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Metro

Boston city workers must get vaccinated or face regular testing, Janey announces

The mandate had become a matter of contentious debate in recent weeks as Acting Mayor Kim Janey's political opponents and some community leaders called for quicker action. Continue reading →

Politics

Massachusetts grew bigger and more diverse, new census data show

Mirroring the nation as a whole, Massachusetts saw its population grow by 7.4 percent over the last decade, as communities of color drove an increase of nearly half a million people, data released by the US Census Bureau show. Continue reading →

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Shaped by life’s challenges, Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu wears them on her sleeve

Whether it’s the struggle of bringing a child to a meeting with the mayor, caring for a mentally ill mother, or raising two younger sisters, these are the experiences, Wu says, that have helped shape ideas she has brought to the City Council, and hopes to carry on as Boston’s next mayor. Continue reading →

Technology

Despite all the hype, electric cars are no easy fix for the climate crisis. Here’s why

Electric vehicles remain a hard sell for consumers: They are more expensive than many popular gas or hybrid models, and they take too long to charge. Continue reading →

Politics

US sending 3,000 troops for partial Afghan embassy evacuation

Just weeks before the US is scheduled to end its war in Afghanistan, the Biden administration is rushing 3,000 fresh troops to the Kabul airport to help with a partial evacuation of the US Embassy. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Texas senator ends 15-hour filibuster over GOP voting bill

A Texas state senator ended a 15-hour filibuster Thursday in the Democrats’ latest defiance over new voting restrictions, but it only delayed Republicans who went on to approve the sweeping elections bill just minutes after she wearily left the floor. Continue reading →

Nation

What Rosen told US senators: Trump applied ‘persistent’ pressure to get Justice to discredit election

The testimony is part of a trough of information that congressional investigators are assembling about Trump's frantic efforts to reverse his defeat by Democrat Joe Biden and use the Justice Department to stay in office. Continue reading →

Nation

Biden urges Congress to tackle high drug prices

President Biden on Thursday implored Congress to include strict controls on prescription drug prices in the mammoth social policy bill that Democrats plan to draft this fall, hitting on an issue that his predecessor campaigned on but failed to deliver. Continue reading →

The World

World

Sudan inches closer to handing over ex-dictator for genocide trial

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in his first visit to the capital of Sudan, said Thursday that he was hopeful the Sudanese government would turn over former president Omar al-Bashir to face charges of genocide and war crimes in the region of Darfur. Continue reading →

World

Days of hot weather grip Southern Europe, North Africa

Stifling heat kept its grip on much of Southern Europe on Thursday, driving people indoors at midday, spoiling crops, triggering drinking water restrictions, turning public libraries into cooling “climate shelters,” and complicating the already difficult challenge firefighters faced battling wildfires. Continue reading →

World

Iran’s health system ‘beyond disastrous’ from COVID surge

Iran is under assault from the most cataclysmic wave yet of the coronavirus, according to interviews with physicians and health workers, social media postings from angry citizens, and even some unusually frank reporting in state media. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP

Republicans are doing an ideological pretzel dance when it comes to policies related to the coronavirus pandemic. It would be amusing if the consequences weren’t so deadly. Continue reading →

LETTERS

The Olympics, a.k.a. our every-four-year display of American exceptionalism

What is going on in this country that we can’t help four young men who were struggling with extreme expectation feel better, and that we can’t celebrate the Italians in their victory? Continue reading →

OPINION

The populist battle — and political prattle — ahead

No, Biden’s American Families Plan isn’t socialism. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Boston city workers must get vaccinated or face regular testing, Janey announces

The mandate had become a matter of contentious debate in recent weeks as Acting Mayor Kim Janey's political opponents and some community leaders called for quicker action. Continue reading →

Politics

As federal eviction ban resumes, advocates pressure Beacon Hill to stiffen tenant protections in Mass.

Lawmakers and housing advocates pushed Thursday for stronger protections for tenants facing eviction, as a federal eviction moratorium resumes under legal threat. Continue reading →

Metro

A pandemic of capricious callousness

Gerry and Barbara O’Loughlin have applied three times over the last six months for an exemption to the US travel ban so they could help their daughter and son-in-law care for their sick 1-year-old daughter. All three times the Irish couple were rejected. Continue reading →

Sports

Rays 8, Red Sox 1

After Wednesday’s rout, Red Sox offense back on skid in finale against Rays

They are right where they were before Wednesday's blowout, five games back and waiting for reinforcements to try to right the ship. Continue reading →

Dan Shaughnessy

Rookie Mac Jones appears to take early lead against Cam Newton on QB scoreboard

Jones didn’t try to do too much. He put points on the board. And he made the new Patriots look a little like the old Patriots. Which they almost never did last year. Continue reading →

On baseball

Red Sox struggles continue in an absurd situation in the sixth inning that was off the Wall

Tanner Houck breezed through two turns against the Rays, but in the sixth, a unique homer by Wander Franco snapped a 1-1 game. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Adidas sells Reebok to Authentic Brands in $2.5 billion deal

Adidas agreed to sell its underperforming Reebok business to Authentic Brands Group for up to 2.1 billion euros ($2.5 billion), adding another well-known name to the buyer’s growing lineup of consumer companies. Continue reading →

Business

From the Museum of Science to the headquarters of TJX, more employers are mandating vaccines

They join a growing list of employers mandating COVID-19 vaccines this week, including the Boch Center and State Street Financial. Continue reading →

Business

US jobless claims near pandemic low as economy strengthens

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell for a third straight time last week, the latest sign that employers are laying off fewer people as they struggle to fill a record number of open jobs and meet a surge in consumer demand. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Walter Yetnikoff, influential but abrasive record executive who plummeted from power, dies at 87

Mr. Yetnikoff was one of the most powerful, insatiable, and abrasive figures in music in the years just before the digital revolution upended the business. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Elka Schumann, cofounder and mainstay of Bread and Puppet Theater, dies at 85

"Puppetry is not just namby-pamby stuff for children," Elka Schumann told the Globe in 2007. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

FOOD

Dine Out Boston kicks off with more than 100 restaurants

It’s a chance to dine at favorites, or check out somewhere new, at reasonable prices. Continue reading →

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Respect’ enthrones the Queen of Soul

“Respect,” with Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin, is pretty much your standard biopic: a famous name, often in the company of other famous names, enduring (and generating) lots of emotion along the way. Continue reading →

ART REVIEW

Painting, and living, outside the lines

Bold and boundless, Nikolai Astrup’s "Visions of Norway" is so much more. Continue reading →