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Trump pushed Justice Department to pursue false election fraud claims

Multiple members of Congress requested pardons from the White House
The Jan. 6 hearing on the Capitol insurrection is focusing on Donald Trump’s efforts to have Justice Department officials declare the election corrupt.

Here are the six members of Congress who sought pardons from Trump, according to testimony

Takeaways: Trump risked provoking ‘constitutional crisis’
The Jan. 6 hearing on the Capitol insurrection is focusing on Donald Trump’s efforts to have Justice Department officials declare the election corrupt.

The Supreme Court.

Supreme Court strikes down New York gun law, expanding gun rights

The justices’ 6-3 decision follows a series of recent mass shootings and is expected to ultimately allow more people to legally carry guns on the streets of the nation’s largest cities — including Boston.

Read the complete ruling Alito points to Buffalo shooting in striking down N.Y. gun restriction

The Supreme Court gun ruling could throw off gun restrictions in states with the lowest gun death rates — including Mass.
Among the 10 states with the lowest firearm mortality rates, six have restrictions on who can carry guns in public that are now under threat from Thursday’s ruling

ANALYSIS | JAMES PINDELL

What the latest Supreme Court ruling on guns does and doesn’t do

Here is a quick rundown of what the US Supreme Court's decision today on guns means and doesn't mean.

A view of the Massachusetts State House.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

‘We’re talking days.’ Supreme Court decision will put Mass. gun laws at risk, experts say

At Logan, flight cancellations and delays could well be the norm. Here’s why.
Americans are increasingly eager to travel this summer. But persistent pandemic-era issues at airlines have caused a string of air travel issues that will likely stick around for the season.

Travel Troubleshooter: I booked my JetBlue tickets on Orbitz. Now they’re gone.

‘There’s just so much anger.’ Parents sue Brigham and Women’s Hospital over loss of 12-day-old baby’s remains

Baby Everleigh’s body was accidentally discarded along with dirty linens, according to the lawsuit against the hospital and its parent company.

Maine state police search for boyfriend of activist killed in hit-and-run crash in Acadia National Park
Police on Thursday continued to investigate the tragic death of South Portland activist Nicole Mokeme, who was attending the Black Excellence Retreat at the Schoodic Institute when she was fatally injured on the campus sometime late Saturday or early Sunday.

Sonia Chang-Díaz ends bid for Massachusetts governor

"There is no path," the state senator said. But Sonia Chang-Díaz's name will remain before Democratic primary voters on the Sept. 6 ballot.

A Boston city councilor tweeted about Zionists shaking people down. The backlash was swift.

Kendra Lara, a first-term councilor from Jamaica Plain known for her unabashed progressivism, fired off a tweet Thursday morning saying “y’all are letting the Zionists SHAKE YOU DOWN. phew!”

Federal authorities search home of Trump Justice Department official

Federal investigators descended on the home of Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official, on Wednesday in connection with the department’s sprawling inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to people familiar with the matter.

European Union makes Ukraine a candidate for EU membership

The European Union agreed Thursday to put Ukraine on a path toward EU membership, acting with uncharacteristic speed and unity to pull the embattled country further away from Russia’s influence and bind it more closely to the West.

Commuters encountered long arrival times as they waited for the Orange Line on Monday at the MBTA Downtown Crossing station. The MBTA switched to a Saturday schedule that morning due to staffing shortages.

MBTA launches ‘hiring blitz’ for subway dispatchers after service cuts

The MBTA Board of Directors met Thursday for the first time since the transit system cut service on three lines to respond to federal demands that the agency address its shortage of subway dispatchers.

Trevor Story used the last sliver of light to warm up at Fenway Park.

A few things about the Red Sox you may have missed while following other sports …

It is officially summer, when baseball takes center stage. While the Celtics were surging to the NBA Finals and the US Open came to Brookline, the Sox were busy getting into playoff position.

Red Sox pitcher John Schreiber, a bust with the Tigers, now has batters shaking their heads

Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., March 16, 2022.

