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Trump ally Bannon now willing to testify before Jan. 6 panel
Steve Bannon, a former White House strategist and ally of Donald Trump who faces criminal charges after months of defying a congressional subpoena over the Capitol riot, has told the House committee investigating the attack that he is now willing to testify.

Jan. 6 hearing on Tuesday to focus on Trump’s ‘siren call’ to violent extremists

‘It’s like we don’t even exist’: Weeks after Revere Beach fire, dozens remain displaced

City officials condemned 370 Ocean Ave. Wednesday for code violations and damage from the fire, and 82 residents say Revere and the landlord, The Carabetta Companies, have done little to help them.

As the coronavirus BA.5 variant spreads, the risk of COVID reinfection grows

The United States is seeing a wave of coronavirus cases because of the BA.5 variant, and one expert called it "the worst version of the virus that we've seen."

Signs outside future LGBTQ-friendly senior housing facility vandalized with hateful graffiti

The messages were scrawled in black spray-paint across signs on the fence around the former William Barton Rogers School at 15 Everett St.

Pregnant woman given HOV ticket argues fetus is passenger, post-Roe

Massachusetts man injured in 50-foot fall during hike in New Hampshire mountains

Atlantis Charter School is using its federal coronavirus relief funds to build an annex at its campus in Fall River. It's expected to be ready for next school year.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

How have Massachusetts school districts spent their $2.5 billion in federal COVID funds? Mostly, they still haven’t.

Among the 78 districts and independent charter schools that have received over $5 million, the Atlantis Charter School in Fall River stands alone as the only one to have spent more than 90 percent. Only five others have spent even half.

Nuns ponder the future of their landmark monastery in Jamaica Plain
Since it first opened in 1934, the Franciscan Monastery of Saint Clare has been a well-known landmark in Jamaica Plain. Nestled between the beautiful Arnold Arboretum and busy Arborway rotary, the handsome brick building is home to 10 cloistered nuns who hardly ever leave the property.

Can brain-training stave off dementia? New studies may pinpoint some answers.
With diminishing hopes for an imminent, effective Alzheimer’s medication, studies testing the protective power of computer-based brain exercises, as well as lifestyle interventions, have taken on new urgency.

Flex your brain: See if you can keep up with these interactive exercises

Fire at the Veranda House on Nantucket, July, 9.

Veranda House, two other buildings are ‘total losses’ following blaze, said fire officials

Nantucket’s 17th-century Veranda House inn and two nearby buildings are total losses following a devastating blaze Saturday, according to the island’s fire department.

A handful of people stood out on the Winthrop town green last month chatting and eating pizza on a hot afternoon. They flew a straight pride flag and a gay pride flag.

A year after racial terror, failure to mark Pride, Juneteenth divides Winthrop over how to be inclusive

June came and went this year with no event to celebrate Pride or Juneteenth, incensing some residents who say the town dropped the ball when it should be leading the way in promoting inclusion a year after the tragic act of racist hate that left two Black residents shot and killed.

A staff member answered a phone call at the Hope Clinic For Women in Granite City, Ill., on June 27.

Post-Roe, here’s what you can do to protect your digital privacy

Liberal lawmakers are calling for stricter federal privacy regulation. But you don’t need new legislation to begin taking control of your sensitive data.

Biden says he’s mulling health emergency for abortion access

Opinion

Carolyn Bryant rested her head on her husband Roy Bryant's shoulder after she testified in Emmett Till's murder case in Sumner, Miss. on Sept. 22. 1955. A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the murder of the Black teenager found the unserved warrant for the arrest of "Mrs. Roy Bryant."

Accountability should never yield to the passage of time

A white woman’s claim led to Emmett Till’s murder in 1955. An unserved warrant against her could finally bring a modicum of delayed justice.

Biden may be going to Saudi Arabia, but he must not bow

Massachusetts lawmakers are poised to offer tax relief to the middle class. But what about the poor?

IDEAS | SHAUN CAMMACK

I quit Twitter and discovered Wikipedia’s righteous, opinionated, utterly absorbing battles over The Truth

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

On the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, State Department has no spine

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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THE FINE PRINT

He put a freeze on his credit report. Was a scammer able to remove it?
Arthur Rishi had taken steps to protect himself from fraud, including by putting a freeze on his credit report at the three major credit bureaus.Yet, of them had released his credit report anyway.

