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First-grade student Ashley Emmanuel, 6, does a spelling test behind a temporary privacy wall in Stacy Boyd's first grade classroom at the Parlin School in Everett.

KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA

COVID will be in schools this fall. It’s time to make plans.

Even after two and a half years, rules around preschool and school feel like a random pastiche that varies wildly from town to town. Which is why it’s worth asking now what the coming school year will look like.

How have Mass. schools spent their $2.5 billion in federal COVID funds? Mostly, they still haven’t. As the coronavirus BA.5 variant spreads, the risk of COVID reinfection grows

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.

A screenshot of a brain training exercise.

See if you can keep up with these interactive brain exercises

There's new urgency to pinpoint effective lifestyle interventions to ward off dementia.

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.

‘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.

Meet Molly White, the Mass. software engineer going after the crypto industry
White documents mishaps, failures, and scams in the industry on a website that is suddenly gaining wide attention.

Mass. lawmakers promise one of Beacon Hill’s largest packages of tax relief in a generation. It mirrors much of what Baker pitched in January.

With just three weeks left in their legislative session, top Massachusetts Democrats on Monday unveiled a multibillion-dollar economic development package that pledges more than $1 billion in tax breaks and rebates, including increases to the credits that seniors, low-income workers, and parents can claim.

‘Smoke’s filling around you’ - man who rushed into burning Veranda House to alert guests recounts frantic moments inside
A Boston developer who charged into the burning Veranda House early Saturday morning to alert guests to the fire raging at the historic Nantucket inn said Monday that he knew he had to do something.

Tara Sullivan

It’s time for Chris Sale to do some damage to opposing lineups
The Red Sox lefthander is ready to return to the majors, and his team could certainly use a lift from him as it struggles to gain ground in the playoff race.

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

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.

Arthur Rishi is in a battle with Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus, after a scammer apparently tried to steal his identity.

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, one of them had released his credit report anyway.

A formerly sunken boat sits upright with its stern stuck in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead.

Photos: Withering drought shows Lake Mead boat graveyard

The largest US reservoir has shrunken to a record low amid a punishing drought and the demands of 40 million people in seven states who are sucking the Colorado River dry.

World War II-era boat emerges from shrinking Lake Mead

Opinion

Voters mark their ballots at First Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Stamford, Conn.

The fringe theory that the Supreme Court might use to upend our elections

The court could clear the way for state lawmakers to put into place gerrymandered congressional maps and send their own electors to Washington to subvert the will of voters in presidential elections.

Biden moves US closer to confrontation with Russia

A $250 check from Beacon Hill? Great. But don’t leave out the very poor.

Accountability should never yield to the passage of time

No one is coming to save us. We need to save ourselves by running for office.

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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MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: Exploring psychedelics, a Phoebe Robinson comedy, and ‘Saul’ returns

This week's TV highlights include the premiere of "Everything's Trash," starring Phoebe Robinson as a broke podcast star; a docuseries that delves into the future potential of psychedelic drugs; and the resumption of "Better Call Saul's" final season.

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.

FDA to weigh over-the-counter sale of contraceptive pills
The Food and Drug Administration has received its first application to supply a birth control pill over the counter — just as the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has put access to contraception more squarely at the heart of the clash over reproductive rights.

‘I don’t think they’re going to make it.’ In only Mass. gubernatorial primary, Republicans face each other — and long odds.

Businessman Chris Doughty, a first-time and almost entirely self-funded candidate, is facing off against former Whitman state lawmaker Geoff Diehl, a Donald-Trump backed conservative who has trumpeted the former president's false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.

Man charged in the stabbing death of woman in Northampton

Northampton Police were called to an apartment on Hatfield Street, where they found a 21-year-old woman dead of stab wounds, according officials. Police arrested Devin Bryden, the woman’s roommate, in connection with her death.

Biden to reveal first image from NASA’s new space telescope
President Biden on Monday will reveal the first image from NASA’s new space telescope — the deepest view of the cosmos ever captured.

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Andrew and Janet Cromartie embrace at Hinsdale Park, their favorite place to walk their dogs on June 30, 2022. The couple have been forced to leave the island after shuffling around to different locations do to the increased cost of living and lack of affordable housing.

A sad farewell to an island paradise

Andrew Cromartie and Janet Forest are preparing to bid farewell to Nantucket, a place that has financially slipped away from them.

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.

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.

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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

Special Projects

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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

A protester in New York holds a photo of slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

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

President Biden at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on June 8.

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

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

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

‘Smoke’s filling around you’ - man who rushed into burning Veranda House to alert guests recounts frantic moments inside

A Boston developer who charged into the burning Veranda House early Saturday morning to alert guests to the fire raging at the historic Nantucket inn said Monday that he knew he had to do something.