Descendant can sue Harvard over images of enslaved father and daughter, SJC says

The Supreme Judicial Court decided that Tamara Lanier can pursue a civil lawsuit against Harvard alleging emotional distress by linking Harvard own’s historic support for slavery to its current duties to her.

Opinion

David Basson (left) and Katie Basson attend a March for Our Lives rally in Christopher Columbus Park in Boston on June 11.

David Hogg and John Rosenthal

Even after the Supreme Court’s decision, Massachusetts gun laws may be safe — for now

While both laws give police some discretion in issuing firearm licenses, the discretion in the New York law was based on the applicant’s stated reason for carrying a firearm outside the home.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer lays bare the reality of gun violence

Michelle A. Williams

The Supreme Court is misinformed on eugenics

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

Jan. 6 hearings won’t sway Trump supporters. That’s OK.

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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Pilot crashes plane into N.H. river after engine malfunction; swims to safety

The pilot was later identified as George Tucker, 27, of Ludlow, Vt., who was first seen swimming in the Connecticut River 50 feet away from the plane, Police Chief Patrick Connors said in a statement Thursday.

Alleged killer of Vermont cyclist sold Jeep for $12K soon after slaying, suspect remains at large
The fugitive accused of fatally shooting 25-year-old Anna Moriah Wilson, a Vermont native and world-class cyclist killed May 11 in Austin, Tex., days before a race, sold her Jeep for $12,200 two days after the slaying before going on the run, according to the US Marshals Service.

Man arrested for allegedly disturbing the peace with a bullhorn at Mayor Wu event at Dorchester park
A man was arrested Wednesday morning for allegedly disturbing the peace with a permit-barred bullhorn during an event that Mayor Michelle Wu attended at a Dorchester park, according to authorities.

‘Someone had to move first’: MFA plans sale of NFTs based on fragile French pastels
The museum hopes to fund conservation efforts with the proceeds, but uncertainty in the crypto market raises questions.

Two Boston men sentenced to life in prison for 2015 murder

Jerome Meade, 27, was convicted by a Suffolk Superior Court jury May 18 on five charges, including first-degree murder and possession of an illegal firearm, and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. Javier Smith, 26, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole after 15 years, prosecutors said.

Six new cases of monkeypox reported in Massachusetts
The six men were found to be positive for the virus between June 16 and Wednesday after initial testing at the State Public Health Laboratory in Jamaica Plain, which will be confirmed by further tests at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a statement from the Department of Public Health.

Mass. reports 1,180 new coronavirus cases among public school students and 524 among staff 1,700 confirmed cases and 6 deaths. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

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Veronica Burton (left) attended her mother's alma mater — Northwestern — before being drafted into the WNBA. She never questioned access to sports. But that's thanks to trailblazers like Laney Clement-Holbrook (center), Barbara Stevens (right, gray sweater), and Harvard's Kathy Delaney-Smith. Heather Marini (center bottom) and Lesley Visser (center back) both carved their own paths in male-dominated industries.

50 years of Title IX

The lawsuits. The ‘subtle quiet discrimination.’ The battle for equity through Title IX has brought women so far, but there’s still more to come.

Six women in sports spoke with the Globe about the landmark legislation on its 50th anniversary. Their stories remind us of an era gone by, but also how quickly these rights could disappear if women stop fighting.

Title IX: NCAA report shows stark gap in funding for women Biden administration moves to expand Title IX protections

ART REVIEW

At the Met, ‘Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents’ offers a completist’s view
Born in Boston and raised in Cambridge, the painter captured the wildness of the sea and the brutality of human conflict in his oils and watercolors, 88 of which are now on view in New York.

As record inflation squeezes families, Healey pitches relief plan
Front-running gubernatorial candidate Maura Healey on Thursday unveiled a $400 million plan to expand state tax credits for children, which she said would put more money into the pockets of residents.

