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LIV-PGA Merger: “Money wins again.”

Sports columnist Tara Sullivan digs into the new agreement between the PGA and LIV tours and predicts what golf will look like in the future.

Golf merger raises questions. 'But one answer is clear: Money wins again.'

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N.H. hospital missed warning signs about troubled top heart surgeon Dr. Yvon Baribeau, new report finds

The heart surgeon, who abruptly retired in 2019, has 21 malpractice settlements linked to his work at the hospital, including 14 cases in which he was accused of contributing to patients’ deaths.

Spotlight: A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death

Trustees of Reservations names Katie Theoharides as next leader
Theoharides, who served as secretary of energy and environmental affairs under former governor Charlie Baker, fills a vacancy left by the sudden departure of John Judge in October.

Court voids back pay award for fired N.H. police officer who improperly accepted $2m inheritance

An arbitrator awarded the former Portsmouth officer more than two years in back pay in 2018 after his 2015 termination, but the state’s Supreme Court just ruled that the arbitrator made a mistake

FDA chief’s unwelcome message to biotech execs: ‘Prices of drugs are too high’
At the global BIO convention in Boston, Califf defended limiting reimbursements for accelerated approvals of treatments, saying they’re not fully proven.

A pedestrian walked on the Somerville Community Path extension, which runs along the new Green Line stops between Somerville and Lechmere Station in Cambridge. Although the path has not officially opened, residents are eager to use it.

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

Harvard asks appeals court to make insurer pay anyway after university misses deadline

Probe into slaying of 16-year-old Molly Bish remains active, DA says, with focus on deceased man convicted of rape

Mayor Wu says she’s ‘doing just fine’ after unmarked police car collides with other vehicle

Ella and Kiki Roland, 9 and 11, in the doorways of what will be their new bedrooms in their Boxborough home, the first time they will have their own.

When the new house you want is the one you already live in

Facing high mortgage rates and historically low inventory of properties on the market, homeowners are making the best of what they have.

See photos of smoky skies in US from Canadian wildfires
Wildfires in Canada have sent smoke south into the United States, leading to air quality warning, hazy skies, and colorful sunsets.

Here’s what experts say about the hazy skies and air quality right now Canadian wildfire smoke spreads hazardous haze at home and in the US

Massachusetts air quality readings.

Map: See the air quality index in Massachusetts and New England

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is affecting air quality levels in the Northeast this week, reaching unhealthy levels in many parts of New England. See the latest readings.

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

Watch: Wildfires in Canada cast blanket of smoke over New York

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.

Governor Maura Healey, center, and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, left, speak with singer Brandi Carlile on stage at the TD Garden as balloons drop from the ceiling during Healey's Jan. 5 inaugural celebration.

Months after party, Healey still taking donations for inauguration, pushing fund-raising past $3 million

The last balloon fell on Governor Maura Healey’s inaugural party five months ago. But the fund-raising committee she created to fund the January bash has continued to take money — nearly $90,000 since February — with little clarity of where any of the excess is going.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan acknowledged himself that he is going to viewed as a hypocrite.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is taking a lot of heat over LIV deal — as well he should

After his stunning flip-flop, betraying the players and embracing the LIV faction, it's hard to see him remaining the long-term leader of the PGA Tour.

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

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.

State learns it erred by using $2.5 billion in federal money to pay jobless claims

This statue, which contains cremated remains, disappeared from a side yard in South Boston recently.

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

A decorative statue that was holding cremated remains recently vanished from a yard in South Boston.

Opinion

People mingled Monday at the annual BIO International Convention held at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Maura Healey and Kendalle Burlin O’Connell

How Massachusetts can lengthen its lead in life sciences

We must be innovative and inclusive, strengthen our partnerships, and make bold investments in all the areas that support our life sciences ecosystem.

We need some new drugs

Prescription prices should be addressed at BIO International Convention

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

Family of Mass. woman who died by suicide days after delivering twins trying to raise awareness about postpartum depression

The family of a 36-year-old Norton woman who died by suicide days after giving birth to twins wants to draw attention to the importance of mental health care during and after pregnancy.

Pence opens presidential bid with denunciation of Trump over Jan. 6 insurrection and abortion

Mike Pence opened his presidential bid with an unusually forceful critique of former president Donald Trump over Jan. 6, his temperament, and abortion on Wednesday as he became the first vice president in modern history to challenge his former running mate.

Lionel Messi says he’s joining Inter Miami and coming to Major League Soccer
Messi announced his decision Wednesday to join a Miami franchise that has been led by another global soccer icon in David Beckham since its inception.

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.

Prince Harry has his say in court after 7 hours of intense questioning
Over two grueling days, the prince spoke on the witness stand to accuse Mirror Group Newspapers of intercepting his voicemail messages and using other unlawful means to gather information about everything from his school sports injury and youthful drug use to the ins and outs of a breakup.

Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, begins erupting after 3-month pause
Kilauea, the second largest volcano in Hawaii, began erupting on Wednesday after a three-month pause, US Geological Survey officials said.

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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Recommended reads

The John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science currently shares a campus with Madison Park Technical Vocational High School.

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.

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.

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

Amanda Seyfried and Tom Holland in "The Crowded Room."

In ‘The Crowded Room,’ a tortured soul is put on trial

Celine Song wrote and directed "Past Lives," which opens in Boston this week.

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

Leith Ross will perform at the Sinclair Wednesday.

Leith Ross feels everything

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan attends Netflix's "Never Have I Ever" season 4 premiere at Westwood Village on June 1 in Los Angeles.

‘Never Have I Ever’ returns with its buoyant star

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

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

How to thwart hackers

Middlebury College, with the iconic chapel at the center, in 2017.

