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Is clean energy the solution to the economy’s woes, or is it to blame? Inside the battle to brand the moment

Gas prices are soaring, inflation has hit unprecedented levels, and economists are warning of a recession. Climate groups and the oil industry have been fighting to control the narrative and fix these crises.

Police search for Maine family reported missing after failing to return from camping trip
Jill Sidebotham, Nicholas Hansen, and their daughter, Lydia Hansen, were last seen by Sidebotham’s family on June 27, before they set out to go camping in the area of Phillips, Maine, according to police.

‘The fastest way to restore Roe is to pass a national law’: Biden signs order on abortion access

President Biden delivered impassioned remarks Friday condemning the “extreme” Supreme Court majority that ended a constitutional right to abortion and pleading with Americans upset by the decision to “vote, vote, vote vote” in November.

Ruling clears Louisiana to enforce near-total abortion ban

Incomplete grade? Columbia loses ranking over dubious data

U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from its 2022 edition of Best Colleges, saying in a statement that the Ivy League institution failed to substantiate certain 2021 data it previously submitted, including student-faculty ratios and class size.

Elon Musk says he’s terminating $44 billion Twitter buyout deal
The Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter’s board saying he is terminating the acquisition.

Naomi Okoro, a 5-year-old from Milton, swam during her lesson at Champion Infant Aquatics.

Parents with pools turn to survival swimming to keep kids safe — sometimes starting before they reach a year old

ISR itself isn’t new — it was founded by a psychologist in 1966. But in recent years, social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok have popularized its style of survival swimming.

TOM FARRAGHER

A sad farewell to an island paradise
And, now, they are both preparing to bid farewell to Nantucket, a place that has financially slipped away from them.

Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut

Georgia DA’s Trump investigation is making history
We were lucky last time. A multitude of law-abiding individuals and fortunate events stopped the “quiet” phase of the coup to keep Donald Trump in power. That could well change in 2024.

Rafael Devers' night began with a demoralizing strikeout and ended with him pulled from the game after four innings due to lower back pain.

YANKEES 12, RED SOX 5

Another fielding gaffe, more injuries as Red Sox outclassed by Yankees again

Five batters in, New York led, 4-0, at Fenway Park. And despite the Red Sox making a game of it, bringing the tying run to the plate in the sixth, they were bested by the best team in the majors for the second straight night.

Kathleen C. Marchi, chief executive officer and president of the Boston-based Samaritans Inc., said, "A number like 988 makes that call so much easier for an individual in crisis."

Starting July 16, people in crisis will have a new number to call

Call centers are scrambling to staff up for the day when 988 will replace the 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

Supreme Court Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, left, and Brett Kavanaugh.

Justice Kavanaugh leaves a D.C. restaurant after abortion rights protestors show up

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh made a quick exit out the rear of Morton’s, a steakhouse in downtown Washington, D.C., when abortion rights protestors gathered at the restaurant after learning he was dining there, Politico reported.

What on earth can be done about this Supreme Court?

Opinion

The backside of the Massachusetts State House is reflected in a puddle of water collecting on a table after a rain on June 23. This image has been rotated 180 degrees.

Massachusetts lawmakers are poised to offer tax relief to the middle class. But what about the poor?

The state Legislature should include low-income families in plans to dole out $250 rebates to offset the rising cost of gas and other products.

IDEAS | SHAUN CAMMACK

I quit Twitter and discovered Wikipedia’s righteous, opinionated, utterly absorbing battles over The Truth

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

On the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, State Department has no spine

Sorry, Charlie: The T is still your problem

MARCELA GARCÍA

Nayib Bukele’s failed Bitcoin experiment in El Salvador

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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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

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‘Sopranos’ actor Tony Sirico, ‘Paulie Walnuts,’ dies
Sirico, who played the impeccably groomed mobster Paulie Walnuts in “The Sopranos” and brought his tough-guy swagger to films including “Goodfellas,” died Friday.

Boston researchers may have found biomarker for long COVID
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital said their study bolsters a theory that at least one cause of long COVID is the coronavirus persisting in a reservoir somewhere in the body even after a patient has recovered from a bout with COVID-19.

The US may be losing the fight against monkeypox, scientists say
The response in the United States has been sluggish and timid, reminiscent of the early days of the COVID pandemic, experts say, raising troubling questions about the nation’s preparedness for pandemic threats.

