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Mass. House, Senate negotiators reach compromise on $56.2 billion budget

The compromise budget includes top priorities of both House and Senate leaders, and “represents a major step forward for our Commonwealth,” Senate President Karen E. Spilka said.

Small plane lands in ocean off crowded Hampton Beach in New Hampshire; pilot unhurt
Emergency responders arrived to find the plane 30 yards offshore. The pilot was rescued from the water by New Hampshire state lifeguards and was medically evaluated at the scene but decline a ride to the hospital, officials said.

Inflation may be cooling off, but don’t expect the stuff you buy to get cheaper any time soon
Retailers face widespread economic uncertainty, and despite inflation and worries of recession, consumers still have money and are willing to spend it.

Malden man charged with smashing car windows, injuring baby, in apparent road rage incident in South End, Suffolk DA says

Clifford Jones, 66, pleaded not guilty to several charges at his arraignment on July 18 in Boston Municipal Court in connection to the incident, which took place earlier that morning on Camden Street in the South End, officials said.

Search continues for suspect who fled deadly crash on I-95 in Topsfield

The search continued Saturday for the driver of an SUV that suddenly stopped on Interstate 95 in Topsfield on Friday afternoon.

Nurse from N.H. kidnapped with her child in Haiti, nonprofit says
Alix Dorsainvil, 31, is a nurse who had been living in Haiti for “some time now” and is married to Sandro Dorsainvil, director of El Roi Haiti Outreach International, the organization said. She was kidnapped with her child near Port au Prince on Thursday.

One man dead, two people injured in three separate shootings in Dorchester, Roxbury, police say

Report of threats forces New Jersey-bound flight to return to Logan Airport in Boston

Police identify woman fatally stabbed near Boston Common

Arlene Kelly, a former staff interpreter, said she retired in 2021 when she couldn’t take the office’s “micro-managing” any longer.

Culture of fear and control ‘ruining’ services at the state court’s language interpreters office, staff say

The beleaguered office of court interpreters has a history of bad management, but employees say current leadership is directly responsible for an inability to properly serve some of the state’s most vulnerable.

‘Feelings I hadn’t ever processed’: Families mark 50th anniversary of Logan crash with memorial service at airport chapel
The Rev. Christopher O’Connor, chaplain of Our Lady of the Airways Catholic chapel, began the morning by reading out the names of each victim, just before 9 a.m. Sunday.

Fifty years later, families reflect on Logan plane crash that killed 89 people

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft spoke with rapper Meek Mill during a Boston Celtics game in 2018.

Robert Kraft, Meek Mill tell NAACP convention that Jewish, Black communities must combat hate together

As rising racism and antisemitism on the far right bring bigotry increasingly into the mainstream of American life, a Super Bowl-winning NFL team owner and a platinum-selling musical artist took center stage at the NAACP convention in Boston on Sunday and said the Black and Jewish communities must work hand-in-hand to combat hate.

‘We cannot rest on our laurels’: NAACP president urges unity and mobilization in face of threats to racial equity

Academic recovery has stalled, but Massachusetts schools still have over $1 billion to spend in federal funds. What’s going on?
With a year to go to spend the $2.6 billion in total relief funds that went to Massachusetts schools across three rounds of aid, it’s unclear how far those dollars have gone, and what they have achieved.

peter abraham | on baseball

The Red Sox invested in Rafael Devers. Now he wants them to invest in the team for playoff push.
Devers believes chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom should add to the roster before the trade deadline on Tuesday afternoon.

Chris Sale set for rehab assignment with Worcester, then to return to opener-reliant Red Sox in starting role

Justin Turner pulled a two-run homer to left field to give the Red Sox a late lead they were unable to maintain.

GIANTS 4, RED SOX 3 (11 innings)

Red Sox fail to hold late lead, lose game and series to Giants in extra innings

Justin Turner’s two-run homer in the eighth inning put the Red Sox in front — but only briefly — and the outcome was decided in extras. The Red Sox will visit Seattle next for three games, with Monday night's game to be played less than 24 hours ahead of MLB's trade deadline.

NAACP Convention in Boston

A group of young people, who attended the convention through funding from the NAACP New England Area Conference, posed for a photo Saturday.

