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Migrants push for stability amid election uncertainty

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US and Russia complete biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, freeing Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan
The deal was the latest in a series of prisoner swaps negotiated between Russia and the US in the past two years but the first to require significant concessions from other countries. President Biden called the news an “incredible relief.”

Representative Bill Keating hails major prisoner swap with Russia: A ‘great feeling of relief and joy’

Russian millionaire convicted of hacking crime in Boston among those released in multi-national prisoner swap

COVID levels in Mass. waste water nearly quadrupled over 2 weeks in July, CDC data show

New testing shows the levels of coronavirus in Massachusetts waste water nearly quadrupled over two weeks in July, according to data from the CDC.

See the latest COVID data

Wu’s planning czar, Arthur Jemison, to step down
The move comes amid major transition in Boston’s approach to planning and building, and a broad development slowdown.

Settlement reached in suit filed by two Souza-Baranowski inmates who alleged retaliatory attack by corrections officers

Dionisio Paulino and Robert Silva-Prentice, who are inmates at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, sued more than 30 corrections officers and state prison officials, according to case filings at US District Court in Boston. Details of the settlement were sealed by the court.

Read the 2021 Spotlight investigation

‘You’re never going to shut me up’: Haverhill man returns home after a rare voice-box transplant
He is the first person in the world with an active cancer to undergo the procedure.

Fotios "Freddy" Geas (left) appeared for a court proceeding in 2009 in Springfield. Paul J. DeCologero (right) in an image from Facebook.

Mass. man accused of fatally beating Whitey Bulger sentenced to four years in prison for assault

Trump shocked and angered a crowd of Black journalists. Here’s a rundown of some of the flashpoints.

Donald Trump sparked widespread outrage Wednesday for a series of combative and false assertions at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention in Chicago.

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s remarks on race during his NABJ appearance

Lynn man charged with killing his brother’s pregnant girlfriend

FBI searched residential address in Hull

Marketing firm fined $40,000 for 2022 mailers promoting GOP candidate in New Hampshire

CHELSEA, MA - 6/29/2021 A man inspects a fan as it rests on Broadway in downtown Chelsea on Tuesday afternoon. Almost the entire city of Chelsea is a heat island and as temperatures soar elsewhere, it's hotter there. Erin Clark/Globe Staff

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In Boston’s redlined neighborhoods, the summer’s heat waves are even hotter

Boston is one big “urban heat island,” but within that heat island are even hotter regions, and those areas are disproportionately formerly redlined communities with mostly Black, Latino, and Asian residents.

Map of Boston urban heat island intensity created in Flourish, data from city of Boston

Map: The temperature can vary a lot depending where you are in Boston. Here’s where it’s the hottest, and why.

More densely developed urban areas tend to be much hotter.

Hot nights and high humidity — A look back at a rough July in New England EMS calls increase as Boston heats up

2024 Paris Olympics

Tara Sullivan

With another gold, Simone Biles showcases her Olympic mettle as the world’s greatest gymnast, and one of the toughest competitors
What Biles accomplished Thursday night in Paris proved her Olympic status as the greatest of all time was secure.

Biles wins all-around title to claim sixth Olympic gold

Katie Ledecky of Team USA competes in the Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final.

US women take silver in 4x200 freestyle relay; Katie Ledecky becomes Olympics’ most-decorated female swimmer

Liam Corrigan (left) and teammates Michael Grady, Justin Best, and Nick Mead won the men's fours final in Vaires-sur-Marne.

Connecticut native, Harvard rower Liam Corrigan, US win first gold in men’s four in 64 years

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First-year head coach Jerod Mayo certainly has the Patriots working hard in training camp.

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Patriots training camp observations: Are we sure Jerod Mayo is a ‘player’s coach’?

The new boss has been putting his charges through some pretty rigorous workouts in blistering heat.

Drake Maye has a bounce-back day David Andrews has missed Patriots practice because of a family health issue

Kraft Group ‘deeply disappointed’ after state fails to move on Revolution stadium
A measure that could have paved the way for the Patriots owners to build a 25,000-seat soccer stadium in Everett died as the legislative session expired.

‘A disappointment’: Economic development, climate bills collapse, housing bill advances in all-night Mass. legislative session

Mass. lawmakers didn’t do much last night. But they did pass a $5.2 billion housing bill and legalize ‘granny flats’ across the state

The Days Hotel in Metheun. Some hotel owners are making millions through contracts with the state to shelter homeless and migrant families.

