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Rail experts say Orange Line battery ‘failure’ was likely a battery explosion; no answer from T
MBTA spokesperson Lisa Battiston said the incident Monday while the car was out of service at Wellington Yard “dislodged the battery cover from an external underside compartment of the vehicle.” She didn't respond to repeated questions if it was an explosion.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Progress stalls on agreement to avert Boston school takeover, city officials say
Commissioner Jeff Riley continues to balk at Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposed “partnership” between the city and state.

1,636 confirmed cases and 35 deaths. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

Mass. legislative leaders respond to Biden’s call to suspend state gas tax: No way!

Democratic leaders of the Massachusetts House and Senate on Wednesday rebuffed calls from President Biden for states to suspend their gas tax in the face of rising prices at the pump, arguing any savings are unlikely to be passed on to the drivers who actually need it.

Biden calls for 3-month suspension of gas and diesel taxes

The stock market has tumbled quickly, and longtime savers are at a loss
Tough times on Wall Street have people near retirement or readying for college tuition checks wondering what to do next.

The State of Race: Black Joy

Watch live: Join the Globe and GBH for the latest episode of The State of Race featuring Culture Columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

Ken Scales outside the now-closed Whole Foods Market in Brookline that he worked at for nine years.

Whole Foods closed the store a 72-year-old man stocked shelves at for nine years, but he didn’t get his severance

The employee says he didn’t realize he would forfeit a payout by agreeing to work through June at another location.

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New England waters are teeming with fish species. The problem is we eat too few of them.
Seafood counters are generally dominated by cod, haddock, lobsters, clams, and scallops. But there’s an urgent reason to broaden what we bring to the table.

‘It’s a lost cause’: Inside the last stand of New England’s soft-shell clam

How much do you need to earn to afford a house in Greater Boston? $181,000 a year, says new study.
The Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies determined just how expensive it is to buy a home in Greater Boston. And it’s only getting worse.

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BOLD TYPES

Charley Cummings is building a new kind of bank
The founder of Walden Local Meat Co., which distributes locally raised meat and dairy throughout the Northeast, is creating a mutual bank that will lend to farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs who are working to create a sustainable food system.

More Bold Types

A portrait of Nicole A. Mokeme. Maine authorities are investigating the hit-and-run death of Mokeme, who was killed last weekend in the parking lot of the Schoodic Institute in Acadia National Park where she was holding a Black Excellence retreat.

Maine woman, 35, killed in hit-and-run crash as she hosted Black community retreat

Nicole A. Mokeme, who created a foundation to help Black and Indigenous youth, was killed last weekend in a hit-and-run crash while hosting a retreat at the Schoodic Institute in Acadia National Park, and authorities are looking for a black BMW registered to her boyfriend.

Tayla Mayo hugged her younger son Jaiden Harris, 16, outside their home in Quincy. Her 18-year-old son, Jaivon Harris, was indicted in a murder, although he is not accused of shooting the victim, and Mayo said the impact on her family has been severe.

Six teenagers were involved in a robbery that killed a Weymouth high school student. So far, only one has been arrested.

Despite multiple accounts that six teenagers were involved in a botched robbery that ended in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old, only one, an 18-year-old who is Black, sits in jail.

Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial candidates state Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz (left) and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey participated in a forum in Boston on April 27.

‘A huge step forward’: Female candidates are facing off statewide, changing the narrative for future elections

Female candidates are running in many Massachusetts races and facing off against one another in four primary elections.

Opinion

A new Orange Line train is brought into the CRRC MA facility in Springfield and examined on Tuesday, the same day all new Orange Line trains were taken out of service due to "battery failure."

What’s really going on at the factory that’s building the T’s new subway cars?

No one on Beacon Hill seems to be asking the tough questions that need to be asked: Why is it taking so long to produce these subway cars? And why are there so many issues with the ones already delivered?

Trumpublicans have turned on Republicans

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Boston was once a wildly ambitious city. It’s time to go big again.

Southie convention center no ‘field of dreams’

Even Democrats now agree: Biden is too old for his job

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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THE GREAT DIVIDE

Mass. legislators urge state education leaders not to raise MCAS graduation requirements

The letter highlights concerns from legislators about consequences they believe a state proposal made in April to raise the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, graduation requirements could have, particularly among students who have been “disproportionately harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Teenager dies after being pulled from Gloucester quarry
State Police divers recovered an 18-year-old man who did not resurface after jumping into a Gloucester quarry with a friend on Wednesday afternoon.

