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Health

Respect, but don’t fear the Delta variant

Health experts in Massachusetts and elsewhere are adamant that the Delta variant should not ruin our Fourth of July or require vaccinated people to dig out that box of paper masks. If you’re fully immunized, they say, you’re safe. Continue reading →

Metro

A beloved neighbor returns to ‘no better place’

At long-last, 58-year-old Mike Walsh was back home after more than a half-year battling a historic pandemic. In that time, he was hospitalized and placed on a ventilator for more than 100 days so perilously close to death that doctors braced the family for the possibility — even likelihood — that he would never return home. Yet here he was. Continue reading →

The Great Divide

Attempt to water down plan to bring more disadvantaged children into exam schools generates a backlash

The eleventh-hour changes sparked sharp criticism from parents, students, mayoral candidates, and city councilors. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

An online trail leaves few clues about Winthrop shooter

Nathan Allen's online trail reveals few indications about his alleged journey into white supremacy. But experts who study the far right say incongruities between someone’s public persona and private animus are not uncommon. Continue reading →

Nation

Trump’s company is told to expect criminal charges, a dramatic turn in years-long probe of former president’s business dealings

Prosecutors have told attorneys for former president Donald Trump’s business that both the company and its longtime chief financial officer are likely to be indicted on Thursday, according to two people familiar with the charges. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

House votes to create select committee to investigate Capitol riot as partisan lines are redrawn

That nearly all Republicans opposed the legislation made clear the political challenges Democrats will face as they attempt the probe. Continue reading →

POLTICIAL NOTEBOOK

Supreme Court leaves CDC ban on evictions in place

The ban has just been extended another month, until the end of July, and the Biden administration said it will end then. Continue reading →

Nation

New ramp will allow use of heavy equipment at collapse site

The ramp potentially accelerates the removal of concrete that “could lead to incredibly good news events,” the state fire marshal said. Continue reading →

The World

World

Most European troops exit Afghanistan quietly after 20 years

Most European troops have already pulled out of Afghanistan, quietly withdrawing months before the US-led mission was officially expected to end — part of an anticlimactic close to the “forever war” that risks leaving the country on the brink of civil war. Continue reading →

World

Canadian Indigenous group says more graves found at new site

A Canadian Indigenous group said Wednesday a search using ground-penetrating radar has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site near a former Catholic Church-run residential school that housed Indigenous children taken from their families. Continue reading →

World

Kim Jong Un sounds alarm on COVID with warning of ‘great crisis’

North Korea's leader is watching the country face a "great crisis" over a quarantine breach is raising more questions about what is going wrong inside his secretive regime. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Democrats discover that ‘defund the police’ is political poison

A fearsome wave of riots and the largest murder spike in more than 60 years have a way of clarifying the political stakes. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Making prisons more humane

Massachusetts needs to find a better way to care for people with mental illness who remain behind bars. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Almost like a mirage, an extended sales tax holiday floats before us

Readers offer a range of views on Governor Baker's proposal to extend the state's annual weekend sales tax holiday to a period of two months. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

A beloved neighbor returns to ‘no better place’

At long-last, 58-year-old Mike Walsh was back home after more than a half-year battling a historic pandemic. In that time, he was hospitalized and placed on a ventilator for more than 100 days so perilously close to death that doctors braced the family for the possibility — even likelihood — that he would never return home. Yet here he was. Continue reading →

RI NEWS

Guatemalan immigrant seeking better life for his family loses his own to save a stranger

Valentin Cardona Sanchez died after he leapt into the treacherous waters at Conimicut Point Park to save a drowning child. Continue reading →

Health

Massachusetts senior care company mandates COVID shots for workers — a first for state’s nursing homes

The move comes as vaccination rates remain stubbornly low at many nursing homes and other senior care facilities. Continue reading →

Sports

dan shaughnessy

At the halfway point, Chaim Bloom is pleased with Red Sox but says: ‘We haven’t accomplished anything yet’

The Red Sox have made a full turnaround from last year's misery, but the chief baseball officer knows there is still work to be done. Continue reading →

red sox notebook

‘Typical Chris Sale. What more can you ask for?’ Red Sox ace looks sharp in live batting practice session

The rehabbing lefthander threw two simulated innings, topping out at 95 m.p.h. Continue reading →

Red Sox 6, Royals 2

Even lightning can’t slow Red Sox, who roll on to sixth straight win

The Sox beat the Royals for the third straight game and surged to a three-game lead in the AL East. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Robinhood pays $70 million to settle numerous allegations

The financial penalty is the largest ever ordered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a nongovernmental organization that oversees the brokerage industry, and one that “reflects the scope and seriousness of Robinhood’s violations.” Continue reading →

Business

Boston stalwart Au Bon Pain sold, again

The seller was Panera Bread, part of privately held JAB Holding Co., which owns a range of companies including Pret a Manger. Au Bon Pain got its start in Boston in 1981. Continue reading →

Business

Old ropewalk factory in Charlestown finally reopens as apartments

The old Ropewalk complex in the Charlestown Navy Yard is more than a quarter-mile long but only 45 feet wide in most sections, making it one of the most challenging structures in Boston to redevelop. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Donald Rumsfeld, charismatic and combative secretary of defense, dies

Mr. Rumsfeld was widely regarded in his second tour as the most powerful defense secretary since Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

WORKING ON IT

What we can learn from wedding announcements

Cate Doty’s book “Mergers and Acquisitions: Or, Everything I Know About Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages” is about the relationship details that actually matter. Continue reading →

Arts

Boston artist’s music sculpture features in Kevin Hart’s ‘Fatherhood’

On display from April to October of 2019, the musical fence seen in “Fatherhood” is just one of many music-making sculptures created by The Pickup Music Project since its founding in 2016. Continue reading →

ASK AMY

Daughter’s online videos compromise future

Advice from Amy Dickinson. Continue reading →