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Health

The lives, the risks, and the lessons from so many drownings in 2021

The Globe reviewed several dozen of the drownings and near-fatalities in Massachusetts this year and found common threads; the vast majority of these incidents have involved young men, often people of color. Continue reading →

Politics

‘It kept food on my table.’ Maligned by some bosses, unemployment benefits helped Americans weather the pandemic

That extra money, which is set to expire in early September, provided a financial lifeline for tens of millions of Americans during a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it also fueled a fierce backlash from employers and some politicians, whose voices have largely dominated the debate around the benefits. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

The American Exchange Project is aiming to close the red state/blue state divide by uniting students for a summer of understanding

“If you want to humanize other people, you’ve got to get them into contact with each other,” said David McCullough III, AEP’s founder. Continue reading →

Restaurants

Is the future of fine dining meat-free?

New York’s Eleven Madison Park recently stopped using animal products. Could it work in Boston? Continue reading →

Olympics

Olympic athletes’ dreams certain to have different endings at these COVID Games

It’s the Olympics, which guarantees this will be a trip to be treasured no matter how many protocols or hurdles might get in the way. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

Democrats see edge in early Senate map as Trump casts big shadow

Six months into the Biden administration, Senate Democrats are expressing a cautious optimism that the party can keep control of the chamber in the 2022 midterm elections. Continue reading →

Nation

Biden calls judge’s decision to halt DACA program ‘deeply disappointing,’ says DOJ will appeal ruling

President Biden on Saturday said it was “deeply disappointing” that a federal judge had decided to halt much of an Obama administration initiative that protected undocumented “dreamers” who arrived in the United States as children, and said the Justice Department planned to appeal the ruling. Continue reading →

Nation

New Mexico wilderness area grows with large donation

The 15-square-mile donation from the Trust for Public Land increases the size of the Sabinoso Wilderness Area in northeastern New Mexico by nearly 50 percent. The property includes rugged canyons, mesas covered by pinon and juniper woodlands, pockets of ponderosa pine trees, and savannah-like grasslands. Continue reading →

The World

World

Floods thrust climate change to center of German campaign as toll mounts

The receding floodwaters revealed not only extensive damage but also bitter political divides on climate policy in a week when the European Union rolled out the globe’s most ambitious proposals to cut carbon emissions in the next decade. Continue reading →

News Analysis

‘No one is safe’: Extreme weather batters the wealthy world

The extreme weather disasters across Europe and North America have driven home two essential facts of science and history: The world as a whole is neither prepared to slow down climate change nor live with it. Continue reading →

World

English cave may have ties to king-turned-saint and Viking invasion, archaeologists say

Nestled in a sandstone crag along a winding river in the English countryside, a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house has been waiting to tell centuries-old stories. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

LETTERS

Fight goes on against so many hatreds, antisemitism very much among them

One of the tenets of Judaism is to try to make the world a better place, including welcoming the stranger and fighting hate and bigotry in all its forms. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

An angry federal judge, and another mess for Kim Janey to clean up

The city failed to turn over controversial text messages in a case related to exam schools admissions. The court — and the public — deserve to know why. Continue reading →

OPINION

The history of pandemics is a history of denial

From smallpox to COVID-19, when societies are struck by a plague, the urge to reject reality quickly follows. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Winning My Vax Million

Only half of those eligible have signed up for the free lottery. I like my odds. Continue reading →

Globe Local

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary faces outcry after dismissing only full-time Black professor

The Rev. Emmett Price III founded the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at the seminary in 2016. Continue reading →

Metro

Woman’s death under investigation after boat sinks in Boston Harbor early Saturday morning

Searchers recovered the body of a missing woman from Boston Harbor Saturday, hours after a vessel carrying eight people struck a day marker and sank in the water off Castle Island, Boston police said just after noon. Continue reading →

Sports

Dan Shaughnessy

Major League Baseball needs to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine, and other thoughts

Without it, we’ll have more situations like the one that postponed Thursday’s marquee Red Sox-Yankees matchup in New York. Continue reading →

British Open

Louis Oosthuizen gathers himself in time to lead British Open by one stroke

Oosthuizen delivered a key par save on the 15th hole and an 8-foot birdie on the par-3 16th before finishing the third round with a 1-under 69. Continue reading →

Tara Sullivan

Where does Ted Lasso rate among TV’s all-time top coaches?

Here's Tara Sullivan's unofficial (and completely unscientific) list of her top 10 favorite fictional coaches that she's seen on TV. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

IDEAS

Our debt to places that are sinking

US policy doesn’t properly recognize slow-moving disasters like climate change — while marginalized communities face the rising waters. Continue reading →

IDEAS

The obesity research that blew up

A CDC researcher found that being a little plump might be healthier than being thin. The bigger surprise was the firestorm that followed. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Biz Markie, known for classic rap song ‘Just a Friend,’ dies

Markie, a hip-hop staple known for his beatboxing prowess, turntable mastery, and the 1989 classic “Just a Friend,” has died. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Gloria Richardson, civil rights activist in Maryland showdown, dies at 99

A self-described "revolutionary," Gloria Richardson drew national attention in the early 1960s in a showdown on Maryland’s Eastern Shore that presaged the Black Power movement and led to a year-long imposition of martial law. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Music

From Randy Newman, different strokes for Newport Folk

The songwriting master returns to the festival for the first time since 1994: “I’ll be nervous as always.” Continue reading →

PHOTOGRAPHY

Saved from a dumpster, glass negatives reveal life in Mass. more than 100 years ago

A treasure trove of found photos, stretching back to the 1860s, offers a compelling time capsule. Continue reading →

TY BURR

A hit on screens big and small

Is “Black Widow” the first blockbuster of the studio streaming era? Or is it just the first one we know about? Continue reading →

Travel

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Pull up a chair. It’s Vermont’s hottest new dinner party, and you’re invited

Celeste owners JuanMa Caldéron and Maria Rondeau have opened a restaurant in their rural Vermont home, and the hills are alive with the sound of foodies. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

Standout scenic drives in Vermont

You can pretty much set your GPS in any direction and get plenty of eye candy, but here are some of our favorites. Continue reading →

Real Estate