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Harris gains new wave of support from key Democrats

The vice president praised Biden’s legacy as ‘unmatched’ in her first appearance since the president endorsed her as the nominee
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James Pindell | ANALYSIS

Biden’s out. What’s next? Answers to some questions you might have.

There are party rules, a lot of politics, and a lot of opinions. But here is a guide to the logistics.

Mass. Dems to huddle Monday to discuss Biden’s departure from race, Kamala Harris endorsement

Who is endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee?

Inside the weekend when Biden decided to withdraw

GOP eyes legal challenges as Harris assumes control of Biden’s war chest

Kamala Harris’s first presidential campaign was a failure. Has she changed?

As Biden withdraws, New England Democrats not all singing the same tune on replacement

Voters express a mix of emotions as Biden ends presidential campaign

Secret Service director, grilled by lawmakers on the Trump assassination attempt, says: ‘We failed’
The assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump was the Secret Service’s “most significant operational failure” in decades, Director Kimberly Cheatle told lawmakers as calls mounted for her to resign.

Karen Read due back in court Monday for first hearing after mistrial

Judge Beverly J. Cannone, who declared a mistrial on July 1 after jurors said they remained deadlocked following several days of deliberations, could set a date for her retrial.

Aly Raisman reveals she’s been hospitalized twice for paralysis and ‘stroke-like symptoms’
Olympic gold medalist and Needham native Aly Raisman revealed in an interview that she has been privately battling health issues that have led her to be hospitalized twice for “stroke-like symptoms.”

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Sunshine with seasonable temps kick off the work week. But the weather takes a turn after today.

Showers will move in during the Tuesday morning commute and we'll see occasional rain through Friday

Of the 20 highest-paid Boston police officers, nearly half have disciplinary records

Boston outlines surveillance technology in first-ever transparency report

Man, 65, stabbed in the neck in Nashua, N.H. in apparently random attack

Israel orders evacuation of part of Gaza humanitarian zone

 Israel’s Netanyahu walks political tightrope on Washington trip following Biden’s exit from race
LARRY EDELMAN | TRENDLINES

Anger over inflation doesn’t end with Biden’s campaign

Whether it's Kamala Harris or another candidate at the top of the ticket, the party’s new nominee will be hampered by the soaring cost of living during Biden’s term.
BOLD TYPES

Massport shelves decision on charging travelers to charge up their electric cars

The proposal would charge 25 cents per kilowatt hour plus a connection fee of $2, starting Sept. 1, ostensibly to dissuade travelers from parking their EVs at a port, leaving them there for days, and preventing others from using it.

The biggest of stories came to the small city of Butler. Here’s how its newspaper met the moment.

Journalists at the Eagle, the community's resource since 1870 and one that struggles to survive just like thousands of local newspapers across the country, had to make sense of chaos in their backyard — and the global scrutiny that followed.
Homeland Security secretary names independent panel to review Trump assassination attempt
Opinion
JOAN VENNOCHI

With Biden out, here’s how the Democrats can defeat Trump

Democrats can’t let up on Donald Trump. His lies and moral bankruptcy need to be called out. Voters should not be allowed to grow numb to them.
Who could be the Democrats’ new VP nominee? Letters: Readers react to Biden’s decision and Harris’s chances
EDITORIAL

Joe Biden puts country ahead of ego
SCOT LEHIGH

Biden does the right thing by stepping down from race

MARCELA GARCÍA

She kept her gravely ill dog alive. Was that animal cruelty?
IDEAS | JOHN BENJAMIN

The problem with Zionism
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The 9 best coffee shops around Boston in 2024

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EPA awards $4.3 billion to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine will get a total of $450 million to accelerate adoption of cold-climate heat pumps and water heaters.

EPA weighing controversial geoengineering ocean experiment south of Martha’s Vineyard

Patriots linebackers preview: If Matthew Judon is good to go, this group will be even better
Judon played only four games last season because of injury, and there are questions about his contractual situation, but he is a game-changer.

Shooting outside a Mississippi nightclub kills three and injures more than a dozen
A shooting outside a Mississippi nightclub left three people dead and more than a dozen injured over the weekend, authorities said.

Hunter Biden drops lawsuit against Fox News over explicit images featured in streaming series
Hunter Biden has dropped a lawsuit accusing Fox News of illegally publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series.

