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Affidavit reveals new allegations in the death of 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery

Adam M. Montgomery allegedly beat his daughter Harmony Montgomery to death in December 2019 and then kept the 5-year-old's body for about three months until disposing the decomposing remains, a newly released court affidavit stated.

Adult woman posed as student, fraudulently enrolled in BPS high schools, district says

The woman used multiple pseudonyms, fake ID and falsified paperwork to enroll at the Burke, Brighton and English high schools.

Hunter Biden charged with federal tax, weapons offenses
While it requires Hunter Biden to admit guilt, the deal is narrowly focused on tax and weapons violations rather than anything broader or tied to the Democratic president.

Read the letter from the Justice Department describing the Hunter Biden charges
larry edelman | trendlines

The spring home-selling season looks like a bust

Sales of single-family homes in Greater Boston tumbled 28 percent in May and condominium deals dropped by nearly as much, according to a report released Tuesday.

Patriots cornerback Jack Jones pleads not guilty to gun charges, is released on bail

Jones faces as much as 30 years in prison if convicted of all charges he faces and received consecutive sentences, according to Suffolk District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden’s office.

Mass. Air National Guardsman charged with leaking top secret documents faces arraignment Wednesday

Newton woman rescued after falling on Mount Monadnock trail in N.H.

Andrew Tate, brother indicted on charges of rape, human trafficking in Romania

If the Patriots sign DeAndre Hopkins, there will be good reason to be optimistic about them again

This columnist has been a little too hopeful with the Patriots in recent seasons, but the free agent receiver is a legitimate game-changer.
Few knew about Marte Mapu before the Patriots drafted him, but he's looking like a perfect fit

Coolidge’s Science on Screen series returns to the Greenway

The lineup includes "The Mummy," "The Lost World: Jurassic Park," and "It Came from Outer Space."

Muzzled for years, vindicated MIT professor says fraud investigation into his lab did lasting damage

Nearly four years later, MIT professor Ram Sasisekharan is finally able to talk about being wrongly accused of falsifying research.

Watch live: Combating mistrust in health institutions with Dr. Bisola Ojikutu
Marcela Garcia hosts Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission, for a headlining discussion during Health Equity Week 2023.

Opinion
EDITORIAL

Beacon Hill would be right to repair ‘right to repair’ law

State should address the cybersecurity concerns that prompted the federal government to block the 2020 law.
IDEAS | MARK C. STORELLA

All refugees are created equal — but they aren’t treated that way

NEWSLETTERS

The Golden Age of transit-building had its challenges, too

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mayor Wu shouldn’t move the O’Bryant school
MARCELA GARCÍA

Turmoil in Haiti reaches catastrophic levels. Where is the outrage?
Faneuil Hall and the power of a name
Reporter Tiana Woodard gives an update on the fight to change Faneuil Hall’s name and shares why it is important to communities of color.

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Pride Month

Mass. Starbucks workers say Pride displays have been curtailed

‘Drag Me to Dinner’ puts the ‘kitsch’ in ‘kitchen’

Boston streets are vibrant with the colors of Pride as parade returns after 3-year hiatus

Photos: Boston kicks off LGBTQ+ Pride Month on City Hall Plaza

More recent News

Four dead after fire in e-bike shop spreads to apartments in New York City

New York City fire officials said the blaze was reported shortly after midnight on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a six-story building.

N.H. state senator accused of assaulting employee of restaurant he owns

Keith Murphy is accused of spitting on and slapping the victim, and surveillance video from Murphy’s Taproom shows up picking up a chair “in an aggressive manner,” police said.

Donald Trump faces Aug. 14 trial date in Justice Department classified documents case

US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday ordered the trial to begin quickly. Last week, the special counsel appointed to investigate Trump, asked for a speedy trial in the case.

Your guide to the 2023 NBA Draft: When the Celtics pick, top prospects to watch, and more

Brad Stevens traded the Celtics’ first-round pick (along with five players) to the Indiana Pacers for Malcolm Brogdon back in July 2022, leaving Boston with only a second-rounder in this year’s draft.
Celtics are exploring trades ahead of this week’s NBA draft, with an eye on depth

Bob Ryan
Why is Nikola Jokic the best basketball player in the world? Bill Walton will explain.
The Hall of Fame center says Jokic is smarter than his opponents, he is deceptively athletic, and he is as impressive as … Steve Nash?

