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How to avoid Sumner Tunnel closure
Correspondent Daniel Kool breaks down the impact of the Sumner Tunnel closure and what you can do to avoid heavy traffic.

How to navigate your trip now that the Sumner Tunnel is closed

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On West Roxbury’s Centre Street, a city plan to reduce traffic lanes divides the community

Some residents, worried that lane reduction will increase traffic and cause gridlock, have advocated for alternative measures to draw more attention to vulnerable pedestrians without changing the road’s configuration.
Editorial: Fear, loathing, and bike lanes in West Roxbury
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Hope for meaningful BPS change gives way to frustration after first year of state improvement plan

Many say BPS continues to limp along, aside from producing a growing collection of audits in transportation, student safety, special education, and other areas, as well as an avalanche of recommendations.
RI WEATHER

Video: Cars washed down street during flash flooding in Providence

Close to 3 inches of rain fell in some parts of the Providence metropolitan area, causing flash flooding along Atwells Avenue in the Federal Hill neighborhood, and elsewhere.
Forecast | Dave Epstein

Summer in New England is heating up — literally

Expect more warmth than we've seen so far this summer and a continuation of the humidity.

Globe Magazine
Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?
Likely the longest-serving prisoner in America, he’s been paroled into a Connecticut nursing home. But he’s still not out.

John Berylson, Wellesley businessman and owner of English soccer club, killed in Falmouth crash

Berylson was driving on Sippewissett Road in Falmouth Tuesday morning when he apparently lost control on a curving section of a two-lane road, according to Falmouth police.

Federal officials hatch a three-pronged defense against another ‘tripledemic’

Americans will be encouraged to roll up their sleeves not just for flu shots but for two other vaccines, one of them entirely new.

Never mind. Green Line Extension’s Union Square branch closure postponed.

The decision came less than a week after the MBTA announced that service would be suspended for 42 days, starting July 18, on the branch, which opened just over a year ago.

‘It’s a miracle they found her’: Stoughton woman said to be recovering after being trapped in swamp for days
A day after her daughter Emma Tetewsky was found alive after being trapped in a muddy swamp for several days, Barbara Zinaman wanted to give thanks to anyone she could.

‘We’re just fortunate that she’s back with her family’: Police waded through knee-deep mud to rescue Stoughton woman

YVONNE ABRAHAM
We don’t have to live like this
All over the country, the holiday weekend was marked by sickeningly familiar eruptions of gun violence.

R.I. man, 25, dies after being pulled under waterfall at Rocky Mountain National Park

The man fell at West Creek Falls, on the east side of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.

Peace, love, and petty infractions at annual Rainbow Family Gathering in N.H.

Driver reports hitting bear on Route 3 in Plymouth, State Police say

Man suffers life-threatening injuries from fireworks explosion on Cape Cod

Shark caught on video devouring seal in waters off Nantucket

See live traffic around the Boston area

State officials have warned that the 60-day closure of the Sumner Tunnel could bring major traffic delays for motorists trying to get around Boston. See the current traffic conditions.
How to get around during the Sumner Tunnel closure The Sumner Tunnel shutdown has begun. It will last through August.
THE FINE PRINT

Galvin proposes legislation to protect elderly and disabled people from financial scams

The secretary of state wants to legally mandate that bank tellers and other employees take certain steps when seniors or people with disabilities attempt to withdraw money under suspicious circumstances.
LOVE LETTERS

I want to live with my boyfriend. Just not in his house.

He owns his own home, but I’m not comfortable there. He isn’t willing to look for someplace we can both enjoy.
Opinion
MARCELA GARCÍA

These Venezuelans are committed to bringing democracy back to their homeland

The Venezuelan opposition is holding an independent presidential primary in October to oust Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government next year. Here’s why voting in the “unrecognized” primary does not have to be an exercise in futility.
Timothy Scalona

Supreme Court ruling on student debt leaves millions like me hanging
Michael C. Dorf

Whose Supreme Court is it anyway?
JOAN VENNOCHI

In Massachusetts, the left is fighting the left
IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

I saw how Yale produces radical conservatives

More recent News

innovation beat
Wellington ready to pounce on tech companies after the bubble burst
The Boston investing giant — which has bankrolled the likes of Airbnb, Uber, and Spotify — announced a $2.6 billion fund last month focused on late-stage companies.

