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Healey signs $56 billion state budget more than a month into fiscal year

In signing the budget, Massachusetts becomes one of the last states in the country to approve a spending plan for the fiscal year that began 39 days ago.

Nurse from N.H. and her child released after abduction in Haiti, aid group says

Alix Dorsainvil, a 31-year-old nurse, and her child have been released after being held hostage in Port au Prince, the Christian humanitarian group she works for said Wednesday.

Second Amherst Regional Middle school employee files discrimination complaint against district

The district has a history of racial discrimination, Lamikco Magee told The Daily Hampshire Gazette.
Forecast | Dave Epstein

We haven’t seen the last of the rain for the week

While Wednesday will be pleasant after Tuesday's deluge, rainy weather could return to Greater Boston later this week and into the weekend.

Two tornadoes, torrential rain, flooding: A look at where the severe weather hit Mass. on Tuesday

See photos and videos of the severe weather that swept through Eastern New England

Leominster hospital maternity ward essential, state finds, as advocates press to reverse closure plans

The Department of Public Health said UMass Memorial must assure continued access to labor and delivery services in the area.

With the buyout of Decibel, a once promising local biotech cluster has faded from the scene
Three Massachusetts companies focusing on hearing loss treatments have now been acquired in the past year.

$1.58 billion jackpot goes to lucky Mega Millions player in Florida

It is the third-largest prize ever in US history.

Senator Dianne Feinstein briefly hospitalized after fall at her home, her office says

People in Hawaii flee into ocean to escape wildfires that are burning a popular Maui tourist town
DEVRA FIRST

20 of the best ice cream stands in Massachusetts

There are worse ways to get a tour of the state than to visit its dairy bars, and with vacations and camp in the rearview, late summer is a fine time to do so. Here is a guide to some of the state's best.
Your view: What’s the best ice cream stand in the state? Where to get ice cream in Rhode Island? Here are some favorite spots.

Why shrinking Catholic schools are partnering with a youth hockey business to bolster the bottom line
Boston Hockey Academy had partnered with Cambridge Matignon to enroll dozens of hockey recruits. With the closure of the school, BHA has found a new partner — and it appears it is a win-win for both sides.

Red Sox still going ahead with Kiké Hernández bobblehead giveaway despite trade

The first 7,500 fans at Fenway Park on Wednesday will receive World Baseball Classic-themed bobblehead of the former Red Sox utility player.
Red Sox first-round pick Kyle Teel dazzles in Greenville debut

The Orioles suspended a team broadcaster for stating facts. The blowback has been harsh.
Kevin Brown was taken off the air last month and hasn't returned. Fans at Camden Yards are chanting his name, and other broadcasters are speaking out.

Christopher L. Gasper
Warning, Boston College: This latest college football realignment should have you nervous
If estimable Stanford can be tossed aside like a candy wrapper, then the same fate could befall BC if the Atlantic Coast Conference fractured.

A woman was mowing. Then a snake and a hawk attacked from the sky.

Peggy Jones didn't sense the danger hovering in the sky above on July 25 as she rode a tractor and mowed her family's six-acre property in Silsbee, Tex.

Sandra Bullock’s longtime partner died from ALS, family urges donations to Mass. General Hospital

The longtime partner of actress Sandra Bullock died Saturday after a protracted battle with ALS and the star’s family is asking people to send donations to the ALS Association and Massachusetts General Hospital.
LOVE LETTERS

I waited for her for decades. Now she’s divorced — but dating someone else.

We kept in touch after having an affair years ago. I thought we’d eventually be together again.
ADDRESS

Home of the Week: The decks are stacked in favor of this hilltop Hull estate

Property offers three decks with tremendous water views -- and not to mention a five-bedroom main house and a barn-turned-accessory dwelling unit.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Body cameras can bring light to prison’s dark side

Correction officers union shouldn’t be allowed to stand in the way of progress.
IDEAS | Alex Kantrowitz and Douglas Gorman

Wait, ChatGPT didn’t take my job?
JEFF JACOBY

Ayotte isn’t wrong about New Hampshire and Massachusetts
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

We should be friendly with the Saudis. Fighting for them is another matter.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Lizzo should remind us all that we never really know the celebrities we admire

More recent News

john powers | on soccer
World Cup 2023: All eight quarterfinalists sound the same confident note: Why not us?
Except for Japan, every country that has won this global festival has been eliminated. So the dream is up for grabs.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspends Orlando state attorney. He says she neglected her duties.

