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Michael Cox, currently the chief of the Ann Arbor Police Department, will be the new leader of the Boston Police Department.

Michael Cox named new Boston police commissioner

The veteran law enforcement leader was beaten by fellow Boston Police officers while undercover in 1995.

‘We are losing the Cape we have always loved’: Soaring home prices on Cape Cod put the pinch on longtime renters
Home prices are at all time highs, the housing stock has reached a historic low, and the Cape’s longtime residents — disproportionately those who occupy year-round rental properties — are being pushed to a breaking point.

John Henry takes stock of the Red Sox’ present and future
“We took a good step forward last year. We’re taking a good step forward this year. But we’re still building,” said the Red Sox owner.

Game preview: Red Sox at Rays, tonight at 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Jan. 6 committee sends a warning shot to Trump over witness tampering

Donald Trump may have given the Jan. 6 committee — and the Justice Department—more legal ammunition against him with the revelation Tuesday that he attempted to contact a witness in the panel’s investigation.

Analysis: 4 takeaways from the 7th hearing of the Jan. 6 committee

Aliases, a plastic surgery receipt, and six weeks on the run: How suspect in Vt. cyclist slaying got caught in Costa Rica
Kaitlin Armstrong fled Austin, Texas, in the wake of the May 11 murder of well-known off-road cyclist, Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson, only to be arrested on June 29 in a laid-back coastal town.

Shawn Drumgold, who spent 14 years in prison on wrongful murder conviction, has died
Drumgold was wrongly convicted in the 1988 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore in Roxbury.

Nursing shortage at hospitals leads to multimillion-dollar costs

The vacancy rate for nurse positions has more than doubled since before the pandemic, growing from 6.4 percent in 2019 to 13.6 percent in 2022.

Cat on the lam: Pet caught after weeks on the run at Logan Airport
The beloved family pet cat escaped her cage and went to chase birds at Logan International Airport about three weeks ago.

The Pasynko children played ball and biked around their small makeshift bedroom, housed in a former kindergarten classroom in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

‘I cry nearly every day’: For refugees in Ukraine, survival is measured one day at a time

The Boston Globe spent eight days in western Ukraine speaking with people about how they’re coping amid the ongoing war and what’s next. This is the first in a series of dispatches from a nation under siege.

David Feldman, Sam Feldman, Janet Echelman, and Lilly Feldman stand outside the courts on Tuesday.

He’s having surgery for brain cancer Wednesday. But first, a match of father-son tennis.

David Feldman, 55, is undergoing surgery for glioblastoma on Wednesday. But he plans to continue competing in a father-son tennis tournament up until the surgery.

The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula are seen in an image divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion, with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released on Tuesday.

‘I’m beyond stoked.’ For local astronomers, first Webb telescope images elicit awe, wonder, and relief.

Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and MIT, people who have devoted their careers to studying the cosmos, found themselves astounded Tuesday after seeing the first images from the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope.

Opinion

The Adoption of the US Constitution in Congress at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1787, painted by John H. Froehlich in 1935.

IDEAS | TOM CHAFFIN

We should stop giving the Founding Fathers capital-letter reverence

The authors of the Constitution were brilliant, but deifying them plays into the dubious claims of the ‘originalist’ legal movement.

Mass. women shouldn’t have to travel out of state for late-term abortions

Informers on campus

Jan. 6 panel highlights an unhinged Trump White House

Joe Biden is not the man for this moment

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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FBI says scamsters are taking advantage of red-hot rental market
It's a problem the FBI says has proliferated over the last three years in particular, thanks in part to the quick rise of Internet property searching during the pandemic.

State office building downtown closed in wake of latest manhole explosion

The Edward McCormack office building in downtown Boston is closed Wednesday in the wake of a manhole explosion on Bowdoin Street that injured two Eversource workers, the latest in a string of incidents involving manhole fires.

Two workers injured in Beacon Hill manhole explosion

MOVIE REVIEW | ★½

Review: Daisy Edgar-Jones stays afloat in ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’
David Strathairn also stars in this adaptation of the best-selling Delia Owens novel.

US inflation hit 9.1 percent over the past year, highest rate in 4 decades

Surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted US inflation to a new four-decade peak in June, further pressuring households and likely sealing the case for another large interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve.

LOVE LETTERS

My wife wants to move closer to my stepsons. I won’t go.
After talking about retiring somewhere warmer, my wife told me I was being selfish. I think I’m being fair.

MISS CONDUCT

A friend bullies me into talking politics. What can I do?
He says he wants to hear my opinion, but any discussion will lead to me being insulted, or to him getting angry.

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Malden Police Chief Kevin Molis presented a bouquet to June Borseti, whose husband, Malden police officer Frank Borseti, died in 1982, two years after he was attacked by an emotionally disturbed person.