Young NAACP convention attendees want to help, to make a difference

Sara Arman (CQ), director of Health Equity at Policy at Green Roots, Inc., an organization based in Chelsea, spoke to an attendee during a workshop on Saturday called “Black Communities in Climate Crisis” at the NAACP Convention in Boston.

‘Community power and resilience:’ NAACP workshop explores why Black communities must unite around climate

Lavonta Williams, of Wichita, Kansas NAACP Chapter, arrives at the "community activation" event for NAACP convention held at the Freedom House in Dorchester.

NAACP leaders tour Boston’s majority-Black neighborhoods, talk civic engagement

Clockwise from top left: Jasmine Guy, Jabari Banks, Marcus Scribner, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Rome Flynn

Who will be in Boston for the NAACP Convention?

“The United States is one of the greatest powers in the world,” said midfielder Kika Nazareth. “But we believe and we’re going to do it.”

John Powers | On Soccer

While Portugal has nothing to lose, the United States women’s soccer team faces danger at every turn

Not only have the Portuguese never beaten the United States women's team in 10 meetings, they’ve never scored, while allowing 39 goals.

Kiamesha Quarles of Mattapan has amassed a collection of Beyoncé jackets, magazines, DVDs, candles, and tickets, along with a hard-to-find cardboard cutout.

Meet the Beyoncé superfans who’ll be cheering their queen at Gillette Stadium

Beyoncé's BeyHive is alive and well in the Boston area.

How to prepare for Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance World Tour’ at Gillette

I want a year off from the relationship

“I find myself unable to want to love him again.”

Opinion

Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo listened to colleague Frank Baker last year. During this council term, a number of meetings have devolved into squabbles and several councilors, including Arroyo, have been accused of ethical lapses.

Boston’s City Council is rich in embarrassments. It doesn’t need to be.

If you liked the bad old days of Boston politics, then maybe this crop of city councilors is for you. If not, the election season is a great time to tell them: knock it off.

The biggest problem with Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign? Ron DeSantis.

IDEAS | JOSHUA GLENN

Sci-fi that foreshadowed the genre as we know it

Audit Beacon Hill? Yes, but...

MARCELA GARCÍA

Revere is clueless about home-based day care

More recent News

Dorchester man arrested in connection with fatal Jamaica Plain shooting

Dequann Whyte-Cohen was arrested on Hyde Park Avenue in Jamaica Plain just before noon Sunday on a murder warrant issued in the West Roxbury division of Boston Municipal Court in connection with the homicide of Dante Webb, 45, of Jamaica Plain, police said.

Mattapan man charged after hit-and-run crash involving Randolph police cruiser

While an officer helped a stranded motorist, a black 2014 Jeep traveling northbound crossed the double yellow line and hit the parked cruiser with the officer inside, officials said.

Tornado touched down along Foxborough-Easton town line Saturday night

The tornado reached a peak speed of 105 miles per hour, and it traveled a length of about 400 yards and a width of about 100 yards, the National Weather Service confirmed Sunday.

MUSIC REVIEW

It’s sunny side up at Newport Folk Festival
Despite threatening forecasts, rain and lightning never arrived Saturday during the second day of the Newport Folk Festival.

Mar-a-Lago worker charged in Trump’s classified documents case to make first court appearance
An employee of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Carlos De Oliveira, is expected to make his first court appearance Monday on charges accusing him of scheming with the former president to hide security footage from investigators probing Trump’s hoarding of classified documents.

In Boston on Saturday, Kamala Harris warns of ‘full-on attempt to attack’ hard-won rights and freedoms
”We know every day we must be vigilant in protecting that which we have achieved, and keeping our eyes on ... our collective vision of how we continue to strengthen our nation,” Vice President Harris said.

Listen to 'Say More'

The chatbot will see you now
Here are five takeaways from a new book on the AI revolution in medicine by Microsoft’s research head, a Harvard Medical School professor, and a Boston health journalist.

Seven wonders of the sports world

Augusta National

Augusta National

There’s a reason they call it ‘heaven’

Churchill Downs

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

From the Brickyard to the Snake Pit

Lambeau Field

Lambeau Field

The windchill is 7 degrees. Who cares?

