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Supreme Court bans affirmative action in college admissions

The ruling removes a tool many universities say is essential for keeping their campuses diverse
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Affirmative action ban: A look at the political fallout
Political reporter James Pindell joins Segun Oduolowu to discuss the political fallout of the SCOTUS affirmative action ban.

5 takeaways from the court's decision

The court, which has veered well to the right in recent years, voted along ideological lines against race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.
Key quotes from the Supreme Court decision In ruling, a glimmer of hope for ‘holistic admissions' Harvard students react: 'A step in the wrong direction'

See live updates on the Supreme Court’s decision
ANALYSIS

The political impact of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling may not be what you’d expect
OPINION | Ruth J. Simmons

Ending affirmative action doesn’t mean college admissions will be fairer

Historic New England organization plans major expansion

"We think this is going to be a global destination," says Vin Cipolla, the organization’s president and chief executive.

A videographer sent a drone up during a storm in Western Mass. He got video of a rare ‘scudnado’.

Video footage captured by drone above Northampton shows an up-close look at a phenomenon that's been dubbed by some as a "scudnado."

‘Who is the street serving?’: Bike lane battle brews on Boylston Street
The Wu administration’s push to get people out of cars is coming to one of the busiest street in Boston, and it's sparking pushback from some neighborhood landlords and businesses.

Your view: Do you think adding a bike lane is the solution?

Meet the five players drafted by the Bruins on Thursday
The Bruins did not have a first- or second-round pick this year, but they started in the third round with Quinnipiac commit Christopher Pelosi at No. 92 overall.

With the draft complete, general manager Don Sweeney and the cash-strapped Bruins look ahead to free agency

These are the best and worst times to hit the road in Boston this July 4th weekend, according to AAA

AAA is projecting that the Independence Day travel period — from Friday, June 30, to Tuesday, July 4 — will set a new record for the number of Americans traveling by car for the holiday. Here's how to avoid the worst of it.
5 essential En Vogue tracks to get you psyched for the Pops on July 4 Your full guide to Mass. July Fourth celebrations, from fireworks to food and more

Everything to know about the Newton slayings and what comes next in the case

Many questions remain about the slayings of three family members in Newton last weekend, a seemingly random crime that has left residents shaken and investigators searching for answers about the possible motive.
Suspect in Newton slayings expected to be sent to Bridgewater for competency evaluation

Rangers lock and board up Provincetown dune shack, evicting its occupants
The move came hours after Massachusetts legislators met with officials from the Department of the Interior to appeal for more accommodations for existing shack dwellers. But the rangers said they had received orders from Washington to go through with the eviction.

That new Green Line branch to Union Square? The T is closing it for 42 days this summer.

Green Line service between Lechmere and Union Square stations, which began less than a year and a half ago, will be suspended for more than a month starting in July.

At UMass, a scholarship pledge doesn’t pan out and an athlete feels betrayed

The experience of field hockey player Emma Peck serves as a red-flag reminder that a coach’s verbal offer is not ironclad.

Air quality advisory in effect for central and western Massachusetts as wildfires rage in Canada
Wildfire smoke from Canada entered the western and central areas of Massachusetts on Thursday and will influence particle pollution levels at least through Friday, state officials said. No air quality alerts have been issued for eastern Massachusetts.

Haze, poor air quality return to East Coast Map: How bad is the air quality right now?

Providence police investigating ‘sophisticated’ heist of Federal Hill bank

642 confirmed cases and 10 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

MATTHEW GILBERT

These TV shows will get you through the dregs of right now

Oddly enough, there’s not a whole lot of fresh TV coming in July. So here are some worthwhile shows you might have missed to fill up your viewing time.
LOVE LETTERS

Should I reveal this on a first date?

Not sharing my past feels like lying.

Pawtucket man who encountered bear says it never got his steak. Or his tortoise.

“I don’t want people thinking they can’t cook outside,” Justin Shaw said. “It was more scared of us than we of it.”
Opinion
EDITORIAL

The Supreme Court gutted affirmative action. But colleges must still seek racial diversity.

