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Supreme Court won’t let Biden implement immigration policy

The Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of undocumented immigrants who pose the greatest public safety risk.

Biden reassures public after testing positive for COVID-19: ‘It’s going to be OK’

President Biden has tested positive for COVID 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

10,250 confirmed cases and 42 deaths in a week. 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.

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health releases new town-by-town data for coronavirus cases every week. Here is the latest set of such data showing how the coronavirus has ravaged individual communities throughout the state.

Strong thunderstorms roll through Mass., triggering tornado warnings

National Weather Service forecasters issued warnings of severe thunderstorms and tornados for areas in Vermont and New Hampshire Thursday afternoon.

An Orange Line train caught on fire approaching a station in Somerville on Thursday.

Orange Line train catches fire on bridge. Chaos ensues. It’s the latest T nightmare.

Jennifer Thomson-Sullivan, 42, said she was one of the passengers on the car that caught on fire and saw flames leaping up on both sides of the train. “That’s when everyone started freaking out," she said. "In my brain at that moment, I thought, ‘oh my God.’ "

Watch: Smoke pours from stopped Orange Line train A list of major safety incidents involving the MBTA in the last year

‘It was like a scene out of a nightmare’ - passenger recalls train fire on Orange Line

Jennifer Thomson-Sullivan took video of the chaos that ensued as people jumped out of the windows of the MBTA Orange Line train that caught on fire Thursday morning.

The MBTA Orange line train fire that caught fire on Thursday is seen here at Wellington Station in Medford where inspectors looked over damage.

The MBTA tweeted in reaction to the fire, and people responded with annoyance and outrage

Tonight's JAN. 6 HEARING | 8 p.m.

White House insiders to talk about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6
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.

The hearing begins at 8 p.m. Follow along with live updates. Was Trump ‘detached from reality’ or calculating? Jan. 6 committee to cap case against ex-president

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.

Dartmouth announced Sian Leah Beilock as the college's new president on Thursday. Beilock will be the first woman to lead the college in the institution's 250-year history.

Dartmouth College chooses first female president

Sian Leah Beilock, a cognitive scientist who is currently the president of Barnard College in New York City, will assume the presidency on July 1, 2023.

The Red Sox selected high school shortstop Mikey Romero in the first round of this year's draft.

Alex Speier I Minor details

Is there such a thing as having too many shortstops in one minor league system?

Those who start as shortstops usually have the best all-around defensive skill sets skillsets and the most athleticism.

Hall of Fame 2022: David Ortiz induction

A rendering of the proposed redesign of Copley Square. 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.

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.

Opinion

Biko Mangcu, 4, drowned in a backyard pool in Brookline on Memorial Day weekend.

Cornelia Griggs

Drowning can happen in an instant

In retrospect, Sipho would have stayed no more than an arm’s length from Biko’s side in the water that afternoon.

Put the brakes on the prison moratorium

R is for racism

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA

Disobey orders, save lives

What Harvard means by ‘diversity’

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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Mayor Wu extends Boston heat emergency

Mayor Michelle Wu on Thursday extended the heat emergency in Boston through Sunday, with temperatures expected to remain in the mid-to-high 90s over the weekend, her office said.

How to you know if you have heat exhaustion or heat stroke Utilities are confident in New England’s power grid

New York reports 1st US polio case in nearly a decade

An unvaccinated young adult from New York recently contracted polio, the first US case in nearly a decade, health officials said Thursday.

The Haven in Jamaica Plain gets bigger digs; Cambridge’s Season to Taste changes locations
Plus, homemade sodas and sandwiches from Shirley in Davis Square.

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.

30 more diagnosed with monkeypox in past week, as vaccination efforts expand
The 30 cases announced Thursday were diagnosed between July 14 and Wednesday, according to a weekly update on new infections from the Department of Public Health.

TELEVISION REVIEW

When Newman met Woodward
The careers and marriage of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are the subject of the HBO Max series "The Last Movie Stars."

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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has defended her state's abortion ban that lacks exceptions for rape. “I just have never believed that having a tragedy or tragic situation happened to someone is a reason to have another tragedy occur."

‘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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Culture & Lifestyle

Limón Dance Company performs "Air for the G String."

