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40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

Writers from the Globe and around New England share the experiences — some iconic, some unexpected — that their best summer memories are made of.

A seal pops its head out of the water off Monomoy Island on Cape Cod.

DEVRA FIRST & CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Mixing and mingling with the upper class of the Lower Cape

The cliffs at the lookout point at Aquinnah.

Planning a trip to Martha’s Vineyard? Here’s a look at what’s new and what’s happening this summer.

A guest room at the Chatham Inn.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

A look inside Cape Cod’s newest five-star hotel

Tara Sullivan

Why Tiger Woods believes the LIV golfers could be in for a major problem
Woods knew what he was talking about on Tuesday when he fired a warning shot to LIV golfers, particularly the younger ones.

Mass. House, Senate at odds over later-term abortion law

Both chambers have now embraced language that would help shield providers from out-of-state prosecution for procedures that are legal here and would make emergency contraception more readily accessible, among other changes responding to last month’s ruling that allowed states to outright prohibit abortion for the first time in 49 years.

House rejects rebates for lowest-income earners in sweeping economic development package

Debate on the House floor came as prices for gas, food, and rent propelled inflation to a four-decade peak in June, new government data released Wednesday found. The chamber is expected to vote on the final package Thursday.

‘He fought hard to clear his name.’ Shawn Drumgold, who spent 14 years in prison on wrongful murder conviction, has died
Drumgold was wrongly convicted in the 1988 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore in Roxbury.

Michael Cox named new Boston police commissioner
The veteran law enforcement leader was beaten by fellow Boston police officers while undercover in 1995.

Cox is the man of the moment

Boston’s new police commissioner, brutalized by colleagues three decades ago, is exactly the leader the BPD needs right now.

In pre-dawn darkness of 1995, Cox became a crime victim — at the hands of fellow Boston police officers

Tampa Bay's Josh Lowe slides past Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez while scoring from first base during the seventh inning of Wednesday night's game in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Peter Abraham | RAYS 4, RED SOX 1

This skid versus the Rays has exposed the Red Sox for what they are not: playoff worthy

The way the Sox are playing now, they’d get embarrassed in a postseason setting.

John Henry evaluates the Red Sox’ present and future

Evelyn Murphy (left) and Megan Driscoll Murphy (right) in front of the Massachusetts State House. Evelyn, is a former lieutenant governor who has been trying to close the gender wage gap in Massachusetts. Driscoll is a former CEO of a biotech recruiting firm. They have forged an alliance to strengthen the state's pay equity law and are working on a bill together.

Gender wage gap widened after state passed equal pay law. Beacon Hill can make a fix.

The law prohibited employers from asking job candidates about salary history. But when they began to ask about salary expectations instead, white male candidates tended to overestimate, leaving women and people of color behind.

Erin Zielinska. shown with her daughter Taylor, has been priced out of the Cape Cod rental market and has been forced to live in her grandmother's basement, she said.

‘We are losing the Cape we have always loved’: Soaring home prices put the pinch on longtime renters

Cape Cod home prices are at all time highs, the housing stock has reached a historic low, and longtime residents — disproportionately those who occupy year-round rental properties — are being pushed to a breaking point.

Opinion

FILE - People march towards the U.S. Capitol with those who say they are members of the Proud Boys in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. An upcoming hearing of the U.S. 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’s ‘spontaneous’ call for Capitol march another myth

January 6 committee exposes the web of lies aimed at halting the peaceful transition of power.

IDEAS | ELIZABETH PRESTON

The case for wasps

Shan Soe-Lin and Robert Hecht

As monkeypox cases rise, US health officials are failing again

IDEAS | DAVID DANIEL

Ode to the in-person author events of yore

Wu picks a police commissioner who knows the worst about the BPD, yet stuck with it

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

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

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Biden nominates Judge Guzman for Mass. federal court; would be first Hispanic judge
Judge Margaret R. Guzman would be the first Hispanic judge to serve on the Massachusetts federal court if she is confirmed, the White House said Wednesday.

When the Oath Keepers came to Lexington: a look at the extremist militia’s ties to Massachusetts
The far-right paramilitary group the Oath Keepers claims to have thousands of members across the country. But they chose Massachusetts as the site for the group's formal launch in 2009.

Danvers police investigate hate group fliers

Once heralded, Boston AI startup DataRobot struggles under West Coast leadership
Current and former employees say there is a split between the company’s longtime Boston workers and its more recent California investors and leadership team.

Russian missile strike kills 12 south of Kyiv, Ukraine says

Ukraine’s national police said three missiles hit an office building and damaged nearby residential buildings in the city of Vinnytsia, located southwest of the capital Kyiv.

Man charged with rape of girl, 10, who traveled for abortion
An Ohio man has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl whose case drew national attention following a doctor’s comments that the child had to travel to Indiana for an abortion, an account that had led some prominent Republicans — including Ohio’s attorney general and a congressman — to suggest it was fabricated.

New Hampshire man arrested, charged with step-grandfather’s murder

Keegan Duhaime, 26, is facing one count of second degree murder for the death of 72-year-old Timothy Hill at a home on Scofield Mountain Road in Winchester, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office said in a statement.

