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‘The vultures want it! But they’re not going to get it.’ On Cape Cod, a band of mobile home owners fight for their park.

Big money investors increasingly see there are profits to be made off the backs of the financially vulnerable. In Pocasset, homeowners fear if Crown buys their park, they’ll lose control over their own destinies.

Trump lawyer told Justice Dept. that classified material had been returned, New York Times reports

At least one lawyer for former president Donald Trump signed a written statement in June asserting that all material marked as classified and held in boxes in a storage area at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club had been returned to the government, four people with knowledge of the document said.

Two sisters help save unresponsive woman on flight from Boston to Florida
Lindsay Byrne, a firefighter and paramedic in Wayland, and her sister, Nicole Kelly, a nurse at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, were on a Jet Blue fight traveling to Fort Meyers this month when a passenger took ill, Burlington Fire Chief Neil McPherson said in a statement.

Tributes pour in for Anne Heche, including from ex-girlfriend Ellen DeGeneres
YANKEES 3, RED SOX 2

Devers, Bogaerts can’t deliver as Yankees come out on top in another drama-filled finish at Fenway Park

MBTA Green Line service resumes after power issue near Kenmore

Service had fully resumed by about 8:30 p.m., with delays of about 20 minutes, the MBTA said.

Agent: Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack

Rushdie remained hospitalized with serious injuries, but fellow author Aatish Taseer tweeted in the evening that he was “off the ventilator and talking (and joking).”
Peter Abraham | On baseball

One question lingered after Fernando Tatis Jr.’s 80-game PED ban: What was he thinking?

At 23, Tatis will spend the rest of his career playing in the shadow of having cheated. His accomplishments, no matter how often he is tested, will be questioned. As will his character.

Royalty in Roxbury: Community celebrates little girls of color on Princess Day

“Princess Day is a day that we take time out to celebrate little girls of color,” said organizer Maykesha Montgomery, 38.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

End the religious exemption for school vaccinations, already

New York polio outbreak highlights the risk of letting kids come to school without standard immunizations.
LETTERS

The invasion of the bachelorette party
MARCELA GARCÍA

A breach of trust in East Boston?
ABDALLAH FAYYAD

Is Kevin Hayden fit to be district attorney?
EDITORIAL

Revenge porn does real harm to real victims. Why won’t the state Senate act?

CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM | Brandon Hasbrouck
Dear Mr. Trump: I support your 4th Amendment rights. I wish you supported ours
I have the deepest of sympathies for anyone subjected to such police violence, though I must confess to having some doubts that this is quite what happened at Mar-a-Lago.

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NOTE: Mass DPH releases data once per week. Fully vaccinated means Mass. residents with 2 doses of Moderna/Pfizer or a dose of J&J. Boosters include Pfizer or Moderna. Mass. population of 6,892,503 is used to calculate percentage. SOURCE: Mass. Dept. of Public Health

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Some Mass. high schools adopt strict cellphone-free policies this school year
Students at some high schools will be responsible to shut down their phones, place them into an individual pouch that is assigned to them with a magnetic lock, and keep it in their bag throughout the day.

‘A lot of joy in town this morning’: Provincetown lifts emergency order after sewer system is restored

The crisis was resolved just in time for the Sunday start of Carnival Week, a summer festival that draws as many as 150,000 visitors.

2 dead amid ‘restless’ monsoon-season flooding in Las Vegas
A man's body was found Friday by public works crews and firefighters removing debris from a flood channel near the Las Vegas Boulevard resort area where a person died about midnight despite being pulled by firefighters from floodwaters, Deputy Clark County Fire Chief Billy Samuels said.

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Dennis Eckersley — and his unique style — will be hard to replace for NESN
There’s an argument to be made that Eckersley was as good at this job as he was at his previous one, and he's a Hall of Famer.

‘A very good weekend at a very iffy time’: Consumers save on state’s tax-free weekend
Massachusetts sales tax-free weekend got underway on Saturday, offering consumers a reprieve from the usual 6.25 percent tax on retail goods.

Head of transit police calls for special prosecutor to investigate officers accused of a coverup. What happens next?
The case illustrates a broader debate over whether local prosecutors can fairly handle cases involving police officers, and when independent oversight — such as appointing a special prosecutor — is necessary to foster public confidence.

