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‘We’ve gone past bad to rotten.’ A dead whale washed ashore in Plymouth, and moving it is complicated

The arrival of the beached mammal, which has literally created a big stink, has presented a curious quandary: What to do, exactly, with an 8,000-pound minke whale carcass?
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COVID-19 Vaccines


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Over 2 million Mass. residents aren’t vaccinated. What will it take to persuade the holdouts?

As coronavirus cases rise in Massachusetts, threatening the state’s recovery, a key question looms: What will it take to convince people to overcome mistrust and misinformation and get immunized?
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Marathon work shifts — and massive overtime payments — soar at R.I. state prison

Correctional officers earn plenty of overtime pay for working quads — 32-hour shifts during which they aren’t supposed to sleep. But managers, inmates, and even officers are concerned about the health and safety risks.
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Moderna says its COVID vaccine remains effective after six months, but booster needed before winter

The Cambridge company’s vaccine remained 93 percent effective six months after people received the second shot, Moderna said Thursday, although the data was totaled before the emergence of the highly contagious Delta variant.
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Here come the vaccine passports

The SMART Health Card, a national standard for digital vaccine certificates based on technology from Boston Children’s Hospital, is now rolling out across the United States.
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Biden calls for half of new cars to be electric or plug-in hybrids by 2030

President Biden on Thursday unveiled a far-reaching, multipronged plan to make US cars and light trucks more fuel-efficient and to begin a shift to electric vehicles over the coming decade. The move marks one of the administration’s most consequential pushes so far to combat climate change and tackle the nation’s biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Real estate, landlord groups file legal salvo to stop Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium

Only one day after the Biden administration issued a new policy protecting renters from eviction, a series of real estate and landlord groups is trying to invalidate it, setting up another legal showdown over a moratorium that Democrats say is essential to keeping Americans in their homes.
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Cuomo impeachment inquiry is ‘nearing completion,’ New York Assembly says

The New York Assembly’s impeachment investigation into Governor Andrew Cuomo is “nearing completion,” and the body will soon consider “potential articles of impeachment” against him, said the chairman of the committee overseeing the inquiry in a statement Thursday.
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Fires ravage southern Europe

As southern Europe grapples with one of its worst heat waves in decades, deadly forest fires have engulfed stretches of the region, bringing a newly reopened tourism industry to a halt and forcing mass evacuations.
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Iran swears in new hard-line president amid regional tension

The protégé of Iran’s supreme leader, Ebrahim Raisi, was sworn in as the country’s new president during a ceremony in parliament Thursday, an inauguration that completes hard-liners’ dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic.
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Australia to pay hundreds of millions in reparations to Indigenous ‘stolen generations’

Eileen Cummings was 4½ years old when a man pulled up in a truck at the cattle ranch where she lived in Australia's remote Northern Territory, offering her a ride.
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OPINION


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Age-appropriate? Ugh.

Who cares about appropriateness when there are three-score-plus years in the rearview mirror?
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LETTERS


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With its new date for the Marathon, BAA approaches a hill

The Boston Athletic Association scheduled the Marathon on what Brookline recognizes as Indigenous People’s Day.
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EDITORIAL


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Kim Janey’s unfair attack on vaccine mandates

Her misguided statements about proof of vaccination sent the wrong message, and could hurt the very people she intended to protect.
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A necessary evil

Cotton’s beef with Rollins is that she is too woke. Which, for right-wing ideologues like him, is just another word for uppity.
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Boston plans to redirect some 911 calls to mental health workers, away from police

The announcement comes less than a month after the police department established new policies that emphasize de-escalation and disengagement when dealing with mental health emergencies.
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Crime & Courts


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Family mourning death of Alicia Heywood, woman killed outside of Roslindale pharmacy; boyfriend on the run from police

Susan George spoke with pride Thursday about her niece, Alicia N. Heywood, the Easton woman who was allegedly brutally murdered last week by her boyfriend outside of the pharmacy in Roslindale where she worked.
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ben volin | on football


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Please, Cam Newton, if you’re not vaccinated, you really should be

There are signs that the Patriots QB hasn't been vaccinated, and for a player with his job status, that's an especially risky thing.
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tigers 8, red sox 1


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Tigers jump on Martín Pérez and rout Red Sox in series finale at Detroit

After dropping two of three at Comerica Park, the Red Sox will now play four games in three days at Toronto.
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Red Sox manager Alex Cora stops mincing words after his team’s latest loss

“We didn’t pitch; we didn’t play good defense; we didn’t hit," he said, “It wasn’t a good effort today."
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Here come the vaccine passports

The SMART Health Card, a national standard for digital vaccine certificates based on technology from Boston Children’s Hospital, is now rolling out across the United States.
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THE FINE PRINT


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Untangling a hitch in the T’s Ride Flex program

At age 93, Phyllis Cutler relies on the MBTA’s subsidized program with Lyft to maintain her independence. She recently used it for four trips, which should have cost her $12, but she was charged nearly $90.
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Advocates urge Janey to re-do downtown waterfront plan, and her rivals agree

As the state moves to OK a Walsh-era waterfront zoning plan that would allow a 600-foot tower along Boston Harbor, pressure is growing on Acting Mayor Kim Janey to withdraw it.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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An MIT professor whose cheers were heard throughout Fenway Park, Paul Lagacé dies at 63

At MIT, he ran the Technology Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Structures.
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Obituaries


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Longtime AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka dies at age 72

Mr. Trumka, who had been AFL-CIO president since 2009, was a potent voice in Democratic politics.
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Arts & Lifestyle






NAMES


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The Rolling Stones to perform private concert for Robert Kraft and friends

The Rolling Stones will play a private party for the Kraft family at Gillette Stadium on July 20.
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MUSIC REVIEW


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Billy Joel delivers a sprawling set at Fenway for fans in the mood for a melody

Before closing with "Piano Man," Joel whirled through his catalog, offering both hits and deep cuts over two-plus hours Wednesday night.
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At the Gardner, reunited Titian paintings are ‘nothing short of a miracle’

The pandemic complicated the already complicated process of gathering the six "Poesie" paintings for the first time in 400 years.
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