Nation

New emails detail Trump’s efforts to have Justice Department take up his election fraud claims

Donald Trump’s staff began sending emails to Jeffrey Rosen, the No. 2 at the Justice Department, asking him to embrace Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election at least 10 days before Rosen assumed the role of acting attorney general, according to new emails disclosed by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Continue reading →

Nation

Historic heat wave brings 100-degree heat to 40 million in western US

More than 40 million Americans are in the crosshairs of extreme triple-digit heat this week, with some spots soaring over 120 degrees as records fall across the West. The heat in many areas is downright dangerous, prompting excessive heat warnings in seven states where temperatures will be hazardous to human health. Continue reading →

Nation

Southern Baptists pick president who worked for racial unity

The Southern Baptist Convention tamped down a push from the right at its largest meeting in decades on Tuesday, electing a new president who has worked to bridge racial divides in the church and defeating an effort to make an issue of critical race theory. Continue reading →

World

Far-right march tests Israel’s new governing coalition, amid threats from Hamas

The march is a rescheduled version of an aborted far-right procession originally planned for last month, which the group cited to justify firing rockets toward Jerusalem on May 10, setting off an 11-day air war between Hamas and Israel. Continue reading →

World

China, its military might expanding, accuses NATO of hypocrisy

China’s former leader, Deng Xiaoping, famously used an old proverb to describe the country’s foreign policy after the end of the Cold War: “Hide our strength, bide our time.” Those days are long gone. Continue reading →

World

Why Asia, the pandemic champion, remains miles away from the finish line

All across the Asia-Pacific region, the countries that led the world in containing the coronavirus are now languishing in the race to put it behind them. Continue reading →

OPINION

Biden strategy takes on homegrown extremism

The approach breaks new ground with a broader holistic approach that emphasizes issues of equity and societal resilience as much as immediate terror threats. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

A lemon of a census could be election reform lemonade

A tweak to the way Massachusetts does redistricting can bring new faces to Beacon Hill. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Mitch McConnell, a.k.a. the new ‘Mr. Nyet’

Bottom line, Republicans have to realize that hearth and home issues have a profound influence on geopolitical action. Continue reading →

Metro

How Massachusetts communities are celebrating the state’s first official Juneteenth

For more than a century, Juneteenth was a Texan holiday, then a Southern holiday, commemorating the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger of the Union Army told formerly enslaved people in Galveston they were free. Now it will be celebrated for the first time across the Commonwealth as an official state holiday. Continue reading →

Metro

Baker announces ‘VaxMillions’ lottery program, offering $1 million cash prizes to boost vaccination rates

State officials on Tuesday said residents who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will have the chance to win $1 million in a special Lottery sweepstakes. Continue reading →

Health

Mental health and housing instability worsened for LGBTQ youth during pandemic, report says

Eighty-three percent of nonbinary young people reported “feeling sad or hopeless every day for more than two weeks,” followed by 78 percent of transgender respondents, according to a report released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth. Continue reading →

Red Sox 10, Braves 8

Red Sox hit four homers to put away Braves

“It was an ugly win,” Sox manager Alex Cora said after the 10-8 victory. “But it’s a big-league win. We didn’t give up.” Continue reading →

ON HOCKEY

Don Sweeney, Cam Neely know change is needed for Bruins to win another Stanley Cup

After this year's loss to the Islanders, the Bruins now have failed to make it past the second round in five of their last six postseasons. Continue reading →

Patriots

Patriots’ Dont’a Hightower is at minicamp to play football, and he can’t be any clearer

Hightower opted out last season because of the pandemic. Continue reading →

Innovation economy

Life sciences is poised to be Boston’s dominant industry. Has the area become the Silicon Valley of biotech?

Since December, you can find six major indications that Boston is the undisputed center of the life sciences industry, a place where ideas and products that change ― and save ― people’s lives around the world originate. Continue reading →

Business

Buoyed by allied summits, Biden ready to take on Putin

Fresh from supportive summits with allies, Joe Biden declared himself ready Tuesday to take on Russia’s Vladimir Putin in far more confrontational talks — a climactic finish to the most important week of meetings in his young presidency. Continue reading →

Business

A power play? Steam plant owner aims to decarbonize downtown with huge building project

First the partners need to navigate the bureaucracy at the Department of Transportation, which controls the property at the heart of this proposal. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Pioneering investor dubbed ‘China’s First Shareholder’ dies

Yang Huaiding died Sunday at 71, the state-owned Securities Times and other business publications reported, citing a statement by his family. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Lisa Banes, film and stage actress, dies at 65

Lisa Banes, a versatile actress who came to prominence on the New York stage in the 1980s and went on to a busy career that also included roles on television and in the films “Cocktail” and “Gone Girl,” died Monday of head injuries she sustained 10 days earlier when she was struck by a scooter in Manhattan. She was 65. Continue reading →

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ARTS

Awash with water-themed art in New Bedford

Highlights of DATMA's city-wide WATER 2021 series include an outdoor exhibition with portraits of fisherwomen worldwide. Continue reading →

MOVIE REVIEW

‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’: It isn’t necessarily the character who needs protecting

Star power can do only so much. How can a movie with so much action feel so tired? Continue reading →

KEEP THE CHANGE

‘Customers will need to learn that the restaurant business will never be the same again’

COVID-19 has wrought devastation but also an opportunity to create a new way forward. Here’s what workers want the community to know. Continue reading →