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Mass. high court blocks gig worker question from November ballot

The Supreme Judicial Court said the measure was built on “vaguely worded provisions” that melded two different subjects and thus violated the constitution.

Lowell woman arrested in decades-old case of baby found dead in Maine

A 58-year-old Lowell, Massachusetts, woman is facing a murder charge in the death of her newborn baby, who was found dead in Maine 36 years ago.

Renewed search for Harmony Montgomery focused on Manchester, N.H., property where she once lived with father

Authorities descended Tuesday on a Manchester, N.H., home where Harmony Montgomery once lived with her father and stepmother, as they continue the search for the child who has not been seen since 2019.

Jan. 6 committee postpones Wednesday hearing with former Justice Department officials

The hearing had been set for Wednesday, but the committee on Tuesday morning said that it had been postponed. It did not give a reason or a new date for the hearing.

Trump was clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power, witnesses testify at Jan. 6 hearing Analysis: 3 takeaways from the second day of the Jan. 6 committee public hearings

Two Boston police officers arrested in separate domestic violence incidents

Officers Walter Suprey and Andrew Blake were placed on administrative leave, and the Boston Police Anti-Corruption Unit has opened an investigation into both cases, the police department said.

Dr. Cheryl Hamlin (right) hugged Kim Gibson, cofounder of The Pink House Defenders and clinic escort, before heading back home to Massachusetts. With a decision predicted to come in weeks, 22 states could likely lose the right to abortion, ending Dr. Hamlin’s visits to Mississippi and possibly shuttering the clinic entirely.

One last shift at Jackson Women’s Health, the abortion clinic at the center of the Roe firestorm

Women arrive at the Mississippi abortion clinic in oversized sorority tees, surgery scrubs, and pantsuits. They've driven there from Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas. Some day soon, they'll likely no longer have that option.

Advocates rallied Monday outside Beverly Hospital protesting the impending closing of its North Shore Birth Center.

‘Another assault on women’s rights’: Last birth center in Eastern Massachusetts to close

The closing of a North Shore Birth Center and failure to adopt other health proposals statewide has raised concerns about dwindling access to maternity services, particularly for low-income families and women of color.

NBA Finals Game 5: Warriors 104, Celtics 94

Klay Thompson (left) and the Warriors have a 3-2 lead over Jaylen Brown and the Celtics in the NBA Finals.

The Celtics still have a championship within reach, but they need to be the best version of themselves

If the Celtics come up short, they will always wonder what might have been if they hadn’t been so self-destructive in Games 4 and 5.

From left, Jaylen Brown, Robert Williams, and Marcus Smart watched the closing minute of Game 5 from the bench.

Christopher L. Gasper

It seems like the Celtics do everything the hard way, and that may lead to their downfall

The Warriors are too good a team for the Celtics to spot games and expect to walk away with the Larry O’Brien Trophy.

Steph Curry celebrates a Klay Thompson 3 during the Warriors' Game 5 win.

‘Ayesha Curry CAN cook’: Steph Curry fires back at Boston bar that trolled his wife

Fenway haunt Game On! took a shot at the Golden State star's wife while the series was in Boston. He had something to say about it.

At 30, men fall into three categories

I have always kept a very open mind to dating around age, race/ethnicity, professional background, geographic distance, etc., but I sense that I might just be better off taking a break from dating for a few years and picking up again in my mid-30s.

Kim Kardashian donned Marilyn Monroe's iconic "Happy Birthday Mr. President" gown at the 2022 Met Gala.

Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe’s dress on the Met Gala red carpet. A collector claims it’s ‘permanently damaged.’

Scott Fortner posted to The Marilyn Monroe Collection website that the sequined dress, the most expensive Monroe dress ever sold at an auction at $4.8 million, he said, now has rips and tears down the back and crystals missing, with “some literally hanging on by threads.”

Chris Evans attends the world premiere of Disney and Pixar's feature film "Lightyear" at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on June 8, 2022.

Chris Evans on voicing Buzz Lightyear — and that Boston accent slip

“It happens sometimes,” says the Boston-born, Sudbury-raised actor, who plays a lost Space Ranger trying to get home in “Lightyear.”

