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Baker?s plan to cut State Police OT spending could be impossible

In early May, the governor and the head of the State Police promised a crackdown on overtime spending, including a 40 percent decrease in one of its most costly units.

At Harvard Law School, he?s Professor Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh, nominated by President Trump for the Supreme Court, was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, where he was well-liked by both students and faculty members.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions to give speech in N.H. Thursday on the opioid crisis

His visit comes after President Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency in October 2017.

David Monahan (center) was diagnosed with a bladder tumor a week before National Grid locked out union workers. He is scheduled for surgery in a few weeks but isn?t sure how he will pay for it because he lost his work insurance. — Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Locked out, National Grid workers grapple with loss of income, health insurance

One employee who just found out he has a cancerous tumor in his bladder is unsure how he?s going to pay for surgery.

?Strange? and ?counterproductive?: Kerry slams Trump?s remarks at NATO summit

In his statement posted on Twitter, the former secretary of state said the president?s broadside against Germany had weakened the United States.

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

In honor of Trump visit, Brits try to lift ?American Idiot? to top of the charts

When President Trump arrives in the United Kingdom this week, he may have a different view of the Green Day anthem.

Steamship Authority to test Nantucket ferry after trips canceled for mechanical issues

The Steamship Authority plans a trial run Wednesday for a ferry that was pulled from service for part of Monday and all day Tuesday.

North Reading restaurant closes after salmonella outbreak sickens up to 39 people

A public health advisory posted Friday said the outbreak is believed to have originated on June 23 at Kitty?s Restaurant.

Accomplished filmmaker and therapist from Concord dies on Nantucket

Jenny Phillips apparently drowned Monday evening after jumping from her small sailboat to swim to shore on Nantucket.

Motorcyclist caught on video in road rage incident

State Police are asking the public?s help to identify a man who was involved in a road rage incident on the Zakim Bridge on Monday afternoon.

Japanese drug maker signs $430m deal to buy Waltham-based Visterra

It?s the latest example of a foreign pharmaceutical company establishing a presence in the white-hot Massachusetts biotech cluster.

The main living area of the new, $15,000-a-night Presidential Suite at the Boston Harbor Hotel in Boston. This is now the most expensive hotel room in Boston. — DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

At $15,000 a night, this is Boston?s most expensive luxury hotel suite

The palatial 4,800-square-foot suite includes two bedrooms, a large, open concept living room/dining room/bar, a full kitchen, a multimedia room, 2½ baths, and a private elevator.

Showers and storms to be followed by cooler weather in Boston area

The showers and thunderstorms that reached Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the early morning hours Wednesday will give way to a partly sunny day with cooler temperatures.

Dave Epstein

Mars is going to be really bright for the rest of the summer

You may or may not remember that back in 2003 Mars was at its brightest in nearly 60,000 years. Fast-forward just 15 years and we have another opportunity to see a super-bright Mars.

Red Sox Trade Reports

Trade reports: Red Sox reportedly still in contact about Manny Machado

The Baltimore Sun reported the Red Sox have been ?in recent contact? about the Orioles star.

Ex-Patriots player Brandon Browner now charged with attempted murder

Former NFL cornerback Brandon Browner was charged with trying to kill his ex-girlfriend after breaking into her Southern California home.

State Police put K-9s, trained to detect drugs and human remains, up for adoption

K-9 officers Klauss and Alex are retiring soon, and Massachusetts State Police are seeking homes for the dogs.

07/10/2018 Boston Ma - Ekua Holmes (cq) and the Roxbury Sunflower Project is a collaborative project initiative, to plant sunfloweres in the Roxbury neighborhood. She watering afetr planting seeds outside at the Freedom House. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff Reporter:Topic — Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff

Roxbury artist Ekua Holmes plants hope in the form of sunflowers

Her vision is to plant 10,000 sunflowers all over Roxbury, spreading beauty through seeds.

Here?s how to find a bathroom on the waterfront

Boston Harbor Now group has created a searchable and mappable database of public facilities along Boston?s coastline.