On Honor Flight Rhode Island, a trip filled with memories, camaraderie, and gratitude
The flight on Juneteenth held special significance for the Black veterans who were on board. “It means a lot to me,” one Vietnam veteran said, “because when I came back from the service, there was no welcome, no nothing for us at all.”

Your View

Tell us about your BPS high school experience
We’re looking to hear from current and former Boston Public School students, as well as parents and educators.

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TRAVEL

On Cape Cod, it’s the question of the summer: Why are so many vacation rentals empty?

Have the sharks and the traffic and Airbnb’s tyrannical departure instructions finally scared off visitors? Or are there suddenly too many listings?
Tell us: Why have you stopped visiting Cape Cod during the summer?

Redistricting drama threw Boston City Council into chaos. Enter Ruthzee Louijeune.
When she took over the redistricting process, her colleagues were bickering. After two weeks, four map proposals, five marathon hearings, and countless personal attacks, Louijeune passed a new version of the map 10–2.

Unanswered questions about stolen body parts eroding public faith in Harvard, crisis PR experts say
Harvard Medical School hasn’t explained key issues such as the level of monitoring and oversight it maintained over the bodies donated to the school for students to dissect in anatomy classes and in some cases for research.

PERSPECTIVE
Three ways to improve high school education from a Mass. Teacher of the Year
Summer is an opportunity to reflect, reset, and look ahead to how leaders can make improvements as early as this fall.

Culture & Lifestyle

The Cure reward fans with a career-spanning set that’s almost like heaven

A spirited — and pointed — ‘As You Like It’

The 25th Roxbury International Film Festival kicks off this week

At the Stage at Suffolk Downs, boygenius bring Re:SET to a resounding close

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

Court leaves no room for racism or bias in judicial system
JEFF JACOBY

Hypocrisy at Middlebury College

EDITORIAL

Want to cut the police budget? This isn’t how.

Carlo Ratti

Will Boston spiral into the ‘urban doom loop’? Not if we act.
LETTERS

Critical nurse shortage draws a range of prescriptions, diagnoses
IDEAS

Are you a teen with a story to tell? Globe Ideas wants to hear from you.

Metro

Mass. Air National Guardsman charged with leaking top secret documents faces arraignment Wednesday

Jack Douglas Teixeira’s arraignment follows his indictment last week by a federal grand jury in Boston on six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.

Rescuers race against time to find missing submersible bound for Titanic wreckage site

The submersible had a 96-hour oxygen supply when it put to sea at roughly 6 a.m. Sunday, according to an adviser to the company that oversaw the mission. That means the oxygen supply could run out Thursday morning.
patriots

Patriots cornerback Jack Jones pleads not guilty to gun charges, is released on bail

Jones faces as much as 30 years in prison if convicted of all charges he faces and received consecutive sentences, according to Suffolk District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden’s office.

Adult woman posed as student, fraudulently enrolled in BPS high schools, district says

The woman used multiple pseudonyms, fake ID and falsified paperwork to enroll at the Burke, Brighton and English high schools.

Sports

patriots

Patriots cornerback Jack Jones pleads not guilty to gun charges, is released on bail

Jones faces as much as 30 years in prison if convicted of all charges he faces and received consecutive sentences, according to Suffolk District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden’s office.
Chad Finn

If the Patriots sign DeAndre Hopkins, there will be good reason to be optimistic about them again

This columnist has been a little too hopeful with the Patriots in recent seasons, but the free agent receiver is a legitimate game-changer.
Red Sox at Twins | 7:40 p.m. (NESN)

Game 74: Red Sox at Twins lineups and notes

Kutter Crawford gets the start as the Red Sox will look to extend their five-game winning streak against Minnesota.
Patriots

Few knew about Marte Mapu before the Patriots drafted him. But he’s looking like a perfect fit.
NBA DRAFT

Your guide to the 2023 NBA Draft: When the Celtics pick, top prospects to watch, and more
Olympics

French investigators search the offices of Paris Olympic organizers in suspected corruption probe

Business

larry edelman | trendlines

The spring home-selling season looks like a bust

Sales of single-family homes in Greater Boston tumbled 28 percent in May and condominium deals dropped by nearly as much, according to a report released Tuesday.

Geese Police has ‘very effective’ method of chasing geese away. It involves border collies.

This franchised business provides humane and effective goose harassment service to various areas all across Eastern Massachusetts and occasionally Providence.

