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At 98 degrees, Boston breaks 101-year-old daily high temperature record

The heat index value also reached a staggering 107 degrees.

Dave Epstein: What to know about the heat index — and why it's important As heat wave sweeps the state, many outdoor pools remain closed

Forecast high temperatures for Wednesday in New England.

These heat wave maps show what to expect in New England this week

Gus the dog drinks from a water fountain in New York on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Much of the Northeast will swelter through the weekend from the same heat wave that has already baked the Midwest.

How to keep your pet safe in a heat wave

Firewall system problem blamed for outage in state’s 911 system, officials say

The company that operates the system determined that the outage was not the result of a cyberattack or hack, but it remained unclear what caused the firewall to stop calls from reaching dispatch centers.

Pastor remembers woman, son killed in Wilbraham shooting as kind, ‘positive’ people
Sima Setian Pariseau and her son, Dylan Pariseau, spent Father’s Day at an Armenian church that was the center of their spiritual lives. On Tuesday, they were both dead, shot multiple times in an apparent murder-suicide.

Vermont lawmaker apologizes for repeatedly dousing colleague’s tote bag: ‘I am truly ashamed’
State Representative Jim Carroll said the harassment began in January and included dozens of incidents.

At Karen Read trial, forensic evidence has moved to the fore

Experts have recently testified about DNA found on tailight fragments from Read’s SUV, the nature of John O’Keefe’s arm injuries, and the timing of a Google search about hypothermia.

Here's what Karen Read said about testifying at her murder trial Read the text messages between Karen Read and John O’Keefe the day before he died

One motorcyclist killed, two injured in New Hampshire crash involving ‘gust of wind,’ officials say

Dennis announces beach restrictions for Fourth of July to crack down on unruly behavior

Fishing trip on Taunton River turns deadly; man dies after boat takes on water

How the Celtics digital media team won the hearts, and eyeballs, of fans across the NBA

The small army of videographers and social media specialists have gained a major following, with some advocating for them to receive championship rings of their own.

Chad Finn

This Celtics championship is for ... well, a few people come to mind
This is for Joe Mazzulla, for Al Horford, for Mike Gorman, for Jrue Holiday and Derrick White, for Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown and for those who stuck with them.

Your guide to the Celtics’ championship parade: What to know if you’re going, and how to watch if you can’t

See the parade route

Bob Hohler | Essay

‘Got it!’ The 259-day, 50,000-mile, feel-good odyssey to a Celtics championship.

World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler — a Mavericks fan — gets a little Celtics ribbing at Travelers

Globe Magazine

Why librarians at Harvard and elsewhere are racing to save vintage porn
Research libraries in Cambridge and across the country are hurrying to collect sexual ephemera from Americans’ pasts, before it’s too late.

The fire from the inside of a dugout canoe, referred to by Indigenous people as a mishoon, lit the face of George Bearclaw as he took the night shift to keep an eye on the flames and continue to scrape and shape the mishoon on the shores of Lake Quinsigamond in Shrewsbury. For the first time since the 1640s, a mishoon burned on the shores of Lake Quinsigamond as members of the Hassanamisco band of the Nipmuc held a weeklong traditional burn.

‘We’re still here’: In Shrewsbury, Nipmuc tribe seeks to reclaim, preserve artifacts

There is a sweeping endeavor underway to preserve and study Nipmuc artifacts and heritage in Shrewsbury, which lies at the heart of the tribe's historic homeland in central New England.

The homes of Lisa Gorman (front) and Amelia and Arthur Bond in Camden, Maine. The Bonds, a wealthy, politically connected Missouri couple, allegedly poisoned their neighbor's trees to secure a view of the harbor.

A wealthy couple allegedly poisoned their neighbors’ trees to secure a Maine harbor view. It’s united locals in rage.

The incident that was unearthed by the victim herself — the philanthropic wife of L.L. Bean’s late president — has united local residents in outrage.

Glorya Fernandez (right) taught Wynne Blair how to cook black-eyed pea fritters during the Juneteenth celebration in Boston. Fernandez is a local chef that hosts plant-based meal cooking demonstrations and other nutritional instruction initiatives through her company gogobytes.

