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Rachael Rollins’s resignation comes as progressive prosecutors face national backlash
A number of progressive prosecutors across the country have been removed, impeached, resigned, and, in at least one case, indicted on criminal charges.

No survivors found after plane that flew over DC and led to fighter jet scramble crashes in Virginia

A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia.

Class-action lawsuit filed against Compass Medical over abrupt closure of facilities in Mass.

The lawsuit argues that the organization abandoned its 70,000 patients by closing its facilities without notice, leaving them scrambling to fill prescriptions, find new doctors, and reschedule medical examinations.

Matthew Nilo rape arrest is sixth under Boston cold-case initiative

Unlike many jurisdictions, Boston does not have a backlog of untested evidence, freeing the department to re-examine unsolved cases.

Somerville school to remain closed rest of year after building deemed unfit

Winter Hill Community Innovation School in Somerville will remain closed for the rest of the school year and classes will be relocated after a piece of concrete fell into a stairwell in the school while it was empty last week, officials said Sunday night.

Son of N.H. state lawmaker drowns after boat capsizes while fishing with wife in Seabrook, N.H.

The body of 26-year-old Justin Janvrin was recovered from the fishing pond shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.

A Boston Whaler navigated through Lobster Cove in Gloucester on May 27.

The cult of the classic Boston Whalers

As boating season begins again in the Northeast, tens of thousands of those classic Whalers are still afloat and remain perhaps the most popular boats in New England waters.

Boston’s LGBTQ+ Pride parade returns after 3-year hiatus with new organizers, inclusive mission
Organizers say the parade has brought roughly 1 million visitors to Boston in the past and they expect a similar turnout this year.

Yvonne Abraham: During Pride Month, there is liberation and repression everywhere in America

As lawmakers weigh solutions for child care emergency, some wonder: Why not help political candidates, too?
Amid promises to tackle the mushrooming emergency in child care, state leaders are facing a renewed push to allow Massachusetts political candidates to spend their own campaign funds to help cover such costs while they run for office.

Heat forward Duncan Robinson scored all 10 of his points in the fourth quarter in the Game 2 win over the Nuggets.

gary washburn | on basketball

It wasn’t just the Celtics, the relentless Heat are wearing down the Nuggets and it showed in Game 2

The Miami Heat are a legitimate championship contender, regardless of how inferior they appear on paper compared with Boston and Denver.

Sam Cassell will join Celtics staff under Joe Mazzulla next season

Owners Mary-Catherine Deibel (right) and Deborah Hughes of UpStairs on the Square in a 2012 photograph.

Mary-Catherine Deibel dies at 72; UpStairs on the Square co-owner was ‘unofficial mayor of Harvard Square’

At UpStairs on the Square, Ms. Deibel made "every event and occasion a festive pleasure,” said food writer Corby Kummer.

As the Rays' Manuel Margot slides in with a sixth-inning run, Red Sox catcher Connor Wong unleashes a throw that would go for an error and extend an already poor play.

RAYS 6, RED SOX 2

Thanks to a few embarrassing defensive plays, Red Sox drop another one to the Rays

A ludicrous trip around the bases by Yandy Diaz in the sixth inning had the Fenway Park crowd booing. “It’s not good baseball, bottom line,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said.

As far as helping himself settle in as a starter for the Red Sox, Tanner Houck’s not providing any relief

From left, friends Andrew Dangled, Mike Gaffney, and Andrew Harmon took a photo together at Sligo Pub, which is closing after 75 years.

Sligo, a longtime pub in Davis Square, closes its doors after 75 years

“This is one of the greatest bars that ever existed," said Henry Lima, a longtime patron and former bartender.

Opinion

The City of Lowell’s computer system was hacked in April.

How to thwart hackers

Cities and towns don’t have the knowledge, staff, or money to fend off cyberattacks themselves. They need help.

Middlebury College flunks a history test

IDEAS | SHERRIE DULWORTH

Why was it so hard to bear witness to my father’s final days?

Mass. owes feds $2.5 billion. Who’s going to pay?

Can MCAS be improved? Curbed? Learned from? All of the above?

More recent News

Five-year-old girl injured during Franklin, N.H., double homicide released from hospital, school official says

Autopsies completed Sunday confirmed that Nicole Hughes and 1 1/2-year-old Ariella Bell both died from multiple gunshot wounds, with the manner of both deaths being ruled homicide, officials said.

