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The Sea Installer is a Danish ship with legs that can anchor to the ocean floor and a massive crane that's used to install offshore wind turbines. The vessel is so specialized, there are few like it in the world.

In the waters off Massachusetts, a hunt for foreign ships building wind farms

A search at sea highlights the stakes over domestic manufacturing in the nascent offshore wind industry.

‘We’re out of good options’: In New York City, an overwhelming migration surge is a warning for Massachusetts
The unfolding emergency illustrates what can happen when government’s ability to cope with a migrant influx is overwhelmed by sheer numbers.

Fire ravages historic Block Island hotel
Firefighters responded to a fire alarm at the Harborside Inn in New Shoreham at 11:23 p.m. Friday and found a fire in the first-floor kitchen, according to Town Manager Maryanne Crawford.

See photos and videos of the fire

From left, District 6 candidates Ben Weber, William King, and Kendra Lara.

Embattled Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara faces two challengers in reelection bid

Casey Gabriele and his wife, Sabina Gabriele, of Colorado Springs, Colo., cross Sixth Street with their daughter Sylwia, 7, during a break in the rain in downtown Las Vegas on Aug. 19 as Hurricane Hilary approaches the US West Coast.

Hurricane Hilary moves very near to Mexico’s Baja coast packing deadly rainfall

In this image made from video released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East on Aug. 11.

The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon

North Falmouth woman was ‘co-conspirator’ in crash that killed Maine Maritime students in December, DA says

Patriots cornerback Isaiah Bolden was injured in the second half of Saturday's preseason game.

Patriots rookie Isaiah Bolden released from hospital after head injury; practice with Titans canceled

The rookie cornerback suffered a head injury in the second half of the Patriots' preseason game against the Packers, which did not resume. The team is traveling back to Foxborough.

Patriots-Packers preseason game suspended after rookie Isaiah Bolden suffers head injury Scary scene with Isaiah Bolden a reminder to Patriots that anything can happen on the field

Spain's Olga Carmona scored the only goal in the final on Sunday.

Spain 1, England 0

Less than a year after a player rebellion, Spain defeats England to capture Women’s World Cup

The 2023 edition of the World Cup produced the fifth overall winner of women's soccer's biggest prize.

Luis Urias (right) had a little extra jump in his step rounding the bases after hitting a grand slam in the second inning Saturday.

Red Sox 8, Yankees 1

Another Red Sox victory leaves Yankees searching for answers

The Sox are 7-1 against the Yankees this season, having outscored them by 29 runs. They are 11-13 against the other three teams in the division.

A Pablo Reyes walk defined the Red Sox’ focus as they beat up on the Yankees again

As the Gulf of Maine warms, where are the mussels?
Wild blue mussels seem to be disappearing in the Gulf of Maine. Scientists are now seeking to understand the extent of the loss and the mechanisms causing it.

Pollution is threatening Cape Cod’s famous waters. Its towns are spending hundreds of millions to head off an environmental disaster.

After years of promise, cell-based meat is moving from the lab to dinner plates
Recent advances in cultivated meat — and a landmark decision by the US Department of Agriculture — are energizing what proponents say is a meat revolution with almost unlimited possibilities.

Sean O'Malley, top, lands punches after knocking down Aljamain Sterling during their UFC 292 Bantamweight title mixed martial arts fight, Aug. 19, in Boston. O'Malley won the title via 2nd round KO.

Sean O’Malley wins bantamweight title in second round against Aljamain Sterling at UFC Fight Night at TD Garden

New Dia, a so-called "cannabis mall" that opened recently in the Fenway.

Is Boston high on marijuana dispensaries? Four charts that give you a snapshot of the cannabis industry

More than 300 cannabis retailers have opened in Massachusetts in the past five years. Is that too many for the market to bear?

A segregation cell at the Bristol County Jail. Sheriff Paul Heroux says temperatures in some parts of his jails can reach 95 degrees, even at night.

Where there is no escape from the heat

Even dogs have it better than some held in our prisons and jails, which can be like kilns in the summer, sickening those inside and making conditions dangerous for everybody.

Opinion

IDEAS | AMIRA SKEGGS

Rethinking our lonely heroes

Why do Western cultures push individual struggle as the path to psychological growth?

