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Boston’s new police commissioner tried to bring change to Ann Arbor. It wasn’t easy.

Newly tapped Boston police commissioner Michael Cox spent roughly three years as the chief in Ann Arbor, a Michigan college town whose practices have not always aligned with the city’s liberal ideals.

Ceremony honors Cambridge bicyclist killed in Boston crash
George Clemmer, 71, was riding his bicycle in the bike lane of Massachusetts Avenue near Boston Symphony Hall on July 13 when he was struck, according to a GoFundMe fund-raiser.

Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again in ‘rebound’ case, returns to isolation

President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug.

BREWERS 9, RED SOX 4 | Peter Abraham

Avert your eyes from the state of the Red Sox outfield
Long gone are the days of Ted Williams and Jim Rice. Now the Red Sox outfield is manned by players who should be in the minors, or on the bench.

Increasingly adrift Red Sox make it way too easy on Milwaukee in another home loss Peter Abraham: With all the talk about Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers, the bigger question is: Are the Red Sox still one of baseball’s major players?

A collage of Smith & Wesson ads, old and new.

For sale at Smith & Wesson: Guns, and a healthy dose of fear

A leader in the gun industry, Smith & Wesson has ratcheted up messages around self defense over the last 20 years in an attempt to broaden its customer base. Sales have soared.

Grief at vigil for Worcester crash victims, as questions remain about police response
Students and other community members wrote notes on five multicolored canvases, one for each of the victims. Others lit candles. A bright poster adorned with photos and notes for the girl who died was surrounded by stuffed animals and flowers.

Demonstrators rally in Jamaica Plain against neo-Nazi group that protested children’s drag queen story hour
The demonstration was organized by Solidarity Against Hate Boston and unfolded near the site where the neo-Nazi group NSC-131 protested a week earlier against a drag queen story hour for children.

An in-camera double-exposure photograph of Kate Price overlaid with the woods of a Pennsylvania rest area, where she remembers being taken as a child.

Kate Price remembers something terrible

An authority on child sex trafficking, she spent decades trying to understand whether the unthinkable happened to her, too.

Read the story Watch the video Event: Join Kate Price and Janelle Nanos for a conversation about this project

Although practices are held in the heat of summer, there are many limits in place now regulating how much NFL players can do during training camp.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Safe to say nobody at Patriots camp is missing two-a-days

Two-a-days were outlawed by the NFL in 2011, and practice rules got even stricter with the 2020 CBA.

Joe Galli is a 60-year-old empty nester living alone in a four-bedroom Colonial in Shrewsbury. “I want to downsize but it doesn’t make economic sense,” he said.

In a market badly out of kilter, many older residents are stuck in their homes

Many empty nesters, retired or downshifting, are living in houses that are too big for them.

A lot of pieces have to move before Ime Udoka (left) could get to coach a Celtics team featuring Kevin Durant.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

When it comes to Kevin Durant, there’s no reason for Nets or anyone else to make a move now

The Nets are not going to make a deal now unless they’re overwhelmed.

Opinion

A protest rally to demand government action on monkeypox in New York on July 21, 2022.

Did US health officials learn nothing from COVID?

Enough is enough. The Biden administration must devote all necessary resources to ensure that testing, treatment, and vaccines are available to every person who needs them.

The authoritarian impulse

Subpoena Ginni Thomas

Deborah Ramirez, Sen. Michael Barrett, Rep. David Linsky, Jacqueline Bohatch, and Anna Olsson

Massachusetts should require gun liability insurance

Bring them their flowers now, while they’re living

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

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Floods strike new blow in place that has known hardship
Evelyn Smith lost everything in the floods that devastated eastern Kentucky, saving only her grandson’s muddy tricycle. But she’s not planning to leave the mountains that have been her home for 50 years.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Renegades worth rooting for
It’s not easy being the best women’s football team in the country.

