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Rail experts say Orange Line battery ‘failure’ was likely a battery explosion; no answer from T

MBTA spokesperson Lisa Battiston said the incident Monday while the car was out of service at Wellington Yard “dislodged the battery cover from an external underside compartment of the vehicle.” She didn't respond to repeated questions if it was an explosion.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Progress stalls on agreement to avert Boston school takeover, city officials say

Commissioner Jeff Riley continues to balk at Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposed “partnership” between the city and state.

Mass. legislative leaders respond to Biden’s call to suspend state gas tax: No way!

Democratic leaders of the Massachusetts House and Senate on Wednesday rebuffed calls from President Biden for states to suspend their gas tax in the face of rising prices at the pump, arguing any savings are unlikely to be passed on to the drivers who actually need it.

Biden calls for 3-month suspension of gas and diesel taxes

The stock market has tumbled quickly, and longtime savers are at a loss

Tough times on Wall Street have people near retirement or readying for college tuition checks wondering what to do next.

THE FINE PRINT

Whole Foods closed the store a 72-year-old man stocked shelves at for over nine years; now he wants severance
The employee says he didn’t realize he would forfeit a payout by agreeing to work through June at another location.

Red Sox 6, Tigers 2

Red Sox dig out of early hole to complete sweep of Tigers, wrap up strong homestand

Jarren Duran, Rob Refsnyder, and Alex Verdugo each drove in two runs to help Boston complete the sweep.

Kate Dineen her two-and-a-half-year-old son Danny Dineen-Lawton as he pretended to give his dad, Alex Lawton, a shot before receiving his own COVID vaccine at Whittier Street Health Center in Roxbury.

Impatient for children’s vaccine after a long wait, parents scramble for appointments

Surveys suggest that only a minority of parents intend to vaccinate their little ones against COVID-19. But those who want the vaccine want it badly, and they want it now.

Massachusetts reports 1,636 coronavirus cases and 35 deaths Moderna’s omicron shot yields antibodies against new variants

Globe Magazine

New England waters are teeming with fish species. The problem is we eat too few of them.
Seafood counters are generally dominated by cod, haddock, lobsters, clams, and scallops. But there’s an urgent reason to broaden what we bring to the table.

‘It’s a lost cause’: Inside the last stand of New England’s soft-shell clam

How much do you need to earn to afford a house in Greater Boston? At least $181,000 a year, says new study.
The Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies determined just how expensive it is to buy a home in Greater Boston. And it’s only getting worse.

'We’ve submitted offers that are close to $100k over asking.' What's your housing story?

A portrait of Nicole A. Mokeme. Maine authorities are investigating the hit-and-run death of Mokeme, who was killed last weekend in the parking lot of the Schoodic Institute in Acadia National Park where she was holding a Black Excellence retreat.

Maine woman, 35, killed in hit-and-run crash as she hosted Black community retreat

Nicole A. Mokeme, who created a foundation to help Black and Indigenous youth, was killed last weekend in a hit-and-run crash while hosting a retreat at the Schoodic Institute in Acadia National Park, and authorities are looking for a black BMW registered to her boyfriend.

Tayla Mayo hugged her younger son Jaiden Harris, 16, outside their home in Quincy. Her 18-year-old son, Jaivon Harris, was indicted in a murder, although he is not accused of shooting the victim, and Mayo said the impact on her family has been severe.

Six teenagers were involved in a robbery that killed a Weymouth high school student. So far, only one has been arrested.

Despite multiple accounts that six teenagers were involved in a botched robbery that ended in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old, only one, an 18-year-old who is Black, sits in jail.

Charley Cummings, the founder of Walden Local Meat Co. and Walden Mutual Bank.

Charley Cummings is building a new kind of bank

The founder of Walden Local Meat Co., which distributes locally raised meat and dairy throughout the Northeast, is creating a mutual bank that will lend to farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs who are working to create a sustainable food system.

Opinion

A new Orange Line train is brought into the CRRC MA facility in Springfield and examined on Tuesday, the same day all new Orange Line trains were taken out of service due to "battery failure."

What’s really going on at the factory that’s building the T’s new subway cars?

No one on Beacon Hill seems to be asking the tough questions that need to be asked: Why is it taking so long to produce these subway cars? And why are there so many issues with the ones already delivered?

