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Myra Sack and her daughter Havi in 2020.

Our daughter had a year left to live. We had to do something wonderful with the time she had left.

When our baby was diagnosed with fatal Tay-Sachs disease, we decided to celebrate Havi with a lifetime’s worth of birthdays.

‘We know the dominant narrative about grief, that it is something to “move beyond” in an effort to seek “closure.” But we feel differently. There is no safe distance when it comes to loving.’

They offered hundreds of thousands of dollars over the asking price. But was it enough?
With inventory tight, desperate buyers are offering “over asks” so large they’re more than the price of most entire homes in the state.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Play — the new low-cost airline — promises you’ll ‘pay less, play more.’ So we put it to the test.
A barebones Icelandic airline aims to capture the Boston to Europe budget market. Here's what it was like to fly with them.

As gas prices soar, destinations are inviting visitors to leave the car at home

‘I don’t want it to happen again,’ 11-year-old survivor of Texas elementary school shooting tells Congress

In video testimony played before the House Oversight Committee, Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grade student at Robb Elementary School, told lawmakers that she smeared the blood of her classmates on her body before calling 911 using her teacher’s phone.

Prairie dogs, feral pigs, and voting: Why Republican lawmakers say citizens need assault-style weapons

Supreme Court says armed man arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home

The Washington Post initially reported the arrest, quoting sources who said the man is from California and was upset by a leaked draft opinion suggesting the court is about to overrule Roe v. Wade.

Supreme Court decision could unravel key plank of vaunted Mass. gun safety law

As they tout the strength of the state’s gun laws amid a spate of deadly mass shootings, Massachusetts legislators and advocates are also warily eyeing an impending Supreme Court decision that has the potential to gut the state’s strict licensing rules and prompt a scramble on Beacon Hill to respond.

30 cases in a month: Abortion, guns top Supreme Court justices’ to-do list

Opioid-related overdose deaths surged to an all-time high in Mass. last year

The rate of opioid-related deaths is 32.6 per 100,000 in 2021, up from 29.9 in 2020 and the previous peak of 30.7 in 2016.

Everett’s diversity director had warned City Hall could be considered a hostile work environment just before recent resignations

Everett city officials who were seen making racially offensive comments did not resign until the city's diversity director warned that continued inaction could expose the city to legal action, an email obtained by the Globe shows.

Analysis

4 general election clues from Tuesday’s primary contests around the country

The themes that emerged may tell us quite a bit about where we are headed this fall.

California House races could tip power in Congress

Draymond Green is in his 10th NBA season.

NBA Finals Game 3 | Warriors at Celtics, 9 p.m.

The NBA Finals war of words continued with Cedric Maxwell’s response to Draymond Green

How tough were players back in the olden days? That's at the heart of the disagreement between the Warriors' agitator and the former Celtics star.

Mayor Michelle Wu is no bandwagon Celtics supporter — she’s a superfan

A groundskeeper works on the 15th green at The Country Club last month.

US OPEN 2022

Your guide to the US Open at The Country Club in Brookline: What to watch, how to tune in, and more

From the key golfers set to play, to the course's rich championship history, here's everything to get you acquainted.

Patriots

Patriots running back Damien Harris can feel the excitement and promise of a new season

“Having all our guys back brings all the more excitement, so every time you touch the ball, you want good results to happen," Harris said after Day 1 of minicamp.

Opinion

Rainmaker Mountain in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

The Supreme Court may take territories off the map of the US

More than 3 million Americans occupy a weird space in the world’s political geography. That could soon change.

Mary Tamer

Boston families have waited long enough for better schools

IDEAS | KAREN PAUL

Sheryl Sandberg’s real legacy

SCOT LEHIGH

Dispelling gun-law disinformation and deflections

RENÉE GRAHAM

The Jan. 6 hearings are must-see TV. Will America tune in?

Centering critical voices, debates, and evidence-based opinion to reframe the national conversation on racial equity and hasten a more racially just society.

Come see Globe journalists live on stage
Globe Live returns June 11-12 for two brand-new shows of original & adventurous nonfiction storytelling.

150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

Simone Biles, other gymnasts seek more than $1 billion from FBI for failing to stop Larry Nassar
Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman is also among the approximately 90 claimants.

A big building. Over the Pike. For the first time in a long time.
The first Mass. Pike “air rights” development in decades has completed its deck over the highway.

LOVE LETTERS

I inherited a house. My wife says she needs to be on the deed — or else.
I’ve never seen this side of her before. Things are tense.

