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Tom Rosenbauer, the "chief enthusiast" for Orvis fly fishes in one of his secret spots in Vermont.

Fly-fishing is dumb. Change my mind.

Tom Rosenbauer is America's most famous fly fisherman in America, the “chief enthusiast” for Orvis and host of the most-popular podcast on the topic. Billy Baker is America’s worst fly fisherman, in that he never actually caught a fish. Can a day together change all that?

Dan Shaughnessy

At the 1999 All-Star Game, Fenway Park was the center of the baseball universe, and other thoughts
It was 23 years ago this week. John Henry had yet to buy the Red Sox and young David Ortiz was hitting .315 for Minnesota’s Triple A team in Salt Lake City.

Pavel Zacha has spent his entire NHL career with the Devils.

Four things to know about Bruins’ new center Pavel Zacha, who is coming off two career years

Zacha, who grew up in the same town in Czechia as Jakob Zboril, chose hockey over tennis when he was 11 and it changed his life.

First Lady Jill Biden makes return visit to Row 34 in Boston’s Seaport
She ordered an assortment of the restaurant’s crudo, crabcakes, and Bouillabaisse, according to Nicole Kanner of All Heart PR. Diners gave the First Lady a standing ovation upon her arrival.

To escape high gas prices, many are searching for electric vehicles. They’re nowhere to be found.

A global semiconductor chip shortage is leaving dealers with few EVs.

In acquisition, Atrius rejected the biggest names in Massachusetts health care. Here’s what it all means.

Experts say that the behind-the-scenes details, spelled out in court documents, are a microcosm of the jockeying for power and market share happening on the local and national scale.

Deposition of Trump, 2 children delayed after Ivana’s death
Former President Donald Trump and two of his children got their questioning postponed Friday in a New York civil investigation into their business dealings, a delay that follows the death of Trump’s ex-wife Ivana.

Ivana Trump, first wife of former president, dies

Brittney Griner’s lawyer says WNBA star had doctor’s note for cannabis use
A lawyer provided a letter from a US doctor recommending she use medical cannabis to treat pain.

Biden, Saudi crown prince begin big meeting with fist bump
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greeted US President Biden with a fist bump at a royal palace as the two leaders met for the first time.

Dr. Greg Skomal tags a great white shark off the coast of Cape Cod.

Video: Researchers tag first great white shark of the season off Cape Cod

Once the tag was in place, shark expert Greg Skomal let out a celebratory scream, accompanied by fist pump, as other members of the research team are heard cheering in the background.

This week's daters: Alex and Georgi.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘It was very hard to hear her’

Will a noisy restaurant tank this date?

Jim Thorpe wears a baseball uniform in this undated photo. The sporting legend had his medals reinstated on the 110th anniversary of him winning the decathlon in the 1912 Olympics.

110 years later, Jim Thorpe reinstated as sole winner for 1912 Olympic gold medals

Thorpe, a Native American, was stripped of his gold medals in what was described as the first major international sports scandal after it was discovered he had been paid to play minor league baseball.

SEVEN WEEKS OF SUMMER ARTS GUIDE

Children play near the completed mural "Breathe Life Together" by Rob "ProBlak" Gibbs.

This summer, cool down with some art and culture

Got a lazy summer day you’re looking to fill? From Guston at the MFA to Rob "Problak" Gibbs’s mural for Dewey Square, here are some must-sees around the city.

With plenty of summer still ahead, TV is just getting warmed up
In the coming weeks, you'll be able to fill your downtime with mysteries and thrillers ("The Patient," "Surface"), epic fantasies ("House of the Dragon," "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power"), and some promising comedies ("Bad Sisters," "Uncoupled").

The best of the rest of summer movies
Almost all of this summer's high-profile releases have come out. Still to come: Jordan Peele's "Nope" and "Bullet Train" starring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock. Plus, Ben Affleck's 50th birthday.

Walking on sunshine with 25 of our favorite songs of summer
A great summer song can evoke the season, or it can just be the right song hitting in just the right way at just the right time. Here are some favorites chosen by Globe arts writers, editors, and contributors from summers past and present.