Jan. 6 hearings: What we’ve learned, and what’s next

The Jan. 6 committee’s fourth and fifth hearings, held this week, are part of an effort to show how Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn his 2020 election defeat eventually shifted to Congress, where his false declarations of widespread election fraud led directly to the Jan. 6 attack.

Hearings will continue into July, chairman says Lawmakers on Jan. 6 committee ramp up their security as threats increase

Swedish art group ‘AnonyMouse’ installs detailed, miniature displays around Boston
Last week, an anonymous Swedish artist collective known affectionately as “AnonyMouse” discreetly installed one of its signature, mouse-inspired models — delightful miniature works of art that look like they were plucked from the animated film “An American Tail” — in the harborside neighborhood.

Mass. officials suspect avian influenza is cause of seabirds’ deaths along coast, warn against handling them
State officials said Wednesday that they suspect that avian influenza is killing seabirds along the coast.

Women who are optimistic tend to live longer, Harvard study says
Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that the trend “was generally evident across racial and ethnic groups, suggesting the association of optimism with longevity extends to diverse populations.”

Recommended reads

Podcasts are a great way to pass the time during long car rides.

Hitting the road this summer? Here are 12 gripping podcasts to take with you.

These titles, most of them new in 2022, will help the miles fly by as you travel to your destination.

60 books for summer reading 2022

A philosopher, a foodie, an explorer: Andover hiker who died after treacherous rescue is remembered by his son
An engineer by profession and hiker by hobby, 53-year-old Xi Chen had found himself in the White Mountains many times before. But on Saturday, near the peak of Mount Washington, amid roaring winds and freezing rain, he texted his wife to say he was in trouble. Then he went silent.

A winter count found fewer people living on Boston streets
The overall number of people experiencing homelessness in Boston dropped 2.4 percent, from 1,659 people in 2021 to 1,545 in 2022. That total includes people living in shelters and transitional housing. The decrease follows a nearly 25 percent drop from 2020 to 2021.

‘The worst of small-town governments’: In Stoughton, latest police scandal adds to long history of trouble
Over the past two decades, the Stoughton Police Department has been the epitome of dysfunction, besieged by scandals that have rocked this unassuming bedroom community south of Boston.

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2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners

These are the 2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners

Columbus Short and Ledisi as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahalia Jackson in "Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story"

Roxbury International Film Festival offers hybrid program, in-person screenings

Bass-baritone Davóne Tines singing the title role in Anthony Davis's opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X" on Friday at the Strand Theatre, with Maggie Finnegan and Matthew Arnold.

In a newly revived opera, Malcolm X sings his own history

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Once considered a GOP rising star, Representative Dan Crenshaw has been roasted by some in his party for debunking Donald Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud in an election he soundly lost.

Trumpublicans have turned on Republicans

Architectural firm Populous has crafted new conceptual designs for an expansion of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Southie convention center no ‘field of dreams’

President Biden speaks to White House staff prior to boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on June 14.

Even Democrats now agree: Biden is too old for his job

From left, Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Gabriel Sterling appeared as witnesses before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol during hearings on Tuesday.

Integrity and honor didn’t matter to Trump, but it did to GOP officials in Georgia and Arizona

A US Supreme Court ruling released Tuesday will require the state of Maine to allow parents to use taxpayer dollars to send their kids to religious school.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Remember separation between church and state? Apparently the Supreme Court doesn’t.

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Where have Boston’s children gone?

Metro

Rail experts say Orange Line battery ‘failure’ was likely a battery explosion; no answer from T

MBTA spokesperson Lisa Battiston said the incident Monday while the car was out of service at Wellington Yard “dislodged the battery cover from an external underside compartment of the vehicle.” She didn't respond to repeated questions if it was an explosion.

1,636 confirmed cases and 35 deaths. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

Here’s a look at the latest coronavirus numbers in Massachusetts, including case numbers, deaths, demographics, and more.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Progress stalls on agreement to avert Boston school takeover, city officials say

Commissioner Jeff Riley continues to balk at Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposed “partnership” between the city and state.

Tony Siragusa, who helped Ravens win Super Bowl, dies at 55

Tony Siragusa, the charismatic defensive tackle who helped lead a stout Baltimore defense to a Super Bowl title, has died. The cause of death was not immediately available.

