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Larry Edelman

Earlier mistakes foreshadowed the state’s $2.5 billion unemployment accounting blunder

In a 2021 review KPMG found multiple errors in tracking federal and state money used to pay jobless claims.

CNN head Chris Licht is out at the network after a brief, tumultuous tenure
Licht's exit comes after a tumultuous year leading the network that culminated in a damning magazine profile and the growing realization that he’d lost the confidence of the network’s journalists.

As MBTA’s subway struggles, commuter rail gains riders: ‘It’s way more consistent and faster’

As the subway network has been dogged by cuts, anemic ridership, and an array of safety incidents, the commuter rail has emerged as something of a bright spot in the MBTA’s portfolio.

Probe into slaying of 16-year-old Molly Bish remains active, DA says. She vanished from her lifeguard post in 2000.

A deceased convicted rapist named in 2021 as a person of interest in the 2000 slaying of Molly Bish, a 16-year-old who vanished from her Warren lifeguard post, remains a focus of investigators who continue to work the high-profile case.

‘A state of shock’: Woman testifies in rape trial against Boston attorney

Over the years, as many as a dozen women have come forward alleging Gary Zerola raped them in nearly indistinguishable assaults dating back to 1996, court records show.

One person killed after apparent explosion in Merrimack, N.H.

A person was found dead Tuesday at the scene of an apparent explosion in Merrimack, N.H., officials said.

Boston police shoot into vehicle that fled scene in Jamaica Plain; no one hit by gunfire, officials say

Mayor Wu involved in car crash while passenger in Boston police vehicle

A beloved lawn ornament containing the ashes of her father and grandfather was stolen from her yard in Southie, and she wants it back

A decorative statue that was doubling as an urn for human ashes recently vanished from someone’s yard in South Boston.

LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau defends Saudi Arabia in CNN interview after PGA merger news

DeChambeau, who was one of the first big names to defect to the Saudi-backed league, expressed sympathy for families of 9/11 victims but said he believes it is time to move forward.
Tara Sullivan: LIV-PGA merger raises many questions, but one answer is clear: Money wins again
KEVIN CULLEN

Is serial rape a hate crime? Not in Massachusetts.

Under federal law, and in most states, sex and gender are protected classes in hate crime laws. Not in Massachusetts.
DNA research is helping investigators track down suspects in cold cases. But how does it work?
Opinion
EDITORIAL

We need some new drugs

Shortages of medications like Adderall and children’s Tylenol highlight the risks that have been created by offshoring drug production.
Maura Healey and Kendalle Burlin O’Connell

How Massachusetts can lengthen its lead in life sciences
Katie Payne

Prescription prices should be addressed at BIO International Convention
JEFF JACOBY

Birthright citizenship is safe from Donald Trump’s whims
IDEAS | JULIA FREELAND FISHER

Caps and gowns but no career prospects for grads without connections

More recent News

Pence launches 2024 presidential bid, says ‘different times call for different leadership’ in video

Former vice president Mike Pence promised “the best days of the greatest nation on earth are yet to come” in a video released Wednesday formally launching his campaign for the Republican nomination for president.

State’s largest insurer has doubled spending on mental health care since start of the pandemic

The pandemic accelerated a brewing crisis, but also removed some of the stigma in seeking help.

Local funds meant to support housing are sometimes used to block it, report finds

A new study has found that — especially in the suburbs — Community Preservation Act funds often go toward open space, not housing.

Former Trump aide reportedly appears at Miami court to testify before federal grand jury

Taylor Budowich, who had served as a spokesman for Trump after his presidency, was set to testify before a grand jury investigating potential classified-document mishandling and obstruction at Mar-a-Lago, according to the AP.

Henniker, N.H., woman, 26, identified as person found on I-89 in Hopkinton, N.H.
An autopsy conducted by the state medical examiner’s office concluded that Gina Maiorano died from “blunt head impact injuries,” State Police said.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Wu, Skipper propose big changes to BPS high schools

The mayor and superintendent proposed expanding Madison Park Technical Vocational High School and moving the O’Bryant School of Math and Science, Boston's most diverse exam school, to predominantly white West Roxbury.

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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SAVINGS

HOUSING

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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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Greenwashing at Greentown Labs? The Somerville climate-tech hub’s new partner is raising alarms.

When the company recently announced a new partnership with the largest oil company in the world — one that would provide it a close relationship with the startups being fostered at Greentown Labs — it sent shock waves through parts of the climate community.

THE FINE PRINT
Vantage Travel is negotiating a sale of the company amid cancellations
The Boston travel mainstay, which has run luxury ocean and river cruises around the world for 40 years, made the statement after a new raft of cruise cancellations.

Teens investigating equity find Stop & Shop charges more in Jackson Square than at a more affluent suburb
Several youth organizers with the Hyde Square Task Force who were researching inflation learned about how low-income shoppers often pay more for the same goods than shoppers in more affluent areas, and they wanted to test out that theory themselves.

To meet new state housing law, Newton aims to make its villages a little taller
One of Boston’s largest suburbs has a year-end deadline to comply with state law that could require it to permit more than 8,000 additional homes.

Culture & Lifestyle

Celine Song’s romantic debut film ‘Past Lives’ was a path to self-discovery

Leith Ross feels everything

‘Never Have I Ever’ returns with its buoyant star

With an unseen portrait of a classical sorceress, BEMF makes vibrant return

Special Projects

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

Five lives were lost; many more, changed.