Some Republicans fear party is too extreme on abortion and gay rights
Republicans in Congress this month blocked a bill protecting the ability to cross state lines for an abortion, despite strong public support for such a measure.

Overturning Roe v. Wade isn’t the end for abortion opponents

Pelosi’s Asia itinerary skips mention of Taiwan stopover
Pelosi will lead a congressional delegation to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, according to a statement on Sunday.

Mass Audubon has ‘no plans’ to change name over naturalist’s ties to slavery
An acclaimed avian artist, John James Audubon is the namesake of conservation organizations across the country. But his legacy also includes support for slavery.

Maggie’s legacy: Divisive Thatcher looms over UK Tory race
The late former prime minister dominated Britain in the 1980s, and has left a large and contested legacy.

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Lights, camera, extras: Meet the locals answering Hollywood’s call

They don’t have any dialogue, and they blend into the background with roles as spectators, patrons, and passersby — but what would movies be without them?

‘You can’t go up to Mark Wahlberg’: The do’s and don’ts of being a movie extra

On the eve of legislative session’s end, Mass. lawmakers leave big policymaking to bitter end
The Legislature left unresolved several high-profile bills dealing with climate change, guns, criminal justice, taxes, infrastructure, and more.

Demand for mental health care rising in Asian American communities as more speak openly of struggles
The pandemic and the wave of anti-Asian violence that followed have sparked a broader conversation about mental health, as has a growing number of high-profile Asian Americans disclosing their own challenges, Boston service providers say.

Baker signs abortion rights expansion bill into law
A month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the law marked Massachusetts policymakers’ most substantial effort at transmuting residents’ fury over the court ending the constitutional right to an abortion into new protections here.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Great Barrington, MA--6/20/2022 - An exterior view of Hunt Slonem’s Great Barrington estate. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

‘They’re like artworks of mine’: Hunt Slonem collects estates that inspire his work

Will Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards after winning the best actor Oscar for his role in "King Richard."

Will Smith apologizes to Chris Rock on Instagram, breaks silence since Oscars slap

Celisse performs at the sixth annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert.

At the Newport Jazz Festival, 10 exciting boundary-stretchers

Rachael Warren (center left) as Beatrice and Tia James (center right) as Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing."

In ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ on Boston Common, wiles of a summer night

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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

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A Beautiful Resistance

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The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Hostess Bel Carillo holds a Lock & Key, made with Pinapple Infused Zaya, 16 year rum, Sandeman Rainwater, madeira, pineapple juice, lime juice, coconut cream syrup, and clarified whole milk, served from a "smoking" lock box at Next Door Speakeasy in East Boston. Legalizing happy hour is one of several pending pieces of legislation on Beacon Hill.

As the finish line nears, a few tasks remain for Beacon Hill

Lisa Benlon, a former state legislator, goes door to door as a volunteer in Merriam, Kan., on July 13, 2022, on behalf of opponents of a proposed amendment on abortion.

The matter with Kansas

NASA's first images from the James Webb Space Telescope were broadcast in Piccadilly Circus, London.

IDEAS | FLYNN COLEMAN

The James Webb Space Telescope is giving humanity what we need right now

A white shark and a windsurfer share space off the East coast of Cape Cod in 2019.

Nick Whitney and Greg Skomal

With sharks, treat the beach as the wide-open sea it is rather than a swimming pool

Millionaires tax is unwise and unworthy

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

Boston’s new police commissioner tried to bring change to Ann Arbor. It wasn’t easy.

Newly tapped Boston police commissioner Michael Cox spent roughly three years as the chief in Ann Arbor, a Michigan college town whose practices have not always aligned with the city’s liberal ideals.

Grief at vigil for Worcester crash victims, as questions remain about police response

Students and other community members wrote notes on five multicolored canvases, one for each of the victims. Others lit candles. A bright poster adorned with photos and notes for the girl who died was surrounded by stuffed animals and flowers.

Firefighters battle four-alarm blaze in office tower at 1 Congress St.