Movie Review: To origin story — and beyond — in ‘Lightyear’

Opinion

BDS-promoted mapping project is antisemitic and must be condemned

The targeting of Jewish organizations and individuals harks back to the virulent conspiracy theories of the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: When a word just looks wrong

MARCELA GARCÍA

As SCOTUS’ conservative majority weakens civil rights, Sonia Sotomayor begs to differ

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

My advice to graduates is just one show: ‘The Wire’

As goes Raytheon, so goes our smart, Massachusetts workforce?

Centering critical voices, debates, and evidence-based opinion to reframe the national conversation on racial equity and hasten a more racially just society.

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A search for a missing 3-year-old boy was underway in Lowell Tuesday morning, police said.

Washington officer who displayed Nazi insignia will receive $1.5 million to resign

The City of Kent, Washington, will pay more than $1.5 million to an assistant police chief to resign after he was disciplined for displaying a Nazi insignia on his office door.

Man rescued after fall from Newport’s Cliff Walk
The man, who is in his early 30s, was taken by a medflight helicopter to Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries but is expected to recover.

GETTING SALTY

Select Oyster’s Michael Serpa on lessons from his dad, Boston’s best Monday lunch, and rising food costs
An avocado costs the same no matter where you slice it.

FOOD

In Lowell school cafeterias, they’re serving up a taste of home
Recipes from the student-compiled "Tasting History" cookbook — containing family recipes from all over the world — are being served up monthly, and the students are eating it up.

INNOVATION BEAT

Boston entrepreneur opens East Coast outpost for California VC firm
Lars Albright, who has started several successful tech companies here, has joined Silicon Valley firm Unusual Ventures. He hopes to capitalize on Boston's strong base of colleges and universities.

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A narcotic consumption booth at a safe injection site in New York.

Advocates for safe consumption sites in Mass. find hope in shifting political winds as overdose deaths soar

“There’s been a lot of change regionally, locally, that I think is building momentum for it,” said state Representative Dylan Fernandes, sponsor of a bill that would establish a 10-year pilot program involving centers where people can use drugs under medical supervision.

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What the recall of San Francisco’s progressive DA means in Boston
Ricardo Arroyo is running for Suffolk DA on a progressive agenda. He believes the recall of Chesa Boudin as DA in San Francisco is an aberration.

Mayor Michelle Wu rejects $10 million police overtime cut proposed by City Council, calling it a ‘false reduction’
The Boston City Council, which for the first time this year had the authority to directly amend the mayor’s spending plan instead of just approving or rejecting it, had proposed cutting the perennially bloated and controversial overtime budget in order to fund other priorities, like youth jobs programs.

Boy who drowned in Merrimack River recalled as ‘nice, polite’; business owner helps grieving family
There was an empty seat in a kindergarten class in the Murkland Elementary School in Lowell Monday and empty hearts at a Billerica factory where three members of the DeChhat family are long-time employees.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Tomato-Basil Risotto

Risotto can be easier than you think. These vegetarian recipes prove it.

Michael R. Jackson (second from left) accepts the Tony Award for best new musical for "A Strange Loop."

‘A Strange Loop’ wins Tony for best musical, ‘Lehman Trilogy’ for best play as Broadway celebrates its comeback

A homemade Juneteenth flag created by the Peabody Essex Museum's education team in preparation for the museum's Juneteenth Flag Posters event June 19-20.

Celebrate Juneteenth at these 14 Boston-area events

Tom Perrotta (“Tracy Flick Can’t Win”) reads in person at Monoday 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith.

Author readings around Boston June 12-18

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A person places cross at a memorial for the Uvalde school shooting victims during a March For Our Lives rally in New York on June 11.

A good first step on gun safety

The freedom to uphold an unpopular opinion

Second-grade teacher Melissa Shugg teaches a lesson at Paw Paw Elementary School, in Paw Paw, Mich., about thoughts, feelings, and actions, in December 2021. Shugg was trained to teach a social-emotional curriculum that has been shown to reduce depression and improve coping skills.

The mental health crisis afflicting American youth demands health care reforms

A sign posted at the Castaic Lake reservoir in Los Angeles County on May 3 in Castaic, Calif. The reservoir, part of the State Water Project, is currently at 52 percent capacity, below the historic average of 60 percent. A water shortage emergency has been declared in Southern California, with water restrictions beginning June 1 for 6 million residents amid drought conditions.

Tara D. Sonenshine

Why worry about water?

The Boston Police Department has purchased an Ascent Aerosystems Spirit drone.

