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The far-right Patriot Front is getting bigger, and more visible, in New England

Long before its members marched — masked, uniformed, and 100-or-so deep — through downtown Boston early this month, Patriot Front had been quietly making its presence felt in New England.

Masked men chanting name of neo-Nazi group demonstrate outside JP venue hosting drag queen story hour

Museum of Fine Arts temporarily locked down Saturday in response to nearby shooting

A man called Boston police from a nearby parking lot at 11:11 a.m. to report he’d been shot in his leg, Boston police said.

‘A little red pocket on the New Hampshire border’: The national fissures splitting a competitive Mass. state rep. race

The contest for the GOP nomination between a hard-line and a moderate Republican is a brass-knuckle brawl of a reminder that national divisions — over whether the 2020 election was stolen, for instance — can still split the most local contests, even in a state like Massachusetts.

It’s not officially a recession until this Cambridge-based group says so, and making that call is a little like ‘Fight Club’

There’s a good chance the US Commerce Department will report Thursday that the economy shrank from April through June, a second-straight quarterly contraction that would mean the nation is in a recession. But it’s not officially a recession until the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge says so — and they are known to take their time.

Biden likely has highly contagious COVID-19 strain, doctor says
President Biden likely contracted the highly contagious BA.5 variant of the coronavirus, and has body aches and a sore throat, according to an update from his doctor on Saturday.

Laiying Yan attempted to cool off with a towel soaked in ice water in her room in Boston's Chinatown.

In Boston’s hottest neighborhood, heat waves exact a cost, in the wallet and on the nerves

This past week’s extreme heat has been friendly to no one. But in Chinatown, it has been particularly unbearable.

Live weather updates from Boston-area meteorologists Scorching heat makes the city sweat and strains its systems More weather news and resources

Locations in eastern Massachusetts will continue to be in the 90s on Sunday.

These maps show what to expect from this weekend’s heat and humidity in southern New England

Boston could reach 99 degrees on Sunday, with other areas in the 100s. The heat index will be higher, and forecasters have issued a heat advisory.

Campers at Camp Harbor View on Long Island in Boston Harbor dumped water on their councilors.

Heat hacks: 12 tips and tricks to keep your house cool

We’ve compiled some tips on how to beat the heat and keep your home as cool as possible.

‘He’s the player who changed everything’: David Ortiz’s entry into Hall immortality has finally arrived
As of Saturday, 52 of the 75 living Hall of Famers are expected to attend Ortiz's Hall of Fame induction ceremony, after which the Red Sox designated hitter will join them in the game's most hallowed circle.

A giant in Red Sox history, David Ortiz remains a huge figure in sports and life after baseball See more on David Ortiz's Hall of Fame induction

Rafael Devers felt tightness in his hamstring on a swing during his last at-bat, in the fifth inning, on Friday night.

Red Sox notebook

Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers placed on 10-day injured list with hamstring inflammation

The absence of Devers for an extended period is a big loss for the Red Sox, considering the standings and the Aug. 2 trade deadline.

An Orange Line car caught fire on a bridge over the Mystic River Thursday, leading some of the terrified passengers to break windows to escape.

Nobody was hurt. Still a catastrophe.

Thursday’s dramatic fire on the Orange Line was the latest in a string of deadly and potentially deadly mishaps on the MBTA. Its effects reach far beyond the poor passengers on that train.

Orange Line train catches fire on bridge. Chaos ensues. It’s the latest T nightmare.

A firefighter extinguishes flames as the Oak Fire crosses Darrah Rd. in Mariposa County, Calif., on Friday, July 22, 2022. Crews were able to to stop it from reaching an adjacent home.

Thousands ordered to flee California wildfire near Yosemite

A fast-moving brush fire near Yosemite National Park exploded in size Saturday into one of California’s largest wildfires of the year, prompting evacuation orders for thousands of people and shutting off power to more than 2,000 homes and businesses.

CAPE COD CAPERS | Christopher Muther & Devra First

Colorful, wild, and occasionally quiet. The Outer Cape puts on a show.
This is the fourth and final installment of our seaside summer exploration of Cape Cod, and we end with a bang. (And a shark sighting!)

A seal pops its head out of the water off Monomoy Island on Cape Cod.

Mixing and mingling with the upper class of the Lower Cape

The sun sets behind the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port.