DeSantis said she had neglected her duty to prosecute criminals. This is the second elected state attorney DeSantis has suspended in the past year.
Florida schools drop AP Psychology after state says it violates the law

Even as Boston tourism rebounds, small vendors struggle through the summer season
Hawkers of keychains, sunglasses, balloons, and local tours are blaming inflation and a stronger focus on big-ticket experiences for their slump in business.

Voting for Boston City Council elections begins next month. Here’s what you need to know.

The deadlines to register to vote or request a mail-in ballot for the upcoming preliminary elections are fast-approaching. Here’s everything to know before heading to the polls.

Mass. guarantees workers up to 26 weeks of paid medical leave. But many don’t know that.

Some companies are punishing employees for taking time off for health or family reasons, even though the state guarantees workers up to 26 weeks of paid time off.

Angry villagers in England call for the quirky Crooked House pub to be rebuilt following demolition

The small village is fuming after one of Britain’s quirkiest pubs burned down and was reduced to rubble by a digger before a fire investigation was completed.

Recommended reads

‘Right-to-shelter’ law is unique to Massachusetts. It has a long history.

The requirement, which is unique to Massachusetts, has pushed the overburdened shelter system to the brink.

In N.H., Trump mixes his campaign and legal defense, an unprecedented strategy in American politics
Trump, campaigning in the shadow of three criminal cases, appears to be relying on voters sending him back to the White House, which would likely allow him and his allies to gum up the prosecutions.

White male business owners are suing Mass. for discrimination in pandemic relief program
The plaintiffs, represented by a conservative national law firm, say that a state program to help women and people of color recover from the pandemic violates their constitutional rights.

The internet is having a ‘tomato girl’ summer, and its roots began last year in New England
Despite its Mediterranean inspiration, this newly-trending aesthetic also has ties to a New England-inspired concept known as "coastal grandmother."

Culture & Lifestyle

‘Jules’: Close encounters of the head-scratching kind

In a tender ‘Just Another Day,’ memory loss is leavened by laughter

Artists connect Newport Jazz Festival’s roots to right now

‘Only Murders in the Building’ is dead on with its satire, silliness, and heart

Special Projects

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 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

SCOT LEHIGH

Your thoughts, please, on climate change
MARCELA GARCÍA

Meet the Latina using Instagram to translate bureaucracy for Bostonians
Josh Grossman, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay Page, and Sharad Goel

Harvard isn’t Hogwarts. Merit, not parentage, should be key to admission.
EDITORIAL

As Springfield factory gets more time to finish subway trains, T riders deserve more information
Jerome Adams

Ignoring COVID-19 is still not an option for most Americans
IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

Leominster hospital maternity ward essential, state finds, as advocates press to reverse closure plans

The Department of Public Health said UMass Memorial must assure continued access to labor and delivery services in the area.

Show us: Have you seen weird mushrooms popping up this summer?

Amid a damp and rainy summer, some Massachusetts residents are reporting seeing strange new mushrooms and other plants popping up around their homes or neighborhoods. If you have seen any, send us your photos through this survey.

Healey signs $56 billion state budget more than a month into fiscal year

The budget that will cover community college tuition for a swath of students, pour millions more dollars into the MBTA, and make Massachusetts the eighth state to pay lunch costs for all children in public schools,

Two tornadoes, torrential rain, flooding: A look at where the severe weather hit Mass. on Tuesday

A powerful storm that swept across Massachusetts on Tuesday unleashed strong winds and heavy rainfall in multiple parts of the state, spawning two tornadoes and prompting multiple people to be rescued from their cars in flooded roads.

Sports

celtics

Former Celtic Tony Allen sentenced to community service in health care fraud case

Allen was part of a scheme to defraud the NBA's health and welfare plan for former players.
john powers | on soccer

World Cup 2023: All eight quarterfinalists sound the same confident note: Why not us?

Except for Japan, every country that has won this global festival has been eliminated. So the dream is up for grabs.
red sox

Red Sox first-round pick Kyle Teel dazzles in Greenville debut

The catcher, the 14th overall pick in this year's draft, showed why the Red Sox wasted no time bumping him up from the FCL to High A.
celtics

Jayson Tatum is golfing at the FedEx St. Jude Championship Pro-Am in Memphis
red sox

Red Sox still going ahead with Kiké Hernández bobblehead giveaway despite trade
MLB

The Orioles suspended a team broadcaster for stating facts. The blowback has been harsh.

