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Vaccinated teachers and students don’t need masks, CDC says

Vaccinated teachers and students don’t need to wear masks inside school buildings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines.
How does the new CDC school COVID-19 guidance line up with Massachusetts’ plans for the fall?

A nurse displayed a syringe containing the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination campaign in the village of Oguzlar, Turkey, on July 8.
The world is unprepared for new ‘age of pandemics,’ G20 panel warns
In a sobering 92-page report, a panel of independent experts called Friday for sweeping reforms to the World Health Organization and billions in new spending to stave off the next outbreak, which they warned could be far deadlier than the coronavirus.

Fully vaccinated Americans don’t need a booster shot at this time, FDA, CDC say

Middleborough suspect who opened fire outside state building now in custody, shelter-in-place order lifted

A man allegedly opened fire outside a state Department of Transportation building Friday morning and fled into a wooded area, prompting a two-hour shelter-in-place order for area residents until police apprehended the suspect around 11:30 a.m.

Rubble and debris of the Champlain Towers South condo can be seen in Surfside, Florida.
Condo collapse death toll has risen to 78 after 14 more victims recovered, Miami-Dade mayor says
No one has been found alive since the first hours after building fell on June 24.

Dave Dombrowski said he's "proud of what we did in Boston" but is happy to turn the page on that chapter.
Dan Shaughnessy

Dave Dombrowski doesn’t agree that he strip-mined the Red Sox to win a title, and other thoughts

Theo Epstein got all the credit in 2004 even though Dan Duquette built the team. Isn't that true of this season for Dombrowski?
Lianne La Havas performs in Los Angeles in 2017.

For music listeners stuck in the past, these 13 artists might remind you of some old favorites

You might hear echoes of Joni Mitchell, the Grateful Dead, Joan Armatrading, the Cure, George Clinton, and others in the music of some current artists.
Suzanne and Melanie on their Zoom date.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘Sounds like the quirky kind of fun that’s right up my alley’

Will this dater’s gamble on love pan out?
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
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Priscilla Johnson McMillan. Disparate parts of her life intersected on Nov. 23, 1963.
She knew JFK and Oswald, and wrote about both: author Priscilla Johnson McMillan dies at 92
Mrs. McMillan briefly worked for JFK and befriended him in the mid-1950s, then interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald in 1959 in Moscow, after he defected to the Soviet Union.

Rollins moves to overturn thousands of convictions based on testing at now-closed state drug lab

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins called on the state's highest court to consider granting new trials to tens of thousands of drug defendants who were convicted based on evidence from a scandal-plagued state drug lab in Jamaica Plain.

KEVIN CULLEN
Rosemary Scapicchio is one of those who have supported Bobby George in his return to the practice of law.
The redemption of Bobby George
Once one of Boston’s highest-flying lawyers, Bob George lost his license to practice law after his 2012 conviction for money laundering. Now he’s back, ready to reenter the only place where he felt completely at ease: a courtroom.

Sen. Joe Boncore expects to become the next leader of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, according to multiple people close to the Winthrop Democrat.
Senator Boncore poised to leave post for top spot at MassBio
Boncore, who joined the Senate in 2016 after winning a special election, would succeed Robert Coughlin in the high-profile and high-paying lobbying role for one of the state’s most influential business sectors.

Connections | Magazine
The writer and her mother, Fredelle Bruser Maynard.
The day I realized no one will ever love me like my mother did
“I stand on the front lines now, without a flank of elders marching before me.”

The home offers views of Mount Hope Bay.
Home of the Week: R.I. cottage gets brownie points for kitchen with ocean view
The primary bedroom suite takes up the entire second floor and has its own balcony with a view.