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

Fishing at sunset on the beach in West Falmouth.

Getting their toes wet on the Upper Cape

Opinion

A supporter holds up a sign calling on Latinos to vote for Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff for US Senate during a rally in Lilburn, Ga., Dec. 7, 2020. The rally was part of an effort to register and mobilize voters in Georgia's growing Latino population.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Latino voters may determine control of the US Senate

A sizeable chunk of the Latino electorate is persuadable. Democrats had better wake up and act accordingly.

The Jan. 6 committee has not made the case against Donald Trump

With smartphone ban, Mass. school might just put its finger on a new approach

Why ‘it’ matters

Lawmakers shouldn’t wait for history to judge Trump

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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Monkeypox is a global emergency, UN health agency chief says
The chief of the World Health Organization said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency.

Boston food vendors weather scorching temperatures, searing grills
As the heat wave wore on Friday, with scorching temperatures expected through the weekend, outdoor vendors could do little but hope for a bit of breeze, maybe a few passing clouds.

Boy charged with murder in 14-year-old Maine girl’s death
Brooke McLaughlin and the boy charged in her death knew each other, according to a statement Saturday from the Maine Department of Public Safety.

In Narragansett, some private properties have expanded into areas owned by the town, affecting coastal access
The neighborhood near the beach where the town added parking -- and infuriated some residents -- is likely not the only place where adjacent property owners have encroached onto the town’s rights-of-way.

Kylie Jenner’s 17-minute private jet trip is a climate disaster
Private jet trips were responsible for nearly 34 million metric tons of carbon pollution in 2016, according to one 2020 study, which is more than some countries emit in an entire year.

Dorchester man charged with shoplifting, dealing drugs in Macy’s in downtown Boston
Edison Arias, 29, is charged with larceny under $50, trafficking of class A drugs, and distribution of class A drugs, Boston police said in a statement Saturday.

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A worker this summer on the Green Line.

Advocates want governor, Legislature to treat T problems like 10-out-of-10 crisis

One day after an Orange Line train caught fire, advocates on Friday called on political leaders to take urgent action aimed at preventing the next T catastrophe.

Trouble on the mountain: A look at a tumultuous week at Gunstock
A long-simmering power struggle at New England’s only county-owned mountain came to a head this week.

Globe Magazine: How it all snowballed into an ugly battle for the future of Gunstock ski resort

Dan Shaughnessy

The pandemic still lingers, but it finally feels like a normal Hall of Fame weekend in Cooperstown, and other thoughts
Ten Hall of Famers have died since the family of baseball last gathered at the Hall.

Has Florida Man finally met his match? Meet Florida Sheriff
The Sunshine State has become internationally notorious for the oddball miscreants who populate its police blotters and local news reports. But an equally eccentric cast of hard-boiled sheriffs make a career of going after these guys. Florida Man, meet Florida Sheriff.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward on the set of "Rachel, Rachel," 1968.

When Newman met Woodward

Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and John Lennon in Peter Jackson's "The Beatles: Get Back."

Welcome to the Beatles-verse

Limón Dance Company performs "Air for the G String."

Limón Dance finds a beautiful balance at Jacob’s Pillow

Keith Urban (pictured at a performance on the "Today" show in June) plays the Xfinity Center in Mansfield July 22.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

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

An employee holds semiconductor chips over a 300-millimeter wafer produced by German engineering and electronics company Bosch at the Bosch semiconductor manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany.

Computer chips are vital to national security. US needs to make more of them on American soil.

Kevin Outterson and Henry Skinner

Antibiotic-resistant infections could dwarf the COVID-19 pandemic

Lights illuminate liquefied natural gas tanker Oak Spirit during the delivery of Poland's first import of US LNG at the Gazoport terminal in Swinoujscie, Poland, in 2019.

Ernest J. Moniz

A way forward on the climate crisis and energy insecurity

A policeman removes the handcuffs from WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner in a courtroom prior to a hearing in the Khimki district court, just outside Moscow, Russia on July 15, 2022.

Time to bring Brittney Griner home

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, center, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Neutralism returns — and gets more powerful

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

Museum of Fine Arts temporarily locked down Saturday in response to nearby shooting

A man called Boston police from a nearby parking lot at 11:11 a.m. to report he’d been shot in his leg, Boston police said.

