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THE GREAT DIVIDE


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Inside the unlicensed counseling that led Boston students to allege emotional abuse

An independent investigator wrote in a report released this week that students described the “Re-Evaluation Counseling” sessions as “weird, uncomfortable, and cult-like." But the report barely scratched the surface of students’ experiences.
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A hasty police commissioner appointment, followed by more mayoral missteps, now threatens to taint Marty Walsh’s legacy

In the rush to contain the Dennis White controversy, the Walsh administration mismanaged the response to a haphazard commissioner selection. The fallout has plunged police headquarters into uncertainty and reverberated from City Hall to Washington, where Walsh now serves as labor secretary.
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Eric Carle, whose ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ conquered children’s literature, dies at 91

Mr. Carle, who had lived in Northampton for many years, founded the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst with his wife, the late Barbara Carle, in 2002.
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On basketball


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Fair or not, Boston will be judged on how it treats Kyrie Irving

Kyrie Irving wanted to put Boston on alert and he did with his statements following the Nets’ Game 2 win over the Celtics. He wants the TD Garden crowd to avoid volatile and potentially racist chiding when he returns to his old home court Friday night. It’s a monumental stage for the city, a stage it didn’t ask for.
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Politics


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Biden asks US intelligence community to investigate COVID-19 origin

President Biden on Wednesday ordered US intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese laboratory.
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Texas will soon allow people to carry handguns without a license, background check, or training

The state’s Republican-led Legislature approved a bill that drops one of its last major gun restrictions late Monday night, sending it to Governor Gregg Abbott, a Republican, who has said he intends to sign it.
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Authorities identify eight victims of California railyard shooting

An employee opened fire Wednesday at a California rail yard, killing eight people before taking his own life as law enforcement rushed in, authorities said, marking the latest attack in a year that has seen a sharp increase in mass killings as the nation emerges from coronavirus restrictions.
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Suspect in Idaho multiple murder case appears in court

Chad Daybell made his first appearance in Idaho court Wednesday on three murder charges in connection with the deaths of his late wife and his new wife’s two children
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Assad’s guaranteed election victory in Syria shows how badly US policy has failed

Syrians voted Wednesday in a presidential election whose outcome is not in doubt. Such is the extent of President Bashar Assad's control over the electoral process that the poll is certain to deliver him a comfortable victory, a fourth seven-year term that will affirm his survival in the face of the 10-year-old rebellion against his rule.
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Blinken claims progress in effort to boost Gaza truce

Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a two-day Mideast mission on Wednesday, winning valuable diplomatic support and hundreds of millions of dollars of pledges from Arab allies as he moved to shore up the cease-fire that ended an 11-day war between Israel and the Gaza Strip’s militant Hamas rulers.
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Belarus plane crisis tightens Lukashenko’s awkward embrace of Putin

He may be the Kremlin’s closest ally, but his loyalty remains in doubt. When Alexander Lukashenko, the eccentric and brutal leader of Belarus, forced down a European passenger jet Sunday to arrest a dissident, he ushered in a new and even more brittle phase in one of the post-Soviet region’s most convoluted and consequential relationships: the one between Lukashenko and President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
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OPINION


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My son was killed in Iraq 14 years ago — who’s responsible?

The Islamic Republic? George W. Bush? Both answers feel like evasions.
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EDITORIAL


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The pandemic taught us a better way to do public business

Cities and towns helped more people participate in local meetings by going remote. They shouldn’t turn back from that progress.
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LETTERS


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Our water is contaminated — where is the will to do something about it?

Whether it’s food packaging, cookware, children’s toys, or a host of other consumer products, we need to get to the source of this water pollution and stop it completely.
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A hasty police commissioner appointment, followed by more mayoral missteps, now threatens to taint Marty Walsh’s legacy

In the rush to contain the Dennis White controversy, the Walsh administration mismanaged the response to a haphazard commissioner selection. The fallout has plunged police headquarters into uncertainty and reverberated from City Hall to Washington, where Walsh now serves as labor secretary.
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Crime & Courts


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Judge blocks Mayor Janey’s plan to fire embattled Police Commissioner White while he appeals her ruling

One day after ruling that Acting Mayor Kim Janey could fire embattled Boston Police Commissioner Dennis White, Superior Court Judge Heidi Brieger said White must be given time to appeal her ruling and ordered Janey to put termination proceedings on hold.
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House Speaker Ron Mariano has a not-so-good day

Massachusetts' House Speaker did not cover himself in glory on Tuesday, making disappointing comments on multiple fronts.
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Alex Speier | On Baseball


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Red Sox remain hopeful Chris Sale will make it into rotation this season

The Sox are not pushing for Chris Sale’s earliest possible return so much as they’re focused on the safest one.
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Report says Trump tried to entice senator to drop Patriots’ Spygate investigation on Robert Kraft’s behalf

Arlen Specter, the late senator from Pennsylvania, had alluded to a possible bribe in his memoir, but never revealed who offered it. Now, his son and ghostwriter have implicated the former president.
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Why the Bruins’ David Pastrnak just kept shooting in Round 1 against the Capitals

Pastrnak has 59 points in 57 career playoff games, making him the rare player in today’s game to average more than a point per game in the postseason.
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Florida’s social media law will intensify the debate over companies’ power

But the measure that limits social media companies’ power to moderate users’ speech may not survive judicial scrutiny.
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Here’s how 13 Mass. companies are planning to go back to the office

Starting June 15, vaccinated employees at HubSpot will be able to work at the company’s Cambridge office without social distancing or wearing a mask. On the other hand, Akamai’s Kendall Square headquarters will remain closed for the rest of the year.
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Regulators clear Mass. casinos to drop most COVID-19 restrictions

The change takes effect Saturday, and it means Encore Boston Harbor, Plainridge Park Casino, and MGM Springfield will be allowed to lift pandemic-era capacity restrictions.
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Eric Carle, whose ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ conquered children’s literature, dies at 91

Mr. Carle, who had lived in Northampton for many years, founded the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst with his wife, the late Barbara Carle, in 2002.
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Obituaries


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John Warner, genteel senator from Virginia, dies at 94

Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, the genteel former Navy secretary who shed the image of a dilettante to become a leading Republican voice on military policy during 30 years in the Senate, died Tuesday night at his home in Alexandria, Va. He was 94.
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Music


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Foo Fighters, Rage Against the Machine to headline Boston Calling in 2022

The two bands originally topped the bill for the 2020 music festival, which was ultimately canceled because of the pandemic.
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Preserving protest art before it gets washed away

A crowdsourced database, begun in Minneapolis, catalogs street art across the United States. so that it won't be forgotten.
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Read it before you stream it

These 10 books adapted for the screen deserve a spot on your summer reading list
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