Sports

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said the Saudi-backed LIV is trying buy the game of golf.

Ben Volin | On golf

PGA Tour announces significant changes to schedule, FedEx Cup, and purses in response to threat of LIV

After a five-hour meeting Tuesday, the PGA is catering to star players on the heels of Brooks Koepka defecting.

Australian point guard Dyson Daniels has soared up NBA draft boards.

Gary Washburn I On basketball

Following the first three or four players, the NBA draft is a crapshoot

With so many unproven players, including those strictly entering the draft on potential, teams are truly uncertain if these players will be able to help.

Without Title IX, the members of the United States women's national soccer team might not have had the opportunity to celebrate, let alone play for, a Women's World Cup title in 2019.

They played it forward so generations of women who followed Title IX could reap the benefits

Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark federal legislation passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972 that opened the floodgates of athletic opportunities for women.

Gary Washburn’s NBA mock draft: Who will go where in the search for talent?

50 YEARS OF TITLE IX

How has Title IX impacted your life? Where do we go from here? Give us your thoughts.

Baseball Notebook

Max Fried beats Braves in arbitration, gets $6.85 million

Business

Powell says Fed is ‘not trying to provoke’ a recession

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said the central bank might be able to lower rapid inflation without tipping America into a painful downturn, though he cautioned that pulling it off would be “very challenging” to achieve and that a recession is “certainly a possibility.”

Juul soon to be ordered off the market by FDA, report says

Regulators have been reviewing thousands of applications for vaping products since tightening their oversight of what had become an unruly marketplace.

Japanese drug giant Takeda will move into 16-story building planned for Kendall Square

Moderna’s omicron shot yields antibodies against new variants

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In the main cottage (left), the first-floor primary bedroom, main living space, and the three second-floor bedrooms all have lake views, as do the sleeping porch and living area of the guest cottage (right). The owners’ grandchildren frolic among the trees.

Up to 22 relatives stay at these Maine cabins, a treasured family heirloom

The bittersweet triumph of a Juneteenth national holiday

This week's daters: Mary and Ryan.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I thought she was fun, interesting, smart, and thoughtful’

The writer and his family on a visit to York, Maine, in 2014.

When I was a new dad, everyone said it would go by so fast. I get it now.

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Samantha Gitschier, the assistant animal control officer in West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard, is seen here picking up dead cormorants. State officials say they suspect avian influenza in the recent deaths of seabirds.

Mass. officials suspect avian influenza is cause of seabirds’ deaths along coast, warn against handling them

The true heroes of democracy

In R.I. treasurer’s race, Diossa files Hatch Act complaint against Pryor

sports

Jarren Duran is unlikely to be available to the Red Sox for their upcoming series in Toronto.

Red Sox’ Jarren Duran won’t be available for upcoming series against the Blue Jays in Toronto because he’s unvaccinated

Tony Siragusa, who helped Ravens win Super Bowl, dies at 55

Tigers at Red Sox lineups and notes: Jeter Downs to make MLB debut

business

The IRS disputed the taxpayer advocate’s findings and said that more recent data, through June 10, showed unprocessed returns had dipped below 20 million and were down slightly from June 2021.

IRS backlog of unprocessed tax returns has grown to 21 million

Biden calls for 3-month suspension of gas and diesel taxes

Whole Foods closed the store a 72-year-old man stocked shelves at for nine years, but he didn’t get his severance

politics

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) swears in the witnesses — from left, Rep. Russell Bowers (R-Ariz.), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling — for the fourth hearing held by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, in Washington on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. The hearing on Tuesday showed how President Donald J. Trump and his allies applied pressure to state officials to overturn the election results. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Jan. 6 hearings: What we’ve learned, and what’s next

Proud Boys riot trial delayed due to Jan. 6 committee hearings

Biden calls for 3-month suspension of gas and diesel taxes

Nation

The city of Brooklyn Center, Minn., has agreed to pay a $3.2 million settlement to the family of the late Daunte Wright, including his parents Aubrey Wright (left) and Katie Wright.