For local chefs and foodies, Juneteenth flavors are as wide as Boston’s African diaspora

Three local chefs show how the holiday transcends cultures and generations.

What’s open, closed on Juneteenth in Massachusetts

The beginners guide to celebrating Juneteenth

Watch: Honoring trailblazers in Boston’s civil rights movement

Alexandra Mencia Moradel, uses a napkin to wipe her lip while eating with other students during lunch in the studio where they were cooking for a monthly TV show. In background is Chef Liz Henderson with Northeast Metro Tech School in Wakefield. Revere teens who are enrolled in the culinary arts program at Northeast Metro Tech School in Wakefield filming the second episode of "Northeast Cooks," a monthly program filmed at RevereTV and shown on local cable. Each episode of the student-led program spotlights a new dish and features the full scope of culinary arts from knife techniques to mastery in presentation.

Cooking for the cameras: culinary arts students from Revere star in local cable TV show

Northeast Cooks, produced by Northeast Metro Tech and RevereTV, is a local access cable TV show featuring Revere teens enrolled in the culinary arts program at the regional vocational high school in Wakefield.

Cambridge City Hall.

Cambridge is considering a controversial approach to saving local news: Having the city pay for it.

A new proposal would see taxpayer funds spent to prop up community coverage. Elected officials and journalism experts have doubts.

My partner’s family secrets are driving a wedge between us

I suspect he’s keeping information about an inheritance from his siblings, and I feel complicit.

Opinion

Boston Celtics' Bill Russell, left, held a corsage sent to the dressing room as he celebrated with Celtics coach Red Auerbach after defeating the Los Angeles Lakers, 95-93, to win their eighth-straight NBA Championship, in Boston, April 29, 1966.

Should Logan Airport be renamed for Bill Russell?

An airport provides a traveler’s first and last impression, and the name is part of that impression.

IDEAS | JOSEPH G. ALLEN AND KARI NADEAU

Heat waves like this one demand a rethinking of air conditioning

If we’re pretty sure social media endangers kids, shouldn’t we do something about it?

James S. Hirsch

Willie Mays paid a high price to be Willie Mays

Britain signals a left turn even as the EU looks right

LGBTQ Pride Month

Actress Elizabeth Montgomery, right, in character as Serena, Samantha's sassy cousin on the beloved sitcom Bewitched, on location in Gloucester in 1970. She is talking to the famed Gloucester fisherman, whose statue came to life in a memorable episode, "Darrin on a Pedestal."

Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester explores the LGBTQ+ appeal of ‘Bewitched,’ the classic TV sitcom

The rainbow flag flies over Boston during the Pride Week (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff)

Boston Globe Today

‘Pride is a riot’: Elevating queer voices and stories in June

The Boston Pride for the People parade and festival, held Saturday in Boston, is estimated to draw more than 1 million people.

Boston Pride parade awash in positivity

Members of Island Pride Boston dance during the Boston Pride for the People parade.

See photos of Boston’s Pride parade on a sunny and colorful day

More recent News

MLB’s tribute to Negro leagues with game at Rickwood Field will have a somber undertone in wake of Willie Mays’s death

The 114-year-old ballpark in Alabama is where the incomparable Mays got his start with the Birmingham Black Barons.

Gilgo Beach suspect’s how-to manual reflects a killer’s mind, prosecutors say
Prosecutors say Rex Heuermann created the document to “methodically blueprint” the selection, killing, and disposal of victims.

Families of motorcyclists killed in 2019 crash testify at N.H. hearing for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy
An administrative law judge must decide how long Volodymyr Zhukovskyy will be prohibited from driving in New Hampshire.

wnba

LA Sparks rookie Cameron Brink tears ACL in left knee
The injury happened the first quarter of the Sparks’ 79-70 loss at Connecticut.

Gleaming monolith pops up in Nevada desert, the latest in a series of quickly vanishing structures
Las Vegas police said that members of its search and rescue unit found the otherworldly object over the weekend near Gass Peak, part of the vast Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

Could the Bruins land a top 10 pick in a Linus Ullmark trade?
Given the number of teams in need of reinforcements between the pipes, trading Ullmark could be a viable scenario for the Bruins.

