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Ivana Trump, first wife of former president, dies at 73
Ivana Trump, who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former president Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, has died in New York City, her family announced Thursday.

Flouting public opinion by overturning Roe, the Supreme Court could be risking its legitimacy

A new conservative majority of justices have illustrated their willingness to shake the public with decisions overturning long-established precedent.

‘This is out of control.’ Husband of pizza shop owner struck in the head near Mass. and Cass

The husband of the owner of a popular pizza shop near the Mass. and Cass area of Boston was attacked outside the business Wednesday afternoon, suffering head injuries that weren’t life threatening, and a second man was stabbed in the altercation, according to police and the owner.

Story of 10-year-old girl who had to travel out of state for abortion underscores impact of bans on adolescents

Experts say the overturning of Roe v. Wade will reverse the decades-long trend of declining teen and adolescent birth rates, and put young girls at greater risk.

Texas sues Biden admin for requiring abortions in medical emergencies

Michael Cox returns to write a new story

Milton Public Schools superintendent arrested in May in connection with domestic incident

7,096 confirmed cases and 31 deaths over six days. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

The Pickering House Inn in Wolfeboro, N.H.

Travel + Leisure’s ‘World’s Best Awards’ are out for 2022, and there’s a lot to celebrate in New England

Once again The Pickering House Inn in Wolfeboro, N.H., had an impressive showing, coming in at No. 4 on the list of the 100 best hotels in the world, right behind resorts in Italy, Greece, and the Maldives. But where did Boston rank on the list of best cities?

40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

A Massachusetts cafe was named one of the world’s best restaurants by Conde Nast Traveler

DEVRA FIRST & CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Mixing and mingling with the upper class of the Lower Cape

90 percent of Massachusetts is experiencing drought conditions
The lack of rainfall over the past four months is being felt across Massachusetts, as 90 percent of the state is now experiencing drought conditions, officials said.

These four charts show just how dry Mass. is this summer - so far

Center plans to give W.E.B. Du Bois and other Black Berkshirites the credit they’re due
While honoring the late activist's impact, the W.E.B. Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy will also amplify the rich Black history within Berkshire County.

Popular housing markets like Seattle and Denver are cooling off. Boston may be next.

Boom times are over for US housing market. But don’t expect Boston to bust.

The Boston-area housing market has held up well under the weight of rising mortgage rates and some of the most unaffordable prices in the country. That may be about to change.

David Ortiz will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 24.

Peter Abraham I On baseball

David Ortiz has a message for the Red Sox: Keep Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers

In response to an innocuous question about lineup construction, Ortiz seized the opportunity to praise Bogaerts and Devers and their importance to the organization.

Christopher L. Gasper: Why haven’t the Red Sox been able to figure out their division problem?

In a kayak, ecological engineer Louiza Wise (left) and Tyler McCormack (right), a PhD student, work to tie down a floating swampland prototype being deployed in East Boston.

INNOVATION BEAT

Can a floating ‘tutu’ protect Boston’s shoreline from rising seas?

The “Emerald Tutu” is a proposed system of floating vegetation mats — created by researchers at Northeastern University — that, when interconnected, could protect Boston’s shoreline from rising sea levels and coastal flooding.

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Opinion

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

We’re all tired of COVID. But it’s not done with us.

Omicron subvariants are surging, yet the masks are largely off and public officials are unwilling to reimpose restrictions. We’re on our own.

IDEAS | RUSTY CHADWICK

Elegy for a field

Shan Soe-Lin and Robert Hecht

As monkeypox cases rise, US health officials are failing again

If there’s a will, there’s a way to stop more shootings

Peter de Menocal

Turning the tide against climate change

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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Bicyclist dies after collision with dump truck near Symphony Hall
A man was fatally injured in a collision with a dump truck near the intersection of Huntington and Massachusetts avenues.

Alex Jones defiant in deposition in Sandy Hook hoax lawsuit

Alex Jones was defiant and cited free speech rights during a deposition in April, as part of a lawsuit by relatives of some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who are suing Jones for calling the massacre a hoax, according to court documents released Thursday.

