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Proposed COVID and flu vaccination rules for health workers allow many exceptions

Hospital leaders say generous exemptions may drive down vaccination rates, but nursing homes, struggling with short staffing, welcome the proposal.

GOP candidates attack Biden’s economic policies but offer few details on how they’d do better
Instead, culture war issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights, as well as Trump’s indictments, have taken center stage.

Boat found abandoned after hit-and-run crash on Lake Winnipesaukee
Upon arriving at the scene, police found an abandoned 50-foot SeaRay registered in Windham, N.H., that had crashed into an unoccupied boat docked nearby before washing up on rocks in Winter Harbor, officials said.

Crash into Taunton clinic poised to open Monday highlights need for services
Taunton police said a Toyota Tundra pickup truck crashed through the front wall of the clinic at 59 Broadway shortly after 2 a.m. after bouncing off of three parked cars.

Quincy man arrested in connection with Saturday night attack on woman in South End

Six injured in weekend shootings in Egleston Square, Roxbury, Dorchester, South End, Roslindale

Hudson is latest Middlesex County town hit by break-ins targeting South Asian families

Some workers are adopting something of a choose-your-own-adventure attitude when it comes to what can constitute an office.

In a ‘work-from-anywhere’ world, where are people working?

People are parking their laptops at rock climbing gyms, breweries, and arcades, rethinking what can constitute an office in a hybrid work landscape.

A program at Chelsea High School gives teen parents extra support. Supporters want to expand it.
Massachusetts has one of the lowest teen birth rates out of all the states in the country, but some say more support is necessary for students who do become pregnant or parents during school.

Massachusetts’ goal to reduce driving lags behind other states
Massachusetts is aiming to reduce the number of miles driven per household by just 3 percent from 2015 to 2030 as part of its climate plan, a target that is far less ambitious than that of other states.

Tim O'Connor, one the "Hat Sisters," looks at the exhibit at the Provincetown Museum for a story about the town's connection with the LBGTQ community over the last century.

Museum commemorates Provincetown’s LGBTQ past, present

As part of an emerging, more inclusive look at the town and its history, The Provincetown Museum has opened its first permanent display about the LGBTQ presence on this colorful, quirky tip of Cape Cod.

Trevor Story stood at second base after hitting the first of his three doubles Sunday.

Peter Abraham | Red Sox 6, Tigers 3

Trevor Story is getting more comfortable, and that gives the Red Sox a different dynamic

Story’s return creates better options for manager Alex Cora.

Offense awakens as Red Sox beat Tigers, spoil Eduardo Rodriguez’s homecoming

Patriots rookie cornerback Christian Gonzalez put his skills on display for the home fans during Thursday's preseason opener against the Texans at Gillette Stadium.

Rundown of how this year’s draft class is faring so far in Patriots preseason

Through almost three weeks of training camp, Patriots director of player personnel Matt Groh is likely pleased with what he’s seen from his picks this year.

Center David Andrews showing young offensive linemen the path to make the team

Members of a search and rescue team walk along a street on Aug. 12, in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Hawaii churches offer prayers for the dead and the missing after devastating Maui wildfires

Parishioners mourned the dead and prayed for the missing in Hawaii churches as communities began looking ahead to a long recovery from last week’s wildfire on Maui.

Pittsfield nurse to volunteer in Maui on family vacation Maui before and after wildfires: Photos and videos capture the devastating destruction

Opinion

Surgeons performed a kidney transplant.

The organ transplant system needs fixing

A single nonprofit has held the contract for managing the country’s organ transplant system for decades. Breaking up its monopoly would be a good start to reforming the system.

Suddenly, Mike Pence is acting ‘brand new’

IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN

America needs more politicians like John Gilbert Winant

It’s time to end US military aid to Israel — for both countries’ sakes

IDEAS | BOB REGAN

Notes from the burn scar

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MUSIC REVIEW

GLD FSTVL threw hip-hop a 50th birthday celebration on Boston’s new ‘front yard’
On Saturday, the city sponsored the free, day-long party for the music on the newly renovated red brick plaza in front of City Hall.

