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COVID-19 Vaccines


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The Last Best Shot

This state and nation have a clear choice. We can mark the start of a future in which COVID is relegated to little more than a nuisance, or we can watch the disease spiral further out of our grasp. Nearly 18 months after the pandemic shuttered much of the world, we are still in a state of uncertainty, one that threatens to steal yet another season and kill people who don't need to die. This special report is meant to reinforce a simple fact: The only way out is vaccination. For every eligible person. Now.
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Coronavirus


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Holyoke Soldiers’ Home worker files federal suit alleging ‘inhumane conditions’ during COVID outbreak

The lawsuit says more than 80 Holyoke Soldiers’ Home workers contracted COVID-19 during the deadly outbreak, and management repeatedly withheld personal protective gear from staff and misrepresented the scope of the problem during correspondence with state officials.
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What we know about getting a COVID-19 booster shot

A third round of injections of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines could begin as early as September in an effort to fight waning immunity and the highly contagious Delta variant.
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Crime & Courts


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Three people died at a Boston jail. Their families are desperate for answers

The deaths at Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay have sparked protests outside the jail and stunned relatives, who said they have received very little information about how the inmates died.
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‘It’s devastating’: Customers and partners react to Russo’s in Watertown shutting its doors this fall

The Russo family anticipates they will close the store in mid-October, after more than 100 years in business. The site at 560 Pleasant St. is being sold to a developer who is planning to build a lab space.
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Nation


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Fueled by winds, largest wildfire moves near California city

A second, smaller fire exploded through Grizzly Flats, a town of about 1,200.
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Nation


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Racial inequities persist in health care despite expanded insurance

A dismal picture of persistent disparities in America was described in a JAMA issue devoted entirely to inequities in medicine.
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Politics


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Democrats unveil plan to update landmark voting law

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, pledged to move quickly and said Democrats plan to pass a voting rights bill when the House returns next week.
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India’s COVID-19 numbers have fallen, but a third wave still loom

In the state of Maharashtra, one of the first places struck by India’s devastating second wave of COVID-19 this year, scientists are anxiously looking for signs of a third.
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Haiti quake toll leaps to nearly 2,000 dead as rain pelts survivors

The death and injury tolls leapt by many hundreds Tuesday from the weekend earthquake in Haiti’s southern peninsula, as survivors soaked from Tropical Storm Grace struggled to keep safe in makeshift shelters.
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Who are the Taliban, and what do they want?

Outlasting an international military coalition in a two-decade war that cost tens of thousands of lives, the onetime students are now rulers of the land. Again.
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OPINION


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Assessing the Afghanistan damage

President Biden owns the short-term debacle, but not the long-term consequences.
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OPINION


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The myth that Afghanistan was a ‘forever’ war

The cost of maintaining US credibility was low. The cost of throwing it away will be huge.
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LETTERS


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After 20 years in Afghanistan, this?

If we have not figured out a way to protect our allies when we leave, we have no right to engage. American lives have no more value than any other life.
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Metro


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Will there be a Black finalist in the race for mayor?

This mayoral election represents the best opportunity Boston has ever had to elect a Black mayor. But will a Black candidate make it into the final?
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‘Stay tuned’ on COVID booster shots, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra says on a visit to Mass.

US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said during Tuesday's visit to healthcare facilities in the Merrimack Valley that “the federal government is exploring everything we must do to keep Americans safe, including the possibility of boosters.”
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Governor Baker criticizes ‘catastrophe’ in Afghanistan, suggests Mass. would accept Afghan refugees

Governor Charlie Baker on Tuesday criticized the way the United States has withdrawn from Afghanistan, denouncing on Twitter the “mismanagement” that led to the Taliban’s takeover and thousands of Afghan allies fearing for their lives.
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PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL


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This time, playing it safe with Tanner Houck quickly put Alex Cora, Red Sox in deep trouble

The percentages said to avoid letting the rookie righthander face the Yankees lineup a third time, but the bullpen couldn't hold up its end of the bargain.
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Yankees 5, Red Sox 3


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Red Sox bullpen falters as they lose to Yankees in first game of doubleheader

Relievers Garrett Whitlock and Josh Taylor struggled mightily in what was a decisive three-run fifth by the Yankees.
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Right now, the Red Sox are simply a bad team

The Sox dropped into third place and out of a playoff spot after being swept by the Yankees Tuesday.
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Newton-Needham chamber changes its name to reflect broader mission, expansion

The name change reflects the significant growth the Newton-Needham chamber has seen in the past decade.
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Boston office building, once WeWork’s largest US site, could become lab space

It’s the latest indication of an ongoing boom in the region’s life sciences industry.
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It’s still a seller’s market, but demand for Boston-area homes is slowing

Housing sales in July were down 10 percent from the previous month, while condo sales fell by 12 percent.
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Obituaries


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Sudoku maker Maki Kaji, who saw life’s joy in puzzles, dies at 69

Kaji, the creator of the popular numbers puzzle Sudoku whose life’s work was spreading the joy of puzzles, has died, his Japanese company said Tuesday.
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Obituaries


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Sudoku maker Maki Kaji, who saw life’s joy in puzzles, dies at 69

Kaji, the creator of the popular numbers puzzle Sudoku whose life’s work was spreading the joy of puzzles, has died, his Japanese company said Tuesday.
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Selma Blair says she’s in remission from multiple sclerosis

The 49-year-old actor, best known for such movies as “Cruel Intentions,” “Legally Blonde,” and “Hellboy,” was diagnosed with the disease in 2018.
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Hull painter Jackie Ranney’s newest collection turns beach trash into fine art

Hull painter Jackie Ranney transforms the trash she finds on Massachusetts shorelines into evocative, climate-centered art.
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GETTING SALTY


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‘It really feels like I’ve been running a marathon while holding my breath’

Allium Market’s Talia Glass will close her shop after September, unless she finds a new owner.
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