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Thursday, August 13, 2026


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Metro


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Maine beach uses drones, jet ski to ward off rising tide of sharks

In the last few days alone the drones have spotted more than 30 white sharks in nearby waters.
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Money, Power, Inequality


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Black Bostonians’ median net worth in 2015 was $8. A follow-up survey a decade later shows a deep wealth gap persists.

Even in Massachusetts, where the overall median net worth is $374,000, deep structural inequities persist.
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Retail


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The Harvard COOP lost its way. Can a new type of bookstore mark a turning point for the nearly 150-year-old cooperative?

After years of criticism that it had become a tourist gift shop, the store is testing a new model in Allston as it prepares for bigger transformations in Harvard Square and Kendall Square.
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What’s unique about the insanity defense? The mechanics of how the Lindsay Clancy trial is unfolding.

Prosecutors have the burden of proving Clancy was not criminally insane when she killed her three children.
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The death of a prisoner

Francis Clifford Smith, the longest serving prisoner in US history, has died at 101.
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ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver electric shocks

The Trump administration plans to spend millions of dollars equipping immigration officers with gloves that can deliver electric shocks.
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Takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries

An agonizingly close race in the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin ended with an upset win for moderate David Crowley early Wednesday, the latest turn in a rancorous battle between the party's ascendant left and its old guard that has defined primary season this year.
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Everyone wants to ‘tax the rich.’ In New York City, it’s getting complicated.

A group of homeowners has already sued over the city's new tax on luxury second homes.
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Thailand halts new gun permits days after mass shooting at a school

On Friday morning, a 14-year-old student at a high school northwest of Bangkok used his grandfather’s handgun to fatally shoot both of his grandparents before opening fire at his school, killing five teachers and wounding more than 30 others.
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Europeans, braced for fifth heat wave of 2026, have had enough

The heat is expected to sweep from the west, with a high of 109 degrees Fahrenheit predicted in Spain on Thursday, before hitting more eastern countries like Germany over the weekend.
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Earthquake response strains Colombia’s new government and rescuers as they race against the clock

The devastation has tested Colombia’s new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, and his government as it scrambles to respond to the disaster and civil society as it pushes to provide aid to the most affected communities.
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Expand training programs for entry-level health care jobs

Hospitals need workers, but colleges can’t accept enough students
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Forget the tradwives. These are the women shaping the right.

The women really shaping the conservative movement aren’t baking sourdough or milking cows. They’re fighting over abortion, trans rights, education, and public health.
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Trump bullying of Lisa Cook doesn’t just show his lawlessness. It shows his weakness.

The Supreme Court brushed back his attempt to fire the Fed governor once. But the president is hoping a loophole may give him another shot at retribution.
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Maine beach uses drones, jet ski to ward off rising tide of sharks

In the last few days alone the drones have spotted more than 30 white sharks in nearby waters.
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The death of a prisoner

Francis Clifford Smith, the longest serving prisoner in US history, has died at 101.
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Crime & Courts


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Lindsay Clancy trial: Testimony focus shifts back to deaths of children

Clancy was visibly distressed during the testimony.
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Red Sox lefthander Payton Tolle starstruck by matchup against the Blue Jays’ Max Scherzer

Tolle, 23, will be making the 23rd start of his career. Scherzer, 42, is in his 19th season in the majors.
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Red Sox can’t rally after eighth-inning trouble against Blue Jays, lose fifth in a row

Boston scored three runs in the ninth inning after Toronto broke open a tied game with five in the eighth.
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Was Patriots star Christian Gonzalez’s absence Tuesday because of injury or his contract? Either way, it’s not good.

No fan or neutral observer should blame Gonzalez if he made a business decision on Tuesday.
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Hub for underserved entrepreneurs to open in downtown Boston

BizGrow Central is aiming to provide free legal trainings, co-working space, and other resources to hundreds of entrepreneurs.
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Suno agrees to give record label BMG a cut of AI revenue in exchange for not bringing copyright claims

Under the deal, Suno will pay musicians who agree to participate in its AI song creation app and BMG agreed to drop claims challenging Suno’s earlier use of copyrighted music to train its AI models.
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It was once New England’s largest building. A New York developer wants to turn it into housing.

If approved, the project would cost up to $410 million and be by far Boston’s largest office to residential conversion to date.
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Zhu Rongji, former premier who pushed China to a market economy, dies at 97

Mr. Zhu contributed more to liberalizing the Chinese economy and making it more internationally competitive than any other recent leader except Deng Xiaoping.
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Zhu Rongji, former premier who pushed China to a market economy, dies at 97

Mr. Zhu contributed more to liberalizing the Chinese economy and making it more internationally competitive than any other recent leader except Deng Xiaoping.
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Carole Charnow to retire this month as president and CEO of Boston Children’s Museum

Under her leadership, the museum won wide acclaim for accessibility and educational programming. She is also credited for putting it on sound financial footing.
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Movies


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Ben Affleck plays a distraught LA politician looking for his son in first teaser for ‘Animals’

Affleck directs and stars in the new thriller, which is set to hit Netflix this fall.
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Lawsuit alleging Steven Tyler groomed, assaulted teen in the ’70s heads to trial in LA later this month

In the civil suit, Julia Misley — formerly Julia Holcomb — alleges that she and Tyler began a physical relationship in 1973 when she was 16 and he was 26.
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