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Search and rescue workers on Friday descended from the rubble pile at the Champlain Towers South condo building, where scores of people remain missing one week after it partially collapsed.

Death toll in Miami-area condo building collapse rises to 22; city evacuates other condo complex

The number of people missing in the Florida condominium collapse fell Friday following a new review, but fears of another potentially catastrophic failure deepened after engineers found unsafe conditions in a different tower and ordered the entire building evacuated.

A unity vigil for Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was organized on Brighton Common on Friday.
Suspect in Brighton stabbing of rabbi held without bail as investigators search for a motive
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed multiple times Thursday outside the Shaloh House, a Jewish day school on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton. His alleged attacker, Khaled Awad, 24, was arraigned Friday on seven charges, including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury.

Cardinal O’Malley expresses support for rabbi who was stabbed

An undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mexico’s Pemex suffers huge gas pipeline fire in Gulf
Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending flames boiling to the surface in the Gulf waters.

At 108 years old, Cape Cod woman starts fund-raiser to allow her to keep living at home

Although Juliet Bernstein was born before World War I, at a time when the telephone was considered high technology, she has settled on a 21st-century path toward her goal: a GoFundMe account to help pay for home care.
Early morning rain on Beacon Hill. Record cold temperatures are possible on Saturday, forecasters say, along with scattered showers and embedded downpours.

Recordbreaking low temperatures (you heard that right) are possible Saturday

The low temperature records for the day to beat on Saturday are: 61 in Boston, Hartford, and Worcester, and 60 in Providence, all of them set in 1914.
Bartender John Everett Martin, back left, raised a toast to his friend Neil Leonard who recently passed away. Leonard’s husband, Henry Goodrow, center, joined in while surrounded by friends. Goodrow and his husband, along with their friends, were regulars at the Sevens for over 20 years, stopping by weekly to visit Martin, watch sports, or play board games.
Easing back

On Beacon Hill, a neighborhood fixture toasts the return of old friends

“We rekindled quick here,” bartender John Everett Martin said of the family-owned and operated pub that features a large silver beer stein on its overhead sign at 77 Charles St.
Will Hardy (right) was a Spurs assistant coach for 10 years.

Ime Udoka’s Celtics coaching staff takes shape with addition of Will Hardy, departure of longtime assistants

A league source confirmed Friday that longtime Spurs assistant Will Hardy will be hired as one of Boston’s top assistants, while Jamie Young and Jay Larranaga will depart.
Adam Himmelsbach: Can Ime Udoka juggle Olympic team and Celtics’ Summer League team and other observations
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
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2 injured in 3-car crash on Soldiers Field Road
One vehicle jumped the guard rail during the crash, which occurred around 7:45 p.m. Friday on the eastbound side of the road, at North Harvard Street, State Police said.

The inside of a computer in Jersey City, N.J. on Feb 23, 2019.
Ransomware hits hundreds of US companies, security firm says
A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 US companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident.

Former Dedham veteran’s agent/parking clerk indicted for alleged theft
William Aitken, 54, was indicted by Norfolk County grand jury on 12 counts, including multiple charges of larceny of $1,200 or less, prosecutors said in a statement. He is due to be arraigned Wednesday, 2 p.m. in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham.

Dan Shaughnessy
Red Sox relief pitchers head for the bullpen before the start of a recent game.
After all we’ve been through, baseball is really helping the recovery, and other thoughts
We have lived through a horrible 16 months, but the steady rhythm of baseball provides everyone with a a unique way to cope.

Vaccine stickers at a coronavirus vaccination clinic in Philadelphia.
15 million people in the US have missed their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine, CDC says
CDC data show that as of June 16, nearly 11 percent of people who had sufficient time to get the second dose missed their ideal window.

79 confirmed cases, 1 death, and 11,020 vaccinations: See today’s new COVID-19 data from Mass.

