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Chris Gosline, 45, on the steps of his home in Manchester-by-the-Sea. Diagnosed a year ago with stage 4 colorectal cancer, but determined to thrive, he goes out for runs after his chemotherapy.

Rise in cancer among younger people worries and puzzles doctors

An array of cancers are striking people younger than 50 at higher rates than in previous decades, prompting new screening guidelines, new research, and growing concern.

Three people flown to hospitals after plane crashes between two homes in Stow

The plane crashed near a large wooden play structure at one of the houses but no one was home at the time, according to Tom Zuppa, a spokesperson for Stow.

Moms for Liberty co-founders Tina Descovich, left, and Tiffany Justice, spoke at the Moms for Liberty meeting in Philadelphia, Friday, June 30, 2023.

‘Mama bears’ may be the 2024 race’s soccer moms. But where the GOP seeks votes, some see extremism.

‘Our school community is devastated and heartbroken:’ Teen killed in Dennis boat crash Friday identified as Dover-Sherborn high school student

‘Barbie’ box office to the world: The pandemic is officially over
The movie business lives!

20-year-old man arrested in connection with shooting of New Bedford police detective

Cheybane Vasconcelos-Furtado was arrested by New Bedford police in connection with the July 17 shooting of Detective Lavar Gilbert, officials said.

Two swimmers sent to hospitals after rescue from rip current at Hampton Beach, N.H.

Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in Mississippi

Jamie Foxx tells fans in an Instagram message that he is recovering from an illness

Beach closing tracker: See where beaches are closed in Mass.

Three charged in South End triple stabbing

Kate Law of Westbrook, Maine sewed an "original Maine flag" at the Maine Flag Company production facility she manages in Portland, Maine. The campaign to change the state flag of Maine back to this style that flew between 1901 and 1909 is probably going to be decided by voters by referendum.

Behind the Maine flag debate, an identity crisis

The decision on the future of the flag likely will be decided by voters in a November referendum. But Mainers appear very divided on the idea.

For local leaders, the NAACP’s return to Boston is an opportunity to change the city’s image
More than 8,000 NAACP delegates are expected to arrive by Friday evening for the opening ceremony at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, which will host events, many open to the public, Thursday through Sunday.

Boston NAACP branch hosts day of service ahead of national convention

Ricardo Pierre-Louis owns Privé Parking. He won a $280,000 contract to provide transportation services for the NAACP convention.

‘Black companies do not get the opportunity.’ NAACP convention is a chance for change

The civil rights organization has hired dozens of local Black-owned businesses as vendors, for services like event planning, public relations, and transportation.

Innovation economy

PTC in the Seaport offers an unusual employee benefit: dock space
The perk was first proposed in 2020 as a way to bring people back to the office.

A woman from New Jersey whose daughter was injured in the Brandeis University shuttle bus crash on South Street in Waltham returned to the scene to search for personal items belonging to her daughter, according to her husband.

Driver in fatal crash of Brandeis shuttle in November was speeding, federal records say

Only now, eight months after the Nov. 19 crash, is some clarity about the possible causes of the crash emerging.

Sophia Smith has won an NWSL MVP award and championship, and now has her sights set on the Women's World Cup.

We’re witnessing an ascent to greatness from Sophia Smith in the Women’s World Cup

The soon-to-be 23-year-old forward stamped herself as the future of the women’s game with two goals against Vietnam.

Elisa Abelson of Worcester got a close-up look and smell of Whiff, the Wheaton College corpse flower.

Rare sight, rare smell: Corpse flower blooms at Wheaton College in Norton.

Amorphophallus titanum blooms only once every few years and is known for its strong stink. The rare flower's bloom lasts only one to two days.

Modelo is the top-selling beer in the United States.

How a Mexican lager became America’s bestselling beer

Modelo Especial has surpassed Bud Light as the top-selling beer in the United States.

Can I be happy with someone who’s a full-time caregiver?

She’s always with her elderly mother.

Opinion

A doctor used a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus in 2021, in Jackson, Miss. Long-term, it will be important to diversify the workforce — including hospital boards and C-suites — by recruiting and training professionals who can relate ethnically, culturally, and linguistically to their patients.

To save mothers’ lives, reduce racism in obstetrical care

Racial disparities in maternal health are trending in the wrong direction.

When the minimum wage rises, does homelessness rise too?

