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A Texas flag draped on the back of a totaled pickup truck painted with markings from a search and rescue team after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas, on Saturday, July 5, 2025.

Texas floods leave at least 51 dead as rescuers search devastated landscape

The destructive fast-moving waters rose 26 feet (8 meters) on the Guadalupe River in just 45 minutes before daybreak Friday, washing away homes and vehicles.

How weather conditions set the stage for deadly Texas flash floodsSee photos of the devastating flooding in Texas

A view of Camp Mystic, the site of where at least 20 girls went missing after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas, on July 5, 2025.

Floods turned beloved Texas camp into a nightmare. At least 27 girls remain missing

First responders are scouring the riverbanks in hopes of finding survivors. Social media posts are now focused on the faces of the missing.

Campers embrace after arriving to a reunification area as girls from Camp Waldemar, near the North fork of the Guadalupe River, are reconnected with their families after heavy rainfall in Central Texas, Saturday, July 5, 2025.

A look at some of the deadliest floods in the US in the last 25 years

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, center, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, right, discuss the ongoing search and rescue efforts after recent flooding along the Guadalupe River during a press conference on Saturday, July 5, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas.

Texas officials face scrutiny over response to catastrophic and deadly flooding

Jackson has emerged as a forceful critic of her conservative colleagues and, lately, their approach to the Trump agenda.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes herself heard, prompting a rebuke

Despite writing the fewest majority opinions, her voice resonated nonetheless, in an unusually large number of concurring and dissenting opinions, more than 20 in all.

Coach Mike Vrabel has a commanding style and a competitive defense.

Nicole Yang | Sunday football notes

How many games will the Patriots win in 2025? Here’s our answer, and other bold predictions for the NFL season.

The Patriots have a new culture under new coach Mike Vrabel, and have the second easiest schedule in the league.

Rob Refsnyder's RBI double in the first inning helped get the Red Sox' offense rolling.

Red Sox 10, Nationals 3

Red Sox get better pitching from Walker Buehler, offense keeps rolling in another rout of Nationals

Buehler held Washington to three runs (two earned) — with no walks — in five-plus innings in his longest outing since June 11.

Lyndon Byers, tough, rugged forward for the Bruins during the 1980s, dies at 61
Byers was a fan favorite for his rugged style and fighting prowess for the rock-'em-sock-'em Bruins of the 1980s.

Long a drug store, this key spot on Beacon Hill could soon be apartments
A developer is pitching a 12-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail where a 24-hour CVS now stands.

Man dies after a firework ‘exploded’ in his face in Wareham, officials say

A 70-year-old man died after he was involved in a fatal fireworks accident in Wareham Friday night, officials said.

In Holyoke, a radical approach to mental health care offers respite to a community under siege

A new residential home in Holyoke is the only such facility in the country, and perhaps in the world, that is focused exclusively for trans and queer people.

Amid a turbulent political era, the Cape watches fireworks and reflects
People of all political stripes thronged to Cape Cod for the weekend, as they always do.

Elon Musk says he will start a new political party

Musk said he would create a new political party, an enormous and challenging undertaking that would test the billionaire's newfound influence on American politics.

Two people killed, one seriously injured, after two-vehicle crash in Milton

Trooper injured after large police response in Revere

One hospitalized in Mattapan after Saturday afternoon shooting

The Mariners' Cal Raleigh is a catcher roughly on pace for 60 home runs and 132 RBIs.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Midseason awards are in, and Cal Raleigh and Shohei Ohtani are the MVPs

Tarik Skubal and Paul Skenes are the picks for Cy Young.

The dining room at Mr. H in the Seaport.

WHAT SHE'S HAVING | KARA BASKIN

Mr. H actually made this curmudgeon like the Seaport and feel like a kid again

A mea culpa from a Seaport cynic.

See photos of the Boston fireworks and festivities

When the Sun played at TD Garden last August, Celtics star Jayson Tatum was in attendance, posing with DiJonai Carrington.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Boston is ready for a WNBA franchise, and waiting (hoping) for another round of expansion

The league just expanded to 18 teams, and there is no timeline for another expansion.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson shakes hands with Majority Leader Steve Scalise as he celebrates with fellow Republicans after final passage of President Donald Trump's signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 3, 2025.

Trump just sent the national debt into the stratosphere

Trump and the GOP Congress just handed future generations a gigantic bill. There could have been another way.

Locked shampoo and woke politics: Will Auchincloss take on Markey?