Despite Supreme Court ruling, colleges must do what they can to ensure campuses continue to have racial diversity.
Jacques Steinberg

Affirmative action is gone. Can personal essays help diversify universities?
SCOT LEHIGH

Bidenomics: Let’s look at the numbers
IDEAS | KARA MILLER

All those empty office buildings could spell trouble for you and me
RENÉE GRAHAM

Get well soon, Madonna. Please.
Pride Month

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

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

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

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

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THE FINE PRINT

Vantage files for bankruptcy, Singapore travel company to purchase its assets

Last week, the company laid off an unspecified number of employees, weeks after the company said it was negotiating a sale.

Supreme Court solidifies protections for workers who ask for religious accommodations

In a unanimous decision, the justices made clear that workers who ask for accommodations, such as taking the Sabbath off, should get them unless their employers show doing so would result in “substantial increased costs” to the business.

Report: Patriots, Ja’Whaun Bentley agree to two-year, $18.75 million extension
The linebacker's deal comes with $9 million guaranteed.

Eversource to drop electric rates for customers starting July 1

The reprieve for utility customers comes after energy prices hit historic levels in the region last summer amid high global demand and turbulence in energy markets caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Granite Telecom bets big on the future of office life with plans for new HQ in Quincy
Granite is calling workers back to the office an extra day each week and plans to renovate and move into roomier space owned by firm’s owner, Rob Hale.

Why is Amazon super-chilling quantum particles in Brighton?
One of the coldest spots in the universe pops into existence periodically in a one-story office building near Harvard Stadium.

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.

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A post-pandemic LGBTQ+ ‘renaissance’ in Worcester, driven by young people

Some say the city is seeing a groundswell of inclusive nightlife and arts programming, as young people help transform New England's second-largest city into what they hope will be a major destination for LGBTQ+ people.

In N.H., DeSantis needs a beachhead. Trump wants a tidal wave.
The former president tried to drown out the Florida governor during his own appearance in the state at the same time.

Town-by-town: The state of same-sex households in Mass.
According to data released last month by the US Census Bureau, 1.2 percent of the state’s 2.7 million households were same-sex couple households. That’s higher than the national average.

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.

Culture & Lifestyle

Historic New England organization plans major expansion

Your full guide to Mass. July Fourth celebrations, from fireworks to food and more

Rufus Wainwright embraces the folk he absorbed from his folks

‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ raids the lost ark of nostalgia

Special Projects

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

Five lives were lost; many more, changed.

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

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

How the missing become the uncounted

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

Two Weeks in America

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

RENÉE GRAHAM

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

EDITORIAL

Titan submersible implosion: another safety lesson learned through tragedy
EDITORIAL

The sharks threatening Cape Cod don’t have fins
Sarah Sherman-Stokes and Rachel Silver

Titan rescue efforts raise questions about whether migrants’ lives are also worth saving
IDEAS | CARLOS VILLAMIZAR

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IDEAS

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

Metro

Defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick, ‘likely not competent’ to stand trial on sexual assault charges, DA expert says

Defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick is the highest ranking Roman Catholic official in the United States to face criminal charges in the clergy sexual abuse scandal.

Air quality advisory in effect for central and western Massachusetts as wildfires rage in Canada

Wildfire smoke from Canada entered the western and central areas of Massachusetts on Thursday and will influence particle pollution levels at least through Friday, state officials said. No air quality alerts have been issued for eastern Massachusetts.

That new Green Line branch to Union Square? The T is closing it for 42 days this summer.

Green Line service between Lechmere and Union Square stations, which began less than a year and a half ago, will be suspended for more than a month starting in July.
Live Updates

Supreme Court affirmative action ruling is ‘a step backward for our nation,’ Kamala Harris says

The US Supreme Court has banned the consideration of race in college admissions, after 45 years of precedents on a tool many universities say is essential for keeping their campuses diverse.

Sports

Kevin Paul Dupont I On hockey

With the NHL Draft complete, general manager Don Sweeney and the cash-strapped Bruins look ahead to what can be done in free agency

Sweeney continuing to sound doubtful about signing extensions with any of his pricier free agents prior to Saturday’s start of the annual league-wide shopping spree.