Trumpublicans have turned on Republicans

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Boston was once a wildly ambitious city. It’s time to go big again.

Southie convention center no ‘field of dreams’

Even Democrats now agree: Biden is too old for his job

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

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Trumpet is 1st bloodhound to win Westminster show
A bloodhound named Trumpet won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Wednesday night.

Teenager dies after being pulled from Gloucester quarry
State Police divers recovered an 18-year-old man who did not resurface after jumping into a Gloucester quarry with a friend on Wednesday afternoon.

Senator Ron Johnson, under fire over fake-electors disclosure at hearing, pretends to be on phone to avoid answering questions
Johnson, R-Wis., held his phone to his ear and said he was on a call, but a reporter challenged the senator, saying that he could see the screen and knew Johnson wasn’t talking to anyone.

Uvalde school police chief is put on leave after mass shooting at elementary school
Pete Arredondo is on leave following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

Mass. officials suspect avian influenza is cause of seabirds’ deaths along coast, warn against handling them
State officials said Wednesday that they suspect that avian influenza is killing seabirds along the coast.

Bates College president says she will step down in 2023
Clayton Spencer, a former administrator at Harvard University, said she informed the school’s board of trustees earlier this week that she will officially step away on June 30, 2023.

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A jazz combo played at a 2019 State House demonstration in favor of the so-called millionaires tax proposal.

Mass. high court rules ‘millionaires tax’ question was written ‘fairly.’ It goes before voters in November.

The ruling is a victory for labor unions, Democratic lawmakers, and others who’ve spent years pushing the measure to a November vote.

Swedish art group ‘AnonyMouse’ installs detailed, miniature displays around Boston
Last week, an anonymous Swedish artist collective known affectionately as “AnonyMouse” discreetly installed one of its signature, mouse-inspired models — delightful miniature works of art that look like they were plucked from the animated film “An American Tail” — in the harborside neighborhood.

‘A huge step forward’: Female candidates are facing off statewide, changing the narrative for future elections
Female candidates are running in many Massachusetts races and facing off against one another in four primary elections.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Mass. legislators urge state education leaders not to raise MCAS graduation requirements

The letter highlights concerns from legislators about consequences they believe a state proposal made in April to raise the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, graduation requirements could have, particularly among students who have been “disproportionately harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Columbus Short and Ledisi as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahalia Jackson in "Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story"

Roxbury International Film Festival offers hybrid program, in-person screenings

Bass-baritone Davóne Tines singing the title role in Anthony Davis's opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X" on Friday at the Strand Theatre, with Maggie Finnegan and Matthew Arnold.

In a newly revived opera, Malcolm X sings his own history

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Once considered a GOP rising star, Representative Dan Crenshaw has been roasted by some in his party for debunking Donald Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud in an election he soundly lost.

Trumpublicans have turned on Republicans

Architectural firm Populous has crafted new conceptual designs for an expansion of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Southie convention center no ‘field of dreams’

President Biden speaks to White House staff prior to boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on June 14.

Even Democrats now agree: Biden is too old for his job

From left, Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Gabriel Sterling appeared as witnesses before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol during hearings on Tuesday.

Integrity and honor didn’t matter to Trump, but it did to GOP officials in Georgia and Arizona

A US Supreme Court ruling released Tuesday will require the state of Maine to allow parents to use taxpayer dollars to send their kids to religious school.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Remember separation between church and state? Apparently the Supreme Court doesn’t.

IDEAS | WILL AUSTIN

Where have Boston’s children gone?

Metro

Taunton police searching for man who allegedly robbed gas station

A man believed to be in his 40s or 50s fled with the cash register from GeKo gas station on Weir Street Wednesday night, police said.

R.I. House approves driver privilege cards for undocumented residents

After years of failed attempts, the legislation passed by a vote of 54 to 15, with support from the House Republican leader.

Firefighters battle two-alarm fire in top floor of North End building

Eight people were displaced after a two-alarm fire broke out at a red-brick building in the North End early Wednesday evening, according to the Boston Fire Department.

Healey campaigns in Western Mass., reiterates commitment to affordable housing

Attorney General Maura Healey took her campaign for governor to Western Massachusetts on Wednesday, picking up endorsements from local officials in Holyoke and emphasizing her commitment to economic development across the state.