IDEAS | SIDHI DHANDA

I don’t know if I’m proud to be an American. But I am grateful.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Supreme Court puts voting rights on the menu

Boston hits its high rises just when they’re down

More recent News

Tropical Storm Chantal forms off coast of Carolinas
Chantal is expected to move across South Carolina on Sunday morning. Its winds on Saturday were up to 40 miles per hour.

Everyone is watching Musk’s influence on D.C. politics. But what about Texas?

Hamas says it has given a ‘positive’ response to the latest ceasefire proposal in Gaza
The recent killings took place as efforts to halt the 21-month war appeared to be moving forward.

HIGHER EDUCATION
UNH pulls DEI webpage, changes a staffer’s title, and certain hiring practices as state DEI law takes effect
The new law, tucked into the state’s budget, went into effect Tuesday.

Your kid is getting a ‘Trump account.’ Should you put your money in it?
Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” includes a gift to millions of families: $1,000 in an investment account for every eligible newborn.

Maine sets goals to transition to clean energy by 2040
Maine’s current renewable energy policies saved ratepayers $21.5 million between 2011 and 2022, according to testimony from the state.

Maine Senate approves 116 bills of the special appropriations table

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From the Globe archive

The tragedy that Boston forgot

In 1916, the city witnessed a horrific trolley accident that killed 46 people. It has now been all but forgotten.

A Napoleon from Long Island meets his Waterloo
On a field near the Belgian village of Waterloo, a Napoleon reenactor, riding a white horse, gave orders to hundreds of people in military uniform.

A cat was dubbed Somerville’s ‘bike path mayor.’ Now neighborhood pets are vying to unseat her.
According to a growing collection of lawn signs in Somerville, the race is on.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS
Once again, the state seeks to redevelop a massive complex in the old West End — this time, into housing
The state is taking another swing at finding a developer for the massive, Brutalist, Lindemann and Hurley complex.

Culture & Lifestyle

John Cena promoting new movie "Heads of State" in London July 1.

On Colbert’s ‘Late Show,’ John Cena dishes on things to do in his native Essex County, Mass.

Ali Ewoldt (Guenevere) and the ensemble of "Camelot."

More than one shining moment in Barrington Stage’s ‘Camelot’

Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey performs at Boston Calling on May 26, 2023.

Ken Casey talks new Dropkick Murphys album, Trump, and why now is ‘the most serious moment’ for bands to speak out

Cast members Ramona Lisa Alexander, left, Levi Mngomezulu, and Jackie Davis rehearse a scene of "Kufre n' Quay" at Boston Arts Academy.

Boston Arts Academy steps in to help craft the next Ufot Cycle play: ‘Kufre n’ Quay’

Special Projects

Seventh-graders at the Curley School on the first day of school in 1975. (Ulrike Welsch/Globe staff)

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

An Ambulance passes Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, LA on August 28, 2024.

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

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The Boston Globe’s Best of the Best

Our ultimate guide to more than 200 winners for Boston's best food, drinks, and fun things to do.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A London taxicab tricked out with a “Greetings from New Jersey” livery, courtesy of the Garden State’s travel board.

Places I won’t be visiting

What’s to stop President Trump from trying to strip primarily Black and brown citizens of their ability to claim America as their official home?

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Who is an American? Trump wants to decide.

A shopper at a grocery store in New York in February.

New York has many problems. Grocery stores aren’t one of them.

The Legislature deserves credit for sending Governor Maura Healey a fiscal 2026 state budget on Monday that, in a highly unusual move, spends less than earlier proposals made by Healey, the House, or the Senate.

With budget uncertainty, lawmakers were right to limit spending

IDEAS | Chris Chiappinelli

Jury duty was a drag — but I wish it had lasted longer

The photos on these banners in a Beirut suburb say a lot about the governance of Lebanon. On the left is the speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri. On the right is Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli strike on Sept. 27. Lebanon hasn’t had a president for two years because Hezbollah keeps blocking candidates.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

Amid a turbulent political era, the Cape watches fireworks and reflects

People of all political stripes thronged to Cape Cod for the weekend, as they always do.

Trooper injured after large police response in Revere

The incident sparked intense interest on social media amid reports of a huge brawl. Authorities said there was fighting, but it was not a huge melee, though the crowd was “aggressive” to responding officers who’d come in response to illegal fireworks.

