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Democrats in Michigan hope to capitalize on swell of support for abortion rights

The state has seen a surge in the number of women who’ve registered to vote since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June after almost 50 years as settled precedent.

The law was supposed to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence. Critics say it’s largely protected police and perpetrators.

Massachusetts' uniquely broad privacy law requires police to keep all reports and arrests related to sexual and domestic violence secret, something no other state does.

TRAVEL | CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
In Florida, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ is now the law, and LGBTQ+ businesses fear the fallout
Gay-owned businesses in Florida, still catching their collective breath after two years of COVID-19 losses, face the very real possibility of losing LGBTQ+ tourists. "This law is by no means a reflection of us," the president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce said.

Possibility of obstruction looms over Trump after thwarted efforts to recover documents

The crime of obstruction is a serious a threat to former president Trump or his close associates as the Justice Department investigates documents that were at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Republicans, once outraged by Mar-a-Lago search, become quieter as details emerge
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Rich Hill makes quick work of Rays, striking out season-high 11 in Red Sox win

The veteran lefthander allowed just three single and a walk in seven innings.
MUSIC REVIEW

In his return to Gillette, Kenny Chesney is his usual ray of sunshine

The country mogul's tour-closing shows in Foxborough have become a rite of passage for the end of New England summers since 2011. After a four-year gap, Friday’s concert was a resounding return to that annual ritual.

Curt Schilling complains about student debt relief, Twitter immediately reminds him about 38 Studios

The retired Red Sox pitcher’s business venture was awarded $75 million in loan guarantees, and cost Rhode Island taxpayers millions after it failed in 2012
The White House slammed Republicans who criticized student loan relief in viral tweets. Here was the reaction.

Here are the 20 new books we’re most excited to read this fall

As the summer of 2022 winds down, our attention turns to the books of fall. Here’s our list of 20 titles — from novels to memoirs, histories to biographies — you may want to check out.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Liz Miranda for state Senate

The Dorchester state representative would fight to put the issues that matter to her constituents at the top of the Senate’s agenda.
IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI

How the MBTA went off the rails
IDEAS | DOUG MOST

Born broken: The deep history of the T
EDITORIAL

Trump sycophant seeks shelter from grand jury probe
SCOT LEHIGH

Potential political surprises ahead in state Democratic primary races

Education | Kimberly Atkins Stohr
Biden’s student loan debt relief isn’t just fair, it’s a good first start
There is a reason White parents pay much more tuition or student loans as Black parents: Because they can.

Orange Line shutdown

During first week of Orange Line shutdown, officials highlight obstacles cyclists often face
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Cambridge City Councilor Alanna Mallon took to Twitter this week to highlight common safety issues cyclists face.

Subway service cuts will remain in place for the fall; bus service to be further reduced, T says
Service cuts on the MBTA’s Red, Blue, and Orange Lines meant to last until the end of the summer will now remain in place through the fall, T officials said Wednesday, and bus service will be further cut starting Aug. 28.

Civil rights organization asks federal authorities to review Orange Line closure
Among the MBTA's shortcomings are issues with communicating details of the shutdown to the Orange Line’s non-English speaking riders, they wrote.

Your guide to the MBTA’s Orange Line shutdown
The Orange Line is shut down until the morning of Sept. 19. Find shuttle bus routes, schedules, and guides to navigate Boston.

Pick your stops: Find an alternative Orange Line route
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R.I. state Supreme Court grants Ballard’s emergency motion to keep entertainment license, with conditions
Block Island party destination Ballard’s Beach Resort and its owner, Steve Filippi, must provide additional security and will not be allowed to have live bands at Ballard’s Inn, among other restrictions

Republicans’ IRS conspiracy theories are rooted in ideology
The opposition is also part of an older ideological debate. Republican lawmakers tend to favor lower taxes, particularly for wealthy Americans.

Ashes of Nichelle Nichols are set for journey to deep space
Celestis, a private spaceflight company that works with NASA, will carry her ashes on a rocket set to travel 150 million to 300 million kilometers (about 93,000 million miles to 186 million miles) into space beyond the Earth-moon system and the James Webb telescope.

Paddling makes a comeback in a Missouri school district

A Missouri school district’s announcement that it is bringing back paddling drew a lot of attention and dismay this past week. But corporal punishment — with an interruption, perhaps, for the coronavirus pandemic in some places — never went away in a large number of schools.