Lowell residents warned of bear sighting one day after bear reported in Tewksbury

Residents in Lowell were asked to keep an eye out for a bear seen near Wentworth Avenue on Sunday morning, one day after bear sightings were reported in neighboring Tewskbury, officials said.

Massachusetts doesn’t have a state climatologist. Here’s why that matters.
Amid intensifying concern about climate change, state climatologists have taken on more expansive roles in recent years, leading education efforts and supplying data and analysis to an array of state and local entities.

Jamaica Plain’s Centre Street shuts down for Boston’s inaugural Open Streets festival

The Open Streets closures will be Aug. 6 on Mattapan’s Blue Hill Avenue and Sept. 7 on Dorchester Avenue.

One small step for democracy in a ‘Live Free or Die’ town
Croydon, N.H., near the Vermont border, is a small New England town that saw a big experiment in democracy.

LOVE LETTERS

We closed the distance gap only to break up
“Weeks ago, she ended the relationship.”

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Ketanji Brown Jackson testified during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing as her husband, Patrick Jackson, looked on.

Beside the nation’s first Black woman Supreme Court justice is her husband, a ‘quintessential Boston Brahmin’

For centuries the ancestral lines of Ketanji Onyika Brown and Patrick Graves Jackson were impossibly far apart. Then, 30 years ago at Harvard, they crossed.

After generations of joy and tragedy, a family says goodbye to Boston’s Brighton neighborhood
The Magee clan has inhabited the wood-frame house at 40 Waverly St. since it was built in 1910. But time, and market forces, march on without regard for family memories or the birthplace of hometown heroes.

Boston researchers may have found biomarker for long COVID
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital said their study bolsters a theory that at least one cause of long COVID is the coronavirus persisting in a reservoir somewhere in the body even after a patient has recovered from a bout with COVID-19.

Is the US in danger of talking itself into a recession?
Most economists say the country is not in a recession right now, although that determination could change in the coming months as more data is analyzed.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Dakota Johnson stars in the upcoming film "Madame Web," which is filming in Boston this summer.

Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ to begin filming in Boston next week

Maren Morris performs at Leader Bank Pavilion Friday night.

Maren Morris does it all at Leader Bank Pavilion

In "Loot," Maya Rudolph plays a billionaire who decides to live a 9-to-5 life in the office of a charitable foundation.

These workplace comedies get the job done

From left: Marcel Spears, Nikki Crawford, and Billy Eugene Jones in James Ijames's “Fat Ham” at the Public Theater in New York.

Seen and heard at the theater: distinct voices, fresh perspectives

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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

In 2019, students from five BPS schools performed with the Boston Pops during their opening Holiday at the Pops show the first week of December.

Brenda Cassellius

A roadmap to success for Boston Public Schools

The sense that Boris Johnson had worn out his welcome with a weary public that now wanted him gone played a part in his decision to resign as prime minister of Great Britain.

Boris Johnson and the limits of democratic tolerance

Boris Johnson is out of a job because — not for the first time — he appears to have been covering up dysfunctional behavior, either his own, or by one of his chums.

Game over for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony should be a reminder to young staffers, particularly those who work with or alongside the coup-inclined: Be ferocious note-keepers. Log every meeting, recount what was said, and store it all somewhere safe.

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

Advice for Washington’s young staffers

US Attorney Rachael Rollins watches as Acting Boston Police Commissioner Gregory Long speaks to reporters about the Patriot Front march.

‘If this were a Black Lives Matter protest, would the response have been different?’

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

Global information wars are a threat to the planet. This is how we could broker peace.

Metro

Meghan Stabile, who pioneered an ‘organic hybrid’ of jazz and hip-hop, dies at 39

Meghan Stabile died in Valrico, Fla., on June 12.

A year after racial terror, failure to mark Pride, Juneteenth divides Winthrop over how to be inclusive

June came and went this year with no event to celebrate Pride or Juneteenth, incensing some residents who say the town dropped the ball when it should be leading the way in promoting inclusion a year after the tragic act of racist hate that left two Black residents shot and killed.