Ringo Starr’s new tour comes to PPAC Sunday. If you didn’t get tickets, he has no plans to retire.
The performer, who earned an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music on June 2 and is slated to play the Providence Performing Arts Center on June 12, talked about his factory days, his real thoughts on the “Get Back” documentary, and the end of the Beatles.

THE FINE PRINT

Getting insurance coverage for the latest medical technology isn’t always easy
Daniel and Elizabeth Salls heard no repeatedly when they tried to get their health insurance to cover a new state-of-the-art insulin pump for their 14-year-old daughter.

After 56 years, the Walter Baker Chocolate Factory sign in Dorchester will glimmer with new light
The iconic sign atop the former Walter Baker chocolate factory administration building in Lower Mills will be illuminated on Friday night after 56 years.

SJC orders new trial in 1984 Dorchester felony-murder conviction but avoids ruling on broad retroactive review of similar cases

The state’s high court Tuesday ordered a new trial for Joseph Jabir Pope but bypassed the issue Pope and his supporters fervently wanted them to address: retroactively abolishing the felony murder rule that imprisons people who do not actually kill.

Unfinished Justice: A Spotlight Team investigation into felony murder in Massachusetts

‘The numbers just continue to rise’: Patients awaiting psychiatric treatment crowd emergency rooms
Unlike COVID surges — which seem to wax and wane with new variants — the surges of behavioral health patients coming to emergency rooms never seems to recede.

Globe Magazine

A Boston husband headed to the wild west for a divorce. He ended up with two wives.
In the 1890s, Sioux Falls, South Dakota became a “divorce colony” for well-heeled Americans looking to legally separate. Then one Bostonian’s personal dramas turned up at the Supreme Court.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Boston parents ask federal appeals court to overturn exam school admission decision and let their children attend
A group of white and Asian parents in Boston is seeking to have at least five students admitted to the city’s exam schools after they failed to secure seats under the temporary admission policy last year.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Boston, MA - 3/15/20 - Empty desks line the Boston Public Library's Reading Room on March 15, 2020. The library remains open, however all activities and room rentals have been suspended during the COVID-19 outbreak. (Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe)

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How author Sulari Gentill wrote her Boston Public Library mystery from a continent away

Malpaso's Dunia Acosta performs in Mats Ek’s “woman with water.”

Malpaso steps out at the Majestic

Paul McCartney is shown performing in Newark in September 2017, when he was a mere 75 years old. He'll be playing shows at Fenway Park Tuesday and Wednesday, just days away from his 80th birthday.

Maybe we’re amazed that Paul McCartney is about to turn 80, but this age group of classic rockers is growing

Recipes: We figured out the perfect Father’s Day menu. It starts with steak.

Special Projects

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Gulls swarm around feeding humpback whales hoping to snatch a sand eel missed by the humpbacks in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary in 2018.

Isha Sangani

Preserve a healthy ocean by extending protections to Stellwagen

Students lined up for lunch at Plymouth Community Intermediate School in March. It's estimated that the federal universal school meal program, set to expire on June 30, can save some families about $1,200 a year in grocery bills.

EDITORIAL

Free school meals: Yes, we can do that

A broken window at the US Capitol building the day after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

EDITORIAL

The case for conspiracy goes prime time

If there’s only so much President Biden can do, he should do it, whether it’s about the price of gas or the lack of baby formula. He looks powerless if he does nothing. Small gains are still gains.

Joan Vennochi

Biden’s dilemma: Voters can despise Trump, yet still question whether Biden’s ‘the man for the moment’

Jody Woos of Third Act-Vermont, in red coat, takes part in a climate change rally at the Statehouse in Monteplier, Vt., on Feb. 23.

Bill McKibben

OK, boomers. We broke America, now let’s fix it.

East Main Street, the site of an 1892 lynching in Port Jervis, N.Y.

IDEAS | Philip Dray

Breaking the silence about a lynching in the North

Metro

Everett’s diversity director had warned City Hall could be considered a hostile work environment just before recent resignations

RI ARTS

Ringo Starr’s new tour comes to PPAC Sunday. If you didn’t get tickets, he has no plans to retire.

The performer, who earned an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music on June 2 and is slated to play the Providence Performing Arts Center on June 12, talked about his factory days, his real thoughts on the “Get Back” documentary, and the end of the Beatles.

Ten ways to save money on gas this summer

Do you know the best day of the week to buy cheap gas is? Read on to find out.

Man stabbed after fight in Davis Square in Somerville

Police received reports at 8:32 p.m. of two men fighting with one man possibly having a knife, Somerville police said in a statement Wednesday.