YOUR TV GPS
This week’s TV: A second look at ‘Two American Families’ and Pete Rose, plus a ‘Sea Change’ close to home
Or you can just travel straight back to 14th-century Italy, to seek laughs among the plague on “The Decameron” on Netflix with a cast featuring a fun mix of less familiar faces and fan favorites.

Assailant kills six people and wounds six others at a care home in central Croatia, officials say

An armed assailant entered a care home for older people in central Croatia Monday and opened fire, killing six people and wounding six others, police said.

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Migrants in the Boston area rush to secure legal status amid concerns over upcoming election

With the election approaching, migrants in Massachusetts area are scrambling, terrified of what the future could look like under a second Trump presidency.

After demotion of BPD deputy superintendent, department’s commitment to reform is questioned
Eddy Chrispin says Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox demoted him after he accepted a position as commissioner for the state agency that certifies law enforcement officers in Massachusetts.

Is New England really the hydrangea capital of the US? These are the best spots to see them.
Data collected by nature enthusiasts give us an idea of how often — and where — hydrangeas are grown in Massachusetts and around the country.

tech lab
How errant keystrokes at CrowdStrike led to a global outage of Microsoft networks
The cybersecurity firm issued a software update for computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system, but the update contained a bug so severe that it caused the “blue screen of death.”

Culture & Lifestyle

This week’s freebies, deals: Vintage clothing pop-up, orchestra, and half-priced arcade games, and more

Kane Brown’s country-rock fusion transforms Fenway into Nashville North

Andy Li handcrafts positivity, one pennant at a time

‘Strongest maestro in the world!’: The conductor who can snuff out a candle with a kick

Special Projects

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

Data show that these Celtics are truly extraordinary, a team of uncommon prowess on both ends of the court
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.
Interactive map

Pothole season is upon us. See which neighborhoods have the most reports

Boston’s 311 data provides a day-by-day look at the condition of the city’s streets and sidewalks, which neighborhoods are hit hardest, and just how fast repairs are made.

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

IDEAS | LISA WEISS

My father couldn’t fix everything, but that didn’t keep him from trying
Alex Beam

The dog days are here
SAGE STOSSEL

The Olympics we need
EDITORIAL

Lawmakers should send housing bond bill to governor’s desk
IDEAS | Elizabeth Svoboda

Trump isn’t a fascist. He’s a Caesarist.
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Harris praises Biden’s ‘unmatched’ legacy in first public appearance since his endorsement

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Monday at a White House celebration with NCAA athletes.

Harris praises Biden’s ‘unmatched’ legacy in first public appearance since his endorsement. Follow live updates.

Aiming to put weeks of intraparty drama over President Biden’s candidacy behind them, prominent Democrats, party leaders, and political organizations quickly lined up behind Vice President Kamala Harris.

Aly Raisman reveals she’s been hospitalized twice for paralysis and ‘stroke-like symptoms’

Olympic gold medalist and Needham native Aly Raisman revealed in an interview that she has been privately battling health issues that have led her to be hospitalized twice for “stroke-like symptoms.”

Mass. Dems to huddle Monday to discuss Biden’s departure from race, Kamala Harris endorsement

The Massachusetts Democratic Party plans to hold a call Monday night to discuss President Biden’s departure from the race and Vice President Kamala Harris’ endorsement by the president to take his place.

Sports

Aly Raisman reveals she’s been hospitalized twice for paralysis and ‘stroke-like symptoms’

Olympic gold medalist and Needham native Aly Raisman revealed in an interview that she has been privately battling health issues that have led her to be hospitalized twice for “stroke-like symptoms.”
Patriots positional preview: linebackers

Patriots linebackers preview: If Matthew Judon is good to go, this group will be even better

Judon played only four games last season because of injury, and there are questions about his contractual situation, but he is a game-changer.
RED SOX AT Rockies | 8:40 P.M. (NESN)

Game 99: Red Sox at Rockies lineups and notes

Tanner Houck has the ball for his first start after his All-Star debut as Boston heads to Colorado to face the 36-win Rockies.
red sox

The Red Sox took a new path with the selection of Payton Tolle, and other thoughts
PATRIOTS

Your guide to 2024 Patriots training camp
olympics

LeBron James selected as Team USA male flag bearer for Paris Olympics opening ceremony

Business

A breakdown of Kamala Harris memes, for those who just fell out of a coconut tree

Here's some context for all in which you live and what came before you.

Most airlines except one are recovering from the CrowdStrike tech outage. The feds have noticed.