In Malden, the ultimate sacrifice recognized after 40 years

Kevin Molis never forgot about Frank Borseti, and as Molis’s retirement as chief approached this summer, he decided to do some detective work

Some Boston police officers have worked day-long shifts this summer, union says
Triple shifts remain relatively rare but are more common in the summer when the city holds a host of special events that require extra officers on duty, as was the case on two recent Saturdays, July 9 and June 25, a union leader said.

SHIRLEY LEUNG

Four hours commuting. Four hours on the job.
One woman’s commute to clean labs in Kendall Square highlights how the unreliable T is failing workers Greater Boston relies upon.

Meet Molly White, the Mass. software engineer going after the crypto industry
White documents mishaps, failures, and scams in the industry on a website that is suddenly gaining wide attention.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Will Swenson stars as Neil Diamond in "A Beautiful Noise."

In ‘A Beautiful Noise,’ Will Swenson is a sparkling Diamond

Inside "Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience," the new immersive art exhibit that opened July 8 at SoWa Power Station.

New immersive art exhibit, ‘Beyond King Tut,’ transports visitors back in time

Richard Tarantino, performing as Oxalis, plays his synthesizer on the lobby stage of the Museum of Science at the New England Synth Fest in June.

A spacey odyssey is in store when synthesizers take over Boston’s planetarium

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

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

Might a penchant for palindromes be in our DNA?

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Two challenges, one column!

A mother walks her young son through the courtyard of United South End Settlements in Boston. The state tax relief bill would increase the child care and dependent care deduction from $180 to $310 per dependent and eliminate the two-dependent cap.

TOPIC: 11LEUNG

Renters, seniors, and the working poor: Beacon Hill doles out the tax breaks

A woman in Nicosia, Cyprus, Jan. 19. Cyprus has brought back compulsory mask-wearing in all indoor areas for everyone age 12 and over following a surge of COVID-19 infections. The government said Wednesday the infection spike is in line with a global trend that's mainly owed to the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of the coronavirus.

Many countries have given us a preview of what’s to come with COVID subvariant BA.5. Prepare.

Law enforcement officers stand guard as abortion rights activists march in front of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house on June 29 in Chevy Chase, Md.

For a Supreme Court justice, it can’t be ‘privacy for me’ and no right of protest for thee

District 5 City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo is running for Suffolk County district attorney. If he wins, he'd be the first Latino to occupy that office and, at 34, one of the youngest DAs ever elected in Massachusetts.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Mijente endorses Ricardo Arroyo in the Suffolk district attorney race. Here’s why that matters.

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

He’s having surgery for brain cancer Wednesday. But first, a match of father-son tennis.

David Feldman, 55, is undergoing surgery for glioblastoma on Wednesday. But he plans to continue competing in a father-son tennis tournament up until the surgery.

Shawn Drumgold, who spent 14 years in prison on wrongful murder conviction, has died

Drumgold was wrongly convicted in the 1988 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore in Roxbury.

Watch live: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announces new Boston Police Department commissioner

Wu is hosting a press conference to announce the new commissioner of the Boston Police Department on Wednesday morning. She is expected to name Michael Cox, a veteran law enforcement leader, as the head of the department.

Cranston man, 25, hid in pond to evade arrest

Wanted in Cranston, Yohinni Tetreault submerged himself in Fenner Pond, eluding police for an hour. He “violently resisted” arrest, police said, pulling on their holstered weapons.

Sports

"I think it’s clear both of them want to be here. We want them here,” Red Sox owner John Henry said of star Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers.

John Henry takes stock of the Red Sox’ present and future

“We took a good step forward last year. We’re taking a good step forward this year. But we’re still building,” said the Red Sox owner.

Pavel Zach was born in Brno, Czechia, the same hometown as Bruins defenseman Jakub Zboril.

NHL free agency: Bruins send Erik Haula to Devils for center Pavel Zacha

Zacha, the No. 6 pick in the 2015 draft, arrives without a contract.

Josh Winckowski has yet to face the Rays.

RED SOX AT RAYS | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 89: Red Sox at Rays lineups and notes

Josh Winckowski will get the start for Boston, which has lost the first two games of this four-game series.

The top players in the Premier Lacrosse League will show their stuff in All-Star Game at Gillette Stadium

Kevin Paul Dupont I On hockey

NHL free agency opens at noon. What can we expect from the Bruins?

Catching up with Celtics coach Ime Udoka, who likes the way his new pieces fit into the lineup puzzle

Business

FBI says scamsters are taking advantage of red-hot rental market

It's a problem the FBI says has proliferated over the last three years in particular, thanks in part to the quick rise of Internet property searching during the pandemic.

Stocks fall as Wall Street braces for huge hike in rates

The S&P 500 was 0.8 percent lower in early trading, and Treasury yields jumped as expectations built for the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates drastically to slow the nation’s rocketing inflation.

London Court to Decide Who Controls $1 Billion of Venezuelan Gold

Hasbro partners with 3D-printing startup to personalize action figures

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Is a famous shipwreck in Newport Harbor? There's a fight over that.