Sports

US OPEN 2022

Your guide to the US Open at The Country Club in Brookline: What to watch, how to tune in, and more

From the key golfers set to play, to the course's rich championship history, here's everything to get you acquainted.

NBA Finals

The NBA Finals war of words continued with Cedric Maxwell’s response to Draymond Green

How tough were players back in the olden days? That's at the heart of the disagreement between the Warriors' agitator and the former Celtics star.

Patriots

Patriots running back Damien Harris can feel the excitement and promise of a new season

“Having all our guys back brings all the more excitement, so every time you touch the ball, you want good results to happen," Harris said after Day 1 of minicamp.

patriots

Tre Nixon makes a nice connection with Mac Jones, and other observations from Patriots minicamp

Red Sox at Angels | 9:38 p.m. (NESN)

Game 57: Red Sox at Angels lineups and notes

Bruins

Who will replace Bruce Cassidy? Here are nine candidates to become Bruins coach.

Business

Trader Joe’s workers in Western Mass. push ahead with union vote

Workers at western Mass. Trader Joe's push ahead with union vote.

THE FINE PRINT

Getting insurance coverage for the latest medical technology isn’t always easy

Daniel and Elizabeth Salls heard no repeatedly when they tried to get their health insurance to cover a new state-of-the-art insulin pump for their 14-year-old daughter.

Maine offshore wind contract could hike utility rates, official says

Moderna says updated COVID shot boosts Omicron protection

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Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘She is very easy to be with. We are not spring chickens, you know.’

Cooking

Recipes: We figured out the perfect Father’s Day menu. It starts with steak.

Rudy Giuliani at Yankee Stadium for a game on May 28, 2018.

Connections

That time I accidentally became Rudy Giuliani's buddy at a Sox-Yankees game

Summer Entertainment

Our daughter had a year left to live. We had to do something wonderful with the time she had left.

They offered hundreds of thousands of dollars over the asking price. But was it enough? With inventory tight, desperate buyers are offering “over asks” so large they’re more than the price of most entire homes in the state.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER Play — the new low-cost airline — promises you’ll ‘pay less, play more.’ So we put it to the test. A barebones Icelandic airline aims to capture the Boston to Europe budget market. Here's what it was like to fly with them.

‘I don’t want it to happen again,’ 11-year-old survivor of Texas elementary school shooting tells Congress

Supreme Court says armed man arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home

Supreme Court decision could unravel key plank of vaunted Mass. gun safety law

Opioid-related overdose deaths surged to an all-time high in Mass. last year

Everett’s diversity director had warned City Hall could be considered a hostile work environment just before recent resignations

4 general election clues from Tuesday’s primary contests around the country

The NBA Finals war of words continued with Cedric Maxwell’s response to Draymond Green

Your guide to the US Open at The Country Club in Brookline: What to watch, how to tune in, and more

Patriots running back Damien Harris can feel the excitement and promise of a new season

The Supreme Court may take territories off the map of the US

Boston families have waited long enough for better schools

Sheryl Sandberg’s real legacy

Dispelling gun-law disinformation and deflections

The Jan. 6 hearings are must-see TV. Will America tune in?

Come see Globe journalists live on stage Globe Live returns June 11-12 for two brand-new shows of original & adventurous nonfiction storytelling.

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Simone Biles, other gymnasts seek more than $1 billion from FBI for failing to stop Larry Nassar Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman is also among the approximately 90 claimants.

A big building. Over the Pike. For the first time in a long time. The first Mass. Pike “air rights” development in decades has completed its deck over the highway.

LOVE LETTERS I inherited a house. My wife says she needs to be on the deed — or else. I’ve never seen this side of her before. Things are tense.

THE FINE PRINT Getting insurance coverage for the latest medical technology isn’t always easy Daniel and Elizabeth Salls heard no repeatedly when they tried to get their health insurance to cover a new state-of-the-art insulin pump for their 14-year-old daughter.

After 56 years, the Walter Baker Chocolate Factory sign in Dorchester will glimmer with new light The iconic sign atop the former Walter Baker chocolate factory administration building in Lower Mills will be illuminated on Friday night after 56 years.

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SJC orders new trial in 1984 Dorchester felony-murder conviction but avoids ruling on broad retroactive review of similar cases

‘The numbers just continue to rise’: Patients awaiting psychiatric treatment crowd emergency rooms Unlike COVID surges — which seem to wax and wane with new variants — the surges of behavioral health patients coming to emergency rooms never seems to recede.