Limón Dance finds a beautiful balance at Jacob’s Pillow

Keith Urban (pictured at a performance on the "Today" show in June) plays the Xfinity Center in Mansfield July 22.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

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

Special Projects

Back to Boston

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

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.

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

Kevin Outterson and Henry Skinner

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.

Ernest J. Moniz

A way forward on the climate crisis and energy insecurity

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.

Time to bring Brittney Griner home

"I am is who I am. And today I am a 60-year-old woman."

On turning 60

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

In Burrillville, muted defiance and reluctant acceptance of new R.I. gun laws

Many residents of this self-designated “Second Amendment Sanctuary Town” are gun owners, and many of them are conflicted. “Do we want to continue to let the violent gun lovers know that we welcome them here?” one asked during Wednesday’s town council meeting.

Jan. 6 hearings: The latest

Jan. 6 panel to show how Trump spent 187 minutes as Capitol was under attack

The Jan. 6 committee is holding multiple public hearings on the Capitol attack. Follow along for the latest news, updates, and analyses.

Jan. 6 hearings

Past updates from the Jan. 6 committee hearings on the Capitol insurrection

Archival updates from the Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol insurrection.

30 more diagnosed with monkeypox in past week, as vaccination efforts expand

The 30 cases announced Thursday were diagnosed between July 14 and Wednesday, according to a weekly update on new infections from the Department of Public Health.

Sports

Charles Barkley is familiar with struggles on a golf course.

Charles Barkley reportedly talking with LIV Golf regarding broadcasting role

Barley said any deal would have to be extremely lucrative for him to walk away from his contract as a basketball analyst with TNT.

The Sixers have called the Wells Fargo Center home since it opened in 1996.

Philadelphia 76ers look to build $1.3 billion sports and entertainment arena

Groundbreaking is not expected for several years and the project is expected to be finished in time for the 2031-32 NBA season.

J.J. Matijevic (third from left) celebrates with his Astros teammates after hitting a walk-off single in a 3-2 win over the Yankees in the first game of a doubleheader Thursday in Houston.

Rookie J.J. Matijevic delivers walkoff magic for Astros in win over Yankees

Matijevic’s pinch-hit RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning lifted the Astros to a 3-2 walkoff win on Thursday in Houston in the opener of a day-night doubleheader vs. the Yankees.

Jump in a lake? Nelly Korda did just that en route to an opening 64 at the Evian Championship.

Buy now: ‘Big Papi: The legend and legacy of David Ortiz’

Charles Johnson, former N.E. Patriots receiver, dead at 50

Business

Philadelphia 76ers look to build $1.3 billion sports and entertainment arena

Groundbreaking is not expected for several years and the project is expected to be finished in time for the 2031-32 NBA season.

Americans filing jobless claims at highest level in 8 months

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to the highest level in more than eight months in what may be a sign that the labor market is weakening.

It’s hot, and the AC’s cranking. But utilities are confident in New England’s power grid.

Amazon to acquire One Medical clinics in latest push into health care

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Tracy K. Smith photographed at Harvard, where she just completed her first year as a professor.

Can poetry possibly matter in a time like this? Harvard’s Tracy K. Smith knows the answer.

Are you a helicopter dog parent? Then you should read this.

Potato salad with capers, olives, and olive-oil tuna

Recipes: Tuna packed in olive oil makes an easy, satisfying supper

I’m in a sports league with an ex. He won’t even acknowledge me.

metro

An Orange Line train caught on fire approaching a station in Somerville on Thursday.

Orange Line train catches fire on bridge. Chaos ensues. It’s the latest T nightmare.

In Vermont, a ski mountain goes back to the future

A manufactured home can be where the heart is

sports

The Red Sox selected high school shortstop Mikey Romero in the first round of this year's draft.

Is there such a thing as having too many shortstops in one minor league system?

Revolution’s Carles Gil to compete in MLS All-Star Skills Challenge

More than 30 years after he was drafted by the Bruins, John Gruden excited to be back as an assistant coach

business

Pfizer invests $470 million to develop tech behind COVID shot

There’s a new design for Copley Square, with work to start next spring

In rough waters for tech, rowing startup Hydrow lays off 35 percent of staff

politics

With live testimony from two former White House aides, and excerpts from its trove of more than 1,000 interviews, the nearly two-hour session will add a closing chapter to the past six weeks of hearings that at times have captivated the nation.