Shinzo Abe’s body arrives in Tokyo as Japan mourns ex-PM’s death
Abe was attacked in the city of Nara and airlifted to a local hospital but died of blood loss despite emergency treatment including massive blood transfusions.

State officials will scale back the frequency of COVID data reporting to one day a week
Officials said they will scale back the number of days each week that they post COVID-19 data to the official dashboard from five days a week to just one — on Thursday.

Larry Edelman

Inflation fears eclipse recession fears as US job growth remains strong
Employers hired at a brisk pace in June, the Labor Department said Friday, and wages rose. The data leave the Federal Reserve little choice but to continue aggressively boosting interest rates in an effort to rein in inflation.

Recommended reads

Maully Shah, Neil Bennett, and the rest of the rescue team carried Gary Cohen down Mount Monadnock on June 30.

When a Boston hiker took a treacherous fall on Mount Monadnock, a group of strangers sprang into action to help

In southwest New Hampshire, Mount Monadnock is said to be one of the most frequently climbed mountains in the world. But as the fraught rescue of Gary Cohen last week makes clear, even a well-trodden day hike can turn dangerous.

DEVRA FIRST AND CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

On the Mid Cape, sometimes the best activity is no activity at all
Welcome to the second installment of our Cape Cod adventure, in which we wanted to engage in activities (hello, Cape Cod Railroad), but we were also drawn to slothful mornings at the beach. How did we resolve this conundrum? Read on, friends.

Dan Shaughnessy

We’re a long way from the good old days of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, and other thoughts
It's painful to watch Boston continue to shuffle interchangeable, faceless players through the outfield and bullpen — especially when facing a team that takes it seriously.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Poor pitching, from both veterans and needed youngsters, at core of Red Sox skid
This is the first series against the Yankees since 2015 that the Sox have started two pitchers under the age of 26. If you take out the times the Sox were in last place, you have to go back to 2008.

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Culture & Lifestyle

In "Loot," Maya Rudolph plays a billionaire who decides to live a 9-to-5 life in the office of a charitable foundation.

These workplace comedies get the job done

From left: Marcel Spears, Nikki Crawford, and Billy Eugene Jones in James Ijames's “Fat Ham” at the Public Theater in New York.

Seen and heard at the theater: distinct voices, fresh perspectives

Former Yes singer Jon Anderson is backed on his "Close to the Edge" 50th anniversary tour by students from the Paul Green Rock Academy.

Would Jon Anderson dare to perform ‘Close to the Edge’ with just a band of teens? Yes!

Bill Griffeth (“Strangers No More: A Sequel to The Stranger in My Genes”) is in conversation with Libby Copeland Thursday at 6 p.m. at the American Inspiration by New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Author readings around Boston July 10-16

Special Projects

Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

In 2019, students from five BPS schools performed with the Boston Pops during their opening Holiday at the Pops show the first week of December.

Brenda Cassellius

A roadmap to success for Boston Public Schools

The sense that Boris Johnson had worn out his welcome with a weary public that now wanted him gone played a part in his decision to resign as prime minister of Great Britain.

Boris Johnson and the limits of democratic tolerance

Boris Johnson is out of a job because — not for the first time — he appears to have been covering up dysfunctional behavior, either his own, or by one of his chums.

Game over for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony should be a reminder to young staffers, particularly those who work with or alongside the coup-inclined: Be ferocious note-keepers. Log every meeting, recount what was said, and store it all somewhere safe.

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

Advice for Washington’s young staffers

US Attorney Rachael Rollins watches as Acting Boston Police Commissioner Gregory Long speaks to reporters about the Patriot Front march.

‘If this were a Black Lives Matter protest, would the response have been different?’

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

Global information wars are a threat to the planet. This is how we could broker peace.

Metro

US attorney files action to return long missing medals to Springfield armory

Massachusetts US Attorney Rachael Rollins said Friday she has filed a civil forefeiture action to have 24 marksmanship medals dating to the 19th century returned to the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, where they have been missing since the 1990s.

Police search for Maine family reported missing after failing to return from camping trip

Jill Sidebotham, Nicholas Hansen, and their daughter, Lydia Hansen, were last seen by Sidebotham’s family on June 27, before they set out to go camping in the area of Phillips, Maine, according to police.