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Policing and prosecuting local white supremacy? There’s one major legal hurdle that makes it difficult.

Despite the outcry over the growing visibility of right wing extremists in the Northeast, police have limited options for charging them criminally.

As monkeypox cases mount, Mass. colleges race to get ahead of a new kind of potential outbreak
After dealing with COVID-19 already, several of the state’s largest schools this week are moving to tackle monkeypox, taking to social media, updating their websites, and sending out e-mail blasts to provide families with the latest science.

An elephant statue. Rare Ferraris. A hard-right South Dakota pol. Just an evening with the leading Mass. GOP candidate for governor.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl’s fund-raiser offered a window into a different Massachusetts political universe than runs counter to the stereotype — a red dot amid deep blue.

Even without a COVID surge, state’s largest hospitals suffer multimillion-dollar losses
Mass General Brigham, the state’s largest health system and its largest private employer, reported a $120 million operating loss for the quarter ending in June.

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Susan Orlean hosts ‘Book Exploder,’ a lit spinoff of hit music podcast

In ‘Secret Headquarters,’ a 14-year-old discovers his father is not what he seems

In bringing ‘Anastasia’ to the stage, creators added gravitas, and plenty of new songs

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

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Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.
Globe Magazine

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

RENÉE LOTH

Blowin’ in the wind
IDEAS | MILES HOWARD

Open Mass. beaches to everyone — with buses
JEFF JACOBY

Republicans’ ‘banana republic’ charge is bananas

SCOT LEHIGH

Congress is plagued by hyperpartisanship even on matters popular with the public
David Daley

America’s crisis of democracy has already arrived
IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

Boston police officer ferries groom to Thompson Island wedding after boat breaks down

Boston Police Officer Joseph Matthews has spent the last 12 years patrolling Boston Harbor on the department's marine unit. On Saturday, he answered the call to help a "groom in distress," who suddenly found himself stuck on land after the boat to carry him, his groomsmen, DJ and florist broke down.

Bill Pitman, revered studio guitarist, is dead at 102

A guitarist who accompanied Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, and others from the late 1950s to the ’70s, Bill Pitman for decades was heard on the soundtracks of countless Hollywood films and television shows.

Two sisters help save unresponsive woman on flight from Boston to Florida

Lindsay Byrne, a firefighter and paramedic in Wayland, and her sister, Nicole Kelly, a nurse at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, were on a Jet Blue fight traveling to Fort Meyers this month when a passenger took ill, Burlington Fire Chief Neil McPherson said in a statement.

Sam Gooden, founding member of the Impressions soul group, dies at 87

The Impressions' upbeat style, which became known as "the Chicago sound" for the city where they recorded, was as pervasive on the radio as the Motown sound coming out of Detroit.

Sports

Peter Abraham | On baseball

With each outing, Kutter Crawford makes a strong case to remain in the Red Sox starting rotation

The 26-year-old rookie righthander matched his season high with 94 pitches and left the mound with the game tied against a team with the best offense in the American League.
MLB NOTEBOOK

Jacob deGrom is lights out again as Mets blank Phillies

The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner opened the game by striking out Bryson Stott looking on a 101.1-mile-per-hour fastball
YANKEES 3, RED SOX 2

Devers, Bogaerts can’t deliver as Yankees come out on top in another drama-filled finish at Fenway Park

Bogaerts and Devers finished a combined 1 for 9. If you include throw Martinez’s 0 for 4 night out there, that’s 1 for 13.
Revolution 1, D.C. United 0

Revolution get past D.C. United on Carles Gil goal
swimming

Romanian teenager David Popovici sets world swimming record in men’s 100-meter freestyle
RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Michael Wacha returning Sunday to reinforce Red Sox’ inconsistent rotation

Business

Twenty years after the first Lyme vaccine was shelved, new ones could be on the way

Study participants recently received shots at Pediatric Associates of Fall River as part of a late-stage trial in the US and Europe of a Lyme vaccine from the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and a French biotech, Valneva.

What takes years and costs $20K? A San Francisco trash can.

City officials hired a Bay Area industrial firm to custom-design the pricey trash can along with two other prototypes that cost taxpayers $19,000 and $11,000 each.