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MIT rising sophomore Kate Pearce participated in a protest on June 12 in Cambridge outside the offices of Elbit Systems, a company that does work for the Israeli military.

‘Our movement is not going to die down’: Pro-Palestinian student protesters gear up for future disruptions

Protesters are continuing to organize in communities across the state this summer, and the college students leading them say they’re gearing up for another intense season of activism in the fall.

Emerson College to cut faculty positions amid enrollment decline linked to campus protests, crackdown

Cape Cod land for sale? More than 90 acres in Sandwich have hit the market.
“This is definitely a unique opportunity,” said John E. Ciluzzi, president of Premier Commercial.

Steward delays bid deadline for its Massachusetts hospitals by three weeks
Steward, which filed for bankruptcy May 6, gave no reason for the delay.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Boston Public Schools student homelessness hits all-time high. Why has it gotten so bad?
More than 5,000 BPS students have experienced homelessness at some point this school year. It’s a record level for the district, a troubling trend that has been on the rise since the 2021-2022 school year.

Culture & Lifestyle

Austin Butler in "The Bikeriders."

‘The Bikeriders,’ about a 1960s Chicago motorcycle club, is a movie in motion

Ben Platt performed Tuesday at the Boch Center Wang Theatre in Boston.

Ben Platt revels in sweetness on ‘Honeymind’ tour

Ayo Edebiri in "The Bear."

What’s in a name? Less than you might think

Attendees watched "Shrek" at the 2023 Movie Night at Fenway event.

‘Star Wars’ at Fenway? Sounds like a home run.

Special Projects

Illustration of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White along with other NBA greats for the 2024 Finals preview.

Where do the 2023-24 Celtics stand among the greatest teams in NBA history?

If Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown beat the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals and carry the team to Banner No. 18, their legacies would be cemented. But all of this year’s success means nothing without a ring.

Lauren Friel (left) owner of Rebel Rebel, chatted with customers while working at her wine bar in Bow Market in Somerville. The restrictive Boston liquor license system has pushed throngs of innovative chefs to neighborhood towns with laxer laws, including Brookline, Somerville, and Cambridge.

Priced out: How Boston’s broken liquor license system drives chefs from the city

A stubbornly high price tag for serving alcohol hurts thousands of hospitality workers, aspiring restaurateurs, and the city itself.

Interactive map

Pothole season is upon us. See which neighborhoods have the most reports

Boston’s 311 data provides a day-by-day look at the condition of the city’s streets and sidewalks, which neighborhoods are hit hardest, and just how fast repairs are made.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics are NBA champions.

The champion Boston Celtics — this is just the beginning

A 3-D model of the Titan submersible.

IDEAS | JAMES STURZ

One year later, questions still loom about the doomed dive of the Titan

Governor Maura Healey said the text messages of trooper Michael Proctor were unprofessional and said they harm “the dignity and integrity” of other State Police work.

Is Governor Healey up for fixing the State Police?

A bicycle rested near the wall of a shelter riddled with bullets during the Oct. 7 attacks carried out by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, at Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel on June 13, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas.

Colleges should commit to reversing the dangerous trend of easy morality

Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor faced cross-examination by lawyer Alan Jackson during the Karen Read murder trial in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham on June 12.

Foul-mouthed, sexist trooper puts the spotlight on State Police

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

How to keep your pet safe in a heat wave

The Globe spoke with local veterinarians about tips and tricks for keeping furry friends safe amid the heat.

Cooking for the cameras: culinary arts students from Revere star in local cable TV show

Northeast Cooks, produced by Northeast Metro Tech and RevereTV, is a local access cable TV show featuring Revere teens enrolled in the culinary arts program at the regional vocational high school in Wakefield.

What is lost when Black churches leave Boston?

WATCH: Some congregations have left for the suburbs. Reporter Tiana Woodard explains why and what some leaders are doing to stay.

Dennis announces beach restrictions for Fourth of July to crack down on unruly behavior

Officials in Dennis announced new beach restrictions for the Fourth of July on Wednesday in response to large, unruly gatherings of young people at Cape Cod beaches last Independence Day and on previous holidays.

Sports

Jacob Markstrom, shown in March, went 23-23-2 for the Flames last season, his 2.78 goals-against average ranking 20th.