RI CRIME

Married couple died in Cumberland shooting; police investigating circumstances
The deaths of the 28 Birchwood Drive couple remain under investigation. They left two young sons and a daughter.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Roland Orzabal (left) and Curt Smith lead Tears for Fears at Leader Bank Pavilion.

Tears for Fears let it all out at Leader Bank Pavilion

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

2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners

These are the 2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners

10 time Grammy-winner Chaka Khan will join the Boston Pops Orchestra for July Fourth's 2022 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular.

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

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Welcome Back to Boston

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

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

Witnesses arrive for the fourth hearing held by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, in Washington on June 21.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The Herculean task facing the Jan. 6 committee

An engineer perched on a roof in City Square in Charlestown to survey construction of twin tunnels for the Central Artery project north of downtown Boston on Dec. 12, 1991. The tunnels would replace the elevated connections from the Artery to Interstate 93 and Route 1, which were among the most congested and treacherous stretches of road in the state.

IDEAS | KELLY HORAN

When Boston was bold

Stratospheric Fuel prices have broken records, with the average national price of regular gas hovering at around $5, according to the American Automobile Association.

Suspending the gas tax is a gimmick

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’

IDEAS | WILL AUSTIN

Where have Boston’s children gone?

Metro

‘We’re talking days.’ Supreme Court decision will put Mass. gun laws at risk, experts say

Currently, Massachusetts law gives local police chiefs discretion to determine whether someone is suitable to have a license. Experts say it won't take long until that provision is challenged. “The next person denied a permit under the Massachusetts law can go immediately into federal court," one law professor said.

Mass. reports 1,180 new coronavirus cases among public school students and 524 among staff

The 1,704 total cases represent a drop of 2,512 or nearly 60 percent, from those reported last week, according to data published by the state. This week’s report is expected to be the last time the numbers will be updated for this school year.

Gloucester firefighters extinguish 3-alarm blaze at waterfront building

The building fire at 211 East Main St., which is the Beacon Marine Basin Inc., was reported at around 7:07 a.m., and Gloucester fire crews arrived two minutes later, according to a statement from Acting Gloucester Fire Chief Robert Rivas.

Jan. 6 hearings: The latest

Multiple members of Congress requested pardons from the White House

The Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol insurrection is convening for six public hearings. Follow along for the latest news, updates, and analyses.

Sports

The ban is shorter than the two-year suspension Churchill Downs handed Bob Baffert.

Bob Baffert is suspended one year by New York Racing Association

Baffert was credited for time served from an initial suspension that makes him eligible to work in New York again Jan. 26.

Shohei Ohtani racked up a career-high 13 strikeouts, pitching eight scoreless innings of two-hit ball Wednesday.

The incredible Shohei Ohtani has two dazzling days to remember for the Angels

He accomplished two feats that would each be career landmarks for practically any other player in baseball history.

Cole Strange was a first-round draft pick out of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

Patriots complete the signings of their 2022 draft class

Offensive lineman Cole Strange, wide receiver Tyquan Thornton, and quarterback Bailey Zappe officially signed Thursday.

Stanley Cup Final | Avalanche lead series, 3-1

NHL officiating called into question after controversial OT goal in Game 4 of Stanley Cup Final

Hall of Fame NFL running back Hugh McElhenny dies at 93

Q&A: Billie Jean King on Title IX’s 50th anniversary, and what’s next

Business

Instagram rolls out age verification, but not to keep children off app

The photo- and video-sharing platform said beginning Thursday it would start testing new tools for age verification if accounts listed as younger than 18 try to change their age to over 18.

Airport chaos: European travel runs into pandemic cutbacks

Travel demand has roared back, but airlines and airports that slashed jobs during the depths of the COVID-19 crisis are struggling to keep up.

Fewer Americans file for jobless aid

R.I. Supreme Court clears way for Fane tower in Providence

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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

A medical laboratory technician holds suspected monkeypox samples at the microbiology laboratory of La Paz Hospital in Madrid, Spain.

