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THE GREAT DIVIDE


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Many Boston students miss out on summer school opportunities, leaving the most vulnerable further behind

Boston has been held up as a model for offering free, camp-like summer opportunities, but a national study shows many Boston parents still can’t find affordable summer activities for their children. And compared to other urban districts like New York and Los Angeles, which guaranteed to find every student a seat, Boston’s registration page carried the caveat “seats are limited.”
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Boston Mayoral Race


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Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu is on an island alone with rent control

Though all major candidates in the Boston mayoral race have called attention to the city’s affordable housing crisis, Wu is the only one to publicly endorse rent control.
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Business


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‘An extinction level event.’ Federal bailout funds split struggling restaurant industry

Because the federal relief grants are public record, everyone in Boston’s close-knit restaurant world knows who got what. Foodservice workers say it has created two sides: The haves, and the have-nots.
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Climate Change


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Climate change and mental health: the inconvenient truth

In what was supposed to be our summer of post-pandemic joy, we are instead stalked by fear of the virus, once again, and increasingly, of the world itself.
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LETTERS


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Our Olympic icons — they’re just like you and me

Athletes were isolated and alone in ways none of us could ever have imagined. None more so, perhaps, than Simone Biles.
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Breakneck pace of crises keeps National Guard away from home

SHADDADI, Syria — In the searing 108-degree heat, far from his Louisiana health care business, Army Colonel Scott Desormeaux and his soldiers are on a dusty base near Syria’s northern border, helping Syrian rebel forces battle Islamic State militants and keeping an eye on Russian troops in the region.
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Nation


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For US teen Buddhist lama, it’s faith, school, football

In most ways, Jalue Dorje is a typical American teen — he grew up in a suburb of Minneapolis, loving football, Pokémon, and rap music.
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Top Myanmar general says military rule will continue into 2023

Six months to the day after Myanmar’s military staged a coup and imposed a reign of terror over the country, the junta’s leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, on Sunday said a national state of emergency would be extended for another two years.
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US, UK, and Israel blame Iran for ship attack; Tehran denies

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States and the United Kingdom joined Israel on Sunday in alleging Iran carried out a fatal drone strike on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, putting further pressure on Tehran as it denied being involved in the assault.
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With undersea robots, an Air Force navigator lost since 1967 is found

On a July morning in 1967, two American B-52 bombers collided over the South China Sea as they approached a target in what was then South Vietnam. Seven crew members escaped, but rescue units from the Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard were unable to find six other men, including a navigator from New York, Maj. Paul A. Avolese. It was not until last year that scientists scanning the seafloor found one of the B-52s and recovered Avolese’s remains.
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LETTERS


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On day of Jan. 6 hearing, McConnell and McCarthy were otherwise engaged

Those officers put their lives on the line and were beaten, tortured, chemically attacked, and tased by a mob incited by a sitting US president. The officers did this in the service of protecting those who then actively ignored them.
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EDITORIAL


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The federal government has a unique opportunity to help raise wages

With businesses desperate for staff, the government can help workers get back on the job and secure better pay.
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OPINION


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Employers alone can’t foot the $7 billion bill for unemployment insurance

Beacon Hill should follow other states and devote federal COVID-19 relief funds to bring down the debt from the cost of layoffs from the pandemic.
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SuperPACs emerge in Boston’s mayoral race, with little objection so far

At least four superPACs have declared they are backing specific candidates: Councilors Andrea Campbell and Annissa Essaibi George, and Acting Mayor Kim Janey. A fifth is thought to be supporting Councilor Michelle Wu, but a representative of the group has declined to confirm that.
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Social Justice


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Day of sports and camaraderie in Cambridge park protests exclusion of transgender athletes

Games were held at a Sunday sporting event in North Cambridge to bring LGBTQ+ youth and their allies together to protest the growing number of states seeking to ban transgender students from competing in school sports.
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Officials report three recent deaths at Suffolk House of Correction

The Suffolk Sheriff’s Department has reported three deaths at the House of Correction since mid-July, including two that occurred within an hour of each other on Wednesday afternoon.
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PATRIOTS


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Patriots attempting to sort through crowd of running backs

Patriots coach Bill Belichick indicated Thursday that Damien Harris, coming off a breakout second-year season, has the potential to become New England’s lead back.
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Red Sox sign 1B Niko Kavadas, but are spurned by second-round pick Jud Fabian

Sox came to an agreement with the Notre Dame slugger, but Fabian turned down a $2 million signing bonus and opted to return to Florida for a fifth year of eligibility.
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Rays 3, Red Sox 2


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Red Sox swept as rally falls short at Tampa Bay

After being shutout for 14⅓ innings by Nick Pivetta, the Rays broke through with three runs against the Sox righthanded starter, including a two-run homer by Brandon Lowe in the third inning.
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Business


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‘An extinction level event.’ Federal bailout funds split struggling restaurant industry

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Still waiting, Senate grinds away on $1 trillion infrastructure bill

WASHINGTON — The vote on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package could be held “in a matter of days,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday. But first, senators still need to finish writing the vast legislation.
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Anger mounts as Biden, Congress allow eviction ban to expire

WASHINGTON — Anger and frustration mounted in Congress over the weekend as a nationwide eviction moratorium expired during a surge in the COVID-19 pandemic. One Democratic lawmaker even camped outside the Capitol in protest as millions of Americans faced being forced from their homes.
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Obituaries


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Boston Marathon historian who made history herself, Gloria Ratti dies at 90

An advocate for women runners, Ms. Ratti "worked and lobbied to get us an equal place,” said Sara Mae Berman, the Boston Marathon’s top woman finisher in the 1968 to 1971 races.
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Obituaries


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Carl Levin, Senate scourge of corporate America, dies at 87

Mr. Levin was regarded by Senate colleagues and Washington observers as a paragon of probity as chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He wielded subpoena power, huge briefing books, a big gavel, and an unquenchable zeal for grilling high-profile witnesses at public hearings.
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Coral Moons frontwoman Carly Kraft brings ‘70s soul to band’s debut release

The four-piece band’s debut album, “Fieldcrest,” drops Aug. 6, the same night they’ll play their first Boston show since the pandemic started, at Aeronaut Allston.
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NAMES


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At screening on the Vineyard, ‘Respect’ star Jennifer Hudson and director Liesl Tommy discuss Aretha Franklin’s legacy

The screening was hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, which kicks off officially on Aug. 6 and runs through Aug. 14.
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MUSIC REVIEW


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At Tanglewood, an all-Beethoven program from an all-star trio

Friday's program from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Emanuel Ax, and violinist Leonidas Kavakos zeroed in on the composer’s early works.
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