LOVE LETTERS

How do I pursue the ‘crush of a lifetime’?
Is the answer ... decongestants?

Robert Giles, Nieman Foundation curator who oversaw Kent State shootings coverage, dies at 90
Mr. Giles was managing editor of the Akron Beacon Journal when it won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the National Guard shootings in 1970 that killed four Kent State students.

Falmouth man pleads guilty to sending bomb threat to Arizona official after Trump’s election loss

He is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 26 and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Freed N.H. nurse says Christian song was her rallying cry after she was kidnapped in Haiti
Alix Dorsainvil, who is from New Hampsire, and her child were freed Wednesday, nearly two weeks after they were snatched at gunpoint in Haiti.

Pretrial release granted for N.H. woman charged with taking explicit photos of children at Tyngsborough day care

A New Hampshire woman charged with taking sexually explicit photos of children at a Tyngsborough day care center where she worked and sending them to a former New Hampshire lawmaker is eligible for release from jail, court documents show.

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“I don’t think we’ve yet gotten to the bottom of the billionaire-funded mischief on the Supreme Court,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: The Supreme Court scandal is going to get worse

The shocking revelations surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas come as no surprise to the Rhode Island senator.

More than a year after T cut service because of overworked dispatchers, MBTA remains short of hiring goals in Operations Control Center
Growing pains inside the Operations Control Center hit an inflection point during an overnight shift in April, when dispatcher errors caused three safety incidents on the tracks.

As Cape Cod aims to expand its underused airport, some residents wonder why
Passenger traffic has plunged at the Hyannis airport in recent years. Now, its operators want to lengthen the runway to handle bigger new planes from New York.

Massachusetts needs wicked more EV chargers
A new report estimates that the state will need 10,000 of the fastest DC charging connections, up from just 651 today, and 35,000 medium-speed ports known as “Level 2,” up from 5,468 today.

Culture & Lifestyle

The rap duo Earthgang performs at the GLD FSTVL at City Hall Plaza in Boston. The festival on Saturday was put on to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop.

GLD FSTVL threw hip-hop a 50th birthday celebration on Boston’s new ‘front yard’

Christopher Innvar in Barrington Stage Company's "The Faith Healer."

In Barrington Stage’s gripping ‘Faith Healer,’ truth is a slippery thing

Javier Botet (left) and Corey Hawkins in a scene from "The Last Voyage of the Demeter."

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: The crime of the ancient mariner

How not to ruin a concert in 13 easy steps

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

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action, former Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers has called for elite universities to eliminate legacy preferences.

Josh Grossman, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay Page, and Sharad Goel

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

Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during Representative Zach Nunn's annual BBQ in Ankeny, Iowa, on July 15.

Advice for culture warrior Ron DeSantis: A satire

It is said that in crisis there is opportunity — and the opportunity has never been better for Governor Maura Healey to truly put her stamp on the Parole Board, set it on a path that would keep it out of further legal trouble, and make it function as the gatekeeper it was designed to be.

Healey’s big chance to reshape Parole Board to her values

The young woman blocked the open door and yelled to the conductor to hold the train so the woman could safely leave. But she also noticed that the older woman, who didn’t speak English, seemed confused about whether she was at the right station.

The old woman and the kindness of a stranger

It is said that in crisis there is opportunity — and the opportunity has never been better for Governor Maura Healey to truly put her stamp on the Parole Board, set it on a path that would keep it out of further legal trouble, and make it function as the gatekeeper it was designed to be.

Healey’s big chance to reshape Parole Board to her values

"This city is special," the author writes, "and Boston, so restrained in emotion, deserves to hear this more often."

IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

Boat found abandoned after hit-and-run crash on Lake Winnipesaukee

Upon arriving at the scene, police found an abandoned 50-foot SeaRay registered in Windham, N.H., that had crashed into an unoccupied boat docked nearby before washing up on rocks in Winter Harbor, officials said.

Massachusetts’ goal to reduce driving lags behind other states

Massachusetts is aiming to reduce the number of miles driven per household by just 3 percent from 2015 to 2030 as part of its climate plan, a target that is far less ambitious than that of other states.

