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Boston Globe - Top Stories

Trump's Taiwan gambit is already a gift to China

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One day of the week reflects Boston's changed downtown: Mondays

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Ideas -- The NBA is in crisis

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America's Test Kitchen lays off 24 employees — 10 percent of its workforce

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Prosecutor announces charges for ICE officer in shooting of migrant during Minn. crackdown. Follow live updates.

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Across Massachusetts, residents are pushing back against their new neighbors: data centers

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Watch: In Georgetown commencement speech, Tom Brady takes jab at Bill Belichick

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JOAN VENNOCHI - Can Seth Moulton convince voters it's time to thank Ed Markey for his service and elect him instead? He's making the case that voters can't afford to wait for change.

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EDITORIAL -- In Chelsea, a budget crunch prompts leaders to consider a third rail: loosening inclusionary development rules

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Ashish K. Jha and Irene Papanicolas -- Drug prices in US are too high. Here's how to lower them.

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Khameer Kidia -- What RFK Jr. gets right – and wrong – about mental health

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IDEAS| Miles Howard -- Why aren't there more COVID-19 memorials?

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Boston man sentenced after being found guilty of drugging and raping girlfriend on Valentine's Day

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One dead in private airplane crash in Westerly, R.I.

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Federal jury sides with OpenAI in feud with Elon Musk

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Police investigate pipe bomb found near pond in Lakeville

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Will New Hampshire's 'bathroom bill' get vetoed for a fourth time? And then a fifth time?

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Man falls off ride at Southwick's Zoo after having medical emergency

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AS I SEE IT - 'Great Thanks, Bruce Springsteen' "As I See It," a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers.

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OCEAN STATE Q&A -- Rare bees are buzzing around Rhode Island. Here's why it matters. -- Researchers at the University of Rhode Island's Bee Lab are documenting new species of the insects, which are critical economic drivers.

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Starting Point -- Some retirees thought their work days were done. Now they're 'unretiring.' -- Paying more for gas, groceries, electricity, health insurance? Some Americans who thought their work days were done are "unretiring."

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It's now easier than ever to search the Globe recipe archive

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80 fun concerts, festivals, shows, and more to check out around Boston this summer

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ART's 'Black Swan' brings the movie's saga of dance and ambition to the stage

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What's your 'type'? Because this man's type is ... very specific.

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Boston Globe Spotlight Team - Nearly 250 patients at top Mass. hospitals say they were abused by a renowned doctor. Why wasn't he stopped sooner? A Globe Spotlight investigation found the state's medical establishment missed key warning signs.

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Why Trump and the MAGA movement turned against Harvard -- Over a decade of political and cultural upheaval, America's most powerful university grew vulnerable to attack. There were warning signs.

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Why the middle class is disappearing in Massachusetts -- The middle class in Massachusetts is being hollowed out. Driving the squeeze is a stratospheric rise in inequality.

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Water is coming for the Seaport; the whole city will be poorer for it. -- Buildings in the Seaport fund one-tenth of Boston's property-tax base. Flood waters and sea level rise will soon put that at risk.

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EDITORIAL -- 'Ghost networks' make finding mental health care harder

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IDEAS | Perri Klass -- My mother always said Mother's Day was a racket — my inbox agrees

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IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER -- In foreign policy, the best modern presidents have been Republicans — present company excluded

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IDEAS | ARINDRAJIT DUBE -- How to save the middle class

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Lost and/or found -- Ten weird but totally true Boston stories

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RI POLITICS -- Cranston City Council approves $349m budget, sparing the senior center from closure -- The budget requiring a 4.65 percent levy increase was approved by the council after a tumultuous process.

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RI POLITICS -- McKee unveils 6 picks for revamped CRMC. Critics are underwhelmed. -- The troubled coastal regulatory panel's current chairman made the list, but no women did.

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These maps detail the surge of hot summer weather expected this week across New England

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Revolution -- Revolution return to broadcast TV, sort of: Fox 25 to air select match replays during remainder of MLS season -- While live broadcasts will remain on the Apple TV streaming service, Fox 25 will re-air eight games the Monday after they're played.

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Red Sox at Royals | 7:10 p.m. (NESN) -- Game 47: Red Sox at Royals start time moved to 7:10 p.m. -- Sonny Gray will be on the mound when the Red Sox open a three-game series at Kansas City Monday night.

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Red Sox -- Chad Tracy decides the lineup, and other Red Sox thoughts -- The interim manager said he generally sits with bench coach José David Flores to come up with the lineup.

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College basketball -- Bentley men's basketball coach Jay Lawson to retire after 34 seasons

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NBA -- Pelicans hire Jamahl Mosley as coach

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Larry Edelman | Trendlines - Breaking bad: Ex-Goodwin Procter lawyer allegedly ran a decadelong insider-trading scheme - The perpetrators allegedly made tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits using purloined inside information to trade on takeover deals before they were announced, including several featuring well-known local companies.

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CONNECTIONS -- I first scaled Mount Washington in 1954 at age 4. I kept going back.

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- In 1970s Boston, young hustlers made easy money selling smart term papers to college students

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State workers file class-action lawsuit against R.I. over new payroll system

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Meet Brody Bumila, the Mass. high school pitcher who throws 100 mph

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Ranking the Patriots' position groups from least to most concerning as OTAs approach

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Boston wants to use nearly $70 million in reserve funds to plug city, BPS budget deficits

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New England Council chief Jim Brett recognized for his neighborhood volunteerism

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China agrees to boost trade for US beef and poultry following Trump-Xi summit

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Over 100,000 family separations in deportation push, report estimates

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Three young people arrested in series of random shootings across Austin that left four injured

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Congo will open three Ebola treatment centers as a rare strain spreads in Ituri

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Ebola and hantavirus have Africa talking 'health sovereignty' as donor support fades

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Women aren't 'under-babied'

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Misuse of school timeouts raises questions

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Where to for the Chappaquiddick Ferry?

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Would you pick lint off someone else's sweater?

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In the Seaport, where the babies have good hair and the dogs have veneers, the socializing has gotten competitive

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Graduates boo commencement speech about AI in Florida

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These are the 11 best beer gardens to check out in Boston this spring and summer

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Recipe: For these flatbreads, layer pita rounds with yogurt spread, grilled lamb, and crunchy salad veggies

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A piece of New England hotel history gets a multimillion-dollar makeover. Take a peek inside.

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The best of Maine, on the cheap. (Yes, it's possible.)

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Mural being painted in Nashua's Renaissance Park features nod to city's French-Canadian heritage

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In art history, 'nude' almost always meant nude women, painted by men. An MFA exhibit documents a contemporary rebuttal.

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The best local book events this week

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Koji Suzuki, sometimes called the Stephen King of Japan, dies at 68

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AI startups can succeed in Massachusetts. This billion-dollar deal shows why.

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Here's what the Supreme Court ruling on mailing mifepristone means for Massachusetts

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Peter G. Neumann, who warned of computer security risks, dies at 93

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