A guide to free, family-friendly events from now through Labor Day
These Massachusetts festivals, concerts, outdoor movies and more don't cost a thing to attend.

Summer comedy in Boston

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Seven Weeks of Summer: Explore the full guide

Opinion

Michael Cox, right, who has been named as the next Boston police commissioner, faces reporters as Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, left, looks on during a news conference, July 13, 2022, in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood.

New police commissioner needs City Hall backup

Michael Cox has potential to be a change agent, but that’s not a one-man job.

Learning how to just be

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Massachusetts can lead democracy back from the brink

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

We’re all tired of COVID. But it’s not done with us.

If there’s a will, there’s a way to stop more shootings

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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Man, 35, arraigned in 2019 death of infant son in Amherst
A former Amherst man was arraigned Friday on charges including manslaughter in the 2019 death of his 4-month-old son, who had received a lethal dose of adult sleeping medication, according to Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan’s office.

Man wanted for Philadelphia murder captured in Lawrence
The 24-year-old man wanted for allegedly killing an elderly man in Philadelphia was captured in Lawrence late Thursday night.

Milton schools superintendent placed on paid administrative leave

James Jette was arraigned May 27 in Stoughton District Court on a sole count of assault and battery on a family or household member.

‘Are we making ourselves sitting ducks?’ Local drag performers voice safety concerns amid uptick in threats.
The heightened concerns come as anti-LGBTQ rhetoric ratchets up and a growing number of conservatives champion restrictions on what schools can teach students about sexual orientation and gender identity.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer joining Harvard law faculty
Harvard said in a statement that Breyer will “teach seminars and reading groups, continue to write books and produce scholarship, and participate in the intellectual life of the school and in the broader Harvard community.”

Yosemite’s Grizzly Giant has seen a lot. Now, fire threatens the iconic tree.
Years ago, some people in the then-nascent United States thought sequoias were made up, a flora that existed only in fantasy.

Photos: To save giant sequoias in Yosemite, they fought fire with fire

Recommended reads

40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

Writers from the Globe and around New England share the experiences — some iconic, some unexpected — that their best summer memories are made of.

Travel + Leisure’s ‘World’s Best Awards’ are out for 2022, and there’s a lot to celebrate in New England A Massachusetts cafe was named one of the world’s best restaurants by Conde Nast Traveler Mixing and mingling with the upper class of the Lower Cape

Flouting public opinion by overturning Roe, the Supreme Court could be risking its legitimacy
A new conservative majority of justices have illustrated their willingness to shake the public with decisions overturning long-established precedent.

ADRIAN WALKER

Michael Cox returns to write a new story
The new police commissioner said he spent years trying to make sense of the police attack on him in 1995, and what lessons it carried for how to make policing better.

Larry Edelman

Boom times are over for US housing market. But don’t expect Boston to bust.
The Boston-area housing market has held up well under the weight of rising mortgage rates and some of the most unaffordable prices in the country. That may be about to change.

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Culture & Lifestyle

A couple dances at Festival Betances, which is returning to the South End this year after a two-year absence due to COVID.

Festival Betances returns to the South End to celebrate a panorama of Puerto Rican music and culture

The reality is, family vacations aren't always perfect and relaxing.

Can we please stop pretending family vacations are nothing but fun?

New Kids on the Block returned to their hometown for a show at Fenway Park in 2021. This weekend they play a pair of concerts at TD Garden with Salt-N-Pepa, Rick Astley, and En Vogue.

NKOTB’s Mixtape shows have Donnie Wahlberg feeling like a kid again

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Cooperstown has a couple of new fans

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

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

Stephen Ayres, who pleaded guilty in June 2022 to disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, shakes hands with Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges as the hearing with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol in Washington on Tuesday.

Jan. 6 panel highlights an unhinged Trump White House

Joe Biden cannot put out a wildfire with a teaspoon of water. Nor can he energize his base without using the full weight of his powers to push against the terrifying decline and direction of this nation.

