As segregation returns to city schools, parents voice concerns

The chairman of Boston?s school committee urged patience: ?There is no one silver bullet. . . . This is work that is ongoing and will continue.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_recess2_met.jpg Boston?s schools are becoming resegregated

An alarming pattern of racial segregation has re-emerged in the Boston Public School system over the last two decades, according to a Globe analysis.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/AFP_17Z1LU.jpg Trump admits to purpose of 2016 meeting with Russians

It was the starkest acknowledgment yet that a statement Trump dictated about the encounter last year was misleading.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/16/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/IMG_3836.jpg Deval Patrick said he will decide on 2020 run ?in due course?

The former Massachusetts governor appeared on CNN?s ?State of the Union? and didn?t blink when Jake Tapper asked him if he would run for president.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_060814location-6_business.jpg Nonstop flights from Boston to Seoul to begin in spring

Massport and Korean Airlines say the five-days-a-week service will connect Logan and Seoul?s Incheon airports.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/TAYLORBusiness28orangeline(2)_009.jpg The next hot place to work? Look north.

The Orange Line corridor stretching through Charlestown, Cambridge, and Somerville is poised to emerge as a major office district, with a vast amount of office space already under construction or permitted.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

Can?t find a starter home? Blame Gen Xers

A decade after the financial crisis, it?s still affecting the way some people feel about home ownership.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/lee_061818_nflda2_met.jpg Do you need experience as a prosecutor to be a good district attorney?

Ask one of the defense attorneys vying to become the next Suffolk District Attorney if experience as a prosecutor matters and you are likely to hear the name Lawrence Krasner.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/20/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/e55be04d85424800a83275cb6c7b9e8f-e55be04d85424800a83275cb6c7b9e8f-0.jpg Iran?s Ahmadinejad opines on Trump, LeBron James spat

Iran?s former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?s quest to return to the spotlight now includes weighing in on a spat between President Trump and basketball star LeBron James.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/AFP_1854AZ.jpg Vintage plane crashes in Switzerland, killing all 20 on board

A propeller plane built at the onset of World War II crashed in the Swiss Alps this weekend, killing all 20 people on board, Swiss police said Sunday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/2c63980e41e946b492e5a9017a5774fe-2c63980e41e946b492e5a9017a5774fe-0.jpg 11 children rescued from New Mexico compound

Police found eleven children in filthy conditions with hardly any food after searching a rural northern New Mexico compound for a missing 3-year-old boy.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by MADE NAGI/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9780278k) Parts of a shopping mall building collapsed after an earthquake was felt in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 05 August 2018. Reports state that the magnitude 7.0 earthquake was centered on the Indonesian island of Lombok nearby of Bali. Earthquake in Indonesia, Denpasar - 05 Aug 2018

Powerful quake rocks Indonesia?s Lombok island, at least 82 dead

A strong earthquake struck Indonesia?s tourist island of Lombok, one week after another quake in the same area killed more than a dozen people.

William G. Gross greeted residents during his last tour of Roxbury in uniform before being sworn in as Boston?s first black police commissioner.

Erin Clark for The Boston Globe

William Gross, set to be sworn in as Boston?s first black police commissioner, was an officer in the making, friends say

The first to go home when his mother called, he would scold peers for stealing a bike out of a backyard, or for pocketing goods at the corner store.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Clipboard-14843-18757.jpg Harvard sorority to close in response to policy on single-gender clubs

The closure appears to be the first dissolution in response to the Ivy League university?s adoption of penalties for members of single-gender student clubs.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/30/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RinaldiFeature02-005.jpg After a dry break Sunday, hot and humid weather is again headed our way

Rising temperatures and mugginess during the early part of the week will mean oppressive humidity, forecasters said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Dick%20Concannon%20and%20Smoki%20Bacon-478109.jpg Richard Concannon, who cohosted ?The Literati Scene? with his wife, Smoki Bacon, dies at 89

For years, Mr. Concannon cohosted the cable TV show with Ms. Bacon.

Nick Cafardo | On baseball

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/10/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_bosny4_spts-001.jpg Amazingly, these rookies have managed to handle adversity

Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora and New York Yankees boss Aaron Boone have had impressive first-year runs with their respective ballclubs.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_080418_05wahlbergmovie_2672x.jpg Casting call for a certain type of Bostonian doesn?t disappoint

All of them were sure they possessed that authentic, unmistakable Boston look. All were hoping fate might smile upon them.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/15/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/tlumacki_patriotsrookies_sports066.jpg Young cornerbacks hoping to pick off some playing time

Rookie second-round pick Duke Dawson and practice squad returnee Ryan Lewis are focusing on little things in bid to make the team.

CANTON, OH - AUGUST 04: Randy Moss reacts during the 2018 NFL Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium on August 4, 2018 in Canton, Ohio. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

Randy Moss wears tie with names of police shooting victims at Hall of Fame

The former Patriot said he wanted to let the families know that they were not alone.

07/20/2018 Brookline Ma -Larz Anderson Park in Brookline offers the visitor many delights . Reporter:Topic

Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff

Brookline?s Larz Anderson Park offers variety for visitors

Compared to most parks in New England, Larz Anderson Park is in a world of its own.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/woodshole.jpg It?s ?the last frontier on Earth that?s truly not well understood,? and scientists are about to explore it

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will be visiting an area of the ocean shrouded in mystery, hoping to learn more about the region and ultimately help preserve it.

TV Critic?s Corner

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/a13cce9e4e4e4006b2561df90763bc0d-a13cce9e4e4e4006b2561df90763bc0d-8584.jpg ?Fargo? returning, with Chris Rock in starring role

It will be Rock?s first regular TV work since ?Everybody Hates Chris.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/AFP_185265.jpg Patrick Stewart to reprise ?Star Trek? role in new series

Captain Picard is boldly going where he?s been before.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/721cb2e71d404f968ae6e2b3192ef8a7-721cb2e71d404f968ae6e2b3192ef8a7-0.jpg Pop star Demi Lovato says she ?will keep fighting? addiction

Lovato took to Instagram Sunday to make her first public comments since last month?s overdose.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/05/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/FlyingHorsesCarousel_29kidsdonow_05_tvl.jpg 10 things to do in New England while your kids are still young

There are certain places in New England that are a whole lot more fun ? and magical ? when young kids are along. Here are 10 favorites.

Opinion & Ideas

EDITORIAL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Advance/Images/24x36%20South%20Field%20Render%20(1).jpg New life for an Olmsted gem at Charlesgate

Frederick Law Olmsted probably never fully anticipated the depredations that the 20th century cult of the automobile would bring to his beloved Charlesgate park. But help may be on the way.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/30/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Capture2.JPG An oral history of LeBron James and the 2003 UMass-Boston Summer League

How the 2003 Boston Summer League helped introduce LeBron James to the NBA.

Newsletters

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STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/03/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Off%20the%20Charts.jpg Dear Atul: As you go on your listening tour, don?t forget about mental health

As CEO of the health care venture from Amazon and partners, Gawande could make a huge impact on mental health.

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.

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.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

Real Estate

Address

//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.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Globe staff photos of the month, July 2018

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: the Puerto Rican Parade, Taylor Swift performing at Gillette Stadium, and celebrating fourth of July.

Crossword

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/crossword.jpg Play the crossword

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