Chuck Todd announces that he is leaving NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ after almost 10 years leading the show
The moderator of NBC's long-running politics show “Meet the Press” will depart, to be replaced in the coming months by Kristen Welker.

‘I don’t think God made the fire’: Parishioners mourn loss of historic Spencer church in Sunday service
On Friday afternoon, a lightning strike during thunderstorms sparked a blaze that quickly engulfed the building — long a treasured source of pride for both the congregation and the wider town community.

Inside the complicated reality of being America’s oldest president
A focus is on President Biden's age. Yet that question is complicated. He shows evidence of his 80 years, but people who deal with him regularly say he is sharp in private meetings.

LOVE LETTERS

How do I ask this person out?
He’s staff, I’m a volunteer.

Transgender adults in Florida ‘blindsided’ that new law also limits their access to health care
A new law that Republican presidential candidate and Governor Ron DeSantis signed last month also makes it difficult – even impossible – for many transgender adults to get treatment.

Photo Illustration

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Tell us: How have things changed in Boston since you were in your early 20s?

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Love Letters

Send your relationship questions to Love Letters
Summer is a good time to take control of your romantic life – or lack thereof.

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Keisha Robinson held her daughter, Tatyana, as the 4-year-old was examined by pediatrician Dr. Aaron Bornstein at Middleboro Pediatrics in Lakeville on April 13.

Independent pediatric practices are struggling to survive

Serving the health of children has never been more vital — as patients require increasingly complex care. And many practices, particularly those caring for high numbers of patients on Medicaid, say they cannot sustain the work.

‘Are you guys going to shoot me?’ Police encounters with mentally ill people increasingly turn deadly
A Globe review shows that most people shot by police in Massachusetts are suicidal, mentally ill, or having a breakdown.

Biotechs face challenges as the industry’s annual bash returns to Boston
As more than 15,000 executives, investors, and promoters from around the world arrive at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, industry leaders are bracing for multiple challenges even as they trumpet their triumphs.

Globe Magazine

I went searching for a relative who escaped the Holocaust. I found a secret some want to forget.
My decades-long quest to find the lone survivor of a massacre that wiped out a branch of our Jewish family in Poland — and the hidden truth about the killers.

Culture & Lifestyle

Kate Fussner's debut novel, "The Song of Us."

Debut author Kate Fussner sends Orpheus and Eurydice to a Boston middle school

From left: Dawn M. Simmons, cofounder and co-producing artistic director of the Front Porch Arts Collective; Loretta Greco, artistic director of the Huntington; and Megan Sandberg-Zakian, artistic director of Boston Playwrights' Theatre.

The stage is theirs: At a majority of Boston-area theaters, women leaders have taken charge

Bob Bittner ran WJIB from a studio next to his home in West Bath, Maine. He died May 26 at the age of 73.

WJIB’s Bob Bittner was always an easy listen

Shameik Moore is the voice of Spider-Man/Miles Morales in "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse."

‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’: Something’s gonna change his world

Special Projects

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Their lives were rerouted after the Marathon bombing. Here’s where they are now.

Five lives were lost; many more, changed.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

President Joe Biden talked with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House on May 31 before traveling to Colorado.

Biden bests Republicans yet again with debt ceiling deal

"I was . . . advised to study the Black French poet Aimé Césaire rather than Lord Byron." Pictured: A marble statue of Byron in Rome's Villa Borghese park.

IDEAS | TYLER HARPER

I am the wrong kind of Black professor

Trying to close the gender pay gap — 60 years after the Equal Pay Act

Bolton alpaca farmer Alan DiPietro is challenging the state law in federal court, charging the town made a $310,000 profit from the sale of his property to settle a $60,000 tax debt.

Massachusetts gets a chance to kick ‘equity theft’ to the curb

Edwin F. Atkins in the gardens of Soledad, his sugar plantation in Cuba, in 1923.

IDEAS | ULBE BOSMA

The sugar baron of Boston

Calling teen writers! Globe Ideas wants to give you a megaphone.

Metro

Class-action lawsuit filed against Compass Medical over abrupt closure of facilities in Mass.

The lawsuit argues that the organization abandoned its 70,000 patients by closing its facilities without notice, leaving them scrambling to fill prescriptions, find new doctors, and reschedule medical examinations.

Sligo, a longtime pub in Davis Square, closes its doors after 75 years

“This is one of the greatest bars that ever existed," said Henry Lima, a longtime patron and former bartender.

Digital finances were a boon for the legal adult industry. Now, they’re shutting out sex workers.

