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Fully vaccinated Americans don’t need a booster shot at this time, FDA, CDC says

Americans who are fully vaccinated do not need a booster shot at this time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said in a joint statement issued only hours after Pfizer announced it is about to seek US emergency authorization for a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine.
Pfizer to seek US authorization for third COVID-19 vaccine dose

KEVIN CULLEN
Rosemary Scapicchio is one of those who have supported Bobby George in his return to the practice of law.
The redemption of Bobby George
When he stood, crestfallen, before the judge who sentenced him to 42 months in prison, he noted it might, as opposed to would, be the last time he spoke in a courtroom. As usual, Bob George was the most prescient guy in the courtroom.

Boston police officer shoots man in struggle over gun during traffic stop

Acting Police Commissioner Gregory Long said the man was taken to an area hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.

Zaila Avant-garde, 14, from Harvey, Louisiana reacts after correctly spelling a word during the finals of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee at Disney World Thursday, July 8, 2021, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Zaila Avant-garde breezes to National Spelling Bee win
The 14-year-old from Harvey, Louisiana, breezed to the championship at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, becoming the first African American winner and only the second Black champion in the bee's 96-year history.

Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee

Lawmakers slam McKee after he vetoes bill regulating third-party rental properties

The legislation would have required all short-term rental properties to be registered with the state, to better address safety and revenue concerns.
James Carmody (far right) will leave the Seaport Hotel after nearly 17 years as general manager.

James Carmody heads for Boca Raton after a long run as GM of the Seaport Hotel

Carmody, a respected leader in Boston’s hospitality industry, is taking a senior management role at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Florida.
In this June 7, 2021, photo, people board an American Airlines flight at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Masks are mandated on all flights, and everyone who buys a ticket has agreed to comply.
CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

There’s only one side to the saga of American Airlines Flight 893

This whole story is starting to smell like an airplane bathroom in the last leg of a flight. Here is why I think there is only one side to it.
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
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The home offers views of Mount Hope Bay.
Home of the Week: R.I. cottage gets brownie points for kitchen with ocean view
The primary bedroom suite takes up the entire second floor and has its own balcony with a view.

Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes along California-Nevada border

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 rattled the California-Nevada border Thursday afternoon, with people reporting feeling the shaking hundreds of miles away, according to the US Geological Survey.

This Nov. 18, 2011 file photo shows a Tyson food product, in Montpelier, Vt.
Tyson Foods recalls almost 4,500 tons of chicken products
The US Department of Agriculture announced the recall a month after two consumers reported falling ill with listeriosis.

House, Senate negotiators agree to $48.1 billion state budget

A deal to raise tax collection estimates by more than $4.2 billion and spend nearly $48.1 billion in fiscal year 2022 came together Thursday with House and Senate lawmakers filing a compromise budget that would also make the state’s controversial film tax credit permanent.

McDonald's launched its first rewards program in its 66-year history. A pilot for the program began in New England in January.
After New England pilot, McDonald’s launches first loyalty program
The move marks the first rewards program in the fast-food giant's 66-year history.

Analysis
Geoff Diehl.
Diehl’s first test: Can he force Baker to make a decision earlier than he wants?
Once again Massachusetts politics is in the middle of a waiting game.

Opinion

A man with his dog drops off his mail-in ballot at Boston City Hall during the Massachusetts State Primary, on Sept.1, 2020.
EDITORIAL

Let Boston vote early and by mail

With a mayoral election fast approaching and Beacon Hill unwilling to extend statewide pandemic voting reforms, the city should act quickly.
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski at his Brighton home on Sunday, three days after he was stabbed outside the Shaloh House, a Jewish day school.
JEFF JACOBY

How to speak out against antisemitism
Anti-vaccine protesters rallied outside Houston Methodist Hospital on June 26.
RENÉE GRAHAM

The unnecessary death march of the unvaccinated
When freelance ​work dried up after COVID-19 hit, Boston trombonist Skye Dearborn​ ​had to live off her savings and eventually qualified for unemployment benefits and food stamps.
Jonathan Kaledin

America needs a Department of Arts and Culture
A heavy police presence assembled at a staging area at Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield, not far from Interstate 95, as a standoff was taking place on the highway between police and armed men in the early morning of July 3.
LETTERS

A standoff on the highway, a riddle in our midst

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

Members of the Boston Student Advisory Council spoke last month of their experiences with Re-evaluation Counseling.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Organization calls Boston students sharing their unlicensed counseling experiences an ‘attack’

The international organization that promotes Re-evaluation Counseling, an unorthodox brand of peer counseling, is dismissing criticism by Boston students who said they were pressured to participate in traumatizing sessions, calling it an “attack” on what they consider a powerful form of therapy.

Overdose victims’ families protested in 2018 at Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Conn.
Massachusetts and other states reach $4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma over company’s role in opioid crisis
The settlement with the Sackler family and its disgraced drug company caps years of legal disputes as states tried to hold accountable the country’s most notorious manufacturer of prescription painkillers for its part in the opioid epidemic.