Maine Senate approves 116 bills of the special appropriations table

In less than 48 hours, lawmakers had to decide how to appropriate up to $7 million in state funding for nearly 300 bills.

Maine sets goals to transition to clean energy by 2040

Maine’s current renewable energy policies saved ratepayers $21.5 million between 2011 and 2022, according to testimony from the state.

Sports

Rob Refsnyder's RBI double in the first inning helped get the Red Sox' offense rolling.

Red Sox 10, Nationals 3

Red Sox get better pitching from Walker Buehler, offense keeps rolling in another rout of Nationals

Buehler held Washington to three runs (two earned) — with no walks — in five-plus innings in his longest outing since June 11.

James Hagens stood out once his name was called by the Bruins during the NHL Draft Friday night in Los Angeles, and hopes his play on the ice does as well.

From a chance encounter with Don Sweeney to draft night, an inside look at James Hagens’s journey to the Bruins

When the Bruins' first-round draft pick was a high schooler, he met the man who would choose him in the NHL Draft on a flight to Nashville.

Righthander Cam Schlittler of Walpole has gone 2-1 with a 3.80 ERA in five starts at Triple A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this season.

Walpole’s Cam Schlittler eyes Major League debut with Yankees this week

Reports say the former Globe All-Scholastic from Walpole High and Northeastern hurler is expected to face the Mariners either Tuesday or Wednesday.

Former Red Sox reliever Bobby Jenks dies at 44

Red Sox Notebook

Carlos Narváez’s breakout season is no surprise to Nationals’ catching coach

Davis Thompson makes late birdie to break out of a logjam and lead PGA John Deere Classic

Business

Your kid is getting a ‘Trump account.’ Should you put your money in it?

Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” includes a gift to millions of families: $1,000 in an investment account for every eligible newborn.

Long a drug store, this key spot on Beacon Hill could soon be apartments

A developer is pitching a 12-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail where a 24-hour CVS now stands.

White House to start notifying countries about tariffs, Trump says

Boston launches new business training, certification for disability inclusion

A round of golf at Pirate's Cove.

How to have a classic summer on Cape Cod and around New England with mini golf, camp, and more

The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular, part of the annual Boston Harborfest, as seen from the roof of MIT’s Green Building in 2024.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, June 30-July 13

In 1972, Roxie Laybourne was a 61-year-old ornithologist working in Washington, D.C., when she was asked to testify at a Maine murder trial.

She was a quiet bird expert. Then she was called to investigate a murder in Maine.

At left: Jason Gay, at home in Sharon, holds his late grandfather’s Army uniform, photo, and newly-found dog tag, in June. At right: Dutch metal detectorist Laurent Stemkens revisits the German forest in April.

After finding buried WWII dog tags, a Dutch man spent years trying to return them to the owner’s family

metro

Gold chains and other jewels.

Four males arrested for allegedly robbing jewelry store in North Andover, leading police on chase into Lawrence

In Holyoke, a radical approach to mental health care offers respite to a community under siege

Heat and humidity start to increase during the holiday weekend, still dry

sports

Rute Cardoso, wife of Diogo Jota, leans on the arm of Ruben Neves, a football player for Alhilal Saudi Club and the Portugal national team, as the coffin of Diogo Jota is carried out of the church.

Liverpool and Portugal players join family in mourning Diogo Jota and his brother at funeral

Liverpool and Portugal players join family in mourning Diogo Jota and his brother at funeral

Lyndon Byers, tough, rugged forward for the Bruins during the 1980s, dies at 61

business

Dick Hronick, a volunteer at the Samaritan Center food pantry in Jefferson City, Mo., pushes a cart of food across the parking lot for distribution to people on July 1.

Medicaid, food aid recipients worry about safety net cuts in bill sent to Trump

What’s in Trump’s big bill that passed Congress and will soon become law

The House gives final approval to Trump’s big tax bill in a milestone for his second-term agenda

politics

Jackson has emerged as a forceful critic of her conservative colleagues and, lately, their approach to the Trump agenda.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes herself heard, prompting a rebuke

Everyone is watching Musk’s influence on D.C. politics. But what about Texas?

How weather conditions set the stage for deadly Texas flash floods

Nation

A Texas flag draped on the back of a totaled pickup truck painted with markings from a search and rescue team after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas, on Saturday, July 5, 2025.

