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Under Maura Healey, the attorney general’s office sued the Trump administration nearly 100 times. Most of the time, she prevailed.

A Globe analysis shows that the lawsuits led or joined by Healey succeeded about 77 percent of the time, either with a clear-cut court ruling or an order suspending the Trump initiatives.

Many office workers are back, but their favorite lunch spots are struggling with hybrid work
For some eateries, survival depends on how well they can adapt to making money across fewer hours, and with fewer regular customers.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

State education leaders to vote Monday on raising MCAS graduation requirements

The proposal has seen fierce opposition, including a letter from nearly 100 state legislators worried about the potential change’s effect on student mental health.

State more than doubles investment in early college high school programs

Police: Man killed himself after ramming US Capitol barrier

Newton investigates whether former city employee shut down police website amid pay dispute

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

Much of our state’s iconic coastline is effectively off-limits except to a select few. Here’s a way to change that.

Have you apologized to your hydrangeas for the drought?
Remember the days when gardening was, um, relaxing? When people took it up specifically to destress? But this season, puttering around in the garden has been anything but zen.

Mass. gaming regulators don’t seem to know how many residents in the state have a gambling problem. Now, sports betting is legal.
When asked if the Massachusetts Gaming Commission is tracking the prevalence of problem gambling over time, its top official offered this answer: “We may not have the precise number of problem gamblers, and I can’t say that we don’t have that,” said commission Chair Cathy Judd-Stein.

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.

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

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.

From left: Patrick Mahoney, Hannah (Crawford) Mahoney, and Boston Police officer Joseph Matthews smile for a photo on the dock at Thompson Island where the Mahoneys were married on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matthews took Patrick and his groomsmen to the island by boat after their vessel had a mechanical issue.

Boston police officer answers call for ‘a groom in distress,’ saves a young couple’s wedding day

The couple would be married in just a few hours at the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center on a sunny, sparkling day. But the groom and groomsmen found themselves stuck on a dock in Boston.

Why aren’t we married yet?

“Just hard to see other people around us moving on to next steps when they all met after us.”

Read more Love Letters

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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Tara Sullivan

There won’t be a satisfactory ending for the Deshaun Watson imbroglio, and more thoughts
Watson’s return to the field Friday night was ugly in every way possible, an awkward apology before the game begetting an unsteady performance in it.

Innovation Economy

Somerville startup has a cool take on air conditioning
Transaera is working to design new air conditioners that require dramatically less energy. This month, it plans to announce that it has raised an initial funding round of $4.5 million.

LAPD ends investigation into Anne Heche car crash

Heche, 53, is brain dead and on life support, pending evaluation for organ donation.

Man found dead in water at Brockton park

The man, whose identity was not released, was discovered shortly before 10 a.m., according to Darren Duarte, a Brockton police spokesman.

Second Mass. motorcyclist to fatally crash on Interstate 95 in Providence in less than two weeks

Michael Morrissey, 58, was driving his motorcycle in the high speed lane when he lost control just before the Interstate 195 overpass, according to Rhode Island State Police.

Making a scene: Megaproject around TD Garden bounces back from COVID quiet
After opening shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live events and so much more, the Hub on Causeway is fully operational at last.

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President Biden signs the CHIPS and Science Act into law in a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday.

‘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?

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.

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.

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.

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Culture & 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

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

Beyoncé's "Renaissance" is one of the summer's best.

15 standout summer albums, from Beyoncé and beyond

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Welcome Back to Boston

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

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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

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

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

IDEAS | Sheldon Himelfarb and Phil Howard

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

Metro

Mass. gaming regulators don’t seem to know how many residents in the state have a gambling problem. Now, sports betting is legal.

When asked if the Massachusetts Gaming Commission is tracking the prevalence of problem gambling over time, its top official offered this answer: “We may not have the precise number of problem gamblers, and I can’t say that we don’t have that,” said commission Chair Cathy Judd-Stein.

Under Maura Healey, the attorney general’s office sued the Trump administration nearly 100 times. Most of the time, she prevailed.

A Globe analysis shows that the lawsuits led or joined by Healey succeeded about 77 percent of the time, either with a clear-cut court ruling or an order suspending the Trump initiatives.

