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Trump charged in efforts to overturn election

Former president faces four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the US and witness tampering

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Six unnamed coconspirators listed in indictment

Read the indictment of Donald Trump in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 case

The former president has been indicted on four counts in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Revolution place Bruce Arena on administrative leave amid allegations of ‘insensitive and inappropriate remarks’

Longtime assistant Richie Williams will coach the team while MLS conducts an investigation into the charges.

Hiring strong, but exodus of T employees thwarts beleaguered agency’s efforts
Phil Eng, who began leading the MBTA in April, said in an interview on WBUR the T is “hiring at a rate we’ve never hired before,” but is seeing far too many employees exit the troubled agency.

Boston man accused in hit-and-run crash that killed 4-year-old held on $15,000 bail
Olguens Joseph was arraigned Tuesday in West Roxbury Municipal Court, where he pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail.

Former head of Boston’s New Mission High School charged with misusing nearly $40,000 in school funds, US attorney says

Naia Wilson was charged with misusing nearly $40,000 in school funds to pay for personal expenditures, including two vacations to Barbados for herself and her friends, authorities said.

Federal authorities designate seven counties in Mass. as ‘natural disaster’ areas in wake of July floods

Heavy rains and flooding walloped the region between July 9 and July 16, prompting a disaster declaration.

Election authorities rule in Boston Councilor Kendra Lara’s favor in residency case

A view of Massachusetts General Hospital

These Boston hospitals were ranked best in the nation by US News & World Report

A newly made over Boston City Hall Plaza, including a large metal slide, was unveiled in November.

Video shows a Boston Police officer being launched from long slide at City Hall Plaza. He was ‘hurt’ but is fine.

Local drag show pays homage to Beyoncé's 'Renaissance,' Black queer culture

Beyoncé's “Renaissance” album pays homage to the cultural contributions of Black LGBTQ+ artists. A local drag show performed the album in its entirety. ( Randy Vazquez/Globe Staff, Olivia Yarvis/Globe Staff )

Boston drag show pays homage to Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance,’ Black queer culture

Some in Boston received a unique preview of Beyoncé's concert on Sunday morning — complete with backup dancers and near replicas of Beyoncé's costumes.

Meet the Beyoncé superfans who’ll be cheering their queen at Gillette Stadium Heading to Gillette Stadium to see Beyoncé? Here’s what you need to know.

trade deadline live updates

The trade deadline has come and gone, and the Red Sox made a minor addition. Here’s how it all unfolded.
Teams have until 6 p.m. today to wheel and deal.

Family of Henrietta Lacks and Waltham-based Thermo Fisher settle lawsuit over use of HeLa cells
It accused the company of profiting from her cloned cells, which have been widely used in research for more than 70 years. Terms of the agreement are not being made public.

(From left to right) Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, president, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and executive vice president, Mass General Brigham; Samata Sharma, MD, medical director, Eliza Dushku Palandjian and Peter Palandjian Bridge Clinic; Joji Suzuki, MD, director, division of addiction psychiatry and program director, addiction medicine fellowship program; Eliza Dushku Palandjian; Peter Palandjian.

Eliza Dushku Palandjian and Peter Palandjian donate $7.5 million to Brigham and Women’s Hospital

The donation will support treatments for substance use disorders and establish a new leadership role at the hospital, Brigham and Women’s announced Tuesday.

Breakthrough Properties plans a 335,000-square-foot lab and a 1.5-acre public park at 232 A St. in Boston, a narrow strip of parking lots next to the Gillette World Shaving Headquarters.

Yet more Fort Point parking lots could soon be lab space

A development firm has filed plans to build on former Gillette land on the edge of South Boston.

What are your odds of winning the $1.1b Mega Millions jackpot? Mega-small.

The odds of winning are the equivalent of someone picking one of the seconds that has ticked past over the past 9.5 years and asking you to guess which one, or flipping a coin and getting 28 heads in a row.

NAACP Convention in Boston

Leah Baptista Pires, 15, of Dorchester, who won silver in ballet for the NAACP's ACT-SO competition, poses for a portrait in the Public Garden.

Boston-area youth win prizes in annual NAACP competition

At the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Dr. Hazel N. Dukes, a civil rights activist and longtime NAACP officer, was slated to receive the Spingarn Medal at this year's NAACP convention.

Hillary Clinton to present civil rights activist Hazel Dukes with NAACP’s highest honor

Congressman James Clyburn spoke during the NAACP convention on Saturday.

