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Students must use names, pronouns assigned at birth under new Worcester Catholic schools policy

Students will be required to dress, “conduct themselves,” and use pronouns and bathrooms consistent with their sex assigned at birth, regardless of their gender identity.

New abortion data for Massachusetts show the impact of recent court rulings

More people from out of state are coming to Massachusetts to end their pregnancies.

Move Mass. and Cass crisis to Widett Circle? South End coalition says yes.
Once floated as the base of Boston’s ill-fated Olympics bid, the circle is effectively an island within the city.

Leak of City Council letter alleging harassment, bullying linked to street where Council President Ed Flynn lives

“I didn’t send any thing to any reporter,” Council President Ed Flynn told the Globe.

State may deny grants to communities that don’t comply with new MBTA housing law

The grants combined provide tens of millions of dollars to communities for an array of local planning and development programs.

Going deep: Dive teams across Massachusetts face a busy season of water rescues
Their work is not glamorous, they say: lakes and ponds are murky and can be full of illegally dumped junk like grocery carts, bicycles, and even cars.

Springfield girl, 10, shot during neighbor’s shooting rampage, dies

Trump cancels news conference to promote election fraud theories

RFK Jr. hiring Republicans in N.H. for his Democratic presidential campaign

Patriots and Packers get into numerous scraps, and other takeways from Day 2 of joint practice

Amid all the clashing, however, the Patriots clearly won the day on both fields. The offense looked sharp (minus a few sacks), while the defense reigned dominant.

Jarren Duran acknowledges mental health struggles on social media amid breakout season with Red Sox

In recent social media posts, the 26-year-old reposted content that suggested he was again struggling with his mental health.
Peter Abraham: After lost opportunity, it’s off to New York where Red Sox hope to revive their wild card hopes

A back-to-school tech tuneup: Here’s what to know about your devices and software

It’s time to prep your gadgets and programs for the year ahead.
Opinion
IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Even liberals like Maura Healey are souring on Biden’s immigration bungling

More Democrats are venting about White House policies that have allowed thousands of migrants into the country without providing them the authority to work here.
EDITORIAL

An old Coast Guard scandal emerges and casts a harsh light on the service’s sexual assault policies
IDEAS | Hollie Russon Gilman and Amy Eisenstein

It’s like jury duty, but for getting things done
IDEAS | Andrew Ryan and David Meyers

How Medicare can save $500 billion
ABDALLAH FAYYAD

Judge Boston Councilor Kendra Lara on her policies, not her alleged driving missteps

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CONNECTIONS
Why I always look down when I walk on the beach
Dazzled by blues, greens and reds at my feet, I keep going back for more.

Chad Finn
Save the date: Celtics fans will mark February 4 on their calendar as Marcus Smart’s return engagement at TD Garden
Smart's return to Boston just past the midway point of the 82-game regular season will allow Celtics fans roughly six months to get emotionally prepared.

Here’s the latest research from the top of Mount Washington
Data from 2016 to 2022 found a greater range in temperature at lower stations, while the summit temperature varied less widely.

QUICK BITE
It’s Italian food all day and night at Gufo in Cambridge
The restaurant-cafe offers pizza, pasta, and more — plus bocce.

Maui’s emergency services chief resigns after facing criticism for not activating sirens during fire
The head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency has resigned after facing criticism for not activating disaster sirens during last week’s deadly wildfires that killed at least 111 people.

Leonard Bernstein’s children respond to criticism of Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in ‘Maestro’

In a trailer for “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper wears a large prosthetic nose to portray legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, who was Jewish. Some viewers have taken issue with Cooper’s makeup, saying it plays on antisemitic stereotypes.

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With COVID on the rise again, here’s a guide to staying safe in 2023

The new COVID shots won’t be available until the fall. Here’s what to do in the meantime.

Globe Magazine
At 15, he’s the youngest soccer player ever signed by the Revolution. Next up, homework.
He’s just like any high schooler. Except when you’re a soccer phenom inside the Revolution’s elite soccer academy, everything is different.

Pay of some Mass. hospital executives jumped in second year of pandemic
The CEO of Mass General Brigham topped the scale, earning $5.38 million in 2021.

On Nantucket, billionaires reach agreement in clam shack dispute. But for the owners, the fight to open isn’t over.
Charles Johnson, the principal owner of the San Francisco Giants who owns a fishing cottage next to the proposed restaurant, reached a tentative agreement with fellow billionaire Steve Karp, who owns the property.

Culture & Lifestyle

Boston Ballet announces Ming Min Hui as new executive director

In New Bedford, the ‘sexy seagull’ is ruffling feathers once again

Jonas Brothers, in it for the long haul at TD Garden

GLD FSTVL threw hip-hop a 50th birthday celebration on Boston’s new ‘front yard’

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 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

Suddenly, Mike Pence is acting ‘brand new’
JEFF JACOBY

It’s time to end US military aid to Israel — for both countries’ sakes
EDITORIAL

Healey’s big chance to reshape Parole Board to her values
IDEAS | BOB REGAN

Notes from the burn scar
EDITORIAL

The organ transplant system needs fixing
IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

New abortion data for Massachusetts show the impact of recent court rulings

More people from out of state are coming to Massachusetts to end their pregnancies.

Move Mass. and Cass crisis to Widett Circle? South End coalition says yes.

Once floated as the base of Boston’s ill-fated Olympics bid, the circle is effectively an island within the city.
1st Congressional District Debate

Watch: 1st Congressional District Democratic debate at RWU

Missed Thursday’s debate with the 10 Democratic candidates vying for Rhode Island’s First Congressional District seat? You can catch up with coverage — and watch a recording of the livestream from Roger Williams University — right here.

