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Mayor Wu aims to strike a balance of insider experience, outsider perspective with new police and schools leaders

City leaders are optimistic they have struck the right balance between two models of leadership: insiders with enough knowledge to be effective, and outsiders with enough perspective to force a change.

Brother of man killed by police last fall petitions SJC to remove district attorney

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court hasn't exercised its authority to remove an elected district attorney since 1954 when the justices found the prosecutor in Plymouth County was unfit for office.

Yankees 14, Red Sox 1
Red Sox absorb a soul-crushing beatdown in the Bronx against the mighty Yankees
Aaron Judge and Matt Carpenter each homered twice and combined to go 5 for 7 with 10 RBIs for the Bronx Bombers who overcame Rafael Devers's solo home run in the first inning with 14 unanswered runs on 12 hits.

Dan Shaughnessy

Meatballs are served in the Bronx, indigestion felt in Boston

LeBron James takes a shot at Celtics fans: ‘They racist as [expletive]’

‘African Americans have enriched Massachusetts for centuries’: Mass. lawmakers approve Negro Election Day holiday

Negro Election Day would be a state holiday intended to commemorate centuries of self-governance and exercise of civic power by Black Americans.
Hundreds gather in Salem to celebrate the significance of Negro Election Day
Nets 102, Celtics 95

Mfiondu Kabengele agrees to a two-way contract with the Celtics

The Celtics lost their Summer League finale to the Nets, 102-95.

Rowdy, the cat lost for three weeks at Logan, is reunited with owner

Rowdy, the cat who evaded capture at Logan Airport for three weeks, was reunited with her owner on Saturday.
SEVEN WEEKS OF SUMMER ARTS GUIDE

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.

Opinion
LETTERS

Joe Biden: the man, the moment, the muddle, the middle, the maybe

We don’t need to worry about 2024 right now. Let’s worry about the upcoming primaries and getting out the vote. Let’s get people engaged in what’s going on, not just complaining about what Biden coulda, woulda, shoulda done.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Demonizing migrants may be the GOP’s most consistent platform. Just ask Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Massachusetts can lead democracy back from the brink
IDEAS | SABITH KHAN

Going home: What happens to migrants when they return to the country they left behind?
EDITORIAL

The world can’t miss a last chance on the Iran deal
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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NOTE: Mass DPH releases data once per week. Fully vaccinated means Mass. residents with 2 doses of Moderna/Pfizer or a dose of J&J. Boosters include Pfizer or Moderna. Mass. population of 6,892,503 is used to calculate percentage. SOURCE: Mass. Dept. of Public Health

150 years of The Boston Globe

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

More recent stories

Dozens of residents displaced by partial collapse of roof of Worcester apartment building

The cause of the collapse of the roof on the building at 267 Mill St. remains under investigation, but “the main contributing factor is believed to be weight from roofing material that was concentrated in one general area,” said Charles Goodwin, Worcester’s director of emergency management.

YVONNE ABRAHAM
While a Healey wins seems inevitable, historically it would be incredible
Viewed from a certain angle, the contest to become Massachusetts’ next governor has gotten kind of dull. Until you think about what it really could mean for women in this state.

Healey and Wu make first campaign appearance together in governor’s race

Champion driver Bobby East fatally stabbed at gas station

Bobby East, a three-time US Auto Club national champion driver, has died after being stabbed this week at a Southern California gas station.

Biden vows expanded US role in Mideast as controversial trip ends
Capping a four-day trip to the Middle East, President Biden laid out his vision of a future for the volatile region on Saturday, a framework he hopes amplifies American values and investment in this part of the world — and blunts the influence of Russia and China.

Woman pleads not guilty to vehicular homicide in woman’s death at Newbury family farm stand
Janet Bach, 70, of Marblehead, was arraigned Tuesday in Newburyport District Court and was released on personal recognizance. She was ordered not to drive amid the ongoing case.

Boston health officials, citing COVID-19 data, urge people to take precautions
The Boston Public Health Commission warned that, as of Thursday, COVID-19 cases had increased by 38.9 percent over the past seven days, and daily hospital admissions and the amount of coronavirus in local wastewater were also up.

Recommended reads

In progressive Massachusetts, a long history of white supremacy

While the displays of propaganda are shockingly hateful and vile, they are far from new.

Mixing and mingling with the upper class of the Lower Cape
Welcome to week three of our Cape Cod adventure, in which we eat, bowl, shop, snack, seal watch, do some sandbar hopping, and repeatedly get mistaken for an old married couple.

Mass. lawmakers have cleared the way for Robert Kraft to build a new soccer stadium for the New England Revolution in Everett
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has spent years looking for a new home for his New England Revolution soccer team, and it may have found it in Everett.

A Massachusetts cafe was named one of the world’s best restaurants by Conde Nast Traveler
Conde Nast Traveler recently released a list of the world’s best restaurants, and a small Belmont cafe made the cut.

