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Police work on in the area of an hours long standoff with a group of armed men that partially shut down interstate 95, Saturday, July 3, 2021, in Wakefield, Mass. Massachusetts state police say 11 suspects have been taken into custody. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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

Geoff Diehl.
Geoff Diehl announces bid for governor, first Republican to enter race
Diehl made the announcement during a Fourth of July barbeque in Hadley put organized by the Western Mass GOP Patriots Political Action Committee, according to his campaign manager, Amanda Orlando.

A man placed flowers Sunday on a memorial to those missing outside the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building that partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida.

Demolition crews are wrapping up preparations to topple what’s left of collapsed Florida condo

Workers prepared what’s left of the Champlain Towers South building for a demolition that could come as soon as late Sunday as search-and-rescue efforts remained on pause and Tropical Storm Elsa drew closer to Florida.
According to a New York Times report, ESPN is dealing with the fallout of controversial comments made by Rachel Nichols, unwittingly recorded and uploaded to ESPN servers and leaked by another employee.

A disparaging video prompts explosive fallout within ESPN

According to a New York Times report, ESPN is dealing with the fallout of controversial comments made by Rachel Nichols, unwittingly recorded and uploaded to ESPN servers and leaked by another employee.
President Biden and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough (right) visited a vaccine clinic in Washington in March.
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.
Biden approval steady, vaccination defiance lingers, poll finds
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
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Burlington, Vermont, on the shores of Lake Champlain, hosts boaters from Canada most years but hasn't seen many this year because of a border closure due to COVID-19.
People along the US-Canadian border await word of reopening
The continued closure of the US-Canadian border because of COVID-19 is having an impact throughout its length. Burlington, Vermont, for example, isn't seeing many Canadian boaters on Lake Champlain.

obituary
Theresa Parks was a founder of Roxbury Tenants of Harvard.
Theresa Parks, Mission Hill housing advocate who stood up to Harvard, dies at 84
"People kept stopping me in the street, saying, 'Are you wacked out? Harvard is the most powerful institution in the world. You can't fight it,' " Mrs. Parks recalled.

Police officer bit by dog during domestic call

At least one police officer was bit by a dog while responding to a domestic call in Dorchester late Saturday night, police said.

Red Sox pitcher Nathan Eovaldi (9-4 with a 3.41 ERA and 90 strikeouts in 17 starts) said he was excited and honored to be playing in the All-Star game.
J.D. Martinez, Matt Barnes, and Nathan Eovaldi added to All-Star roster
It is Martinez's fourth time in the All-Star game and Barnes and Eovaldi's first.

love letters
Love Letters
Willing to enter a ‘throuple’ relationship for her
"Am I being too desperate?"

MOVIES
Don Cheadle (left) and Benicio Del Toro in "No Sudden Move."
‘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.

Opinion

EDITORIAL

The Declaration of Independence inspires

Excerpts from select speeches, songs, and treaties inspired by the founding document.
Still No. 1.
JEFF JACOBY

Lincoln was the best. Buchanan was the worst. What about the others?
French President Emmanuel Macron at the inauguration of the French Cultural Center in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 27. He acknowledged that France bears some responsibility for the 1994 genocide in the central African country.
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Hey, America, how about an apology?
EDITORIAL

Should you know if your neighbor owns a gun?
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

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

Rescuers were on the shore near Castle Island during the search for a missing swimmer Thursday.
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.

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.

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.

video

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 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
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.
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

THE GREAT DIVIDE

After record-breaking heat, more than half of the Boston schools used for summer learning do not have air conditioning

The start of summer learning programs comes on the heels of Boston’s hottest June ever recorded.

Geoff Diehl announces bid for governor, first Republican to enter race

Diehl made the announcement during a Fourth of July barbeque in Hadley put organized by the Western Mass GOP Patriots Political Action Committee, according to his campaign manager, Amanda Orlando.
TOM FARRAGHER

Baseball on the Cape a welcome summertime salve near the sand and the surf

The deadly pandemic that has rearranged lives around the world has not defeated the 2021 edition of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

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.

Sports

Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy has stood tall for the Lightning, with shutouts in their last four playoff series-clinching victories.
nhl

With 3-0 series lead over Canadiens, Lightning are poised to repeat as Stanley Cup champs

Tampa Bay is seeking to join the 2016 and ’17 Penguins as the second team to win consecutive titles since the salary-cap era began in 2005.
Red Sox pitcher Nathan Eovaldi (9-4 with a 3.41 ERA and 90 strikeouts in 17 starts) said he was excited and honored to be playing in the All-Star game.

