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Battle for the GOP

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.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

NFL fails to follow through on investigation into Daniel Snyder and the culture of the Washington Football Team

The NFL released its findings before a long weekend and hoped no one would realize it let Dan Snyder and his organization completely off the hook.

Officials suspend search and accelerate demolition of condo tower as tropical storm nears

Officials in Florida accelerated plans Saturday to knock down the unstable remains of the Champlain Towers South condominium as an encroaching tropical storm threatened to topple what is left of the building and imperil now-paused search-and-rescue work.

Condo wreckage hints at first signs of possible construction flaw

Athletics 7, Red Sox 6 (12 inn.)

Red Sox stumble in 12th inning of marathon 7-6 loss to the Oakland A’s

Tony Kemp delivered decisive blow with his walk-off RBI sacrifice fly off Matt Andriese.

A heavy police presence assembled at a staging area at Lake Quannapopwitt as a standoff was taking place on the highway Saturday morning with police and armed men.

What is ‘Rise of the Moors,’ the R.I. group that broadcast live from the I-95 standoff?

A group that calls itself the “Rise of the Moors” broadcasted live Saturday on social media channels during a standoff with police on Interstate 95 between Lynnfield and Stoneham.

State police identify men arrested in standoff

Interstate 95 shut down during armed standoff.

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

State Police blocked Interstate 95 in Stoneham on Saturday morning during a standoff with armed men.

Photos, Video: the Interstate 95 standoff

‘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.

President Biden welcomed the Los Angeles Dodgers, last year's World Series winner, to the White House on Friday.

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.

Early morning rain on Beacon Hill. Record cold temperatures are possible on Saturday, forecasters say, along with scattered showers and embedded downpours.

Boston hit a record-breaking low temperature for July 3

Just days after Boston hit a record 100 degrees, the city on Saturday had a high of 60 degrees, a new record low temperature for July 3, according to the National Weather Service.

Drummer Nick Johnson and the Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes and Drums marched into the Old North Church for a performance Saturday.

Despite stormy weather, Independence Day celebrations prevail

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

Biden goes in for cherries on campaign-style Michigan trip

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer greeted Biden when he arrived midday in Traverse City, which is hosting the National Cherry Festival, an event that attracted Presidents Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford in the past.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

What’s behind the recent spate of drownings in Massachusetts?

Drownings are starting to look like an epidemic, the losses mounting as heatwaves, the lingering effects of COVID, inequality, and bad luck collide.

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.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

As baseball’s trade deadline approaches, there will be a lot more buyers than sellers

“Everybody is looking, even if it’s just for a reliever," said one major league executive.

Ty Burr | ★★★ 1/2

‘No Sudden Move,’ on HBO Max: noir unhinged and unpacked

Steven Soderbergh hits another career high with this byzantine crime drama, set in 1954 Detroit and filled with great actors playing tough and not terribly bright men.

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.

Opinion

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.

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

THE GREAT DIVIDE ⟶

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

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See the latest from Globe Rhode Island.

NEWTON ⟶

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

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.

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.

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

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: 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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

State police identify men arrested in standoff

Two of the men are from Rhode Island — 29-year-old Jamhal Tavon Sanders Latimer also known as Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey of Providence and 40-year-old Quinn Cumberlander, 40, of Pawtucket, State Police said.

The secret he carried

For more than 30 years, Phillip Tavares, now Marshfield's police chief, has never stopped working to secure justice for his father.

Boston hit a record-breaking low temperature for July 3

Just days after Boston hit a record 100 degrees, the city on Saturday had a high of 60 degrees, a new record low temperature for July 3, according to the National Weather Service.

Sports

Tony Kemp celebrates after hitting a sacrifice fly that scored Seth Brown for the winning run during the 12th inning of the Oakland A's 7-6 win over the Red Sox on Saturday at RingCentral Coliseum.

Athletics 7, Red Sox 6 (12 inn.)

Red Sox stumble in 12th inning of marathon 7-6 loss to the Oakland A’s

Tony Kemp delivered decisive blow with his walk-off RBI sacrifice fly off Matt Andriese.

Eduardo Rodriguez, who pitched 203⅓ innings in 2019 after sitting out last season because of COVID-19, is already at 84⅔ innings pitched this season.

Red Sox notebook

Rest will be a factor when Red Sox reshuffle rotation after All-Star break

Manager Alex Cora, with an eye on the latter stages of the season, will carefully manage the workload of his starters before a tough 17-game stretch against divisional opponents.

Tajon Buchanan (left) and Gustavo Bou celebrate Bou's goal in the first half as the Revolution and Columbus Crew came up with a 2-2 tie.

First-place Revolution hold on for a tie at Columbus

The Revolution took the lead on goal from Tajon Buchanan and Gustavo Bou.

Golf roundup

Troy Merritt, Joaquin Niemann share lead at Rocket Mortgage Classic

MLB Notebook

Nationals’ hot-hitting Kyle Schwarber placed on 10-day IL after suffering hamstring injury

sports log

England, Denmark march into European soccer semifinals

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.

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.

In Fort Point, public art helps visualize rising sea levels

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

Why we’re still in a relationship with some classic sitcoms

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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.

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.

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.

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.

A father’s soothing ways

The owners of this Ogunquit summer house asked the designer to create a loft in their young daughters' bedroom.

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.

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

metro

Early morning rain on Beacon Hill. Record cold temperatures are possible on Saturday, forecasters say, along with scattered showers and embedded downpours.

Boston hit a record-breaking low temperature for July 3

Despite stormy weather, Independence Day celebrations prevail

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

sports

Troy Merritt high fives his caddie Wayne Birch after a hole in one on the 11th green in the third round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Troy Merritt, Joaquin Niemann share lead at Rocket Mortgage Classic

Nationals’ hot-hitting Kyle Schwarber placed on 10-day IL after suffering hamstring injury

England, Denmark march into European soccer semifinals

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

A high-rise residential building, right, that is partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla., Thursday, June 24, 2021. The condo board knew that Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., needed major repairs. It did not know the complex was in a race against time.

Condo wreckage hints at first signs of possible construction flaw

Officials suspend search and accelerate demolition of condo tower as tropical storm nears

Biden goes in for cherries on campaign-style Michigan trip

World

An electrical pole felled by Hurricane Elsa leans on the edge of a residential balcony, in Cedars, St. Vincent, Friday.

3 dead as Elsa speeds through Caribbean, aims for Cuba

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

At least 19 missing as mudslide west of Tokyo hits houses

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