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Interstate 95 shut down during armed standoff.

Standoff ensues after State Police stumble on group with stockpile of weapons on I-95

Police arrested 11 men and seized numerous firearms Saturday morning following an armed standoff with officers on Interstate 95 in Wakefield that began after a State Police trooper tried to help two vehicles parked in the highway’s breakdown lane.
A number of officers were at a staging area in Wakefield.

What is ‘Rise of the Moors,’ the R.I. group that broadcast live from the I-95 standoff?
State Police blocked Interstate 95 in Stoneham on Saturday morning during a standoff with armed men.

Photos, Video: the Interstate 95 standoff

NEWS ANALYSIS

Biden will host a July Fourth bash to celebrate his successes, but big challenges still loom

President Biden will be tested as he tries to preserve a bipartisan infrastructure deal and address difficult foreign policy issues.

YVONNE ABRAHAM
Rescuers were on the shore near Castle Island during the search for a missing swimmer Thursday.
What’s behind the recent spate of drownings in Masschusetts?
Drownings are starting to look like an epidemic, the losses mounting as heatwaves, the lingering effects of COVID, inequality, and bad luck collide.

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

 State Police identify victim in drowning off Castle Island

Workers were at the site of the collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, on Friday.
With storm looming, search suspended, demolition planned for collapsed condo
The number of people who were confirmed dead in the collapse is 24, with 124 people unaccounted for. Meanwhile, demolition workers planned to bring down the remainder of the condo building on Sunday ahead of an approaching storm that added to worries that the damaged structure could come down on its own.

Crews on lookout for pets in Florida condo building collapse
Sha'Carri Richardson looks on after winning the Women's 100 Meter final on day 2 of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on June 19, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon.

‘Mindless.’ ‘Tragic.’ ‘Draconian.’ ‘Unfair’ — Cannabis experts slam suspension of Sha’Carri Richardson

Physicians, former athletes, and advocates called the suspension of the track star an absurd and unjust outcome.
Bill Gates — a former election lawyer for Republicans — and his colleagues on the Maricopa County (Ariz.) Board of Supervisors certified the 2020 election in their county, performing their ministerial function over the screams of angry Trump supporters.

They kept the wheels on democracy as Trump tried to steal an election. Now they’re paying the price

As President Trump and his allies looked for the pressure points in the country’s sprawling election system, hoping to overturn his loss, they met resistance from Democrats but also a cadre of Republicans who acted as the guardrails of American democracy by prioritizing truth and law over political allegiance.
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).
Globe Magazine

Ten of the best Globe Magazine stories from 2021 (so far)

In case you missed them the first time, spend the long weekend relaxing with some of our favorite stories from the first half of the year.
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.

MIAA DIVISION 4 BASEBALL FINAL | HOPKINS 3, ABINGTON 0
SPRINGFIELD , MA - 7/3/2021 Hopkins player Jack Feltovic (17) carries his teams trophy to show-off to friends and family after winning Saturday’s game against Abington High. Hopkins Academy played against Abington High in the MIAA Division 4 championship game on the turf field at Springfield College. Erin Clark/Globe Staff TOPIC: 04SCHABINGTON
No small feat as Hopkins Academy blanks Abington for first state baseball title in 36 years
Jack Feltovic allowed only two hits, and the Golden Hawks took advantage of four errors to join the 1985 Division 3 state champions in the history books for the Western Mass. school with an enrollment of less than 200.

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.

A unity vigil for Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was organized on Brighton Common on Friday.
Suspect in Brighton stabbing of rabbi held without bail as investigators search for a motive
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed multiple times Thursday outside the Shaloh House, a Jewish day school on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton. His alleged attacker, Khaled Awad, 24, was arraigned Friday on seven charges, including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury.

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.

Lifeguard Chris Henriquez wore a mask as he kept a watchful eye over swimmers enjoying the water at the BCYF Clougherty Pool last July. The City of Boston's two outdoor pools, the BCYF Clougherty Pool in Charlestown and the BCYF Mirabella Pool in the North End, are now open.
Boston’s public outdoor pools open for summer season
Despite rain and chilly temperatures on Saturday, pools in Charlestown and the North End opened on time, and drew lap swimmers, a BCYF official said.

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

Despite stormy weather, Independence Day celebrations prevail

Families and friends from around the country gathered in Boston to celebrate the holiday weekend.