Globe Magazine A Boston husband headed to the wild west for a divorce. He ended up with two wives. In the 1890s, Sioux Falls, South Dakota became a “divorce colony” for well-heeled Americans looking to legally separate. Then one Bostonian’s personal dramas turned up at the Supreme Court.

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Culture & Lifestyle

How author Sulari Gentill wrote her Boston Public Library mystery from a continent away

Malpaso steps out at the Majestic

Maybe we’re amazed that Paul McCartney is about to turn 80, but this age group of classic rockers is growing

Recipes: We figured out the perfect Father’s Day menu. It starts with steak.

Special Projects

Welcome Back to Boston

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A Beautiful Resistance

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

FROM OUR PARTNERS

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Preserve a healthy ocean by extending protections to Stellwagen

Free school meals: Yes, we can do that

The case for conspiracy goes prime time

Biden’s dilemma: Voters can despise Trump, yet still question whether Biden’s ‘the man for the moment’

OK, boomers. We broke America, now let’s fix it.

Breaking the silence about a lynching in the North

Metro

Everett’s diversity director had warned City Hall could be considered a hostile work environment just before recent resignations

Ringo Starr’s new tour comes to PPAC Sunday. If you didn’t get tickets, he has no plans to retire.

Ten ways to save money on gas this summer

Man stabbed after fight in Davis Square in Somerville

Sports

Your guide to the US Open at The Country Club in Brookline: What to watch, how to tune in, and more

The NBA Finals war of words continued with Cedric Maxwell’s response to Draymond Green

Patriots running back Damien Harris can feel the excitement and promise of a new season

Tre Nixon makes a nice connection with Mac Jones, and other observations from Patriots minicamp

Game 57: Red Sox at Angels lineups and notes

Who will replace Bruce Cassidy? Here are nine candidates to become Bruins coach.

Business

Trader Joe’s workers in Western Mass. push ahead with union vote

Getting insurance coverage for the latest medical technology isn’t always easy

Maine offshore wind contract could hike utility rates, official says

Moderna says updated COVID shot boosts Omicron protection

Blind date: ‘She is very easy to be with. We are not spring chickens, you know.’

Recipes: We figured out the perfect Father’s Day menu. It starts with steak.

That time I accidentally became Rudy Giuliani's buddy at a Sox-Yankees game

31 outdoor events in New England to fill every summer weekend with fun

metro

Maine offshore wind contract could hike utility rates, official says

Opioid-related overdose deaths surged to an all-time high in Mass. last year

Firefighters battle four-alarm Plainville condo complex blaze after fire starts in mulch

sports

Simone Biles, other gymnasts seek more than $1 billion from FBI for failing to stop Larry Nassar

Third base coach Carlos Febles sent Alex Verdugo home on Monday night, and it led to a Red Sox win

They offered hundreds of thousands of dollars over the asking price. But was it enough?
With inventory tight, desperate buyers are offering “over asks” so large they’re more than the price of most entire homes in the state.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Play — the new low-cost airline — promises you’ll ‘pay less, play more.’ So we put it to the test.
A barebones Icelandic airline aims to capture the Boston to Europe budget market. Here's what it was like to fly with them.

Come see Globe journalists live on stage
Globe Live returns June 11-12 for two brand-new shows of original & adventurous nonfiction storytelling.

Simone Biles, other gymnasts seek more than $1 billion from FBI for failing to stop Larry Nassar
Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman is also among the approximately 90 claimants.

A big building. Over the Pike. For the first time in a long time.
The first Mass. Pike “air rights” development in decades has completed its deck over the highway.

LOVE LETTERS

I inherited a house. My wife says she needs to be on the deed — or else.
I’ve never seen this side of her before. Things are tense.

THE FINE PRINT

Getting insurance coverage for the latest medical technology isn’t always easy
Daniel and Elizabeth Salls heard no repeatedly when they tried to get their health insurance to cover a new state-of-the-art insulin pump for their 14-year-old daughter.

After 56 years, the Walter Baker Chocolate Factory sign in Dorchester will glimmer with new light
The iconic sign atop the former Walter Baker chocolate factory administration building in Lower Mills will be illuminated on Friday night after 56 years.

‘The numbers just continue to rise’: Patients awaiting psychiatric treatment crowd emergency rooms
Unlike COVID surges — which seem to wax and wane with new variants — the surges of behavioral health patients coming to emergency rooms never seems to recede.

Globe Magazine

A Boston husband headed to the wild west for a divorce. He ended up with two wives.
In the 1890s, Sioux Falls, South Dakota became a “divorce colony” for well-heeled Americans looking to legally separate. Then one Bostonian’s personal dramas turned up at the Supreme Court.