VIDEO: Bull escaped from farm in Dracut, ran loose for three days before being lassoed in Pelham, N.H.
The fugitive bovine managed to stay one step ahead of law enforcement. So the bull's owner called in cowboys on horseback who managed to lasso the beefy creature in Pelham, N.H. on Wednesday, police said.

Worcester officials say 879,000 gallons of sewage flowed into Blackstone River

Officials warned people to avoid the Blackstone River for 48 hours after hundreds of thousands of gallons of untreated or partially treated sewage flowed into the river early Thursday morning. The areas of the river potentially affected by the overflow are in Worcester, Millbury, Sutton and Grafton, officials said.

T says it’s making progress on safety, fixing failures found by feds
The MBTA said the agency has so far met deadlines put in place by the Federal Transit Administration as it continues to work toward complying with immediate safety changes ordered by the FTA.

The man convicted of trying to kill the first female Boston police officer shot in the line of duty is denied a new trial, despite his lawyer’s racist Facebook rants

The judge agreed: Whatever abhorrent personal views the lawyer held, he provided a professional, vigorous defense.

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Mayor Michelle Wu arrived with Michael Cox (left), new Boston police commissioner, on Wednesday.

Michael Cox named new Boston police commissioner

The veteran law enforcement leader was beaten by fellow Boston police officers while undercover in 1995.

SHIRLEY LEUNG

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.

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.

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.

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Culture & Lifestyle

PlantPub's cheeseburger.

PlantPub opens in the Fenway; Boston gets a pickleball-themed restaurant

Donald Glover in a scene from "Atlanta."

Donald Glover spotted on Nantucket, poses for photos with fans

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

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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

In acquisition, Atrius rejected the biggest names in Massachusetts health care. Here’s what it all means.

Experts say that the behind-the-scenes details, spelled out in court documents, are a microcosm of the jockeying for power and market share happening on the local and national scale.

Michael Cox returns to write a new story

The new police commissioner said he spent years trying to make sense of the police attack on him in 1995, and what lessons it carried for how to make policing better.

Best things to do in R.I. this week: July 15-22

This week: “Rocket Man” at PPAC, movies at the Misquamicut Drive-In, and alternatives to the sold-out Newbury Folk Festival.

7,096 confirmed cases and 31 deaths over six days. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

Here’s a look at the latest coronavirus numbers in Massachusetts, including case numbers, deaths, demographics, and more.

Sports

Only seven players in the 156-man field shot worse than Tiger Woods's 78 Thursday.

British Open notebook

Tiger Woods struggles to a 78 in British Open grind

Woods matched his second-highest score at golf’s oldest major, giving him a remote chance of making the weekend in what might be his final Open at St. Andrews.

Kevin Harvick, who has won four times at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H., was all smiles while holding up a live lobster after his 2018 win at Loudon, which will host the Ambetter 301 on Sunday.

Lobsters — and maybe upsets — on the menu for Ambetter 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

As the NASCAR Cup playoff race heats up, racing returns to Loudon this weekend for the Ambetter 301, which hands out live lobsters in victory lane.

Cameron Young played smartly, finishing with a birdie on No. 18, and most importantly kept bogeys off his card.

Rookie Cameron Young debuts with 64 and Rory McIlroy opens with 66 in a slow-moving British Open

By late afternoon, the rounds were taking just over six hours at the firm and fast Old Course.

Tom Pidcock wins Alpe d’Huez stage, Jonas Vingegaard keeps Tour de France lead

American Sydney McLaughlin leads speedy group to first world track championships on US soil

Why new Bruins acquisition Pavel Zacha already feels at home in Boston

Business

US weekly jobless claims at highest point in nearly 8 months

Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 9 rose by 9,000 to 244,000, up from the previous week’s 235,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

US Chamber of Commerce sues FTC, escalates fight over Biden antitrust threat

In an unusual move designed to pressure a federal agency whose policies the trade group opposes, the Chamber alleged that the FTC refused to turn over public records about its proceedings, creating a “black-box environment” of uncertainty for business.

Amazon moves to end a long-running antitrust case in Europe

SEC broadens its inquiry into Musk’s disclosures about Twitter

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40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

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

Libraries can save the summer. And maybe democracy, too.