Veranda House, two other buildings are ‘total losses’ following blaze, said fire officials

Nantucket’s 17th-century Veranda House inn and two nearby buildings are total losses following a devastating blaze Saturday, according to the island’s fire department.

Signs outside future LGBTQ-friendly senior housing facility vandalized with hateful graffiti

The messages were scrawled in black spray-paint across signs on the fence around the former William Barton Rogers School at 15 Everett St.

Sports

Shohei Ohtani (right), who will again be going to the All-Star Game as a pitcher and hitter, will again be joined by Angels teammate Mike Trout.

Shohei Ohtani a two-way All-Star again; Yankees (6), Braves (5), Astros (5) dominate rosters for Midsummer Classic

Present and past Red Sox selected for the July 19 game include Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, Mookie Betts, Kyle Schwarber, Martín Pérez, and Andrew Benintendi.

Xander Bogaerts earned his fourth All-Star selection on Sunday, joining 2016, 2019, and last season.

Xander Bogaerts earns reserve spot on All-Star team, joining Rafael Devers

The 29-year-old is batting .309 with a .835 OPS, both best among American League shortstops. His selection is a second straight and the fourth of his career.

Real Madrid, which won the Champions League title in May for the 14th time, is among the clubs taking on the UEFA in court Monday.

Super League clubs face UEFA in soccer’s big legal match

The legal match could make for the biggest upheaval in European soccer in more than 25 years.

Luxembourg rejoices as Jungels takes 1st Tour stage, Tadej Pogačar keeps lead

Xander Schauffele takes Scottish Open for his fourth victory in the last year

At the WNBA All-Star Game, Brittney Griner was everywhere, except on the court

Business

‘It’s like we don’t even exist’: Weeks after Revere Beach fire, dozens remain displaced

City officials condemned 370 Ocean Ave. Wednesday for code violations and damage from the fire, and 82 residents say Revere and the landlord, The Carabetta Companies, have done little to help them.

He put a freeze on his credit report. Was a scammer able to remove it?

Arthur Rishi had taken steps to protect himself from fraud, including by putting a freeze on his credit report at the three major credit bureaus.Yet, of them had released his credit report anyway.

Trump ally Bannon now willing to testify before Jan. 6 panel

Post-Roe, here’s what you can do to protect your digital privacy

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Is a famous shipwreck in Newport Harbor? A Rhode Island expert is fighting Australia over the answer.

The writer with her husband, Junior, and their daughter.

I moved to Haiti to help it recover from the 2010 earthquake. Violence forced my family to flee.

This week's daters: Andy and Shiella

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We talked quite a bit about raising kids in today’s digital world’

Blueberry Crumble With Oats and Tahini

Recipes: Three creative berry desserts for summer

metro

Sister Jean Marie Toman returned to her seat after giving a reading as the sisters prayed together inside the Franciscan Monastery of Saint Clare in Jamaica Plain.

Nuns ponder the future of their landmark monastery in Jamaica Plain

How have Massachusetts school districts spent their $2.5 billion in federal COVID funds? Mostly, they still haven’t.

JoJo enjoys lots of outdoor activities

sports

Jeter Downs's first MLB hit came on a ground ball to the second-base side of the field.

A taste of the big leagues in June changed Jeter Downs, and when he got a second chance Saturday, he delivered

Boston Renegades again the best in women’s football, win fourth straight championship

Novak Djokovic beats Nick Kyrgios for seventh Wimbledon title, 21st Grand Slam

business

Delta Air Lines pilots picket at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) during a protest over the union contract, which was held at airports across the country, on June 30, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

Airline pilots are seeking big raises and broader changes

Biden-Xi call likely to take place in coming weeks, Blinken says

Trump lashes out at Elon Musk and ‘rotten’ Twitter deal

politics

Steve Bannon (C), center, an adviser to former president Trump, was in Washington, D.C., on June 15.

Trump ally Bannon now willing to testify before Jan. 6 panel

Biden defends pending visit to Saudi Arabia in opinion piece

Biden-Xi call likely to take place in coming weeks, Blinken says

Nation

Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, headed to the Senate floor for a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 12.