The fire, which started about noon, was put out around 2:30 p.m. Three firefighters were treated for heat-related injuries.

On the eve of legislative session’s end, Mass. lawmakers leave big policymaking to bitter end

The Legislature left unresolved several high-profile bills dealing with climate change, guns, criminal justice, taxes, infrastructure, and more.

Sports

The Revolution's Brandon Bye gets off a shot on goal against Toronto keeper Alex Bono.

Revolution 0, Toronto FC 0

Revolution play Toronto FC to a scoreless draw

Revolution goalkeeper Djordje Petrović saved a penalty kick save from Lorenzo Insigne (81st minute).

Red Sox left fielder Alex Verdugo, catching a pop fly in the top of the fourth inning against the Brewers Saturday, has been the lone bright spot in an outfield riddled with errors and poor hitting.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Avert your eyes from the state of the Red Sox outfield

Long gone are the days of Ted Williams and Jim Rice. Now the Red Sox outfield is manned by players who should be in the minors, or on the bench.

Tony Finau shot a 65 to stay even with Taylor Pendrith at 21-under at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit.

Tony Finau and Taylor Pendrith duel at Rocket Mortgage Classic

The 3M Open winner last week in Minnesota, Finau is trying to become the first to win consecutive regular-season tournaments in three years.

BREWERS 9, RED SOX 4

Increasingly adrift Red Sox make it way too easy on Milwaukee in another home loss

Four offensive position battles to watch when the Patriots put on the pads Monday

NASCAR Cup Series welcomes return of Russian driver Daniil Kvyat to racing

Business

Pelosi’s Asia itinerary skips mention of Taiwan stopover

Pelosi will lead a congressional delegation to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, according to a statement on Sunday.

Sri Lanka’s president says IMF deal delayed a month, AP reports

President Ranil Wickremesinghe said he had initially aimed to reach an agreement by early August but talks with the IMF on a rescue package had slowed down, the report said, citing a Saturday speech.

Warner Bros. Discovery leadership team draws ire over diversity

For sale at Smith & Wesson: Guns, and a healthy dose of fear

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An in-camera double-exposure photograph of Kate Price overlaid with the woods of a Pennsylvania rest area, where she remembers being taken as a child.

Kate Price remembers something terrible

As a senior, I wanted to fight ageism. I had to look in the mirror first.

He wanted a divorce after 26 years of marriage. Now, he wants to reconnect.

Spanish tortilla with roasted red peppers

Recipes: Pull together a tasty dinner of Spanish favorites

metro

Attendees held signs and chanted during a demonstration organized by Solidarity Against Hate in Jamaica Plain Saturday.

Demonstrators rally in Jamaica Plain against neo-Nazi group that protested children’s drag queen story hour

Renegades worth rooting for

Ceremony honors Cambridge bicyclist killed in Boston crash

sports

Buccaneers center Ryan Jensen (66) walks with fellow offensive linemen during Wednesday's training camp practice. Jensen injured his left knee on the second day of camp.

Buccaneers expect C Ryan Jensen to miss ‘significant time’ after left knee injury

Aaron Judge keeps crushing, becoming second-fastest to 200 career home runs

When it comes to Kevin Durant, there’s no reason for Nets or anyone else to make a move now

business

Retailers are using liquidators to avoid inventory overloads.

Retail’s ‘dark side’: As inventory piles up, liquidation warehouses are busy

In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID

Fetterman harnesses power of social media in Senate campaign

politics

President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with CEOs about the economy in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2022.

Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again in ‘rebound’ case, returns to isolation

Biden savors much-needed victories. But will the highs overshadow the lows?

House passes bill banning certain semi-automatic guns

Nation

Teresa Reynolds sits exhausted as members of her community clean the debris from their flood-ravaged homes in Ogden Hollar at Hindman, Ky., on July 30, 2022.