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Culture & Lifestyle

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

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

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

Cooperstown has a couple of new fans

Special Projects

Welcome Back to Boston

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

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | TOM CHAFFIN

We should stop giving the Founding Fathers capital-letter reverence
SCOT LEHIGH

Jan. 6 panel highlights an unhinged Trump White House

RENÉE GRAHAM

Joe Biden is not the man for this moment
IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

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

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

Aspiring Eagle Scout helps to protect monarch butterflies at Salem school

An aspiring Eagle Scout has used his service project to aid The Greenhouse School's monarch butterfly conservation program.

Hundreds gather in Salem to celebrate the significance of Negro Election Day

“Black Election Day is one of the oldest Black celebrations in North America, predating Juneteenth and even the founding of the United States,” said Kabria Baumgartner, a professor of history and Africana Studies at Northeastern University.

Woman pleads not guilty to vehicular homicide in woman’s death at Newbury family farm stand

Janet Bach, 70, of Marblehead, was arraigned Tuesday in Newburyport District Court and was released on personal recognizance. She was ordered not to drive amid the ongoing case.

Healey and Wu make first campaign appearance together in governor’s race

Roslindale event comes one day after the mayor endorsed Healey for governor.

Sports

World track notebook

Fred Kerley leads first US sweep in men’s 100 meters in 31 years

It marked the first American sweep at worlds since Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell, and Dennis Mitchell went gold-silver-bronze at the 1991 championships in Tokyo.
Dan Shaughnessy

Meatballs are served in the Bronx, indigestion felt in Boston

The Sox come into Sunday’s final game before the All-Star break a mere 1½ games ahead of the surging last-place Orioles.
PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Dream of Juan Soto in Boston, but maybe the grass isn’t greener elsewhere

Soto is fun to think about. Imagine him hitting third in the lineup for the final two months of the season. But maybe a team headlined by Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts fortified by the Boston farm system can win, too.
Yankees 14, Red Sox 1

Red Sox absorb a soul-crushing beatdown in the Bronx against the mighty Yankees
MLB FUTURES GAME

“I think he’s really gonna be a superstar player”: Ceddanne Rafaela’s white-hot ascent in the Red Sox system hits the All-Star Futures Game
Nets 102, Celtics 95

Mfiondu Kabengele agrees to a two-way contract with the Celtics

Business

Russia steps up attacks across Ukraine’s north, east, south

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu gave “instructions to further intensify the actions of units in all operational areas, in order to exclude the possibility of the Kyiv regime launching massive rocket and artillery strikes on civilian infrastructure and residents of settlements in the Donbas and other regions," his ministry said Saturday.

A boarding school in the Berkshires is banning smartphones for students and teachers

The Buxton School’s unique experiment comes at time when the pendulum may be swinging away from technology in education.

Gas prices may surge again ahead of midterm elections

US agencies temporarily barred from enforcing LGBTQ guidance
magazine
Globe Magazine

40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England
LOVE LETTERS

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

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

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

metro

Rowdy, the cat lost for three weeks at Logan, is reunited with owner

Massachusetts has lowest bottle deposit rate, new study finds

Mayor Wu aims to strike a balance of insider experience, outsider perspective with new police and schools leaders

sports

Revolution break down on defense, squander lead in loss to Union

Justin Allgaier wins at New Hampshire for third Xfinity victory

Lleyton Hewitt gave 100 percent every time he was on the tennis court, and now he’s a Hall of Famer

business

Renewed Russian attacks strike several areas of Ukraine

Sri Lanka begins choosing leader to replace ex-president

Biden intervenes in railroad contract fight to block strike

politics

Kamala Harris steps into the spotlight on abortion rights, an opportunity for her and the movement

Parroting Trump, GOP primary losers cast doubt on elections

Jan. 6 panel to examine Trump’s 187 minutes of inaction during Capitol riot

Nation

Man shot and killed by off-duty police in DC’s Wharf area

Life or death for Parkland shooter? Trial will take months

2 kids among 6 dead in Montana highway pileup, 8 others hurt

World

Biden vows expanded US role in Mideast as controversial trip ends

‘We’re not going to quit.’ In western Ukraine, strength and resilience endure

Russia steps up attacks across Ukraine’s north, east, south

opinion

Health care price transparency gives people control over their decisions

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

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

lifestyle

Somerville’s ArtBeat festival emphasizes community, inclusivity

She doesn’t tell me about her family conflicts

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

food & dining

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

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

Try a city triathlon in Boston, just for fun

Actress Elizabeth A. Davis on her favorite vacation destination

Arts

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

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

Fifth season of ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ arrives in September

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

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

music

New Kids and friends bring a block party to TD Garden

Walking on sunshine with 25 of our favorite songs of summer

Classical music events to catch before the summer is over

Theater/Dance

In ‘Mr. Fullerton,’ the seduction of Edith Wharton

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

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

globe local

Aspiring Eagle Scout helps to protect monarch butterflies at Salem school

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

Make way for the feisty northern water snake

Obituaries

Mark Fleischman, the last impresario of Studio 54, dies at 82

Eugenio Scalfari, elder statesman of Italian journalism, dies at 98

John R. Froines, chemist and member of the Chicago Seven, dies at 83