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Newton man to be arraigned on one count of murder and other charges tied to triple homicide

Christopher Ferguson, the man charged in connection with the deaths of three people in their Newton home, was linked to the crime by multiple forensic techniques, officials said.

Investigators announce arrest in Newton slayings

Christopher Ferguson, arrested in killing of 3 in Newton, seemed to be struggling, neighbors say
On Monday authorities announced that Ferguson had been charged in connection with the brutal slayings of three people in Newton.

Supreme Court upholds North Carolina ruling that congressional districts violated state law

The justices by a 6-3 vote rejected the broadest view of a case that could have transformed elections for Congress and president.

‘This totally wins my case,’ Trump says in audio recording cited in indictment in classified documents case

A recording of a meeting in 2021 in which former president Donald Trump described a sensitive document in front of him appears to contradict his defense.

Court date postponed for Trump’s valet Walt Nauta in the classified documents case

innovation beat

In robotics land, a new focus on construction
Labor shortages and the cost of materials have added pressure to automate the industry.

Michael Ancevic checked his laptop on the bow of his boat as he paused near the Route 128 overpass above the Annisquam River.

When working remotely means from the deck of a boat

Lakeville liquor store worker charged with stealing customer’s $3 million lottery ticket faces arraignment

Ethics panel votes to investigate R.I. officials’ conduct during Philly trip, and Speaker Shekarchi

Merlin Elsí (left) and Rafael Yas (right) talk while waiting for their orders at Mi Pueblito, an authentic Mexican restaurant in East Boston.

8 Boston-area restaurants that will transport you to a whole different place

Craving a taste of worldly flavors but don’t have the time or money to travel this summer? We've got some ideas.

Chris Himmel celebrates 40 years of Grill 23.

Restaurateur Chris Himmel celebrates 40 years of Grill 23

The steakhouse beefed up the Back Bay food scene in 1983. Now, it’s popping up on Nantucket.

Sheryl Julian’s 6-burner stove that she had to have replaced rests in her kitchen in Watertown in April.

Readers, you have tales to tell about old stoves and new

After the author’s Globe story ran about saying goodbye to her broken range, she heard about your adventures in Consumer Land.

Checklist for consumers buying induction ranges

chad finn

The ‘challenge trade’ — past, present, and almost — has a notable place in Red Sox history
A challenge trade is when a general manager essentially dares another to do business, betting that his own player evaluation is more accurate.

Sophia Landay applied to 75 different OB/GYN residency programs throughout the country. But not one was in a state with a strict abortion ban.

Abortion restrictions may be pushing new doctors to train in more liberal states

Because doctors tend to settle down near the place where they trained, states with abortion restrictions could face a severe shortage of maternal health providers in the years to come.

Map: These states have significantly restricted abortion access

Think you know the MBTA? This new game puts your T geography knowledge to the test.
Play MBTAGuessr here to see how well you know the T station locations.

Romolo Del Deo heads down to Frenchie’s Shack, which his father, the painter Salvatore Del Deo, has occupied for the past 77 years. The family is being evicted by the National Park Service.

Protesters gather at Provincetown dune shack on day artist is supposed to turn over the keys

The National Park Service gave the family until Tuesday to vacate the cottage.

‘They are expected to vacate’: National Park Service holds firm in dune shack eviction

Tanisha Sullivan, the president of Boston’s NAACP chapter.

‘We’re going to wake this place up’: Three years later, NAACP convention is coming to Boston

The NAACP is holding its annual convention in the Seaport from July 26 to August 1, three years after the coronavirus pandemic moved it online.

The Colosseum in Rome.

Italy looks for man seen in viral video carving names into Rome’s almost 2,000-year-old Colosseum

Italy’s culture and tourism ministers have vowed to find and punish a tourist who was filmed carving his name and that of his apparent girlfriend in the wall of the Colosseum in Rome.

Live weather updates from Boston-area meteorologists

With severe weather in the forecast, here’s a look at what to expect, according to Boston-area meteorologists.

Opinion

Boston’s transfer tax proposal would impose a fee of “up to 2 percent” (to be paid by the seller) on real estate transfers above $2 million.

Communities beg for a new tool in the housing toolbox

Real estate transfer tax could provide hundreds of millions of dollars in new aid.

Putin deals a weak hand in Wagner revolt

William Taubman

How and why Putin wounded himself

Baring it all for climate justice concerns

MARCELA GARCÍA

Sharing your genetic data to solve crime

Pride Month

“Limited edition Black,” 2023, Boston, by Golden & February Spikener for “REPRISE.”

Golden age: Poet-photographer flips the script at the MFA

In the “Slumber Party” episode of "Drag Me to Dinner," queens Kim Chi (left) and Naomi Smalls (right) battle Heidi N Closet and Jaida Essence Hall. Neil Patrick Harris, Bianca Del Rio, Haneefah Wood, and David Burtka star; Murray Hill hosts.