Joe Biden is not the man for this moment

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

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

Video: Researchers tag first great white shark of the season off Cape Cod

Once the tag was in place, shark expert Greg Skomal let out a celebratory scream, accompanied by fist pump, as other members of the research team are heard cheering in the background.

Rhode Island political news: July 2022

Regular updates about Rhode Island politics and political leaders.

Fly-fishing is dumb. Change my mind.

Tom Rosenbauer is America's most famous fly fisherman in America, the “chief enthusiast” for Orvis and host of the most-popular podcast on the topic. Billy Baker is America’s worst fly fisherman, in that he never actually caught a fish. Can a day together change all that?

First Lady Jill Biden makes return visit to Row 34 in Boston’s Seaport

She ordered an assortment of the restaurant’s crudo, crabcakes, and Bouillabaisse, according to Nicole Kanner of All Heart PR. Diners gave the First Lady a standing ovation upon her arrival.

Sports

Jim Thorpe wears a baseball uniform in this undated photo. The sporting legend had his medals reinstated on the 110th anniversary of him winning the decathlon in the 1912 Olympics.

110 years later, Jim Thorpe reinstated as sole winner for 1912 Olympic gold medals

Thorpe, a Native American, was stripped of his gold medals in what was described as the first major international sports scandal after it was discovered he had been paid to play minor league baseball.

Brittney Griner sits inside a defendants' cage with a photo of her WNBA colleagues wearing jerseys with her No. 42 during the league's All-Star game earlier this month.

Brittney Griner’s lawyer says WNBA star had doctor’s note for cannabis use

A lawyer provided a letter from a US doctor recommending she use medical cannabis to treat pain.

Pedro Martinez pitches with Nomar Garciaparra at short during the 1999 showcase.

Dan Shaughnessy

At the 1999 All-Star Game, Fenway Park was the center of the baseball universe, and other thoughts

It was 23 years ago this week. John Henry had yet to buy the Red Sox and young David Ortiz was hitting .315 for Minnesota’s Triple A team in Salt Lake City.

Four things to know about Bruins’ new center Pavel Zacha, who is coming off two career years

Christopher L. Gasper

Why haven’t the Red Sox been able to figure out their division problem?

Red Sox at Yankees | 7:05 p.m. (NESN)

Game 91: Nate Eovaldi is finally back for Red Sox-Yankees series opener, plus lineups and notes

Business

Hasbro toys, New York Times to create a Wordle board game

“Wordle: The Party Game” will be available throughout North America for purchase in October.

Odds of US recession within next year near 50 percent, survey shows

The probability of a downturn over the next 12 months stands at 47.5 percent, up sharply from 30 percent odds in June.

US retail sales rise more than forecast in broad-based advance

RI FOOD & DINING

For the love of butter: Chef Jeanie Roland on pushing the culinary boundaries in a small New England town

magazine

40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

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

Libraries can save the summer. And maybe democracy, too.

Grilled Broccoli With Pistachio and Citrus Vinaigrette

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

metro

The Wordle Board game, which was formed through a partnership with Hasbro toys in Pawtucket, R.I. and The New York Times, which owns the game.

Hasbro toys, New York Times to create a Wordle board game

Red Line service suspended at several T stations this weekend, shuttle buses to replace trains

PVDFest will live on, candidates say

sports

David Ortiz will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 24.

David Ortiz has a message for the Red Sox: Keep Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers

Pavel Zacha is no stranger to Boston, and Patrice Bergeron and the Bruins are happy to have him

Kutter Crawford was cruising, but everything unraveled in one half-inning and the Red Sox were swept

business

Delegate members listen as Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani delivers her speech during the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on July 15.

G20 finance leaders in Bali to tackle Ukraine, inflation

China’s economy shrinks 2.6% during virus shutdowns

Chase profits down nearly 30 percent in second quarter

politics

President Biden, center, is greeted by dignitaries as he arrives at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday, July, 15, 2022.