Six new cases of monkeypox reported in Massachusetts

Best things to do in RI this week: June 24-July 1

MBTA launches ‘hiring blitz’ for subway dispatchers after service cuts

sports

Jeter Downs played third base in his big league debut with the Red Sox.

After one game, Red Sox option Jeter Downs back to Worcester

After a remarkable reinvention, Red Sox reliever John Schreiber has batters shaking their heads

Title IX: NCAA report shows stark gap in funding for women

business

Terminal C at Logan Airport last weekend, when hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed.

At Logan, flight cancellations and delays could well be the norm. Here’s why.

At NYC’s crypto fest, optimism runs high

R.I. appoints epidemiologist Dr. Utpala Bandy as interim state health director

politics

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., left, and Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., listened as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol revealed its findings of a year-long investigation in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2022.

Takeaways: Trump risked provoking ‘constitutional crisis’

Jan. 6 committee shows Trump pushed Justice Department to pursue false election fraud claims

Ex-Trump aides in Jan. 6 testimony say GOP lawmakers sought pardons after Capitol attack

Nation

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

As Jan. 6 panel targets Trump, he targets McCarthy

US monkeypox response mirrors early coronavirus missteps, experts say

World

Brick Lane in east London, England, on Dec. 17, 2021. Health authorities in Britain have declared a national incident after finding evidence suggesting local spread of poliovirus in London, and health officials urged those who were not fully immunized to seek vaccines immediately.

UK declares ‘national incident’ after poliovirus traces found in sewage

Afghans bury dead, dig for survivors of devastating quake

Deborah Birx testifies that Trump officials asked her to change COVID-19 guidance in 2020

opinion

The Old Chapel and the W.E.B. Du Bois Library on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus.

A salute to state’s flagship public university, and call for more support

Workplace innovation could be two steps forward if there are no steps back

President Biden rode on a bike, had not-such-a-great fall

lifestyle

President Biden.

Biden administration moves to expand Title IX protections

I’m so afraid of getting pregnant

These are the 2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners

food & dining

Blue Ribbon Sushi

Blue Ribbon Sushi opens in Kenmore Square; Fresh Pond gets a beer garden

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

Blue Ribbon Sushi will open at the Hotel Commonwealth Thursday

travel

Beachgoers kept an eye on the seals swimming at Coast Guard Beach in North Eastham, Mass.

A guide to some of the best beaches on Cape Cod

A guide to some of the best beaches in Rhode Island

A guide to some of the best beaches in Greater Boston

Arts

Winslow Homer, "The Gulf Stream," 1899. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906.

At the Met, ‘Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents’ offers a completist’s view

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

Books

Bill McKibben has established himself as our Jeremiah of climate change.

Twilight of the white guys

Regeneration and time travel

Poetic postcards to share, a book about a book-maker, and a call to re-read Frederick Douglass

Movies

Men receiving treatment in a still from "Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes."

The legacy of Chernobyl, a portrait of the hustler as an aging man

‘Hit the Road’ follows a family, and their dog, on a road less traveled

‘Lost Illusions’ offers dark doings in the City of Light

Television

Suranne Jones as Anne Lister in HBO's "Gentleman Jack."

Some favorites from TV’s archive of LGBTQ characters and stories

‘Loot’ is rich with relationships, if not messages

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

music

Roland Orzabal (left) and Curt Smith lead Tears for Fears at Leader Bank Pavilion.

Tears for Fears let it all out at Leader Bank Pavilion

Boston Gay Men’s Chorus and Disney harmonize on a first-of-its-kind concert

Former Boston Pops conductor John Williams, 90, steps away from film, but not music

Theater/Dance

James Jackson Jr. in rehearsal for "A Strange Loop."

Massachusetts native James Jackson Jr.’s head-spinning journey into ‘A Strange Loop’

Jacob’s Pillow kicks off the 2022 season with provocative ‘America(na) to Me’

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

globe local

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. McElhenny starred for the San Francisco 49ers as an all-purpose back.

Hall of Fame NFL running back Hugh McElhenny dies at 93

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

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