The Trump indictments are good for America and democracy

What Florida could teach Massachusetts

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

The US is losing sway in Africa

Teacher of the Year honor is beset by partisan rancor

More recent News

With crown and wand, Coast Guard veteran Yolanda Cerullo is honored for her 100th birthday
The Coast Guard veteran celebrated her centennial birthday with friends and guests outside the Compass on the Bay Senior Living Community — including Vietnam veterans, local politicians, neighbors, and others in the senior community.

Man dies after being struck by car in Rockland

Richard Erwin, 63, of Rockland, was crossing near 430 Union St. when he was hit by a Kia Optima in the northbound lane, Rockland police said.

Odie Henderson review | ★★★

DC’s ‘Blue Beetle’ shines when focusing on the family of its Latino superhero
Xolo Maridueña stars as the Beetle, but George Lopez as his uncle and Adriana Barraza as his Nana steal the show.

Funeral arrangements announced for Lynn woman who drowned trying to rescue son in N.H.
Melissa Bagley, a 44-year-old mother of four and the wife of an Everett police lieutenant, will be laid to rest in Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody.

Woman injured in sidewalk collapse outside Dorchester church building Friday night

A woman was injured late Friday night when part of a sidewalk outside a Dorchester church collapsed, and she fell about 10 feet into the building’s basement, according to the Boston Fire Department.

Ron Cephas Jones, ‘This Is Us’ actor who won 2 Emmys, dies at 66
Ron Cephas Jones, a veteran stage actor who won two Emmy Awards for his role as a long-lost father who finds redemption on the NBC television drama series “This Is Us,” has died at age 66, a representative said Saturday.

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Chip Chop, a sprawling compound on Martha's Vineyard, has hit the market for $24 million.

Chip Chop, Diane Sawyer’s historic home on Martha’s Vineyard, hits market for $24m

A 20-acre waterfront compound on Martha’s Vineyard known as “Chip Chop,” the longtime home of television news anchor Diane Sawyer, hit the market on Thursday for $24 million.

PERSPECTIVE

My parents bought our family burial plots years ago. But my plans might change.
I’ve learned the best we can do is have conversations with our loved ones about death rituals and end-of-life planning.

Democrats livid over Biden’s N.H. primary snub are banking on a write-in win
If the president’s name isn’t on their ballot, party leaders say, voters will add it themselves: “The DNC created a mess, and New Hampshire Democrats are going to have to clean it up.”

Old State House bagpiper brings music, memories, (and irritation) to downtown
Bag in hand, kilt on, drones thrown over his shoulder, Ryan Randall can go for hours — to the delight of tourists and the ire of some local workers.

Culture & Lifestyle

Alison Cook-Beatty Dance Company (pictured in 2022) returns to Windhover Center for the Performing Arts Aug. 23-24.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Virgil Ortiz, "The Translator," from the artist’s "Revolt 1680/2180" project, 2015.

Three ways of looking at Pueblo art

Ming Min Hui is Boston Ballet's new executive director.

Boston Ballet announces Ming Min Hui as new executive director

Some New Bedford residents want to remove artist Donna Dodson's sculpture "Seagull Cinderella," which returned this year for the city's 10th anniversary Seaport Art Walk.

In New Bedford, the ‘sexy seagull’ is ruffling feathers once again

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

A pediatrician holds a dose of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.

Get kids vaccinated in time for school

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey declared a state of emergency on Aug. 8, citing the influx of migrants in need of shelter.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Even liberals like Maura Healey are souring on Biden’s immigration bungling

An aerial view of morning rush hour traffic on Route 128 and the Mass. Pike in early November 2019.

Imagine fewer cars on the road. It’s tricky, but we’ll try.

Santo, the celebrity, in repose.

MARCELA GARCÍA

How to go viral on TikTok

A previously undisclosed investigation reveals the US Coast Guard failed to appropriately review and prosecute cases of sexual assault at the service's Connecticut academy for years while some of the accused rose up the ranks.

An old Coast Guard scandal emerges and casts a harsh light on the service’s sexual assault policies

"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

North Falmouth woman was ‘co-conspirator’ in crash that killed Maine Maritime students in December, DA says

A 21-year-old North Falmouth woman injured in a high-speed, fiery car crash that killed four of her Maine Maritime Academy classmates in December pleaded not guilty this week to about a dozen charges in the case, including manslaughter and drunk driving.