Federal court rules fisheries officials didn’t do enough to protect right whales from lobster gear

A judge ruled Friday that NOAA Fisheries had violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act and Endangered Species Act when it issued a May 2021 biological opinion and a September 2021 final rule because officials had not done enough to reduce the lobster fishery’s threat to right whales, the plaintiffs in the suit said in a statement.

Parents with pools turn to survival swimming to keep kids safe — sometimes starting before they reach a year old

ISR itself isn’t new — it was founded by a psychologist in 1966. But in recent years, social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok have popularized its style of survival swimming.

Sports

Jack Hughes, who will be a sophomore at Northeastern next season, was drafted by the Kings in the second round.

NHL Draft 2022: Many players with Massachusetts roots or commitments to Boston colleges chosen on Day 2

No native Massachusetts players were picked on Thursday night, but the drought ended quickly on Friday afternoon.

Rafael Devers' night began with a demoralizing strikeout and ended with him pulled from the game after four innings due to lower back pain.

YANKEES 12, RED SOX 5

Another fielding gaffe, more injuries as Red Sox outclassed by Yankees again

Five batters in, New York led, 4-0, at Fenway Park. And despite the Red Sox making a game of it, bringing the tying run to the plate in the sixth, they were bested by the best team in the majors for the second straight night.

Rafael Devers tweaked his back on his attempt to catch a foul fly during Friday's game.

Rafael Devers, Connor Seabold leave Friday’s Red Sox game with injuries

Seabold was recalled Friday from Worcester to take the place of Michael Wacha, who was placed on the injured list with right shoulder inflammation. Devers, meanwhile, missed two games earlier in the week with back and hamstring tightness.

Cameron Tringale holds steady against wind, leads Scottish Open by three

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Poor pitching, from both veterans and needed youngsters, at core of Red Sox skid

Tadej Pogačar wins Tour de France stage 7 to extend lead to 35 seconds

Business

Incomplete grade? Columbia loses ranking over dubious data

U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from its 2022 edition of Best Colleges, saying in a statement that the Ivy League institution failed to substantiate certain 2021 data it previously submitted, including student-faculty ratios and class size.

Elon Musk says he’s terminating $44 billion Twitter buyout deal

The Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter’s board saying he is terminating the acquisition.

Senator Elizabeth Warren backs SEC’s tougher SPAC plan to curb ‘scams and fraud’

Inflation fears eclipse recession fears as US job growth remains strong

magazine

Is a famous shipwreck in Newport Harbor? A Rhode Island expert is fighting Australia over the answer.

The writer with her husband, Junior, and their daughter.

I moved to Haiti to help it recover from the 2010 earthquake. Violence forced my family to flee.

This week's daters: Andy and Shiella

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We talked quite a bit about raising kids in today’s digital world’

Blueberry Crumble With Oats and Tahini

Recipes: Three creative berry desserts for summer

metro

North Kingstown High School basketball coach Aaron Thomas during a game. He has been accused of conducting inappropriate “body fat tests.”

What you need to know about North Kingstown High School Coach Aaron Thomas and the ‘fat test’ issue

Starting July 16, people in crisis will have a new number to call

Baker says he would sign Legislature’s no-strings $250 rebate to taxpayers. But he hopes to see way more relief.

sports

Rafael Devers has his 12th career multi-homer game on Thursday night against the Yankees, getting ace Gerrit Cole twice and knocking in all five Boston runs in the game.

Rafael Devers wins second straight All-Star start in fan vote

Goaltender carousel continues spinning on Day 2 of NHL Draft

LA quartet, Blue Jays pair earn starting spots for Dodger Stadium All-Star Game

business

People walk past a "now hiring" sign posted outside of a restaurant in Arlington, Virginia on June 3, 2022.

US employers add a solid 372,000 jobs in sign of resilience

Employers deserve a break on the cost of waiving unemployment overpayments

US jobless claims rise to 235k, most in nearly six months

politics

Former President Donald Trump speaks during an event in Las Vegas on July 8.