Sports

Nazem Kadri scores the winning goal against the Tampa Bay's Andrei Vasilevskiy (No. 88) in overtime to win Game 4 of Stanley Cup Final for Colorado.

Nazem Kadri’s OT goal lifts Avalanche over Lightning, 3-2, in Game 4 of Stanley Cup Final

Colorado has moved within a victory of dethroning two-time defending champion Tampa Bay.

Heather Helmer posed for photographs with Trumpet, a bloodhound, after Trumpet won best in show at the 146th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on June 22, 2022, in Tarrytown, N.Y.

Trumpet is 1st bloodhound to win Westminster show

A bloodhound named Trumpet won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Wednesday night.

The world swimming championship was stunned by Caeleb Dressel's departure.

Caeleb Dressel withdraws from swimming world championships

The US withdrew its star male swimmer from the rest of the competition for unspecified medical reasons.

Red Sox 6, Tigers 2

Red Sox dig out of early hole to complete sweep of Tigers, wrap up strong homestand

MIAA D3 BOYS' LACROSSE FINAL | NORWELL 11, MEDFIELD 3

Norwell boys’ lacrosse sticks with it, finally brings home elusive state championship

Alex Speier | On baseball

For the unvaccinated Jarren Duran, the Red Sox upcoming trip to Toronto will be a lost opportunity

Business

NLRB asks court to force Starbucks to stop anti-union activity

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Powell says Fed is ‘not trying to provoke’ a recession

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said the central bank might be able to lower rapid inflation without tipping America into a painful downturn, though he cautioned that pulling it off would be “very challenging” to achieve and that a recession is “certainly a possibility.”

Juul soon to be ordered off the market by FDA, report says

Japanese drug giant Takeda will move into 16-story building planned for Kendall Square

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In the main cottage (left), the first-floor primary bedroom, main living space, and the three second-floor bedrooms all have lake views, as do the sleeping porch and living area of the guest cottage (right). The owners’ grandchildren frolic among the trees.

Up to 22 relatives stay at these Maine cabins, a treasured family heirloom

The bittersweet triumph of a Juneteenth national holiday

This week's daters: Mary and Ryan.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I thought she was fun, interesting, smart, and thoughtful’

The writer and his family on a visit to York, Maine, in 2014.

When I was a new dad, everyone said it would go by so fast. I get it now.

metro

Kate Dineen her two-and-a-half-year-old son Danny Dineen-Lawton as he pretended to give his dad, Alex Lawton, a shot before receiving his own COVID vaccine at Whittier Street Health Center in Roxbury.

Impatient for children’s vaccine after a long wait, parents scramble for appointments

A winter count found fewer people living on Boston streets

Mass. Senate unveils new pay structure, raises for staffers

sports

South Carolina women's basketball head coach Dawn Staley, who has coached NCAA and Olympic champions, could break a huge barrier if the Charlotte Hornets had the foresight to make her their next head coach.

While Title IX should be celebrated, it’s time for pro sports leagues to play catch-up ball

Joe Massaro, Wahconah defense save their best for last, stop Sandwich for Division 4 boys’ lacrosse championship

Derek Jeter offers best wishes to his namesake, Jeter Downs ... most of the time

business

Moderna’s omicron-targeting vaccine triggers the production of antibodies against newer variants.

Moderna’s omicron shot yields antibodies against new variants

IRS backlog of unprocessed tax returns has grown to 21 million

Biden calls for 3-month suspension of gas and diesel taxes

politics

An image of former president Donald Trump is displayed as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol continued to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, on June 21, 2022.

Jan. 6 panel to hear of Trump’s pressure on Justice Dept.

Ginni Thomas responds to Jan. 6 panel, public hearings to stretch into July

US boosts monkeypox testing, 142 cases confirmed

Nation

Ron Johnson.

Senator Ron Johnson, under fire over fake-electors disclosure at hearing, pretends to be on phone to avoid answering questions

Uvalde school police chief is put on leave after mass shooting at elementary school

Senators have bipartisan plan to curb insulin prices

World

Ukrainian Territorial Defense forces took cover in the woods after spotting what they thought could be a Russian drone flying above them on a road that leads to Lysychansk on Tuesday.