The vexing blueprint of ‘celebrity’ presidential politics

IDEAS | HOWARD MANSFIELD

Losing NASA — and finding it again

City Council’s exercise in budgeting ends in a whimper

'Barbenheimer'

Odie Henderson review | ★★★★

Don’t even try to put this ‘Barbie’ in a box
Greta Gerwig’s surreal satire starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling is one of this year’s best films.

Odie Henderson review | ★★1/2

‘Oppenheimer’ brings out the best and worst in Christopher Nolan
This biopic of the “father of the atomic bomb” is visually stunning but emotionally empty.

Seven Weeks of Summer

Here’s your guide to the rest of the summer movie season

It’s not just ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer.’

More recent News

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Why the Hollywood strike matters for every worker
If the writers and actors can hold off our AI overlords, there’s hope for the rest of us.

After six months of Hollywood strikes, Peak TV would become Bleak TV

Tour de France

Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France for 2nd straight year
The final stage of cycling's biggest event was a processional ride to crown Vingegaard again.

Religious exemptions from required child vaccinations under debate in Mass. legislature
Religion would no longer be an accepted reason to exempt a child from mandatory vaccinations in Massachusetts, under legislation seeking to tighten current law.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

The Jets didn’t just bring in Aaron Rodgers. They brought his playbook and his hand-picked offensive coordinator, too
Rodgers will be working with offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, as well as receivers Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb.

Musk says Twitter to change logo to “X” from the bird. Changes could come as early as Monday.

Elon Musk said Sunday that he plans to change the logo of Twitter to an “X” from the bird, marking what would be the latest big change since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year.

Conservative party poised to narrowly win Spain’s election but without majority to topple Sánchez

Voters are going to the polls in Spain Sunday in a general election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the political right.

Recommended reads

Commuters encountered long wait times for the Orange Line at the MBTA Downtown Crossing station on June 20, 2022.

Would you take the MBTA if you could drive more easily? Nor would almost anyone else. That’s bad news for the climate.

Few people will choose the train or bus if they have a car that will get them where they need to go more quickly and less miserably. Which is to say: The MBTA’s failures, small and not so small, threaten climate progress.

Meet the MBTA’s very happiest passengers. (Hint: They’re not on the subway.)

PARENTING UNFILTERED

How to make your home a haven from toxic teenage overachievement culture
Journalist and parent Jennifer Breheny Wallace wrote “Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic — And What We Can Do About It” to help parents reframe priorities.

With more pets arriving on their doorstep, shelters struggle to find them homes
Pet adoptions skyrocketed during the pandemic, but they have plummeted since then. The reason is inflation and the brutal housing market.

BEVERLY BECKHAM

Finding the boy my father was after 80 years
During my trip to Italy, was it my imagination or was it my father finally able to show me what he spent a lifetime trying to forget?

Culture & Lifestyle

Dorrance Dance in "45th & 8th" at the 2023 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

Dorrance Dance an engaging treat for eyes and ears at Jacob’s Pillow

Idris Elba plays a passenger on a London-bound flight in the Apple TV+ series "Hijack."

At 30,000 feet, airborne thrillers are the height of drama

Edward Hopper, “Freight Cars, Gloucester,” 1928.

For Edward Hopper, Gloucester was a last chance and a fresh start

Thomas Wilkins leads a program of music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Duke Ellington, and Jeff Midkiff July 23 at Tanglewood. In addition, Wilkins hosts a Saturday morning kid-friendly concert July 22.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Special Projects

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.

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

PODCAST | SHIRLEY LEUNG

Introducing Globe Opinion podcast ‘Say More with Shirley Leung’

Sergeline, who did not want to give her family's last name, sat on a bed in a hotel room in Boston in early May with her baby, Luna, and her son Fritz, 17. They arrived from Boston Medical Center’s waiting room.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Have an extra room in your home? Host a migrant.

Runners competed in the girls 100 meter hurdles at the Boston City League track and field championships at White Stadium on May 16.

Boston’s student athletes deserve a first-class playing field

George M. Johnson is the author of the memoir "All Boys Aren't Blue.”

Shira Schoenberg

To combat book bans, strengthen school libraries

A screenshot of Jason Aldean’s video “Try That in a Small Town.”

A vigilante’s anthem and ‘colored people’ — the normalization of white nationalism

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

Metro

Rare sight, rare smell: Corpse flower blooms at Wheaton College in Norton.

Amorphophallus titanum blooms only once every few years and is known for its strong stink. The rare flower's bloom lasts only one to two days.

