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Massachusetts

‘There is still really a need for this’: Community fridges charge on as pandemic wanes

Community fridges opened up across the Boston area to respond to hunger insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, organizers say they are here to stay, with some operations expanding to new neighborhoods. Continue reading →

Globe Local

MassNotify: too little, too late in the fight against COVID?

The app’s launch at a time when COVID-19 cases have declined dramatically and life is edging back to normal has some experts scratching their heads. Continue reading →

Climate Change

Heat waves are becoming more common in New England. These four charts show the damage inflicted by the most recent one

The stunning numbers highlight an alarming phenomenon at work as climate change makes periods of extreme heat more common and prolonged: The warming climate is leading us into a dangerous vicious cycle. Continue reading →

Climate Change

Is it possible to buy a climate-friendly air conditioner? We asked an expert

Insulate your home well. Depend on Energy Star guidelines. And, oh yeah, turn down the unit when you’re not at home. Continue reading →

Nation

The push for LGBTQ civil rights stalls in the Senate as advocates search for Republican support

The long march toward equal rights for gay, lesbian, and transgender Americans — whose advocates have eyed major advances with complete Democratic control in Washington — has run into a wall of opposition in the US Senate. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Deadly Pride parade crash appears unintentional, officials say

A member of a men’s chorus group unintentionally slammed into fellow chorists at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, killing one member of the group and seriously injuring another, the group’s director said Sunday, correcting initial speculation that it was a hate crime directed at the gay community. Continue reading →

Nation

8 kids in youth van among the 13 lives lost to Claudette

Eight children in a van from a youth home for abused or neglected children were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on a wet interstate that also killed a man and his baby in another vehicle, the most devastating blow from a tropical depression that claimed 13 lives in Alabama. Continue reading →

Nation

Family seeks another chance at charging officer in man’s death

A judge will decide this week whether to charge a Wisconsin police officer who killed a man sitting in a parked car, after the man’s family invoked a rarely used legal process in a bid to get around prosecutors who cleared the officer. Continue reading →

The World

World

Progress made in Vienna at Iran nuclear talks, diplomats say

Top diplomats said Sunday that further progress had been made at talks between Iran and global powers to try to restore a landmark 2015 agreement to contain Iranian nuclear development that was abandoned by the Trump administration. They said it was now up to the governments involved in the negotiations to make political decisions. Continue reading →

World

World powers must ‘wake up’ on Iran nuclear deal, Israeli PM says

Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett opened his first Cabinet meeting on Sunday by slamming Iran’s newly-elected president and calling on world powers to “wake up” to the perils of returning to a nuclear agreement with Tehran. Continue reading →

World

Soviets once denied an anthrax leak, and US scientists backed the story

Patients with unexplained pneumonias started showing up at hospitals; within days, dozens were dead. The secret police seized doctors’ records and ordered them to keep silent. US spies picked up clues about a lab leak, but local authorities had a more mundane explanation: contaminated meat. It took more than a decade for the truth to come out. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

‘Asian virus’?

Although I learned about the history of racism in America, I didn’t think racism would be present in Lowell, because our city was a place of immigrants. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Less caution, more vision needed for a post-pandemic MBTA

With ridership down because of COVID-19, the agency needs to make dramatic moves to lure back customers. Continue reading →

OPINION

We are America

Students nationwide contemplated the pandemic year, with all its stresses, in the We Are America Project. Continue reading →

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Metro

Metro

How should Boston fix the ‘Mass. and Cass’ area?

Virtually everyone agrees that Boston’s “Methadone Mile” is an eyesore at best and a serious threat to public health and safety at worst. Continue reading →

Metro

As state approaches vaccination goal, it must ‘pull out all the stops’ amid Delta variant threat

A local epidemiologist is urging the state to step up inoculations, warning that a more contagious variant could become the country’s dominant COVID-19 strain this summer. Continue reading →

Metro

Today in History

Today is Monday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2021. There are 193 days left in the year. Continue reading →

Sports

ROYALS 7, RED SOX 3

Painful Sunday in Kansas City as Red Sox outplayed, outslugged in series finale

An early 2-0 lead evaporated under 15 Kansas City hits, with the Red Sox also losing Kevin Plawecki and Christian Arroyo to injuries as they dropped the series finale to the Royals. Continue reading →

US OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

Jon Rahm birdies the last two holes to win his first major title in the US Open at Torrey Pines

He is the first Spaniard to win the US Open. Continue reading →

US OPEN NOTEBOOK

Mackenzie Hughes’s ball lands in a tree — and sticks

The ball never came down and Hughes took a double bogey. Continue reading →

Business

THE FINE PRINT

Comcast refunding more money for missed sports broadcasts

Comcast caught flak last year when it continued to charge customers a monthly $8.75 “regional sports fee,” even though major league sports had suspended their seasons and there were no games to watch. Continue reading →

Business

After the pandemic, expect more work for freelancers

Sixty percent of 700-plus US business leaders surveyed would prefer to “rent, borrow, or share talent,” and 60 percent anticipate a core workforce with fewer full-time staff. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Marianne Harkless Diabate, who fused dance forms into works of ‘limitless range,’ dies at 63

Ms. Harkless Diabate codirected Benkadi Drum & Dance and was a founder of Racines Black Dance Festival. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Richard Stolley, who launched People magazine and secured JFK film, dies at 92

The journalist obtained the Zapruder film footage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination for Life in 1963 and later built a newsstand juggernaut as the founding editor of People. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Music

Taylor Swift surprises fans by announcing that ‘Red’ will be her next re-recorded album

The album, expanded from the original to include 30 songs, is set for release on Nov. 19. Continue reading →

Names

On Betty’s Book List, she’s always the main character

Salem native Elizabeth Cayouette’s TikTok is a book recommendation account like you’ve never seen. Continue reading →

Names

Betty’s Book List summer reads

#BookTok superstar Elizabeth Cayouette recommends her top three must-read novels. Continue reading →