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Metro

Even with Delta, coyotes, and buckets of rain, many Cape businesses have enjoyed a steady summer

It seemed like Hurricane Henri — arriving at the end of what should have been a busy seaside weekend — would have officially doomed the Cape’s summer, but the message coming from business owners this week has been much more positive. Continue reading →

Politics

The law says women in Massachusetts are entitled to a year’s supply of birth control packs. At the pharmacy counter, not so much

Massachusetts patients are still being denied easy access to long-term birth control prescriptions they were guaranteed under a bill Governor Charlie Baker signed into law nearly four years ago. Continue reading →

Politics

Acting Mayor Janey quietly shopping plan to change Boston voting precincts

The city’s plan — which is subject to change and would not go into effect before this fall’s mayoral election — would add more than a dozen precincts in some of Boston’s fastest-growing neighborhoods, according to a draft of the proposal obtained by the Globe and five people with knowledge of it. Continue reading →

Metro

Free lobster here!*

*It will only cost you two years of your life, hundreds in gear and licenses, and probably one of your fingers. Continue reading →

World

As airport bombing death toll soars, desperate Afghans seek any exit

Hundreds of Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban continued to crowd Kabul’s airport Friday, even after one of the deadliest bombings in the country’s history, as the death toll from the previous day’s blast neared 200 with hundreds more wounded, keeping the city’s hospitals grimly busy all day. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Breyer on retirement and politics at the Supreme Court

Justice Stephen Breyer says he is struggling to decide when to retire from the Supreme Court and is taking account of a host of factors, including who will name his successor. Continue reading →

Nation

Biden OKs booster shots 5 months after 2nd dose

President Biden said his administration is considering whether to start booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine as soon as five months after people receive a second dose, a move that would accelerate US plans by three months. Continue reading →

Nation

Calls grow to discipline doctors spreading virus misinformation

Standing before a local school board in central Indiana this month, Dr. Daniel Stock, a physician in the state, issued a litany of false claims about the coronavirus. He proclaimed that the recent surge in cases showed that the vaccines were ineffective, that people were better off with a cocktail of drugs and supplements to prevent hospitalization from the virus, and that masks did not help prevent the spread of infection. Continue reading →

The World

World

What Is the Islamic State Khorasan?

Here’s what we know about the group that claimed credit for Thursday's deadly attack outside the airport in Kabul. Continue reading →

World

Taliban success in Afghanistan seen as boost for extremists

A few days after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, a convoy of militants drove through the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria in cars bearing the group’s white-and-black flags, honking horns and firing their guns in the air. The celebrations by an Al Qaeda affiliate in a remote corner of war-torn Syria were an expression of the triumph felt by radical Islamic groups from the Gaza Strip to Pakistan and West Africa who see America’s violence-marred exit from Afghanistan an opportunity to reassert their presence. Continue reading →

World

Young dad-to-be was among 13 US troops killed in Afghanistan

Eleven Marines, one Navy sailor, and one Army soldier were among the dead, while 18 other US service members were wounded in Thursday’s bombing, which was blamed on Afghanistan’s offshoot of the Islamic State group. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Is it time to go back to an elected school committee in Boston?

The never-ending squabble over the committee’s makeup is a distraction from tackling the actual problems in the schools. Continue reading →

OPINION

Supreme Court’s damaging ‘Remain in Mexico’ ruling

The order underscores a damning reality that has been hard to contend with — that Trump’s inhumane and anti-immigrant agenda is going to have a long tail, one that may last decades. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Heat pumps: a green solution with more than a few gray areas

A front-page story on the slow transition to home heat pumps generated a range of questions, plaudits, and concerns from readers. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Even with Delta, coyotes, and buckets of rain, many Cape businesses have enjoyed a steady summer

It seemed like Hurricane Henri — arriving at the end of what should have been a busy seaside weekend — would have officially doomed the Cape’s summer, but the message coming from business owners this week has been much more positive. Continue reading →

Metro

Free lobster here!*

*It will only cost you two years of your life, hundreds in gear and licenses, and probably one of your fingers. Continue reading →

K-12

Boston will pay $650,000 to five Mission Hill K-8 School families in sex-abuse case

Boston Public Schools will pay $650,000 to five families who alleged the Mission Hill K-8 School improperly responded to an elementary-aged student’s sexual assaults of fellow students. Continue reading →

Sports

RED SOX 4, INDIANS 3

For Red Sox, it’s better late than never as Jonathan Araúz’s home run delivers comeback win over Indians

Eduardo Rodriguez pitched seven solid innings, keeping Boston in the game long enough for Araúz to provide the decisive three-run blast in the eighth inning. Continue reading →

ON BASEBALL

Jonathan Araúz, arriving shortly before Sox played Indians, missed two bunt attempts, but made up for it

Araúz missed on a pair of bunt attempts, then hit a decisive three-run home run in the eighth inning to give the Sox a 4-3 lead. Continue reading →

patriots notebook

Rhamondre Stevenson was taken aback at Patriot veterans’ embrace of a rookie

What has surprised Stevenson the most in his first NFL training camp is how welcome he has felt since landing here. Continue reading →

Business

Business

More big-name Boston companies delay their return to the office until January

Add insurers John Hancock, Tufts Health Plan, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care to the growing list of white collar employers postponing their return-to-office plans because of rising COVID-19 case counts. Continue reading →

Technology

Bouncing back from the pandemic, Boston restaurant-tech firm Toast files to go public

The news marks a strong rebound for the local company, which just 16 months ago laid off half its staff when its customers — restaurants — were forced to shut down due to COVID-19. Continue reading →

Business

After Supreme Court strikes down eviction ban, new calls for Congress to act

Massachusetts law protects tenants who have a pending application for rent relief, and aid distribution here has accelerated. Continue reading →

Obituaries
Arts & Lifestyle

Names

Fritz Proctor IV is the Bob Ross of TikTok

The Malden resident has gone viral as @fritzdoesart for his oh-so-satisfying videos of mixing paints to perfectly match colors like sunset pink, turmeric yellow, and amethyst purple. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

Seaport x Black Owned Bos. Market kicks off two-day special event

The weekend-long event is part of a celebration of Black Business Month. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

These three Massachusetts drive-ins are some of the best in the Northeast, according to USA Today

Want to enjoy a movie in the open air before summer ends? USA Today put its stamp of approval on three drive-in theaters in Massachusetts. Continue reading →