‘Drag Me to Dinner’ puts the ‘kitsch’ in ‘kitchen’

Marchers gathered for the start of the Boston Pride parade.

Boston streets are vibrant with the colors of Pride as parade returns after 3-year hiatus

Newport Pride founders Sean O'Connor, left, and Daniel Cano Restrepo, right, in front of the recently opened Newport Pride Center on Spring Street in Newport.

Cultivating community: Newport Pride founders open city’s first Pride Center

More recent News

More and more T workers are leaving, thwarting agency efforts to staff up, officials say

The transit agency is losing employees at an annual clip of roughly 13 percent, an increase from previous years and one that is hurting its efforts to buttress a stretched workforce, MBTA officials told lawmakers during an oversight hearing Monday at the State House.

Amazon will soon launch a new delivery network, driven by local businesses, in Boston
The e-commerce giant will soon begin recruiting small businesses who can store an average of 30 packages a day and then deliver them to customers in the area.

A look at same-sex households in New Hampshire
Tiny Sugar Hill has the largest percentage of households with same-sex couples, more than four times higher than the Northeast as a whole.

Revolution’s under-19 team — loaded with local talent — picks up another MLS Next Cup championship

Former Revolution goalkeeper Brad Knighton's team, 15 of whom hail from Massachusetts, won five games in eight days amidst a deadly heat wave to clinch the national title.

Trump and DeSantis to hold dueling campaign events in New Hampshire after squabbling over timing

Ron DeSantis was set to appear at a town hall event in Hollis, while Donald Trump was scheduled to speak at a lunch in Concord hosted by a Republican women’s club and attend the opening of his campaign’s state office in Manchester.

Jeffrey Epstein suicide blamed on jail guard negligence and misconduct, US watchdog says

The Justice Department’s watchdog said Tuesday that a “combination of negligence and misconduct” enabled financier Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New York City.

Your View

Tell us about your BPS high school experience
We’re looking to hear from current and former Boston Public School students, as well as parents and educators.

Recommended reads

Bryan Pfeiffer tries to catch a swallowtail butterfly in an undisclosed location in the Northeast Kingdom.

He spent 21 years searching Vermont for a butterfly the size of a penny. He finally found it.

The bog elfin had never been confirmed in Vermont, but Bryan Pfeiffer’s gut told him it was there.

shirley leung

Who wins and who loses when a liquor license in Boston sells for $600,000?
In an industry with notoriously thin profit margins, big landlords and deep-pocketed restaurateurs are increasingly the only ones who can stomach the high cost of doing business in Boston.

Skiing in Antarctica. Dinner with the pope. Illegal border crossings? Extreme adventure tourism is hitting new heights.
The drive for wealthy and competitive travelers to try and reach the edge of space, or the bottom of the ocean, has grown in popularity.

Jeneé Osterheldt | A Beautiful Resistance

The 25th Anniversary of Roxbury International Film Festival and the cinematic sisters who fuel it
Lisa and Alison Simmons help fuel a community of creatives decades in the making — and growing.

Culture & Lifestyle

From left: Ayo Edebiri, Abby Elliot, and Jeremy Allen White in season two of "The Bear."

If you must binge TV shows, binge responsibly

Meshell Ndegeocello performed the entirety of her album "Plantation Lullabies" at WasFest Friday night at the Shubert Theatre.

Meshell Ndegeocello, Robert Glasper get WasFest off to a spectacular start

Bob Weir is projected on the video screen as Dead & Company perform at Fenway Park Saturday night.

Dead & Company deliver one last Saturday night at Fenway

Looking to kick up your heels in the sand with a new book? This summer, give poetry a try.

Poetry is the ultimate summer beach read

Special Projects

Main marathon 10th anniversary gif

Their lives were rerouted after the Marathon bombing. Here’s where they are now.

Five lives were lost; many more, changed.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, a former Georgia election worker, was comforted by her mother Ruby Freeman, right, at the Capitol in Washington, June 21, 2022. A Georgia state election board has cleared the pair of wrongdoing.

Two Georgia women, collateral damage of Trump’s election lies, are finally cleared of wrongdoing

The French research vessel L'Atalante during the search for the submersible Titan.

Titan submersible implosion: another safety lesson learned through tragedy

Like the rest of the state, the dramatic surge in housing prices on the Cape has been the result of a variety of factors, including a lack of supply and a fierce resistance to development. But there’s one additional culprit on the Cape: the proliferation of short-term rentals and the rise of companies like Airbnb.

The sharks threatening Cape Cod don’t have fins

Migrants swam next to their overturned wooden boat during a rescue operation by Spanish NGO Open Arms at south of the Italian Lampedusa island at the Mediterranean Sea, Aug. 11, 2022.