BPD needs more safeguards for its growing drone surveillance program

IDEAS | WILL AUSTIN

Where have Boston’s children gone?

Metro

Mass. high court blocks gig worker question from November ballot

The Supreme Judicial Court said the measure was built on “vaguely worded provisions” that melded two different subjects and thus violated the constitution.

COMMENTARY | ERIN PAPA

South Kingstown should reinstate its dual language immersion program

South Kingstown students cannot miss out on the advantages of being multilingual in a dynamic and globalized economy, the executive director of the Coalition for a Multilingual Rhode Island says.

Rhode Island political news: June 2022

Regular updates about Rhode Island politics and political leaders.

Carjacking suspect arrested in Dorchester after crash, police say

State Police on Tuesday morning arrested a carjacking suspect in Dorchester after a vehicular pursuit that ended in a four-car crash, the agency said via Twitter.

Sports

Nick Pivetta has pitched seven shutout innings in each of his two starts against the A's.

Red Sox vs. Athletics | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 62: Athletics at Red Sox lineups and notes

Nick Pivetta will be on the mound as the Red Sox return to Fenway Park to open a nine-game homestand with a series against Oakland.

Klay Thompson (left) and the Warriors have a 3-2 lead over Jaylen Brown and the Celtics in the NBA Finals.

The Celtics still have a championship within reach, but they need to be the best version of themselves

If the Celtics come up short, they will always wonder what might have been if they hadn’t been so self-destructive in Games 4 and 5.

Andrew Wiggins (left) blocked Jaylen Brown's shot in the first quarter of Game 5.

With Steph Curry struggling, Andrew Wiggins carried the Warriors to a win in Game 5

Wiggins scored a team-high 26 points, making 12 of his 17 shots from inside the arc, as Golden State took a 3-2 series lead over the Celtics.

Christopher L. Gasper

It seems like the Celtics do everything the hard way, and that may lead to their downfall

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

The Celtics reverted back to their worst selves on the biggest stage, and there’s no room for error or excuses now

‘Ayesha Curry CAN cook’: Steph Curry fires back at Boston bar that trolled his wife

Business

Mass. high court blocks gig worker question from November ballot

The Supreme Judicial Court said the measure was built on “vaguely worded provisions” that melded two different subjects and thus violated the constitution.

INNOVATION BEAT

Boston entrepreneur opens East Coast outpost for California VC firm

Lars Albright, who has started several successful tech companies here, has joined Silicon Valley firm Unusual Ventures. He hopes to capitalize on Boston's strong base of colleges and universities.

Coinbase Global plans to cut 1,100 jobs, or 18 percent of staff

JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs stop Russian debt trading

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This week's daters: Madison and Sam.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I think the most romantic moment was between me and the burrata’

Oblivious to the shark trolling nearby, swimmers enjoy Nauset Beach in Orleans on an August afternoon.

The surprising reasons we should cheer the return of great white sharks

Myra Sack and her daughter Havi in 2020.

Our daughter had a year left to live. We had to do something wonderful with the time she had left.

A Boston husband headed to the wild west for a divorce. He ended up with two wives.

metro

The scene of the crash at Morrissey Boulevard and Freeport Street.

Carjacking suspect arrested in Dorchester after crash, police say

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court tosses app-based drivers question from November ballot

Man rescued after fall from Newport’s Cliff Walk

sports

Stephen Curry turns to look at a tired Jayson Tatum in the fourth quarter.

The opportunity was there, and the Celtics didn’t take it. Now, another elimination game awaits.

For the first time in his career, Steph Curry was held without a 3-pointer in the postseason

How it happened: Celtics surge back, but fall apart late and lose to Warriors 104-94, in Game 5

business

Bruce Percelay, board chair of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.

Board chair Bruce Percelay eyes a more national role for EMK Institute

Bitcoin drops 18% to lowest price since 2020

These companies were local giants 30 years ago. Where are they now?

politics

Former attorney general William Barr's video deposition was shown at the Jan. 6 hearing on Monday.

Jan. 6 committee postpones Wednesday hearing with former Justice Department officials

Representatives Mace and Rice face hard GOP primaries after defying Trump

Biden to visit Israel and ‘pariah’ Saudi Arabia next month

Nation

Dr. Cheryl Hamlin (right) hugged Kim Gibson, cofounder of The Pink House Defenders and clinic escort, before heading back home to Massachusetts. With a decision predicted to come in weeks, 22 states could likely lose the right to abortion, ending Dr. Hamlin’s visits to Mississippi and possibly shuttering the clinic entirely.

