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FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton. Follow live updates.

The search is part of an investigation into the handling of classified documents, multiple news outlets reported.
What to know about John Bolton, former Trump adviser whose home and office are searched by FBI

National Guard troops on DC streets for Trump’s crackdown will start carrying guns

The Pentagon and the Army said last week that troops would not carry guns. The new guidance is that they will carry their service-issued weapons.

Trump’s second term has often tested GOP loyalty. His National Guard request is the starkest example yet.
In President Trump’s second term, many of his most high-profile initiatives have doubled as opportunities to test the loyalty of Republican leaders.

Providence police helped ICE, violating city ordinance, oversight panel finds

The Providence External Review Authority said the officers’ actions on July constitutes both intelligence-sharing and direct assistance with civil immigration enforcement.

A farm grows in Springfield. But for how much longer?
Cuts to federal food programs threaten long-running efforts to combat hunger in one of the poorest corners of Massachusetts.

In N.H., Gallego downplays 2028 run but warns Democrats must ‘fight for working people’

Gallego’s visit carried all the hallmarks of an early presidential swing. Still, the freshman senator downplayed whether the activity would lead to a 2028 run.

Trump threatens to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook if she does not step down

Canada will match US tariff exemptions under USMCA trade pact, Prime Minister Carney says

Dan Shaughnessy

Who knows, the real Boston sports media experience may soon be for sale, and other thoughts

The University of Oklahoma is offering up access to postgame media interviews for a whopping $692. Revenue-stream possibilities for the Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, and Celtics are infinite.

Patriots coach Mike Vrabel announces 14 cuts prior to Tuesday’s deadline

None of the moves came as a major surprise. 

Mass. secretary of veterans affairs and former state lawmaker to step down in fall, return to health care roots

Jon Santiago oversaw efforts to improve the state’s troubled soldiers’ homes.

Amid questions about N.H. murder-suicide, experts say the case, in which mother was apparent perpetrator, is extremely rare

Emily Long, 34, shot her husband and two of their children with a handgun before turning the gun on herself, officials said.

R.I. prosecutor who told police they would ‘regret’ arresting her to be placed on unpaid leave, AG’s office says
Officials are reviewing the arrest of Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan in Newport, according to a spokesperson for the office.

COVID levels tick up in Massachusetts as ‘Stratus’ variant dominates nationally

The trend in the state is consistent with an uptick in several parts of the country, including New York and California.

Person stabbed at Logan Airport, State Police say

Officials said the victim sustained injuries that were not life-threatening injuries and was taken to a Boston hospital.

Gloucester beachgoers barred from entering the water after shark sighting

The water at Good Harbor beach was also closed Thursday for two hours following a shark sighting at nearby Long Beach.

Healey halts shelter placements amid abuse probe in Western Mass.

Documents obtained by the Globe suggest that Center for Human Development failed to promptly report the allegations as required by its contract.

New Englanders hit the beach to catch a glimpse of Hurricane Erin’s high crashing waves
Eager New Englanders took in the sights and sounds of the huge 10- to 20-foot breaking waves.

Map: High risk for rip currents throughout N.E.

New England braces for potential fall drought as dry summer persists

Cape Cod is among the hardest hit areas as New England drought conditions worsen.

What to know about Saturday’s ‘black moon’

Famine grips Gaza’s largest city and is likely to spread, authority on food crises says

Maine murder case involving teen and woman who disappeared paddleboarding is no longer public

Neighbors with Taylor Swift? A coastal R.I. home on the market offers an $8.75m opportunity.

A historic home for sale in Watch Hill is just around the corner from the pop star’s New England mansion.

Crash, rattle, and roll. The demolition derby is a fan favorite at Marshfield Fair.

Winners from multiple rounds held throughout the week will advance to the final derby on Saturday night.

Kowloon ‘better than Vegas’ as it celebrates 75th anniversary

Nearly every guest at the party had a Kowloon story, and they said the reason Kowloon is celebrating its diamond birthday is because it treats every customer like a VIP.
Opinion
IDEAS | ALEX KINGSBURY

Go ahead, write down your passwords

The benefits of having your login information accessible outweigh the risks that someone else will find it.
Orlando Patterson

Cambridge should preserve Harriet Jacobs’s legacy

Renée Loth

Thank you, Massachusetts millionaires!

EDITORIAL

Harassment, bullying incidents in school sports kept under wraps by MIAA

Renée Graham

Remembering Danielle Spencer, the child star who made a meaningful life beyond the spotlight

More recent News

Chad Finn

Will Bill Chisholm be as good as Wyc Grousbeck and Steve Pagliuca were? Celtics fans can only hope.

New England fans have high expectations for the stewards of their beloved teams. Grousbeck and Pagliuca will be a tough act to follow.

Lil Nas X jailed on suspicion of charging at police on LA street where he walked nearly naked

After charging at arriving police, he was taken into custody, but the officers, suspecting a drug overdose, took him to a hospital first.

Kraft joins chorus questioning city taxes on office buildings

A long-simmering dispute over office building taxation has become an issue in the Boston race for mayor.

Suffolk Sheriff Steven Tompkins pleads not guilty to federal extortion charges at arraignment
Tompkins was charged with pressuring owners of a cannabis company by threatening to revoke a partnership with his office, which was central to the company's licensing application.

Another lawsuit filed against Gabriel House in connection with fire that killed 10 in Fall River
Seven survivors of the deadly fire at a Fall River assisted living facility filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Gabriel House, its owner, and one of its vendors.