After 10 hours of discussion, NAACP approves slate of policy priorities

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft spoke with rapper Meek Mill during a Boston Celtics game in 2018.

Robert Kraft, Meek Mill tell NAACP convention that Jewish, Black communities must combat hate together

The waxing Sturgeon supermoon above Washington late Monday night.

Here’s what to know about the supermoon that will be visible on Tuesday night

A supermoon occurs when the distance between the moon and the Earth is at a minimum during the 29-day cycle from new moon to new moon.

Margery Wilson photographed in her wheelchair atop her fourth-floor Cambridge condo. There is no elevator in her building and she is fairly new to the ranks of the disabled.

‘If only I was an armchair!’ Loss of nonemergency services for disabled people leaves many trapped in their homes.

Ambulance companies that once carried people up and down stairs to medical appointments largely discontinued the practice during COVID restrictions.

From left, Michelangelo ("Mikey"), voiced by Shamon Brown Jr.; Donatello ("Donnie"), voiced by Micah Abbey; background left, Leonardo ("Leo"), voiced by Nicolas Cantu; and Raphael ("Raph"), voiced by Brady Noon.

Odie Henderson review | ★★

‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’: Secret of the snooze

"Mutant Mayhem" is yet another tired retread of the titular turtles’ origin story.

Opinion

Don't give Senator Tim Scott, above, or other Black Republicans too much credit for challenging Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida this one time. It’s largely self-serving.

RENÉE GRAHAM

The agony and hypocrisy of Black Republicans

Going after Ron DeSantis for sanitizing slavery’s horrors is fine, but don’t expect the same effort against Donald Trump and white supremacy.

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Flipping our lids over toilet etiquette

PETER HOWELL

Gray seals no longer need federal protection

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There was a 17th-century version of FOMO

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Massachusetts can’t handle the influx of migrants on its own

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While the new Texas law limiting diversity hiring is supposed to exempt academics and admissions, many are concerned it could be broadly applied — chilling free speech in the classroom.

COVID hospitalizations in Mass. see first upticks since January

Waste water levels are at their highest levels since March but remain low compared to last year.

Middlebury College offers $10k pay-to-delay proposal as enrollment surges

Vermont’s Middlebury College, struggling with an enrollment boom, is offering $10,000 to upperclassmen to delay their education to ease overcrowding.

Group of Boston teens accused of assaulting police attempting to remove them from South Bay shopping center

Police patrolling the Dorchester plaza arrested the teens about 7 p.m. after receiving several 911 calls reporting their behavior and recognizing the boys as “the same group of juveniles they had removed earlier in the day,” according to police.

Bed Bath & Beyond is back, this time as an online retailer

Overstock has officially relaunched the Bed Bath & Beyond domain online Tuesday in the US, after acquiring the bankrupt retail chain’s intellectual property assets for $21.5 million last month.

Judge rejects gag order in Karen Read case

The judge said that statements made by Karen Read’s attorneys may be “inflammatory” but are unlikely to sway proceedings.

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway

From the Brickyard to the Snake Pit

Lambeau Field

The windchill is 7 degrees. Who cares?

Churchill Downs

A weeklong party for a two-minute race

Cameron Indoor Stadium

The Crazies are one of a kind

Michigan Stadium

The fun starts early at The Big House

Fenway Park

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How 31 days of historic heat affected Phoenix: heat-related deaths, collapsed cacti, asphalt burns

The broiling temperatures, part of a dangerous heat wave that suffocated the Southwest throughout July, finally dipped slightly Monday as the high in Arizona's capital city reached only 108 degrees.

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Bankrupt Vantage Travel used expensive ships. Why aren’t they listed as assets in court?
One might think that those vessels would be a target of former customers owed a staggering $108 million for trips never taken.

What’s being fixed in the Sumner Tunnel? These are the key upgrades.
The Globe spoke to officials at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to learn about the biggest changes to the nearly 90-year-old Sumner Tunnel.

Nothing can rain on the tomato parade
Many local farms are experiencing a pleasant harvest despite the lousy weather, which is great news because tomatoes are a substantial economic force for the farmers.

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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’: Secret of the snooze

Pink gets the party started at Fenway Park Monday night with some aerial acrobatics.

A soaring set from Pink at Fenway Park

Kayla Shimizu as Ariel (center left) and Davron S. Monroe as Sebastian (center right) with the ensemble of "Disney's The Little Mermaid" at Reagle Music Theatre in Waltham.