Hotel owners are earning millions in contracts by turning their suburban outposts into shelters for homeless and migrants

The homeless and migrant crisis has been expensive for taxpayers, but it’s been a boon for some hotel owners, including two Massachusetts companies.

2024 PARIS OLYMPICS

Will Colin Jost survive the Olympics? His injuries while covering surfing have become ‘comedy gold.’
Jost, of "Saturday Night Live" fame, concedes he may be a questionable pick to deliver surf commentary at the Olympics. But the mismatch has made for more unintentional comedy than any sketch writer could dream up.

Imane Khelif, Algeria boxer who had gender test issue, wins first Olympic fight when opponent quits Harvard’s Lauren Scruggs, US wins a team fencing gold for the first time

Yusuf Dikec (right) and his partner Sevval Ilayda Tarhan compete on Monday.

Who is the Turkish shooter going viral for his casual (and winning) look at the Olympics?

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He’s phubbing me (and others)

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From left: Hong Chau, Casey Affleck, and Matt Damon in "The Instigators."

Odie Henderson review | ★½

‘The Instigators’: a heist-gone-wrong movie done right? Nope.

"The Friends of Eddie Coyle" this is not.

Review: ‘Kneecap’ is the somewhat true tale of an Irish-language hip-hop group

HBO series "Veep," season 7, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer.

‘Veep,’ TV’s prophesies, and our attachment to entertainment

Are TV writers reading the zeitgeist like an astrologist reads star charts?

Opinion

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a campaign rally, July 31, in Harrisburg, Pa.

SCOT LEHIGH

Fickle fortune frowns upon The Great Trumpkin

But who was to blame for the mess he was in?

Renée Loth

Boston’s chief of planning Arthur Jemison departs with a brief but meaningful legacy

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Learning to really see Boston, one sketch at a time

Barney Frank

Steve Bannon’s warning to American Jews

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Trump takes a wild swing at Harris

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At the best comedy clubs in Boston, big laughs sometimes come in small spaces

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The MBTA's new “tap-to-go” payment method for buses and subways started today. Governor Maura Healey tried the new contactless payments Thursday morning.

Bookmaker to plead guilty in gambling case tied to baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter

A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the ex-interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to running an illegal gambling business.

Police groups voice concerns on proposal for expanded POST Commission powers

The leaders of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association and the Massachusetts Association for Professional Law Enforcement voiced concerns about the scope and bureaucratic burdens of the regulations, which would allow the commission to audit entire police departments.

Secret Service’s tech flaws helped gunman evade detection at Trump rally

The result was that a 20-year-old gunman had a technological advantage over a $3 billion federal agency.

Digital healthcare company Amwell cut more than 100 jobs

The company employed 1,104 people at the end of 2023, according to its annual report.

New data shows no apprehensions at N.H.’s northern border, as illegal immigration remains a hot-button issue

Republican Governor Chris Sununu touted the data as evidence of a successful border security initiative, while the ACLU of NH said the patrol program is unnecessary because unlawful crossings in NH are rare.

Celtics star Jaylen Brown is setting out to generate $5 billion in generational wealth for communities of color

The NBA Finals MVP has tapped local partners from MIT to the City of Boston to help shape his vision to support entrepreneurs in the so-called creative economy.

Suno strikes back in AI music fight
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Family of Pete Frates gathers at Fenway to celebrate 10th anniversary of Ice Bucket Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS that Pete Frates helped launch in 2014 quickly grew into a global phenomenon, raising millions to fight the disease.

For years, wealthy Martha’s Vineyard property owners have fought over a beach. Now, lawmakers are stepping into the fray.
The House last week passed a bill designed to clarify when a barrier beach that literally moves because of erosion or rising sea levels is considered public. It immediately inflamed a long-running legal dispute an island away.

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"Gatsby" at the American Repertory Theater (left) and "Queen of Versailles" at the Emerson Colonial Theatre (right) have lured Broadway fans to Boston while the productions overlapped.

Broadway fans have been making pilgrimages to Boston for overlapping ‘Queen of Versailles’ and ‘Gatsby’

Kamasi Washington onstage in New York on June 13, 2024.

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

Data show that these Celtics are truly extraordinary, a team of uncommon prowess on both ends of the court

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.

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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.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

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Antigovernment protesters took to the streets in Caracas on Monday after the incumbent Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, declared victory despite widespread accusations of fraud.

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A brazen effort to steal an election in Venezuela

Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, at a rally on July 29.

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Senator Mark Kelly, at the White House on June 4. Vice President Kamala Harris

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Migrants who arrived in Massachusetts, originally from Venezuela, sat together at the social services organization La Colaborativa, March 6, in Chelsea.