As the goalie market turns: Devils trade for Flames’ Jacob Markstrom, Kings acquire Darcy Kuemper from Capitals

New Jersey general manager Tom Fitzgerald attempted to get Markstrom before the trade deadline. His team had been seen as a potential landing spot for Linus Ullmark if the Bruins sought to trade their Vezina Trophy winner.

Michael Thorbjornsen has found success at TPC River Highlands, finishing fourth as an amateur in 2022.

‘This is definitely my home.’ Wellesley’s Michael Thorbjornsen makes his PGA Tour pro debut in his own backyard.

Thorbjornsen, who finished fourth as an amateur at the 2022 Travelers and played at Stanford, earned his tour card after finishing the PGA Tour University season ranked No. 1.

A Willie Mays mural is shown in downtown Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday,The mural was created by artist Chuck Styles and celebrates Mays' contributions to baseball, honoring the longtime Giants center fielder who died Tuesday at age 93.

Tributes to Willie Mays pour in as mural is set to be unveiled in Alabama

Mays, who was the oldest living Hall of Famer, died Tuesday at age 93 two days before a game between his former team, the San Francisco Giants, and the St. Louis Cardinals to honor the Negro Leagues at Rickwood Field in Birmingham.

Relive the mayhem: Boston Celtics fans take over Causeway Street after NBA Finals win

This Celtics championship is for ... well, a few people come to mind

How the Celtics digital media team won the hearts, and eyeballs, of fans across the NBA

Business

Best Buy trains 30,000 for Microsoft AI laptops launch

Best Buy says that this is its biggest training effort in a decade in both scope and number of employees.

OpenAI cofounder, who helped oust Sam Altman, starts his own company

Ilya Sutskever has helped found Safe Superintelligence, a startup that aims to produce a machine that is more intelligent than humans in a safe way.

Bezos reassures Post editors in first outreach since Buzbee exit

Are planes safe right now? How to understand flight disruptions.

magazine

The extraordinary lives of New England’s Black whaling captains

My partner’s family secrets are driving a wedge between us

Could I buy only 5 new items of clothing in a whole year? Well, I could try.

Chili and Citrus-Marinated Fish Tacos

Summer recipes: authentic fish tacos, tomato and watermelon salad, and more

metro

Lewis Lent in custody in 1994. (AP Photo/Alan Solomon)

Search for remains of victims of serial killer Lewis Lent turns up no new evidence, authorities say

Families of motorcyclists killed in 2019 crash testify at N.H. hearing for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy

Pastor remembers woman, son killed in Wilbraham shooting as kind, ‘positive’ people

sports

Confetti filled the TD Garden as the Boston Celtics won the 2024 NBA Finals over the Dallas Mavericks Monday.

Where will the Celtics championship parade travel? See the route map.

Jeff Van Gundy grateful for his stint with Celtics as he departs for Clippers

Your guide to the Celtics’ championship parade: What to know if you’re going, and how to watch if you can’t

business

Barry Holder gulped water while working on a construction site on A Street in South Boston Wednesday. The New England power grid emergency comes as a potentially record-setting heat wave hits the Northeast,

New England power grid declares emergency as heat wave hits

In rare rebuke, Toyota chair’s investor support tumbles

How the Celtics digital media team won the hearts, and eyeballs, of fans across the NBA

politics

Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman, who is running for Congress in Virginia, took a campaign sign out of a car while canvassing in Occoquan, Va., April 9.

Trump whistle-blower wins House primary in Virginia

Vermont lawmaker apologizes for repeatedly dousing colleague’s tote bag: ‘I am truly ashamed’

The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law

Nation

JoDe Goudy, chair of the Yakama Nation, pictured near the Columbia River in The Dalles, Oregon, on Oct. 14, 2019. On Tuesday, the Biden administration acknowledged, for the first time, the harms that federal dams in the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes.

Federal dams harm Native American communities, US acknowledges

The fight for abortion rights gets an unlikely messenger in swing state Pennsylvania: Senator Bob Casey

Supreme Court ruling on bump stocks could open door to more lethal weapons

World

People wave the flag of South Africa in celebration before the inauguration of President Cyril Ramaphosa to a second term in Pretoria on Wednesday.