How a crowded GOP field could help Trump in 2024 campaign

UN says Ukraine bears share of blame for nursing home attack

‘The fastest way to restore Roe is to pass a national law’: Biden signs order on abortion access

Nation

Trump supporters scale the walls on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Alleged Oath Keeper accused of bringing explosives to D.C. on Jan. 6

US appeals court upholds release of Trump financial records to House

The US may be losing the fight against monkeypox, scientists say

World

People pray at a makeshift memorial at the scene where the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in Nara, Japan, on July 8.

Shinzo Abe’s body arrives in Tokyo as Japan mourns ex-PM’s death

2 men gored while running with bulls at Pamplona festival

Ukrainian official warns of ‘catastrophe’ in captured city

opinion

A newly cut tree in Malcolm X Park in Roxbury as seen late last month.

Trees felled, tremors felt in Roxbury and beyond

By the time they got to Woodstock, they had a trunkful of iconic posters

She feels urgency to fight for rights, freedoms held dear

lifestyle

They talk for hours a day, but he has a girlfriend

WCVB names Cindy Fitzgibbon the station’s new chief meteorologist after the retirement of Harvey Leonard

Sorry, Marie Kondo types. I’m not chucking my stuff.

food & dining

Who said good food can’t be found in a gas station?

A ‘Chopped’ champ (who also beat Bobby Flay) brings his baked goods to the Boston area

At the Israeli fast-casual Miznon in the Seaport, most of the menu goes into a pita pocket

travel

The sun sets behind the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port.

On the Mid Cape, sometimes the best activity is no activity at all

A plane flew 14 hours from Dubai to Brisbane with a hole in its side

On the road with New England activists

Arts

John Wilson's "Maquette for Eternal Presence" sits at the opening of “Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas,” part of the new installation "Stories Artists Tell" in the Art of the Americas wing at the Museum of Fine Arts.

‘Touching roots’ and connecting cultural histories at the MFA

Patrick Kelly’s radical ‘Runway of Love’ at Peabody Essex Museum

‘On the Edge’: A lively West Coast collection lands in Watertown

Books

In a post-Trump world, can writing cure our politics?

Survival stories in ‘Dirtbag, Massachusetts’

A young woman brings light to her family, in 1930s Denver

Movies

Dakota Johnson stars in the upcoming film "Madame Web," which is filming in Boston this summer.

Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ to begin filming in Boston next week

Remembering the intensely physical, surprisingly versatile James Caan

10 memorable James Caan performances to stream

Television

“I have never been involved in a show that has made such a huge impact and touched my heart like this one has,” Suranne Jones wrote on Instagram after learning of the cancellation of "Gentleman Jack."

HBO cancels ‘Gentleman Jack’

WCVB names Cindy Fitzgibbon the station’s new chief meteorologist after the retirement of Harvey Leonard

These workplace comedies get the job done

music

Nani Agbeli (left) led a Ghanaian drumming performance for Bang on a Can's summer music festival at Mass MoCA in 2018.

At Bang on a Can’s summer festival, musical explorations are instrumental

A baby boy, a new album, and a tour have put Maren Morris in her happy place

Would Jon Anderson dare to perform ‘Close to the Edge’ with just a band of teens? Yes!

Theater/Dance

From left: Marcel Spears, Nikki Crawford, and Billy Eugene Jones in James Ijames's “Fat Ham” at the Public Theater in New York.

Seen and heard at the theater: distinct voices, fresh perspectives

BODYTRAFFIC mirrors life’s darkness, light, and in-betweens at Jacob’s Pillow

Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence delivers stunning ‘The Equality of Night and Day’ at Jacob’s Pillow

globe local

Alphonse Millefoglie discusses the model his father built of his fishing vessel, the Maria & Al, to longtime Gloucester fishing family members John and Marie Testaverde during the opening of the Cape Ann Museum exhibit.

A port of call for Gloucester’s fishing memories

Should the state ban the use of fossil fuel systems in new commercial and residential construction?

A makeshift ramp is used to rescue ducklings

Obituaries

FILE Ñ Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at the G7 summit meeting in Biarritz, France, on Aug. 25, 2019. Abe, the longest-serving Japanese prime minister, was assassinated on Friday, July 8, 2022, in the city of Nara, Japan. He was 67. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, dies at 67

Larry Storch, zany Corporal Agarn on TV’s ‘F Troop,’ dies at 99

Former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos dies at 79