Students must use names, pronouns assigned at birth under new Worcester Catholic schools policy

Students will be required to dress, “conduct themselves,” and use pronouns and bathrooms consistent with their sex assigned at birth, regardless of their gender identity.

Sports

In Banana Ball, professional baseball players find new life

The Bananas’ identities are split between two worlds. They’re in the business of entertaining, but if they don’t produce high-level baseball, the business model doesn’t work.
Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought

Sports fans blindsided by yet another feel-good story, the Michael Oher saga, being taken away

Oher, the central figure of the inspiring 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” believes he’s owed an eight-figure slice from the movie’s $300 million in sales.
Chad Finn

Save the date: Celtics fans will mark February 4 on their calendar as Marcus Smart’s return engagement at TD Garden

Smart's return to Boston just past the midway point of the 82-game regular season will allow Celtics fans roughly six months to get emotionally prepared.
Golf

Rory McIlroy only hit three fairways, but he’s tied for the lead at the rain-soaked BMW
Red Sox Notebook

Jarren Duran acknowledges mental health struggles on social media amid breakout season with Red Sox

Longtime Chicago Blackhawks leader Jonathan Toews stepping away for health reasons, but not retiring

Business

Trump cancels news conference to promote election fraud theories

Former president Donald Trump canceled a news conference he planned to hold on Monday in response to his latest indictment, because, he said, of advice from his lawyers.

US mortgage rate jumps to highest level since 2002

Mortgage rates jumped to a 21-year high, crimping both sales and refinancing activity. In the intervening period, homebuyers enjoyed years of falling rates.

Walmart’s hot sellers? Hand mixers and kitchen tools. In an era of high prices, basic is king.

AP, other news organizations develop standards for use of artificial intelligence in newsrooms
magazine
Globe Magazine

At 15, he’s the youngest soccer player ever signed by the Revolution. Next up, homework.
MISS CONDUCT

We’re newcomers to a beach town, and we don’t feel welcome

PERSPECTIVE

My parents bought our family burial plots years ago. But my plans might change.
Cooking

Three seasonal tomato salad recipes that make the most of summer’s bounty

metro

Boston archdiocese to hold special collection to support Maui wildfire relief

A shelter for migrants opened in Concord. The town found a way to bring immigrant families into its community.

Boston police officer suspended for taking money from wallet at Encore casino, commissioner says

sports

After lost opportunity, it’s off to New York where Red Sox hope to revive their wild card hopes vs. moribund Yankees

Molly Smith, Rebecca Skoler to meet in final match of 120th Massachusetts Women’s Amateur

Red Sox fall short of big comeback, drop series to Nationals in slugfest

business

A back-to-school tech tuneup: Here’s what to know about your devices and software

US jobless claims applications fall as labor market continues to show resiliency

Greentown Labs has a new CEO

politics

Trump’s 2024 GOP rivals converge on Atlanta just days after his latest indictment

Watch: 1st Congressional District Democratic debate at RWU

Trump’s lawyers seek April 2026 start to Jan. 6 trial

Nation

Maui’s emergency services chief resigns after facing criticism for not activating sirens during fire

US intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal

The shortage in school bus drivers is getting worse

World

Wildfire nears capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as fleeing residents fill roads and flights

Russian media reports that US citizen of Russian origin was taken into custody on espionage charges

As dead dolphins wash ashore, Ukraine builds a case of ecocide against Russia

opinion

Judge Boston Councilor Kendra Lara on her policies, not her alleged driving missteps

Address both health and safety at Mass. and Cass

The Russian Oppenheimer

lifestyle

She leaves me out of the story

Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard address blowback to Logan Airport Instagram post: ‘People suffer from outrage addiction’

Add wedding cake to the Kowloon’s menu: Restaurant closing for a private event for the first time in history

food & dining

It’s Italian food all day and night at Gufo in Cambridge

The Field & Vine team will open June Bug in Union Square; The Chemist experiments with Downtown Crossing

Here’s why there’s a sign saying ‘I Hate Boston’ in the North End

travel

The promise (with a pitfall or two) of commuting on bike from the North Shore

A hotel is revived in Maine, the ballet is reimagined in R.I., and a key comes in handy

Boothbay Harbor is as sweet as it gets

Arts

Three ways of looking at Pueblo art

Provincetown Public Art Foundation aims to make town’s ‘artistic soul visible’

Brice Marden, who rejuvenated painting in the 1960s, dies at 84

Books

In William Boyd’s ‘The Romantic,’ an Irish Everyman survives the tumult of global history through luck, wit, and unfettered joy

Laura Trethewey, author of ‘The Deepest Map,’ reveals a literary cult favorite of deep ocean explorers

Jen Soriano traces her fragile nervous system to generational trauma in ‘Nervous’

Movies

Leonard Bernstein’s children respond to criticism of Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in ‘Maestro’

A rendezvous for the night: The Boss at the movies

‘Strays’: A talking-dog movie that’s ruff going

Television

Before ‘Fargo’ returns, a fast ranking of the first four seasons

The violence that we see and the violence that we don’t

UK viewers bring back ‘The Tourist’ for a second season

music

A rendezvous for the night: The Boss at the movies

‘Mary Climbs In’ authors survey the inner landscape of Springsteen’s women fans

Playing ball: Steve Wynn of the Baseball Project steps up to the musical plate

Theater/Dance

‘The Ding Dongs’: When that doorbell rings, watch out

Old and new at the Pillow

Boston Ballet announces Ming Min Hui as new executive director

Health

Changing the landscape of cancer care in R.I.: Lifespan, Brown to seek NCI designation

To better understand alcohol addiction, new research is turning to fruit flies

Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

Obituaries

Dorothy Casterline, who codified American Sign Language, dies at 95

Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&M Records and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies at 88

Anthony Grasso, WWII vet who gave thanks to the officer who saved his life, dies at 98