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Tim Deal hugged his grandmother Everlena Roberson upon arriving home from work in Boston in June. Deal said he makes sure to hug his grandmother every day.

As teens, these Bostonians were sentenced to life behind bars for murder. Now they’re out and trying to help others heal.

For some former inmates, personal recovery is the most crucial issue, the central challenge around which all other matters revolve.

Former longtime WBZ-TV meteorologist Bruce Schwoegler dies at 80
Schwoegler’s family announced his death in a post to his Facebook page Friday night that said he had experienced aphasia in his later years.

Boston mayors have had an open-door policy with real estate developers. Not Michelle Wu.
Since her election in November, developers have been clamoring to set up one-on-one meetings with Mayor Michelle Wu about big projects that would create thousands of jobs and add millions in tax revenue, but many have been redirected to meet with other members of her administration.

‘It was you!’ Traffic spat turned police coverup leads to questions for DA Hayden
A Globe investigation has sparked a swirling controversy, with fingers pointed in all directions, and accusations of deception and lies lobbed back and forth among attorneys, police, and prosecutors.

MBTA to close Green Line north of Government Center for 4 weeks

The partial Green Line closure will begin Aug. 22, four days after the Orange Line shuts down for a month beginning the evening of Aug. 19. The opening of the Medford branch of the Green Line extension has been put off until late November.

With problems mounting, the ‘Civil War MBTA’ account has returned to Twitter to address rider frustrations

TOM FARRAGHER

An old river bridge prepares to blow out 100 candles
The beloved old drawbridge is 100 years old now, long enough for the shape of automobiles that pass over it to morph from Henry Ford’s Model T to 1960s-era Mustangs to shiny modern-day Honda Accords and Ford Escapes.

Healey and Campbell make first joint appearance on campaign trails for governor, AG
Andrea Campbell, a former Boston city councilor and mayoral candidate, faces Shannon Liss-Riordan, a workers’ rights attorney, and Quentin Palfrey, a former assistant attorney general who won the state Democratic Party’s endorsement, in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts attorney general.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Compounding the problem of student debt
Forgiving college debt will get us only so far. We have to eliminate interest on student loans as well.

Kassandra Sweeney, 25, and her two sons, four-year-old Benjamin and one-year-old Mason, were found shot to death in their Northfield, N.H. home Wednesday, according to New Hampshire Attorney General's office. (GoFundMe)

“It’s going to be so hard for them.” Neighbors mourn mother, sons murdered in N.H. home

New Hampshire police investigating the homicides of a 25-year-old woman and her two young sons are searching the vicinity of her Northfield home Saturday, officials said in a statement.

Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe performs with the band at Fenway Park Friday.

A night full of bangers from Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, and more at Fenway Park

The arena rockers topped a bill that also included Poison and Joan Jett for the first of two weekend shows at the ballpark.

The Deshaun Watson saga appears far from over.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

More fallout from the Deshaun Watson and Dolphins punishments

The NFL had to appeal Watson's ban and the league protected the Dolphins in its tampering ruling.

Here’s how the Patriots’ rookies have fared at training camp Patriots turned out to be a dream come true for newly minted Hall of Famer Richard Seymour

Opinion

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer of New York speaks during a news conference about the Inflation Reduction Act outside the US Capitol on Aug. 4, in Washington, D.C.

How to save the Democratic agenda: Pass this bill

The Inflation Reduction Act would lower health care costs, reduce the deficit, and be a huge breakthrough in addressing climate change.

RIP old Orange Line

Keep your scorn. Kentucky needs your solidarity.

Pelosi shows the way forward on Taiwan

To transform Boston policing, test for authoritarianism

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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Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

In evaluating trade deadline approach, Astros were clear but confusion reigned with Red Sox
Trading Christian Vázquez was a puzzling move for Chaim Bloom.

Bill Russell changed the game in every way possible
Russell broke the color barrier as the first Black head coach in the NBA.

Want to help Brittney Griner’s cause? Support the WNBA.

Biden tests negative for COVID but will isolate pending second test
President Biden, 79, tested negative for COVID-19 and “continues to feel very well,” presidential physician Kevin O’Connor said Saturday.

Heat, humidity continue in Mass. after pop-up storms hit Friday afternoon
Following Friday’s late-afternoon storms, the temperature at Logan International Airport dropped to 77 degrees, down from a high of 95, according to Torry Gaucher, a weather service meteorologist.

Drug-price bill is pruned by Senate arbiter in partial industry win
Medicare was cleared to negotiate drug prices for the first time by the Senate’s top rules official, though the Democrats’ proposal intended to cap price increases for prescription drugs in the commercial market was blocked.

CLERGY ABUSE

Providence Diocese rescinds assignment of priest who made inappropriate comments to children
“This is just step one. We are coming after [Bishop] Tobin next,” said child sexual abuse survivor Ryan Brophy, who has protested this week against the assignment of the Rev. Eric Silva to a Narragansett parish.

Recommended reads

The view from the Mint studio on JetBlue.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

I just flew the inaugural JetBlue Boston-to-London flight. Here’s what it was like.

