State could take in $25m a year on Airbnb rentals tax

Beacon Hill lawmakers say they?ve struck a compromise on a tax for short-term housing rentals. Governor Baker could get the bill today.

Kevin Quinn, of Mashpee was killed on Saturday a little after midnight in a motor vehicle crash as he was returning home from visiting his wife Kara Sullivan and their newborn baby daughter at the maternity department of Cape Cod Hospital.

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A new father?s life is tragically cut short

Kevin Quinn, a Marine, survived two combat tours in Afghanistan. He was killed Saturday heading home from Cape Cod Hospital, where he?d been visiting his just-born daughter.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_stigmatines1_met.jpg A fight brewing in Waltham: high school or a higher calling?

Waltham officials want to take a 46-acre plot to build a new high school. A tiny order of priests who?ve called the land home for a century aren?t happy.

Adrian Walker

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Paula Carey says her courts have made headway since a report in 2014. ?Our thinking has kind of evolved,? she says.

Cliff Lowell secured a spool of steel mesh at Riverdale Mills in Northbridge.

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Northbridge factory is snared into tariffs tug-of-war

Riverdale Mills, which uses foreign steel, makes the wire mesh for most of the commercial lobster traps in the US.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Chin072518SouthBostonFatality_Met7.jpg South Boston comes together to remember boy killed in crash

Hundreds turned out Sunday evening for a candlelight vigil held days after a 3-year-old being pushed in his stroller was killed in a chain-reaction style crash.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/30/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/AP18208653751600.jpg There?s now a price tag for ?Medicare for all?: $32.6 trillion

A Virginian libertarian policy center says Bernie Sanders? proposed universal health care plan would require historic tax increases.

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Talk of a shutdown was dismissed by top Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/23/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/clark_barbara_senator_072219_02.jpg She secured $16m for Lowell ? a city she doesn?t represent

State Senator Barbara L?Italien is hoping to capture the Third District congressional seat. Lowell is the largest city in the district.

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Across the Atlantic, competition among businesses is alive and well.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/driverstexting1.jpg Voters could have their say on restrictions on cellphone use

Once again, it looks like Beacon Hill lawmakers won?t pass a bill by the end of the legislative session.

Dave Epstein

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tlumacki_vermontweatherfeature_metro.jpg The humidity is sticking around for the near future

It?s been a hot and humid month, and that will continue into August.

Construction crews prepared last week to work on the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge.

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Officials urging public to avoid Mass. Pike ? or prepare for severe congestion

Monday will be a key test for closures surrounding the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge replacement project.

Braves pitcher Sean Newcomb said the tweets, made when he was pitching for Middleborough High, were ?some stupid stuff. . . . I definitely regret it, for sure.?

Middleborough?s Sean Newcomb apologizes for offensive tweets

Newcomb, who now pitches for the Atlanta Braves, made the tweets when he was playing for Middleborough High in 2011 and 2012.

Boston MA 7/29/18 Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora on the bench against the Minnesota Twins during seventh inning MLB action at Fenway Park. (photo by Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) topic: reporter:

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Alex Cora is grieving for his best friend. Sunday?s win provided solace, briefly

The 16-year-old son University of Miami baseball coach J.D. Arteaga was killed in a car accident Saturday in Miami.

Dan Shaughnessy

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/06/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy_20131006.jpg Great tales emerge from another historic weekend in Cooperstown

Alan Trammell got to see his Lakers beat the Celtics in the old Garden. Eck was pulled over on the way to his enshrinement. Wade Boggs almost played with a guy named Dorsett.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/28/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/tlumacki_patriotstrainingcampday3_sports713.jpg Ivanka Trump Brady: That?s what Donald said he wanted

Trump joked that he ?could have had Tom Brady. Instead, I got Jared Kushner.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/29/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/1fae82ffbbbc44bf948991bf17a22ea9-1fae82ffbbbc44bf948991bf17a22ea9-0.jpg NFL players greet this test with dread

The Patriots are known across the NFL for the emphasis they place on conditioning, especially running.

Patricia Bigness uses needlepoint to create lasting political and social messages.

Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff

A well-yarned militia: Local artist needlepoints to protest Trump policies

Arlington?s Pat Bigness has found visibility in an unlikely medium.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/30/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/200_john_oliver(5).jpg Anita Hill to John Oliver: ?I?ve had my life turned upside down?

The Brandeis University law professor was interviewed by Oliver, and the segment appeared on Sunday?s episode of ?Last Week Tonight.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/30/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/shark_scituate.jpg Shark photos spark controversy on social media

Some animal lovers said they were offended or horrified when they saw photos of a dead white shark posted on social media platforms on Saturday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tai_20160618_warren_politics_19.jpg Jeanne Shaheen says her office had been target of a hacking attempt

The US senator from New Hampshire said that such attacks have been widespread in politics.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/29/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/20cabc3141574cc1b6ca60c0f14477b9-20cabc3141574cc1b6ca60c0f14477b9-0.jpg N.Y. Times publisher rebuts Trump?s account of private meeting

A.G. Sulzberger flatly disputed the president?s characterization of an exchange they had during a July 20 meeting.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/29/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/84bc5123cfd64d548067952ed1748bb4-84bc5123cfd64d548067952ed1748bb4-0.jpg Civil rights hero John Lewis gets ?clean bill of health? from doctors

The Georgia congressman fell ill on a plane while flying home to Atlanta, where he was to appear at a weekend event.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/29/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/df8c2c0e0fe7427b93940c39852fce38-09b92d6b7d2a4a81a9cd029680f47470-0.jpg Polar bear killed after attack on Arctic cruise ship guard

Officials said the guard was leading tourists off a cruise ship on an Arctic archipelago.

Opinion & Ideas

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/dc895b76d959446ab18d508303aa55ed-dc895b76d959446ab18d508303aa55ed-0.jpg Faneuil Hall?s slave legacy

An artist?s proposal for the site confronts the city?s legacy of slavery in a fruitful way.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Commuting_print.jpg The target: you and your every move

How companies use geolocation data to target you ? and everyone around ? in ways you?re not even aware of.

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Two years after saying they?d consider licensing new suppliers of marijuana for scientific purposes, none has been approved.

Globe event

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/SeattleTimes_10kirsner02_biz.jpg Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston

Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.

Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/FlfQGTy9_585.jpg More about Last Seen: The Largest Unsolved Art Heist ever

A true-crime podcast about the most valuable ? and confounding ? art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

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Pittsburgh sees hands-on restart of Uber's self-driving cars

Uber officials say the company has taken the first step toward relaunching its self-driving cars on Pittsburgh area streets four months after a fatal accident involving one of the cars in Tempe, Arizona

Love Letters: The Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/16/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/lovelettersalbum.jpg Getting over a breakup

Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.

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Real Estate

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/stan-fellows-home-nest-illustration$medium.jpg Spring House Hunt: Should parents buy property in a college town?

As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.

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The Big Picture

The life aquatic

The summer heat is here. Take a look at animals cooling off with water or in their aquatic environments.

Crossword

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Puzzled? Keep trying your hand at our interactive crossword and see if you can triumph.