Grilled Broccoli With Pistachio and Citrus Vinaigrette

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

metro

Research scientist Dr. Margaret Mills sets up an instrument that extracts DNA for monkeypox virus testing at the UW Medicine Virology Laboratory on July 12, 2022 in Seattle, Wash.

DPH: 18 new monkeypox cases in weekly report

Center plans to give W.E.B. Du Bois and other Black Berkshirites the credit they’re due

T says it’s making progress on safety, fixing failures found by feds

sports

At 34, Will Hardy of the Jazz is the NBA’s youngest head coach.

Will Hardy reflects on his Celtics experience as he embarks on his next challenge with the Jazz

At long last, Lleyton Hewitt will be enshrined in Newport’s International Tennis Hall of Fame

In resumption of trial, Brittney Griner gets support from character witnesses

business

The Harvard Book Store in Cambridge.

Harvard Book Store will open a second location, this one at the Pru

Revere ramps up legal action against high-rise owner after June fire that left dozens homeless

Long lines are back at US food banks as inflation hits high

politics

A police officer stood guard as protesters marched past Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in Chevy Chase, Md., on June 8.

Flouting public opinion by overturning Roe, the Supreme Court could be risking its legitimacy

Marijuana decriminalization bill teed up for Senate introduction

Judge again denies Bannon bid to delay his trial next week

Nation

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

7,096 confirmed cases and 31 deaths over six days. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

South Carolina Lawyer Alex Murdaugh Charged With Killing Wife and Son

World

Fighter jets fly over the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris during the Bastille Day military on July 14, 2022.

Ukraine plays special role in France’s Bastille Day parade

Mario Draghi to resign as Italian Prime Minister

Protesters retreat as Sri Lankan president sends resignation

opinion

Mass General Brigham is planning a massive expansion of its hospital-at-home program.

Social workers would be a boost to at-home hospital effort

For Nantucket residents, island paradise is morphing into a mirage

The blind courage of the book signing

lifestyle

His exes are in the way

Donald Glover spotted on Nantucket, poses for photos with fans

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

food & dining

Parla XXI on Somerville’s Assembly Row.

At Parla, swanky drinks where you least expect them

PlantPub opens in the Fenway; 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

travel

The Pickering House Inn in Wolfeboro, N.H.

Travel + Leisure’s ‘World’s Best Awards’ are out for 2022, and there’s a lot to celebrate in New England

Try a city triathlon in Boston, just for fun

Actress Elizabeth A. Davis on her favorite vacation destination

Arts

Maurice Sendak's design for battle scene, act 1 ("Nutcracker"), 1982-83

At the Gardner, Maurice Sendak’s journey from page to stage

Artists take ‘The Long View’ at Bromfield Gallery

New murals keep Providence Jewelry District’s past present

Books

The view from above in ‘Imagine a City’

Jamil Jan Kochai likes to binge different authors

A very bad trip

Movies

Two taxi cabs being used for filming the upcoming Sony-Marvel movie "Madame Web," which is currently filming in the Boston area through September.

‘Madame Web’ movie filming transforms Boston into retro NYC

Review: ‘Both Sides of the Blade,’ three sides of a triangle

Review: A ‘Paws’ that refreshes

Television

Jeremy Allen White stars in "The Bear."

Order is up for second season of ‘The Bear’

Still smarting from Britt Lower’s snubbing

‘Loot’ has sparkle and is worth a watch

music

A couple dances at Festival Betances, which is returning to the South End this year after a two-year absence due to COVID.

Festival Betances returns to the South End to celebrate a panorama of Puerto Rican music and culture

NKOTB’s Mixtape shows have Donnie Wahlberg feeling like a kid again

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

Theater/Dance

Tia James (left) as Benedick and Rachael Warren as Beatrice rehearse a scene from "Much Ado About Nothing," this year's Free Shakespeare on the Common production by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.

On Boston Common, there’ll be ‘Much Ado’ about something

At Jacob’s Pillow, Kyle Abraham’s sensual, joyful love letter to the songs of D’Angelo and The Vanguard

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

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