Biden will host a forum about artificial intelligence with technology leaders in San Francisco
TALKING POINTS

US pushes for ‘green shipping corridors’
magazine
PERSPECTIVE

Three ways to improve high school education from a Mass. Teacher of the Year
MISS CONDUCT

How to handle people who don’t wait their turn
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, June 19-25
CONNECTIONS

My father retired as an investigator. Then he began investigating our family tree.

metro

What it’s like inside the Titan submersible vessel that is missing

URI’s connections to the missing Titanic submersible

What new federal ruling on lobsters means for N.H.

sports

Why is Nikola Jokic the best basketball player in the world? Bill Walton will explain.

Max Scherzer, Mets steady themselves in blowout victory over host Astros

James Paxton, Red Sox soar again to beat Twins in series opener and extend win streak to five

business

New Draper CEO aims to up the famed lab’s business acumen

Amazon, Marriott, and other companies vow to hire thousands of refugees in Europe

This Mass. city ranks as the best place to live for families in 2023, according to Fortune

politics

Hunter Biden charged with federal tax, weapons offenses

Read the letter from the Justice Department describing the Hunter Biden charges

Donald Trump faces Aug. 14 trial date in Justice Department classified documents case

Nation

What we know about the Titanic-bound submersible that’s missing with five people onboard

At least 6 teens shot after Milwaukee Juneteenth celebration ends

With commuters staying home, transit agencies try to reinvent themselves

World

Vatican document highlights need for concrete steps for women, ‘radical inclusion’ of LGBTQ+

Tropical Storm Bret spins toward eastern Caribbean as islands brace for heavy winds, flooding

Who is Hamish Harding, tycoon and adventurer on the missing Titanic sub?

opinion

This Land is Our Land | Austin’s Freedom Towns

Chris Christie charts a path for Republicans

MBTA retirement fund is headed for a financial reckoning

lifestyle

Ah, those opportunity costs

Jennifer Lopez posts shirtless Ben Affleck photo on Instagram for Father’s Day

George Vaill, the ‘free advice’ guy, is a source of wisdom in Harvard Square

food & dining

Recipe: Set crispy rounds of eggplant topped with mozzarella on a quick homemade tomato sauce

‘It’s the go-to bread for Armenians’: Labor-intensive lavash is now made fresh locally

Food & Wine named this little Beverly coffee shop the best in Massachusetts, surprising even its owners

travel

On Cape Cod, it’s the question of the summer: Why are so many vacation rentals empty?

Dolly Parton is healing our divided nation, one roller coaster at a time

American Airlines changed my flight. Can I get my money back?

Arts

Trump courtroom sketch artist takes criticism in stride: ‘It’s rare to get any feedback’

‘Barrier Breakers’ exhibition chronicling MLB desegregation arrives in Boston

Boston to receive $3 million for program aimed at sparking dialogue around monuments

Books

In ‘Rocky Mountain High,’ Finn Murphy’s brief stint in the Wild West of the cannabis industry yields no riches except stories

Jane Smiley’s essay collection ‘The Questions that Matter Most’ features the writer’s constant pursuit of self-education

Victor Luckerson on reading as a bridge in a long-distance relationship

Movies

Coolidge’s Science on Screen series returns to the Greenway

Jennifer Lopez posts shirtless Ben Affleck photo on Instagram for Father’s Day

The 25th Roxbury International Film Festival kicks off this week

Television

Jennifer Lopez posts shirtless Ben Affleck photo on Instagram for Father’s Day

This week’s TV: ‘The Bear’ is back, Boots Riley has a tall tale, and Showtime won’t be squandering ‘Billions’

Sharon Horgan prepping season 2 of ‘Bad Sisters’

music

The Cure reward fans with a career-spanning set that’s almost like heaven

Stitching together lost histories in ‘The Wanderer’s Tethering’

At the Stage at Suffolk Downs, boygenius bring Re:SET to a resounding close

Theater/Dance

A spirited — and pointed — ‘As You Like It’

In ‘The Gaaga,’ Putin and his cronies are held to account, but it’s only a fantasy

The new New Rep raises the curtain on ‘The Normal Heart’

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

Owen Gingerich, Harvard astronomer who bridged science and spirituality, dies at 93

The Rev. C. Welton Gaddy, defender of church-state divide, dies at 81

Roswell Angier, whose Combat Zone photos captured part of Boston history, dies at 82