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Breakthrough cases in Cape Cod cluster raise questions at CDC

Three-quarters of the COVID-19 cases from an outbreak on Cape Cod were in vaccinated people, raising concerns about how the Delta variant is spreading among those who’ve been inoculated. Out of 882 infections, seven went to a hospital and zero deaths were reported.
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With COVID on the rise, we asked disease experts how they’re traveling, dining, and gathering

After a lull, COVID-19 is on the rise again in Massachusetts. Here's what infectious disease experts say about changing their own behavior now that the state is reporting hundreds of new confirmed cases each day.
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New advice, but no mask mandates from the state

Governor Charlie Baker said his administration tied the recommendations to personal risk level, as opposed to current community transmission, in an effort to make them simpler and easier to follow.
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‘This is the symbol of our town’: Planned demolition of beloved boardwalk divides Sandwich

Town officials voiced safety, environmental, and accessibility concerns in seeking to replace the boardwalk with a higher, wider, and bulkier structure that critics say would scarcely resemble the wooden path that has run low across the marsh for generations.
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Trump urged Justice officials to declare election ‘corrupt’

President Donald Trump urged senior Justice Department officials to declare the 2020 election results “corrupt” in a December phone call, according to handwritten notes from one of the participants in the conversation.
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First evacuation flight brings 221 Afghans, many kids, to US

The launch of the evacuation flights, bringing out former interpreters and others who fear retaliation from Afghanistan’s Taliban for having worked with American troops and civilians, highlights American uncertainty about how Afghanistan’s government and military will fare after the last US combat forces leave that country in the coming weeks.
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Senate Votes to Advance Infrastructure Package in Rare Friday Session

The Senate overwhelmingly voted to continue to advance a $1 trillion infrastructure package in a rare Friday session, as Senate Democrats race to pass both that bipartisan bill and a party-line $3.5 trillion budget blueprint before leaving for the scheduled August recess.
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Trump pressed Justice Dept. to declare election results corrupt, notes show

The demands were an extraordinary instance of a president interfering with an agency that is typically more independent from the White House to advance his personal agenda. They are also the latest example of Trump’s wide-ranging campaign during his final weeks in office to delegitimize the election results.
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Rights groups warn assaults on women on the rise in Pakistan

The gruesome death of 27-year-old Noor Mukadam last week in an upscale neighborhood of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, is the latest in a series of attacks on women in Pakistan, where rights activists say such gender-based assaults are on the rise as the country barrels toward greater religious extremism.
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Hong Kong protester is sentenced to 9 years in first security law case

A Hong Kong court sentenced a protester to nine years in prison Friday for terrorism and inciting secession, the first demonstration of the teeth of a sweeping new national security law aimed at those who might speak out against Beijing.
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UN: 100,000 children in Ethiopia’s Tigray face deadly hunger

The warning comes as high-level officials from the UN and United States visit Ethiopia over the next several days to press the government to lift what the US has described as a “siege” of Tigray and as some 200 food-laden UN trucks are stuck on the only remaining road into the region.
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Big Tobacco’s relentless reimagining of the cigarette returns to Beacon Hill

The latest push: Electronic devices that heat tobacco instead of burning it.
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Wanted: The return of Governor Baker’s leadership on masks

Like it or not, it’s time, again, to mask up.
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LETTERS


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Our coming climate apocalypse (or is it already here?)

We are in desperation mode, with catastrophe after catastrophe beginning to assault our beloved world.
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Janey, other candidates talk about police reform, but what’s really changing?

Almost a year after Patrick Rose Sr. was arrested, we’re still not getting answers.
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Fla. judge orders video destroyed in Robert Kraft solicitation case

Palm Beach County Judge Leonard Hanser found that the recording from the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Fla., which he had ruled inadmissible at trial, was not part of the permanent court file, as both prosecutors and Kraft’s lawyers had argued.
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The strange saga of Jamaica Plain’s abandoned ‘Tiger Car’

On Monday, the derelict vehicle on Weld Hill Street was towed away to the great relief of neighbors who had been glaring at its inertia since it arrived last winter.
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Brad Stevens wheels and deals: Celtics trade away Tristan Thompson, acquire Kris Dunn, Bruno Fernando, and Josh Richardson

Dunn played four years at Providence and was drafted fifth overall by the Timberwolves in 2016.
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David Krejci’s departure for the Czech Republic leaves a gaping hole for Bruins at No. 2 center

The term “Playoff Krech, while hardly a myth, did not do justice to the fine work he submitted every year.
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Red Sox’ Michael Chavis comes full circle at Tropicana Field

He made his Sox debut at Tropicana, and now departs from there to go to the Pirates.
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PG&E could face criminal charges over deadly California fire

It would be the latest action against the nation’s largest utility, which was forced into bankruptcy over devastating wildfires ignited by its long-neglected electrical grid.
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Back to the office after Labor Day? Not so fast

Executives across Boston are debating COVID restrictions, vaccine mandates, and in some cases, delayed returns to the office.
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Northeastern alum among youngest entrepreneurs to launch product on Walmart.com

Lamar Letts was a high school track star until a rare heart condition abruptly ended his athletic career. When he was eventually able to return to a fitness regimen after a year of bedrest, Letts knew monitoring his nutrition would be crucially important. But he discovered that all of the popular sports drinks on the market fell short of meeting his needs.
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Saginaw Grant, noted Native American character actor, dies

A US Marine Corps veteran and a longtime actor, Mr. Grant was active in the Native American veterans community and the powwow circuit in California and traveled around the globe to speak to people about Native American culture.
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Ruth Pearl, seeker of justice for her murdered journalist son Daniel, dies at 85

Originally from Iraq, a member of the Jewish community that had existed there for centuries, Ruth Pearl survived a deadly attack on the Jews of Baghdad in 1941, a pogrom known as the Farhud that sprang in part from the antisemitism coursing across Nazi Europe. She drew a link between the ideology that helped bring about the Farhud and the religious extremism that drove the men who kidnapped and killed her son decades later.
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Ron Popeil, inventor and ubiquitous infomercial pitchman, dies at 86

“Ron literally invented the business of direct-response TV sales,” Steve Bryant, a one-time QVC host, said in 1994. “Ron paints in very definable brushstrokes, and every doubt in the customer’s mind is wiped away.”
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MUSIC


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Handel and Haydn Society to sing ‘Ode to Joy’ on the Esplanade

It will mark H+H’s first performance at the Hatch Memorial Shell since 1987.
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Longtime GBH children’s show ‘Arthur’ is ending — and fans are not happy

But it won't go away entirely. The executive producer of TV’s longest-running children’s animated series promises "Arthur" programming on different platforms.
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Angry? Frustrated? Stressed? Just Smash It can help with that.

The “wreck room” in Avon offers patrons the chance to take out their frustrations by destroying glass bottles, flat-screen TVs, or even toilets. The best part? They do the cleanup.
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