Mass. lawmakers promise one of Beacon Hill’s largest packages of tax relief in a generation. It mirrors much of what Baker pitched in January.

With just three weeks left in their legislative session, top Massachusetts Democrats on Monday unveiled a multibillion-dollar economic development package that pledges more than $1 billion in tax breaks and rebates, including increases to the credits that seniors, low-income workers, and parents can claim.

KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA

COVID will be in schools this fall. It’s time to make plans.

Even after two and a half years, rules around preschool and school feel like a random pastiche that varies wildly from town to town. Which is why it’s worth asking now what the coming school year will look like.

Head of state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital to depart

Chief of the hospital and the state Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals, Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz will leave next week, when an interim chief will be named

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.

He grew up a Celtics fan in Roxbury. Now, A.J. Reeves is getting his shot in summer league.

The former Providence guard had a strong pre-draft workout for Boston last month.

Chris Sale pitched into the fourth inning of a rehab start in Worcester last week, allowing one run on three hits.

It’s time for Chris Sale to do some damage to opposing lineups

The Red Sox lefthander is ready to return to the majors, and his team could certainly use a lift from him as it struggles to gain ground in the playoff race.

The Rays knocked Brayan Bello around in his debut, getting four runs and six hits in four innings.

RED SOX AT RAYS | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 87: Red Sox at Rays lineups and notes

Brayan Bello will make his second career start as Boston heads south for another divisional series against the third-place Rays.

Red Sox 11, Yankees 6

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

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

Peter Abraham | On Baseball

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

Business

KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA

COVID will be in schools this fall. It’s time to make plans.

Even after two and a half years, rules around preschool and school feel like a random pastiche that varies wildly from town to town. Which is why it’s worth asking now what the coming school year will look like.

Twitter shares sink, with legal battle ahead as Elon Musk walks away

The billionaire alleges that Twitter misrepresented user data, with the number of spam bots on the platform much higher than the company has disclosed.

Meet Molly White, the Mass. software engineer going after the crypto industry

Alibaba and Tencent stocks plunge after latest fines

magazine

The writer (right) and her daughter, Glynne, leave the hospital after the writer’s last chemotherapy session.

Cancer kicks your butt, but it’s also a powerful lesson on appreciation

How can I get people to clean up after their dogs in my complex?

Salsa in Beverly's Lynch Park on Wednesday.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, July 11-17

Is a famous shipwreck in Newport Harbor? There's a fight over that.

metro

Daniel Webster. (Globe File)

Pots, pans, silverware stolen from Daniel Webster birthplace in N.H.

‘I don’t think they’re going to make it.’ In only Mass. gubernatorial primary, Republicans face each other — and long odds.

This R.I. camp allows high schoolers to fish for sharks

sports

With Kiké Hernández still sidelined, Jarren Duran led off Sunday night and played center field for the Red Sox against the Yankees.

Kiké Hernández still a ways off from returning to Red Sox

Wayne Rooney agrees to coach DC United

Orioles stay hot, sweep away scuffling Angels

business

The Nord Stream 1 pipeline, Germany's main source of Russian gas, is scheduled to be out of action until July 21.

Gas pipeline shutdown starts amid German suspicion of Russia

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

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

politics

An upcoming hearing of the US House Committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection is expected to examine ties between people in former President Donald Trump's orbit and extremist groups who played a role in the Capitol riot.

Trump associates’ ties to extremists probed by Jan. 6 panel

Bannon, facing jail and fines, agrees to testify to Jan. 6 panel

Biden celebration of new gun law clouded by latest shooting

Nation

Birth control pills at a home in Bend, Ore., Sept. 4, 2015.

FDA to weigh over-the-counter sale of contraceptive pills

Biden to reveal first image from NASA’s new space telescope

How California is preparing for a surge in out-of-state abortion patients

World

A resident salvages what he can from his home, after a rocket hit an apartment residential block, in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on July 10.

Putin extends fast-track Russian citizenship to all Ukraine

Spain’s running of the bulls: 3 people gored at San Fermín

Sri Lanka talks grow urgent as political vacuum deepens

opinion

People dance through the night at Mariel Underground, a nightclub in downtown Boston.

Byzantine Boston makes it next to impossible to open a restaurant

A $250 check from Beacon Hill? Great. But don’t leave out the very poor.

Immediate and lasting impacts are expected with Roe dismantled

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

Callum McLaughlin owns Cabana, which is a new eatery on Broadway in Newport, R.I., that features island-inspired plates and cocktails.

A NYC restaurateur has his sights set on Rhode Island

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

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

Phoebe Robinson in "Everything's Trash," which premieres Wednesday on Freeform.

This week’s TV: Exploring psychedelics, a Phoebe Robinson comedy, and ‘Saul’ returns

HBO cancels ‘Gentleman Jack’

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

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