Nation

LGBTQ+ Pride Month reaches its grand crescendo on city streets from New York to San Francisco

Thousands of effusive marchers danced to club music in New York City streets Sunday as bubbles and confetti rained down, and fellow revelers from Toronto to San Francisco cheered through Pride Month’s grand crescendo. Continue reading →

Nation

As legal fees mount, Trump steers donations into PAC that has covered them

Facing multiple intensifying investigations, former president Donald Trump has quietly begun diverting more of the money he is raising away from his 2024 presidential campaign and into a political action committee that he has used to pay his personal legal fees. Continue reading →

Nation

GOP state legislatures seek greater control over state and local election offices

Lawmakers in several Republican-led states have been looking to exert more authority over state and local election offices, claiming new powers that Democrats warn could be used to target left-leaning counties in future elections. Continue reading →

World

Taiwan faces a #MeToo wave, set off by a Netflix hit

In the past few weeks, a wave of #MeToo allegations has raced to the very top of Taiwan’s political, judicial, and arts scenes, forcing a new reckoning of the state of women’s rights on a democratic island that has long taken pride in being among Asia’s most progressive places. Continue reading →

World

Hollywood tycoon testifies in Netanyahu’s corruption trial

In one of the more dramatic moments in the yearslong corruption trial of Benjamin Netanyahu, Arnon Milchan, a Hollywood movie mogul, billionaire spy, and old friend of the Israeli prime minister, took the stand Sunday as a key witness for the prosecution in an alleged gifts-for-favors affair known as Case 1000. Continue reading →

World

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party wins landslide election victory for second 4-year term

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory Sunday in the country’s second election in five weeks that granted him a comfortable parliamentary majority to form a government for a second four-year term. Continue reading →

Opinion

Telehealth laws need to be updated for a post-COVID health system

During the pandemic, the government fixed these health care access challenges, but that regulatory grace is fast evaporating. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Invading your privacy? There’s an app for that.

Data privacy laws for cell phone apps need updating Continue reading →

LETTERS

Heartsick at betrayal, she still intends to donate her body to science

I want future doctors to have the same understanding of human anatomy that I got from dissecting a human body. Continue reading →

Metro

US Coast Guard leads probe of Titan submersible implosion, aims to collect debris from ocean floor

The Coast Guard is working with the NTSB as well as Canadian, French, and British investigators to determine the cause of the implosion that killed five people on an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

In Lowell, debate over homeless encampment behind park

Lowell’s city manager, Tom Golden, said the city plans to clean out the area in the coming days as the region continues to grapple with how to handle such encampments. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

High school student one of two teens killed in Sunday shooting, investigators say

The teenagers were found shot inside a parked car outside the student’s Braintree home, according to the Norfolk district attorney’s office. Continue reading →

Stan Grossfeld

Gun violence tore their lives apart. A night at Fenway Park helped bring them together.

“Be active, join the fight before you join this club that none of us want to be a part of.” Continue reading →

BRUINS

Linus Ullmark doesn’t know what his future with the Bruins holds, but he’s ready for whatever comes his way

The 29-year-old Swede understands his time sharing a net with Jeremy Swayman may be coming to an end, no matter how well they performed last season. Continue reading →

ON HOCKEY

Jim Montgomery, likely NHL Coach of the Year, still wracked with questions about where his Bruins went wrong

“What did I not do to be able to help our players push through? That’s my job. Like that’s how I look at it, right? Because, obviously, they didn’t seize the moment,” he said Sunday in Nashville. “What did I do that didn’t help them execute?” Continue reading →

Technology

Abortion alarm spurs push for Mass. cellphone data privacy law

A proposed measure would prevent tech companies from selling the location data that’s collected every day by your cellphone. Continue reading →

chesto means business

As Boston’s own Sean O’Brien matches UPS at the bargaining table, Amazon could be next

The Teamsters showdown with the delivery giant could lead to the biggest private-sector strike since the ‘50s — and it’s being led by a labor leader with deep roots in Boston. Continue reading →

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Obituaries

Peter Pouncey, novelist and former Amherst College president, dies at 85

Dr. Pouncey, who studied to become a Jesuit before deciding to be a classics professor, died of complications from vascular dementia May 30 in a nursing home in Canaan, Conn. Continue reading →

Obituaries

H. Lee Sarokin, judge who freed ‘Hurricane’ Carter, dies at 94

Federal judge H. Lee Sarokin freed boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and famously said tobacco companies engaged in a “vast” conspiracy to conceal the dangers of smoking. Continue reading →

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MUSIC REVIEW

Kane Brown is on his game at Fenway Park

On Friday night, he tore through a set of his hits — and unsurprisingly, there were a few curveballs in the mix. Continue reading →

NAMES

Kennedy Center Honorees Include standouts of hip-hop, pop, and opera

Queen Latifah was in her dressing room on the set of the TV drama “The Equalizer” in Brooklyn when she heard the news: she had been chosen as a Kennedy Center honoree. Continue reading →

Names

Poetry is the ultimate summer beach read

There’s no one way to read a book of collected poems, which is why they are great beach books: perfectly portable, easy to enjoy in small or larger doses. Continue reading →