Kate Price remembers something terrible
An authority on child sex trafficking, she spent decades trying to understand whether the unthinkable happened to her, too.

Developer aims to build a skyscraper near North Station
Developers propose 700-foot office tower on Causeway Street.

PARENTING UNFILTERED

Where to take your kids out to dinner without wanting to hide under the table
Here’s a short list of current favorites, in alphabetical order (because it’s hard to rank). Keep it handy next time you don’t feel like hunting for a baby sitter.

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Culture & Lifestyle

On Benner Island, a cluster of historic buildings made up the primary live/work space of the Wyeth family, with views across the slim channel of Allen Island, Betsy Wyeth's enduring masterpiece.

On a pair of Maine islands, the legacy of the Wyeths lives on

Andre Braugher (right) with Richard Gant in "Men of a Certain Age."

‘Good Fight,’ great actor: Andre Braugher returns to series TV

Inside Boston Ballet's portable new ÜNI Public Art.

Boston Ballet’s ÜNI Public Art offers 360-degree views of dance under a portable dome

Jonathan Epstein (left) and Allyn Burrows in "A Walk in the Woods" at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox.

In ‘A Walk in the Woods,’ the fate of the world is on the table

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

Rep. Glenn Thompson in 2017. Would a member of Congress who was about to publicly express happiness for his son’s marriage to another man precede the occasion by doing something to publicly express antagonism toward such marriages?

A bum ‘hypocrisy’ rap

House Speaker Ronald J. Mariano and House Ways and Means chair Aaron Michlewitz speak to reporters in the Massachusetts State House on August 1, 2022. Lawmakers deliberated on high-stakes bills from Sunday into early Monday morning.

Tax relief? The check is not in the mail

A sequoia that burned and died from the 2015 Rough Fire, still standing in the Kings Canyon National Park in California, Oct. 27, 2020.

Bina Venkataraman

Is US politics finally tilting in favor of the planet?

Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell stands court side during a tribute in his honor in the second quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks in Boston, Nov. 1, 2013.

Boston Celtics green never veiled Bill Russell’s unapologetic Blackness

Steven V. Mazie

The quiet demise of the church-state wall

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

‘It was you!’ Traffic spat turned police coverup leads to questions for DA Hayden

A Globe investigation has sparked a swirling controversy, with fingers pointed in all directions, and accusations of deception and lies lobbed back and forth among attorneys, police, and prosecutors.

Sidney Topol, broadcasting visionary and beacon for peace, dies at 97

Mr. Topol hoped to create "a nonviolent planet based on love, peace and security for all people."

Healey and Campbell make first joint appearance on campaign trails for governor, AG

Andrea Campbell, a former Boston city councilor and mayoral candidate, faces Shannon Liss-Riordan, a workers’ rights attorney, and Quentin Palfrey, a former assistant attorney general who won the state Democratic Party’s endorsement, in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts attorney general.

Rhode Island political news: August 2022

Regular updates about Rhode Island politics and political leaders.

Sports

The Deshaun Watson saga appears far from over.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

More fallout from the Deshaun Watson and Dolphins punishments

The NFL had to appeal Watson's ban and the league protected the Dolphins in its tampering ruling.

Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray missed nearly a week with COVID-19.

Kyler Murray back on field for Cardinals after bout with COVID-19

Murray was in full pads for Saturday's scrimmage but would be a limited participant.

Tony Boselli was a five-time Pro Bowl selection and three-time All-Pro left tackle in seven seasons in Jacksonville.

Pro Football Hall of Fame

Tony Boselli becomes first Jaguars player in Pro Football Hall of Fame

Boselli, the first pick in Jaguars history, was among eight members of the Class of 2022 inducted Saturday.

Ashleigh Buhai shoots 64, surges to five-shot lead at Women’s British Open

Pro Football Hall of Fame

Patriots turned out to be a dream come true for newly minted Hall of Famer Richard Seymour

Here’s how the Patriots’ rookies have fared at training camp

Business

Boston mayors have had an open-door policy with real estate developers. Not Michelle Wu.

Since her election in November, developers have been clamoring to set up one-on-one meetings with Mayor Michelle Wu about big projects that would create thousands of jobs and add millions in tax revenue, but many have been redirected to meet with other members of her administration.

Ukraine grain shipments offer hope, not fix to food crisis

“Actually seeing the shipment move is a big deal,” said Jonathan Haines, senior analyst at data and analytics firm Gro Intelligence. “This 26,000 tons in the scale of the 20 million tons that are locked up is nothing, absolutely nothing ... but if we start seeing this, every shipment that goes is going to increase confidence.”

Biden tests negative for COVID but will isolate pending second test

Drug-price bill is pruned by Senate arbiter in partial industry win

magazine

An in-camera double-exposure photograph of Kate Price overlaid with the woods of a Pennsylvania rest area, where she remembers being taken as a child.

Special project

Kate Price remembers something terrible

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

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? Poet Tracy K. Smith says yes.

summer memories

40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

metro

Tim Deal hugged his grandmother Everlena Roberson upon arriving home from work in Boston in June. Deal said he makes sure to hug his grandmother every day.

