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Thursday, July 13, 2023
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Vermont

‘It hasn’t set in yet’: Vermonters assess the damage after historic flooding

A crushed home — swept from its foundation by the flood waters and carried the length of a football field — was just one of dozens of strange sights. Continue reading →

Health

Severe labor and delivery complications in Mass. nearly doubled over past decade, DPH report finds: ‘Racism — not race — is the risk factor’

Exacerbated by COVID, complications disproportionately affect communities of color and people with disabilities, according to the report. Continue reading →

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action could dampen K-12 diversity efforts, experts say

The ruling in late June arrived as school districts across Massachusetts have encountered heated resistance to equity policies, spurring a spate of legal actions. Continue reading →

Politics

Before crashing into Jamaica Plain house, Councilor Kendra Lara was driving double the speed limit, police say

Boston police investigators are looking to cite Lara with additional violations, including reckless operation of a motor vehicle, speeding, and a seat belt violation, documents show. Continue reading →

Business

Inflation cools sharply in June, good news for consumers and the Fed

Inflation cooled significantly in June, offering some of the most hopeful news since the Federal Reserve began trying to tame rapid price increases 16 months ago — and boosting the chances that the central bank might be able to stop raising interest rates after its meeting this month. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

FBI director Chris Wray: ‘Insane’ to say I’m biased against conservatives

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray testified Wednesday before Congress, defending his record and that of his agents as Republicans repeatedly attacked the bureau for what they called politically motivated investigations and threatened to take away some of the agency’s budget or surveillance authority. Continue reading →

Nation

China targeted State Department e-mails in Microsoft hack, US officials say

Chinese hackers tried to penetrate specific State Department e-mail accounts in the weeks before Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Beijing in June, US officials said Wednesday. Continue reading →

COVID-19

Few US adults support full abortion bans, even in states that have them, an AP-NORC poll finds

The poll was conducted in late June, one year after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, undoing a nationwide right to abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years. Continue reading →

The World

World

Biden braces NATO for long conflict with Russia, making Cold War parallel

President Biden concluded a meeting of NATO allies Wednesday in Vilnius, Lithuania, with an address to that country, and the world, comparing the battle to expel Russia from Ukraine with the Cold War struggle for freedom in Europe, and promising “we will not waver” no matter how long the war continues. Continue reading →

World

Russian military hit by uncertainty as one general is killed and another remains absent

One top commander has disappeared since a mutiny. Another was killed in an airstrike in Ukraine. And a third former commander was gunned down while out on a jog in what may have been an organized hit. Continue reading →

World

Russia’s threat to pull out of Ukraine grain deal raises fears about global food security

Concerns are growing that Russia will not extend a United Nations-brokered deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to parts of the world struggling with hunger, with ships no longer heading to the war-torn country’s Black Sea ports and food exports dwindling. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

The need for Supreme Court ethics reforms transcends party lines

These latest revelations underscore that efforts to bring transparency and accountability to the court should be bipartisan. Actually, they should be nonpartisan. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Pickleball: A net gain for Boston (despite the racket)

Yes, it’s noisy. But recreation space should change with the times, and right now many residents want pickleball. Continue reading →

LETTERS

The poet said, ‘No man is an island.’ Also true on Nantucket.

You have to find a way to compromise and get along with your neighbors. You see them every day. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Seeking the path to justice

If people who have no right to be police officers keep their jobs, those who face convictions on the say-so of those officers should know who they’re dealing with. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Federal prosecutors won’t seek death penalty for inmates charged with killing ‘Whitey’ Bulger

In a one-page filing in US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, prosecutors said they “will not seek a death sentence” if the men are found guilty of federal murder charges that carry a maximum possible sentence of death or life in prison. Continue reading →

Social Justice

White Stadium, a ‘treasure that needs some love,’ could get a $30 million renovation under new proposal

The stadium desperately needs a facelift. And on Tuesday, the city announced that renovation could come from a $30 million injection by an all-women-led group vying to secure a home for a new professional women’s soccer team. Continue reading →

Sports

Tara Sullivan

Gambling is a real threat to the integrity of the NFL, but the league is putting greed over common sense

The NFL, like so many of its pro sports brethren, happily jumped aboard the gravy train. Continue reading →

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

Commissioner Adam Silver has the NBA thriving, with a new CBA, rich television deal, and perhaps expansion

The NBA has its issues but the league is in impeccable shape. Continue reading →

Stan Grossfeld

Many athletes say they play for the love of the game. These five prove it.

There are other teams in the area that you can enjoy watching that provide great entertainment value for a fraction of the price. These athletes work second jobs just to make ends meet. Today, we celebrate them. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Inflation cools sharply in June, good news for consumers and the Fed

Inflation cooled significantly in June, offering some of the most hopeful news since the Federal Reserve began trying to tame rapid price increases 16 months ago — and boosting the chances that the central bank might be able to stop raising interest rates after its meeting this month. Continue reading →

Business

Massport CEO could be on the move

Four years after taking the top job at the agency that runs Logan Airport and Boston’s shipping port, Lisa Wieland is in talks with National Grid about a job. Continue reading →

Commercial

Huge Dorchester Bay project wins key approval

The city’s architectural review board approved the master plan for a 21-building complex to rise on the site of the old Bayside Expo Center. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Ellen Hovde, ‘Grey Gardens’ documentarian, dies at 97

A documentarian, Ellen Hovde was one of the directors of “Grey Gardens,” the groundbreaking 1975 movie that examined the lives of two reclusive women living in a deteriorating mansion on Long Island and inspired both a Broadway musical and an HBO film. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Milan Kundera, Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris aged 94

Milan Kundera's dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia, including "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Arts

Boston Ballet executive director Meredith ‘Max’ Hodges to depart

Hodges, who joined the Boston Ballet in 2014, will become CEO of the Shed in Manhattan. Continue reading →

Television

Amid some deserving Emmy nominees, snubs, surprises, and head scratchers

There were surprises and snubs aplenty when nominations were announced Wednesday. Continue reading →

Music

Peter Wolf returns to TD Garden Saturday as part of the Jim Irsay Collection’s (free!) road show

The J. Geil’s frontman and onetime WBCN DJ talks about the show, famous guitars, and his forthcoming memoir Continue reading →