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President Biden tests positive for COVID-19

Biden has tested positive one day after a trip to Mass., in which he was joined by four members of the state’s congressional delegation, including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey.

All the lawmakers and others who were with Biden during his recent Mass. visit

Boyfriend charged with killing woman in Acadia National Park hit-and-run crash arrested in Cancun, Mexico

The man charged with running down Nicole Mokeme, a prominent advocate for Maine’s Black and Indigenous communities who was killed in a hit-and-run crash earlier this month at Acadia National Park, was arrested Monday in Cancun, Mexico.

North Kingstown Coach Aaron Thomas charged with child molestation, sexual assault

The North Kingstown Police Department brought the charges against the popular former high school basketball coach, who will be arraigned on Aug. 19

Ex-officer gets 2 1/2 years on Floyd killing federal charge

Thomas Lane is one of three former Minneapolis officers who were convicted by a federal jury in February of violating George Floyd's civil rights by depriving him of medical care.

How do you know if you have heat exhaustion or heat stroke? Here’s how to recognize the symptoms.
With Boston forecast to hit 100 degrees on Thursday and the first heatwave of the year expected to maintain its grip New England through the weekend, the risks of heat-related illnesses are on the rise.

How to help your smartphone beat the heat

MBTA Orange Line train catches on fire approaching station in Somerville

Chaos ensued Thursday morning when an Orange Line train caught fire approaching a station in Somerville, forcing terrified passengers to jump out windows. ( Sian Bernard )

MBTA Orange Line train catches on fire approaching station in Somerville; passengers scramble to get off train

When an Orange Line MBTA train caught fire approaching a station in Somerville, some passengers jumped out windows in an effort to avoid the smoke. One person ended up in the Mystic River and had to be rescued by firefighters.

Watch: Smoke pours from stopped Orange Line train

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

There’s a new design for Copley Square, with work to start next spring
The changes for the two-acre square will make maintenance easier and balance the demands to serve as both a neighborhood park and a gathering place for big events.

Parallels between TV interview about UK’s record heat and scene from ‘Don’t Look Up’ strike nerve
A clip comparing the segment on Britain’s record-breaking heat with a frantic scene from the film — a metaphor for ignoring the climate crisis — went viral.

The Angels' Mike Trout, perhaps the greatest player of his generation, has played in only three playoff games, as those were eight years ago.

Gary Washburn

In baseball, signing stars to huge contracts often doesn’t result in winning

The recipe for success is balancing those gaudy salaries with players who are underpaid because they haven’t hit free agency or whose production exceeds their contracts.

Hall of Fame 2022: David Ortiz induction

The CHIME radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Kaleden, British Columbia, Canada.

The mysterious fast radio bursts are coming thick and fast, in boon for astronomers, MIT researcher says

MIT postdoctoral researcher Daniele Michilli said it was a great feeling looking over data from a radiotelescope when an unusual burst of radio signals from a far-off galaxy caught his eye.

The Amazon DTW1 fulfillment center is shown in Romulus, Mich., April 1, 2020. Amazon announced Thursday, July 21, 2022, it will acquire the primary care organization One Medical in a deal valued roughly at $3.9 billion, marking another expansion for the retailer into health care services.

Amazon to buy primary care provider One Medical for $3.9 billion

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant said in a statement it will acquire One Medical for $18 per share in an all-cash transaction.

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Can you detect which foods on supermarket shelves are more processed than others? An algorithm can.

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What Harvard means by ‘diversity’

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Jan. 6 panel probes Trump’s 187 minutes as Capitol attacked

The House Jan. 6 committee aims to show in its final hearing Thursday that Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen election fueled the grisly US Capitol attack, which he did nothing to stop but instead “gleefully” watched on television at the White House.

Was Trump ‘detached from reality’ or calculating? Jan. 6 committee to cap case against ex-president

In small town Maine, a 14-year-old girl became murder victim

A woman returning home in a small Maine town around dinner time Monday made a horrifying discovery, finding the body of a 14 year-old girl who was victim of homicide.

Witness says pizza shop employee delivered the first blow in Mass. and Cass fight where her client was stabbed

The news reports sounded alarms — pizza shop employee attacked at Mass. and Cass. But like much of anything related to the area where the homeless are known to congregate, the issue is far more complicated.

Police say Westport’s ‘fork in the road’ sculpture has been recovered in R.I.
A larger-than-life fork that decorated an intersection in Westport has been found after being reported stolen Tuesday, Westport police said.

House OKs bill to protect contraception from Supreme Court
Democrats said that with the high court recently overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision from 1973, the justices and GOP lawmakers are on track to go even further than banning abortions. The House's 228-195 roll call was largely along party lines and sent the measure to the Senate, where its fate seemed uphill.

Steve Bannon’s defense seeks acquittal then rests case
Steve Bannon’s lawyer opened his defense Thursday, asking the judge for a direct acquittal, arguing that prosecutors had not proven their contempt-of-Congress case against the former adviser to then-President Donald Trump.

‘They’ve taken down the mask’: A new generation of abortion bans make no exception for rape

The proliferation of bans runs counter to overwhelming public support for such exceptions, which poses a political risk for the Republicans who are defending them, especially as extreme cases draw attention to the consequences of these laws.

