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Fine dining, cigar lounges, and TD Garden suites: Here’s what happens when Beacon Hill’s most powerful pick up the tab

Beacon Hill’s most powerful figures rarely use their accounts to actually campaign but instead pick up extravagant dinner checks for colleagues and constituents, stock holiday party bars, and throw parties.
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Shelley Duvall, star of ‘The Shining,’ ‘Nashville’ dies at 75
Ms. Duvall was an intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman.

Teenage brothers die in suspected drowning in Maine

The siblings, 17 and 16, hadn’t returned home from Holdsworth Park, where they’d gone to swim, officials said.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines
Beware the Wolves of WhatsApp investment scam
No, Advent International isn’t offering to teach you how to “double your income” in the stock market.

Karen Read lawyers say a 4th juror has come forward, saying the panel cleared her of murder, leaving scene charges

Read’s lawyers said that four jurors have now contacted them, either directly or through intermediaries.

Biden’s press conference will be a key test for him. But he’s no master of the big rhetorical moment.

President Biden’s press conference on Thursday offers him a fresh opportunity to try to prove to the American public that he’s capable of serving another four years after his big debate flop threw the future of his presidency into doubt.
Biden’s candidacy faces new peril, as first Senate Democrat says he should exit race Hungary’s Orban will reportedly visit Donald Trump in Florida after NATO summit

Best-selling New Hampshire mystery writer charged with possession of child pornography

US inflation slowed again in June in sign that price pressures continue to ease

Man arrested after allegedly attempting sexual assault on 5-year-old at soccer game in Yarmouth
Best of the best

The Boston Globe’s Best of the Best

Experience our best food, dining, plus things to do in and around Boston, with all top picks powered by Boston Globe reporting.

Here are the 5 best lobster rolls in Boston — plus the best lobster sandwich

9 great craft breweries and taprooms to visit in greater Boston

22 things to do in Boston for visitors (and residents looking to rediscover a classic)

How Project 2025, a once-obscure right-wing blueprint for Trump’s second term, became Biden’s rescue plan

With Biden's faltering reelection effort under immense strain, Democrats are leaning on Project 2025 to refocus attention on Trump.
Yvonne Abraham: Project 2025 is coming for us Project 2025, the far-right agenda for a second Trump administration, explained
THE FINE PRINT

It’s so hot. Are landlords legally obliged to provide air conditioning?

State health codes don't require landlords to provide air conditioning, but if they promise air conditioning, they have to maintain it.
As city sizzles, these spaces serve as fleeting refuges
Forecast | Ken Mahan

Showers and storms exit, but the heat and humidity will hang around
Dave Epstein

Weekend weather forecast: Is there relief on the way or will it stay hot?

Weather mailbag: We’re talking heat waves, hydrangeas, and hurricanes

Boston Globe Today

Watch: People are eager to illegally buy raw milk, and the FDA is doing nothing to stop it

“The sales are really being done out in the open,” said STAT reporter Nicholas Florko on Boston Globe Today. “Folks aren’t afraid of the FDA’s enforcement.”

CELTICS BEAT WRITER'S NOTEBOOK | ADAM HIMMELSBACH
Cooper Flagg’s ascension, Jaylen Brown’s omission, and other nuggets from Team USA training camp
“Everybody on the team is just, like, people I’ve dreamed about playing in the same league against since I was 5, 6 years old,” Flagg, a 17-year-old from Maine, said. “So it’s just a crazy experience to be able to be out here and competing.”

LOVE LETTERS

When it comes to relationships, ‘I see only green flags’

I go from meeting a woman to planning our life together.
Odie Henderson review | ★★★

Forget it, Jake, it’s all about ‘Faye’

As with any documentary where the star tells the story, "Faye" occasionally comes off a little lighter than a more objective look might have been.
MISS CONDUCT

Should out-of-town guests be invited to the wedding rehearsal dinner?

In other wedding woes, what to do when adopted cousins are left off the guest list.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

A judge’s sound decision in the Karen Read case

Their names are now under seal, but their thoughts begin to leak out.
IDEAS | MIKE ORCUTT

A First Amendment fight for the future of the internet
Joan Vennochi

Democrats flirt with generational change. Or not.
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Biden and Trump are showing their stark contrast out in the open. But is anyone seeing it?
Linda J. Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks

US has a history of paying reparations. Why won’t it pay Black Americans?

More recent News

Bill Belichick to join ‘Inside the NFL’ for the upcoming season
The longtime Patriots coach will join host Ryan Clark and ex-players Chris Long and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson on Friday nights.

2024 MLB Draft
Your guide to the 2024 MLB Draft: When will the Red Sox pick, local players to watch, and first-round order
This year, the Guardians have the first pick despite having only a 2 percent chance to win the draft lottery.