Truth Social faces financial peril as worry about Trump’s future grows
Former president Donald Trump's Truth Social website is facing financial challenges as its traffic remains puny and the company that is scheduled to acquire it expresses fear that his legal troubles could lead to a decline in his popularity.

Small businesses feel the pinch from slowing housing market
The chill in the housing market is rippling out to the carpenters, landscapers, and other small businesses that lose out when fewer homeowners are renovating their properties.

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Goodbye to the gold watch. Why many are resisting the notion of retirement.

Middle-class visions of an earlier era — the gold watch, golfing and fishing, and padding about a gated community in Florida — now seem hopelessly dated.

The times are different. The secretary of state is the same. Can Tanisha Sullivan unseat William Galvin?
Sullivan, a 48-year-old attorney and president of the NAACP’s Boston branch, promises to expand the office into a more proactive hub for democracy. Galvin, seeking his eighth term, says his experience in overseeing elections is both unmatched and needed ahead of a likely contentious 2024 vote.

Dinner with Cupid
Blind date: ‘I was like, “Damn, this girl’s way cooler than me!’”
Will these daters recover from jumbled digits?

GLOBE MAGAZINE
15 treats from Boston restaurants that taste as good as they look, for $20 or less
Two foodies who chronicle their finds on Instagram and TikTok share their picks for fabulous — and affordable — food and drinks around Boston.

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Culture & Lifestyle

MoviePass rises from the rubble. You have until Monday to sign up.

Resolute in the face of health challenges, Michael Tilson Thomas returns to Tanglewood

Artist Steve Locke awarded Rappaport Prize by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

In Anna Deavere Smith’s ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,’ the voices of a shattered city

Special Projects

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

IDEAS | ALAN WIRZBICKI

What is the T for, anyway?
SCOT LEHIGH

Potential political surprises ahead in state Democratic primary races
EDITORIAL

A final term for Bill Galvin
Katie Adams

I’m a massage therapist. I know how chilling it is to be alone with an inappropriate man.
Joan Vennochi

Will progressives stick with Ricardo Arroyo after sexual assault allegations?
IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI

How the MBTA went off the rails

Metro

Paul Monti, whose efforts honored veterans’ graves with flags after his son’s death, dies at 76

"It was shocking that there were no flags," Mr. Monti said of the gravesites at Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne. “Something had to be done."

Judge orders landlord to provide housing for Revere tenants displaced by June fire

The owners of the Water’s Edge Apartments were given five days to provide either accommodations with kitchen facilities in a Revere-area hotel or a temporary apartment in another building at the Water’s Edge complex, court records show.
RI BUSINESS

R.I. state Supreme Court grants Ballard’s emergency motion to keep entertainment license, with conditions

Block Island party destination Ballard’s Beach Resort and its owner, Steve Filippi, must provide additional security and will not be allowed to have live bands at Ballard’s Inn, among other restrictions

Joey DeFrancesco, reigning king of the jazz organ, dies at 51

Joey DeFrancesco, who was widely credited with bringing the organ back into vogue in jazz circles in recent decades, has died. He was 51.

Sports

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Rich Hill makes quick work of Rays, striking out season-high 11 in Red Sox win

The veteran lefthander allowed just three single and a walk in seven innings.
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Jarren Duran, demoted to Triple A, faces a career crossroads

Outside of Kiké Hernández, who will be a free agent after the season, the Sox don’t have another center fielder on the roster.
Celtics

Celtics forward Danilo Gallinari suffers left knee injury

Gallinari was hurt when he took a bad step on a fast break early in the fourth quarter of Italy’s 91-84 win over Georgia in World Cup qualifying..
Golf roundup

LIV Golf has joined the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour
Patriots

A day later, still not much good to say about Patriots’ preseason loss to Raiders
Red Sox notebook

Red Sox activate Trevor Story from injured list, option Jarren Duran to Triple A Worcester

Business

RI BUSINESS

R.I. state Supreme Court grants Ballard’s emergency motion to keep entertainment license, with conditions

Block Island party destination Ballard’s Beach Resort and its owner, Steve Filippi, must provide additional security and will not be allowed to have live bands at Ballard’s Inn, among other restrictions

Small businesses feel the pinch from slowing housing market

The chill in the housing market is rippling out to the carpenters, landscapers, and other small businesses that lose out when fewer homeowners are renovating their properties.