Retired trooper David Green was carried into the Winthrop Cemetery for his burial on Friday afternoon.
Retired trooper killed in Winthrop last weekend remembered at funeral
Relatives and friends said a final goodbye on Friday to David Green, who served with the US Air Force in Vietnam and Thailand and spent 36 years as a Massachusetts State Police trooper only to be slain in his hometown last Saturday in an apparent hate crime.

Opinion

After a June 24 drowning at Turtle Pond in Hyde Park, new "No Swimming" signs have been posted. But people continue to go in the water.
MARCELA GARCÍA

More investment in swimming supervision would save lives

Perhaps some of this year’s record-breaking drownings could have been prevented if only there had been more safety policies in place.
A Black Voters Matter’s “Freedom Ride for Voting Rights” bus, at the National Mall, in Washington, June 26. This year is the 60th anniversary of the launch of the original Freedom Rides from Washington, D.C. throughout the South to challenge segregation in busing and public facilities.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr

The Supreme Court took a hammer to voting rights, proving Douglass’s words still true
Bill Cosby outside his home in Elkins Park, Pa., on Wednesday, after he was released from prison. Pennsylvania's highest court overturned his sex assault conviction because it said an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented Cosby from being charged in the case.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Black America deserves justice. Bill Cosby’s release from prison isn’t it.
Is it possible we’ve taken the cult of independence too far?
Renée Loth

The trouble with independence
A group comprised primarily of volunteers for the Board of Elections count absentee ballots for the New York City mayoral race at Queens Borough Hall in Queens on Wednesday.
EDITORIAL

Blame election officials, not ranked-choice voting, for New York’s mess

THE GREAT DIVIDE ⟶

See the latest from our education team focused on race, class, and opportunity in schools.

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See the latest from Globe Rhode Island.

NEWTON ⟶

See the Globe’s expanded Newton coverage in partnership with Boston University.

Recommended reads

ICA Teens in Virgil Abloh (from left) Andre, Evan, Zaryah, Fei-Fei, Hibi, and Mintou.
Jeneé Osterheldt

Keeping it two Virgils: ‘Figures of Speech’ is Beauty and the Hypebeast

Virgil Abloh brings “Figures of Speech” to the ICA. When you peel back the hype, you see the celebration of Blackness and community.

Marjorie Salvodon, a tenured professor of world languages and cultural studies at Suffolk University.
Black women are largely shut out of coveted tenure-track positions at Mass. colleges and universities
Female Black instructors represent less than 3 percent of faculty at major universities in the state. Higher education experts cite white-dominated departments and lack of mentorship as barriers.

Ocean House, which was named one of the best beach resorts in the U.S. by Travel and Leisure, sits on the southwestern tip of Rhode Island.
This Rhode Island hotel has been named one of the 15 best beach resorts in the US
Ocean House, a 13-acre coastal property in Watch Hill, has just been named one of the best beach resorts in the country by Travel and Leisure.

KEVIN CULLEN
Steve Thomas at his farm in Chelsea, Vt. He and his wife, Kate, created a neighborhood watch to combat crime and are supporters of Wayland Childs, a local mechanic who faces charges for holding a suspected thief at gunpoint.
In a small Vermont town, they stand with Wayland
The arrest of Wayland Childs, a mechanic who stepped up in the absence of police action, has exposed the frustration of small, rural Vermont towns where the police are rarely seen and drugs damage the quality of life.

