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Sunday, June 16, 2024
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Jobs

A 23-minute ride for $3.52: Boston’s food delivery drivers are getting squeezed from all sides

With little oversight from app-based companies, a largely migrant workforce trying to make ends meet is rushing around the city — and raising safety concerns — to satisfy the insatiable demand for takeout. Continue reading →

Politics

They were fake electors for Trump in 2020. Now in Milwaukee they’ll get to help make him the official 2024 nominee.

At least 17 false electors from 2020 have been selected as delegates for the 2024 convention, a sign of the enduring influence of the election denial movement in Trump's GOP. Continue reading →

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Some Massachusetts students are so anxious, they’re missing school for months on end. What can schools do?

School refusal is a form of chronic absenteeism often misunderstood by public school systems, whose staff typically don’t have the training or capacity to meet kids’ mental health needs. Continue reading →

Business

‘If we lose the hospital, where are we going to go?’ A community is on edge amid Steward bankruptcy.

There are no clear answers to questions facing communities like Haverhill that are home to Steward hospitals in Massachusetts and across the country. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

In California, tribal members are reclaiming the ‘land of the flowing water’

In recent years, Native American tribes have reclaimed hundreds of acres of ancestral land, often after decades of advocacy. Continue reading →

Nation

Some hawking stem cells say they can treat almost anything. They can’t.

Attorneys general across the U.S. have a new fight on their hands: protecting Americans from unproven and expensive stem cell treatments that salespeople claim can cure almost anything Continue reading →

Nation

A few midwives seek to uphold Native Hawaiian birth traditions. Would a state law jeopardize them?

“To be able to have our babies in the places and in the ways of our kupuna, our ancestors, is very vital." Continue reading →

The World

World

An explosion of an armored vehicle kills 8 Israeli soldiers, an official says

Eight Israeli soldiers were killed while riding in an armored vehicle in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Israeli military said, as the Israeli offensive in the southern city of Rafah continued to exact a toll among its troops. Continue reading →

World

World leaders meet in Switzerland to discuss a Ukraine peace roadmap. Russia is notably absent

Dozens of world leaders have converged on a Swiss resort to discuss how to bring peace to war-ravaged Ukraine, though any hopes of a real breakthrough are muted by the absence of Russia Continue reading →

World

Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard

The plane was carrying American and French diplomatic couriers in June 1940 when it was downed just days before Moscow annexed the Baltic states Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

In New England, a tree-killing worm may spell the end of autumn’s yellow hues

As a parasite infects beech forests in the Eastern United States, a team of researchers is trying to fight back — before it’s too late. Continue reading →

I couldn’t remember my dad’s voice. He died when I was only 4.

What did he sound like? Was it strong and clear? Was it similar to a broadcaster’s, like I had become? Continue reading →

‘Opening up to a lawyer during a blind date is not easy!’

Will these two Duke University alums be a match? Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

LETTERS

Proposed fee on $1m-plus home sales sets calculators a-tapping

"Camouflaging a levy by employing a euphemism doesn’t disguise its effect. A rose by any other name is still a tax," writes one reader. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

The price of college shouldn’t be a guessing game

Schools need to be more transparent about how much financial aid students get and the bottom-line cost of attendance. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Growing up in N.Y.: talking to strangers, a sense of a village

I’ve found that in New York, people tend to be friendly and often help one another. When they see a person trip and fall or struggle with a wheelchair, they reach out and assist them. Living in New England has been a different experience. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime & Courts

In prison, tablets give inmates connection to the outside world

Under an expanded education program, all Massachusetts Department of Correction facilities now have electronic tablets available for inmates, complete with educational programs and job-training courses. Continue reading →

Metro

Revelers reflect on freedom, friendship at Juneteenth celebration in Franklin Park

Governor Maura Healey, Mayor Michelle Wu and other elected officials mixed with celebrants at the gathering Saturday. Continue reading →

Health

Opioid deaths in Boston rose last year despite a statewide decline

The number of Bostonians dying from opioid-related overdoses throughout the state increased as well. Continue reading →

Sports

Tara Sullivan

On Father’s Day, we’re reminded that every day around these Celtics is Family Day

The moms, the dads, the kids, the husbands, the wives — like a growing army they’ve joined the Celtics players all season. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Recalling the epic Luis Tiant-Nolan Ryan pitchers’ duel in 1974 — something it’s safe to say we’ll never see again

50 years ago in Anaheim, Ryan went 13 innings and Tiant 14⅓ in a battle of wills between competitors who simply would not give in. Continue reading →

On baseball

Red Sox leadoff hitter Jarren Duran plays at one speed: all out

He has yet to miss a game this season while embracing the challenge of trying to play in all 162. Continue reading →

Business

Business

‘If we lose the hospital, where are we going to go?’ A community is on edge amid Steward bankruptcy.

There are no clear answers to questions facing communities like Haverhill that are home to Steward hospitals in Massachusetts and across the country. Continue reading →

TAX RELIEF

Property tax relief available for some N.H. homeowners

The number of claims granted by the state has been declining since the program was first implemented in 2003. Continue reading →

Ideas

IDEAS

The Boston hippies who developed technologies that Silicon Valley wouldn’t dare to make

Today’s self-proclaimed tech "disrupters" have nothing on the countercultural nerds working out of a Lewis Wharf lab in the 1960s. Continue reading →

IDEAS

Art created below decks slick with blubber and blood

Whalemen spent years crossing oceans hunting leviathans. The illustrated journals they left behind tell us how they lived — and very nearly died. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Akira Endo, researcher who found cholesterol-fighting statins, dies at 90

A fascination with fungi and years of experimenting led to the discovery for the Japanese biochemist. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, 75, dies; expanded Chabad’s global reach

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, who helped establish scores of outposts around the world for the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement and served as a global ambassador of sorts to aid its far-flung emissaries in accomplishing their mission of revitalizing Jewish life, died June 4. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Morrie Markoff, listed as oldest man in the US, dies at 110

Mr. Markoff's brain has been donated for research on what is known as super-aging, Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Arts

Charles Daniels, who photographed rock’s biggest legends, gets show extended at Nave Gallery in Somerville

“We kept finding more film,” Daniels’s longtime partner, Susan Berstler, said during a recent tour of the exhibition. “We still have another batch.” Continue reading →

BUZZSAW

David E. Kelley has made dozens of shows. These are the best and worst.

The writer-producer has created 29 series in the last 35 years, including his new one on Apple TV+, “Presumed Innocent." But they haven't all been winners. Here are my favorites and least favorites. Continue reading →

THEATER

Who will win at the 2024 Tonys, and who should

The 77th annual awards take place Sunday. A Globe critic highlights his picks for a star-studded year. Continue reading →

Travel

TRAVEL

Here’s to your health in Portland, a city of indulgence

We checked out the Astraea Spa at the new Longfellow Hotel in Portland’s residential West End, the first independent hotel opening in Portland in more than 20 years. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

This tiny Maine island is recruiting new residents to join its tiny population

A big hardware store is a boat trip away, winter is long, and a medical center is nowhere to be found. If this sounds good to you, Isle au Haut could be home, sweet home. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Real Estate

Green Living: Are buyers willing to pay more for sustainable features?

There is one feature that home shoppers want. Some homes have it. Others don’t and probably never will. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Green Living: Can you dig it? How to remove your grass economically.

Landscapers and gardening consultants offer advice on how to plan the great lawn upheaval, and it all comes down to patience versus good old-fashioned elbow grease. Continue reading →