As teens, these Bostonians were sentenced to life behind bars for murder. Now they’re out and trying to help others heal.

Compounding the problem of student debt

“It’s going to be so hard for them.” Neighbors mourn mother, sons murdered in N.H. home

sports

Brittney Griner received a nine-year prison sentence in Russia on Thursday.

Want to help Brittney Griner’s cause? Support the WNBA.

Game 109: Red Sox at Royals lineups and notes

Ted Donato’s son Nolan didn’t stick to the hockey script — he chose the theater

business

The long-running dispute over who gets access to car repair data in Massachusetts will continue for at least another month as the federal judge hearing a lawsuit challenging the state's "right to repair" ballot measure scheduled a new hearing in the case for Sept. 1.

Right-to-Repair ruling delayed yet again

US job growth surges, reducing recession fears but elevating inflation threat

US employers added 528,000 jobs; unemployment falls to 3.5 percent

politics

President Biden at the White House on Friday.

Biden tests negative for COVID but will isolate pending second test

Pelosi’s Taiwan trip highlights bipartisan hostility toward China and pushes the super-power relationship into a perilous new phase

Indiana House passes abortion ban, sends to Senate

Nation

People waited in line for a monkeypox vaccine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco last week.

Why monkeypox vaccine shortage may threaten the immunocompromised

DNA evidence may link Chincoteague pony origins to Spanish shipwreck

A challenge for antiabortion states: Doctors reluctant to work there

World

Smoke billowed from the site of a reported Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.

Israel, militants trade fire as Gaza death toll climbs to 24

Hiroshima vows nuke ban at 77th memorial amid Russia threat

Chinese military drills aim to awe, both abroad and at home

opinion

Regulate housing at the county level, not town by town

If you build bike infrastructure, they will ride — safely

The midterm election picture is changing

lifestyle

He hasn’t been supportive as I breast-feed our baby

Dane Cook gets engaged to his 23-year-old girlfriend on York Beach in Maine

I found a condom in his car

food & dining

Giulia restaurant chef/owner Michael Pagliarini rolls pasta dough through the roller.

Moëca opens in Cambridge, new from the Giulia team; Dine Out Boston begins

A celebrated Turkish chef is making exceptional food on a side street near Alewife

We asked 7 female chefs to weigh in on ‘The Bear’ and toxic kitchen culture. They had a lot to say.

travel

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testified on Capitol Hill in May. He had to postpone a trip to Boston on Friday after severe weather delayed or canceled thousands of flights Friday.

Cabinet secretary postpones Mass. visit as flights are canceled due to severe weather

I just flew the inaugural JetBlue Boston-to-London flight. Here’s what it was like.

Celebrating on Lake Winnipesaukee, boat rentals in Boston, and the ferry of the future

Arts

Kikuji Kawada, "the ruin of a stronghold," from the series "Chizu" ("The Map").

MFA makes major photography acquisition

On a pair of Maine islands, the legacy of the Wyeths lives on

Adrienne Sloane makes political statements with jigsaw puzzle pieces

Books

Higher education, riding for a fall

Anthony Marra on reading mysteries and historical fiction

Mohsin Hamid’s new novel imagines white men changing color

Movies

Tracee Ellis Ross is among the featured artists at the 2022 Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival.

Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival brings a robust schedule of sneak peeks, screenings, and stars to the island

In ‘Thirteen Lives,’ Ron Howard revisits the Thai cave rescue

Aubrey Plaza takes on student debt in ‘Emily the Criminal’

Television

Bob Odenkirk in "Better Call Saul," which wraps up its sixth and final season on Aug. 15.

For ‘Better Call Saul’ and other classic series, the finale presents a mix of anticipation and apprehension

More flashbacks may mean a brighter future for young actors

‘Good Fight,’ great actor: Andre Braugher returns to series TV

music

Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe performs with the band at Fenway Park Friday.

A night full of bangers from Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, and more at Fenway Park

Danish String Quartet stuns at Ozawa Hall

The ride is just beginning for Horsegirl

Theater/Dance

Adji Cissoko of Alonzo King LINES Ballet performs "Four Heart Testaments."

Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s fusion of physicality and beauty is a feast for the eyes

In ‘A Walk in the Woods,’ the fate of the world is on the table

In Gloucester Stage’s ‘Grand Horizons,’ a bombshell at the dinner table, fallout for a family

globe local

Hikers attend a moonlight hike to observe the nearly full moon at the World's End Reservation in Hingham.

Out walking at night? Don’t forget to look up at the sky.

The Argument: Should the state do more to promote civilian flaggers?

How a practical book on death turned into a passing fancy

Obituaries

Mr. Topol, a visionary cable and satellite broadcasting executive, took a place among the world’s significant advocates for peace, through philanthropy and the example he set in his own life.

Sidney Topol, broadcasting visionary and beacon for peace, dies at 97

Judith Durham, Australia’s folk music icon, dies at 79

Former longtime WBZ-TV meteorologist Bruce Schwoegler dies at 80