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Special Projects

EDITORIAL

Editorial: Future-proofing the presidency

Donald Trump brought our democracy to the brink and exposed its weak spots. Here’s how to thwart the next American tyrant.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance: Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting

Blind Spot

An 11-month Globe investigation found that people nationwide are dying in crashes caused by drivers who should have had their licenses suspended. One in 10 US drivers has at least one offense — from speeding to vehicular homicide — that isn’t reflected on their driving record.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A thermometer reading 116 degrees during a heat wave in Portland, Ore., on Monday. The rare and powerful heat wave that shattered records across the Northwest took a bruising toll on the region's infrastructure — buckling highways, hobbling public transit, and triggering rolling power outages.
SCOT LEHIGH

Use record temps to turn up the heat on GOP to act on climate
An epidemic of loneliness is taking a toll on the mental and physical well-being of millions of Americans.
IDEAS | ELIZABETH PRESTON

Feeling lonely? You’re not alone.
An inmate gets outdoor recreation time on the recreation deck in an individual caged unit in the Secure Treatment Program at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in 2016.
EDITORIAL

Making prisons more humane
US Labor Secretary Marty Walsh arrives for the daily press briefing at the White House, April 2.
Joan Vennochi

Boston voters still like Marty Walsh. What does that say about the mayor’s race?
The roof of the Humphreys Street Studios carries the slogan of the tenants' campaign.
John Barros

In Uphams Corner, a plan for development without displacement
Taylor Swift performing at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, June 25, 2011, before the rain.
IDEAS | RYAN DAVIS

Taylor Swift’s miracle in the rain and the mystery of shared experience

Metro

Wake to be held for Ramona Cooper, killed in Winthrop attack

Visiting hours will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at Ruggiero Family Memorial Home in East Boston. Burial will be private.

Cardinal O’Malley expresses support for rabbi who was stabbed

“We are grateful that Rabbi Shlomo Noginski is recovering from the injuries he suffered as a result of a violent attack yesterday. Violence and hate have no place in our society,” the cardinal wrote in a series of posts on his Twitter account.

As drownings increase, state’s response to limit swimming, increase fines draws criticism

The state Department of Conservation and Recreation announced Friday that Walden Pond visitors will be asked to “cease open water swimming” and swim only in areas marked off by ropes and buoys. The restrictions sparked an immediate outcry from open water swimmers who say that water-safety education, not bans, is the best way to prevent drownings.

Louis Andriessen, lionized composer with radical roots, dies at 82

Louis Andriessen, who as a young iconoclast disrupted the Dutch classical music scene before becoming one of Europe’s most important postwar composers with a series of large-scale, often brash works, died Thursday in Weesp, the Netherlands. He was 82.

Sports

Canadiens goaltender Carey Price (24 saves) reaches out to clear the puck away from the Lightning's Ross Colton in the third period.

Tampa Bay swamps Montreal for 3-0 lead, on cusp of Stanley Cup repeat

Lightning score twice at the start of the first two periods.
Alice Dearing of Great Britain looks on after her Women's 800m Freestyle heat on Day 3 of the Manchester International Swimming Meet 2021 at the Manchester Aquatics Centre on February 14, 2021 in Manchester, England.

Swim caps for thick, curly hair not allowed at Olympics

Swimming caps designed for natural Black hair won’t be allowed at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, with the sport’s world governing body saying they are unsuitable due to them not “following the natural form of the head.”
Xander Bogaerts (right) and Rafael Devers are close, on and off the field.
Red Sox notebook

Red Sox All-Stars Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts ‘have something special going on right now’

Devers and Bogaerts would be the first Sox teammates to start at third base and shortstop in the game.
MIAA BOYS' VOLLEYBALL FINAL | NEEDHAM 3, LINCOLN-SUDBURY 0

Already a winner off the court, Needham boys’ volleyball tops Lincoln-Sudbury to net the ultimate prize

White-hot Washington slugger Kyle Schwarber departs with leg injury
MIAA DIVISION 2 BOYS' LACROSSE FINAL | CONCORD-CARLISLE 11, LONGMEADOW 10

Concord-Carlisle boys’ lacrosse achieves its goal, fends off Longmeadow comeback

Business

Ransomware hits hundreds of US companies, security firm says

A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 US companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident.

CSX tries to get acquisition of New England freight network back on track

The Florida-based railroad touts benefits of the Pan Am Railways deal, while Amtrak and MassDOT remain wary.