Behind the Maine flag debate, an identity crisis

The decision on the future of the flag likely will be decided by voters in a November referendum. But Mainers appear very divided on the idea.

Remembering Brockton brothers after fatal car crash

The event opened with a special program to remember the Boston brothers, 18-year-old Makhi and 15-year-old Terry Jr., who both died after their car veered off North Main Street in Randolph Tuesday night and crashed into a tree.

Striped dolphin washes up in Hampton Beach

The striped dolphin found on July 14 was a weanling, meaning she was newly independent from her mother, according to the Seacoast Science Center’s Marine Mammal Rescue.

Sports

Jamaica celebrated its first-ever Women's World Cup point.

WOMEN'S WORLD CUP NOTEBOOK

France not panicking despite scoreless tie with Jamaica, while Netherlands and Sweden narrowly avoid upset bids

Sweden, which hadn’t lost a World Cup group match since 2003, fell behind against No. 54 Saudi Arabia, while the Dutch clung to an early lead in Portugal's debut.

Brendan Cellucci, shown in a Red Sox spring training game in March, was one of three pitchers used by Portland in a no-hitter on Sunday.

sea dogs 6, fisher cats 2

Portland Sea Dogs use three pitchers to complete no-hitter against New Hampshire Fisher Cats

Wikelman Gonzlaez walked four and struck out 10 over six innings before giving way to Brendan Cellucci and Luis Guerrero.

Meghara McManus and the Boston Pride made themselves at home at Warrior Arena, selling out more games than any other PHF team.

WOMEN'S PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY

What’s next as women’s professional hockey regroups and realigns for the future?

Details of the new league — how many teams, will Boston be one, what's the name of the league, etc. — are being held close to the vest until a press conference scheduled for August.

Patriots positional outlook: Linebacker corps will strike fear into foes

International Tennis Hall of Fame Open

Adrian Mannarino beats teenager Alex Michelsen to win International Tennis Hall of Fame Open in Newport, R.I.

We’re witnessing an ascent to greatness from Sophia Smith in the Women’s World Cup

Business

‘Black companies do not get the opportunity.’ NAACP convention is a chance for change

The civil rights organization has hired dozens of local Black-owned businesses as vendors, for services like event planning, public relations, and transportation.

Innovation economy

PTC in the Seaport offers an unusual employee benefit: dock space

The perk was first proposed in 2020 as a way to bring people back to the office.

How a Mexican lager became America’s bestselling beer

Blinken says world is seeking a responsible US-China relationship

magazine

A Rakks shelving system is an economical solution for storing the homeowner’s book collection in the living room, where simple lights don’t interfere with the leafy view.

Your Home | Small Spaces

How a Roxbury home uses Japanese design principles to feel larger than it is

While searching for my lost cat, I found friends in my new neighborhood

This week's daters: Cleo and Cam

Dinner with Cupid

‘I discovered he is an avid soccer fan and I told him about the ... team I’m organizing’

Hollywood, bring intermission back to super long movies

metro

Tanisha Sullivan, the NAACP Boston branch president, spoke at the kickoff of the Day of Action and Service.

Boston NAACP branch hosts day of service ahead of national convention

Why the Hollywood strike matters for every worker

For local leaders, the NAACP’s return to Boston is an opportunity to change the city’s image

sports

Jonas Vingegaard raises his bike aloft after winning another Tour de France crown.

Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France for 2nd straight year

Brian Harman unstoppable in drama-free British Open win

Game 100: Mets at Red Sox lineups and notes

business

A Twitter app icon on a mobile phone is displayed in Philadelphia, U.S.A., April 26, 2017.

Musk says Twitter to change logo to “X” from the bird. Changes could come as early as Monday.

Oklahoma governor’s feud with Native American tribes continues over revenue agreements

UN agency that governs international waters mired in grueling debate over deep sea mining

politics

President Joe Biden delivered remarks on Social Security and health care costs at the University of Tampa, Fla., in February.

Drugmakers turn to courts to halt Medicare price negotiations

Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in Mississippi

Harris says Florida rules on Black history pushed by DeSantis are ‘propaganda’

Nation

Moms for Liberty co-founders Tina Descovich, left, and Tiffany Justice, spoke at the Moms for Liberty meeting in Philadelphia, Friday, June 30, 2023.

‘Mama bears’ may be the 2024 race’s soccer moms. But where the GOP seeks votes, some see extremism.