BETH TEITELL | COMMENTARY
If you read only one story on bunions this year, this is the one!
Bunions strike about one in three adults, but even so, they’re the source of shame — the menopause of the foot world.

Tom Brady, Jayson Tatum, Ben Affleck, and Robert Kraft spotted at star-studded Hamptons July 4 party
Michael Rubin, the CEO of Fanatics, outdid himself for his annual holiday shindig.

Brian Cox and James Taylor shower each other with love at Tanglewood Fourth of July concert
Brian Cox, the Scottish actor who played mean-tempered patriarch Logan Roy on HBO’s “Succession,” made a cameo Tuesday night at Tanglewood to see the legendary singer James Taylor, who’s performed there 30 times since 1974.

In Amherst, teen journalists’ investigation of transphobia at the middle school forced a district shake-up
High schoolers published a report in the student newspaper that shook this college town, long considered an LGBTQ-friendly, liberal enclave.

Authorities seek help solving killing of 19-year-old woman found dead in Andover 50 years ago
Authorities are seeking the public’s help in solving the 1973 murder of 19-year-old Judith Cadorette, whose body was found 50 years ago on July 6 in a wooded area in Andover.

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Trump ignored New Hampshire’s political traditions. They were alive and well for others on a soggy Fourth.

At least five candidates appeared in Merrimack alone on Tuesday, shaking hands, throwing candy, and introducing themselves to voters largely unfamiliar with them.

Boston celebrates July 4th with dazzling display of fireworks
Boston’s annual Fourth of July celebration ended with the traditional fireworks display over the Charles River.

Can climate change bring malaria to New England? Here’s what you need to know.
Five recent cases in Florida and Texas mark the first US malaria spread in 20 years.

Cape Cod’s housing shortage has seasonal workers, and their employers, facing a squeeze
Foreign workers who come to fill summer jobs on Cape Cod are having a hard time finding a place to stay, putting pressure on businesses that are already contending with a labor squeeze.

Culture & Lifestyle

Singer Cidny Bullens traces a journey toward transitioning in his new memoir

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Full Circle’ is dynamic, though it refuses to follow a straight line

Go-Go Boots: A fitness expert shares his vacation survival tips (and why to say Si! to gelato)

Adele Lim’s directorial debut, ‘Joy Ride,’ makes Asian Americans the ‘heroes of the story’

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

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Umbrellas gone haywire
Owen Devlin

Driving the blue golf cart
Carol Steinberg

Finding freedom at the head of the class
IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

In search of the lost apples of New England
Christopher Reardon

Finally, airlines may accommodate travelers who stay in their wheelchairs
IDEAS

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

Metro

3 arrested on gun charges at scene of shooting that left five people wounded in Mattapan

Boston police were notified of the shooting on Edgewater Drive shortly after 2 a.m. Wednesday.
RI WEATHER

Video: Cars washed down street during flash flooding in Providence

Close to 3 inches of rain fell in some parts of the Providence metropolitan area, causing flash flooding along Atwells Avenue in the Federal Hill neighborhood, and elsewhere.
NH NEWS

Peace, love, and petty infractions at annual Rainbow Family Gathering in N.H.

Officers issued 121 violations at this year’s gathering in the White Mountain National Forest so far.

Wu wants to deliver police reform via union contracts. With potential arbitration on the horizon, will it happen?

The mayor's approach is not impossible, according to Stephen Rushin, a criminal law professor at Loyola University Chicago. If certain aspects of a contract prevent police accountability, he said, it makes sense for the mayor to push to change them.

Sports

Golf

Pebble Beach is giving the best female golfers a chance at US Open history

“I think the women deserve this, to be able to play these iconic golf courses and have their games challenged just like the men,” said Juli Inkster.
MLB NOTEBOOK

Jeremy Peña homers in return from stiff neck to help Astros maintain upward trend in AL West

The 2022 World Series MVP was right back in the swing of things after missing five games for Houston, which also benefited from a two-homer effort by Yainer Díaz.
Bruins notebook

Morgan Geekie believes he was underused with Kraken, hoping for more playing time with Bruins

Geekie's nine goals and 19 assists in 2023-23 were accomplished while averaging just 10:27 of ice time per game.
CELTICS

Will NBA Summer League produce a Celtics prospect or two? ‘That’s what you always hope to happen.’
Bruins

Bruins’ Jeremy Swayman and Trent Frederic file for salary arbitration
Patriots

Patriots linebacker Anfernee Jennings is finding a way to help his hometown heal

Business

Stalemate: UPS, Teamsters contract talks break down with each side blaming the other

Contract negotiations between UPS and the union representing 340,000 of the company’s workers broke down early Wednesday morning with each side blaming the other for walking away from talks

R.I. man died after fall at a Rocky Mountain waterfall

A 25-year-old Rhode Island man died after falling and being pulled underwater at a waterfall in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday.

