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‘A bit of a superhero.’ Biden turns around presidency with recent successes that buoy Democrats ahead of midterms

Recent wins have fueled optimism that the party might defy history and hold its slim congressional majorities in November.

Chart: How do historians rank US presidents?

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.

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.

Driver kills 1, injures 17 at Pennsylvania benefit, then kills another, police say

South End shooting results in life-threatening injuries

Chaotic post-Roe legal landscape in Arizona confuses patients, abortion providers
Attorney General Mark Brnovich has gone to court to reinstate a ban on providing nearly all abortions that dates back to at least 1901.

From left, Robin Harris, Al MacDonald, and Jim McSharry are residents and board members at The Park at Pocasset. They are fighting a real estate investment company in court for the right to buy the park.

‘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.

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.

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.

Anne Heche arrives at the 74th annual Directors Guild of America Awards on March 12, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Tributes pour in for Anne Heche, including from ex-girlfriend Ellen DeGeneres

Statements from many close to actor Anne Heche have been streaming in after a representative for Heche said in a statement Friday she is brain dead following a fiery car crash more than a week ago.

Red Sox rookie righthander Kutter Crawford held the top four hitters in the Yankees order — D.J. LeMahieu, Aaron Judge, Anthony Rizzo, and Josh Donaldson — to a combined 1 for 8 with two walks and three strikeouts.

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.

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

US Secret Service and Mar-A-Lago security members at the entrance of former US President Donald Trump's house at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

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.

Opinion

In this US Capitol Police security video, US Secret Service audio is played in a view from outside the room where Vice President Mike Pence was holding, as rioters entered the Capitol, in a video displayed as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2022.

DOJ must investigate missing Secret Service texts

The inspector general at Homeland Security has proved he is unfit to lead the probe.

End the religious exemption for school vaccinations, already

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?

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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7 injured in early morning shooting in Old City of Jerusalem

The attack follows a conflict in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which reached a cease-fire a week ago after dozens of people were killed. The fighting started Aug. 5, when Israel launched airstrikes to foil what it said was an imminent attack from Gaza, and lasted for three days.

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).”

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.

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.

The hometown hoax that fooled state legislators

Remembering the time when a group of conservationists created a fictional community and got the state to fund it.

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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Valerie Stephens, center, organizer of Princess Day, poses for a photo with attendees at the 10th Annual Princess Day on Saturday.

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.

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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Culture & Lifestyle

Susan Orlean and Hrishikesh Hirway team up for the new podcast "Book Exploder."

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

From left: Owen Wilson, Walker Scobell, and Momona Tamada in "Secret Headquarters."

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

Kyla Stone and Sam McLellan in the touring production of "Anastasia."

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

Leonidas Kavakos (left) and Yo-Yo Ma (right, pictured with Emanuel Ax in 2018) anchor this weekend’s events at Tanglewood.

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.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

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A Beautiful Resistance

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‘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

Storm clouds hung in the distance in April over the Old Harbor Museum in the dunes at Race Point Beach in Provincetown.

Blowin’ in the wind

Maybe there’s a simple way to get more people onto Massachusetts beaches — particularly the ones guarded by parking bans. What if you could catch a public shuttle bus to the beach?

IDEAS | MILES HOWARD

Open Mass. beaches to everyone — with buses

An aerial view of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago this week.

Republicans’ ‘banana republic’ charge is bananas

Ranking Republican member Tom Cole of Oklahoma (L) looked on as Chairman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts (R) spoke at a hearing of the House Rules Committee to formulate a rule on the Senate amendment to the Inflation Reduction Act at the US Capitol Building on Aug. 10.

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

FILE - More than 100 opponents of the Wisconsin Republican redistricting plans vowed to fight the maps at a rally ahead of a joint legislative committee hearing at the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Thursday, Oct. 28. Some questioned whether gerrymandering has diminished the ability of state legislatures to truly represent the people's will.

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

Red Sox relief pitcher John Schreiber looks to throw to first as Yankees left fielder and former Red Sox Andrew Benintendi slides safely home with the winning run on a bunt single by New York shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa.

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.

Red Sox rookie righthander Kutter Crawford held the top four hitters in the Yankees order — D.J. LeMahieu, Aaron Judge, Anthony Rizzo, and Josh Donaldson — to a combined 1 for 8 with two walks and three strikeouts.

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.

The Mets followed starting pitcher Jacob deGrom to a 1-0 victory over the Phillies on Saturday.

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

Revolution 1, D.C. United 0

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

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

Tourists in Chinese beachside resort city protest COVID lockdown

Frustration is boiling over among visitors at two resorts over a lack of information from hotel management and the government on when they can leave. Vacationers at the Wyndham Hotel and the Marriott Yalong Bay have gathered to protest being locked down for more than a week, guests told Bloomberg News.

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.

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

magazine

Writer Greg Harris paddles past the outside of a dilapidated parking garage ramp at the Alewife MBTA station.

What I learned about urban development and environmental preservation from kayaking Alewife Brook

Vape wars: The fierce debate over the banning (and unbanning) of Juul e-cigarettes

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

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

metro

From left, Robin Harris, Al MacDonald, and Jim McSharry are residents and board members at The Park at Pocasset. They are fighting a real estate investment company in court for the right to buy the park.

‘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

Padres All-Star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. will be shelved after drawing an 80-game ban for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

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

The sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was found by scientists more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice. The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust says the vessel lies 10,000 feet below the surface of the Weddell Sea, about four miles south of the location recorded in 1915 by its captain, Frank Worsley.

Extreme heat uncovers lost villages, ancient ruins, and shipwrecks

Extraordinary defamation suit about election falsehoods causes unease at Fox News

Driver walkout halts trains as UK summer strike wave spreads

politics

US Secret Service and Mar-A-Lago security members at the entrance of former US President Donald Trump's house at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

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

Salman Rushdie in 2011.

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

The Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka allows Chinese research ship to dock after India concern

7 injured in early morning shooting in Old City of Jerusalem

With new weaponry, Ukraine is subtly shifting its war strategy

opinion

Former President Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday.

From the ‘party of law and order’ to ‘defund the FBI’

Blowin’ in the wind

Dying of a disease I never knew existed

lifestyle

Actor Jonathan Frakes as Commander Will Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

‘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

Outdoor diners outside Bencotto in the North End on Aug. 11, 2022.

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

These kid-sized Optimist prams are a great introduction to sailing. You can find Opti racing fleets throughout New England.

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

Bryan Florentin, "Prepared Shelves 2.1," 2022

‘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

Top row from left: Ben Affleck with Jennifer Lopez in "Gigli"; with Matt Damon in "Good Will Hunting"; and as Batman in "Zack Snyder's Justice League." Bottom row from left: Affleck with Jeremy Renner in "The Town"; in "Argo"; and with Joey Lauren Adams in "Chasing Amy."

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

Jon Batiste, shown attending the TIME100 Gala in New York in June, is leaving “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as bandleader after a seven-year run. Louis Cato, who has served as interim bandleader this summer, will take over on a permanent basis when the show returns for its eighth season.

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

Mr. Gooden of the Impressions, performing during The Message in the Music concert in conjunction with the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington on Aug. 25, 2011.

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

From left: "ranney" and Kevin Craig West in "Hymn" at Shakespeare & Company.

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

A corn plant grows out of the dry soil of a field that Dracut farmer David Dumaresq cannot irrigate. Dwindling supplies of pond water leave in doubt whether this second crop will reach maturity.

‘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

Carol Kaye and Bill Pitman in the 2015 documentary film "The Wrecking Crew."

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