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The next 30 days could help decide the future of development near public transit in Massachusetts

Many Greater Boston developers who have spearhead construction along the Orange Line consider the 30-day interruption as a short-term headache. But that’s only if the shutdown actually results in the repairs the T says it can accomplish.

‘Adapt and adjust.’ With grit and grumbles, commuters weathered the first Monday without the Orange Line.
“You really can’t do much,” Nicholas Ventura, a 32-year-old Melrose resident said with a shrug after an hour-long shuttle bus ride. “The system is broken.”

Here’s a look at what riders experienced on Monday

Ballard’s Beach Resort to lose liquor, entertainment licenses for 14 days

“There have got to be ways to not let something like this happen again,” said New Shoreham Town Councilwoman Martha Ball at the end of the show-cause hearing on Block Island. “I don’t want us to get in a place where we are here next year.”

Dozens of complaints about Ballard’s this summer

Trump had more than 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago in Florida

Over 150 sensitive papers were found in a batch from former president Donald Trump in January, helping to explain the Justice Department’s urgent response.

Trump seeks special master to review documents

Hikers rescued in the White Mountains over the weekend
Two hikers were rescued in separate incidents on Mt. Washington Sunday, one day after a hiker died in a fall on Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire authorities said.

House Speaker Ronald Mariano took the podium during a ceremonial bill signing in the State House Library, with Senate President Karen E. Spilka nearby.

Mass. Senate president and House speaker had a warm, collaborative relationship. An end-of-session surprise changed things.

The two leaders’ different views on an obscure law that could force the state to give back billions to taxpayers chilled a once-warm relationship and scuttled — at least for now — a $4.5 billion economic development bill, lawmakers and lobbyists say.

Shannon Liss-Riordan won millions for workers. But did she take too much for herself in the process?
Shannon Liss-Riordan, a Democratic candidate for attorney general and a class-action employment lawyer, has been criticized for seeking substantial shares of lucrative settlements that she has won.

Mass. health leaders call for stepped-up COVID plans for fall and winter
Many expect a rise in COVID infections as well as a resurgence of the flu.

Pfizer seeks authorization of updated COVID vaccine booster

ADHD and dating apps

“I hit a wall of overstimulation.”

It certainly feels as though the sun is setting on the Red Sox season.

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The schedule is there for the Red Sox to make up ground, but it’s very hard to be hopeful

Thirty-one of the final 40 games for the Red Sox are against teams ahead of them in the standings. But there are no signs of a turnaround in their results.

Bill Burr, shown in his 2022 Netflix special, "Live at Red Rocks."

Bill Burr brings his A game to Fenway Park

Sunday's show made Burr the first comedian ever to headline Fenway, where he cheerfully skewered feminists, men without money, folks with life-affirming tattoos, his own wife, both the current president and the last one . . . the list goes on.

Opinion

The scene outside the State House after the bill allowing people in Massachusetts without legal immigration status to get a driver's license was passed in June.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Fear and loathing of immigrants drives license ballot question

We can’t have a meaningful debate if there isn’t consensus on what the facts are.

Ukraine bloodied, not broken on Independence Day

Claudine Schneider

Corporations, you’re either part of the effort to secure democracy or dismantle it. Choose.

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Wu’s stubborn optimism is exactly what this transit crisis needs

Senator Lydia Edwards believes in Kevin Hayden for DA

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Public embrace of natural hair offers new twist on civil rights
Recognizing this history of control and humiliation through the material of Black hair is important for understanding new efforts to celebrate and protect wearers of Afro-textured hair in the United States.

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The closing of Mission Hill School attacks progressive education

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The next 30 days could help decide the future of development near public transit in Massachusetts

Many Greater Boston developers who have spearhead construction along the Orange Line consider the 30-day interruption as a short-term headache. But that’s only if the shutdown actually results in the repairs the T says it can accomplish.

RI FOOD & DINING

The former pastry queen of Big King in Providence has a new business

The founder behind Millie Millie Ice Cream is serving luscious scoops at pop-ups and at neighborhood restaurants on their dessert menus.

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Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried speaks during an interview, April 21, at the Phillip & Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami.

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Foreground: Rose B. Simpson, "Root A," 2019, in "Rose B. Simpson: Legacies," the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2022-2023. (Photo by Mel Taing)

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Jennifer Lopez is pictured in her wedding dress and poses with Ben Affleck in photos shared in the “On the J Lo” newsletter. The couple is reportedly hosting another wedding ceremony this weekend, this time in Georgia.

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Television

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John Williams takes a bow at his 90th birthday celebration at Tanglewood.

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Dr. Kay testified about Iraq's weapons capabilities before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2004.

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