CAPE TRAVEL
A flatbread with braised short rib? Why yes — if it’s the one they’re making in the pizza ovens at Crisp or Crisp Too in Osterville.
13 top places to eat on Cape Cod
Discover these tasty places on your next trip over the bridge.

Christopher Ahlberg, founder and CEO of Recorded Future.
One of the nation’s top lines of cyber defense runs through this company in Davis Square
Recorded Future, which operates out of a former laundromat, has provided Washington’s top officials with intelligence on the country’s biggest breaches, from the Jan. 6 insurrection to recent ransomware attacks.

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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

Ashish K. Jha

Masking indoors in the age of the Delta variant
Walden Pond swimmer Peter Halpert from Lincoln was upset about the state's ban on open-water swimming. "This is holy water. It's a spiritual and religious event to swim in this pond," Halpert said. The state announced on Wednesday that it was lifting the ban.
EDITORIAL

Give people safe access to public waters

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at a House Financial Services Subcommittee hearing about the court's budget in Washington on March 23, 2015.
LETTERS

As court’s term ends, inquiring minds turn to Justice Breyer’s retiring mind
A crew of inmate firefighters work to contain the Springs Fire as it burns along a hillside in the Angeles National Forest in Valyermo, California, April 5.
ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The United States has yet to fully abolish slavery
The container ship Ever Lively, registered in Singapore, ties up at the Paul W. Conley Container Terminal in South Boston in July 2020.
Scott A. Hodge and Daniel Bunn

Biden’s infrastructure plan could unfairly tax Northeast businesses

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

Metro

Maps: What to expect from Tropical Storm Elsa

Tropical Storm Elsa is barreling up the East Coast. These maps show its track.
RI HEALTH

A Pawtucket detective was diagnosed with PTSD. The city is fighting him on it.

Four medical professionals agreed he needed treatment and time to heal, but the police chief and the city say trauma is just part of the job.

Rainfall begins as Tropical Storm Elsa moves up the East Coast

Signs of Tropical Storm Elsa could be seen early Friday morning as rain began to fall across the region.

Live weather updates from Boston-area meteorologists

With severe weather in the forecast, here’s a look at what to expect, according to Boston-area meteorologists.

Sports

Zaila Avant-garde, 14, from Harvey, Louisiana reacts after correctly spelling a word during the finals of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee at Disney World Thursday, July 8, 2021, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Zaila Avant-garde breezes to National Spelling Bee win

The 14-year-old from Harvey, Louisiana, breezed to the championship at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, becoming the first African American winner and only the second Black champion in the bee's 96-year history.
The Suns' Devin Booker drives to the basket against Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo during the first half in Game Two of the NBA Finals at Phoenix Suns Arena.
NBA FINALS Game 2 | Suns 118, Bucks 108

Devin Booker scores 31 points in leading Suns to 2-0 series lead in NBA Finals

Milwaukee fell to Phoenix again despite getting 42 points from star Giannis Antetokounmpo.
World No. 1 Jon Rahm (left) and World No. 3 Justin Thomas had solid first rounds.
Golf roundup

Jon Rahm lives up to No. 1 billing with 66 at Scottish Open

Rahm is two strokes behind Jack Senior, a 353rd-ranked English player, in the tuneup for the British Open.
Sports Log

Naomi Osaka speaks out in Time essay
Red Sox Notebook

Red Sox set to take on Phillies to end first half

USA Select basketball team loses three players over virus-related concerns

Business

2 US men, ex-Colombia soldiers held in Haiti assassination

Seventeen suspects have been detained so far in the stunning assassination of Haiti’s president, and Haitian authorities say two are believed to hold dual US-Haitian citizenship and Colombia’s government says at least six are former members of its army.

Tyson Foods recalls almost 4,500 tons of chicken products

The US Department of Agriculture announced the recall a month after two consumers reported falling ill with listeriosis.

FDA narrows recommended use of Biogen Alzheimer’s therapy after flood of criticism

2 Haitian Americans detained in slaying of Haiti’s president

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
Maria Vasco, pictured here, runs zero-waste shop Uvida in the North End with the help of two employees.
COMFORT ZONE

The North End’s Uvida is a zero-waste wonderland
Vanessa Zoltan, founder of Not Sorry Productions and author of "Praying With Jane Eyre," out this week from Penguin Random House.
COMFORT ZONE

Vanessa Zoltan on ‘Praying With Jane Eyre’ and how pop culture can be sacred
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’

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
summer dining

Where (and what) to eat in Newport this summer
a new appreciation

The Thoreau I didn’t know

Perspective

Talking to strangers, it turns out, is very good for us
Vietnamese Grilled Lemon Grass Pork (Thit Nuong).
Cooking

Grilled pork and eggplant shine in these flavorful Vietnamese dishes

metro

People huddled under an umbrella to try and keep dry in Boston.

