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Baker urges people to stay home Sunday due to Tropical Storm Henri, warns of up to 300,000 power outages

With the dangerous Tropical Storm Henri approaching the region, Governor Charlie Baker urged people to stay home when the storm hits on Sunday. The MBTA is expected to cancel some service that day, and Baker said up to 1,000 members of the National Guard will be available to assist with any rescues, debris clearing, and other issues.
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Coronavirus


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Acting Mayor Janey issues indoor mask mandate for Boston

The mandate takes effect at 8 a.m. on Aug. 27 and applies to everyone over the age of 2 when they’re inside a business, club, place of assembly, or other location open to the public.
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Why are breakthrough COVID cases rising in Mass.? Experts blame waning immunity and surging Delta

Although most vaccinated individuals have mild cases, some still land in the hospital. As of midweek, almost 30 percent of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in Massachusetts were fully vaccinated.
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3 teens were arrested for shooting at people with BB guns. Police dispatch and 911 calls show how the incident unfolded

For nearly six hours, the teenagers drove around Providence, shooting at people and buildings before police caught up to them. Two police officers are now under investigation for use of force in the arrest, and video from businesses and calls from victims show how people were terrified.
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‘We will get you home’: Biden makes pledge to trapped Americans amid chaotic Kabul evacuation

The desperate scenes at the Kabul airport reverberated around the world on Friday, forcing President Biden to defend his handling of the chaotic evacuation and fueling recrimination from US allies that are struggling to get their own citizens out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
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California’s fires are stretching crews and stranding evacuees

As another day of wildfire fighting began in California on Friday, fire crews were seeing a few glimmers of hope. Smoke from the Caldor Fire raging southwest of Lake Tahoe had been helping to choke off the spread of flames, for instance, and the pace of evacuations was easing.
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Harris’ Asia trip carries new urgency after Afghan collapse

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has given new urgency to Vice President Kamala Harris’ tour of Southeast Asia, where she will attempt to reassure allies of American resolve following the chaotic end of a two-decade war.
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Cutting off jobless benefits early may have hurt state economies

When US states began cutting off federal unemployment benefits this summer, their governors argued that the move would push people to return to work.
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Navalny marks year after poisoning with anticorruption call

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny marked the anniversary of a poisoning attack against him by urging global leaders Friday to put more attention on combating corruption and to target tycoons close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Nigerian parents excited by return of 2 abducted schoolgirls

The news this month that two Nigerian schoolgirls had made it to freedom, more than seven years after they were kidnapped by Boko Haram extremist rebels, has kindled new hope among parents whose daughters are still missing.
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Facebook hides friends lists on accounts in Afghanistan

Facebook says it has added several security features to help people in Afghanistan control their accounts as fears rise of reprisals from the Taliban.
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State backsliding on COVID-19 data transparency

Just when Delta is on the rise, information on nursing homes, schools harder to access.
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OPINION


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Why isn’t there an education candidate in the 2021 Boston mayoral race?

It’s perplexing that none of the mayoral candidates are making schools central to their campaign — not even Acting Mayor Kim Janey, who spent decades in education advocacy.
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LETTERS


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Readers are all charged up over the prospect of moving to electric vehicles

EVs may not be a quick fix, but they are an important and appropriate transportation technology for our time.
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K-12


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Massachusetts Education Commissioner Riley to ask state board for authority to mandate masks for all K-12 students and staff

Massachusetts K-12 students and staff members may be required to wear masks indoors through at least Oct. 1 under a proposal from Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley.
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Janey’s mask mandate is a step in the right direction. She must keep going.

The decision, which was a good move, came after Acting Mayor Kim Janey had taken a considerable amount of heat for not acting decisively enough to address the pandemic.
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In Roxbury, basketball league builds bridge between youth and law enforcement

At Roxbury’s Tobin Community Center, kids gather every Tuesday and Wednesday as part of a new youth basketball league hosted by local law enforcement agencies in an effort to “bridge the gap” between historically disenfranchised communities and police.
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Tropical Storm Henri threatens Sunday’s Red Sox-Rangers series finale

The storm is expected to hit make landfall on Sunday, either as a strong tropical storm or a Category 1 hurricane, bringing rain to the area.
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Gary Washburn | On Basketball


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After securing long-term deal for Robert Williams, Celtics need him to develop and stay healthy

Williams has played 113 games over three NBA seasons, playing in 52 of 72 games in 2020-21.
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For a night anyway, Patriots quarterback Cam Newton had all of the answers

In an impressive preseason performance, the so-called "Checkdown King" checked all of the boxes in the rout of the Eagles.
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‘I’m curious to see how this is enforced on a dance floor.’ Mask rules are back in Boston. So are questions.

Most indoor public spaces in Boston will require masks as of Aug. 27, but business groups have many questions.
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Topps Loses Its Licensing Deal for Baseball Cards, and Tears Up Plan to Go Public

Topps has been synonymous with trading cards, particularly baseball cards, for 70 years.
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Eloise Greenfield, author whose picture books uplifted Black children, dies at 92

An award-winning writer, Eloise Greenfield penned dozens of works and helped broaden children's literature so that young Black Americans could see themselves, their history and their hopes in the pages of their picture books.
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Sonny Chiba, Japanese star with a ‘Kill Bill’ connection, dies at 82

Trained in karate and other martial arts, Sonny Chiba began turning up on Japanese television in his early 20s. He was soon making movies as well, amassing more than 50 TV and film credits in Japan before the end of the 1960s
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Not just K-pop: Korean TV shows gaining US popularity

Streaming sites are adding more Korean content to their offerings.
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The Garment District’s By The Pound section reopens

Want the ultimate thrift store hunt? By The Pound, a section in The Garment District store in Cambridge where customers can get on their hands and knees to search for the perfect outfit, is open again for the first time since March 2020.
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All of Chelsea Square’s a stage for a bilingual ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Apollinaire Theatre Company’s open-air production celebrates community and culture in a delightfully engaging production that moves from a stage, to the grass, to a fountain, and back.
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