Mateo, 6, is ready for a family of his own

Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

Funeral arrangements announced for Lynn woman who drowned trying to rescue son in N.H.

Melissa Bagley, a 44-year-old mother of four and the wife of an Everett police lieutenant, will be laid to rest in Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody.

Fire ravages historic Block Island hotel

Firefighters responded to a fire alarm at the Harborside Inn in New Shoreham at 11:23 p.m. Friday and found a fire in the first-floor kitchen, according to Town Manager Maryanne Crawford.

Sports

Patriots cornerback Isaiah Bolden was injured in the second half of Saturday's preseason game.

Patriots rookie Isaiah Bolden released from hospital after head injury; practice with Titans canceled

The rookie cornerback suffered a head injury in the second half of the Patriots' preseason game against the Packers, which did not resume. The team is traveling back to Foxborough.

Nick Pivetta is expected to take on a bulk reliever role in the series finale.

Red Sox at Yankees | 1:35 p.m. (NESN)

Game 124: Red Sox at Yankees lineups and notes

The Sox have won their last six against New York, outscoring the Yankees 44-14. Nick Pivetta is expected to take on a bulk reliever role in the series finale.

Spain's Olga Carmona scored the only goal in the final on Sunday.

Spain 1, England 0

Less than a year after a player rebellion, Spain defeats England to capture Women’s World Cup

The 2023 edition of the World Cup produced the fifth overall winner of women's soccer's biggest prize.

Sean O’Malley wins bantamweight title in second round against Aljamain Sterling at UFC Fight Night at TD Garden

How it happened: Sean O’Malley stuns Aljamain Sterling at UFC 292 to win the bantamweight title after Zhang Weili’s dominant defense

Scary scene with Isaiah Bolden a reminder to Patriots that anything can happen on the field

Business

Japan’s Kishida visits Fukushima plant to highlight safety before start of treated water release

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant Sunday and said an impending release of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean cannot be postponed.

A tanker believed to hold sanctioned Iran oil starts offloading near Texas despite Tehran’s threats

An American-owned oil tanker long suspected of carrying sanctioned Iranian crude oil began offloading its cargo near Texas late Saturday, tracking data showed, even as Tehran has threatened to target shipping in the Persian Gulf over it.

In the waters off Massachusetts, a hunt for foreign ships building wind farms

The next frontier for corporate benefits: menopause

magazine

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2023.

The affirmative action ruling is a disaster for college students. This is the path forward.

Fifteen-year-old Peyton Miller controls the ball during practice with the New England Revolution’s B-team, known as Revolution II.

At 15, he’s the youngest soccer player ever signed by the Revolution. Next up, homework.

We broke up but still hang out. Should we get back together?

This week's daters: Bhushan and Janice

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I thought, “Oh no, she is going to hate me”’

metro

Aftermath of fire at the Harborside Inn on Block Island, Rhode Island from Block Island Times.

See photos and videos of the fire at the historic Harborside Inn

With crown and wand, Coast Guard veteran Yolanda Cerullo is honored for her 100th birthday

Roxbury organization hosts resource fair for people who had been incarcerated

sports

Inter Miami's Lionel Messi battles with Nashville's Fafa Picault for control during the second half in the Leagues Cup 2023 final Saturday night in Nashville, Tennessee.

Lionel Messi scores in regulation, penalties as Inter Miami beats Nashville in League Cup final

Davis Schneider hits winning HR in eighth, Blue Jays survive scare from Reds

Tua Tagovailoa leads TD drive in preseason debut to help Dolphins beat Texans

business

A driverless shuttle stopped for a passenger on San Francisco's Treasure Island as part of a pilot program to assess the safety and effectiveness of autonomous vehicles for public transit last week.

GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle unit agrees to cut fleet in half after 2 crashes in San Francisco

Kansas newspaper is talk of town, and not just for getting raided

Is Boston high on marijuana dispensaries? Four charts that give you a snapshot of the cannabis industry

politics

President Trump spoke during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as president in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump’s lies tested limits of the bully pulpit. His right to say them is at core of criminal defense.

Trump cancels press conference on election fraud claims, citing attorneys’ advice

How many of Trump’s trials will happen before the election?