Biden, Saudi crown prince begin big meeting with fist bump

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer joining Harvard law faculty

House votes to give indigenous tribes in Maine benefits of federal law

Nation

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz was led out of the courtroom during a hearing in the penalty phase of his trial.

Parkland school gunman faces death penalty in rare trial

Yosemite’s Grizzly Giant has seen a lot. Now, fire threatens the iconic tree.

Deposition of Trump, 2 children delayed after Ivana’s death

World

Rescuers work at the scene of a building that was damaged by a deadly Russian missile attack in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on July 14.

Ukrainian rescue teams hunt for survivors in Vinnytsia

Dalai Lama travels to remote Ladakh region bordering China

Pacific island national leaders declare climate emergency

opinion

In this Sept. 23, 1955, file photo, J.W. Milam, left, his wife, second from left, Roy Bryant, far right, and his wife, Carolyn Bryant, sit together in a courtroom in Sumner, Mississippi. Bryant and his half-brother, Milam, were charged with murder but acquitted in the kidnapping and torture slaying of 14-year-old Black teen Emmett Till in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant. A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about Till's lynching has found an unserved warrant in June 2022 charging a white woman in his kidnapping in 1955, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.

Here’s the proof against Carolyn Bryant Donham in the Emmett Till case. Is it enough to convict her?

Elegy for a field

Turning the tide against climate change

lifestyle

The reality is, family vacations aren't always perfect and relaxing.

Can we please stop pretending family vacations are nothing but fun?

His exes are in the way

Donald Glover spotted on Nantucket, poses for photos with fans

food & dining

Row 34 co-owners Shore Gregory and Chef Jeremy Sewall with First Lady Jill Biden.

First Lady Jill Biden makes return visit to Row 34 in Boston’s Seaport

For the love of butter: Chef Jeanie Roland on pushing the culinary boundaries in a small New England town

At Parla, swanky drinks where you least expect them

travel

The Pickering House Inn in Wolfeboro, N.H.

Travel + Leisure’s ‘World’s Best Awards’ are out for 2022, and there’s a lot to celebrate in New England

Actress Elizabeth A. Davis on her favorite vacation destination

Try a city triathlon in Boston, just for fun

Arts

Auguste Rodin, "Monument to Balzac," original model 1897, this casting 1954. Seen as part of "Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern" at the Clark Art Institute.

At the Clark, proof that Auguste Rodin is still the man

This summer, cool down with some art and culture

At the Gardner, Maurice Sendak’s journey from page to stage

Books

The view from above in ‘Imagine a City’

Jamil Jan Kochai likes to binge different authors

A very bad trip

Movies

Daniel Kaluuya in "Nope."

The best of the rest of summer movies

‘Madame Web’ movie filming transforms Boston into retro NYC

Review: ‘Both Sides of the Blade,’ three sides of a triangle

Television

Gugu Mbatha-Raw in “Surface,” premiering July 29.

With plenty of summer still ahead, TV is just getting warmed up

There’s no getting away from it all in ‘The Resort’

Order is up for second season of ‘The Bear’

music

Rihanna's "Umbrella" was the song of the summer the year it was released.

Walking on sunshine with 25 of our favorite songs of summer

Classical music events to catch before the summer is over

The Black Keys are here to ‘Boogie’

Theater/Dance

Indigenous Enterprise will perform in a one-night-only performance at Jacob's Pillow on Aug. 4.

The season’s overflowing with dance of all types, from Jacob’s Pillow in Becket to a quarry in Vermont

Throughout New England, the stage is set for theatergoers who are eager to explore

Tim Heidecker is putting on two shows at once, but only one of them is awkward

globe local

Is the state’s multi-family zoning requirement in MBTA communities good policy?

Make way for the feisty northern water snake

Legendary rock star visits local police station

Obituaries

Mr. Tovey, conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2014.

Award-winning conductor, composer Bramwell Tovey dies

Ann Shulgin, pioneer of psychedelics in therapy, dies at 91

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