Mexico’s Pemex suffers huge gas pipeline fire in Gulf

U.S. hiring accelerated last month as workers see pay gains

Comfort Zone

What can we learn from wedding announcements? Cate Doty answers with "Mergers and Acquisitions: Or, Everything I Know About Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages"

What we can learn from wedding announcements
Conductor Keith Lockhart was photographed Friday at Symphony Hall. The 2021 Boston Pops July Fourth Spectacular will mark the conductor's reunion with live audiences.
MUSIC

Keith Lockhart on July 4: ‘The theme of this concert, in my mind, is about rebirth’
Carolina Aragón's "FutureSHORELINE" represents climate threats as well as solutions proposed by scientists.
ART

In Fort Point, public art helps visualize rising sea levels
From left: Steve Carell, John Krasinski, and Rainn Wilson in "The Office."
ASK MATTHEW

Why we’re still in a relationship with some classic sitcoms

STAT

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (UK B.1.1.7 variant), isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID
We know a lot about Covid-19. Experts have many more questions
More than two dozen virologists, epidemiologists, and others responded to STAT's question about what they still most wanted to know.

Boston, MA -- 03/16/21 -- The cover of the summary report of the review hearing for Jospeh Messere, is seen on March 16, 2021, provided by his attorney David Apfel.(Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Cement Head’s last fight: He was denied parole six times — until he was about to become a Covid-19 statistic
In lawyers' view, the Department of Correction was trying to make it seem like it had fewer Covid-19 deaths on its hands than it really did.

JAMA illo
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
Critics say editors have asked authors to scrub the term racism from their articles even as they publish others that include racist notions.

SCT illo
Despite resistance, researchers investigate the possibility of a new mental health disorder
Many researchers say the study of sluggish cognitive tempo, which is still in its early stages, can’t yet support a formal diagnosis.

magazine
Among the top stories for the magazine so far in 2021 have been a piece about the origins of William Shakespeare's work (left), a story on Black joy (top right), and the annual Top Spots to Live story (bottom right).
Recommended reading

Ten of the best Globe Magazine stories from 2021 (so far)
Titi, a 6-year-old rescue dog, gazes adoringly at the writer’s husband, actor Chris Cooper, in their Massachusetts home.
Connections

A father’s soothing ways
The owners of this Ogunquit summer house asked the designer to create a loft in their young daughters' bedroom.
Style Watch

Home design ideas: A bedroom with a loft provides an escape for young sisters
Squam Lake attracts naturalists, canoers, and kayakers right through autumn. “It’s the quiet coffee shop to Lake Winnipesaukee’s loud nightclub,” says homeowner Sam Kachmar.
Summer Living

A 1970s fixer-upper on a New Hampshire lake draws new owners with its ‘family vibe’

metro

Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen, lionized composer with radical roots, dies at 82

R.I.’s copies of the Declaration of Independence were nearly destroyed. The state restored them. Take a look

Recordbreaking low temperatures (you heard that right) are possible Saturday

sports

After a period of uncertainly earlier this year, senior captain Owen Fanning and Needham boys' volleyball was able to raise a state championship trophy.

Already a winner off the court, Needham boys’ volleyball tops Lincoln-Sudbury to net the ultimate prize

White-hot Washington slugger Kyle Schwarber departs with leg injury

Concord-Carlisle boys’ lacrosse achieves its goal, fends off Longmeadow comeback

business

A shopper entered a retail store as a hiring sign showed in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Thursday. America’s employers added 850,000 jobs in June, well above the average of the previous three months and a sign that companies may be having an easier time finding enough workers to fill open jobs.

U.S. hiring accelerated last month as workers see pay gains

Mass. racial equity fund awards $2 million in first round of grants

Parexel sold to EQT and Goldman Sachs for $8.5 billion

politics

Jessica Stern, head of Outright International, speaks during the OutSummit in New York.