Churchill Downs

A weeklong party for a two-minute race

Cameron Indoor

Cameron Indoor Stadium

The Crazies are one of a kind

Michigan Stadium

Michigan Stadium

The fun starts early at The Big House

Fenway Park

Fenway Park

A love affair spawned from the ‘Impossible Dream’

Recommended reads

Retired Boston police detective Joe Leeman conducted a tour of various crime scenes in the city of Boston.

‘I just followed the blood trail’: A look at the grisly market of Boston crime tours

Over the course of an hour-and-half tour, retired Boston Police lieutenant Joe Leeman narrates a mix of revolutionary history you learn in school with chronicles of the city’s underworld.

‘He’s a force’: Teamsters head Sean O’Brien, who just reached UPS deal, has deep Mass. labor roots
O’Brien, who led Local 25 in Charlestown for more than 15 years, vowed to make the Teamsters a more militant organization when he was elected in late 2021. So far, he’s living up to that promise.

To deliver medical care in space, doctors are training in the most remote, austere places on Earth
A new Space Medicine Fellowship by Mass General and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston is preparing for the need for medical care on the verge of a boom in space travel.

TRENDSPOTTING

The future of travel is on the industry’s mind today. And the ‘Hotel of Tomorrow’ is closer than you’d think.
At think tanks across the globe, they’ve imagined vertical resorts, hotels in which the furniture retracts into the floors and ceilings, robot bartenders and butlers, and guest suites that can sense and respond to their occupants’ needs.

Culture & Lifestyle

Alice Cooper and guitarist Joe Perry perform with their band Hollywood Vampires in Landgraaf, Netherlands, in June.

A monster set from Hollywood Vampires at the Wang

Oona Doherty / OD Works in "Navy Blue" at the 2023 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

Oona Doherty brings US premiere of a searching, existential ‘Navy Blue’ to Jacob’s Pillow

Sophie Wilde plays Mia in the Philippou brothers' new horror-drama "Talk to Me."

In ‘Talk To Me,’ RackaRacka YouTubers and first-time directors Danny and Michael Philippou conjure the terrors of teenhood

Tunes from DJ Jazzy Jeff will be among the highlights Friday at the NAACP National Convention's Hub Block Party.

Weekend brings free music and entertainment to Seaport during the 114th NAACP National Convention

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

The ruined potato field at the Smiarowski Farm in Hatfield on July 19.

Flooding ravaged Massachusetts farms. The state should help farmers recover.

A cellphone photo showed the extensive damage after Wellspring Health Access in Casper, Wyo., was set on fire in May 2022. Legislation pending in Massachusetts would ban the sale of cellphone location data to ensure that bounty hunters and other extremists can’t purchase cellphone location data to target people seeking or providing lawful reproductive care in our state.

Carol Rose, Rebecca Hart Holder, and Nate Horwitz-Willis

Legislature needs to ban the sale of cellphone location data

Carrie Mays, a Boston reparations task force member, at a ceremony announcing the reparations task force at the Museum of African American History.

Andre M. Perry and Jordan Fields

Boston Task Force on Reparations is setting a precedent for other states to follow

In May, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared loneliness an American epidemic. “Millions of people in America are struggling in the shadows," he said, “and that’s not right.”

IDEAS | ELAN BABCHUCK AND WENDY CADGE

America has a loneliness epidemic. How about religious groups as part of the solution?

People transported bananas along a street in Havana on July 18.

IDEAS | JOHN R. BAWDEN

Ten years of watching Cuba change — and stay the same

IDEAS | Fredrik deBoer

The hubris of AI hype

Metro

Mass. House, Senate negotiators reach compromise on $56.2 billion budget

The compromise budget includes top priorities of both House and Senate leaders, and “represents a major step forward for our Commonwealth,” Senate President Karen E. Spilka said.

Small plane lands in ocean off crowded Hampton Beach in New Hampshire; pilot unhurt

Emergency responders arrived to find the plane 30 yards offshore. The pilot was rescued from the water by New Hampshire state lifeguards and was medically evaluated at the scene but decline a ride to the hospital, officials said.

Robert Kraft, Meek Mill tell NAACP convention that Jewish, Black communities must combat hate together

As rising racism and antisemitism on the far right bring bigotry increasingly into the mainstream of American life, a Super Bowl-winning NFL team owner and a platinum-selling musical artist took center stage at the NAACP convention in Boston on Sunday and said the Black and Jewish communities must work hand-in-hand to combat hate.