Tara Sullivan
The PGA of America got it right by naming Keegan Bradley US Ryder Cup captain, and other thoughts
Bradley, 38, is liked and respected among his peers, good enough still for consideration as a player but seasoned enough to be viewed as an authority.

olympics
Attleboro’s Zuri Ferguson is headed to the Olympics. Now the tricky part: making sure her family gets there, too.
Ferguson, 17, is heading into her senior year at Attleboro High School and will swim the 100-meter backstroke at the Paris Olympics.

‘Latino prosperity is American prosperity.’ Amplify LatinX wants to increase resources for locals.
Since Amplify LatinX launched in 2020, it has prioritized helping entrepreneurs stay open during the pandemic and assisted businesses with growth.

Money, Power, Inequality

Asian Community Fund awards $450,000 to local nonprofits in business, empowerment spaces

The Asian Community Fund has doled out more than $1 million since the grant program launched in 2022, according to the announcement.

Five shot at gathering in Dorchester, including 11-year-old, police say

A dozen people have now been shot in Boston in less than a week.

Firefighter helps capture stabbing suspect outside Back Bay fire station

Kris Jennings, 64, of Boston, was arrested Tuesday evening on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after a firefighter helped apprehend him outside the fire station on Boylston Street, according to police.

Judge orders Volodymyr Zhukovskyy kept off N.H. roads for two more years

The Ukrainian trucker’s driving privileges were suspended after he was involved in a 2019 accident that killed seven motorcyclists.

Recommended reads

Globe TV critic Matthew Gilbert says goodbye to his job of 27 years, and to you, his readers

He writes: “For years, I’ve been relentlessly critical of series that overstay; now it’s time for me to take my own damn advice.”

Steward paid surveillance firm $1.6 million in months before it filed for bankruptcy
A recent Globe Spotlight Team investigation revealed how Steward has relied on Audere International to surveil and gather dirt on people viewed as problematic by the hospital chain’s executives.

Days before Rick Kamal killed his Dover family, his wife’s life insurance policy saw a shakeup
Rick Kamal’s brother became a beneficiary on Teena Kamal’s $1.25 million policy less than a week before the shocking murder-suicide.

Here are the five statewide questions likely to appear on November’s ballot
Unions, advocates, and out-of-state groups are pushing to put five ballot questions before Massachusetts voters this fall, creating what would be the largest single slate in 24 years.

Culture & Lifestyle

With their 12th album out now, the Bacon Brothers take the mic in Lynn on Saturday

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

A TV career that grew and grew and … Gru

‘Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition’ comes to Boston for the first time this fall

Special Projects

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

Where do the 2023-24 Celtics stand among the greatest teams in NBA history?

If Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown beat the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals and carry the team to Banner No. 18, their legacies would be cemented. But all of this year’s success means nothing without a ring.
HIGH & DRY

Priced out: How Boston’s broken liquor license system drives chefs from the city

A stubbornly high price tag for serving alcohol hurts thousands of hospitality workers, aspiring restaurateurs, and the city itself.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Biden and Trump are showing their stark contrast out in the open. But is anyone seeing it?
Rich Barlow

Oklahoma mandates Bible study; here’s how to do it right
JEFF JACOBY

Readers offer their designs for a new Massachusetts flag
EDITORIAL

Why was Steward paying millions to spy on critics while its business was suffering?
David Lat

It’s John Roberts’s Supreme Court after all
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

GLOBE NH | MORNING REPORT

New Hampshire kids warn of fentanyl risks lurking in counterfeit pills

Dozens of kids and teenagers shouted anti-drug slogans at motorists and spoke with pedestrian passersby in Dover, N.H., on Wednesday as part of a public awareness campaign about the dangers of counterfeit pills.

Shelley Duvall, star of ‘The Shining,’ ‘Nashville’ dies at 75

Ms. Duvall was an intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman.
Boston Globe Today

Watch: People are eager to illegally buy raw milk, and the FDA is doing nothing to stop it

“The sales are really being done out in the open,” said STAT reporter Nicholas Florko on Boston Globe Today. “Folks aren’t afraid of the FDA’s enforcement.”
RHODE MAP

The Rhode Islander trying to save President Biden

It’s the latest “most pivotal day ever” for President Joe Biden’s campaign, and yes, of course there’s a Rhode Island angle.

Sports

patriots

Bill Belichick to join ‘Inside the NFL’ for the upcoming season

The longtime Patriots coach will join host Ryan Clark and ex-players Chris Long and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson on Friday nights.
2024 MLB Draft

Your guide to the 2024 MLB Draft: When will the Red Sox pick, local players to watch, and first-round order

This year, the Guardians have the first pick despite having only a 2 percent chance to win the draft lottery.
Athletics at Red Sox | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 92: Athletics at Red Sox lineups and notes

Tanner Houck will be on the mound as the Red Sox look to take the rubber match of their series with Oakland at Fenway Park.
Tara Sullivan

The PGA of America got it right by naming Keegan Bradley US Ryder Cup captain, and other thoughts
CELTICS BEAT WRITER'S NOTEBOOK | ADAM HIMMELSBACH

Cooper Flagg’s ascension, Jaylen Brown’s omission, and other nuggets from Team USA training camp
olympics

Attleboro’s Zuri Ferguson is headed to the Olympics. Now the tricky part: making sure her family gets there, too.