Sarah Sherman-Stokes and Rachel Silver

Titan rescue efforts raise questions about whether migrants’ lives are also worth saving

An employee mopped a looted supermarket in Valencia, Carabobo State, in May 2017 following protests against President Nicolás Maduro, whose opponents blamed him for Venezuela's dire economic mess.

IDEAS | CARLOS VILLAMIZAR

Then as now, hunger in the streets of my Venezuela

Are you a teen with a story to tell? Globe Ideas wants to hear from you.

Metro

Car slams into MBTA bus at Kenmore station; driver flees, police say

At around 5:30 a.m., a 2015 Honda slammed into the back of the bus, according to a tweet from Transit Police. No injuries were reported, officials said.

‘We’re going to wake this place up’: Three years later, NAACP convention is coming to Boston

The NAACP is holding its annual convention in the Seaport from July 26 to August 1, three years after the coronavirus pandemic moved it online.

Ethics panel votes to investigate R.I. officials’ conduct during Philly trip, and Speaker Shekarchi

The Ethics Commission votes that complaints against David Patten and James Thorsen, as well as Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, “state facts that, if true, are sufficient to constitute violations of the code of ethics” and “to authorize a full investigation.”

Christopher Ferguson, arrested in killing of 3 in Newton, seemed to be struggling, neighbors say

On Monday authorities announced that Ferguson had been charged in connection with the brutal slayings of three people in Newton.

Sports

Did the Red Sox and Yankees really discuss trading Ted Williams (left) for Joe DiMaggio? We'll never know for certain, but the story is part of the teams' lore.

The ‘challenge trade’ — past, present, and almost — has a notable place in Red Sox history

A challenge trade is when a general manager essentially dares another to do business, betting that his own player evaluation is more accurate.

Jason Zacarias, a Billerica native who was named player of the tournament, celebrates with the trophy after the Revs' 2-1 victory in the final.

Revolution’s under-19 team — loaded with local talent — picks up another MLS Next Cup championship

Former Revolution goalkeeper Brad Knighton's team, 15 of whom hail from Massachusetts, won five games in eight days amidst a deadly heat wave to clinch the national title.

Garrett Whitlock took a no-decision in his last start after allowing four runs on eight hits and striking out six last Wednesday at Minnesota.

Marlins at Red Sox | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 80: Marlins at Red Sox lineups and notes

Garrett Whitlock will be on the mound as the Red Sox return to Fenway Park to open a three-game series with Miami.

Honda Cup award

Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark named Collegiate Women’s Athlete of the Year

College World series final: LSU 18, Florida 4

LSU wins its first College World Series title since 2009, demolishing Florida one day after a 20-run loss

Patrice Bergeron (Selke), Linus Ullmark (Vezina), and Jim Montgomery (Adams) win big at NHL Awards

Business

innovation beat

In robotics land, a new focus on construction

Labor shortages and the cost of materials have added pressure to automate the industry.

Amazon will soon launch a new delivery network, driven by local businesses, in Boston

The e-commerce giant will soon begin recruiting small businesses who can store an average of 30 packages a day and then deliver them to customers in the area.

Isolated from local grocery stores, northern N.H. eyes starting its own food co-op

When working remotely means from the deck of a boat

magazine

Greg Grady works on a design for a sand sculpting competition.

Your Summer Beach Bag

Six tips for building great beach sandcastles, from a pro sand sculptor

Your Summer Beach Bag

10 great New England beach reads, from old standbys to new classics

Hammonasset Beach State Park in Connecticut.

Your Summer Beach Bag

The best New England beaches for kids, foodies, accessibility, and more

Taiyaki Ice Cream cones from Taiyaki NYC.

Your Summer Beach Bag

10 of the best ice cream treats to try this summer around Boston

metro

Governor Maura Healey.

Healey, in address to Irish leaders, says ‘threads of the same fabric’ bind Massachusetts and Ireland

Man charged in connection with Newton triple homicide

Three-alarm fire rips through building in East Boston, officials say

sports

Brooks Koepka and LIV Golf return to action this week in Spain.

PGA, European tours and Saudis agree to decide how defectors to LIV Golf can return and what punishment they should face

Patrice Bergeron wins Selke for record sixth time, Linus Ullmark and Jim Montgomery also clean up at NHL Awards

Hingham’s Matty Beniers scores Calder Trophy at NHL Awards as top rookie for 2022-23

business

Once a niche market, cheaper disposables made up 40% of the roughly $7 billion retail market for e-cigarettes last year, according to data from analytics firm IRI obtained by the AP.

Thousands of e-cigarettes are pouring into the US despite FDA crackdown on fruity flavors

With new backing, Aggarwal hopes to build the ‘Amazon of energy’

High-speed internet is a necessity, President Biden says, pledging all US will have access by 2030

politics

The US Supreme Court.