Scholarship softball tournament honors beloved Lynn teacher

The Vanessa Masucci Softball Tournament, scheduled for Aug. 5 at Breed Middle School, raises money for a scholarship given annually in memory of the popular second grade teacher Lynn teacher murdered by her husband in 2017.

Sports

Justin Turner pulled a two-run homer to left field to give the Red Sox a late lead they were unable to maintain.

GIANTS 4, RED SOX 3 (11 innings)

Red Sox fail to hold late lead, lose game and series to Giants in extra innings

Justin Turner’s two-run homer in the eighth inning put the Red Sox in front — but only briefly — and the outcome was decided in extras. The Red Sox will visit Seattle next for three games, with Monday night's game to be played less than 24 hours ahead of MLB's trade deadline.

Chris Sale pitched to a 5-2 record and 4.58 ERA over 11 starts before landing on the injured list in early June.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Chris Sale set for rehab assignment with Worcester, then to return to opener-reliant Red Sox in starting role

Sale, on the 60-day injured list with a shoulder issue, is scheduled for at least two Triple A appearances. Manager Alex Cora took notice of the Giants' opener strategy over the weekend and is open-minded when it comes to the team's other pitchers.

Stalwarts Gustavo Bou (left) and Carles Gil will be up for the challenge when the Revolution host Atlas FC for the first knockout stage match of the Leagues Cup 2023.

Revolution to host Atlas in Leagues Cup Round of 32

Bruce Arena’s side, which has lost only once in its last 11 matches in all competitions, will welcome the Mexican entry to Gillette Stadium on Thursday.

baseball notebook

Hunter Renfroe hits homer in 10th inning to lift Angels over Blue Jays

MLB Trade Deadline Tracker: Angels add offense, reunite with C.J. Cron, get Randal Grichuk from Rockies

Once the glory position, elite running back is now treated like a leper in the NFL

Business

As work begins on the largest US dam removal project, tribes look to a future of growth

The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border — a process that won’t conclude until the end of next year with the help of heavy machinery and explosives.

Inflation may be cooling off, but don’t expect the stuff you buy to get cheaper any time soon

Retailers face widespread economic uncertainty, and despite inflation and worries of recession, consumers still have money and are willing to spend it.

New ownership brought Table Talk back from the brink. Now, it’s in expansion mode.

To wrap, or not to wrap? Hungarian bookstores face fines over closed packaging for LGBTQ+ books

magazine

He was caught trying to defraud a COVID relief fund. Then he vanished.

Clothes call: What’s appropriate wedding attire?

The writer leads a rally for student debt cancellation held near the White House on June 20.

Why I know the NAACP’s next generation is going to accomplish great things

At a time when women’s sports are ready to soar, a lack of science is holding them back

metro

A woman clasped her hands in prayer during a memorial service Sunday at Logan Airport's Our Lady of the Airways chapel for the passengers and crew who were killed in 1973 on Delta Flight 723.

‘Feelings I hadn’t ever processed’: Families mark 50th anniversary of Logan crash with memorial service at airport chapel

Academic recovery has stalled, but Massachusetts schools still have over $1 billion to spend in federal funds. What’s going on?

Nurse from N.H. kidnapped with her child in Haiti, nonprofit says

sports

Rafael Devers has his mind set on bringing another World Series title to Boston.

The Red Sox invested in Rafael Devers. Now he wants them to invest in the team for playoff push.

Bills co-owner Kim Pegula makes 1st appearance at training camp since going into cardiac arrest

Dalvin Cook visits with the Jets and watches practice as he considers his options

business

A visitor take a photo of the New York Stock Exchange, Sept. 23, 2022, in New York.

Wall Street returns to rallying following reports on profits and inflation

Adidas to release second batch of Yeezy sneakers after breakup with Ye

US proposes 18 percent fuel economy increase for new vehicle fleet from 2027 through 2032

politics

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell embraces Vice President Kamala Harris at the NAACP convention in Boston Saturday.

In Boston on Saturday, Kamala Harris warns of ‘full-on attempt to attack’ hard-won rights and freedoms

Vice President Kamala Harris makes surprise visit to Roxbury Community College

Reluctant to retire, leaders raise a tough question: How old is too old?

Nation

A security car blocks the drive at the entrance to former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on March 29.

