fb-pixel Skip to main content
The Boston Globe
TRENDING:

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

Sources: Celtics trade Grant Williams to Mavericks in three-team deal for draft picks
In the sign-and-trade that also involved the Spurs, the Celtics received a trio of second-round picks. Williams, a 2019 first-round pick, averaged 8.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 1.7 assists last season.

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

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.

RED SOX 4, RANGERS 2

Brayan Bello shifted gears to his sinker and it lifted the Red Sox over the Rangers

Bello became the eighth Red Sox pitcher with five straight outings of at least 6⅓ innings pitched and no more than two runs allowed at age 24 or younger.
Peter Abraham: Not an easy job for Alex Cora to fill innings with current combination of Red Sox pitchers
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.

Rollins could face suspension of law license, disbarment at hands of state disciplinary board

The severity of punishment from the Board of Bar Overseers typically depends on precedents from earlier cases. But the board has not had a case before it in recent memory with a comparable set of circumstances, lawyers said.

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.
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.

After 20 years of service, Boston City Councilor Michael Flaherty won’t seek re-election
In a statement released Wednesday on Twitter, Flaherty, who made an unsuccessful bid for mayor in 2009, said he has no present plans to seek another public office.

Boston City Council President Flynn laments ‘negative attention to the institution’

It was the latest broadside in an ongoing conflict on the legislative body that has pitted some progressive councilors of color against some of their more conservative white colleagues.

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.

Air quality alert issued for Essex and Suffolk counties, DEP says

Russian missile attack on Lviv, Ukraine, kills 3 people and wounds more, mayor says

Who knew the Colosseum was so old? Tourist apologizes for defacement.

A man seen on video last month using his keys to etch his love for his girlfriend on a wall in the Colosseum in Rome has written a letter of apology, saying he had no idea the nearly 2,000-year-old monument was so ancient.

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

Ellen Cooper, an award-winning portrait artist with a portfolio that includes paintings of dozens of academic, medical, and judicial officials, lists “Charles Baker, Governor Massachusetts (in progress)” on the collections page of her website.

Grillo’s Pickles is suing its former partner over a family recipe. It’s kind of a big dill.

The Westwood-based pickle company is suing New Jersey-based Patriot Pickle, claiming the firm stole a 100-year-old family recipe.
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

Cambridge wasn’t the place to be for the Fourth of July show by the Boston Pops
Crowds in previous years have enjoyed the Boston Pops show on the Cambridge side of the river. But not this year.

Providence bank robbery: Employee is ‘person of interest,’ police say
Police are looking into several suspects in the brazen half-million-dollar heist.

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.

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.

‘Succession’s’ 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.

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.

Recommended reads

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.

‘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.

Police waded through knee-deep mud to rescue Stoughton woman

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.

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.

Culture & Lifestyle

Anyone can go “goblincore” with McKayla Coyle’s new self-help book

‘Succession’s’ 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

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

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

Cambridge wasn’t the place to be for the Fourth of July show by the Boston Pops

Crowds in previous years have enjoyed the Boston Pops show on the Cambridge side of the river. But not this year.

Rollins could face suspension of law license, disbarment at hands of state disciplinary board

The severity of punishment from the Board of Bar Overseers typically depends on precedents from earlier cases. But the board has not had a case before it in recent memory with a comparable set of circumstances, lawyers said.

After 20 years of service, Boston City Councilor Michael Flaherty won’t seek re-election

In a statement released Wednesday on Twitter, Flaherty, who made an unsuccessful bid for mayor in 2009, said he has no present plans to seek another public office.

Boston City Council President Flynn laments ‘negative attention to the institution’

It was the latest broadside in an ongoing conflict on the legislative body that has pitted some progressive councilors of color against some of their more conservative white colleagues.

Sports

ORIOLES 6, YANKEES 3

Youth movement pays off for Orioles in win over Yankees

Colton Cowser, in his first game in the majors, and Jordan Westburg, who was called up late last month, played key roles in Baltimore's winning rally.
PHILLIES 8, RAYS 4

‘Effectively wild’ Taijuan Walker good enough to win sixth straight start as Phillies top Rays again

Philadelphia stretched its road winning streak to 11 games while AL East-leading Tampa Bay lost a fourth straight contest.
RED SOX 4, RANGERS 2

Brayan Bello shifted gears to his sinker and it lifted the Red Sox over the Rangers

Bello became the eighth Red Sox pitcher with five straight outings of at least 6⅓ innings pitched and no more than two runs allowed at age 24 or younger.
PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Not an easy job for Alex Cora to fill innings with current combination of Red Sox pitchers
RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Was Red Sox right fielder Alex Verdugo an All-Star Game snub? He believes so.
MLB

Angels star center fielder Mike Trout undergoes surgery on fractured wrist; no timetable for return

Business

Biden is heading to South Carolina to show his economic agenda is keeping even red states humming

President Biden is heading to South Carolina to make the case that his economic agenda is helping keep even red states humming.

Moderna to make vaccines for China

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Grillo’s Pickles is suing its former partner over a family recipe. It’s kind of a big dill.

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

Drug overdose deaths in N.H. rose 11 percent in 2022, nearing decade high

Providence bank robbery: Employee is ‘person of interest,’ police say

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

sports

Sources: Celtics trade Grant Williams to Mavericks in three-team deal for draft picks

Kevin Shattenkirk sees an opportunity to fit in with the Bruins

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

business

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

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

Some Fed officials wanted to raise interest rates last month

politics

Biden is heading to South Carolina to show his economic agenda is keeping even red states humming

Pence says Trump and DeSantis do not understand broader importance of US military aid to Ukraine

de Blasio and wife say they are separating

Nation

Trump valet charged in classified documents case set again for arraignment after earlier delays

First of two Iowa teens scheduled to be sentenced in 2021 beating death of teacher

Threads, Instagram’s answer to Twitter, is here

World

Who knew the Colosseum was so old? Tourist apologizes for defacement.

Ukraine strikes Russian-occupied Makiivka

Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of planning to attack Europe’s biggest nuclear plant

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

Anyone can go “goblincore” with McKayla Coyle’s new self-help book

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

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

music

‘Succession’s’ 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