Supreme Court rejects GOP argument in North Carolina case that could have transformed US elections

Court date postponed for Trump’s valet Walt Nauta in the classified documents case

Trump and DeSantis to hold dueling campaign events in New Hampshire after squabbling over timing

Nation

The Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.

Jeffrey Epstein suicide blamed on jail guard negligence and misconduct, US watchdog says

Kansas City teenager recounts being shot after he rang the wrong doorbell

Victims confront Colorado Springs gay nightclub killer, calling him a monster and a coward

World

The Colosseum in Rome.

Italy looks for man seen in viral video carving names into Rome’s almost 2,000-year-old Colosseum

Russia drops charges against Prigozhin and others who took part in brief rebellion

Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, more than 1,000 civilians were killed in attacks, UN says

opinion

Dr. Barbara Spivak, a primary care physician in Watertown, spoke with a patient during a telehealth visit in March.

Telehealth laws need to be updated for a post-COVID health system

Why we run

Pandemic learning loss: Why is it so hard to get kids caught up?

lifestyle

Romolo Del Deo heads down to Frenchie’s Shack, which his father, the painter Salvatore Del Deo, has occupied for the past 77 years. The family is being evicted by the National Park Service.

Protesters gather at Provincetown dune shack on day artist is supposed to turn over the keys

‘They are expected to vacate’: National Park Service holds firm in dune shack eviction ahead of protest

Party and protest mix as LGBTQ+ pride parades kick off from New York to San Francisco

food & dining

Tzatziki Chicken Salad

Recipe: Toss chicken salad with yogurt sauce for your Fourth get together

Recipe: Blueberries brighten this simple square cake for the Fourth

Recipe: Cool, spicy, tangy gazpacho hits the spot for a Fourth celebration

travel

Adventurer Eric Larsen, who leads expeditions to the North and South poles, says his clients are a wealthy — and competitive — bunch.

Skiing in Antarctica. Dinner with the pope. Illegal border crossings? Extreme adventure tourism is hitting new heights.

No car? No problem. Here’s how to breeze to the beach on the T.

The best New England beaches for kids, foodies, accessibility, and more

Arts

Martin Ray, "Autumn, Flat Ledge Quarry, Rockport," October 2021.

When quarries are the photographic quarry

Why there are dozens of colorful cows on display across Boston

In ‘Trembling Earth’ at the Clark, Munch’s prescient view of nature in peril

Books

10 great New England beach reads, from old standbys to new classics

Adrienne Brodeur’s debut novel ‘Little Monsters’ explores the unraveling of a family and its secrets on the Cape

Mike Curato, author of ‘Flamer,’ one of the country’s most challenged books, on the ultimate cost of book bans

Movies

Robert Mitchum, who starred in the 1973 film "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," directed by Peter Yates.

‘Gloomy, grimy, gritty’: Classic Boston crime movie ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ turns 50

‘No Hard Feelings’: Jennifer Lawrence balances raunchy humor with heart

‘Blue Jean’: Don’t say gay in Thatcher-era English drama

Television

From left: Ayo Edebiri, Abby Elliot, and Jeremy Allen White in season two of "The Bear."

If you must binge TV shows, binge responsibly

Fox News unveils primetime lineup with Jesse Watters in Tucker Carlson’s former time slot

This week’s TV: Idris Elba in ‘Hijack,’ remembering Rock Hudson, and an ‘SNL’ guessing game

music

Meshell Ndegeocello performed the entirety of her album "Plantation Lullabies" at WasFest Friday night at the Shubert Theatre.

Meshell Ndegeocello, Robert Glasper get WasFest off to a spectacular start

Dead & Company deliver one last Saturday night at Fenway

BET Awards show honors Busta Rhymes, hip-hop’s 50 years and pays tribute to Takeoff and Tina Turner

Theater/Dance

The quirky cast of characters featured in "The Great Mr. Swindle's Traveling Peculiarium" include Mr. Swindle's Gold Digging Girlfriend.

Acrobatics and adult beverages at ‘Mr. Swindle’s Traveling Peculiarium’

The Huntington’s Michael Maso exits the stage

A spirited — and pointed — ‘As You Like It’

globe local

Brothers Brian Worrell (left), District 4 Councilor, and state Representative Chris Worrell just opened a district office on Erie Street.

Worrell brothers, one a councilor and one a state representative, open joint Dorchester office for ‘top-notch constituent services’

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

Reading harpist returns to hometown for performance with the US Air Force Concert Band

Obituaries

Dr. Markowitz, in his office in San Diego in 2012.

Harry Markowitz, pioneer of modern portfolio theory, dies at 95

John B. Goodenough, 100, dies; Nobel recipient, creator of the lithium-ion battery

Peter Pouncey, novelist and former Amherst College president, dies at 85