Have you apologized to your hydrangeas for the drought?

As gardeners fight to keep beloved plants alive, the drought’s toll has turned emotional.

Yvonne Daley, poet, professor, and award-winning journalist, dies at 77

Among her books was "Going Up the Country," about the hippies who moved to Vermont in search "of self, of a dream, of a future."

Sports

Baker Mayfield (right) seems like the favorite to win the Panthers' starting QB job, but coach Matt Rhule won't decide between Mayfield and Sam Darnold (left) until after they play the Patriots.

Four things to know as the Panthers, the Patriots’ next preseason opponent, come to town

The ongoing quarterback competition between Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold has dominated the headlines in Carolina.

Deshaun Watson completed just one pass in his first NFL action in 19 months on Friday against the Jaguars. The Browns quarterback awaits a ruling on the NFL's appeal of his six-game suspension.

There won’t be a satisfactory ending for the Deshaun Watson imbroglio, and more thoughts

Watson’s return to the field Friday night was ugly in every way possible, an awkward apology before the game begetting an unsteady performance in it.

Michael Wacha returns to the mound for the Sox on Sunday.

YANKEES AT RED SOX | 7:08 P.M. (ESPN)

Game 116: Red Sox host Yankees in series finale after back-to-back nailbiters, plus lineups and notes

Michael Wacha is back for Boston after a stint on the injured list.

Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts, and J.D. Martinez — the Red Sox’ star trio — are slumping at the wrong time

YANKEES 3, RED SOX 2

Red Sox let a win over Yankees slip away as Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts can’t deliver in a drama-filled finish

Peter Abraham | On baseball

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

Business

Making a scene: Megaproject around TD Garden bounces back from COVID quiet

After opening shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live events and so much more, the Hub on Causeway is fully operational at last.

Many office workers are back, but their favorite lunch spots are struggling with hybrid work

For some eateries, survival depends on how well they can adapt to making money across fewer hours, and with fewer regular customers.

Innovation Economy

Somerville startup has a cool take on air conditioning

Falling global food and fuel costs offer poor countries little relief

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

State education officials are looking to raise state test score requirements for graduation, beginning with the class of 2026.

State education leaders to vote Monday on raising MCAS graduation requirements

Boston Common water main that broke Saturday is repaired, according to officials

Jacob loves to joke around and laugh

sports

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

Carles Gil the difference as undermanned Revolution scrape by D.C. United

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

business

On TikTok, election misinformation thrives before midterms

Average US gasoline price falls 45 cents to $4.10 per gallon

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

politics

Facing prison time and dire personal consequences for storming the US Capitol, some Jan. 6 insurrectionists are trying to profit from their participation in the riot. They are using the riot to drum up cash and promote businesses.

Some Capitol rioters try to profit from their Jan. 6 crimes

Police: Man killed himself after ramming US Capitol barrier

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

Nation

Late actress Anne Heche shown at Variety's 4th annual Power of Women event in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Oct. 5, 2012.

LAPD ends investigation into Anne Heche car crash

1 dead, 17 hurt in Pennsylvania crash during fundraiser for fire victims

Why abortion has become a centerpiece of Democratic TV ads in 2022

World

Liz Truss during an event in Darlington, England, Aug. 9, as part of the campaign to be leader of the Conservative Party and the next UK prime minister. While inflation and recession fears weigh heavily on the minds of voters, another issue is popping up in political campaigns from the UK and Australia to the United States and beyond: the “China threat."

‘China threat’ emerges in elections from UK to Australia

Senator Ed Markey among US lawmakers visiting Taiwan only 12 days after Pelosi trip

Shelling kills 1 in Ukraine; Russia wants nuke plant pledges

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

Why aren’t we married yet?

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

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

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

Kehlani performs at Leader Bank Pavilion.

Love connections from Kehlani at Leader Bank Pavilion

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

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

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

Ms. Daley in Panama City Beach, Fla.

Yvonne Daley, poet, professor, and award-winning journalist, dies at 77

Bill Pitman, revered studio guitarist, is dead at 102

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