Business

Hollywood strike matches the 100-day mark of the last writers’ strike in 2007-2008

The milestone comes as the US film and television industries remain paralyzed by dual strikes by its actors and screenwriters.

With the buyout of Decibel, a once promising local biotech cluster has faded from the scene

Three Massachusetts companies focusing on hearing loss treatments have now been acquired in the past year.

World Bank says no new funding to Uganda over anti-gay law

Making maple syrup and queer community in N.H.’s North Country
magazine
Globe Magazine

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

Globe Magazine

How a WBCN deejay and a Harvard dining hall concert helped The Cars get their big break

Your Summer Beach Bag

10 great books to read on a New England beach this summer

Globe Magazine

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

metro

‘Lightning round’ draws out R.I. congressional candidates

We haven’t seen the last of the rain for the week

Nurse from N.H. and her child released after abduction in Haiti, aid group says

sports

World Cup 2023: Follow along here for daily schedule and results

World Cup 2023: Sizing up the quarterfinal matches, which have a European flair

Warning, Boston College: This latest college football realignment should have you nervous

business

Mass. guarantees workers up to 26 weeks of paid medical leave. But many don’t know that.

Even as Boston tourism rebounds, small vendors struggle through the summer season

Moody’s downgrades 10 regional banks as crisis pressures persist

politics

Senator Dianne Feinstein briefly hospitalized after fall at her home, her office says

Georgia grand jury likely to hear Trump case next week

Bernie Kerik, who advised Giuliani after Trump’s 2020 election loss, meets with Jack Smith’s team

Nation

As EG.5 variant spreads, COVID-19 hospitalizations in US on the rise

Singer and songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, subject of ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ documentary, dies at 81

A woman was mowing. Then a snake and a hawk attacked from the sky.

World

Angry villagers in England call for the quirky Crooked House pub to be rebuilt following demolition

World Bank says no new funding to Uganda over anti-gay law

Niger’s military junta, 2 weeks in, digs in with cabinet appointments and rejects talks

opinion

As Springfield factory gets more time to finish subway trains, T riders deserve more information

Harvard isn’t Hogwarts. Merit, not parentage, should be key to admission.

Politicians must take climate challenges seriously

lifestyle

More than 120 Betsey Johnson vintage designs will walk the runway at Somerville fashion show

Boston’s Big Sartorialist wants to challenge perceptions in men’s fashion

The internet is having a ‘tomato girl’ summer, and its roots began last year in New England

food & dining

Your view: What’s the best ice cream stand in the state?

20 of the best ice cream stands in Massachusetts

Beyond Meat revenue plummets in the second quarter due to flagging US demand

travel

The best new camping gear out there

Who needs Disney? We have our own haunted (or just seriously spooky) mansions.

Hip-hop turns 50, and New York is throwing an epic birthday party

Arts

At the Photographic Resource Center: Shanghai, Missouri, and points between

Dominic Killiany’s ‘What I See’ exudes exuberance

At Manchester’s Currier Museum of Art, a focus on doing good

Books

QT Library plans to ‘build a beacon’ in Boston for the queer and trans community

Shakespeare and penguin book get caught in Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws

‘Wicked, shocking, dirty’: ‘Peyton Place’ and the inevitable failure of book bans

Movies

‘Jules’: Close encounters of the head-scratching kind

AMC theaters posts profit, buoyed by top-grossing ‘Super Mario’ movie

Sandra Bullock’s longtime partner died from ALS, family urges donations to Mass. General Hospital

Television

‘Only Murders in the Building’ is dead on with its satire, silliness, and heart

This week’s TV: The return of ‘Only Murders,’ an opioid drama, and endless ads

Actor Mark Margolis, murderous drug kingpin on ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul,’ dies at 83

music

Singer and songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, subject of ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ documentary, dies at 81

Jay-Z’s ‘Made In America’ fest canceled due to ‘severe circumstances outside of production control’

Kanye West returns to the stage with Travis Scott

Theater/Dance

In a tender ‘Just Another Day,’ memory loss is leavened by laughter

Coming to Jacob’s Pillow: a balletic Bowie joyride

Dancing five decades of hip-hop at Jacob’s Pillow

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

Mae Arnette, jazz singer known as ‘Boston’s first lady of song,’ dies at 91

Former Bruins goaltender Gilles Gilbert, Guy Lafleur’s victim in 1979, dies at 74

Leny Andrade, ‘first lady of Brazilian jazz,’ dies at 80