Business

Lawsuit filed in case of teen who died after eating spicy chip as part of online challenge

Harris Wolobah, a 10th grader from the city of Worcester, died Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the Paqui chip as part of the manufacturer’s “One Chip Challenge.”

Fewer Americans apply for jobless claims last week as labor market remains sturdy

Massachusetts reported 8,004 “advance” initial claims for unemployment insurance last week.

US inflation slowed again in June in sign that price pressures continue to ease

Costco raises annual membership fees for the 1st time since 2017, boosting them $5 to $10
magazine
PERSPECTIVE

$50 for what?! Junk fees are everywhere, and consumers are fed up.
Cooking

Summer recipes: Three delicious cherry desserts
GLOBE MAGAZINE

30 ways to have the perfect Cape Cod vacation

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, July 1-14

metro

Weather mailbag: We’re talking heat waves, hydrangeas, and hurricanes

R.I. soda pop presidential poll: A preference of politics or palate?

A centuries-old method for tastier fish is catching on in Providence

sports

With trade deadline looming, the Red Sox have glaring needs to address with potential upgrades

Colombia wins contentious Copa América semifinal to set up Lionel Messi showdown; Uruguay players brawl in crowd

Rafael Devers looking forward to resting his sore left shoulder during All-Star break

business

It’s so hot. Are landlords legally obliged to provide air conditioning?

A centuries-old method for tastier fish is catching on in Providence

EU accepts Apple pledge to let rivals access ‘tap to pay’ iPhone tech to resolve antitrust case

politics

Biden’s press conference will be a key test for him. But he’s no master of the big rhetorical moment.

Hungary’s Orban will reportedly visit Donald Trump in Florida after NATO summit

How Project 2025, a once-obscure right-wing blueprint for Trump’s second term, became Biden’s rescue plan

Nation

Alec Baldwin cast as reckless flouter of rules at his trial in shooting of cinematographer

Prosecutors seek restitution for families of 34 people killed in 2019 scuba boat fire in California

Pressure mounts on Houston power company to quickly restore service as city sweats after Beryl

World

South Africa’s Cape Town is hit by more storms, with 4,500 people displaced by floods and damage

The UK mulls tighter crossbow laws after 3 women were slain in an attack. The suspect is in hospital.

Two Australians and a Filipina killed in Philippine hotel, officials say

opinion

Press tells Biden it’s time to go. He says no.

New mothers should not be penalized for taking prescription medications

Biden’s age isn’t the Democrats’ only liability

lifestyle

Getting over him all over again

The Power of Story

This week’s deals and free stuff: Live comedy, a JP night market, and more

food & dining

A centuries-old method for tastier fish is catching on in Providence

Happy hour? More licenses for Boston? Senate set to take up liquor reform.

Where to really eat by the water in and around Boston this summer

travel

My Apple Vacations voucher doesn’t work! Can I get a refund?

The art of the do-nothing vacation

Responses to overtourism big and small are permanently changing the experience of travel

Arts

Hope Alswang, 77, who transformed Florida’s largest art museum, dies

When what you see is what you buy

At the Gardner, two photo shows celebrate LGBTQ community from the West Village to Boston and beyond

Books

Local bestsellers for the week ended July 7

A terrifying dystopia built from our own past and present

Showcase Cinemas brings back Bookworm Wednesdays, inviting children to embrace summer reading

Movies

Shelley Duvall, star of ‘The Shining,’ ‘Nashville’ dies at 75

Forget it, Jake, it’s all about ‘Faye’

‘Longlegs’ is a creepy serial-killer movie with a Cage-y twist

Television

Soccer’s Darke knight rises to the occasion

Globe TV critic Matthew Gilbert says goodbye to his job of 27 years, and to you, his readers

A TV career that grew and grew and … Gru

music

With their 12th album out now, the Bacon Brothers take the mic in Lynn on Saturday

The next generation of jazz, coming right up

Joe Bonsall, tenor in the country and gospel group the Oak Ridge Boys, dies at 76

Theater/Dance

From the Royal Ballet, a heaping serving on a hot summer night at Jacob’s Pillow

BosTix booth reopens at Faneuil Hall on July 10

A solo musical for an exploding world

Health

Fatal overdoses drop in R.I. for the first time in five years

Prospect Medical Holdings, the owner of 2 Rhode Island hospitals, was under investigation by DOJ

R.I. attorney general approves sale of 2 safety-net hospitals with strict ‘non-negotiable’ conditions

Obituaries

Shelley Duvall, star of ‘The Shining,’ ‘Nashville’ dies at 75

Hope Alswang, 77, who transformed Florida’s largest art museum, dies

Former senator Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a ‘hoax,’ dies