BA.5 variant will keep Massachusetts at a COVID-19 plateau through the summer, experts predict
Health practitioners and scientists are unified in predicting there will be no summer lull in the COVID-19 outbreak and that the virus will likely continue to simmer in the population.

A ‘2A sanctuary town’ in Rhode Island declares it won’t comply with new gun law
The president of the town council in Burrillville, R.I., says he’ll “never” give up his high-capacity magazines -- even if the law requires him to do so. “The town will not allocate funds to confiscate or seize any gun magazines,” he told the Globe. “We control the police budget.”

Raymond Champagne, who served 41 years for wrongful conviction, died 30 months after winning freedom
“It just seems so unfair,” said his wife, Mary “Molly” Baldwin. “Since he got out, he actually had a really full 30 months. It’s not fair it wasn’t longer.”

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Katrina Lenk in the current revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company."

The Sondheim bandwagon is getting very, very crowded

Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. The Coolidge Corner Theatre recently hosted a 12-hour marathon of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" movies.

At the Coolidge, trying to survive a horror-movie marathon

Claudia Jessie (left) and Nicola Coughlan in "Bridgerton."

Filming of ‘Bridgerton’ season 3 underway

Bluesman Taj Mahal will be returning to the Newport Folk Festival for the first time in 34 years.

10 must-see artists at this year’s Newport Folk Festival

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An employee holds semiconductor chips over a 300-millimeter wafer produced by German engineering and electronics company Bosch at the Bosch semiconductor manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany.

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Computer chips are vital to national security. US needs to make more of them on American soil.

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Antibiotic-resistant infections could dwarf the COVID-19 pandemic

Lights illuminate liquefied natural gas tanker Oak Spirit during the delivery of Poland's first import of US LNG at the Gazoport terminal in Swinoujscie, Poland, in 2019.

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A policeman removes the handcuffs from WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner in a courtroom prior to a hearing in the Khimki district court, just outside Moscow, Russia on July 15, 2022.

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North Kingstown Coach Aaron Thomas charged with child molestation, sexual assault

The North Kingstown Police Department brought the charges against the popular former high school basketball coach, who will be arraigned on Aug. 19

Here is a list of lawmakers and others who were with Biden during his Mass. visit

President Biden tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, one day after his high-profile visit to the former Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, Mass., where he was in contact with a number of Massachusetts politicians and other guests.

Police say Westport’s ‘fork in the road’ sculpture has been recovered in R.I.

A larger-than-life fork that decorated an intersection in Westport has been found after being reported stolen Tuesday, Westport police said.

Biden tests positive for COVID-19, has ‘mild symptoms’

President Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing “mild symptoms,” his press secretary said Thursday in a statement.

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New Bruins coach Jim Montgomery will have some lineup questions, with players still unsigned (Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci) and others recovering from recent surgeries (Charlie McAvoy, Brad Marchand).

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Here are five pressing questions facing the Bruins

Presuming both Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci want back, it will take some mathematical wizardry for GM Don Sweeney to fit them under the cap.

RED SOX

Top Red Sox prospect Triston Casas expected to return to WooSox this weekend

The 22-year-old first baseman has been sidelined since mid-May with a high ankle sprain and just finished up a rehab assignment.

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DAVID ORTIZ | HALL OF FAME 2022

David Ortiz hit so many home runs, he may have forgotten a few. The pitchers he hit them off haven’t.

Patriots

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How to help your smartphone beat the heat

As temperatures approach triple digits, you might see an overheat warning on your phone, or even a notice that it’s shutting down to avoid permanent damage to the hardware. Don’t let it come to this.

New lunar rover in the works as NASA moon mission advances

A new lunar rover is under development by Lockheed Martin and Goodyear as NASA gears up for a return to the moon.

Amazon to buy primary care provider One Medical for $3.9 billion

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President Biden tests positive for COVID-19

Boyfriend charged with killing woman in Acadia National Park hit-and-run crash arrested in Cancun, Mexico

North Kingstown Coach Aaron Thomas charged with child molestation, sexual assault

Ex-officer gets 2 1/2 years on Floyd killing federal charge

MBTA Orange Line train catches on fire approaching station in Somerville; passengers scramble to get off train

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS There’s a new design for Copley Square, with work to start next spring The changes for the two-acre square will make maintenance easier and balance the demands to serve as both a neighborhood park and a gathering place for big events.

Parallels between TV interview about UK’s record heat and scene from ‘Don’t Look Up’ strike nerve A clip comparing the segment on Britain’s record-breaking heat with a frantic scene from the film — a metaphor for ignoring the climate crisis — went viral.

In baseball, signing stars to huge contracts often doesn’t result in winning

The mysterious fast radio bursts are coming thick and fast, in boon for astronomers, MIT researcher says

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There’s a new design for Copley Square, with work to start next spring
The changes for the two-acre square will make maintenance easier and balance the demands to serve as both a neighborhood park and a gathering place for big events.

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A clip comparing the segment on Britain’s record-breaking heat with a frantic scene from the film — a metaphor for ignoring the climate crisis — went viral.

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