The far-right Patriot Front is getting bigger, and more visible, in New England

Long before its members marched — masked, uniformed, and 100-or-so deep — through downtown Boston early this month, Patriot Front had been quietly making its presence felt in New England.

At this clam shack, generations of women make the trains — and the Fry-o-later — run on time

Ceal’s Clam Stand in Seabrook, N.H. has been serving fresh seafood for generations.

Perry Rubenstein, gallerist convicted of embezzlement, dies at 68

A gallerist who rose rapidly in the New York art world of the 1980s, Perry Rubenstein, fell into disgrace in the 2010s after a failed transition to Los Angeles ended with his conviction on two counts of embezzlement.

Sports

Reliever Michael King, who put himself in the Boston College record books before heading to the pros in 2016, suffered a broken elbow on Friday night in Baltimore that is expected to end his season.

BASEBALL NOTEBOOK

Steamrolling Yankees hit a snag, losing reliever Michael King to broken elbow

The former Boston College righthander has been a key part of the team with the best record in the majors, but is now done for the season after suffering the injury on Friday night.

Joenel Aguero (center) is joined by his parents, Joel and Angela, along with his two younger brothers, Joel Jr. (right) and 3-year-old Joemani following his commitment ceremony on Saturday at St. John's Prep.

St. John’s Prep’s Joenel Aguero chooses to continue his football career at Georgia

The rising senior from Lynn, who is returning to SJP after spending two years at IMG Academy in Florida, also considered attending Florida, Miami, and Ohio State.

Jim Kaat, 83, played 25 years in the major leagues and will receive the ultimate honor Sunday when he is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame notebook

At the Baseball Hall of Fame, stories about Ted Williams are always a big hit

Jim Kaat, in his third big league game in 1959. turned to his second baseman in awe and said, "I’m facing Ted Williams!"

Brooke Henderson holds on to two-shot lead at Evian Championship

DAVID ORTIZ | HALL OF FAME 2022

‘He’s the player who changed everything’: David Ortiz’s entry into Hall immortality has finally arrived

NASCAR Cup Series

Could this be the end of the ride for Kyle Busch in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota?

Business

FOOD & DINING NEWSLETTER

Picnics are good. Picnics at magnificent mansions are better.

The Gilded Age ended more than 100 years ago, but a restaurant group in Newport is looking to bring these plush outdoor parties back to the lawns of seaside mansions.

Volkswagen CEO, facing series of setbacks, will step down

Herbert Diess, the Volkswagen CEO whose image had been tarnished in the fallout from the German automaker’s emissions-cheating scandal, is stepping down.

WWE’s Vince McMahon retires amid misconduct probe

Family of deceased construction worker sues Government Center Garage developers

magazine

Tracy K. Smith photographed at Harvard, where she just completed her first year as a professor.

Can poetry possibly matter in a time like this? Harvard’s Tracy K. Smith knows the answer.

A sample of the decision making devices in Ben Sisto's collection, including a Magic 8 Ball, the Radio Shack Executive Decision Maker, dice, and others.

Magic 8 Balls. Coin flips. Why do we turn to objects to make decisions for us?

Are you a helicopter dog parent? Then you should read this.

Potato salad with capers, olives, and olive-oil tuna

Recipes: Tuna packed in olive oil makes an easy, satisfying supper

metro

Protestors gathered outside the Loring Greenough House in Jamaica Plain Saturday.

Masked men chanting name of neo-Nazi group demonstrate outside JP venue hosting drag queen story hour

Nobody was hurt. Still a catastrophe.

Boston food vendors weather scorching temperatures, searing grills

sports

Rafael Devers felt tightness in his hamstring on a swing during his last at-bat, in the fifth inning, on Friday night.

Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers placed on 10-day injured list with hamstring inflammation

With Matthew Tkachuk trade to Panthers, Flames made the most of a bad situation

Jonas Vingegaard all but guaranteed Tour de France victory

business

Farming machinery in a barley field in the Mykolaiv region in Ukraine.

‘A beacon of hope’: Ukraine and Russia sign grain export deal

Mass. job market slows again in June

Electricity bills in R.I. could increase by 50 percent come Oct. 1. Here’s why

politics

After testifying before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, Cassidy Hutchinson embraced Representative Liz Cheney.