In an industry with a history of exploitation, access to banking can help workers build a life. But banks and digital payment platforms are excluding sex workers at a rapid clip.

The cult of the classic Boston Whalers

As boating season begins again in the Northeast, tens of thousands of those classic Whalers are still afloat and remain perhaps the most popular boats in New England waters.

Sports

Heat forward Duncan Robinson scored all 10 of his points in the fourth quarter in the Game 2 win over the Nuggets.

gary washburn | on basketball

It wasn’t just the Celtics, the relentless Heat are wearing down the Nuggets and it showed in Game 2

The Miami Heat are a legitimate championship contender, regardless of how inferior they appear on paper compared with Boston and Denver.

With Aaron Judge out of the lineup, Anthony Volpe stepped up in the ninth inning to provide the power for the Yankees with a two-run homer.

YANKEES 4, DODGERS 1

Yankees rally late in Los Angeles to take series finale from Dodgers without Aaron Judge in lineup

Judge missed the game after banging his right big toe while making a highlight-reel catch on Saturday. New York won two of three games in the series.

Bam Adebayo was one of three Heat players to top 20 points on Sunday night, his 21 helping get Miami past Michael Porter Jr. and the Nuggets in Denver.

NBA FINALS | HEAT 111, NUGGETS 108

Fourth-quarter surge just enough as Miami evens NBA Finals with Game 2 victory in Denver

The Heat opened the fourth quarter on a 25-10 run, then survived a late answer by the Nuggets to become the first visitor to win at Ball Arena in the playoffs.

Kyle Busch fends off Denny Hamlin to win NASCAR Cup Series race outside St. Louis

NCAA champ Zhang becomes first LPGA Tour winner in pro debut in 72 years, wins Mizuho in playoff

Viktor Hovland’s clutch putting delivers a victory in a playoff at the Memorial

Business

Class-action lawsuit filed against Compass Medical over abrupt closure of facilities in Mass.

The lawsuit argues that the organization abandoned its 70,000 patients by closing its facilities without notice, leaving them scrambling to fill prescriptions, find new doctors, and reschedule medical examinations.

Digital finances were a boon for the legal adult industry. Now, they’re shutting out sex workers.

In an industry with a history of exploitation, access to banking can help workers build a life. But banks and digital payment platforms are excluding sex workers at a rapid clip.

Chuck Todd announces that he is leaving NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ after almost 10 years leading the show

Apple is expected to unveil a sleek, pricey headset. Is it the device VR has been looking for?

magazine

I went searching for a relative who escaped the Holocaust. I found a secret some want to forget.

Thomas, the moray eel.

What it’s like to dive in the New England Aquarium’s giant tank (watch out for Thomas the eel)

This week's daters: Will and Eric.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘The foundation for feelings is there’

On Cape Cod, I’ll always try to stay in my summer landlord’s good graces

metro

Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins addresses the media at the Moakley Federal Courthouse, May 24, 2022, in Boston.

Rachael Rollins’s resignation comes as progressive prosecutors face national backlash

Boston’s LGBTQ+ Pride parade returns after 3-year hiatus with new organizers, inclusive mission

Matthew Nilo rape arrest is sixth under Boston cold-case initiative

sports

Josh Lester's first hit in the majors was a two-run single to center field.

Josh Lester makes most of opportunity with Orioles, delivers first career hit in win over Giants

Sam Cassell will join Celtics staff under Joe Mazzulla next season

Lauren Eby’s two HRs start the ball rolling in Attleboro softball’s rout of Andover in Division 1

business

President Biden attends a parade at the Marine Barracks on June 2.

Biden signs debt ceiling bill that pulls US back from brink of unprecedented default

Biotechs face challenges as the industry’s annual bash returns to Boston

Tragedy that left 5 dead or missing puts spotlight on safety in Alaska charter fishing industry

politics

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Biden set for critical talks on Ukraine this week with Denmark’s Frederiksen, UK’s Sunak

In a contentious lawmaking season, red states got redder and blue ones bluer

DeSantis hits Trump from the right while the ex-president looks ahead to the general election

Nation

Search and rescue teams leave the command post at St. Mary's Wilderness en route to the Blue Ridge Parkway to search for the site where a Cessna Citation crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Va., on June 4.

No survivors found after plane that flew over DC and led to fighter jet scramble crashes in Virginia

Federal trial set to begin over Oregon’s tough gun control measure approved by voters

Transgender adults in Florida `blindsided’ that new law also limits their access to health care

World

Kathleen Folbigg, now 55, was released from a prison in Grafton, New South Wales state, following an unconditional pardon by Governor Margaret Beazley.