Nation

Ron Cephas Jones attends the LA Premiere of "Truth Be Told," at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Nov. 11, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Ron Cephas Jones, ‘This Is Us’ actor who won 2 Emmys, dies at 66

DOJ says D.C. officer’s suicide after Jan. 6 riot is line of duty death

Pat Hamilton, news photographer in war zones, dies at 74

World

An injured man walks in Krasna square with the Taras Shevchenko Chernihiv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theatre in the background, after a Russian attack, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 19.

Zelenskyy vows retaliation for Chernihiv attack that killed seven people and wounded almost 150

The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon

Hurricane Hilary moves very near to Mexico’s Baja coast packing deadly rainfall

opinion

A previously undisclosed investigation reveals the US Coast Guard failed to appropriately review and prosecute cases of sexual assault at the service's Connecticut academy for years while some of the accused rose up the ranks.

An old Coast Guard scandal emerges and casts a harsh light on the service’s sexual assault policies

How Medicare can save $500 billion

It’s like jury duty, but for getting things done

lifestyle

P-Town carnival

Photos: Meet the attendees of the Provincetown Carnival

After serial monogamy, I want to be single for a full year

With Sober in the Suburbs, a judgment-free social club for anyone tired of hangovers, headaches, and morning-after regret

food & dining

Chef Andrew Hebert puts the finishing touches on a pepperoni pizza at Gufo Restaurant.

It’s Italian food all day and night at Gufo in Cambridge

The Field & Vine team will open June Bug in Union Square; The Chemist experiments with Downtown Crossing

Here’s why there’s a sign saying ‘I Hate Boston’ in the North End

travel

This shingle-style mansion on Cape Cod Bay was known as Fieldstone Hall, when it was home to three generations of the Nickerson family.

Want to party like it’s 1899 (or need an excuse to wear your croquet costume)? Head to the Cape.

Delta adds a touch of luster to otherwise quiet opening week at Logan’s expanded Terminal E

Patrick Monahan of Train talks about his wife, Italy, and crystals from Sedona

Arts

Virgil Ortiz, "The Translator," from the artist’s "Revolt 1680/2180" project, 2015.

Three ways of looking at Pueblo art

Provincetown Public Art Foundation aims to make town’s ‘artistic soul visible’

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

Books

In William Boyd’s ‘The Romantic,’ an Irish Everyman survives the tumult of global history through luck, wit, and unfettered joy

Laura Trethewey, author of ‘The Deepest Map,’ reveals a literary cult favorite of deep ocean explorers

Jen Soriano traces her fragile nervous system to generational trauma in ‘Nervous’

Movies

Screenshots of Ceara Jane O’Sullivan’s TikTok (@cearajane).

Coming to a live venue near you: As Hollywood strikes rage on, Bay State brings in some big (and not-so-big) names

Leonard Bernstein’s children respond to criticism of Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in ‘Maestro’

A rendezvous for the night: The Boss at the movies

Television

On Sept. 29, Netflix will end its DVD services, and those red envelopes will be a thing of the past.

Netflix bidding farewell to DVD services

Before ‘Fargo’ returns, a fast ranking of the first four seasons

The violence that we see and the violence that we don’t

music

Bruce Springsteen performs during a concert for folk-music legend Pete Seeger at Madison Square Garden in New York on May 3, 2009.

A rendezvous for the night: The Boss at the movies

‘Mary Climbs In’ authors survey the inner landscape of Springsteen’s women fans

Playing ball: Steve Wynn of the Baseball Project steps up to the musical plate

Theater/Dance

From left: Karl Gregory, Erica Steinhagen, and Nael Nacer in "The Ding Dongs" at Gloucester Stage Company.

‘The Ding Dongs’: When that doorbell rings, watch out

Old and new at the Pillow

Boston Ballet announces Ming Min Hui as new executive director

Health

Research nurse Sarah French checks on Rodolfo Almeida of Providence at The Miriam Hospital's new Stephen and Diana Lewinstein Center for Innovative Cancer Research, a clinical area where patients receive investigational cancer treatments.

Changing the landscape of cancer care in R.I.: Lifespan, Brown to seek NCI designation

To better understand alcohol addiction, new research is turning to fruit flies

Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

Obituaries

Nan Tull in her studio at the 249 A Street Artists Cooperative in 2009.

Nan Tull, an artist ‘of true feeling based on experience,’ dies at 85

Jean-Louis Georgelin, face of the Notre Dame reconstruction, dies at 74

John Devitt, champion swimmer with a tarnished gold medal, dies at 86