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

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

How the missing become the uncounted

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

Two Weeks in America

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

How to thwart hackers

JEFF JACOBY

Middlebury College flunks a history test
IDEAS | SHERRIE DULWORTH

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

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

IDEAS | ULBE BOSMA

The sugar baron of Boston
IDEAS

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

Metro

A beloved lawn ornament containing the ashes of her father and grandfather was stolen from her yard in Southie, and she wants it back

A decorative statue that was doubling as an urn for human ashes recently vanished from someone’s yard in South Boston.

Skip today’s run? Air quality alert in Mass. issued again due to Canadian wildfires.

The DEP issued an Air Quality Alert effective until midnight, saying sensitive groups and, in some areas, everyone should reconsider heavy outdoor exertion.

The Somerville Community Path extension still isn’t open. People have been using it anyway.

The project, part of the Green Line Extension, is tantalizingly close to opening for cyclists and pedestrians. So some are hitting the long-awaited path early.
RI POLITICS

Providence Councilman Juan Pichardo to pay $3k for campaign finance violations

A former state senator, Pichardo is the vice-chair of the city council’s Finance Committee.

Sports

ben volin | on football

Patriots invested big in special teams, but with new NFL rules, there’s not much of a payoff

Their focus on special teams — which are being de-emphasized by the league — comes at the expense of depth on defense and especially offense.
golf

LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau defends Saudi Arabia in CNN interview after PGA merger news

DeChambeau, who was one of the first big names to defect to the Saudi-backed league, expressed sympathy for families of 9/11 victims but said he believes it is time to move forward.
hockey

Bruce Cassidy reflects on his firing from Bruins, their first-round exit, and his pursuit of the Stanley Cup

The Bruins clinched a playoff berth in all six of Cassidy's seasons as head coach, bringing Boston within 60 minutes of a Stanley Cup title in 2019.
celtics

Celtics report card: Grading Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, and management
Peter Abraham | On Baseball

It’s only June, but this Red Sox rally — keyed by Rob Refsnyder — feels like it came at just the right time
Red Sox notebook

Christian Arroyo tried to have a healthy attitude while sidelined for a month

Business

Larry Edelman

Earlier mistakes foreshadowed the state’s $2.5 billion unemployment accounting blunder

In a 2021 review KPMG found multiple errors in tracking federal and state money used to pay jobless claims.

CNN head Chris Licht is out at the network after a brief, tumultuous tenure

Licht's exit comes after a tumultuous year leading the network that culminated in a damning magazine profile and the growing realization that he’d lost the confidence of the network’s journalists.

Local funds meant to support housing are sometimes used to block it, report finds
TALKING POINTS

Paratek Pharmaceuticals to be sold
magazine
PERSPECTIVE

Finding a home health aide to care for sick loved ones shouldn’t be this hard. (Not here.)

MISS CONDUCT

My neighbor said no when I asked to golf with her. I feel hurt.
COOKING

Recipes: Eggs fried, baked, or scrambled for Father's Day
Globe Magazine

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

metro

N.H. students struggle with anxiety, new survey finds

Green Line train mechanical problem near Government Center causes delays

Meet Globe R.I.’s newest reporter

sports

James Paxton holds down Cleveland long enough for Red Sox bats to get to work in 5-4 win

Yankees star Aaron Judge headed to injured list for second time this season

LIV-PGA merger raises many questions, but one answer is clear: Money wins again

business

World Bank projects weak global growth amid rising interest rates

Merck sues over law empowering Medicare to negotiate with drug makers

SEC sues Coinbase, one day after taking aim at Binance

politics

North Dakota, Governor Doug Burgum jumps into crowded Republican race for president

Former Trump aide reportedly appears at Miami court to testify before federal grand jury

Who is (and who’s not) running for president in 2024? Here’s a list of the candidates.

Nation

White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor is arrested in Florida

Wildfire smoke darkens skies and triggers air alerts in northern US

Two dead in shooting after high school graduation ceremony in Virginia capital

World

Pope Francis to undergo intestinal surgery under general anesthesia

Floodwaters engulf more areas of southern Ukraine after dam breach as hundreds evacuated

Quebec orders more evacuations as dozens of wildfires in Canada remain out of control

opinion

Why a 25-year-old lynching should still haunt America

Legislature must regulate role of pharmacy benefit managers in our health care

May I have a word: Doo the right thing

lifestyle

Whose turn is it?

The cult of the classic Boston Whalers

How do I ask this person out?

food & dining

The Banks Fish House wants to be the Grill 23 of seafood

Picking strawberries? Here’s where to go and what to make.

Father-daughter duo cook up gluten-free guide to some favorite foods

travel

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

‘Call and Response’ examines racism in reproductive health, history

Paintings that are all about touch

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

Books

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

Celine Song’s romantic debut film ‘Past Lives’ was a path to self-discovery

‘Hocus Pocus 3′ is currently in the works, according to Disney. Could filming return to New England?

Danson and Steenburgen to receive lifetime achievement award from Trinity Rep

Television

‘Never Have I Ever’ returns with its buoyant star

Bar from NBC comedy ‘Cheers’ sells at auction for $675,000

This week’s TV: Tom Holland’s ‘Crowded Room,’ the Tonys, and why we need watercooler shows

music

Leith Ross feels everything

Astrud Gilberto, singer of ‘The Girl from Ipanema,’ dies at 83

With an unseen portrait of a classical sorceress, BEMF makes vibrant return

Theater/Dance

In ‘Rooted,’ a cult insists she’s their leader, but the poor woman just wants to study her plants

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

globe local

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

Françoise Gilot, artist in the shadow of Picasso, is dead at 101

Anna Shay, star of Netflix’s ‘Bling Empire,’ dies at 62

Jim Hines, first to sprint 100 meters in under 10 seconds, dies at 76