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Israel declares war against Hamas as casualty figures rise
Israeli soldiers battled Hamas fighters on Sunday and launched retaliation strikes that leveled buildings in Gaza, while the nation officially declared war. Hundreds were reported dead, with more missing and wounded.

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‘Out with the old’: Boston Public Schools attempts to raise reading scores through overhauling instruction

After years of dismally low reading scores, the state’s largest school system is making a dramatic shift toward “structured literacy," instruction that draws on a body of research.

Two women rescued after being swept off Dog Bar breakwater in Gloucester

The departments received a call at 10:46 a.m. Sunday reporting that the women had been washed off the granite breakwater, which extends into the harbor from Eastern Point Lighthouse on the harbor’s outer edge, officials said.

In Holyoke, frustration and resolve in the face of violence
One by one, through anger and tears, the speakers at Sunday's peace rally shared the same message: the violence needs to stop, and the guns have to go.

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Boy and girl, both 12, started fire at Catholic church in East Bridgewater, officials say

The vandals apparently tried to put out the flames by using a fire extinguisher and pouring water taken from the sacristy, officials said.

Powerball jackpot soars to $1.55 billion; two tickets sold in Mass. worth $1 million each

Monday’s Powerball jackpot is the third largest in the game’s history and the fourth biggest prize in US lottery history.

Fitchburg State University police search for man after student reports assault

The student reported that she was approached in the campus library by a man who began speaking to her and then initiated “physical contact that escalated into sexual assault,” officials said.
gary washburn | on basketball

Payton Pritchard’s contract extension another sign the Celtics are in a hurry to win an NBA title

The Celtics have exhausted their salary cap flexibility for the sake of putting together a team they believe can compete for a championship in the next five years.
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A look at the 23 players who have made the Boston Bruins’ Opening Night roster

Second-year coach Jim Montgomery chose these 13 forwards, eight defensemen, and two goalies to start the 2023-24 season.

Colonial tavern tour guide releases new biography of John Hancock, a ‘moderate’ Founding Father with a ‘radical influence’

In "King Hancock," local author and tour guide Brooke Barbier examines what made the Founding Father so popular in his day. A generous pour might have had something to do with it.
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Reading what his contemporaries wrote about him opened my eyes.
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Mass. and Cass shows the failure of progressive drug policies
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Beyond Pride: A future museum to celebrate LGBTQ Boston
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Hispanic Heritage Month

On the air and off, Jose Masso has been heard

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

During Hispanic Heritage Month, doctor says R.I. can do better: ‘Taco Tuesday is not progress. It is appeasement.’

DEVRA FIRST

10 restaurants that capture the spirit of Hispanic Heritage Month

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Driver tells children to ‘get in the car’ in possible attempted child abduction in Salem, police say
At around 2:44 p.m. Friday, three children were walking home from Witchcraft Heights Elementary School when they were approached by a blue Honda Pilot at the corner of Carrollton Street and Belleview Avenue, police said.

LOVE LETTERS
We blocked each other
Now I feel immature.

Death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan rises to over 2,000
The death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan has risen to over 2,000, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday.

MUSIC REVIEW
BSO’s ‘Opening Night at Symphony’ nods to the familiar and the future
Saturday’s concert was very much a program of two halves, yet it offered any number of highly enjoyable moments.

Black Labrador rescued from culvert in Carlisle state park
Rescuers hooked Zena’s harness with a fire department pike pole and pulled her out of the water, where she was about 5 feet below the surface of the land, according to police.

Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT professor emerita who challenged gender bias in science, dies at 87
"The relationship between gender and science is a pressing issue not simply because women have been historically excluded from science," Dr. Keller once wrote.

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