J.D. Martinez, Matt Barnes, and Nathan Eovaldi added to All-Star roster

It is Martinez's fourth time in the All-Star game and Barnes and Eovaldi's first.
Giannis Antetokounmpo (left) couldn't play but was able to celebrate the Bucks' East title with coach Mike Budenholzer.
nba

Bucks hope Giannis Antetokounmpo can take court for long-awaited return to Finals

A hyperextended left knee kept Milwaukee's star from playing in the final two games against Atlanta. Game 1 of the NBA Finals versus Phoenix is Tuesday night.
OLYMPICS

Artist turned coach, Newton’s Marc Gargaro hopes to restore USA Boxing to Olympic championship form
tour de france

Tadej Pogacar bikes through rain to maintain control while rivals drop out in Alps
mlb draft

Meet Massachusetts’ Josh Báez, a possible first-rounder in the draft, and a potential ‘superstar in MLB’

Business

Cambridge scooter startup takes on Silicon Valley giants

Flush with $60 million it raised from venture capitalists in December, Superpedestrian is rapidly expanding its scooter rental service. By the end of July, its Link scooters will be available in 40 cities around the world, including Hartford, Cleveland, Seattle, Lisbon, Stockholm, and Vienna.

As the pandemic changes how we work, co-working is taking off in the suburbs

Pre-pandemic, coworking was highly concentrated in Boston and Cambridge, with a wave of buzzy spaces catering to flexible urban workers. Now, operators are eyeing the suburbs.

Vatican indicts 10, including a cardinal, in London deal

Mexico’s Pemex suffers huge gas pipeline fire in Gulf

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

Police work on in the area of an hours long standoff with a group of armed men that partially shut down interstate 95, Saturday, July 3, 2021, in Wakefield, Mass. Massachusetts state police say 11 suspects have been taken into custody. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

State police identify men arrested in standoff

Theresa Parks, Mission Hill housing advocate who stood up to Harvard, dies at 84

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

sports

Giannis Antetokounmpo (left) couldn't play but was able to celebrate the Bucks' East title with coach Mike Budenholzer.

Bucks hope Giannis Antetokounmpo can take court for long-awaited return to Finals

Artist turned coach, Newton’s Marc Gargaro hopes to restore USA Boxing to Olympic championship form

Tadej Pogacar bikes through rain to maintain control while rivals drop out in Alps

business

An undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mexico’s Pemex suffers huge gas pipeline fire in Gulf

Ransomware hits hundreds of US companies, security firm says

CSX tries to get its plan to acquire New England freight network back on track

politics

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig speaks with Senator Elizabeth Warren before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on June 8.

Biden hopes IRS will catch tax dodgers to help pay for his infrastructure

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

Nation

Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, at their home in Plains, Ga., June 25, 2021.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter reflect on 75 years of marriage

Biden hopes IRS will catch tax dodgers to help pay for his infrastructure

Mattapan has the fewest number of residents who have been vaccinated in Boston. Can the city change attitudes and boost shots?

World

Pope Francis, photographed June 30 at the Vatican.

Pope Francis goes to Rome hospital for intestinal surgery

Philippine military plane crashes, 31 dead, 50 rescued

Chinese millennials are ‘chilling,’ and Beijing isn’t happy about it

opinion

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.

More investment in swimming supervision would save lives

Wouldn’t best option be to ensure enough exam school seats for all children who qualify?

The trouble with independence

lifestyle

Love Letters

Should I e-mail my ex for closure?

Parents who are also caregivers struggle with suicidal ideation, new CDC study shows

‘Jeopardy!’ had a Boston news category last night. Can you guess all five clues?

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

BOSTON, MA - 07/04/2019 Confetti falls on the audience attending the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular. Despite the heat, a large crowd came out to celebrate one of the countryÕs largest and oldest public Fourth-of-July events that took place on the Esplanade.Erin Clark for the Boston Globe

How to watch the July Fourth Pops celebration and fireworks from home

For ArtsEmerson, a less busy but ambitious season

Christopher Lloyd’s journey, from kooks to King Lear

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

Theresa Parks was a founder of Roxbury Tenants of Harvard.

Theresa Parks, Mission Hill housing advocate who stood up to Harvard, dies at 84

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

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