White House insiders to talk about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6

Supreme Court won’t let Biden implement immigration policy

Steve Bannon’s defense seeks acquittal then rests case

Nation

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents transfered an immigrant after an early morning raid in Duarte, Calif., Monday, June 6, 2022. TThe Supreme Court on Thursday refused to reinstate the Biden administration’s policy limiting immigration arrests after a Texas district judge said the guidance to immigration officers violated federal laws. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Supreme Court won’t reinstate Biden policy limiting immigration arrests

Charts: Who has been vaccinated in Massachusetts, and how many doses has the state received?

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

World

Emergency workers stood near burned cars after a Russian rocket strike in the second largest Ukrainian city, Kharkiv.

Russia pounds major Ukrainian city after expanding war aims

An ‘alleged’ Faberge egg was found on a seized Russian yacht. If authenticated, it could be sold with proceeds going to Ukraine

Ethnic minority woman wins India’s presidential election

opinion

Female bottlenose dolphins can't select their sexual partner, but they have evolved a way to choose which of their mates' sperm fertilizes their eggs.

Reproductive choice is at the core of being a female mammal

Confounding commas, prickly participles

About those deleted Secret Service texts

lifestyle

I can’t get a single emotion out of him

WBUR anchor Jack Lepiarz performs on ‘America’s Got Talent,’ cracks the whip on Simon Cowell

From ‘Madame Web’ to ‘Maestro’ — a look at the Hollywood productions filming in Massachusetts in 2022

food & dining

A lemongrass meatball banh mi from Shirley.

The Haven in Jamaica Plain gets bigger digs; Cambridge’s Season to Taste changes locations

Glou cocktail and wine bar offers a casual, playful vibe on Providence’s East Side

The best ice cream in Rhode Island? Try these 9 great spots

travel

Fishing at sunset on the beach in West Falmouth.

Getting their toes wet on the Upper Cape

Airbnb host canceled, and now I have to pay $1,300 more

A blueberry festival in Maine, river fests in Vermont and New Hampshire, and stories for the road

Arts

The 1895 Blue Serpent Clock Egg by Faberge on display at Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery.

An ‘alleged’ Faberge egg was found on a seized Russian yacht. If authenticated, it could be sold with proceeds going to Ukraine

‘Believing Is Bad for You’: At the Museum of Russian Icons, ‘Images of Atheism’

Painting, pattern, and place collide in Bob Dilworth’s tender portraits

Books

Bolu Babalola at the New Voice Awards in London earlier this year.

Love and radio in ‘Honey and Spice’

An ‘It Girl’ who invented the modern romance

A unique debut poetry collection, a second Harvard Book Store, and this year’s Thoreau Prize winners

Movies

Katia Krafft in "Fire of Love."

The camera loves lava. So did they.

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

Review: ‘Nope’ is deeply strange, and Jordan Peele knows exactly what he’s doing

Television

Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and John Lennon in Peter Jackson's "The Beatles: Get Back."

Welcome to the Beatles-verse

Honorees for 45th Kennedy Center gala announced

When Newman met Woodward

music

In this Sept. 21, 2013 file photo, Pete Seeger performs on stage during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Pete Seeger gets own stamp; ceremony planned at Newport Folk Festival

Joy Oladokun on Hendrix, hip-hop, hard truths, and her return to Newport

The Linda Lindas just wanna have fun

Theater/Dance

Limón Dance Company performs "Air for the G String."

Limón Dance finds a beautiful balance at Jacob’s Pillow

The Sondheim bandwagon is getting very, very crowded

Theatrely’s stage reviews, news, and TikToks speak Gen Z’s language

globe local

“The home is just enough for me and my cat Trixie,” said Jack Behan as he set the table in the dining area with the kitchen behind in his manufatured home in Weymouth.

A manufactured home can be where the heart is

Should Massachusetts make Election Day a state holiday?

Paraselene, peignoir, and the mysterious power of words

Obituaries

Werner Reich, a Holocaust survivor, practiced a card trick he learned from his bunkmate in the Auschwitz barracks, in his home in Smithtown, N.Y., in 2017.

Werner Reich, who learned magic in Auschwitz, dies at 94

Charles Johnson, former N.E. Patriots receiver, dead at 50

Robert F. Curl Jr., Nobel Prize recipient in chemistry, dies at 88