titi, a 6-year-old rescue dog, gazes adoringly at the writer’s husband, actor Chris Cooper, in their Massachusetts home.
Connections

A father’s soothing ways
The owners of this Ogunquit summer house asked the designer to create a loft in their young daughters' bedroom.
Style Watch

Home design ideas: A bedroom with a loft provides an escape for young sisters
Squam Lake attracts naturalists, canoers, and kayakers right through autumn. “It’s the quiet coffee shop to Lake Winnipesaukee’s loud nightclub,” says homeowner Sam Kachmar.
Summer Living

A 1970s fixer-upper on a New Hampshire lake draws new owners with its ‘family vibe’

metro

Ramona Cooper was remembered at a candlelight vigil in Winthrop on Wednesday.

Wake to be held for Ramona Cooper, killed in Winthrop attack

Cardinal O’Malley expresses support for rabbi who was stabbed

As number of drownings grows, state’s response to limit swimming and increase fines draws criticism

sports

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. undoubtedly is making Dad proud with the season he is having.

Baseball’s father/son duos feature some kids with a lot of pop in their bats

How excited is Sean McDonough to be ESPN’s lead play-by-play voice starting next season?

Jerry Colangelo has one goal for Team USA — and it’s golden

business

A shopper entered a retail store as a hiring sign showed in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Thursday. America’s employers added 850,000 jobs in June, well above the average of the previous three months and a sign that companies may be having an easier time finding enough workers to fill open jobs.

U.S. hiring accelerated last month as workers see pay gains

Mass. racial equity fund awards $2 million in first round of grants

Parexel sold to EQT and Goldman Sachs for $8.5 billion

politics

Jessica Stern, head of Outright International, speaks during the OutSummit in New York.

New US LGBTQ rights envoy sees reasons for hope and worry

Biden picks UPenn president for Germany ambassador

Justices turn away florist who refused same-sex wedding job

Nation

Workers were at the site of the collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, on Friday.

Two more bodies are recovered from collapsed condo building, bringing death toll to 24

New US LGBTQ rights envoy sees reasons for hope and worry

Death toll in Miami-area condo building collapse rises to 22; city evacuates other condo complex

World

A man observes damaged houses outside a building hit by mudslide following heavy rain at Izusan district in Atami, west of Tokyo, Saturday, July 3, 2021.

At least 19 missing as mudslide west of Tokyo hits houses

Biden wants to celebrate “independence from the virus” on July Fourth, but the US may not be there yet

Elsa strengthens into season’s first hurricane in Caribbean

opinion

A group comprised primarily of volunteers for the Board of Elections count absentee ballots for the New York City mayoral race at Queens Borough Hall in Queens on Wednesday.

Blame election officials, not ranked-choice voting, for New York’s mess

Black America deserves justice. Bill Cosby’s release from prison isn’t it.

A desert of our own making

lifestyle

Ocean House, which was named one of the best beach resorts in the U.S. by Travel and Leisure, sits on the southwestern tip of Rhode Island.

This Rhode Island hotel has been named one of the 15 best beach resorts in the US

At Cloud & Spirits, one chef’s vision of Korean cuisine

I think it’s time to break up ... again

food & dining

Butter rice ssam is served at Cloud & Spirits restaurant near Central Square.

At Cloud & Spirits, one chef’s vision of Korean cuisine

The Red Hat may reopen in early fall under new ownership

A Dunkin’ iced coffee has become a fixture at the Ashmont T station — and Boston Reddit is invested

travel

Ocean House, which was named one of the best beach resorts in the U.S. by Travel and Leisure, sits on the southwestern tip of Rhode Island.

This Rhode Island hotel has been named one of the 15 best beach resorts in the US

What’s new (and not to miss) in Newport

A renovation that’s on the money: This Boston luxury hotel just got a little more luxurious

Arts

Virgil Abloh's “You’re Obviously in the Wrong Place,” from 2015.

Moving fast, thinking deeply at the ICA’s Virgil Abloh show

Art that crystallizes the past

With sculpture, Edith Wharton’s estate becomes open field for the imagination

Books

Battling the patriarchy’s censor in ‘The Man Who Hated Women’

Reading Chinese authors, and trying to learn Mandarin

Lessons in how to fool yourself in ‘Nobody, Somebody, Anybody’

Movies

Chris Pratt in "The Tomorrow War."

In ‘The Tomorrow War,’ on Amazon, the future is now

Two cheers for the red, white, and blue

The Civil War monumentalized; seeing the death penalty in action

Television

Actress Julia Roberts, in Vietnam in 2019, will star in Starz's upcoming Watergate series “Gaslit.”

Julia Roberts to lead star-filled cast in Starz’s ‘Gaslit’

Brevity is the soul of witty TV

Rob Reiner creating a Trump-Putin limited series

music

Conductor Keith Lockhart was photographed Friday at Symphony Hall. The 2021 Boston Pops July Fourth Spectacular will mark the conductor's reunion with live audiences.

Keith Lockhart on July 4: ‘The theme of this concert, in my mind, is about rebirth’

For ’80s heartthrob Richard Marx, it’s all about the music

For this Boston orchestra, something clicked on the streaming platform Twitch

Theater/Dance

Grammy-winning artist esperanza spalding will perform in ArtsEmerson's "Iphigenia" this upcoming season.

For ArtsEmerson, a less busy but ambitious season

Christopher Lloyd’s journey, from kooks to King Lear

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

globe local

Haverhill Sign Company's city limits sign in 1910.

Big shoes to fill: Film tells how a Haverhill union activist became America’s first socialist mayor

Should the state phase out Mass Save rebates for new oil-fired systems for heat and hot water?

Somerville moves to honor military heroes still among us

Obituaries

Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen, lionized composer with radical roots, dies at 82

Donald Rumsfeld, charismatic and combative secretary of defense, dies

Mike Gravel, Springfield native who became a US senator in Alaska, dies at 91