Expanded IRS free-file system one step closer in Democrats’ bill

Extreme heat uncovers lost villages, ancient ruins, and shipwrecks
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Vape wars: The fierce debate over the banning (and unbanning) of Juul e-cigarettes

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Black women are constantly expected to be strong. It’s taking a toll.
MISS CONDUCT

I’m trying to stay friends with someone who’s chronically hours late

metro

‘The vultures want it! But they’re not going to get it.’ On Cape Cod, a band of mobile home owners fight for their park.

Cape Cod pirate museum teams with Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Boston via virtual sea lab

Former R.I. State Police superintendent claims Senate candidate ‘stalked’ and ‘bullied’ his wife

sports

One question lingered after Fernando Tatis Jr.’s 80-game PED ban: What was he thinking?

After overcoming series of injuries, CoCo Vandeweghe back in contention

Cameron Smith two back at St. Jude, and one victory from becoming No. 1 in the world

business

Extraordinary defamation suit about election falsehoods causes unease at Fox News

Driver walkout halts trains as UK summer strike wave spreads

Sinema took Wall Street money while killing tax on investors

politics

Trump lawyer told Justice Dept. that classified material had been returned, New York Times reports

Takeaways from the unsealed warrant for the search of Trump’s home

Chart: How do historians rank US presidents?

Nation

Agent: Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack

2 dead amid ‘restless’ monsoon-season flooding in Las Vegas

Rushdie stabbed 10 times in premeditated attack, prosecutors say

World

With new weaponry, Ukraine is subtly shifting its war strategy

Ivory Coast wants a bigger bite of the cocoa business

His next move: A Ukrainian boy starts a new life through chess

opinion

Polygraphs are not the way forward in police reform

Media beware: Trump has a way with language

Republicans’ ‘banana republic’ charge is bananas

lifestyle

‘Star Trek’ actor Jonathan Frakes on Riker’s return, beaming down to Boston

He’s hooked up with nearly all of his female friends

This year, students in Mass. will have access to free school meals. But how do we stop the stigma around hunger?

food & dining

North End outdoor dining — with its new fees — is nearing its end. Where did the money go?

The South Shore gets a new brunch spot; the North End prepares for a feast

This quick-service restaurant is all it’s Crack’d up to be

travel

Don’t know a jibe from a jib? Check out The Sailing Museum in Newport

The Silver Scream Con in Danvers, a new restaurant in Portland, and a military vehicles museum in Wyoming

‘We want to give you a sense of Maine, but not clobber you with it’

Arts

‘Exposure 2022′ takes photography to unexpected places

Painterly weavings at Praise Shadows Art Gallery

MFA makes major photography acquisition

Books

In widowhood, making sense of a turbulent marriage

Reading everything from Dr. Seuss to books about war

One apartment building holds many stories

Movies

For Ben Affleck’s 50th birthday, we’re celebrating the good, the bad, and the ‘Gigli’

Forget Buffy. Meet Bud the vampire slayer.

In ‘Secret Headquarters,’ a 14-year-old discovers his father is not what he seems

Television

Bandleader Jon Batiste is leaving ‘The Late Show’

Jon Batiste leaves Stephen Colbert’s ‘The Late Show’

When ‘Saul’ called, Brookline’s Alison Tatlock answered

music

Sam Gooden, founding member of the Impressions soul group, dies at 87

After two decades, BLO returns to Boston Common with ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Jon Batiste leaves Stephen Colbert’s ‘The Late Show’

Theater/Dance

A too-muted ‘Hymn’ at Shakespeare & Company

Dance Heginbotham’s Pillow program explores dance and music, humor and heartbreak

In bringing ‘Anastasia’ to the stage, creators added gravitas, and plenty of new songs

globe local

‘I’m gambling all the time with my crops’: Farmers struggle to adapt to drought

Should all K-12 students in Massachusetts be guaranteed daily recess?

Dragonflies aren’t just pretty — they eat pesky bugs like mosquitoes

Obituaries

Bill Pitman, revered studio guitarist, is dead at 102

Sam Gooden, founding member of the Impressions soul group, dies at 87

Jan Longone, influential scholar of food history, dies at 89