‘It’s wonderful’: JFK Presidential Library reopens to public

The library opened with a slew of restrictions — guests are required to make a reservation in advance, enter at a predetermined time, maintain 6 feet of social distancing from others in the exhibits, and those who are not fully vaccinated are required to wear masks.

Boston’s public outdoor pools open for summer season

Despite rain and chilly temperatures on Saturday, pools in Charlestown and the North End opened on time, and drew lap swimmers, a BCYF official said.

Tom Reich, pioneering baseball and hockey agent, dies at 82

Thomas M. Reich, a pioneering baseball agent with an ebullient, oversized personality who helped players gain multimillion dollar salaries in the early years of free agency, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 82.

Sports

Bobby Portis (right) will make his second straight start for the Milwaukee Bucks because the team's star forward, Giannis Antetokounmpo, will miss his second straight game of the Eastern Conference finals because of a hyperextended knee.
NBA notebook

Giannis Antetokounmpo (knee) ruled out by Bucks for East Game 6

The two-time MVP missed his second straight game in the series, which the Bucks are leading 3-2.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. undoubtedly is making Dad proud with the season he is having.
Bob Ryan

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

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Fernando Tatis Jr. are just two of the latest examples of sons flourishing in the family business.
Red Sox outfielders, from left, Alex Verdugo, Kike Hernandez, and Hunter Renfroe (10) don't always make it look easy but they are getting the job.
Peter Abraham | On Baseball

Alex Verdugo, Kiké Hernández, and Hunter Renfroe not always perfect but the trio is earning respect

Verdugo, Hernández and Renfroe were welded together via trade and free agency and the pieces don’t always dovetail.
Wimbledon

US, British teen sensations Coco Gauff, Emma Raducanu reach Week 2 at Wimbledon
MIAA DIVISION 4 BASEBALL FINAL | HOPKINS 3, ABINGTON 0

No small feat as Hopkins Academy blanks Abington for first state baseball title in 36 years
Tour de France

Tadej Pogacar takes command of Tour after big climb in the Alps

Business

Vatican indicts 10, including a cardinal, in London deal

The 487-page indictment request was issued following a sprawling, two-year investigation into how the Secretariat of State managed its vast asset portfolio, much of which is funded by donations from the faithful.

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

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

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

Tom Reich, left, and Kevin McClatchy posed for photos in Pittsburgh for a 50th anniversary event of the 1960 World Series in 2010.

Tom Reich, pioneering baseball and hockey agent, dies at 82

Mimi Stern-Wolfe, presenter of socially conscious concerts, dies at 84

Firefighter injured battling Dorchester house fire

sports

Britain's Emma Raducanu, 18, plays a return to Romania's Sorana Cirstea during the 18-year-old's third-round victory at Wimbledown on Saturday.

US, British teen sensations Coco Gauff, Emma Raducanu reach Week 2 at Wimbledon

No small feat as Hopkins Academy blanks Abington for first state baseball title in 36 years

Tadej Pogacar takes command of Tour after big climb in the Alps

business

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2018, file photo a CSX freight train passes through Homestead, Pa. CSX has filed an expanded application to acquire Pan Am, a New England freight railroad operator, with the Surface Transportation Board. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

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

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

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

politics

President Joe Biden holds an ice cream cone as he visits Moomers Homemade Ice Cream, Saturday in Traverse City, Mich.

Biden goes in for cherries on campaign-style Michigan trip

They kept the wheels on democracy as Trump tried to steal an election. Now they’re paying the price

Biden will host a July Fourth bash to celebrate his successes, but big challenges still loom

Nation

President Joe Biden holds an ice cream cone as he visits Moomers Homemade Ice Cream, Saturday in Traverse City, Mich.

Biden goes in for cherries on campaign-style Michigan trip

Crews on lookout for pets in Florida condo building collapse

Elizabeth Martínez, writer and activist for Chicano and feminist causes, dies at 95

World

People walked past a deer as they make their way through Knole Park, near Sevenoaks, in Kent, England, in February.

As England’s deer population explodes, some propose a mass cull

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

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

Tom Reich, left, and Kevin McClatchy posed for photos in Pittsburgh for a 50th anniversary event of the 1960 World Series in 2010.

Tom Reich, pioneering baseball and hockey agent, dies at 82

Mimi Stern-Wolfe, presenter of socially conscious concerts, dies at 84

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