Opinion

A man with his dog drops off his mail-in ballot at Boston City Hall during the Massachusetts State Primary, on Sept.1, 2020.
EDITORIAL

Let Boston vote early and by mail

With a mayoral election fast approaching and Beacon Hill unwilling to extend statewide pandemic voting reforms, the city should act quickly.
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski at his Brighton home on Sunday, three days after he was stabbed outside the Shaloh House, a Jewish day school.
JEFF JACOBY

How to speak out against antisemitism
Anti-vaccine protesters rallied outside Houston Methodist Hospital on June 26.
RENÉE GRAHAM

The unnecessary death march of the unvaccinated
When freelance ​work dried up after COVID-19 hit, Boston trombonist Skye Dearborn​ ​had to live off her savings and eventually qualified for unemployment benefits and food stamps.
Jonathan Kaledin

America needs a Department of Arts and Culture
Boys are exposed to higher levels of testosterone in utero and are more likely to exhibit a preference for rough and tumble play.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Does testosterone matter?

THE GREAT DIVIDE ⟶

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

RHODE ISLAND ⟶

See the latest from Globe Rhode Island.

NEWTON ⟶

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

Recommended reads

Members of the Boston Student Advisory Council spoke last month of their experiences with Re-evaluation Counseling.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Organization calls Boston students sharing their unlicensed counseling experiences an ‘attack’

The international organization that promotes Re-evaluation Counseling, an unorthodox brand of peer counseling, is dismissing criticism by Boston students who said they were pressured to participate in traumatizing sessions, calling it an “attack” on what they consider a powerful form of therapy.

Overdose victims’ families protested in 2018 at Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Conn.
Massachusetts and other states reach $4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma over company’s role in opioid crisis
The settlement with the Sackler family and its disgraced drug company caps years of legal disputes as states tried to hold accountable the country’s most notorious manufacturer of prescription painkillers for its part in the opioid epidemic.

CAPE TRAVEL
A flatbread with braised short rib? Why yes — if it’s the one they’re making in the pizza ovens at Crisp or Crisp Too in Osterville.
13 top places to eat on Cape Cod
Discover these tasty places on your next trip over the bridge.

Christopher Ahlberg, founder and CEO of Recorded Future.
One of the nation’s top lines of cyber defense runs through this company in Davis Square
Recorded Future, which operates out of a former laundromat, has provided Washington’s top officials with intelligence on the country’s biggest breaches, from the Jan. 6 insurrection to recent ransomware attacks.

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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

Ashish K. Jha

Masking indoors in the age of the Delta variant
Walden Pond swimmer Peter Halpert from Lincoln was upset about the state's ban on open-water swimming. "This is holy water. It's a spiritual and religious event to swim in this pond," Halpert said. The state announced on Wednesday that it was lifting the ban.
EDITORIAL

Give people safe access to public waters

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at a House Financial Services Subcommittee hearing about the court's budget in Washington on March 23, 2015.
LETTERS

As court’s term ends, inquiring minds turn to Justice Breyer’s retiring mind
A crew of inmate firefighters work to contain the Springs Fire as it burns along a hillside in the Angeles National Forest in Valyermo, California, April 5.
ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The United States has yet to fully abolish slavery
The container ship Ever Lively, registered in Singapore, ties up at the Paul W. Conley Container Terminal in South Boston in July 2020.
Scott A. Hodge and Daniel Bunn

Biden’s infrastructure plan could unfairly tax Northeast businesses

NASA and some of the world’s leading engineers and space scientists are at work on a plan to avoid the destruction of Earth by an errant asteroid.
IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN

The following asteroid collision is only a test

Metro

How does the CDC’s new COVID-19 guidance for schools line up with Massachusetts’ plans for the fall?

The CDC is recommending that schools keep 3 feet of distance between students in classrooms — or layer other multiple prevention strategies when physical distancing is not possible. But in Massachusetts, all social-distancing requirements have been dropped for the fall.

Tropical Storm Elsa sweeps through region, dumping rain and threatening coastal areas with high winds

Forecasters said late Friday morning that bands of moderate to heavy rain from the storm were crossing through the region. The torrential downpours are expected to continue through early afternoon before the storm makes its exit to the northeast.

Some Mass. communities already seeing flooding as Tropical Storm Elsa hits the region

The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings through Friday afternoon for parts of Central, Eastern, and Western Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island. The rest of the state was under a flood watch.

Vaccinated teachers and students don’t need masks, CDC says

Vaccinated teachers and students don’t need to wear masks inside school buildings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines.