As president takes oath, 4 challenges for South Africa’s new government

Who owns Alexander the Great? It’s a diplomatic minefield.

Russia and North Korea sign partnership deal that appears to be the strongest since the Cold War

opinion

As a teleprompter screen reflected a chandelier, President Biden spoke during a news conference with President William Ruto of Kenya in the the White House on May 23.

Republicans are trying to ‘cheap fake’ their way back to the White House

Britain signals a left turn even as the EU looks right

It shouldn’t take another mass shooting for Congress to restore a bump stock ban

lifestyle

Actor Ian McKellen.

Actor Ian McKellen is in ‘good spirits’ and expected to recover from fall off stage in London

Here’s what we know about the dating rumors involving Bill Belichick and Miss Maine runner-up Jordon Hudson

Stuck on my first love

food & dining

Fruits and vegetables, key parts of the Mediterranean diet.

Mediterranean diet or not, eating seasonally can be good for you

‘James Beard loved to eat... And he was always broke’: Jacques Pépin remembers one of America’s most influential food figures

For local chefs and foodies, Juneteenth flavors are as wide as Boston’s African diaspora

travel

A three-mile portion of the Island Line Trail in Burlington, Vt., stretches over Lake Champlain.

Our travel writer shares his New England summertime favorites, from the best beach to the perfect miniature golf course

This South Shore town was selected as the best seaside small town to visit in America in 2024, according to Smithsonian Magazine

30 years of bad art, Oregon’s biggest music festival, and a last-minute gift for an outdoorsy dad

Arts

Chaim Ebanks, bookbinder, and Susan Ebanks, designer, "Moby Dick: or, The Whale," 2023.

Some different looks for a most famous book — that book being ‘Moby-Dick’

Here’s the story behind New Bedford’s 20-foot-tall ‘Plastic Rooster’ made of trash

Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester explores the LGBTQ+ appeal of ‘Bewitched,’ the classic TV sitcom

Books

From left: "Swan Song" by Elin Hilderbrand and "Not in Love" by Ali Hazelwood.

Local bestsellers for the week ended June 16

In John Ganz’s ‘When the Clock Broke,’ finding the roots of today’s unrest in the early 1990s

Cheating death and creating paradise in Olivia Laing’s ‘The Garden Against Time’

Movies

Austin Butler in "The Bikeriders."

‘The Bikeriders,’ about a 1960s Chicago motorcycle club, is a movie in motion

‘Star Wars’ at Fenway? Sounds like a home run.

Provincetown filmmaker’s ‘Art Thief’ imagines what happened before and after Gardner Museum theft

Television

Interior designer Taniya Nayak appears on the new season of HGTV's "Battle on the Beach."

Milton-based designer Taniya Nayak’s latest HGTV gig is ‘Battle on the Beach’

With music licensing set, ‘Homicide’ finds a streamer

What’s in a name? Less than you might think

music

Ben Platt performed Tuesday at the Boch Center Wang Theatre in Boston.

Ben Platt revels in sweetness on ‘Honeymind’ tour

Singer Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons

‘The music is going up’: Guitarist Mdou Moctar, from Niger, offers a hard rock version of desert blues.

Theater/Dance

The members of the company of "Stereophonic" perform during the 77th Tony Awards on June 16 in New York.

‘The Outsiders’ wins best musical and ‘Stereophonic’ best play as women make strides at Tony Awards

Who will win at the 2024 Tonys, and who should

Everything you need to know about the Tony Awards 2024

Health

Dozens of CVS generic drug recalls expose link to tainted factories

Owner of 2 safety-net hospitals in R.I. ordered to pay $17m within 10 days

In CVS’s home state, pharmacists in 2 retail stores vote to unionize

Obituaries

San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays displays the four baseballs in the clubhouse representing the four homers which he hit against the Milwaukee Braves, April 30, 1961, in Milwaukee.

Reaction to the death of Willie Mays, ‘the godfather of center fielders’

Bob Schul, a singular US Olympian in 5,000-meter race, dies at 86

Anouk Aimée, enigmatic star of ‘A Man and a Woman,’ dies at 92