In Jan. 6 hearings, gender divide has been strong undercurrent

It’s not officially a recession until this Cambridge-based group says so, and making that call is a little like ‘Fight Club’

Biden likely has highly contagious COVID-19 strain, doctor says

Nation

A firefighter extinguishes flames as the Oak Fire crosses Darrah Rd. in Mariposa County, Calif., on Friday, July 22, 2022. Crews were able to to stop it from reaching an adjacent home.

Thousands ordered to flee California wildfire near Yosemite

Meet the canine officers guarding US agriculture

In Uvalde, closeness complicates accountability for shooting

World

In March, workers at a factory in Odesa, Ukraine, welded hedgehog barriers to serve as anti-tank obstacles.

Russia strikes Odesa port, stirring doubts on deal to export grain

In Japan, Abe suspect’s grudge against Unification Church is a familiar one

UK vacationers gridlocked for second day on route to Europe

opinion

Solar panels at Newton-Wellesley Hospital are atop the employee parking garage.

Hospitals are playing a part in the climate fight

Key gap in med schools: training on treating patients with autism

She has a line or two on fly-fishing

lifestyle

Have I stayed in this relationship too long?

Lombardo’s, home of countless proms and weddings, to be sold to Boston real estate company

Meet the BPS teacher who designs sensory-friendly clothes for kids with autism

food & dining

Stoneacre Picnics, based in Rhode Island offer packages where you can dine at the Newport mansions like they used to during the Gilded Age.

Picnics are good. Picnics at magnificent mansions are better.

Jay Leno spotted enjoying classic R.I. Saugy dogs at Newport’s ‘Wally’s Weiners’

The Haven in Jamaica Plain gets bigger digs; Cambridge’s Season to Taste changes locations

travel

Buildings along Nantucket Harbor.

Heading to Nantucket this summer? Here’s a look at what’s new and what’s happening.

Getting their toes wet on the Upper Cape

Colorful, wild, and occasionally quiet. The Outer Cape puts on a show.

Arts

The 1895 Blue Serpent Clock Egg by Faberge on display at Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery.

An ‘alleged’ Faberge egg was found on a seized Russian yacht. If authenticated, it could be sold with proceeds going to Ukraine

‘Believing Is Bad for You’: At the Museum of Russian Icons, ‘Images of Atheism’

Painting, pattern, and place collide in Bob Dilworth’s tender portraits

Books

‘An Honest Living’: A modern noir

He reads poetry to his fiction students

Love and radio in ‘Honey and Spice’

Movies

B.J. Novak wrote, directed, and stars in the film "Vengeance," a dark comedy about a wannabe podcaster enlisted to investigate the death of a young woman he’d hooked up with. It opens in theaters July 29.

B.J. Novak isn’t who you think he is

The camera loves lava. So did they.

At the Coolidge, trying to survive a horror-movie marathon

Television

Jonathan Bailey (pictured in March at a "Bridgerton" premiere in London) will star in “Fellow Travelers.”

Showtime’s ‘Fellow Travelers’ will revisit the McCarthy era

Welcome to the Beatles-verse

Honorees for 45th Kennedy Center gala announced

music

The Weeknd performs Thursday night at Gillette Stadium.

Save your tears: The Weeknd was a blast

Pete Seeger gets own stamp; ceremony planned at Newport Folk Festival

Joy Oladokun on Hendrix, hip-hop, hard truths, and her return to Newport

Theater/Dance

Limón Dance Company performs "Air for the G String."

Limón Dance finds a beautiful balance at Jacob’s Pillow

The Sondheim bandwagon is getting very, very crowded

Theatrely’s stage reviews, news, and TikToks speak Gen Z’s language

globe local

“The home is just enough for me and my cat Trixie,” said Jack Behan as he set the table in the dining area with the kitchen behind in his manufatured home in Weymouth.

A manufactured home can be where the heart is

Should Massachusetts make Election Day a state holiday?

Paraselene, peignoir, and the mysterious power of words

Obituaries

Perry Rubenstein at his art gallery in Manhattan, on May 12, 2007.

Perry Rubenstein, gallerist convicted of embezzlement, dies at 68

Judith Schiff, who roamed Yale’s vast archive, dies at 84

Werner Reich, who learned magic in Auschwitz, dies at 94