Minnesota city reaches $3.2m settlement in Wright shooting

1,636 confirmed cases and 35 deaths. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

Biden will push Congress for a three-month gas tax holiday

World

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for a ceremony, in Ankara, Turkey, May 16, 2022. Analysts say Erdogan is taking advantage of the war in Ukraine to push his own agenda in Syria — even using Turkey’s veto powers as a NATO member to block alliance membership by Finland and Sweden as potential leverage. But an incursion by Ankara would be risky, threatening to upset its ties with both the United States and Russia.

Frustrated Finland, blocked from NATO by Turkey, practices patience

Saudi leader visits Turkey, moving to mend rift over journalist’s murder

Ukraine expects EU-wide support for candidacy to join bloc

opinion

A US Supreme Court ruling released Tuesday will require the state of Maine to allow parents to use taxpayer dollars to send their kids to religious school.

Remember separation between church and state? Apparently the Supreme Court doesn’t.

Trumpublicans have turned on Republicans

JustUs for Vincent: Remembering Vincent: The unsilenced

lifestyle

2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners

These are the 2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners

Science and music collide in ‘Black Hole Symphony’ at the Museum of Science

UK to offer vaccines to some queer men to stop monkeypox; officials cite higher transmission risk

food & dining

Mini juicy pork dumplings at Gourmet Dumpling House in Boston. The eatery, located at 52 Beach St., has made regular appearances in online travel guides and best-of lists, and in 2013 it was included in Travel & Leisure’s list of the best Chinese restaurants in the US.

Gourmet Dumpling House announces it will close its doors in Chinatown after 15 years

Blue Ribbon Sushi will open at the Hotel Commonwealth Thursday

Premade cocktail mixes make sipping simple

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

Grab that towel: These sandy strands have been named the best beaches in Massachusetts

A sunflower maze, a new Lake Placid hotel, and thousands of books on the go

Arts

Lynda Schlosberg, "The Heart of the Matter," in “Lines and Colors" at Bernay Fine Art.

Delighting in ‘Lines and Colors’ at Bernay Fine Art

‘In the heart of their hug’: Hank Willis Thomas on his ‘Embrace’ tribute to the Kings

At PEM, Zachari Logan’s ‘Remembrance’ finds beauty in ambiguity

Books

A red tailed hawk

Sy Montgomery’s latest book delves into the wild world of hawks

George Lamming, a Caribbean writer who explored the end of colonialism, dies

Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor of powerful reserve, dies at 91

Movies

Antonio Banderas as international movie star Félix Rivero and Penélope Cruz as his director, Lola Cuevas, in Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s "Official Competition."

Antonio Banderas skewers celebrity in ‘Official Competition’

Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas make a meta movie in ‘Official Competition’

Roxbury International Film Festival offers hybrid program, in-person screenings

Television

Jeremy Allen White and Liza Colon-Zayas in "The Bear."

In ‘The Bear,’ a star chef has a lot on his plate in this messy kitchen

Chameleonic character keeps ‘Chloe’ compelling

Zahn McClarnon is riveting as tribal detective in AMC’s ‘Dark Winds’

music

Pianist Marc-André Hamelin.

Marc-André Hamelin and the riches of ragtime

Yoichi Udagawa hits the right notes with New England Philharmonic

At Leader Bank Pavilion, Bonnie Raitt’s excellence is no surprise

Theater/Dance

“The Great Mr. Swindle’s Traveling Peculiarium and Drink-Ory Garden” is hosted by a character named B.S. Swindler.

‘Mr. Swindle’s Traveling Peculiarium’ coming to Boston with a brew of old-timey entertainment and beverages

Broadway will drop mask mandate beginning July 1

A workplace comedy goes to some very dark places in ‘Gloria’ at Gloucester Stage

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The West Newton Cinema, where a screening of “All the Lonely People” brought together dozens of Newton residents June 15.

‘A topic that resonates’: Documentary on loneliness brings people together at West Newton Cinema

Newton Highlands Village Day festival celebrates the ‘Highlands and life’

Neither snow nor rain? Mail delivery in Newton hit by staffing shortages

Obituaries

Mr. Siragusa, defensive tackle for the Super Bowl-champion Baltimore Ravens, with the Vince Lombardi trophy as he rode with his wife, Kathy, in a parade in his hometown of Kenilworth, N.J. on March 4, 2001.

Tony Siragusa, who helped Ravens win Super Bowl, dies at 55

James Rado, who co-created groundbreaking ‘Hair,’ dies at 90

Dr. Paul M. Ellwood Jr., architect of the HMO, is dead at 95