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Those ‘childless’ women JD Vance speaks of? There’s 46 million of them.

A growing number of American adults are childless, survey data show.
Four policy questions Harris must answer ASAP to avoid being defined by Trump In R.I., Ocasio-Cortez backs Harris, cites climate

Bernie Sanders: Kamala Harris will struggle to win unless she speaks to the ‘long-neglected working class’

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Trump returns to Minnesota with Vance to try to swing Democrat-leaning state

Steward closing hospitals in Boston, Central Mass.
Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer will shut down, the bankrupt company said on Friday.

Here’s what we do and don’t know about the Steward closures More coverage of the Steward Health Care crisis

Brief court hearing held for Lindsay Clancy, Duxbury woman charged with killing her three children

Her lawyer said he will argue at trial that Clancy should not be held criminally responsible for her actions because of her mental illness.

North End restaurant owner pleads guilty to shooting at neighbor
Patrick Mendoza was accused of firing a gun at a neighborhood foe, missing the man but hitting the front window of Modern Pastry last year.

China wins first diving gold as it pursues unprecedented sweep of all eight; US wins silver

Blind man says Boston officer struck by vehicle was helping him cross ‘very dangerous intersection’ in North End

Israel orders the evacuation of an area designated as a humanitarian zone in Gaza
2024 PARIS OLYMPICS

Tara Sullivan
Paris navigates many challenges to put on an Opening Ceremony honoring sports and culture
The years of planning, the months of rehearsal, the money, the manpower, the belief, all of it came together in the extraordinary effort to stage the first Opening Ceremony outside of the traditional stadium setting.

Photos from the opening ceremony See highlights from the opening ceremony See this weekend's Olympics schedule
DEVRA FIRST

Where to eat like you’re at the Olympics (without leaving home)

10 French cafes, restaurants, and bakeries to transport your taste buds from Boston to Paris

Wildfire smoke from Pacific Northwest and Canada may cause some hazy skies in New England

These pockets of haze we'll see this weekend won’t affect the air quality throughout the region.
Weather mailbag: We’re talking summer wind, mountain tornadoes, and more

Five ways to have a ‘brat’ summer in Boston

Boston is brat if you make it brat.

Training camp observations: Patriots offense is producing few fireworks so far

Fans mostly sat on their hands Friday as the quarterbacks struggled to move the ball, but the coach has an explanation.
Drake Maye is doing a good job of turning rookie mistakes into learning experiences
Opinion
IDEAS | STEPHEN O'CONNOR

Thoreau’s cellphone

If the Concord writer had owned one, would we have “Walden” today?
Catherine D’Amato

Our neighbors are going hungry. Here’s how to care for them.
Katherine Gergen Barnett

The cost of high food prices — obesity
MARCELA GARCÍA

Why mothers often can’t win
Michael Walsh and Dorie Seavey

Heat pumps are the pathway to energy affordability
Best of the Best

At the best comedy clubs in Boston, big laughs sometimes come in small spaces

Boston’s best restaurant deals: 22 places to feast for $20 or less

The six best lobster rolls served around Boston

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Black bear and cub destroy car in Connecticut after getting trapped inside
Trapped inside a car, the adult black bear and cub thrashed about. The horn was blaring and the radio blasting. Outside the car, a second cub ran around in apparent distress by the home in Winstead, a town in the state's northwest corner, not far from Massachusetts.

Justice Dept. claims TikTok collected US user views on issues like abortion and gun control
TikTok employees used Lark to send sensitive data about US users, information that has wound up being stored on Chinese servers and accessible to ByteDance employees in China, federal officials said.

Mexican kingpin’s arrest likely to set off violent jockeying for power
A new era is coming for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by US authorities of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers.

How the US captured one of Mexico’s biggest drug lords

Rhode Island man, an ex-Marine, sentenced for white supremacist plot to destroy energy facility, feds say

Liam Collins, 25, of Johnston, who was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, was a frequent poster to a neo-Nazi internet forum sought members of paramilitary group he referred to as “a modern day SS,” prosecutors said.