Middlebury College flunks a history test

Bronze lovers adorn a tomb in Milan's Monumental Cemetery.

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?

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

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 Wednesday, saying sensitive groups and, in some areas, everyone should reconsider heavy outdoor exertion.

MBTA extends Keolis contract through at least 2025

The extension marks a major change in policy after state Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack said in 2017 that officials would allow the contract with Keolis, which operates the commuter rail, to expire in 2022.

See photos of smoky skies in US from Canadian wildfires

Wildfires in Canada have sent smoke south into the United States, leading to air quality warning, hazy skies, and colorful sunsets.

Neronha rules McKee must hand over e-mail alleging officials’ misconduct during business trip

The attorney general’s office concludes that any privacy interest is outweighed by the “very substantial public interest” in an email regarding a business trip by top state officials to Philadelphia in March.

Sports

Lillard recently signed a two-year extension with Portland that could take his annual salary as high as $63 million in his final season in 2027.

Damian Lillard says he’d ‘obviously’ choose the Heat over the Celtics

Lillard said he'd pick Miami and Brooklyn over Boston.

It was a frustrating day for American teenager Coco Gauff as her losing streak against top-ranked Iga Swiatek continued.

Coco Gauff is 0-7 against No. 1 Iga Swiatek after losing in the French Open quarterfinals

Swiatek has won all 14 sets she's played against Gauff; that includes a victory for last year's championship in Paris.

Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk was escorted off the ice by linesman Kiel Murchison after being given a misconduct penalty in Game 2 on Monday.

stanley cup final

The Panthers are in a familiar spot, with their backs to the wall trailing, 0-2, in Stanley Cup Final

Florida needed a furious push to get into the playoffs as the lowest seed, then had to win three straight elimination games to oust Boston the first round.

Soccer icon Lionel Messi will join MLS’s Inter Miami, choosing American team over Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hilal

MLB, WNBA, and NWSL postpone games because of smoke from Canadian wildfires

QB Josh Allen becomes first Bills player to be featured on the cover of ‘Madden NFL’

Business

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.

Labor dispute snarls West Coast ports, with the White House urged to step in

Portions of the ports at Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, and Seattle — gateways for container ships that bring imports from Asia — have intermittently shuttered or slowed in recent days.

Chris Licht is out at CNN, ending a brief and chaotic run

FDA chief’s unwelcome message to biotech execs: ‘Prices of drugs are too high’

magazine

A home health aide steadies her client as he exercises at home.

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

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

Fried Eggs With Toasted Pearl Couscous and Sumac

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

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

metro

The commuter line around rush hour in South Station in May.

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

Harvard asks appeals court to make insurer pay anyway after university misses deadline

Court voids back pay award for fired N.H. police officer who improperly accepted $2m inheritance

sports

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan acknowledged himself that he is going to viewed as a hypocrite.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is taking a lot of heat over LIV deal — as well he should

Lionel Messi says he’s joining Inter Miami and coming to Major League Soccer

Game 62: Red Sox at Guardians lineups and notes

business

The Food and Drug Administration building in Silver Spring, Md., on May 26, 2022.

Eisai and Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug moves closer to full US approval

Trustees of Reservations names Katie Theoharides as next leader

Have you started using AI in your daily life? We want to hear from you.

politics

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum spoke as he kicked off his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Fargo, N.D.

Doug Burgum, wealthy North Dakota governor, enters presidential race

Pence delivers strong rebuke to Trump in campaign announcement

Pence opens presidential bid with denunciation of Trump over Jan. 6 insurrection and abortion

Nation

The scene of a shooting outside the Altria Theater in Richmond on Tuesday.

Gunman who opened fire after Virginia high school graduation targeted graduate, Richmond police say

Canadian wildfire smoke spreads hazardous haze at home and in the US

Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, begins erupting after 3-month pause

World

Members of the Armenian community protest a contentious deal that stands to displace residents and hand over a large section of the Armenian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, May 19, 2023. Fallout from the 99-year lease of 25% of Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter has forced the highest authority of the Armenian church to cloister himself in a convent and prompted a disgraced priest to flee to southern California. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In Jerusalem’s contested Old City, shrinking Armenian community fears displacement after land deal

Prince Harry has his say in court after 7 hours of intense questioning

Pope Francis undergoes abdominal surgery, will stay in hospital for several days

opinion

James Byrd Jr., in a 1997 family photo

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

Ally Rzesa/Globe Staff

Whose turn is it?

The cult of the classic Boston Whalers

How do I ask this person out?

food & dining

Squid ink spaghetti at Banks Fish House in Back Bay.

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

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

Jess T. Dugan, "Self-portrait (reaching)," from the series "Every Breath We Drew," 2020.

When photographers photograph themselves

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

Paintings that are all about touch

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

Celine Song wrote and directed "Past Lives," which opens in Boston this week.

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

Sean Hayes, shown in New York in May, will join former “Will & Grace” costar Eric McCormack for a new podcast called “Just Jack & Will.”

‘Will & Grace’ stars’ new podcast will revisit series

In ‘The Crowded Room,’ a tortured soul is put on trial

‘Never Have I Ever’ returns with its buoyant star

music

Bill Lowe has been a fixture on the Boston jazz scene for decades,

At 77, Boston jazz stalwart Bill Lowe is finally a leading man

Leith Ross feels everything

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

Theater/Dance

From left: Katherine Callaway, Lisa Tucker, and Karen MacDonald in "Rooted" at Lyric Stage Company of Boston.

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

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

The Iron Sheik, born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, in 2009.

The Iron Sheik, charismatic former pro wrestling villain and Twitter personality, dies at 81

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

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