Sports

Dave Dombrowski said he's "proud of what we did in Boston" but is happy to turn the page on that chapter.
Dan Shaughnessy

Dave Dombrowski doesn’t agree that he strip-mined the Red Sox to win a title, and other thoughts

Theo Epstein got all the credit in 2004 even though Dan Duquette built the team. Isn't that true of this season for Dombrowski?
J.D. Martinez is batting .299 this season.
Chad Finn

The four Red Sox who have exceeded expectations and made this season a delight

These four have made this season a delight we could never have seen coming.
Zaila Avant-garde, 14, from Harvey, Louisiana reacts after correctly spelling a word during the finals of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee at Disney World Thursday, July 8, 2021, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Zaila Avant-garde breezes to National Spelling Bee win

The 14-year-old from Harvey, Louisiana, breezed to the championship at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, becoming the first African American winner and only the second Black champion in the bee's 96-year history.
NBA FINALS Game 2 | Suns 118, Bucks 108

Devin Booker scores 31 points in leading Suns to 2-0 series lead in NBA Finals
Golf roundup

Jon Rahm lives up to No. 1 billing with 66 at Scottish Open
Sports Log

Naomi Osaka speaks out about mental health in essay: ‘Enact measures to protect athletes, especially the fragile ones’

Business

Senator Boncore poised to leave post for top spot at MassBio

Boncore, who joined the Senate in 2016 after winning a special election, would succeed Robert Coughlin in the high-profile and high-paying lobbying role for one of the state’s most influential business sectors.

2 US men, ex-Colombia soldiers held in Haiti assassination

Seventeen suspects have been detained so far in the stunning assassination of Haiti’s president, and Haitian authorities say two are believed to hold dual US-Haitian citizenship and Colombia’s government says at least six are former members of its army.

Tyson Foods recalls almost 4,500 tons of chicken products

FDA narrows recommended use of Biogen Alzheimer’s therapy after flood of criticism

Comfort Zone

Mary Gauthier
Books

Mary Gauthier’s memoir describes how making music in Boston healed her life
Courtney Lefferts models a wedding dress at Glo Bridal in Newton as Molly Wolfberg Swarttz, the shop's owner, helps with the veil.

A sustainable bridal shop in Newton sells greener gowns
The Peabody Essex Museum has recently lifted its mask mandate and will extend hours starting July 9.

At Peabody Essex, museumgoers can get their COVID shots
Maria Vasco, pictured here, runs zero-waste shop Uvida in the North End with the help of two employees.
COMFORT ZONE

The North End’s Uvida is a zero-waste wonderland

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
summer dining

Where (and what) to eat in Newport this summer
a new appreciation

The Thoreau I didn’t know

Perspective

Talking to strangers, it turns out, is very good for us
Vietnamese Grilled Lemon Grass Pork (Thit Nuong).
Cooking

Grilled pork and eggplant shine in these flavorful Vietnamese dishes

metro

A classroom at an elementary school in Nesquehoning, Pa.

Vaccinated teachers and students don’t need masks, CDC says

Rain, wind arrives as Elsa moves through New England

NYC plans smaller classes when in-person schools reopen in fall

sports

The Suns' Devin Booker drives to the basket against Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo during the first half in Game Two of the NBA Finals at Phoenix Suns Arena.

Devin Booker scores 31 points in leading Suns to 2-0 series lead in NBA Finals

Jon Rahm lives up to No. 1 billing with 66 at Scottish Open

Naomi Osaka speaks out about mental health in essay: ‘Enact measures to protect athletes, especially the fragile ones’

business

Marc Archambault, a 70-year-old resident of South Kingstown, R.I., received an infusion of Aduhelm, Biogen's approved drug for Alzheimer's disease.

FDA narrows recommended use of Biogen Alzheimer’s therapy after flood of criticism

2 Haitian Americans detained in slaying of Haiti’s president

State looks to protect lobster beds from wind turbines

politics

A nurse displayed a syringe containing the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination campaign in the village of Oguzlar, Turkey, on July 8.