Australian mother imprisoned 20 years pardoned and freed because of doubt she killed her 4 children

Indian railways official says error in signaling system led to crash that killed 275 people

Ukrainian president says at least 500 children killed by war

opinion

Bolton alpaca farmer Alan DiPietro is challenging the state law in federal court, charging the town made a $310,000 profit from the sale of his property to settle a $60,000 tax debt.

Massachusetts gets a chance to kick ‘equity theft’ to the curb

I am the wrong kind of Black professor

Bowed but unbroken, a defiant LGBTQ+ community begins Pride Month

lifestyle

A Boston Whaler navigated through Lobster Cove in Gloucester on May 27.

The cult of the classic Boston Whalers

How do I ask this person out?

Debut author Kate Fussner sends Orpheus and Eurydice to a Boston middle school

food & dining

Garmi Mawolo at her fresh vegetable stand outside Urban Greens in Providence, R.I. She farms at Bami Farm in Johnston, which is run by the African Alliance of Rhode Island.

Support local farmers in R.I. and head to one of these summer markets

A pint with your pug? Dog-friendly dining and drinking starts in Boston

Here’s where you can get a free doughnut in Mass. for National Doughnut Day

travel

Boston drag queen Kori King performs at a "Little Mermaid"-themed drag night at the Barking Crab.

From campy to controversial: How drag queens became a target of conservative lawmakers

In Becket, the Dream Away Lodge is ‘somewhere between a living museum or a living work of art, and a church’

More travelers are taking the train — to save the planet

Arts

Eva Lundsager, “First Attempt."

Paintings that are all about touch

The Peabody Essex Museum to hire a TikTok creator-in-residence

Artists For Humanity alum Wendy ‘MoMa’ Michel comes full circle

Books

Kate Fussner's debut novel, "The Song of Us."

Debut author Kate Fussner sends Orpheus and Eurydice to a Boston middle school

The best new books for summer 2023

Kaija Langley, author of verse novel ‘The Order of Things,’ has built a writing career in the margins of a busy life

Movies

Actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen at the Democratic National Convention, July 28, 2016. The couple will be recognized Monday for a lifetime of contributions to the arts, and for their their activism.

Danson and Steenburgen to receive lifetime achievement award from Trinity Rep

Hang on to your fedoras. ‘Noir City: Boston’ is headed to the Brattle Theatre

‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’: Something’s gonna change his world

Television

Tom Hiddleston in "The Night Manager." Hiddleston will reprise his role as Jonathan Pine in season 2.

In the works: ‘Constant Gardener’ miniseries, ‘Night Manager’ season 2

‘Somebody Somewhere’ earns third season on HBO

In conclusion, ‘Barry’ lacked resonance almost until the end

music

(From left) Alex Holman, Giordana Mecagni, Derrik Albertelli, Chris Keene and James Brockman, members of the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, a seven-person band that only uses typewriters, practiced in Arlington on May 17.

A symphony of typewriters? These machines are the offbeat instrument of choice for the Boston Typewriter Orchestra.

Handel and Haydn Society’s ‘Crossing the Deep’ troubles the waters of early music

With her upcoming tour, Rina Sawayama is reclaiming creative control of her story

Theater/Dance

Playwright-director Sasha Denisova at Beat Brew Hall in Harvard Square, where her play, "The Gaaga," will be staged.

In Arlekin’s ‘The Gaaga,’ a Ukrainian playwright puts Vladimir Putin on trial

The stage is theirs: At a majority of Boston-area theaters, women leaders have taken charge

In Lyric Stage’s ‘Rooted,’ a tree grows on Clarendon Street

globe local

Brothers Brian Worrell (left), District 4 Councilor, and state Representative Chris Worrell just opened a district office on Erie Street.

Worrell brothers, one a councilor and one a state representative, open joint Dorchester office for ‘top-notch constituent services’

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

Reading harpist returns to hometown for performance with the US Air Force Concert Band

Obituaries

Owners Mary-Catherine Deibel (right) and Deborah Hughes of UpStairs on the Square in a 2012 photograph.

Mary-Catherine Deibel dies at 72; UpStairs on the Square co-owner was ‘unofficial mayor of Harvard Square’

Saundra Lane, visionary benefactor of MFA’s photography collection, dies at 84

Kaija Saariaho, pathbreaking composer of singular colors, is dead at 70