Emissions measures could be too low

Whether those climate-change goals are actually realized, however, will be difficult to say, at least with much certainty. The reason is simple, but vexing: Calculating emissions is a highly inexact science.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/06/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/992388324.jpg Critics say Trump?s insults of Warren were a double scoop of misogyny, racism

Senator Elizabeth Warren labeled President Trump?s Thursday comments about her ?creepy? and assured her supporters that she can ?handle a bully.?

Former state Senate president Stanley Rosenberg (left) and estranged husband Bryon Hefner.

Elise Amendola/Associated Press/File 2018

Judge overseeing lawsuit against Hefner, Rosenberg steps down

Judge Debra Squires-Lee did not say why she recused herself from the case against Bryon Hefner and Stanley Rosenberg.

Massachusetts State House.

State lands tax windfall: $1.2 billion more than expected

Much of the unexpected revenue came from unstable sources, such as capital gains taxes.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/07/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/adbc04f4-cd6f-4568-860e-ced46dd1cc15.jpg ?Super polluting? trucks receive loophole on Pruitt?s last day

The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to effectively grant a loophole that will allow a major increase in the manufacturing of a diesel freight truck that produces as much as 55 times the air pollution as trucks that have modern emissions controls.

Boston, MA., 06/27/18, In the North End, an anti-Starbucks sign hangs in the window of Caffe dello Sport. Local business owners and customers are speaking out against the addition of a Starbucks at the gateway to the North End on Hanover Street. They argue the store will hurt family-owned coffee houses and diminish the authenticity of the historic neighborhood. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Walsh opposes North End Starbucks proposal

Mayor Martin J. Walsh is opposing a prospective Starbucks location at the entrance of the North End.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/07/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/trumpelton.gif What?s the deal with President Trump and Elton John?

President Trump doesn?t express much affection for celebrities, but one entertainer he can?t seem to stop admiring is Elton John.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/JCETRINO(ShootingFayston)004.jpg Police ID man fatally shot on Fourth of July in Dorchester

Deondra Lee, 36, was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds shortly before 10 p.m. in the area of Brookford and Dacia streets.

2-year-old boy pulled from Lynn pool pronounced dead at hospital

The child was pulled from a pool in Lynn Friday evening and later pronounced dead at North Shore Children?s Hospital in Salem.

Starts & Stops

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_orangeline12_met-16983.jpg MBTA loses reprieve from outsourcing restriction

The T had used a three-year exemption from an anti-privatization law to win major savings and concessions.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/06/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/66eb2285126a42d1b505d80123ebbf54-66eb2285126a42d1b505d80123ebbf54-0.jpg Immigrant grad student shocked by abrupt Army discharge

Panshu Zhao enlisted in the Army through a program offering a path to citizenship. Now, he has been abruptly discharged.

Rome, ME--6/26/2018-- Brandon Long, a Marine who lost both of his legs while serving in Afghanistan looks back at his daughter, Claire, 7, right before she pushes him into Long Pond as the two play by the waterfront at the Travis Mills Retreat. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 01maine Reporter: Brian MacQuarrie

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

At Maine retreat, disabled veterans find sense of belonging

This weeklong retreat brings together military veterans who have survived devastating injuries.

RED SOX 10, ROYALS 5

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/07/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/b331cd15021d4a29acffbf5286b2ad5d-b331cd15021d4a29acffbf5286b2ad5d-20670.jpg Big games from big names push Red Sox past Royals

Chris Sale fanned 12 and Mookie Betts, J.D. Martinez, and Xander Bogaerts homered to help Boston to a blowout win.

Meriem Palesty, left, from Washington, a Muslim woman of Syrian descent, argues her point with Samuel Tebi, from Gaithersburg, Md., a supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, during an election protest in front of the White House, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Opinion | Alan M. Dershowitz

The left?s desire to live in a political silo when it comes to Trump

Some radical Trump opponents prefer to cut off dialogue. They see no other side to the issue.

The weather to start July has been sultry and significantly above average in terms of temperature and below average in terms of rainfall.

Dave Epstein

What?s the weather going to be like the rest of the summer?

It looks as though we?ll get a break in the heat this weekend, but then what happens for the rest of July and into August?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/29/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/ryan_garden2_regional.jpg Cool down this summer in these magical gardens

Public gardens in Norwell, Beverly, and Wellesley beckon with woodlands, wildflowers, and terraces.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/06/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/961896346.jpg Marcus Smart frustrated by wait, but Celtics have no plans to part with him

A source close to Smart said that as it stands, there is a ?95 percent chance? Smart will not sign a multiyear deal with the Celtics this summer.

Ruth McLenithan Skellie held a copy of the Saturday Evening Post cover that Norman Rockwell asked her to pose for when she was 11 years old.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Thomas Farragher

To Rockwell fans, their faces may look familiar

As children, they modeled for Norman Rockwell?s paintings. Decades later, they will gather for a reunion.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/24/BostonGlobe.com/Obits/Advance/Images/2016-07-11T142151Z_240359705_S1AETOZAXBAA_RTRMADP_3_PEOPLE-JOEPERRY.jpg Aerosmith?s most popular song was inspired by . . . Barbra Streisand?

The band?s only song to ever hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart has a surprising origin story.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/31/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/Chin053118ButtonwoodBooksandToys_SoWk3-001.jpg At local toy stores, mermaids are in (unicorns, too)

Light-up basketballs, amazing bubbles, even sloths are having their moment in the sun.

Nestor Ramos

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_improvements7_met.jpg A tourist asked for recommendations in Boston. And social media responded ? with kindness

What if we all saw our city through the eyes of an earnest tourist?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/06/BostonGlobe.com/Obits/Images/DSC_0911-745623.jpg Ed Schultz, blunt-spoken political talk-show host, dies at 64

Mr. Schultz was a conservative whose politics moved left before he joined MSNBC?s lineup and then shifted again when he was hired by Russia?s state-financed international cable network.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/06/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/AFP_1776Q4.jpg There are no bullets or bombs, but trade wars have real casualties

While the stated goal is to protect US industries and safeguard sensitive technology, stories of affected companies are starting to multiply.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/28/BostonGlobe.com/BCOM/Images/28amsc(2)02-5169.jpg AMSC gets $57 million from Chinese theft case

American Superconductor had its software that powers wind turbines stolen by a former Chinese partner.

Opinion & Ideas

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Lee_061918_Dundas2_met.jpg Mass. towns need to stop stalling on marijuana rules

Massachusetts is headed toward a two-tier system, strongly correlated to race and privilege, and the law allows it. It?s not a pretty picture.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RinaldiCoventry04.jpg A night of horror, heroism, and tragedy in Coventry

Six months after a fire killed a father and his little son, questions still outrun an answer to the biggest lingering question: Why couldn?t they get out?

STAT

Stat

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/unnamedpi%20c.jpg Watch ?Runnin??: The opioid crisis hits Somerville

?Runnin?,? now available for purchase on Vimeo, takes an intimate look at a group of friends in Somerville who came of age as the opioid epidemic took hold and morphed into a national nightmare. It retraces the lives of friends lost, and one last member of the group struggling to avoid the same fate.

Globe event

Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston

Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.

Love Letters: The Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/16/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/lovelettersalbum.jpg Getting over a breakup

Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.

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