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The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula are seen in an image divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion, with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released on Tuesday.

‘I’m beyond stoked.’ For local astronomers, first Webb telescope images elicit awe, wonder, and relief.

Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and MIT, people who have devoted their careers to studying the cosmos, found themselves astounded Tuesday after seeing the first images from the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope.

‘I cry nearly every day’: For refugees in Ukraine, survival is measured one day at a time
The Boston Globe spent eight days in western Ukraine speaking with people about how they’re coping amid the ongoing war and what’s next. This is the first in a series of dispatches from a nation under siege.

Aliases, a plastic surgery receipt, and six weeks on the run: How suspect in Vt. cyclist slaying got caught in Costa Rica
Kaitlin Armstrong fled Austin, Texas, in the wake of the May 11 murder of well-known off-road cyclist, Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson, only to be arrested on June 29 in a laid-back coastal town.

Nursing shortage at hospitals leads to multimillion-dollar costs
The vacancy rate for nurse positions has more than doubled since before the pandemic, growing from 6.4 percent in 2019 to 13.6 percent in 2022.

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Culture & Lifestyle

The cliffs at the lookout point at Aquinnah.

Planning a trip to Martha’s Vineyard? Here’s a look at what’s new and what’s happening this summer.

Will Swenson stars as Neil Diamond in "A Beautiful Noise."

In ‘A Beautiful Noise,’ Will Swenson is a sparkling Diamond

Inside "Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience," the new immersive art exhibit that opened July 8 at SoWa Power Station.

New immersive art exhibit, ‘Beyond King Tut,’ transports visitors back in time

Richard Tarantino, performing as Oxalis, plays his synthesizer on the lobby stage of the Museum of Science at the New England Synth Fest in June.

A spacey odyssey is in store when synthesizers take over Boston’s planetarium

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Welcome Back to Boston

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A Beautiful Resistance

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The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The Adoption of the US Constitution in Congress at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1787, painted by John H. Froehlich in 1935.

IDEAS | TOM CHAFFIN

We should stop giving the Founding Fathers capital-letter reverence

Stephen Ayres, who pleaded guilty in June 2022 to disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, shakes hands with Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges as the hearing with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol in Washington on Tuesday.

Jan. 6 panel highlights an unhinged Trump White House

Joe Biden cannot put out a wildfire with a teaspoon of water. Nor can he energize his base without using the full weight of his powers to push against the terrifying decline and direction of this nation.

Joe Biden is not the man for this moment

Might a penchant for palindromes be in our DNA?

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Two challenges, one column!

A mother walks her young son through the courtyard of United South End Settlements in Boston. The state tax relief bill would increase the child care and dependent care deduction from $180 to $310 per dependent and eliminate the two-dependent cap.

TOPIC: 11LEUNG

Renters, seniors, and the working poor: Beacon Hill doles out the tax breaks

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

Writers from the Globe and around New England share the experiences — some iconic, some unexpected — that their best summer memories are made of.

RI FOOD & DINING

Chef James Mark, the celebrated owner of North and Big King, on why he’s hanging up his apron — for now

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Mark explains what made him decide to take a break, the pressures leaders of the restaurant industry face, and what’s next for him.

‘He fought hard to clear his name.’ Shawn Drumgold, who spent 14 years in prison on wrongful murder conviction, has died

Drumgold was wrongly convicted in the 1988 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore in Roxbury.

Brush fire spreads for a mile in Andover, fire officials say

Andover firefighters returned Wednesday morning to the scene of a smoky brush fire that started Tuesday night along high tension power lines, the department said in a statement.

Sports

Tampa Bay's Josh Lowe slides past Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez while scoring from first base during the seventh inning of Wednesday night's game in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Peter Abraham | On baseball

This skid versus the Rays has exposed the Red Sox for what they are not: playoff worthy

The way the Sox are playing now, they’d get embarrassed in a postseason setting.

Ethan O'Neill of Belmont Hill celebrates with his ISL teammates during a 16-10 win over a squad of MIAA players during the Boston Lacrosse All-American Game at Babson College's McDowell Field on Wednesday. It was the first time the game pitted ISL and MIAA All-Star teams against each other.

In highly anticipated lacrosse battle pitting ISL v. MIAA, prep schools come out on top

For the first time, the Boston Lacrosse All-American Game featured an ISL team taking on an MIAA team, which added a fun element for all involved.

The Rays' Francisco Mejia disrupts the double-play attempt of Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts after being forced out during the third inning Wednesday. Yandy Diaz was safe at first.

Rays 4, Red Sox 1

Red Sox quiet at the plate, sloppy in the field again in another loss to the Rays

Even though the Rays put up just four runs and had just five hits, the Sox’ recent brand of baseball just doesn’t equate to winning.