Two 15-year-old boys facing charges after allegedly robbing 9-year-old at Dorchester park

The two teens were arraigned Friday in West Roxbury Juvenile Court on robbery charges and for making threats to commit a crime. They were ordered held, pending dangerousness hearings.

Boy, 16, shot in Lawrence, injuries non-life threatening

The boy was found injured in the area of Howard Street, where officers responded Friday afternoon to a report of shots fired, the department said.

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Around New England with Kevin Cullen

In Maine, a case of poisoned trees brings angry phone calls and a quest for criminal charges

Fear and loathing in vacationland: Maine’s poisoned-tree case has brought angry phone calls and a quest for criminal charges.

A turkey badly damaged a Boston woman’s car. A video of the attack has gone viral: ‘Without proof, it sounds insane.’
For about a year, Alicia Mastroianni and the wild turkeys of Boston lived together in peace. That ended last week.

Where have the students gone? New reports lay out causes of Boston’s enrollment losses.
Boston has lost more than 20 percent of its students across all school sectors over the last three decades.

Off the field, media interns at the Cape Cod Baseball League are the heavy hitters
Just like the players, the media interns are all college students who flock to the Cape for unpaid roles every summer to run the media operations of all 10 teams — and gain key experiences for a dream career in sports journalism.

Culture & Lifestyle

Boston Book Festival to kick off with Malcolm Gladwell

At the Farnsworth, a rare look at Andrew Wyeth’s forays into abstraction

Going for the gold and also going for some laughs

Matt Damon belts out ‘Sweet Caroline’ in ‘Tonight Show’ duet with Jimmy Fallon

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

Mike Rombach

Protect consumer choice on electric suppliers

Daniel J. Swift

Why Wu’s business tax hike plan is bad policy
Joan Wickersham

The hottest, coolest summer movie ever
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Anointing Kamala Harris was a mistake
SCOT LEHIGH

Trump’s and Netanyahu’s myopic stance on the Iran nuclear deal has left the world in a worse place
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

In a growing trend, some Boston students are getting paid to attend summer classes

For many teens in low-income households, the obstacle in taking part in summer classes comes down to economics: They need to earn a paycheck, often to help out with their family’s income.

Those ‘childless’ women JD Vance speaks of? There’s 46 million of them.

A growing number of American adults are childless, survey data show.

The River Seine is open to Olympic swimmers. Could that work in the Charles?

For decades, the Charles has been a punch line, its “Dirty Water” memorialized in the rock song and known as something most would consider jumping in only on a dare.

Black bear and cub destroy car in Connecticut after getting trapped inside

Trapped inside a car, the adult black bear and cub thrashed about. The horn was blaring and the radio blasting. Outside the car, a second cub ran around in apparent distress by the home in Winstead, a town in the state's northwest corner, not far from Massachusetts.

Sports

One down, seven to go: China wins first diving gold as it pursues unprecedented sweep of all eight

China won its first gold medal in diving on the first full day of competition in the Paris Olympics, a perfect start for the team of Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen.

French train networks partially restored after line sabotage ahead of Olympics

SNCF said its agents worked through the night in adverse weather conditions to improve the TGV traffic from the north, east and west to Paris. As of Saturday morning, normal service had resumed on the Eastern high-speed line.

Nigeria women’s basketball team denied entry to opening ceremony boat by federation, AP source says

Once the team made it to the area where it was supposed to board the boat for the ceremony, the group was denied entry by a Nigerian official who told the players and coaches there were too many people on board.

Olympic cauldron to rise into Paris skies each night

China wins the first gold medal of the 2024 Olympics in mixed team air rifle shooting

Simone Biles will serve as the anchor on three of four events for the US during Olympic qualifying

Business

Justice Dept. claims TikTok collected US user views on issues like abortion and gun control

TikTok employees used Lark to send sensitive data about US users, information that has wound up being stored on Chinese servers and accessible to ByteDance employees in China, federal officials said.