Mar-a-Lago worker charged in Trump’s classified documents case to make first court appearance

From seat belts to library books, many new laws take effect in North Dakota

Judge blocks Ark. law banning librarians from giving minors ‘harmful’ books

World

A view of a damaged skyscraper in the "Moscow City" business district after a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, on July 30.

Russia says 2 drones hit buildings in Moscow in latest wave of attacks

Excavations uncover hints of Nero’s theater in Rome, and much more

A bomb at a political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 40 people and wounds more than 150

opinion

Books, toys and educational materials line the walls of Brown Bear Excel Early Learning Center, a home-based day-care center in Boston.

Revere is clueless about home-based day care

Legislature needs to ban the sale of cellphone location data

Flooding ravaged Massachusetts farms. The state should help farmers recover.

lifestyle

I want a year off from the relationship

Water is refreshing in the heat, right? In parts of Florida this past week, not so much.

After $304 million supermax extension, Jaylen Brown’s personal life gets supermax attention from the tabloids

food & dining

Workers at Table Talk Pies moved cooled pies into containers on July 6, 2023.

New ownership brought Table Talk back from the brink. Now, it’s in expansion mode.

Sullivan’s Castle Island outdoor seating closed because of aggressive — and hungry — seagulls

Watching the boats glide past at ReelHouse Oyster Bar in the Seaport, it’s easy to get hooked

travel

Author Karen White

Author Karen White on her Tuscan villa dreams, unplugged vacations, and why she’d like to travel with Ryan Reynolds

Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard camp on floor at Logan airport during delay: ‘We made quite a home here’

Budget bills $2,133 for hail damage that never happened

Arts

Maria Molteni and collaborators Vin Caponigro, Laura Campagna, Ash Capachione, and Laura Ganci stand on Molteni's mural "Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument)."

Putting monumentality underfoot on the Greenway

An atelier of her own

Before they went full Hollywood, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles broke the mold in Northampton

Books

The hero of Peter Heller’s ‘The Last Ranger’ stalks the boundary between solitude and society

Susan Casey, veteran journalist of the life aquatic, explores the history and wonder of the subterranean ocean world in ‘The Underworld’

Donovan X. Ramsey, author of ‘When Crack Was King,’ on the lasting influence of poetry and books in childhood

Movies

Sophie Wilde plays Mia in the Philippou brothers' new horror-drama "Talk to Me."

In ‘Talk To Me,’ RackaRacka YouTubers and first-time directors Danny and Michael Philippou conjure the terrors of teenhood

‘More than just film screenings’: Woods Hole Film Festival returns to Cape Cod for its 32nd year

Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard camp on floor at Logan airport during delay: ‘We made quite a home here’

Television

Musician Brad Paisley and actors Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield, from left, posed together at the 10th Annual PingPong4Purpose celebrity ping pong tournament hosted by Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw and his wife, Ellen, Thursday, July 27, 2023, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Actor Max Greenfield urges studio CEOs to ‘be the heroes’ and make a deal in Hollywood strikes

Boots and dog tags Alan Alda wore on ‘M-A-S-H’ sell at auction for $125,000 that will go to charity

Hollywood strikes reportedly force postponement of the Emmys

music

Kiamesha Quarles of Mattapan has amassed a collection of Beyoncé jackets, magazines, DVDs, candles, and tickets, along with a hard-to-find cardboard cutout.

Meet the Beyoncé superfans who’ll be cheering their queen at Gillette Stadium

It’s sunny side up at Newport Folk Festival

A monster set from Hollywood Vampires at the Wang

Theater/Dance

Oona Doherty / OD Works in "Navy Blue" at the 2023 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

Oona Doherty brings US premiere of a searching, existential ‘Navy Blue’ to Jacob’s Pillow

On the Common, a ‘Macbeth’ steeped in misery and madness

Huntington Theatre Company names Christopher Mannelli executive director

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

William H. Dilday Jr. was the personnel director at WHDH-TV and part of an organization dedicated to increasing diversity in Boston media when he was offered the chance to make history at a different TV station in the early 1970s. Photo courtesy of the Dilday family.

William H. Dilday Jr., history-making Black executive in TV, dies at 85

Jean Fagan Yellin, who uncovered a slavery tale’s true author, dies at 92

Pamela Blair, original performer of comedic ‘Chorus Line’ gem, dies at 73