Kids rescued in Thailand lost weight, drank dripping water in cave, hospital says

The soccer teammates rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand lost weight during their 18-day ordeal and in the days before their discovery survived by drinking water dripping into their refuge, a health official said Wednesday.

What happened when a soccer skeptic sat through a World Cup match

Maybe my problem was a simple lack of understanding. Maybe watching players at the highest level would change my mind. Maybe I actually loved soccer, and just hadn?t realized it yet.

The DEA just put out a new list of slang terms for marijuana, and some of them are pretty hilarious

If you?re looking to purchase some legal marijuana in Massachusetts, you might want to get ready to ask for some . . . ?shoes??

Opinion & Ideas

Renée Graham

Racists will not make America a ?sundown? country

There?s a steady stream of incidents where a white person calls or threatens to call the police on black or brown people doing mundane things.

Special reports

For refugees in Kenya, an education in hope

The Kakuma Refugee Camp is a holding center for thousands dispossessed by war and conflict. A New Hampshire university has made it the focus of its global plans.

STAT

Opinion: You can?t tell a book by its cover ? or a disease by Drake?s race

Diagnoses based on race are wrong on many levels, writes a Brown University medical student.

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

Getting over a breakup

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

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Adrian Walker

The Democrats running for governor must be wondering when the cavalry arrives

Brigham and Women?s Hospital removed 31 portraits (above) of former department chairs from the walls of the hospital?s amphitheater.

At top hospitals, department chiefs still overwhelmingly white, male

Rusty Cosino, a former Boston College student, at his family home in Daly City, Calif.

Mental health can be a wall for college students of color

Relatives of two Boston firefighters killed in Back Bay blaze to testify on ?hot work? bill on Beacon Hill

Attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz discusses allegations of sex with an underage girl levelled against him, during an interview at his home in Miami Beach January 5, 2015. Buckingham Palace denied on Friday allegations made in Florida court documents by a woman, who said she was forced as a minor by financier Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with several people, including Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth. Another of those named by the woman, Dershowitz, said he has assembled a team of

Dershowitz jabs Warren, dishes on Vineyard drama

Andrew Lelling, the US attorney for Massachusetts, in June.

Top federal prosecutor in Mass. gives cautious green light to legal marijuana

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2018, file photo, customers line up for recreational marijuana outside one of MedMen's marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles. Recreational marijuana sales became legal in California this year, and the industry is targeting tourists as well as locals, with tours, shops, lodging and ads. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Boston firm offers marijuana-friendly lodging

Dining Out

What?s on the menu at Falmouth?s Buffalo Jump? ?Weird food that only weirdos like?

Going to Spray Pool at the Boston Common, is one way to beat the heat. Unfortunately, many people are stuck in hot buildings, and that?s having an effect on their cognitive function, according to a new study from Harvard.

Get Smart

In heat waves, people can?t think straight, study finds

Barry Brown is the former president of Mount Ida College.

Mt. Ida president blames closure on Lasell College maneuvers

Trump tweeted about an Emerson College poll. But his facts weren?t quite right

A dramatic rescue on Cape Cod began Tuesday morning as rescuers worked to save 14 dolphins that got stranded along the coast of Wellfleet.

Rescuers work to save dolphins on Cape Cod; 10 released

Sports

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Hector Velazquez pitched three innings on Tuesday.

Red Sox 8, Rangers 4

Even without an ace, Alex Cora plays a winning hand

Spot starter Hector Velazquez limited the Rangers to one run in three innings, and five relievers secured the win at Fenway.

Metro

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Boston University Academy, a small private high school that operates on BU?s campus.

Head of school at Boston University Academy is suddenly out

Boston University has fired Ari Betof, the head of Boston University Academy, a small private high school that it operates on its campus.

Politics

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Tom Steyer is trying to gather support for a campaign to impeach President Trump.

Can an impeachment campaign actually work? And six more questions for Tom Steyer

Tom Steyer, a former hedge fund manager, was set to hold an impeachment meeting in Boston on Tuesday night and another in New Hampshire on Wednesday night.