Justice Dept. defends TikTok law that forces app’s sale or ban

The Justice Department argued in a court filing Friday that TikTok should be required to sell its American operations to resolve national security concerns about its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
RI BUSINESS

IGT Gaming to be purchased by Apollo Global Management in $6.3b deal
POLITICS

‘Running as a woman of color and you’re a first is enormously challenging’: In R.I., Ocasio-Cortez backs Harris, cites climate

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LOVE LETTERS

I feel like the odd one out: I have celiac disease and I’m single
PERSPECTIVE

I’m a die-hard Boston sports fan. Can the WNBA get me to root for New York?
Best of the Best

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

Cooking

Shake up your burger game. Try chicken, quinoa, or a beef-pita version with crisped cheese.

metro

Bernie Sanders: Kamala Harris will struggle to win unless she speaks to the ‘long-neglected working class’

Wildfire smoke from Pacific Northwest and Canada may cause some hazy skies in New England

Brief court hearing held for Lindsay Clancy, Duxbury woman charged with killing her three children

sports

Olympic organizers apologize for introducing South Korean athletes as North Korea

Rain overnight postpones first skateboarding event at Paris Olympics

French train traffic improves after sabotage as Olympics start

business

Steward closing hospitals in Boston, Central Mass.

EV charging company picks Boston for East Coast headquarters

Here’s what we do and don’t know about the Steward closures

politics

Trump returns to Minnesota with Vance to try to swing Democrat-leaning state

Trump botches Kamala Harris’s first name, again and again and again

Silent no more, Harris seeks her own voice without breaking with Biden

Nation

Marvel returns to Comic-Con with hotly anticipated panel about its post-’Deadpool & Wolverine’ plans

California’s largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West

Judge strikes down a North Carolina abortion restriction but upholds another

World

Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when Earth’s temperatures soar to record highs.

Israel orders the evacuation of an area designated as a humanitarian zone in Gaza

Grappling with maritime disputes and Myanmar crisis, ASEAN top diplomat meetings joined by US, China

opinion

The hottest, coolest summer movie ever

A peaceful farewell for pets

Kinzinger for vice president?

lifestyle

I love my dogs more than my (ex-)husband

Five ways to have a ‘brat’ summer in Boston

Meet Tyler George, our very own local KIDZ BOP star

food & dining

Where to eat like you’re at the Olympics (without leaving home)

We can all scream now: The Massachusetts Ice Cream Trail is officially live

Imitation beef? Wahlburgers sues California barbecue company, claiming trademark infringement.

travel

What’s new on Martha’s Vineyard: From burgers to boutiques

JetBlue to fly out of N.H. and R.I., officials said, increasing flights in New England

Southwest Airlines plans to start assigning seats, breaking with a 50-year tradition

Arts

At the Farnsworth, a rare look at Andrew Wyeth’s forays into abstraction

He heard America singing: A show at Harvard’s Carpenter Center celebrates Harry Smith

In East Boston, Atlantic Works Gallery artists share immigration stories, community

Books

Boston Book Festival to kick off with Malcolm Gladwell

How college radio taught me to be a writer

Beacon celebrates Baldwin, Massachusetts Book Awards expand, and a new bookstore for romance

Movies

Five things to do around Boston, July 29-Aug. 11

Writer-director Sean Wang gets personal with his feature debut, ‘Dìdi’

Can ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ bring back the old Marvel box-office magic?

Television

‘Presumed Innocent’ is guilty of excess

Jennifer Aniston condemns JD Vance for his ‘childless cat ladies’ comments

What viewers watch can say a lot about their politics

music

Five ways to have a ‘brat’ summer in Boston

‘The soundtrack of our lives’: Voices of Black Boston reunite to celebrate the legacy of WILD 1090 AM

Meet Tyler George, our very own local KIDZ BOP star

Theater/Dance

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company embraces the discord in ‘The Winter’s Tale’

Shakespeare & Company presenting world premiere of ‘The Islanders’

Ethan Slater plays Marcel Marceau, brings work in progress to Williamstown Theatre Festival

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

Martin S. Indyk, diplomat who sought Middle East peace, dies at 73

Bernice Johnson Reagon, a musical voice for civil rights, is dead at 81

Lewis Lapham, editor who revived Harper’s magazine, dies at 89