Report: Patriots, Ja’Whaun Bentley agree to two-year, $18.75 million extension

The linebacker's deal comes with $9 million guaranteed.
MLB

Far from perfect off the field, Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán defined it on the mound with a perfect game against the Athletics

The Yankees righthander pitched the 24th perfect game in major league history, retiring every Oakland batter in an 11-0 victory over the host Athletics on Wednesday night.
red sox notebook

Rehabbing Red Sox lefty Chris Sale gets the go-ahead to resume throwing
nhl draft

Meet the five players drafted by the Bruins on Thursday
minor details

At Portland, Red Sox have a small wonder in scrappy infielder Chase Meidroth

Business

TALKING POINTS

Riverside Center is sold again

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.
NH BUSINESS

Southern New Hampshire University sues ex-trustee in $10m rent dispute

The landlord claimed SNHU’s lease for 93,000 square feet of office space in downtown Manchester, N.H., had auto-renewed for five years, even though the university moved out.
THE FINE PRINT

Vantage files for bankruptcy, Singapore travel company to purchase its assets

Rangers lock and board up Provincetown dune shack, evicting its occupants
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Your Summer Beach Bag

My essential Boston summer playlist from the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s
Globe Magazine

Seven of the best playgrounds around Boston, kid tested and expert approved

metro

Harvard students react to Supreme Court affirmative action ruling: ‘A step in the wrong direction’

Pawtucket man who encountered bear says it never got his steak. Or his tortoise.

Southern New Hampshire University sues ex-trustee in $10m rent dispute

sports

Game 82: Marlins at Red Sox lineups and notes

Here’s why bringing back Milan Lucic would be good for the Bruins

NFL suspends four players for violating gambling policy, including a former Patriot

business

Saying strike is ‘imminent,’ UPS gets a Friday deadline from union to come up with a better contract

Anti-LGBTQ backlash puts a chill on corporate America’s rhetoric

Eversource to drop electric rates for customers starting July 1

politics

Supreme Court affirmative action ruling is ‘a step backward for our nation,’ Kamala Harris says

The political impact of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling may not be what you’d expect

Political leaders, educators, legal analysts react to Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision

Nation

Jury acquits deputy who failed to confront Parkland gunman

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

A mom offered lemonade stand jobs. Alabama’s labor department stepped in.

World

France sends tens of thousands of police to head off unrest after deadly police shooting of teenager

France braces for another night of violence after the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old

South Koreans grow younger overnight as new law goes into effect that changes how country counts people’s ages

opinion

Unrest at Boston Latin Academy, business as usual at BPS

Even drag queens have to be able to pay the rent

Supreme Court decisions — even the wins feel incomplete

lifestyle

Rangers lock and board up Provincetown dune shack, evicting its occupants

Should I reveal this on a first date?

Your full guide to Mass. July Fourth celebrations, from fireworks to food and more

food & dining

At Prima, steaks and spirit in a storied space

Soi 8 and Sushi Ike open in Lynnfield; Pinky’s debuts in the Back Bay

Eat Your Books helps you find the recipes you already have

travel

It’s hard not to be happy in Pharrell Williams’s hometown, Virginia Beach

What the doctor orders: Use your vacation time, don’t under pack, and get good sleep

City tours at a discount, a Mill City folk fest, and the faces of Bowdoin

Arts

More than a century of watercolors at Harvard Art Museums demonstrate the form’s unruly pleasures

At PEM, exploring the ‘Black Atlantic’

In Portland, celebrating a neighbor’s 50th anniversary

Books

Anya von Bremzen, in ‘National Dish,’ explores how certain foods came to embody the cultures that created them

‘How We Do It,’ a collection of essays on the craft of writing, speaks directly to Black writers

Heidi Julavits on summer rental house books and reading in the sauna

Movies

Tales from the drive-in on its 90th anniversary

‘Lynch/Oz’: The man behind the camera’s fascination with the man behind the curtain

‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’: High school angst for sea monsters

Television

These TV shows will get you through the dregs of right now

Did allegations, investigation prompt end of ‘The Other Two’?

Roped in by cast of Netflix western ‘The Abandons’

music

Press Play: A range of ragtime

5 essential En Vogue tracks to get you psyched for the Pops on July 4

Rufus Wainwright embraces the folk he absorbed from his folks

Theater/Dance

Mark Morris Dance Group opens Jacob’s Pillow with buoyant ‘The Look of Love’

In ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ the arc of a doomed empire

Sure you’re a big star. But have you been on Broadway?

globe local

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

Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 95

Lowell Weicker, maverick senator, governor from Connecticut, dies

Bobby Osborne, mandolinist who flouted bluegrass convention, dies at 91