The world is unprepared for new ‘age of pandemics,’ G20 panel warns

ICE to avoid detaining pregnant, nursing and postpartum women

‘Overdue’: Biden sets Aug. 31 for US exit from Afghanistan

Nation

Rubble and debris of the Champlain Towers South condo can be seen in Surfside, Florida.

Condo collapse death toll has risen to 78 after 14 more victims recovered, Miami-Dade mayor says

The world is unprepared for new ‘age of pandemics,’ G20 panel warns

ICE to avoid detaining pregnant, nursing and postpartum women

World

Rescue teams searched the rubble of the Champlain Towers South.

Bodies of three Paraguayans found in Florida condo, officials say

Two Haitian Americans detained in slaying of Haiti president

World’s reported COVID death toll passes 4 million

opinion

Back again, digitally enhanced

As court’s term ends, inquiring minds turn to Justice Breyer’s retiring mind

Voting rights are being put through the wringer

lifestyle

Tuna tartare served at Talise in Annisquam.

A beautiful view of the water from every table at Talise in Gloucester’s Annisquam

A sustainable bridal shop in Newton sells greener gowns

There’s only one side to the saga of American Airlines Flight 893

food & dining

Tuna tartare served at Talise in Annisquam.

A beautiful view of the water from every table at Talise in Gloucester’s Annisquam

Shrubbly from Vermont is a new summer thirst-quencher

New owners keep Portuguese Bakery traditions going in Provincetown

travel

In this June 7, 2021, photo, people board an American Airlines flight at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Masks are mandated on all flights, and everyone who buys a ticket has agreed to comply.

There’s only one side to the saga of American Airlines Flight 893

An outdoor fest in N.H., a Cape Cod redo, and Road Scholar hits the road once again

Exploring the Elizabeth Islands (and swimming with cows)

Arts

Artist Firelei Báez calls her installation "To breathe full and free: a declaration, a re-visioning, a correction (19°36'16.9"N 72°13'07.0"W, 42° 21'48.762" N 71°1'59.628" W)."

At the ICA Watershed, artist Firelei Báez draws history from the deep

At Brown University, a gallery show with absorbing newsprint

What artists see in wake of the Mayflower

Books

The forest and the trees in ‘Appleseed’

‘The Outlier’ reconsiders Jimmy Carter’s presidency

A championship season in ‘Tall Men, Short Shorts’

Movies

Robert Downey Jr., left, with his father Robert Downey Sr., in 2008.

Directing done very differently

Doc Talk: taking a Lunch break, finding eternity in grains of sand

A study in Scarlett

Television

Anne Hathaway and Gary Carr in Amazon's "Modern Love," an anthology series consisting of eight bingeable half-hour episodes.

18 shows to binge while you’re stuck inside

‘The White Lotus’ takes ‘Fantasy Island’ to a different plane

‘Gossip Girl’ revival doesn’t have a lot to say

music

Bruno Mars, shown with his group Silk Sonic at this year's Grammys, is a hit-making throwback to the days of the Delfonics and Stylistics.

New music for the out-of-it

For music listeners stuck in the past, these 13 artists might remind you of some old favorites

Sheffield Chamber Players seek local living rooms for world premieres

Theater/Dance

Harriet Harris is shown during a 2020 filming of "Eleanor," a role she'll be reprising onstage for live audiences at Barrington Stage Company.

Juggling two major roles, Harriet Harris has returned to the Berkshires in earnest

A teller of tales, buffeted by waves of ridicule

Emerson Colonial Theatre will reopen to a jam-packed slate of shows beginning in September

globe local

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins.

Rollins moves to overturn thousands of convictions based on testing at now-closed state drug lab

Rhode Island Report

Sweet summer memories are made at local candy stores

Obituaries

Priscilla Johnson McMillan. Disparate parts of her life intersected on Nov. 23, 1963.

She knew JFK and Oswald, and wrote about both: author Priscilla Johnson McMillan dies at 92

Richard C. Lewontin, eminent geneticist with a sharp pen, dies at 92

Gerald W. Blakeley Jr., visionary developer of Boston’s ‘high-tech highway,’ dies at 100