Delta Air Lines struggled for a fourth straight day to recover from a worldwide technology outage caused by a faulty software update, stranding tens of thousands of passengers and drawing unwanted attention from the federal government.
LARRY EDELMAN | TRENDLINES

Anger over inflation doesn’t end with Biden’s campaign
BOLD TYPES

Massport shelves decision on charging travelers to charge up their electric cars
magazine
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, July 22-28
Best of the Best

Have a blast at Boston’s best bowling, pickleball, mini golf, and more

Smaller Space Living

‘It feels palatial!’ Clever home design makes a South End condo live large
LOVE LETTERS

My wife wants to wait till the kids are ‘settled’ before buying our dream home by the ocean

metro

R.I. Democratic delegates getting behind Harris for president

Karen Read due back in court Monday for first hearing after mistrial

Sunshine with seasonable temps kick off the work week. But the weather takes a turn after today.

sports

Teen talent Peyton Miller gives Revolution hope for brighter future ahead

How many medals can Team USA win at the Paris Olympics? We predict the success in each sport.

As always, the world revolves around the Red Sox … even when it comes to presidential politics

business

EPA awards $4.3 billion to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution

The biggest of stories came to the small city of Butler. Here’s how its newspaper met the moment.

Delta Air Lines says cancellations continue as it tries to restore operations after tech outage

politics

Who is endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee?

Harris praises Biden’s ‘unmatched’ legacy in first public appearance since his endorsement. Follow live updates.

‘There is no playbook’: As Biden withdraws, New England Democrats not all singing the same tune on replacement

Nation

Hunter Biden drops lawsuit against Fox News over explicit images featured in streaming series

Trump’s campaign quickly pivots to Harris after Biden announces decision to leave the race

Truman and Johnson also stepped aside, but ‘the circumstances are quite different’

World

Assailant kills six people and wounds six others at a care home in central Croatia, officials say

Israel orders evacuation of part of Gaza humanitarian zone

Israel’s Netanyahu walks political tightrope on Washington trip following Biden’s exit from race

opinion

Alas, Trump has already won on the issue of immigration

The problem with Zionism

In first year, tuition-free community college program yields data

lifestyle

This week’s freebies, deals: Vintage clothing pop-up, orchestra, and half-priced arcade games, and more

Andy Li handcrafts positivity, one pennant at a time

My high school musical crush is back in my life

food & dining

Fajitas & ‘Ritas closure leaves one less casual spot downtown

$15 minimum wage for tipped workers headed to ballot

An award-winning chef and a longtime neighborhood restaurant join forces

travel

Massport shelves decision on charging travelers to charge up their electric cars

When a hurricane upends travel plans, what do airlines owe consumers for a flight not taken?

From run-down lodging to retro boutique chic: A unique Maine motel gets a second life

Arts

French muralist Julien Colombier: ‘It’s a little like electronic music. It’s layer and layer and layer.’

Two new curatorial hires at the MFA

‘It was like being in a very exciting film’: Paul McCartney describes being at the center of Beatlemania

Books

For Marcela Fuentes, it’s fairy tales and books with female villains

A group portrait of Provincetown’s artists, poetry of broken beauty, and a panel on trans writers

Local bestsellers for the week ended July 14

Movies

Five things to do around Boston, July 22-28

‘It always felt like life was imitating art’: Lee Isaac Chung talks weathering real tornadoes on ‘Twisters’ set

Amy Adams films new movie ‘At the Sea’ in Plymouth and Marshfield, leaving fans star-struck

Television

And the Democratic nominee for president is … Maya Rudolph?

This week’s TV: A second look at ‘Two American Families’ and Pete Rose, plus a ‘Sea Change’ close to home

What’s so funny? These series don’t seem to know.

music

At Tanglewood, Wagner at twilight

Foo Fighters prove rock still has power with roaring Fenway Park show

Kane Brown’s country-rock fusion transforms Fenway into Nashville North

Theater/Dance

At Jacob’s Pillow, Miguel Gutierrez invites the audience to join in grief, and in silliness

Bugs take the limelight when Cirque du Soleil’s ‘OVO’ returns to Boston

The power of ‘Hoops’

Health

What consumers should know about the FTC’s upcoming lawsuit against CVS over how it negotiates drug prices

What’s next for Roger Williams Medical Center? CEO warns Boston University could terminate affiliation, court docs show.

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

Obituaries

Nguyen Phu Trong, powerful Vietnamese leader, is dead at 80

Longtime US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who had pancreatic cancer, has died

Naomi Pomeroy, chef who made Portland a dining destination, dies at 49