My wife wants to move closer to my stepsons. I won’t go.

Grilled Broccoli With Pistachio and Citrus Vinaigrette

Recipes: Charring broccoli, corn, and other vegetables on the grill

A friend bullies me into talking politics. What can I do?

metro

Michael Cox, currently the chief of the Ann Arbor Police Department, will be the new leader of the Boston Police Department.

Michael Cox named new Boston police commissioner

The rundown on PVD mayoral candidate Nirva LaFortune

Mayor Michelle Wu to announce new Boston police commissioner Wednesday

sports

J.D. Martinez came in to Tuesday night’s game against the Rays batting .313/.380/.500 and nine home runs.

Red Sox’ J.D. Martinez added to the American League All-Star team

The NBA finalized some rule changes this week, but Adam Silver and Co. have their eye on bigger issues

Red Sox throw away Chris Sale’s excellent debut in 3-2 loss to the Rays

business

Gas prices are displayed at a filling station in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 12, 2022.

US inflation hit 9.1 percent over the past year, highest rate in 4 decades

Sri Lanka in crisis: President flees and ire turns to PM

Euro slides to parity with dollar for first time in two decades

politics

President Biden saluted as he boarded Air Force One for a trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia on July 12, 2022, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.

Biden heads to Mideast jittery about Iranian nuclear program

Trump planned march to Capitol, panel says

Biden seeks new chapter in troubled Middle East

Nation

Rowdy, a cat that went missing at Logan Airport for nearly three weeks, was found safe early on the morning of July 13, 2022.

Cat on the lam: Pet caught after weeks on the run at Logan Airport

3 arrested after racist, antisemtic pamphlets blanket town

‘I’m beyond stoked.’ For local astronomers, first Webb telescope images elicit awe, wonder, and relief.

World

Customers shop at a vegetable stall in the Capucin Market in Bordeaux, France, on May 27.

Cost-of-living crisis to hit women hardest, report says

Japan police find bullet marks near Abe assassination site

Russian, Ukrainian militaries set to discuss grain exports

opinion

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Asian American writers pay tribute to the life of Vincent Chin

Jan. 6 panel highlights an unhinged Trump White House

Joe Biden is not the man for this moment

lifestyle

835 Sea View Avenue, Osterville.

16 of the most expensive homes for sale in Massachusetts

We closed the distance gap only to break up

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

food & dining

Kristie Sibley manages several of Kennebunkport's top restaurants.

The Kennebunkport Resort Collection’s Kristie Sibley on how to score a vacation table and the best type of lobster roll

Nonalcoholic tequila is finally good. Here are 6 worth trying.

Recipe: Reach the pinnacle of popsicle heaven with these icy strawberry-lime treats

travel

Travelers queued at security at Heathrow Airport in London in June.

London’s Heathrow Airport caps daily passenger numbers

A beginner’s guide to camping

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

Arts

Bryan McFarlane, “To Beach the Whales,” oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery NAGA, Boston.

Artists take ‘The Long View’ at Bromfield Gallery

New murals keep Providence Jewelry District’s past present

‘Touching roots’ and connecting cultural histories at the MFA

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

Daisy Edgar-Jones and David Strathairn in "Where the Crawdads Sing."

Review: Daisy Edgar-Jones stays afloat in ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’

Two baseball legends — Nolan Ryan and Derek Jeter — get their documentary due

Review: Dakota Johnson’s quiet powers of ‘Persuasion’

Television

From left: Joel Kim Booster, Maya Rudolph, and Ron Funches in "Loot."

‘Loot’ has sparkle and is worth a watch

What Emmy voters got right, and what they got wrong

Partial list of Emmy Award nominees

music

Soprano Nicole Cabell sang Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" on Saturday night at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Andris Nelsons.

Tanglewood opens with prayers floated and anxieties fleetingly shed

A spacey odyssey is in store when synthesizers take over Boston’s planetarium

Maren Morris does it all at Leader Bank Pavilion

Theater/Dance

Will Swenson stars as Neil Diamond in "A Beautiful Noise."

In ‘A Beautiful Noise,’ Will Swenson is a sparkling Diamond

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

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

globe local

David Porat, 84, estimates he has repainted over 520 of Newton’s more than 2,500 fire hydrants.

‘It’s not a chore for me’: 84-year-old David Porat repaints Newton’s fire hydrants and makes them shine

Newton group applauds city land purchase for NewCAL; repeats opposition to demolition of Senior Center

Investigation continues into fire that destroyed historic Newton home Friday

Obituaries

Mr. Norman wrote songs and soundtracks for the theater and screen for decades.

Monty Norman, who gave 007 his theme music, dies at 94

Gerald McEntee, longtime president of AFSCME labor union, dies at 87

Francis X. Clines, lyrical writer for the Times, dies at 84