One last shift at Jackson Women’s Health, the abortion clinic at the center of the Roe firestorm

Yellowstone officials assess damage after historic floods

Your preferred tampons may be hard to find thanks to the latest supply-chain issue

World

People walked in the rising waters to go to church in Old Fangak, South Sudan, in October 2021.

UN ends food aid to parts of South Sudan as funds run dry

Russians control 80 percent of contested city in eastern Ukraine

Iran suspects Israel killed two scientists with poison

opinion

The Boston Police Department has purchased an Ascent Aerosystems Spirit drone.

BPD needs more safeguards for its growing drone surveillance program

Why worry about water?

Blue is the new green: How business can protect the ocean

lifestyle

Kim Kardashian donned Marilyn Monroe's iconic "Happy Birthday Mr. President" gown at the 2022 Met Gala.

Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe’s dress on the Met Gala red carpet. A collector claims it’s ‘permanently damaged.’

I don’t know what the relationship lacks

#ChurchToo revelations growing, years after movement began

food & dining

Honey-Lime Glazed Salmon

Recipe: Add complex tastes to a simple roast salmon with a glaze of honey and lime

In Lowell school cafeterias, they’re serving up a taste of home

Select Oyster’s Michael Serpa on lessons from his dad, Boston’s best Monday lunch, and rising food costs

travel

A cooked lobster is served on a picnic table in New England.

8 must-attend food and wine festivals in Rhode Island this summer

How to eat through Blackstone Valley in a weekend

A splashy waterfront resort in Maine, a youthful music fest, and Juneteenth in New Orleans

Arts

A discarded mound of tinsel sits next to a pile of giant jacks made of wire tomato cages in "Lily Cox-Richard: Weep Holes" at Mass MoCA.

Everything’s scary — but don’t let it break you

Power and prototypes: Matthew Angelo Harrison at MIT List Visual Arts Center

Documenting Amazonia — and the amazing resilience of the earth

Books

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Summer Reading 2022

David Duchovny — yes, that David Duchovny — writes a tale for our time

A debut from Donna Gordon, the 10th anniversary of the Nantucket Book Festival, and awards for Maine authors

Movies

Chris Evans attends the world premiere of Disney and Pixar's feature film "Lightyear" at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on June 8, 2022.

Chris Evans on voicing Buzz Lightyear — and that Boston accent slip

To origin story — and beyond — in ‘Lightyear’

Sins of the father, a son’s recollections, and the near extinction of a seminal band

Television

The House select committee, tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, holding its hearing on Capitol Hill on Monday.

This week’s House hearings into Capitol attack

This week’s TV: Jan. 6 hearings resume, a new Jeff Bridges drama, and an escape to the Italian Riviera

Julee Cruise, vocalist of ‘Twin Peaks’ fame, dies at 65

music

Vocalist Rachael Price and keyboardist Akie Bermiss perform with Lake Street Dive at Roadrunner Sunday night.

Lake Street Dive make themselves at home at Roadrunner

Julee Cruise, vocalist of ‘Twin Peaks’ fame, dies at 65

Country music star Toby Keith announces he has stomach cancer

Theater/Dance

From left: Anderson Stinson III, Henry Morehouse (rear), Malik Mitchell, and Victoria Omoregie in "The Bomb-itty of Errors."

In ‘The Bomb-itty of Errors,’ a Shakespeare remix is a rappers’ delight

‘A Strange Loop’ wins Tony for best musical, ‘Lehman Trilogy’ for best play as Broadway celebrates its comeback

In the Huntington’s ‘Common Ground Revisited,’ Boston’s busing crisis is part of a much larger story

globe local

D'Angelo Ortiz, David Ortiz's son, rounds third base during the home opener of the Boston Rox.

Brockton ‘Rox’ baseball with famous names and fun

Should Massachusetts raise welfare benefits?

Cheers for unstoppable Lucy, as she graduates from high school

Obituaries

Philip Baker Hall at his home in Glendale, Calif., in 2017.

Philip Baker Hall, master of gruff and gruffly silly character roles, dies at 90

Julee Cruise, vocalist of ‘Twin Peaks’ fame, dies at 65

Don Perkins, 6-time Pro Bowl RB with Cowboys, dies at 84