Floods strike new blow in place that has known hardship

Ticket bought in Illinois wins $1.337B Mega Millions jackpot

Some Republicans fear party is too extreme on abortion and gay rights

World

The Long March-5B, China’s most-powerful rocket, carrying the Wentian laboratory module, blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province on July 24, 2022.

Remains of rocket booster fell to Earth, China says

Maggie’s legacy: Divisive Thatcher looms over UK Tory race

Pelosi’s Asia itinerary skips mention of Taiwan stopover

opinion

President Biden speaks at the former Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset on July 20. He announced executive action to confront climate change, including plans to steer federal dollars to heat-ravaged communities.

How Biden can act immediately on climate change

Massachusetts should require gun liability insurance

What recession?

lifestyle

New books about gardening for every type of reader, and every type of green thumb.

A summer reading list for gardeners and green thumbs

I need to get over a crush on an old friend

Will Smith apologizes to Chris Rock on Instagram, breaks silence since Oscars slap

food & dining

Spicy chicken karahi at Flavor Boom!

Flavor Boom! puts a global, gourmet spin on fast food

Cheesesteaks come to High Street Place; Boston Public Market gets a beer truck

Something new for travelers is popping up all over

travel

See "the world’s largest rubber duck,” according to organizers of Michigan’s 2022 Fest of Sail, running Aug. 12-14 on the shores of Lake Superior in Marquette. Mama Duck (pictured here) weighs 31,500 pounds and measures 61 feet high, 69 feet wide, and 79 feet long.

Art in Brattleboro, music and laughter in Portland, and the world’s largest rubber duck in Michigan

My Turo rental was repossessed with valuable items inside

Pedaling his message: Conn. cyclist is riding 10,000 miles to raise awareness about distracted driving

Arts

Great Barrington, MA--6/20/2022 - An exterior view of Hunt Slonem’s Great Barrington estate. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

‘They’re like artworks of mine’: Hunt Slonem collects estates that inspire his work

When Andrew Wyeth imagined — and rendered — his own funeral

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

Books

Illustration for review of "The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide" by Steven W. Thrasher. 0731Viral; Books; 7-31-22

The virus of inequality in ‘The Viral Underclass’

Caring for one who didn’t care for you

Related Reading: A city of one’s own

Movies

Will Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards after winning the best actor Oscar for his role in "King Richard."

Will Smith apologizes to Chris Rock on Instagram, breaks silence since Oscars slap

‘You can’t go up to Mark Wahlberg’: The do’s and don’ts of being a movie extra

‘DC League of Super-Pets’: when (guinea) pigs fly

Television

Steve Martin (left) and Martin Short in "Only Murders In The Building."

On TV, it’s a new old story

Alia Shawkat’s quiet force adds a layer of depth to FX’s ‘The Old Man’

Kate Winslet and HBO: A marriage made in prestige-TV heaven

music

Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys performs Friday night at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield.

Black Keys stick with the tried and true at the Xfinity Center

At the Newport Jazz Festival, 10 exciting boundary-stretchers

Watch: Dancers hurt when giant screen falls during Hong Kong concert

Theater/Dance

Taylor Stanley in "Redness," choreographed by Shamel Pitts, performed in "Dichotomous Being: An Evening of Taylor Stanley."

Ballet star Taylor Stanley explores new territory at Jacob’s Pillow

The new Boston Tap Party brings four days of fancy footwork to town

Julianne Boyd is departing Barrington Stage to the strains of ‘A Little Night Music’

globe local

Public school enrollment falls in Mass. amid pandemic, high housing costs, and aging suburbs

Should Massachusetts high schools lock student cell phones during the day?

Police officers step in and provide roadside assistance

Obituaries

This undated photo provided by Putnam shows author Stuart Woods.

Stuart Woods, prolific bestselling thriller author, dies at 84

Charlotte Pomerantz, inventive children’s book author, dies at 92

Phyo Zeya Thaw, Burmese pro-democracy rapper, executed at 41