Live weather updates from Boston-area meteorologists

Tropical Storm Elsa expected to lash region with high winds, heavy rain

Rhode Island Report

sports

Naomi Osaka explained her stance against attending post-match media conferences at the French Open in an essay in Time magazine.

Naomi Osaka speaks out in Time essay

Red Sox set to take on Phillies to end first half

USA Select basketball team loses three players over virus-related concerns

business

Soldiers guarded the Dajabon border crossing between the Dominican Republic and Haiti after the borders were closed due to the assassination perpetrated by an armed group against the president of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, in the early hours of Wednesday.

2 Haitian Americans detained in slaying of Haiti’s president

State looks to protect lobster beds from wind turbines

James Carmody heads for Boca Raton after a long run as GM of the Seaport Hotel

politics

An American soldier on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter flew over Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, on May 2, 2021. The US military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on Aug. 31

‘Overdue’: Biden sets Aug. 31 for US exit from Afghanistan

Amid growing frustration, White House pushes voting rights

Diehl’s first test: Can he force Baker to make a decision earlier than he wants?

Nation

Vials containing doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Pfizer to seek US authorization for third COVID-19 vaccine dose

Fully vaccinated Americans don’t need a booster shot at this time, FDA, CDC says

‘Overdue’: Biden sets Aug. 31 for US exit from Afghanistan

World

Rescue teams searched the rubble of the Champlain Towers South.

Bodies of three Paraguayans found in Florida condo, officials say

Two Haitian Americans detained in slaying of Haiti president

World’s reported COVID death toll passes 4 million

opinion

Back again, digitally enhanced

As court’s term ends, inquiring minds turn to Justice Breyer’s retiring mind

Voting rights are being put through the wringer

lifestyle

Tuna tartare served at Talise in Annisquam.

A beautiful view of the water from every table at Talise in Gloucester’s Annisquam

A sustainable bridal shop in Newton sells greener gowns

There’s only one side to the saga of American Airlines Flight 893

food & dining

Tuna tartare served at Talise in Annisquam.

A beautiful view of the water from every table at Talise in Gloucester’s Annisquam

Shrubbly from Vermont is a new summer thirst-quencher

New owners keep Portuguese Bakery traditions going in Provincetown

travel

In this June 7, 2021, photo, people board an American Airlines flight at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Masks are mandated on all flights, and everyone who buys a ticket has agreed to comply.

There’s only one side to the saga of American Airlines Flight 893

An outdoor fest in N.H., a Cape Cod redo, and Road Scholar hits the road once again

Exploring the Elizabeth Islands (and swimming with cows)

Arts

Artist Firelei Báez calls her installation "To breathe full and free: a declaration, a re-visioning, a correction (19°36'16.9"N 72°13'07.0"W, 42° 21'48.762" N 71°1'59.628" W)."

At the ICA Watershed, artist Firelei Báez draws history from the deep

At Brown University, a gallery show with absorbing newsprint

What artists see in wake of the Mayflower

Books

The forest and the trees in ‘Appleseed’

‘The Outlier’ reconsiders Jimmy Carter’s presidency

A championship season in ‘Tall Men, Short Shorts’

Movies

Robert Downey Jr., left, with his father Robert Downey Sr., in 2008.

Directing done very differently

Doc Talk: taking a Lunch break, finding eternity in grains of sand

A study in Scarlett

Television

"The White Lotus" writer-director Mike White with cast members Sydney Sweeney, center, and Alexandra Daddario at the premiere of the HBO limited series Wednesday in Los Angeles.

‘The White Lotus’ takes ‘Fantasy Island’ to a different plane

‘Gossip Girl’ revival doesn’t have a lot to say

With movie sequel, there’s no stopping the ‘Downton Abbey’ brand

music

Sheffield Chamber Players kick off an ambitious five-year commissioning project with a new work by Kevin Day.

Sheffield Chamber Players seek local living rooms for world premieres

Gillette Stadium announces return to live music with Garth Brooks concert in October

Buskers to blanket Great Barrington all summer

Theater/Dance

Harriet Harris is shown during a 2020 filming of "Eleanor," a role she'll be reprising onstage for live audiences at Barrington Stage Company.

Juggling two major roles, Harriet Harris has returned to the Berkshires in earnest

A teller of tales, buffeted by waves of ridicule

Emerson Colonial Theatre will reopen to a jam-packed slate of shows beginning in September

globe local

Rhode Island Report podcast

Rhode Island Report

Sweet summer memories are made at local candy stores

Should Massachusetts have a two-month sales tax holiday this year?

Obituaries

Dr. Lewontin was a pioneer in the study of genetic variation among humans and other animals.

Richard C. Lewontin, eminent geneticist with a sharp pen, dies at 92

Gerald W. Blakeley Jr., visionary developer of Boston’s ‘high-tech highway,’ dies at 100

Richard Donner, director of ‘Superman’ and ‘Lethal Weapon’ films, dies at 91