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Celtics legend Bill Russell, towering champion in Boston, dies at 88
Russell, the Celtics center who was the cornerstone of basketball’s greatest dynasty and an exemplar of racial harmony and progress, died Sunday.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Bob Cousy remembers teammate Bill Russell: ‘He fought the good fight’

‘Thank you for everything’: NBA world reacts to Bill Russell’s passing

Photos: Bill Russell through the years
Few have pieced together more incredible careers — or remarkable lives — than the 11-time champion. Follow his journey through the camera lens.

‘A champion unlike any other’: Read the Celtics’ statement on Bill Russell’s death

"To be the greatest champion in your sport, to revolutionize the way the game is played, and to be a societal leader all at once seems unthinkable, but that is who Bill Russell was," the team said.

Former president Barack Obama pays tribute to Bill Russell: ‘Today, we lost a giant.’

Obama expressed his admiration for the Celtics legend and longtime civil rights activist.

Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura on ‘Star Trek,’ has died
Her role in the 1966-69 series as Lieutenant Uhura earned Nichols a lifelong position of honor with the series’ fans, known as Trekkers and Trekkies.

11 displaced by East Boston building collapse

Firefighters evacuated the building at 282 Sumner St. after the exterior masonry veneer partially collapsed, Boston fire officials said on Twitter at 1:33 a.m. A dog and a cat were also displaced by the collapse, the department said.

Billions in tax relief. Sports betting. Gun control. It’s all on the line in final hours of Mass. legislative session.

Massachusetts lawmakers were racing toward a chaotic close to their formal legislative session on Sunday, with potentially billions in taxpayer relief on the line and a heap of high-stakes policy initiatives still unfinished.

After Roe v. Wade, more college students want contraception vending machines on campus

New England college students are organizing to have vending machines with emergency contraceptives installed on campuses following the high court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last month.

A room at the Kimpton Marlowe.

How to capture that resort-y vibe — in Cambridge. For real.

Can Cambridge make the grade as an outdoorsy weekend getaway? We were about to find out.

Something new for travelers is popping up all over How to save money on a road trip

Red Sox 7, Brewers 2

With roster changes looming, Red Sox overcome distractions and right ship for a day with win vs. Brewers
The Red Sox, who remain in last place in the AL East, wrapped up a 10-game homestand with a 7-2 win over the Brewers before heading out on a seven-game road trip, beginning with a three-game series Monday in Houston.

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

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) spoke to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 21, 2022. Manchin was key in shaping the Democrats’ new tax, climate, and drugs bill.

Manchin pitches Democrats’ tax and climate bill to silent Sinema

Senator Joe Manchin, the architect of the Democrats’ new tax, climate and drugs bill, made a public pitch to his colleague Kyrsten Sinema to get on board with the legislation, arguing that it doesn’t raise taxes.

Paul English, co-founder of Kayak and the entrepreneur behind the MLK project in Boston.

Paul English sells his podcast startup Moonbeam, to fund Boston venture studio

To English, the sale marks the sixth such a deal that he has completed of a startup that he’s led.

Mourners hugged each other at a vigil Saturday for a 13-year-old girl who was killed in a car crash in Worcester last week.

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.

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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Blade falls off nearly 500-foot-tall wind turbine in Gloucester

Gloucester firefighters responded to a report that one of the three blades on a 492-foot-tall wind turbine had fallen off at Applied Materials on Dory Road in the Blackburn Industrial Park at around 7 a.m., according to a statement from city officials.

Doctor: Biden tests positive for COVID for 2nd day in a row
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.

Two Boston officers taken to hospital after being struck by car Sunday

The officers were directing traffic for the Puerto Rican Festival in Franklin Park when they were struck.

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

No one in the NFL wears as many hats as Patriots coach Matt Patricia
Matt Patricia is not only coaching the offensive line and calling plays in practice thus far, he's signing contracts and managing cap space.

Cruise ship en route from Boston to Bahamas struck by fishing boat

A cruise ship bound for the Bahamas was struck by a fishing boat east of Nantucket early Saturday morning, according to the Coast Guard.

LOVE LETTERS

She wanted to sleep over, but I drove her home
“I apologized for my nerves and said I wanted to try again.”

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Michael Cox was appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu on July 13 to be Boston’s next police commissioner after three difficult years as Ann Arbor's police chief.

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.

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.

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.

Pelosi’s Asia itinerary skips mention of Taiwan stopover
The speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, confirmed Sunday she will visit four Asian countries this week but made no mention of a possible stop in Taiwan that has fueled tension with Beijing, which claims the island democracy as its own territory.

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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."

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | TOM JOUDREY

The afterlife of corpses

Rapper Bad Bunny performs on stage as part of his three-day "Un Verano Sin Ti" series of concerts at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan on July 28.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny, and the island’s future

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

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

‘What a great legend he is.’ Reflecting on legacy of Celtics great Bill Russell

“To many of us, he was a hero and a role model. One that we wanted to try and emulate the best we could,” said the Rev. Miniard Culpepper said. “Bill Russell taught us never to give up.”