New US LGBTQ rights envoy sees reasons for hope and worry

Biden picks UPenn president for Germany ambassador

Justices turn away florist who refused same-sex wedding job

Nation

Jessica Stern, head of Outright International, speaks during the OutSummit in New York.

New US LGBTQ rights envoy sees reasons for hope and worry

Death toll in Miami-area condo building collapse rises to 22; city evacuates other condo complex

Tally of missing in condo collapse falls to 128 after audit

World

President Biden.

Biden wants to celebrate “independence from the virus” on July Fourth, but the US may not be there yet

Elsa strengthens into season’s first hurricane in Caribbean

US hands Bagram Airfield to Afghans after nearly 20 years

opinion

A desert of our own making

Making prisons more humane

Feeling lonely? You’re not alone.

lifestyle

Ocean House, which was named one of the best beach resorts in the U.S. by Travel and Leisure, sits on the southwestern tip of Rhode Island.

This Rhode Island hotel has been named one of the 15 best beach resorts in the US

At Cloud & Spirits, one chef’s vision of Korean cuisine

I think it’s time to break up ... again

food & dining

Butter rice ssam is served at Cloud & Spirits restaurant near Central Square.

At Cloud & Spirits, one chef’s vision of Korean cuisine

The Red Hat may reopen in early fall under new ownership

A Dunkin’ iced coffee has become a fixture at the Ashmont T station — and Boston Reddit is invested

travel

Ocean House, which was named one of the best beach resorts in the U.S. by Travel and Leisure, sits on the southwestern tip of Rhode Island.

This Rhode Island hotel has been named one of the 15 best beach resorts in the US

What’s new (and not to miss) in Newport

A renovation that’s on the money: This Boston luxury hotel just got a little more luxurious

Arts

Virgil Abloh's “You’re Obviously in the Wrong Place,” from 2015.

Moving fast, thinking deeply at the ICA’s Virgil Abloh show

Art that crystallizes the past

With sculpture, Edith Wharton’s estate becomes open field for the imagination

Books

Battling the patriarchy’s censor in ‘The Man Who Hated Women’

Reading Chinese authors, and trying to learn Mandarin

Lessons in how to fool yourself in ‘Nobody, Somebody, Anybody’

Movies

Chris Pratt in "The Tomorrow War."

In ‘The Tomorrow War,’ on Amazon, the future is now

Two cheers for the red, white, and blue

The Civil War monumentalized; seeing the death penalty in action

Television

Actress Julia Roberts, in Vietnam in 2019, will star in Starz's upcoming Watergate series “Gaslit.”

Julia Roberts to lead star-filled cast in Starz’s ‘Gaslit’

Brevity is the soul of witty TV

Rob Reiner creating a Trump-Putin limited series

music

Conductor Keith Lockhart was photographed Friday at Symphony Hall. The 2021 Boston Pops July Fourth Spectacular will mark the conductor's reunion with live audiences.

Keith Lockhart on July 4: ‘The theme of this concert, in my mind, is about rebirth’

For ’80s heartthrob Richard Marx, it’s all about the music

For this Boston orchestra, something clicked on the streaming platform Twitch

Theater/Dance

Grammy-winning artist esperanza spalding will perform in ArtsEmerson's "Iphigenia" this upcoming season.

For ArtsEmerson, a less busy but ambitious season

Christopher Lloyd’s journey, from kooks to King Lear

Barrington Stage’s ‘Chester Bailey’ glows in the dark

globe local

Haverhill Sign Company's city limits sign in 1910.

Big shoes to fill: Film tells how a Haverhill union activist became America’s first socialist mayor

Should the state phase out Mass Save rebates for new oil-fired systems for heat and hot water?

Somerville moves to honor military heroes still among us

Obituaries

Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen, lionized composer with radical roots, dies at 82

Donald Rumsfeld, charismatic and combative secretary of defense, dies

Mike Gravel, Springfield native who became a US senator in Alaska, dies at 91