Texas floods leave at least 51 dead as rescuers search devastated landscape

Floods turned beloved Texas camp into a nightmare. At least 27 girls remain missing

Elon Musk says he will start a new political party

World

In a recorded video statement, the Dalai Lama addresses a gathering of senior Tibetan Buddhist monks in Dharamsala, India, the Himalayan town where he has lived in exile for over half a century, on Wednesday.

The little mountain democracy that sustains Tibet’s refugee nation

An isolated Iran looks to BRICS for allies, testing a new world order

A Napoleon from Long Island meets his Waterloo

opinion

I don’t know if I’m proud to be an American. But I am grateful.

Locked shampoo and woke politics: Will Auchincloss take on Markey?

A big Trump bill, but ‘beautiful’ it is not

lifestyle

Married couples have traditionally used their honeymoons to take once-in-a-lifetime trips; more recently, however, many newlyweds have been opting for domestic vacations instead.

Why more newlyweds are honeymooning closer to home

I think my husband had a baby with another woman

Five lessons from traveling to Italy with kids

food & dining

Competitive eater Joey Chestnut celebrates after winning the 2025 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn.

Joey Chestnut reclaims title in Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest, wins 17th Mustard Belt

Meet the soon-to-be owner of one of Providence’s oldest brewpubs

Mike & Patty’s opens in Lexington; Darling debuts in Cambridge

travel

27NHMRoutdoors - Amanda's dog, Alux, enjoys the trails at Jim Hill Riverwalk in Concord. The Contoocook River is pictured to the left. (Amanda Gokee/Globe Staff)

It’s summer in N.H., and the great outdoors is calling

How to enjoy Madrid like a local during the deep sizzle of summer

These are some of the best beaches around New England, according to Globe staffers

Arts

Artist and educator Paul Belenky is pictured next to his artwork entitled "Elevated Fruit" in Franconia, N.H. The installation was only displayed for four days before the banana was stolen on May 29, according to the organizers of the Franconia Artwalk, an outdoor art exhibit. (Kathie Lovett)

After an art heist hit a New Hampshire town, ‘the banana is back’

At the Peabody Essex Museum, tracking the American Experiment through more than two centuries of art

At the Boston Athenaeum, botanical beauty of the photographic sort

Books

Author Casey Sherman.

Casey Sherman’s latest true crime narrative puts readers in the jury box

Local bestsellers for the week ended June 29

David R. Slavitt, poet and critic with a side gig in soft pornography, dies at 90

Movies

Michael B. Jordan in “Sinners.”

‘Sinners,’ Joey Chestnut’s return, plus the best movies and TV shows to watch July Fourth weekend

Michael Madsen, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Kill Bill’ actor, dies

James Gunn and the ‘Superman’ cast on why the world needs the Man of Steel now more than ever

Television

Michael B. Jordan in “Sinners.”

‘Sinners,’ Joey Chestnut’s return, plus the best movies and TV shows to watch July Fourth weekend

On Colbert’s ‘Late Show,’ John Cena dishes on things to do in his native Essex County, Mass.

Does ‘Dept. Q’ look familiar? There may be some reasons for that.

music

The cover group Booty Vortex call themselves “Boston’s finest funk and disco band.”

Whether you’re seeking Motown or hair metal, these Boston bands have you ‘covered’

From mansions to sculpture parks, the Trustees’ unique venues host live music this summer

Ken Casey talks new Dropkick Murphys album, Trump, and why now is ‘the most serious moment’ for bands to speak out

Theater/Dance

Barbara Walters and Roy Cohn attend a party at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on March 20, 1983.

Roy Cohn makes another pop culture appearance, this time alongside Barbara Walters

Seeing Blue Man Group for the first time as it closes after 30 years

More than one shining moment in Barrington Stage’s ‘Camelot’

Health

Ephriam Akiva, senior director of peer respite for the Wildflower Alliance, posed for a portrait.

In Holyoke, a radical approach to mental health care offers respite to a community under siege

Shooting of North Andover police officer puts spotlight on postpartum depression

Bankrupt Steward eyes clawbacks from former CEO Ralph de la Torre and others

Obituaries

In an undated image provided by JayJay Jackson, Mr. Shooter was seen in 1993 on the roof of the Manhattan building where Defiant Comics, one of the companies he founded after leaving Marvel, was headquartered.

Jim Shooter, editor who ‘saved the comics industry,’ dies at 73

Richard A. Boucher, veteran State Department spokesman, dies at 73

Liverpool forward Diogo Jota rose to the heights of soccer stardom before his tragic death at 28