Crash into Taunton clinic poised to open Monday highlights need for services

Taunton police said a Toyota Tundra pickup truck crashed through the front wall of the clinic at 59 Broadway shortly after 2 a.m. after bouncing off of three parked cars.

Five injured in Braintree boat fire

Three adults and two children on board were taken to area hospitals with minor burns, smoke inhalation, and cuts. A retired Braintree police officer and his daughter who were at Metropolitan Yacht Club jumped in to help, the city's mayor said.

Sports

Jake Burger was showered in the Marlins' postgame celebration.

Jake Burger’s triple caps Marlins’ five-run ninth to beat Yankees

Last-place New York dropped five games back of the AL’s last wild-card berth and is on track to miss the playoffs for the first time since 2016.

Tampa Bay shortstop Wander Franco was forced to watched Sunday's loss from the dugout.

Wander Franco sits for Rays while MLB looks into his social media posts

The shortstop did not play in Sunday’s 9-2 loss at Tropicana Field, which featured a Wander Franco Snapback Hat promotion for fans 14 and under.

Orioles center fielder Cedric Mullins reached over the fence to take away a home run in the ninth inning.

orioles 5, mariners 3

Cedric Mullins does it all for Orioles in extra-inning win over Mariners

Mullins robbed took away a home run in the ninth inning and hit a two-run homer in the 10th.

Major League Baseball looking into social media posts involving Rays’ Wander Franco

While Phil Mickelson implodes at Trump National, Cam Smith cruises to LIV Golf win

Lucas Glover not a fighter? Back-to-back PGA Tour victories prove otherwise

Business

Unlimited-vacation companies seen beating S&P 500, investors say

Is unlimited paid time off good for a company’s stock price? Most investors think so, according to the latest Markets Live Pulse survey.

Biden and House Democrats hope to make curbing ‘junk fees’ a winning issue in 2024

Congressional Democrats are teaming up with the Biden administration and a progressive advocacy group to turn policy efforts to curb " junk fees " into a political rallying cry, betting that a small but potentially potent kitchen table issue will resonate with voters.

chesto means business

One insurer is pulling back here after Mass. voters said dental insurers must pay more to dentists. Will others follow?

Yes, inflation is down. No, the Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t deserve the credit

magazine

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades, likely longer than anyone alive.

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

The Cars in 1979, from left: Benjamin Orr, Greg Hawkes, Ric Ocasek, Elliot Easton, and David Robinson

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

A book sitting in the sand with blue skies and water behind it. The pages are blowing in the wind.

Your Summer Beach Bag

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

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

metro

Tim O'Connor, one the "Hat Sisters," looks at the exhibit at the Provincetown Museum for a story about the town's connection with the LBGTQ community over the last century.

Museum commemorates Provincetown’s LGBTQ past, present

A program at Chelsea High School gives teen parents extra support. Supporters want to expand it.

Freed N.H. nurse says Christian song was her rallying cry after she was kidnapped in Haiti

sports

Patriots rookie cornerback Christian Gonzalez put his skills on display for the home fans during Thursday's preseason opener against the Texans at Gillette Stadium.

Rundown of how this year’s draft class is faring so far in Patriots preseason

Red Sox outfielder Adam Duvall has his sights set on consistency at the plate

Trevor Story is getting more comfortable, and that gives the Red Sox a different dynamic

business

Some workers are adopting something of a choose-your-own-adventure attitude when it comes to what can constitute an office.

In a ‘work-from-anywhere’ world, where are people working?

Hunter Biden’s lawyer says widened charges wouldn’t be warranted

Biden and House Democrats hope to make curbing ‘junk fees’ a winning issue in 2024

politics

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, released his economic plan at the Prep Partners Group in Rochester, N.H., on July 31.

GOP candidates attack Biden’s economic policies but offer few details on how they’d do better

Hunter Biden’s lawyer says widened charges wouldn’t be warranted

Kamala Harris visits Martha’s Vineyard for two fund-raisers

Nation

Members of a search and rescue team walk along a street on Aug. 12, in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Hawaii churches offer prayers for the dead and the missing after devastating Maui wildfires

Biden and House Democrats hope to make curbing ‘junk fees’ a winning issue in 2024

Popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy may raise risk of complications under anesthesia

World

A lioness is seen in a forest in Goryeong, South Korea, on Aug. 14.