Democrats see hope for spending deal with Manchin as Congress returns

Jan. 6 hearing on Tuesday to focus on Trump’s ‘siren call’ to violent extremists

After another mass shooting, questions loom about the role of parents

World

Firefighters and members of a rescue team clear the scene after a building was partialy destroyed following shelling, in Chasiv Yar, eastern Ukraine, on July 10, 2022.

Russian rocket attack kills 15 in Ukraine; others trapped

Sri Lanka opposition meets to agree on new government amid turmoil

What we know about the Shinzo Abe assassination

opinion

Construction vehicles used during repairs in a Blue Line tunnel on May 5. Top Baker administration officials were intimately involved in keeping details from the public about three derailments of a construction vehicle on that line in May.

Sorry, Charlie: The T is still your problem

Georgia DA’s Trump investigation is making history

I quit Twitter and discovered Wikipedia’s righteous, opinionated, utterly absorbing battles over The Truth

lifestyle

We closed the distance gap only to break up

They talk for hours a day, but he has a girlfriend

WCVB names Cindy Fitzgibbon the station’s new chief meteorologist after the retirement of Harvey Leonard

food & dining

Who said good food can’t be found in a gas station?

A ‘Chopped’ champ (who also beat Bobby Flay) brings his baked goods to the Boston area

At the Israeli fast-casual Miznon in the Seaport, most of the menu goes into a pita pocket

travel

Erin E. Williams's camping setup, this one on a trip to Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park's Mill Creek Campground near Crescent City, Calif.

A beginner’s guide to camping

On the Mid Cape, sometimes the best activity is no activity at all

A plane flew 14 hours from Dubai to Brisbane with a hole in its side

Arts

John Wilson's "Maquette for Eternal Presence" sits at the opening of “Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas,” part of the new installation "Stories Artists Tell" in the Art of the Americas wing at the Museum of Fine Arts.

‘Touching roots’ and connecting cultural histories at the MFA

Patrick Kelly’s radical ‘Runway of Love’ at Peabody Essex Museum

‘On the Edge’: A lively West Coast collection lands in Watertown

Books

In a post-Trump world, can writing cure our politics?

Survival stories in ‘Dirtbag, Massachusetts’

A young woman brings light to her family, in 1930s Denver

Movies

Dakota Johnson stars in the upcoming film "Madame Web," which is filming in Boston this summer.

Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ to begin filming in Boston next week

Remembering the intensely physical, surprisingly versatile James Caan

10 memorable James Caan performances to stream

Television

“I have never been involved in a show that has made such a huge impact and touched my heart like this one has,” Suranne Jones wrote on Instagram after learning of the cancellation of "Gentleman Jack."

HBO cancels ‘Gentleman Jack’

WCVB names Cindy Fitzgibbon the station’s new chief meteorologist after the retirement of Harvey Leonard

These workplace comedies get the job done

music

Maren Morris performs at Leader Bank Pavilion Friday night.

Maren Morris does it all at Leader Bank Pavilion

At Bang on a Can’s summer festival, musical explorations are instrumental

A baby boy, a new album, and a tour have put Maren Morris in her happy place

Theater/Dance

From left: Marcel Spears, Nikki Crawford, and Billy Eugene Jones in James Ijames's “Fat Ham” at the Public Theater in New York.

Seen and heard at the theater: distinct voices, fresh perspectives

BODYTRAFFIC mirrors life’s darkness, light, and in-betweens at Jacob’s Pillow

Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence delivers stunning ‘The Equality of Night and Day’ at Jacob’s Pillow

globe local

Alphonse Millefoglie discusses the model his father built of his fishing vessel, the Maria & Al, to longtime Gloucester fishing family members John and Marie Testaverde during the opening of the Cape Ann Museum exhibit.

A port of call for Gloucester’s fishing memories

Should the state ban the use of fossil fuel systems in new commercial and residential construction?

A makeshift ramp is used to rescue ducklings

Obituaries

Meghan Stabile spoke during a radio interview in Manhattan in June 2013.

Meghan Stabile, who pioneered an ‘organic hybrid’ of jazz and hip-hop, dies at 39

Mike Brito, influential Dodgers’ scout in Mexico, dies at 87

Tony Sirico, who played a gangster in ‘The Sopranos,’ dies at 79