Bank of America says it started talks with Fed after stress test results

Some Fed officials wanted to raise interest rates last month
magazine
Globe Magazine

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

LOVE LETTERS

I want to live with my boyfriend. Just not in his house.
Perspective

I attended the Market Basket Academy of summer jobs.

COOKING

Three cold udon, ramen, and sesame noodle dishes

metro

We don’t have to live like this

Charlie Baker’s official State House portrait is a work in progress

Hope for meaningful BPS change gives way to frustration after first year of state improvement plan

sports

Game 87: Rangers at Red Sox lineups and notes

Yankees pitcher Jimmy Cordero suspended for rest of season for violating domestic violence policy

Revolution sign midfielder Ian Harkes, son of former midfielder John Harkes

business

GM’s sales jumped 19 percent in the second quarter

Gordon Ramsay Burger opens near Faneuil Hall

Galvin proposes legislation to protect elderly and disabled people from financial scams

politics

de Blasio and wife say they are separating

Exonerated member of ‘Central Park Five’ Yusef Salaam wins primary, nearly assuring seat on N.Y.C. Council

What to expect during the ranked choice voting count in New York City Council races

Nation

US citizenship test changes are coming, raising concerns for those with low English skills

Federal officials hatch a three-pronged defense against another ‘tripledemic’

Conservatives go to red states and liberals go to blue as the country grows more polarized

World

Quran burnings have Sweden torn between free speech and respecting minorities

Israel withdraws troops from West Bank militant stronghold and warns 2-day raid is not a one-off

World swelters to unofficial hottest day on record

opinion

In search of the lost apples of New England

Driving the blue golf cart

Finally, airlines may accommodate travelers who stay in their wheelchairs

lifestyle

McKayla Coyle’s ‘goblincore’ book might be a response to an internet trend, but ... it’s very cozy

Crowds gather along Charles River for annual July 4 festivities

Go-Go Boots: A fitness expert shares his vacation survival tips (and why to say Si! to gelato)

food & dining

A surprise awaits you at Ciao Amici in Wakefield

Gordon Ramsay Burger opens near Faneuil Hall

Bubble fun doesn’t have to stop when you grow up

travel

Boston Red multi-million dollar Terminal E expansion

Air traffic nationwide has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, but Logan Airport is still falling short

The wait for US passports is creating travel purgatory and snarling summer plans

Arts

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this summer, art that lives and grows

John Guthrie’s ‘Evolution’ brings together the unexpected

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

Books

Boston Book Festival announces keynote speakers for 2023

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

Movies

Vroom with a view: The new ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Mission Impossible’ bring motorcycle love back to the big screen

Adele Lim’s directorial debut, ‘Joy Ride,’ makes Asian Americans the ‘heroes of the story’

In ‘Every Body,’ three intersex activists illuminate the ‘I’ in LGBTQIA+

Television

Timing feels right for the end of ‘Sex Education’

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Full Circle’ is dynamic, though it refuses to follow a straight line

Brian Cox and James Taylor shower each other with love at Tanglewood Fourth of July concert

music

Brian Cox and James Taylor shower each other with love at Tanglewood Fourth of July concert

Singer Cidny Bullens traces a journey toward transitioning in his new memoir

Crowds gather along Charles River for annual July 4 festivities

Theater/Dance

In ‘The Normal Heart,’ the AIDS crisis and a battle against an epidemic of indifference

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

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

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

Dr. Susan Love, groundbreaking breast cancer surgeon, activist, and author, dies at 75

Edward Fredkin, 88, MIT scientist who saw the universe as one big computer, dies

R. Robert Popeo, legendary powerhouse attorney, dies at 85