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Thursday, June 16, 2022
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Golf’s uncertain future: The spotlight is on Boston, but it’s not all good news

This is not a simple moral debate between the "sportswashing" by LIV Series organizers and golfers who have chosen not to defect — the PGA Tour is trying to protect its own bottom line, its own business interest, its own financial future. Continue reading →

Transportation

Federal officials release startling new details about T safety failures, demand change

The Federal Transit Administration found dispatchers working 20-hour days, runaway trains injuring workers, many operators and supervisors with expired safety certifications, and no prompt plans to fix track sections that are in disrepair. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Body of 3-year-old Lowell boy found after painstaking search

The body of the missing boy was found in about 5 feet of water in a pond about 650 feet from the house from which he disappeared. Continue reading →

Celtics

Is it time for Boston to accept we’re not ‘classy?’ Heck no!

Yeah, Celtics fans chanted the "f" word at a rival, and a duck boat tour guide cheerfully heckled the Warriors head coach on the street, but that’s just Boston being Boston. Continue reading →

Economy

Federal Reserve escalates inflation fight with biggest rate hike since 1994

The central bank raised its benchmark rate by three-quarters of a percentage point and said increases would continue until inflation was under control. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

5 takeaways from Tuesday’s voting

From Las Vegas to Lewiston, Maine, the contours of critical midterm contests came into focus on Tuesday as Americans voted in major federal and state races across five states. Continue reading →

News analysis

Far-right Republicans press closer to power over future elections

The potential for far-right Republicans to reshape the election systems of major battleground states is growing much closer to reality. Continue reading →

Politics

Jan. 6 panel says Capitol marcher toured with GOP congressman

A man who toured the Capitol complex with a Republican lawmaker the day before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack later marched on the building while making threats against Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats, the House committee investigating the attack said Wednesday. Continue reading →

The World

World

Monkeypox outbreak poses ‘real threat’ to public health, WHO official says

The World Health Organization will convene its emergency committee in Geneva next week, WHO’s director of its European region added, to determine whether the outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, a formal declaration calling for a coordinated response between nations. Continue reading →

World

US and allies pledge additional arms for Ukraine, but Kyiv wants more

President Biden on Wednesday announced a further $1 billion in weapons and aid for Ukraine, as the United States and its allies met to craft a response to Ukraine’s increasingly urgent calls for advanced arms to beat back Russia’s invasion. Continue reading →

World

Amazon fisherman confesses to killing missing pair, police say

A fisherman confessed to killing a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in Brazil’s remote Amazon and took police to a site where human remains were recovered, a federal investigator said, closing out 10 days of suspense as teams searched for the missing pair. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

What we know about rampage school shooters

Rampage shooters are trying to solve a problem that looms large in their minds: a damaged identity. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

The train kept a-rollin’. Too bad it wasn’t supposed to.

Runaway trains, derailments, and other safety lapses at the MBTA have caught the eye of federal regulators, whose demands for improvement put the Baker administration on the spot. Continue reading →

LETTERS

A chorus of approval of ‘1812 Overture,’ for the most part

It’s OK to play the piece but not as the musical composition that ends the Boston Pops Fourth of July Concert and coincides with the fireworks. This musical offering should be of American origin. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Nativity School of Worcester now prohibited from calling itself a Catholic school

Citing the school’s refusal to take down Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, Bishop Robert J. McManus brought the hammer down this week. Continue reading →

Politics

Boston City Council unanimously approves resolution apologizing for Boston’s role in slave trade

The resolution vows “to dedicate policies and efforts to repair past and present harm done to Black Americans via systemic racism.” Continue reading →

Massachusetts

‘A Jewish hit list’: Antisemitic mapping project seen as incitement to violence in Massachusetts

A map of local institutions including Jewish organizations and their purported influence has set the Jewish community on edge and drawn the attention of the FBI. Continue reading →

Sports

Celtics

Tickets for NBA Finals Game 6 watch party at Fenway quickly sell out

The 10,000 free tickets were all claimed just hours after being released, the Red Sox said. Continue reading →

Jim McCabe | On Golf

The US Open is the most difficult mental test in golf, and that’s the way the USGA likes it

Four times since 2012 we’ve had a US Open where no one broke par for four rounds. Continue reading →

us open

For some caddies, the US Open is a week they’ll never forget

The many amateurs and club pros in the field tend to have old friends, swing coaches, or even a family member on the bag, and it's a special treat. Continue reading →

Business

Business

EPA: ‘Forever chemicals’ pose risk even at very low levels

The Environmental Protection Agency is warning that two nonstick and stain-resistant compounds found in drinking water are more dangerous than previously thought — and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected. Continue reading →

Business

Third Rock raises $1.1 billion for its largest fund yet

The Boston venture capital firm plans to use the money to launch more biotechs, despite the sector’s recent downturn. Continue reading →

ON THE STREET

In a work-from-anywhere world, how will Kendall Square adapt for the future?

Many of the 66,000 people who went to work there every day prepandemic still operate mostly from home. But the things that once brought people to the neighborhood are alive and well. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Sharon Oster, barrier-breaking Yale economist, dies at 73

Dr. Oster was the first woman to become a tenured professor of the Yale School of Management and later the first woman to be named its dean. Continue reading →

Obituaries

A.B. Yehoshua, politically engaged Israeli writer, dies at 85

In his more explicit essays and public talks, Mr. Yehoshua affirmed the Zionist ideal of a Jewish homeland but indicated that Israelis had to accommodate the needs of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians exiled from that land. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Harry Gesner, California architect in tune with nature, dies at 97

Over the years, Mr. Gesner also worked as a deckhand on actor Errol Flynn’s yacht, searched for ancient artifacts in Ecuador, hunted for the grave of conquistador Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, and tinkered with inventions. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

Ready for ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’?

Netflix is going to stage a reality contest modeled after the South Korean drama. The streamer is looking for 456 players to compete for $4.56 million. Continue reading →

ASK AMY

Ex’s family is not restrained by restraining order

Advice from Amy Dickinson. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

‘People think that a deaf household is quiet, but it’s not’: Foxborough native uses TikTok to share his experiences as a CODA

Jon Urquhart has built a following sharing his experiences as both a gay man and the child of a deaf parent. Continue reading →