A restless daughter makes waves in Reagle’s ‘Little Mermaid’

Oona Doherty / OD Works in "Navy Blue" at the 2023 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

Oona Doherty brings US premiere of a searching, existential ‘Navy Blue’ to Jacob’s Pillow

Special Projects

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

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.

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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Vice President Kamala Harris greeted the audience at the NAACP convention in Boston on July 29.

JOAN VENNOCHI

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Governor Maura Healey spoke to people as Registry of Motor Vehicles customers waited for appointments at the Haymarket branch of the RMV on July 10.

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One-party rule on Beacon Hill has led to dysfunction

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Metro

Boston-area youth win prizes in annual NAACP competition

Four students representing the NAACP’s Boston branch won national medals at this year’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics, or ACT-SO, an annual event for Black high school students that the NAACP has run since 1978.

Trump indictment

Follow live updates after Donald Trump was indicted in 2020 election case

Donald Trump was charged Tuesday in a Justice Department investigation into his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Follow along with live updates.

RI BUSINESS

CVS to cut 5,000 jobs nationwide

Those to be most affected by the job cuts primarily work in corporate positions, according to executives. The state’s third largest employer, the Woonsocket-based retail pharmacy giant has 8,600 employees in Rhode Island.

RI POLITICS

R.I. secretary of state calls for automatic state elections board review if fraud suspected

Secretary of State Gregg Amore said he will advocate for legislation in 2024 that requires a state Board of Elections review if cities and towns suspect forgery on nomination papers.

Sports

The Red Sox added infielder Luis Urias — who most recently played in Triple-A — ahead of Tuesday's MLB trade deadline.

trade deadline live updates

The trade deadline has come and gone, and the Red Sox made a minor addition. Here’s how it all unfolded.

Teams have until 6 p.m. today to wheel and deal.

The NFL on Tuesday revised its personal conduct policy to include a harsher penalty for sexual assault offenses. In such instances, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell (above) would not be precluded from imposing a six-game suspension without pay or, in harsher circumstances, an indefinite suspension.

NFL notebook

NFL expands personal conduct policy to include harsher penalty for sexual assault offenses

The league's Disciplinary Officer or Commissioner not precluded from imposing a suspension without pay of six games or more, including an indefinite suspension, for other types of prohibited conduct.

Celtics

Celtics waive forward Justin Champagnie

The 22-year-old wing averaged 14 points, 7.3 rebounds, and 5 assists for the Celtics’ Las Vegas summer league squad last month.

Patriots notebook

Linebacker Jahlani Tavai aiming to bring the hammer in a potential added role as a fullback

Women's World Cup Notebook

Carli Lloyd, fellow Fox analysts rip US women after draw with Portugal

patriots

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CVS to cut 5,000 jobs nationwide

Yet more Fort Point parking lots could soon be lab space

A development firm has filed plans to build on former Gillette land on the edge of South Boston.

Eliza Dushku Palandjian and Peter Palandjian donate $7.5 million to Brigham and Women’s Hospital

innovation beat

Robot maker Symbotic’s stock is blasting off. It’s now one of the state’s biggest companies.

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Coolidge Corner kicks off its August series "Hip Hop at 50" with a showing of "Wild Style."

Your Week Ahead

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The writer, right, and her twin sister, Jan, in 1959.

CONNECTIONS

Since my sister’s death, I wonder if I should introduce myself as a ‘twinless twin’

In this Woburn condo, the designer loaded on the layers, starting with a purple chair and leopard print sofa, followed by an optic print wallpaper.

Style Watch

How a Woburn condo got a dreamhouse makeover with Barbie vibes

Globe Magazine

Trump charged in efforts to overturn election

Read the indictment of Donald Trump in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 case

Revolution place Bruce Arena on administrative leave amid allegations of ‘insensitive and inappropriate remarks’

Hiring strong, but exodus of T employees thwarts beleaguered agency’s efforts Phil Eng, who began leading the MBTA in April, said in an interview on WBUR the T is “hiring at a rate we’ve never hired before,” but is seeing far too many employees exit the troubled agency.

Boston man accused in hit-and-run crash that killed 4-year-old held on $15,000 bail Olguens Joseph was arraigned Tuesday in West Roxbury Municipal Court, where he pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail.