Joan McPartlin Mahoney, Harvard Crimson’s first female reporter, dies at 94

Ms. Mahoney wrote that she and other women who joined her on the Crimson's staff "were a feisty, doughty bunch of pioneers."

Billions in tax relief. Sports betting. Gun control. It’s all on the line in final hours of Mass. legislative session.

Massachusetts lawmakers were racing toward a chaotic close to their formal legislative session on Sunday, with potentially billions in taxpayer relief on the line and a heap of high-stakes policy initiatives still unfinished.

Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on ‘Star Trek,’ has died at 89

Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lieutenant Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, has died at the age of 89.

Sports

Packers wide receiver Allen Lazard signs autographs for fans at a recent practice. The 26-year-old Lazard has rocketed up Green Bay's wide receiver depth chart.

An undrafted free agent who was cut as a rookie, Green Bay’s Allen Lazard might be Aaron Rodgers’ No. 1 target this year

With Davante Adams in Las Vegas, Lazard, once cut by the Jaguars, has a chance to build on last season's 40 catches.

England's Chloe Kelly takes off her shirt celebrating after scoring the winner in extra time in the Women's Euro 2022 soccer final between England and Germany before 87,000 at Wembley Stadium.

Women’s European Championship

Chloe Kelly’s extra-time goal sends England past Germany in women’s European Championship soccer final

It was the first time Kelly had ever scored in a competitive international game.

Arthur Smith of Charlestown was among those who went to the Bill Russell statue on City Hall Plaza to pay respect to the giant after his death Sunday.

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

Boston had a complicated relationship with Bill Russell, its greatest winner in both basketball and life

He was a man in his own class. He fused athletics and social activism. He fused his generation and this generation. All while he withstood so much criticism and adversity outside the Boston organization, though the city long tried repaying its debt.

Royals avoid Yankees sweep thanks to Salvador Perez’s ninth-inning home run

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Bob Cousy remembers teammate Bill Russell: ‘He fought the good fight’

Bill Russell through the years

Business

Paul English sells his podcast startup Moonbeam, to fund Boston venture studio

To English, the sale marks the sixth such a deal that he has completed of a startup that he’s led.

Pelosi’s Asia itinerary skips mention of Taiwan stopover

The speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, confirmed Sunday she will visit four Asian countries this week but made no mention of a possible stop in Taiwan that has fueled tension with Beijing, which claims the island democracy as its own territory.

Manchin pitches Democrats’ tax and climate bill to silent Sinema

Black ownership of South African businesses falls below 30 percent

magazine

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

Michael Cox was appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu on July 13 to be Boston’s next police commissioner after three difficult years as Ann Arbor's police chief.

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

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

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

sports

In his second season back in New England, Matt Patricia's job duties have expanded. He's been calling most of the plays so far during practices.

No one in the NFL wears as many hats as Patriots coach Matt Patricia

Former president Barack Obama pays tribute to Bill Russell: ‘Today, we lost a giant.’

With roster changes looming, Red Sox overcome distractions and right ship for a day with win vs. Brewers

business

Ukrainian workers collect grain to be processed at the Continental Farmers Group facility, on the outskirts of Ternopil, Ukraine, on July 25, 2022.

Ukraine’s first grain ship may depart on Monday, Turkey says

Germany argues over nuclear shutdown amid gas supply worries

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

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.

Doctor: Biden tests positive for COVID for 2nd day in a row

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

House passes bill banning certain semi-automatic guns

Nation

The surveillance videos taken during the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as well as the crime scene aftermath and autopsy photos, are not shown in the gallery, where parents and spouses sit, or to the general public watching on TV. Instead, the images are being viewed by jurors on shielded video screens and shown to a small group of journalists after each day's court session.

Parkland trial a rare, curtailed look at mass shooting gore

‘Star Trek’ alums, more react to death of Nichelle Nichols

Kansas abortion vote tests political energy in post-Roe America

World

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi welcomed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore for talks at the Capitol in Washington on March 30.

Pelosi heads for Singapore, but is silent on Taiwan

As Ukraine orders civilians to evacuate the east, residents face a grim choice

Why the Louvre’s Mona Lisa keeps a smile: Paris’s cooling system

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

She wanted to sleep over, but I drove her home

A summer reading list for gardeners and green thumbs

I need to get over a crush on an old friend

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

Lea Michele (pictured with Cory Monteith in an episode of "Glee") has been accused of abusing power and threatening to have people fired on the set of "Glee" and on Broadway.

TV stars and execs trailed by tales of on-set bullying

On TV, it’s a new old story

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

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

Ms. Mahoney held her Harvard Crimson press card from the late 1940s.

Joan McPartlin Mahoney, Harvard Crimson’s first female reporter, dies at 94

Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on ‘Star Trek,’ has died at 89

Navajo Code Talker Samuel Sandoval dies; 3 left from group