Blue Jackets sign top NHL free-agent Johnny Gaudreau, ex-BC star

Red Sox notebook

X-rays on Matt Strahm (wrist) and Trevor Story (hand) are negative

Massachusetts Amateur

Christian Emmerich upsets medalist Arthur Zelmati in match play at Mass Amateur, then takes down brother Aidan to reach quarters

Business

Vote on Spirit/Frontier merger postponed again

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Gas prices, a big inflation factor, are coming down sharply

Gas prices have fallen 28 days in a row, the longest decline since the collapse in energy demand in early 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic paralyzed the economy.

Starbucks closing 16 US stores for safety issues

Rhode Island ranks No. 45 in CNBC’s 2022 Top States for Business list

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

My wife wants to move closer to my stepsons. I won’t go.

Grilled Broccoli With Pistachio and Citrus Vinaigrette

Recipes: Charring broccoli, corn, and other vegetables on the grill

A friend bullies me into talking politics. What can I do?

metro

After his lawsuit was settled, Michael Cox stayed with the Boston Police Department.

Fighting the blue wall of silence, Cox persevered

Mass. House, Senate at odds over later-term abortion law

Michael Cox named new Boston police commissioner

sports

After going undrafted, former BU standout Javante McCoy (center), is getting a run with the Los Angeles Lakers in the Vegas summer league.

BU’s Javante McCoy hoping to seize upon a Vegas summer league opportunity with the Lakers

Dan Snyder’s camp says he’ll testify voluntary, not subpoenaed

Game 89: Red Sox at Rays lineups and notes

business

On Wednesday, the euro briefly dipped below parity with the dollar for the first time in nearly 20 years as fears of a recession in the eurozone continue to grow. The currency stands at a one-to-one exchange rate.

Euro falls to equal US dollar for first time in 20 years

Amazon handed Ring footage to police without user consent

Once heralded, Boston AI startup DataRobot struggles under West Coast leadership

politics

Kelly Schulz, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor of Maryland, speaks at a news conference on June 30, in Annapolis, Md.

Trump, Hogan fight emerges in Maryland’s GOP governor’s race

Israeli politics a chaotic backdrop for Biden’s visit

Jan. 6 panel will turn over evidence on fake electors to the Justice Department

Nation

Nick Barragan wears a mask while running errands in Los Angeles on July 13.

Masks could return to Los Angeles as COVID-19 surges nationwide

Uvalde video raises more calls for police accountability

Federal employee satisfaction, engagement show steep drop under Biden

World

The Ukrainian flag.

Russian missile strike kills 12 south of Kyiv, Ukraine says

Russia’s war expected to hit EU economy, push up inflation

IMF reaches deal with Pakistan to revive $6 billion bailout

opinion

Kate Dineen posed for a portrait with her husband, Alex Lawton, at their home in Boston May 17. In 2021 the couple traveled out of state to a clinics that still performs late-term abortions after learning their son had suffered a catastrophic stroke in utero.

Mass. women shouldn’t have to travel out of state for late-term abortions

We should stop giving the Founding Fathers capital-letter reverence

Informers on campus

lifestyle

The cliffs at the lookout point at Aquinnah.

Planning a trip to Martha’s Vineyard? Here’s a look at what’s new and what’s happening this summer.

16 of the most expensive homes for sale in Massachusetts

We closed the distance gap only to break up

food & dining

The spread at PKL

Boston gets a pickleball-themed restaurant

The Kennebunkport Resort Collection’s Kristie Sibley on how to score a vacation table and the best type of lobster roll

Nonalcoholic tequila is finally good. Here are 6 worth trying.

travel

40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

Mixing and mingling with the upper class of the Lower Cape

A look inside Cape Cod’s newest five-star hotel

Arts

Bryan McFarlane, “To Beach the Whales,” oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery NAGA, Boston.

Artists take ‘The Long View’ at Bromfield Gallery

New murals keep Providence Jewelry District’s past present

‘Touching roots’ and connecting cultural histories at the MFA

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

Hank, voiced by Michael Cera, in "Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank."

Review: A ‘Paws’ that refreshes

Review: Daisy Edgar-Jones stays afloat in ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’

Two baseball legends — Nolan Ryan and Derek Jeter — get their documentary due

Television

Britt Lower with Adam Scott in "Severance."

Still smarting from Britt Lower’s snubbing

‘Loot’ has sparkle and is worth a watch

What Emmy voters got right, and what they got wrong

music

Rus Anderson as Elton John in "The Rocket Man Show" at the Providence Performing Arts Center.

Ultimate tribute: the cover artist Elton John hired to portray him as part of farewell tour

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will return to Boston in 2023

Tanglewood opens with prayers floated and anxieties fleetingly shed

Theater/Dance

Will Swenson stars as Neil Diamond in "A Beautiful Noise."

In ‘A Beautiful Noise,’ Will Swenson is a sparkling Diamond

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

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

globe local

Is the state’s multi-family zoning requirement in MBTA communities good policy?

Make way for the feisty northern water snake

Legendary rock star visits local police station

Obituaries

Mr. Tovey, conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2014.

Award-winning conductor, composer Bramwell Tovey dies

Ann Shulgin, pioneer of psychedelics in therapy, dies at 91

Monty Norman, who gave 007 his theme music, dies at 94