Fed tackles inflation with its most diverse leadership ever

Explainer: Lower prescription prices to take time in new law
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After a whale crashed on top of my kayak, I set out to learn how they communicate
food finds

15 treats from Boston restaurants that taste as good as they look, for $20 or less
CONNECTIONS

As a 25-year-old widow, here’s what I wish I could tell my late husband
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I was like, “Damn, this girl’s way cooler than me!’”

metro

El viaje al trabajo se duplica para un conserje tras el cierre de la Línea Naranja

A cleaner faces double the time on public transit after Orange Line shutdown

The law was supposed to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence. Critics say it’s largely protected police and perpetrators.

sports

Game 127: Trevor Story back in lineup for Red Sox against Rays

Liverpool equals biggest win in English Premier League history

Serena Williams’s opponent, Danka Kovinic, ‘honored’ to face her at US Open

business

Curt Schilling complains about student debt relief, Twitter immediately reminds him about 38 Studios

Student loan forgiveness application coming in October, White House says

IRobot agreed to be acquired by Amazon years after rejecting its first offer

politics

Democrats in Michigan hope to capitalize on swell of support for abortion rights

Possibility of obstruction looms over Trump after thwarted efforts to recover documents

FBI affidavit shows concerns about documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate

Nation

Roland Mesnier, White House pastry chef for a sweet quarter-century, dies at 78

Ashes of Nichelle Nichols are set for journey to deep space

Republicans’ IRS conspiracy theories are rooted in ideology

World

With disaster looming, inspectors set to visit Ukraine nuclear plant

A holy British island, where the reckless try to outrace the tide

Ukraine, Russia trade more blame on threats to nuclear plant as radiation leak fears mount

opinion

How the MBTA went off the rails

Potential political surprises ahead in state Democratic primary races

In Vogue, Ketanji Brown Jackson makes a choice to define herself

lifestyle

Heading back to school? Here’s where you can use your student discount around Boston

We met while tailgating

Paul Newman’s daughters sue late actor’s charity foundation

food & dining

Puritan plans an oyster bar, and old-school Italian counter service comes to Charlestown

Limani, a new Greek seafood restaurant in Chestnut Hill, has a dazzling setting

15 treats from Boston restaurants that taste as good as they look, for $20 or less

travel

In Florida, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ is now the law, and LGBTQ+ businesses fear the fallout

‘Worst Maine travel piece of the year’: Bangor newspaper slams New York Post column

Patriots placekicker Nick Folk is ‘go with the flow’ on vacation and hopes to get to Germany with his dad

Arts

Harvard Art Museums stay open late on Thursday for exploring and mingling

These landscapes demand a closer look

Rose B. Simpson shapes stories in clay and steel

Books

Gabino Iglesias and reading for the ‘controlled chaos’ of scary books

Transcending the mundane in “Rabbit Hutch”

Retelling the story of the first superstar in ‘Path Lit by Lighting’

Movies

‘Me Time’? Make that ‘Flee Time’

John Boyega makes ‘Breaking’

MoviePass rises from the rubble. You have until Monday to sign up.

Television

HBO renews ‘House of the Dragon’ for second season

With warm regards, a look back on summer’s best TV shows and performances

Pete Davidson draws Joe Pesci back to TV for ‘Bupkis’

music

In his return to Gillette, Kenny Chesney is his usual ray of sunshine

Resolute in the face of health challenges, Michael Tilson Thomas returns to Tanglewood

For decades, they’ve been trading their free time for free music

Theater/Dance

In Anna Deavere Smith’s ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,’ the voices of a shattered city

Jacob’s Pillow festival closes with mighty Miami City Ballet

A Broadway detour brings ‘Sing Street’ to the Huntington

globe local

Markers give suffragists their due: ‘If they did it back then, we can do it now’

Should Massachusetts enact a junk food tax?

Two ducks are let loose in a cemetery

Obituaries

Paul Monti, whose efforts honored veterans’ graves with flags after his son’s death, dies at 76

Joey DeFrancesco, reigning king of the jazz organ, dies at 51

Howard Rosenthal, who quantified partisanship in Congress, dies at 83