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Wednesday, July 3, 2024
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Globe Spotlight

Steward Health Care spent millions on surveillance of its critics — even amid financial crisis

The surveillance was part of what Steward’s general counsel called a “spare no expenses mission” to gather dirt on people who were viewed as problematic by the hospital chain’s executives. Continue reading →

Cape Cod and Islands

On Cape Cod, the pandemic marked a golden age for the summer rental market. Those days are over.

It’s a marked shift from the intense demand that Cape Cod and the Islands experienced during the pandemic, when people snatched up second homes and visitors typically booked lengthy stays well into the fall. Continue reading →

Politics

‘It’s insulting.’ Democrats begin breaking with Biden after debate debacle.

Despite the campaign’s effort to stem criticisms, the first congressional Democrat called for the president to step aside as party nominee. Continue reading →

Weather

Hurricane Beryl may be a stark preview of what’s to come

The monster storm is a history-maker, fueled by extremely high ocean heat and proving the Atlantic season is off to an extremely active start. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

In a volatile term, a fractured Supreme Court remade America

The justices took on a stunning array of major disputes and assumed a commanding role in shaping American society and democracy. Continue reading →

Nation

Judge delays Trump’s hush money sentencing until at least September after high court immunity ruling

Trump had been scheduled to face sentencing July 11, just before the Republicans' nominating convention, on his New York convictions on felony charges of falsifying business records. Continue reading →

Politics

Defense Secretary Austin says the US will provide $2.3 billion more in military aid to Ukraine

The announcement came as Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov met with Austin at the Pentagon. And it marks a strong response to pleas from Kyiv for help in battling Russian forces in the Donetsk region. Continue reading →

The World

World

More than 100 killed in Indian religious event stampede, officials say

Relatives wailed in distress as bodies of the dead, placed on stretchers and covered in white sheets, lined the grounds of a local hospital. A bus that arrived there carried more victims, whose bodies were lying on the seats inside. Continue reading →

World

Israeli generals, low on munitions, want a truce in Gaza

The generals think that a truce would be the best way of freeing the roughly 120 Israelis still held, both dead and alive, in Gaza, according to interviews with six current and former security officials. Continue reading →

World

AI begins ushering in an age of killer robots

The pressure to outthink the enemy, along with huge flows of investment, donations, and government contracts, has turned Ukraine into a Silicon Valley for autonomous drones and other weaponry. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

The Read trial did produce a verdict — on law enforcement

Jurors deadlocked on the charges against Read. But the proceedings did reveal iffy police work and tolerance for misogyny at the State Police. Continue reading →

OPINION

The Great Trumpkin confronts the most terrible time of the year

How he hated the Fourth of July and all it stood for! Continue reading →

OPINION

The solution to America’s gerontocracy

Vote for candidates who aren’t addicted to power. Continue reading →

Metro

Health

Boston ends needle collection program that gathered thousands of syringes daily

The needle collection program may be replaced, but organizers say the updated version will have less reach. Continue reading →

Higher Education

US House committee launches probe into Chinese influence at Harvard University

The committee launched the probe after two students who shouted slogans during an April speech by the Chinese ambassador were “forcibly removed” from the event and harassed, according to a letter. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

After Karen Read trial, State Police expecting ‘additional scrutiny’

The State Police, which has faced multiple scandals in recent years, has been thrust back into the spotlight by Det. Michael Proctor’s testimony in the Read case. Continue reading →

Sports

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Red Sox’ Brayan Bello presses restart ahead of important outing against Marlins

Bello was given two extra days of rest after a stretch of starting struggles. Manager Alex Cora is curious how Bello responds to what was a temporary demotion. Continue reading →

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

As the Red Sox consider the trade deadline, they must not ignore recent history

Last year, the Sox were nine games above .500 on July 28. In 2022, they were 11 games over on June 26. Both seasons they finished last. Continue reading →

Bruins

Elliott Groenewold was a Bruins fan growing up and is now hoping to impress at the team’s development camp

Groenewold was a player the Bruins wanted, according to director of amateur scouting Ryan Nadeau. Continue reading →

Business

commentary

Not just big Boston property owners: Small businesses could be hurt by Wu’s tax plan

The controversial proposal to hike commercial real estate taxes, now before the Legislature, could hurt the restaurants, barbershops, and other stores that are tenants in buildings. Continue reading →

Jobs

At Fall River cultivation site, cannabis workers cast off their union

Organized workers doing away with union affiliations is nothing new in the labor movement, and the fact that it’s happening in the nascent cannabis industry reflects just how much the sector has matured. Continue reading →

Healthcare

Longtime Mass. General president Peter Slavin will head Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles

Peter Slavin, who ran Mass. General for nearly two decades before stepping down in 2021, starts this fall as president and chief executive of the institution known as the “hospital for Hollywood stars.” Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

June Leaf, artist who explored the female form, dies at 94

June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration of the female form, by turns whimsical, graceful or ominous, paved the way for later generations of feminist artists, died Monday at her home in New York City. She was 94. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Soma Golden Behr, 84, dies; inspired enterprising journalism at The New York Times

Soma Golden Behr, a longtime senior editor at The New York Times who was a centrifuge of story ideas — they flew out of her in all directions — and whose journalistic passions were poverty, race, and class, which led to reporting that won Pulitzer Prizes, died Sunday in Manhattan. She was 84. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Movies

Bonjour, Boston! The MFA’s French Film Festival returns this month.

The festival doesn’t plan to stick to tradition when it returns this summer, as it will feature a non-French language film for the first time. Continue reading →

MOVIE REVIEW | ★★★

‘Despicable Me 4’: Rise of the Super-Minion

Steve Carell’s Gru and his family are on the run from a gigantic cockroach in the franchise’s sixth installment. Also: the minions become superheroes. Continue reading →

Music

A quick introduction to the guest stars at this year’s Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular

The 50th anniversary of the original Fireworks Spectacular features an impressive slate of guest stars. Continue reading →