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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

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

Red Sox 11, Yankees 6

Red Sox battle back again for second straight comeback win over the Yankees

With the victory, the second-place Red Sox headed down to Tampa with a 1½-game lead over the Rays.

Peter Abraham: For Red Sox, splitting a series against Yankees never felt so good

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."

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

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

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

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.

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.

‘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.

Fire at the 17th-century Veranda House on Nantucket, Saturday.

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 hanging outside the construction site of a future LGBTQ-friendly senior housing facility were vandalized with hateful, homophobic graffiti overnight Saturday.

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.

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

The musician Questlove posted on Instagram that Ms. Stabile "was a true artist."

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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150 years of The Boston Globe

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Two male victims hospitalized after stabbings in Cambridge’s Central Square

The stabbing victims were found at 750 Massachusetts Ave. and 5 Western Ave. after police received a report of the violence at 8:04 p.m., Cambridge police said in a statement posted to NextDoor. The victims were taken to local hospitals for treatment.

Senate Majority Leader Schumer tests positive for COVID-19
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, spokesman Justin Goodman said in a statement.

Shark sightings reported along Nauset Beach
The sightings were scattered across about four miles of shoreline south of the Nauset Beach public area.

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.

TECH LAB

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

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.

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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.

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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

Shark sightings reported along Nauset Beach

The sightings were scattered across about four miles of shoreline south of the Nauset Beach public area.

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

The musician Questlove posted on Instagram that Ms. Stabile "was a true artist."

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.

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

Downs scored two crucial runs in Boston's extra-inning win over the Yankees, including the deciding run that was set up by his first MLB hit.

Trevor Story wasn't in synch in the fourth when he flied to center, but he was locked in in the seventh when he connected for a bases-clearing double Sunday night.

Red Sox 11, Yankees 6

Red Sox battle back again, rip off nine straight runs in comeback win over the Yankees

With the victory, the second-place Red Sox headed down to Tampa with a 1½-game lead over the Rays.

The Red Sox regrouped and scored the final nine runs to beat the Yankees, worthy of a celebration.

Peter Abraham | On Baseball

For Red Sox, splitting a series against Yankees never felt so good

The Sox still trail by 14 games but have a renewed sense of optimism about their season.

Red Sox notebook

Kiké Hernández still a ways off from returning to Red Sox

Wayne Rooney agrees to coach DC United

Baseball notebook

Orioles stay hot, sweep away scuffling Angels

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

Mario Tardif's mother died of Alzheimer's disease. He enrolled in POINTER, a first-of-its-kind US Alzheimer's study because: "Maybe I can do something to reduce my chances of getting it. Or if researchers get something from me that could help somebody else, that’s terrific.”

Can brain-training stave off dementia? New studies may pinpoint some answers.

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.

sports

A.J. Reeves averaged 9.9 points and 2.8 rebounds and hit 37.3 percent of his 3-pointers for Providence last season.

Roxbury’s A.J. Reeves getting a shot with Celtics’ summer league team

Chase Elliott holds off Corey LaJoie, joins dad as Georgian winner in Atlanta

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

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

President Joe Biden.

Biden celebration of new gun law clouded by latest shooting

Senate Majority Leader Schumer tests positive for COVID-19

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

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

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media before boarding his airplane at Yokota Air Base in Fussa on the outskirts of Tokyo, on July 11.

Biden sent condolence to Japan ex-PM Abe’s family, Blinken says

New coronavirus mutant raises concerns in India and beyond

Mexico, US presidents to meet amid newly tense relationship

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