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New shelter policy will put ‘children and babies’ on the streets

Lights in the doorways of homes glow on Charles St. on Beacon Hill in 2022.

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Trump on defense after race comments and Vance’s rough launch

Donald claimed that Kamala Harris had only promoted her Indian heritage. Harris responded on Wednesday night, saying that “the American people deserve better.”

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Marketing firm fined $40,000 for 2022 mailers promoting GOP candidate in New Hampshire

The 189,000 mailers designed by Deliver Strategies were labeled “Robert Burns for Congress,” but Burns had nothing to do with them, according to the state attorney general’s office.

Wu’s planning czar, Arthur Jemison, to step down

The move comes amid major transition in Boston’s approach to planning and building, and a broad development slowdown.

US and Russia completed a prisoner swap that saw the release of Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan

US and Russia completed a prisoner swap that saw the release of Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free.

Sports

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star Shohei Ohtani, leaves federal court in Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 4.

Bookmaker to plead guilty in gambling case tied to baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter

A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the ex-interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to running an illegal gambling business.

Gold medalist Simone Biles (left) and bronze medalist Sunisa Lee of Team United States celebrate with the American flag after competing in the women's gymnastics all-around competition at the Summer Olympics in Paris.

John Powers | On Olympics

Two US Olympians, two medals, one flag: gold medalist Simone Biles and bronze winner Sunisa Lee share all-around glory atop the podium

This was the sixth consecutive time the Americans won the Olympic all-around and the third time since 2008 they’ve put two of their own on the medal stand.

Former Boston College head coach Jeff Hafley is settling nicely into his new gig as the Packers' defensive coordinator during his first training camp in Green Bay, Wis.

NFL

Packers believe new coordinator Jeff Hafley will help their defense produce more big plays

The former Boston College head coach has already made an impact on the Green Bay defense, say the players he's now coaching.

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With another gold, Simone Biles showcases her Olympic mettle as the world’s greatest gymnast, and one of the toughest competitors

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Wu’s planning czar, Arthur Jemison, to step down

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The biotech company's shares fell more than 20 percent Thursday, erasing their 2024 gains.

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector

Digital healthcare company Amwell cut more than 100 jobs

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Christopher Talken of the group STL GLD performs at the GLD FSTVL in 2023.

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Settlement reached in suit filed by two Souza-Baranowski inmates who alleged retaliatory attack by corrections officers

‘You’re never going to shut me up’: Haverhill man returns home after a rare voice-box transplant He is the first person in the world with an active cancer to undergo the procedure.

Mass. man accused of fatally beating Whitey Bulger sentenced to four years in prison for assault

Trump shocked and angered a crowd of Black journalists. Here’s a rundown of some of the flashpoints.

Lynn man charged with killing his brother’s pregnant girlfriend

FBI searched residential address in Hull

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2024 Paris Olympics

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Connecticut native, Harvard rower Liam Corrigan, US win first gold in men’s four in 64 years

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Boston’s chief of planning Arthur Jemison departs with a brief but meaningful legacy

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Steve Bannon’s warning to American Jews

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Secret Service’s tech flaws helped gunman evade detection at Trump rally

Digital healthcare company Amwell cut more than 100 jobs

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A brazen effort to steal an election in Venezuela

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New shelter policy will put ‘children and babies’ on the streets

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Trump on defense after race comments and Vance’s rough launch

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Wu’s planning czar, Arthur Jemison, to step down

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Wu’s planning czar, Arthur Jemison, to step down
The move comes amid major transition in Boston’s approach to planning and building, and a broad development slowdown.

‘You’re never going to shut me up’: Haverhill man returns home after a rare voice-box transplant
He is the first person in the world with an active cancer to undergo the procedure.

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With another gold, Simone Biles showcases her Olympic mettle as the world’s greatest gymnast, and one of the toughest competitors
What Biles accomplished Thursday night in Paris proved her Olympic status as the greatest of all time was secure.

Kraft Group ‘deeply disappointed’ after state fails to move on Revolution stadium
A measure that could have paved the way for the Patriots owners to build a 25,000-seat soccer stadium in Everett died as the legislative session expired.

Suno strikes back in AI music fight
The Boston-based company said in its response to a lawsuit that it has the right to use copyrighted music recordings to train its software, which can generate new tunes in almost any musical genre.

Family of Pete Frates gathers at Fenway to celebrate 10th anniversary of Ice Bucket Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS that Pete Frates helped launch in 2014 quickly grew into a global phenomenon, raising millions to fight the disease.