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THE GREAT DIVIDE

Boston students face new hurdle getting to school: Orange Line shutdown

The 30-day closure of the Orange Line is another headache for the Boston school system. More than 23,000 Boston students take the MBTA, and for many of them the Orange Line is a critical transportation link. Continue reading →

Politics

Mayor Michelle Wu proposes hefty pay raises for top city officials

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is proposing hefty wage hikes for some of the city’s top elected and appointed officials, including the mayor, City Council, and police and fire commissioners, according to a letter she filed Monday with the City Council. Continue reading →

Nation

David McCullough, award-winning writer and ‘voice of American history,’ dies at 89

Mr. McCullough was a two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award and his best-selling biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams made him one of America’s most popular and acclaimed historians. Continue reading →

Politics

How working on the ‘CHIPS’ bill made Gina Raimondo a favorite Cabinet secretary on Capitol Hill

Top congressional players on the bill touted Raimondo’s bipartisan and business sensibilities as a former venture capital executive, saying those were crucial in the negotiations. The legislation is designed to alleviate the nation’s supply chain issues. Continue reading →

Nation

FBI searches Trump’s home in Florida, former president says

The search, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, when he left the White House. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Arbery’s killers receive federal sentences but stay in state prison

A federal judge meted out a second layer of life sentences Monday to Travis and Gregory McMichael, two of the three white Georgia men convicted of committing federal hate crimes for the pursuit and slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man, in February 2020. The third man, William Bryan, was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Continue reading →

Nation

Maps in four states were ruled illegal gerrymanders. They’re being used anyway.

Since January, judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio have found that Republican legislators illegally drew those states’ congressional maps along racial or partisan lines, or that a trial very likely would conclude that they did. In years past, judges who have reached similar findings have ordered new maps, or had an expert draw them, to ensure that coming elections were fair. Continue reading →

Politics

US pledges $1 billion more rockets, other arms for Ukraine

The Biden administration said Monday it was shipping its biggest yet direct delivery of weapons to Ukraine as that country prepares for a potentially decisive counteroffensive in the south against Russia, sending $1 billion in rockets, ammunition, and other material to Ukraine from Defense Department stockpiles. Continue reading →

The World

World

China extends military exercises around Taiwan

China said Monday that it would hold new drills near Taiwan, a sign that Beijing may keep up a drumbeat of military pressure on the island after conducting its largest-ever exercises in the area in retaliation for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit last week. Continue reading →

World

In war-torn Mykolaiv, Ukrainians search for informers

The embattled city of Mykolaiv emerged Monday from a 54-hour lockdown during which officers went door to door in search of collaborators who officials say are responsible for helping Russian forces identify targets for the rockets that pound the city daily. Continue reading →

World

Another Gaza conflict, but with a difference: Hamas sat it out.

The brief weekend conflict over Gaza had a grimly familiar outcome: dozens of Palestinians killed, including militant leaders as well as children, and scores of homes damaged or destroyed, most by Israeli airstrikes but some from Palestinian misfires. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Legislature needs to return to business

A mere rule shouldn't halt passage of an omnibus economic bill that impacts millions. Continue reading →

OPINION

Massachusetts can continue to lead the way in providing gender-affirming health care

Access, even in Massachusetts, remains incredibly rare and this must change. Continue reading →

OPINION

Building a class

Any particular qualifications of an individual applicant are secondary considerations to the primary one — how will the applicant contribute to that year’s class. Continue reading →

Metro

K-12

Planting local roots: Farming program provides Boston area teens summer work and sense of community

The 14 to 18-year-olds who get hired are often from neighborhoods nearby the organization’s farms. Of the youth working in both Boston and North Shore neighborhoods this summer, more than half are Black or Latino. Continue reading →

Politics

Bill Galvin and secretary of state challenger Tanisha Sullivan battle at Democratic primary debate

Galvin repeatedly accused Sullivan of making “misstatements” and twisting his record, at one point charging that Sullivan’s arguments show an “ignorance of the office and the laws around it.” Sullivan told Galvin: “You are not a friend of the civil rights community. You find yourself on the other side of justice all the time.” Continue reading →

Metro

Neo-Nazi demonstration in the Seaport prompts cancellation of drag queen story hour

A drag queen story hour in the Seaport was canceled Sunday after a neo-Nazi group gathered outside, marking the latest in a string of recent incidents involving hate groups openly demonstrating in Boston. Continue reading →

Sports

bruins

Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci will return to the Bruins, offering a clearer picture as team prepares for 2022-23 season

The Bruins also reached agreement with Pavel Zacha, whom they acquired in June, on a one-year deal. Continue reading →

RED SOX

Here’s how the Red Sox approached the trade deadline, a path that not even everyone in their organization understands

“Ultimately, we felt we came out of it with a stronger organization, and at least as strong and maybe a stronger big league club,” chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom said. “Even though it looks different.” Continue reading →

sports media

Dennis Eckersley will retire from NESN booth at season’s end

The former Red Sox pitcher intends to spend more time with his grandchildren in California. Continue reading →

Business

Commercial

Developer proposes apartments on site previously eyed for Roxbury Prep

The school project was scrapped earlier this year. Now, it may be replaced by a five-story, 124-unit residential building at 361 Belgrade Ave., on the Roslindale-West Roxbury border. Continue reading →

Business

Karuna’s experimental schizophrenia drug succeeds in advanced study

If approved by the FDA, the Boston biotech’s medicine would be the first new type of treatment for the disease in decades. Continue reading →

Economy

A hot real estate market, a labor shortage, and a state budget surplus. It’s 1986 all over again.

Taxpayer refunds also came into play decades ago, after voters passed a law capping how much money could flow into state coffers. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Gerald Nagler, leading human rights activist since Cold War, dies at 92

His influence on international human rights efforts and priorities spanned more than four decades, from documenting the struggles of opposition groups during the Iron Curtain era to fighting antisemitism amid a rise in nativist and extreme-right political forces in recent years. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Olivia Newton-John, star of ‘Grease,’ chart-topping singer, dies at 73

The actress and singer, who starred in the classic 1978 film “Grease,” died Monday, according to her husband, John Easterling. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

Beneath ‘Surface,’ there’s not much depth

The Apple TV+ drama set in San Francisco gives us a woman with amnesia and follows her struggle to recover her identity. Continue reading →

MUSIC REVIEW

JoAnn Falletta wows a crowd and Thomas Adès heads out of this world at Tanglewood

Falletta, the trailblazing music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, made her long-overdue BSO conducting debut Saturday night at the Shed. Continue reading →

Music

Berklee getting high-schoolers into the spirit of gospel music

The college has recruited students from Boston-area Boys & Girls Clubs, YMCAs, theater programs, and churches for its newest summer program. Continue reading →