Lioness shot dead after escaping from farm in South Korea

A religious ritual in Iran becomes a new form of protest

Seven killed in Ukraine’s Kherson region, including a 23-day-old baby girl

opinion

Following a July 30 memorial service at Our Lady of the Airways Chapel at Logan Airport in East Boston, Stephen Fontaine placed his hand on a plaque dedicated to the 89 passengers and crew who were on board Delta Flight 723 when it crashed in 1973.

Reflections on the 1973 Logan plane crash and its victims

Wildfires in Maui must make us more mindful of our environmental responsibilities

The old woman and the kindness of a stranger

lifestyle

How do I pursue the ‘crush of a lifetime’?

A celebration of natural curls, locs, and braids at SOulFully Textured on Martha’s Vineyard

He dumped me over email

food & dining

Sunday Band Stand at the Saint Anthony's Feast.

What to eat at the North End’s Italian feasts this month

Dunkin’ may soon offer a new kind of buzz with line of spiked caffeinated beverages

The Great Scott space in Allston might become a Taco Bell Cantina

travel

The interior of a lykke-category cabin at Lumen Nature Retreat in Woodstock, N.H.

How an East Boston couple created a Nordic oasis in the White Mountains

Travelers are working out ways to find the best gyms while on the road

When it comes to Provincetown, Donal O’Sullivan is the man with all the answers

Arts

American artist Brice Marden sat in his studio in Tivoli, N.Y., on Dec. 28, 2018.

Brice Marden, who rejuvenated painting in the 1960s, dies at 84

Big ideas come in small packages in MFA’s ‘Tiny Treasures’

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

Books

James McBride, in ‘The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store,’ builds a rich portrait of a Depression-era Black and immigrant community around the mystery of a skeleton in a well

In Lauren J.A. Bear’s debut novel ‘Medusa’s Sisters,’ Greek mythology’s monstrous sisters tell of the cruelty and capriciousness of the Olympian gods in shaping their fate

Steven Millhauser, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, on the pleasures of being an older reader and writer

Movies

Land was burned for cattle grazing in the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Brazil, on Sept. 9, 2019. Nicaragua’s beef industry is under fresh scrutiny with a documentary that claims ranchers there are illegally decimating rainforests to raise cattle for meat that ends up in US supermarkets.

DiCaprio-backed film says key beef supplier to the US has a dirty secret

Striking screenwriters will resume negotiations with studios on Friday

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: The crime of the ancient mariner

Television

Picketers carried signs outside of Netflix on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in New York. The Hollywood writers strike reached the 100-day mark as the U.S. film and television industries remain paralyzed by dual actors and screenwriters strikes.

With Emmy’s bumped, what comes next?

Will satire be a superpower for ‘The Franchise’?

Striking screenwriters will resume negotiations with studios on Friday

music

The rap duo Earthgang performs at the GLD FSTVL at City Hall Plaza in Boston. The festival on Saturday was put on to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop.

GLD FSTVL threw hip-hop a 50th birthday celebration on Boston’s new ‘front yard’

Jamie Reid, artist for Sex Pistols who defined punk style, dies at 76

Q-Pop: Peru’s social media phenomenon Lenin Tamayo fuses Quechua and K-pop

Theater/Dance

Christopher Innvar in Barrington Stage Company's "The Faith Healer."

In Barrington Stage’s gripping ‘Faith Healer,’ truth is a slippery thing

For Brenda Withers, ‘The Ding Dongs’ rang true

August Wilson’s biographer, on illuminating a playwright who illuminated America

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

Former Nieman Foundation curator Robert Giles and his wife, Nancy, at a farewell gathering in 2011 shortly before he retired. Photo by Lisa Abitbol/Nieman Foundation

Robert Giles, Nieman Foundation curator who oversaw Kent State shootings coverage, dies at 90

Tom Jones, half of record-setting ‘Fantasticks’ team, dies at 95

John Barrett, hair stylist for the fashionable elite, dies at 66