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Cities are considering reparations to repay the debt of slavery, but can they?

As Providence and other cities consider reparations, some scholars argue that the nation owes a moral and financial debt to Black Americans that exceeds what any municipal government can pay. Continue reading →

Amid rise in COVID-19 cases, experts urge rollback of reopening in Mass.

Daily counts of new COVID-19 cases continued to tick upward in Massachusetts over the weekend, approaching what some experts see as the threshold for rolling back the state’s reopening. Continue reading →

Participants who gamed out what a contested election would look like offer recommendations

Prime state officials for the possibility of a contested election. Prepare for the mass mobilization of peaceful protests. And get the public ready for the idea that Election Day could essentially last for weeks as a wave of mail-in ballots are counted. Continue reading →

Will anything change for the low-wage essential workers once hailed as heroes?

Even as the pandemic continues to rage, many temporary wage increases have come to an end. The lawn signs hailing front-line workers are fading; the thank-yous have dwindled. So what happens now? Continue reading →

New effort aims to lift city’s valedictorians

Warren Tolman, a former candidate for governor and attorney general, is launching a program inspired by the Globe series, in an effort to further support this year’s valedictorians as they prepare for college in the fall. Continue reading →

The Nation

Judge whose son was killed by misogynistic lawyer speaks out

“Two weeks ago, my life as I knew it changed in an instant, and my family will never be the same,” Esther Salas said in a video statement. Continue reading →

District attorney is investigating Trump and his company over fraud, filing suggests

The office of the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., made the disclosure in a new court filing arguing President Trump should turn over his tax returns. Continue reading →

Carolinas brace for storm surge, floods, as Isaias nears

Coastal residents secured patio furniture, ferry operators completed evacuations on the Outer Banks, and officials passed out sandbags and offered car space in elevated garages Monday as Isaias marched northward, forecast to hit the Carolinas as a minimal hurricane. Continue reading →

The World

WHO advance team ends visit to China to probe COVID origin

The World Health Organization said Monday an advance team looking into the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak has concluded its mission in China, and the United Nations health agency is preparing the deployment of a larger group of specialists to the suspected outbreak zone. Continue reading →

Spain’s former king leaving country amid financial scandal

Spain’s former monarch, Juan Carlos I, is leaving Spain to live in another, unspecified, country amid a financial scandal, according to a letter published on the royal family’s website Monday. Continue reading →

Israel says it hit bombers on Syrian boundary

The military released grainy, edited footage of the ambush of what it said were four militants planting explosives in the area, amid heightened tensions along Israel’s northern frontiers. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

At Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, moral accountability lingers for Charlie Baker

If full accountability for the dead veterans in the Holyoke Soldiers' Home matters — then it does matter who hired Bennett Walsh. Continue reading →

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Metro

A bride, her grandfather, and a love story

If Audrey Mazzola's grandfather couldn’t come to her wedding, well, she would bring her wedding to him. Continue reading →

You can’t eat a flag

John Hume, a voice of moderation in an arena dominated by extremists, spent his entire life in the middle of the road, trying to pull together groups of inherently different people. Continue reading →

Will anything change for the low-wage essential workers once hailed as heroes?

Even as the pandemic continues to rage, many temporary wage increases have come to an end. The lawn signs hailing front-line workers are fading; the thank-yous have dwindled. So what happens now? Continue reading →

Sports

ben volin | on football

Five players the Patriots should acquire to help offset the opt-outs

No NFL team has been hit harder with opt-outs than the Patriots, but there is talent available on the market. Continue reading →

On Baseball

The Red Sox rotation isn’t hopeless, but respectability might not come until 2021

Just one-fifth of the championship-winning rotation from 2018 remains, with external solutions limited largely to lottery tickets and internal ones similarly lacking. Continue reading →

tara sullivan

It’s been a tough reentry into the games for our local teams

Just two years ago, Boston was on top of the sports world (again), but the pandemic has turned that world upside-down. Continue reading →

Business & Tech

Trump’s shakedown of TikTok, in the name of national security

The administration’s action is predicated on concern that Beijing could force TikTok to turn over personal data on its 100 million American users. But the tactics of the deal are baffling. Continue reading →

Virgin Galactic teams up with Rolls-Royce on engine for supersonic aircraft

Stories you may have missed from the world of business. Continue reading →

Virginia defense contractor with billions in sales got millions in pandemic loans intended for small businesses

Virginia defense contractor with billions in sales got millions in pandemic loans intended for small businesses Continue reading →

Obituaries

John Hume, who worked to end N. Ireland violence, dies at 83

Mr. Hume was a visionary politician who won a Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning the agreement that ended violence in his native Northern Ireland. Continue reading →

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