Former head of Boston’s New Mission High School charged with misusing nearly $40,000 in school funds, US attorney says

Federal authorities designate seven counties in Mass. as ‘natural disaster’ areas in wake of July floods

Election authorities rule in Boston Councilor Kendra Lara’s favor in residency case

These Boston hospitals were ranked best in the nation by US News & World Report

Video shows a Boston Police officer being launched from long slide at City Hall Plaza. He was ‘hurt’ but is fine.

Boston drag show pays homage to Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance,’ Black queer culture

trade deadline live updates The trade deadline has come and gone, and the Red Sox made a minor addition. Here’s how it all unfolded. Teams have until 6 p.m. today to wheel and deal.

Family of Henrietta Lacks and Waltham-based Thermo Fisher settle lawsuit over use of HeLa cells It accused the company of profiting from her cloned cells, which have been widely used in research for more than 70 years. Terms of the agreement are not being made public.

Eliza Dushku Palandjian and Peter Palandjian donate $7.5 million to Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Yet more Fort Point parking lots could soon be lab space

What are your odds of winning the $1.1b Mega Millions jackpot? Mega-small.

Boston-area youth win prizes in annual NAACP competition

Hillary Clinton to present civil rights activist Hazel Dukes with NAACP’s highest honor

After 10 hours of discussion, NAACP approves slate of policy priorities

Robert Kraft, Meek Mill tell NAACP convention that Jewish, Black communities must combat hate together

Here’s what to know about the supermoon that will be visible on Tuesday night

‘If only I was an armchair!’ Loss of nonemergency services for disabled people leaves many trapped in their homes.

‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’: Secret of the snooze

The agony and hypocrisy of Black Republicans

May I have a word: Flipping our lids over toilet etiquette

Gray seals no longer need federal protection

There was a 17th-century version of FOMO

Massachusetts can’t handle the influx of migrants on its own

More recent News

Does Texas A&M’s botched hire spell doom for classroom diversity? Some say yes

COVID hospitalizations in Mass. see first upticks since January

Middlebury College offers $10k pay-to-delay proposal as enrollment surges

Group of Boston teens accused of assaulting police attempting to remove them from South Bay shopping center

Bed Bath & Beyond is back, this time as an online retailer

Judge rejects gag order in Karen Read case

Augusta National

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Lambeau Field

Churchill Downs

Cameron Indoor Stadium

Michigan Stadium

Fenway Park

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Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

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Boston-area youth win prizes in annual NAACP competition

Follow live updates after Donald Trump was indicted in 2020 election case

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The trade deadline has come and gone, and the Red Sox made a minor addition. Here’s how it all unfolded.

NFL expands personal conduct policy to include harsher penalty for sexual assault offenses

Celtics waive forward Justin Champagnie

Linebacker Jahlani Tavai aiming to bring the hammer in a potential added role as a fullback

Carli Lloyd, fellow Fox analysts rip US women after draw with Portugal

Thoughts on cornerback Jack Jones and seven other Patriots after a week of training camp

Business

CVS to cut 5,000 jobs nationwide

Yet more Fort Point parking lots could soon be lab space

Hiring strong, but exodus of T employees thwarts beleaguered agency’s efforts
Phil Eng, who began leading the MBTA in April, said in an interview on WBUR the T is “hiring at a rate we’ve never hired before,” but is seeing far too many employees exit the troubled agency.

Boston man accused in hit-and-run crash that killed 4-year-old held on $15,000 bail
Olguens Joseph was arraigned Tuesday in West Roxbury Municipal Court, where he pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail.

trade deadline live updates

The trade deadline has come and gone, and the Red Sox made a minor addition. Here’s how it all unfolded.
Teams have until 6 p.m. today to wheel and deal.

Family of Henrietta Lacks and Waltham-based Thermo Fisher settle lawsuit over use of HeLa cells
It accused the company of profiting from her cloned cells, which have been widely used in research for more than 70 years. Terms of the agreement are not being made public.

THE FINE PRINT

Bankrupt Vantage Travel used expensive ships. Why aren’t they listed as assets in court?
One might think that those vessels would be a target of former customers owed a staggering $108 million for trips never taken.

What’s being fixed in the Sumner Tunnel? These are the key upgrades.
The Globe spoke to officials at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to learn about the biggest changes to the nearly 90-year-old Sumner Tunnel.

Nothing can rain on the tomato parade
Many local farms are experiencing a pleasant harvest despite the lousy weather, which is great news because tomatoes are a substantial economic force for the farmers.