In Louisiana, a Democratic governor leans on vetoes to stall conservative agenda

Jamie Foxx tells fans in an Instagram message that he is recovering from an illness

World

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins (right) delivered an announcement alongside Kiri Allan, New Zealand's Minister of Justice at Eastland Port Gisborne on March 16, 2023 in Gisborne, New Zealand. Allan stepped down from her position as Minister of Justice after police charged her with reckless driving and resisting arrest following a car crash.

New Zealand’s justice minister resigns after facing criminal charges in car crash

Conservative party poised to narrowly win Spain’s election but without majority to topple Sánchez

Italy’s Meloni seeks broad cooperation to stanch flows of migrants to Europe with aid to Africa

opinion

Sergeline, who did not want to give her family's last name, sat on a bed in a hotel room in Boston in early May with her baby, Luna, and her son Fritz, 17. They arrived from Boston Medical Center’s waiting room.

Have an extra room in your home? Host a migrant.

Boston’s student athletes deserve a first-class playing field

To combat book bans, strengthen school libraries

lifestyle

Can I be happy with someone who’s a full-time caregiver?

Should I make this breakup less ugly?

How to make your home a haven from toxic teenage overachievement culture

food & dining

Monica’s Trattoria in the North End is attempting to remove Patrick Mendoza's status as manager of record, as he remains at large after allegedly firing shots last week.

‘Really unprecedented’: Monica’s Trattoria seeks transfer of management as owner remains at large after alleged shooting

In JP, a controversial brewery turns off the taps. But its owners aren’t blaming the protesters.

Where to watch the Women’s World Cup in R.I.

travel

Rooms at the Chatwal Lodge feature Adirondack- style furnishings.

Feeling fancy at the foot of the Catskill Mountains

The best rental car company for every type of traveler

A Chatham inn’s makeover, Colorado’s hot springs, and a self-folding travel stroller

Arts

Unknown, "Mina Loy Dressed for the Blindman's Ball," 1917.

‘Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable’ celebrates a remarkable ‘cultural pollinator’

‘Impassioned Destruction’: Exhibit offers new perspective on Boston Tea Party

In ‘Slice,’ Aaron Fink celebrates the sensuality of paint — and the succulence of a famous fruit

Books

In Edith Bruck’s ‘Lost Bread,’ an account of the Holocaust and its aftermath, cruelty continues for survivors even after Auschwitz is closed

Could ‘The Last of Us’ really happen? Emily Monosson details the potential future of fungal pathogens in an ever-warming world

Visual columnist Wendy MacNaughton on books about mortality and drawing

Movies

A group of friends, all in Boston for a summer filmmaking program at Emerson College, pose for a portrait on Boston Common before seeing the “Barbie” movie together on Thursday night.

Fans reclaimed ‘girliness’ through fashion at the opening night of Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’

‘Beetlejuice’ movie set props stolen in Vermont, including 150-pound abstract art statue, police say

‘Stephen Curry: Underrated’ shoots and scores

Television

Bethenny Frankel attended the iHeartRadio Z100's Jingle Ball 2022 Presented by Capital One at Madison Square Garden on December 9, 2022, in New York, New York.

Reality TV performers need a union, ‘Housewives’ star says

Netflix hikes ad-free price for new subscribers

After six months of Hollywood strikes, Peak TV would become Bleak TV

music

Tony Bennett in a private concert at the Picasso Ballroom at Encore Boston Harbor Hotel and Casino in Everett in 2019.

Tony Bennett left a piece of his heart in Boston, too

Dudley Jazz Fest to bring an afternoon of live jazz to Dorchester

Barack Obama tweets his summer playlist, including songs by SZA, Luke Combs, and Janelle Monae

Theater/Dance

Dorrance Dance in "45th & 8th" at the 2023 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

Dorrance Dance an engaging treat for eyes and ears at Jacob’s Pillow

Company One’s ‘Boy Who Kissed the Sky’ mythologizes a young Jimi Hendrix’s experience

Amid labor turmoil in Hollywood, Broadway seems to avoid a strike

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

Charles Wurster stands with his son, Erik Wurster (left), and his longtime partner, Marie Gladwish, as he received an honorary degree from Stony Brook University.

Charles Wurster’s fight of a lifetime: Defending the environment, saving the birds

Tony Bennett, ‘the best singer in the business,’ has died at 96

Kevin Mitnick, who eluded authorities during hacking spree, is dead at 59