Russia gains in the east, threatening to overrun Luhansk

Afghanistan quake kills 1,000 people, deadliest in decades

Frustrated Finland, blocked from NATO by Turkey, practices patience

opinion

A US Supreme Court ruling released Tuesday will require the state of Maine to allow parents to use taxpayer dollars to send their kids to religious school.

Remember separation between church and state? Apparently the Supreme Court doesn’t.

Trumpublicans have turned on Republicans

JustUs for Vincent: Remembering Vincent: The unsilenced

lifestyle

2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners

These are the 2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners

Science and music collide in ‘Black Hole Symphony’ at the Museum of Science

UK to offer vaccines to some queer men to stop monkeypox; officials cite higher transmission risk

food & dining

Mini juicy pork dumplings at Gourmet Dumpling House in Boston. The eatery, located at 52 Beach St., has made regular appearances in online travel guides and best-of lists, and in 2013 it was included in Travel & Leisure’s list of the best Chinese restaurants in the US.

Gourmet Dumpling House announces it will close its doors in Chinatown after 15 years

Blue Ribbon Sushi will open at the Hotel Commonwealth Thursday

Premade cocktail mixes make sipping simple

travel

A cooked lobster is served on a picnic table in New England.

8 must-attend food and wine festivals in Rhode Island this summer

Grab that towel: These sandy strands have been named the best beaches in Massachusetts

A sunflower maze, a new Lake Placid hotel, and thousands of books on the go

Arts

Lynda Schlosberg, "The Heart of the Matter," in “Lines and Colors" at Bernay Fine Art.

Delighting in ‘Lines and Colors’ at Bernay Fine Art

‘In the heart of their hug’: Hank Willis Thomas on his ‘Embrace’ tribute to the Kings

At PEM, Zachari Logan’s ‘Remembrance’ finds beauty in ambiguity

Books

A red tailed hawk

Sy Montgomery’s latest book delves into the wild world of hawks

George Lamming, a Caribbean writer who explored the end of colonialism, dies

Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor of powerful reserve, dies at 91

Movies

Antonio Banderas as international movie star Félix Rivero and Penélope Cruz as his director, Lola Cuevas, in Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s "Official Competition."

Antonio Banderas skewers celebrity in ‘Official Competition’

Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas make a meta movie in ‘Official Competition’

Roxbury International Film Festival offers hybrid program, in-person screenings

Television

Jeremy Allen White and Liza Colon-Zayas in "The Bear."

In ‘The Bear,’ a star chef has a lot on his plate in this messy kitchen

Chameleonic character keeps ‘Chloe’ compelling

Zahn McClarnon is riveting as tribal detective in AMC’s ‘Dark Winds’

music

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood. Their classic 1968 album "Nancy & Lee" was recently reissued.

Nancy Sinatra on Lee Hazlewood, the duo’s alchemy, and their abrupt ending

Chaka Khan, Heather Headley to celebrate July 4 with the Boston Pops

Marc-André Hamelin and the riches of ragtime

Theater/Dance

“The Great Mr. Swindle’s Traveling Peculiarium and Drink-Ory Garden” is hosted by a character named B.S. Swindler.

‘Mr. Swindle’s Traveling Peculiarium’ coming to Boston with a brew of old-timey entertainment and beverages

Broadway will drop mask mandate beginning July 1

A workplace comedy goes to some very dark places in ‘Gloria’ at Gloucester Stage

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The West Newton Cinema, where a screening of “All the Lonely People” brought together dozens of Newton residents June 15.

‘A topic that resonates’: Documentary on loneliness brings people together at West Newton Cinema

Newton Highlands Village Day festival celebrates the ‘Highlands and life’

Neither snow nor rain? Mail delivery in Newton hit by staffing shortages

Obituaries

Mr. Siragusa, defensive tackle for the Super Bowl-champion Baltimore Ravens, with the Vince Lombardi trophy as he rode with his wife, Kathy, in a parade in his hometown of Kenilworth, N.J. on March 4, 2001.

Tony Siragusa, who helped Ravens win Super Bowl, dies at 55

James Rado, who co-created groundbreaking ‘Hair,’ dies at 90

Dr. Paul M. Ellwood Jr., architect of the HMO, is dead at 95