How JD Vance as VP could reshape public health

WATCH: From abortion, to the opioid crisis, and COVID, STAT reporter Sarah Owermohle unpacks how the Ohio senator may influence Trump’s policy priorities. Watch →

Boston's 2024 Olympics: Missed opportunity or dodged bullet?

WATCH: Business columnist Shirley Leung weighs in on what could have been. Watch →

So long Charlie: MBTA launches contactless payments

WATCH: Soon, you can tap a phone or credit card to board a bus or train. But, as transportation reporter Taylor Dolven found out, it comes with a big price tag. Watch →

Nation

Gunman searched ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?’ before Trump shooting

The gunman who tried to kill former president Donald Trump searched online for details of John F. Kennedy’s assassination a week before the shooting, apparently typing “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” the director of the FBI told lawmakers Wednesday. Continue reading →

Nation

Netanyahu delivers a forceful defense of Israel to applause in Congress

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Wednesday issued a full-throated defense of Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip during an address to Congress that laid bare deep divisions in Washington over a war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. Continue reading →

Nation

Harris asks for 2024 support from women of color during an address at a historically Black sorority

Voters in Indiana haven't backed a Democratic presidential candidate in nearly 16 years. But Harris, a woman of Black and South Asian descent, was speaking to a group already excited by her historic status as the likely Democratic nominee. Continue reading →

World

Monday breaks the record for the hottest day ever on Earth

There’s a good chance that when the data come in for Tuesday, it will be three straight days of global record-breaking heat, said Carlo Buontempo, the director of the European climate service Copernicus. “These peaks are not normally isolated,” he said. Continue reading →

World

Report says 200,000 people were abused in care in New Zealand over decades in ‘national disgrace’

New Zealand’s independent inquiry into decades of abuse of children and vulnerable adults released a blistering final report Wednesday finding the country’s state agencies and churches failed to prevent, stop, or admit to the mistreatment of those in their care. Continue reading →

World

Plane crashes just after takeoff from Nepal’s capital, killing 18 people. Pilot is lone survivor.

Police official Basanta Rajauri said authorities have pulled out all 18 bodies. The pilot has injuries to his eyes but his life is not in any danger, said a doctor at Kathmandu Medical College Hospital. Continue reading →

OPINION

How Boston said no to the 2024 Summer Olympics

Confronting the Olympics is a classic David vs. Goliath battle that often pits raw economic power against scrappy people power. Boston’s bid for the 2024 Olympics was no exception. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Here comes the Beacon Hill logjam

By waiting so long on legislation, state lawmakers now face a headlong rush to a July 31 deadline. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Neighborhoods feel Mass. and Cass fallout. There is work to do.

Three Boston elected officials ask: "How can our city and state respond to protect the health, wellness, and safety of all of our residents?" Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Family of Dorchester mom who died in custody of Suffolk sheriff’s office sues

Ayesha Marie Johnson, 35, died in 2021 at the South Bay House of Correction in Boston as she waited for a ride to a court-ordered treatment program. Continue reading →

Metro

After Southwick students hold mock slave auction, AG Campbell works to revise district’s policies on racism

Under a new plan, the Southwick-Tolland-Granville District must revise its policies in response to such racist incidents. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

A pair of Mass. State Police troopers who testified at Karen Read trial are under internal investigation

Earlier in the week, Read learned she can expect to stand trial again in January on charges related to the death of her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O’Keefe. Continue reading →

on baseball

Craig Breslow picks his lane for Red Sox at trade deadline: ‘We’re going to look to improve the team’

With the Sox in the hunt for a playoff spot, the chief baseball officer indicated that he will look to acquire pitching and a righthanded bat. Continue reading →

On football

Jerod Mayo and the Patriots already are seeing the downside to the player-friendly approach

After 24 years of being ruled by Bill Belichick’s iron fist, the Patriots are trying to create a softer, friendlier atmosphere at Gillette Stadium. Continue reading →

olympics

This could have been our Olympic summer. Will Boston ever host the Games?

In January 2015, Boston was officially selected as the American bid city for the 2024 Summer Games, but by the end of July, the dream was over. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Healey administration puts Hurley complex out for redevelopment — again

On Wednesday, state officials announced a new redevelopment effort for the Charles F. Hurley and Erich Lindemann buildings, which sprawl across a massive block between Cambridge and Merrimac streets, with an eye to addressing the “urgent need for housing.” Continue reading →

Housing

Mass. makes progress on racial homeownership gap, study says, but disparities persist

Massachusetts made progress toward reducing racial disparities in home buying in 2022, but Black and Latino buyers remain largely confined to the state’s poorer cities and urban neighborhoods, according to a new report on lending out Wednesday. Continue reading →

THE FINE PRINT

When a hurricane upends travel plans, what do airlines owe consumers for a flight not taken?

Airline practices give passengers perverse incentives to fly in potentially dangerous weather, some customers say. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Renauld White, debonair model who broke barriers, dies at 80

Renauld White, who is widely considered to be the country’s first Black male supermodel — and who for nearly half a century was an elegant and enduring image of American style, walking the runways for Bill Blass, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Jeffrey Banks, and Donna Karan, as well as being the first Black American model to appear on the cover of GQ magazine — died June 26 in Manhattan. He was 80. Continue reading →

Obituaries

John Mayall, tireless and influential British blues pioneer, dies at 90

His band became known as a training ground for some of the greatest blues guitarists to come out of England, including Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor. Continue reading →

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Books

In new poetry book, Joan Baez introduces us to some of her ‘alters’

The singer-songwriter addresses her childhood trauma and dissociative identity disorder diagnosis in her new book, which she'll read from at the Newport Folk Festival on Saturday. We talked ahead of time. Continue reading →

Theater

Ethan Slater plays Marcel Marceau, brings work in progress to Williamstown Theatre Festival

“Marcel on the Train” focuses on Marceau’s work smuggling Jewish orphans, as part of the Nazi resistance. Continue reading →

MUSIC REVIEW

What’s their age again? Blink-182 brings youthful hijinks to Fenway Park.

Travis Barker and the band's crude, idiocy-fueled material was charging, hopped up, and bright during their show in Boston on Tuesday night. Continue reading →