BLOTTER TALES
A runaway horse takes the highway, chickens run loose, and ‘Biggy Steaks’ gets arrested
A horse runs down a highway, a man calling himself "Biggy Steaks" gets pulled over, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.

Recommended reads

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

A Boston-area guide of where to soak up the fleeting days of summer

The sun is setting on the season, but I refuse to let it go.

‘We’re not going to back down’: Acting Boston ICE director pledges crackdown following Mayor Wu’s defiant comments
“Unlike Mayor Wu, I was born and raised in Massachusetts, I grew up in Boston, and I know what a safe Boston looks like, and this isn’t it,” Patricia Hyde said.

These are the 40 best public high schools in Mass., according to US News & World Report
Among all the Massachusetts schools eligible for the list, 43 percent earned a spot in the top quarter of schools nationwide.

Photos: Marine Week kicks off in Boston
The military event, scheduled through Sunday, commemorates the 250th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps.

Culture & Lifestyle

‘Peacemaker,’ the best Boston movies, and more weekend streaming picks

In ‘Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions,’ a complicated portrait of a mother emerges

‘Dog Day Afternoon’ at 50: How Sidney Lumet brought empathy to the heist movie

Ayo Edebiri to make Broadway debut next year alongside Don Cheadle

Special Projects

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

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

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.

Explore the project: Snitch City

In a nation addicted to drugs, local police are addicted to informants.

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | ROB HENDERSON

The book that showed me manhood has to be created

JOAN VENNOCHI

Wu takes on Trump and Kraft scrambles

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Free cash to poor families isn’t helping the kids

RIGHT, LEFT, AND CENTER

How Trump sees the nation’s history

JEFF JACOBY

The convictions that count are the ones that sometimes sting

JEFF JACOBY

Trump and the not-so-noble Nobel

Metro

Photos: Provincetown celebrates 2025 Carnival

Thousands of spectators celebrated at the edge of Cape Cod for the 47th annual Carnival, held this year under the theme “Summer Camp!” Elaborate costumes, music, and floats turned Commercial Street into a runway of camp-inspired creativity.
Forecast | Dave Epstein

New tropical systems emerge in the Atlantic as Erin veers out to sea

Forecasters are closely monitoring three budding tropical systems as the Atlantic hurricane season ramps up quickly from this point forward, peaking around Sept. 10.

Amid questions about N.H. murder-suicide, experts say the case, in which mother was apparent perpetrator, is extremely rare

Emily Long shot her husband and two of their children with a handgun before turning the gun on herself, officials said.
GLOBE NH | MORNING REPORT

Synthetic selfie in N.H. Senate race offers AI reminder: ‘We can’t necessarily take anything at face value’

An image that Dan Innis posted on social media seemed to be a blurry selfie featuring Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Chris Pappas. But it was fake.

Sports

Patriots

Patriots coach Mike Vrabel announces 14 cuts prior to Tuesday’s deadline

None of the moves came as a major surprise. 
nwsl

Boston Legacy FC announces first transfer: Houston Dash’s Barbara Olivieri

Olivieri will join Boston ahead of the team's 2026 NWSL debut. She will head to Club Tigres UANL on loan for the remainder of 2025.
Alex Speier | Minor Details

Pitching prospect Payton Tolle is impressing the Red Sox so much that a late-season call-up is possible

Tolle, selected in 2024, is the first Red Sox draftee to reach Triple A in his first full pro season in more than two decades.
Chad Finn

Will Bill Chisholm be as good as Wyc Grousbeck and Steve Pagliuca were? Celtics fans can only hope.

TRAVEL

How to score Wimbledon tickets without spending thousands

Red Sox at Yankees | 7:05 p.m. (NESN)

Game 129: Red Sox at Yankees lineups and notes

Business

‘They don’t remember who they are anymore’: Here’s why Target is falling behind Walmart

Rivals Target and Walmart have long been considered polar opposites. The biggest difference lately, though, is financial performance, underscored by the retailers' earnings reports this week.
REAL ESTATE

R.I. housing supply showed ‘signs of growth’ in July, realtors association says

“For the moment, buyers are enjoying a few more options with a little less competition,” said Chris Whitten of the Rhode Island Association of Realtors.

Canada will match US tariff exemptions under USMCA trade pact, Prime Minister Carney says

REAL ESTATE

Neighbors with Taylor Swift? A coastal R.I. home on the market offers an $8.75m opportunity.

magazine
fall travel

Six days in Amsterdam: clogs, cheese, and the ‘bicycle mafia’

LOVE LETTERS

My husband is boring, and I fear it’ll get worse as we age

PERSPECTIVE

My students don’t have a local newspaper. Making their own changed everything.

on the cover

A fraudulent cancer breakthrough, a test for the future president of MIT, and a new age of doubt in science

metro

Neighbors with Taylor Swift? A coastal R.I. home on the market offers an $8.75m opportunity.

Providence police helped ICE, violating city ordinance, oversight panel finds

Gloucester beachgoers barred from entering the water after shark sighting

sports

Ilona Maher wants America to fall in love with rugby during Women’s World Cup

What Kyle Dugger’s playing time in the preseason finale says about his future with the Patriots

In the biggest Red Sox-Yankees series in years, Alex Cora knew he had an edge. After one game? Advantage: Boston.

business

Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline

Another lawsuit filed against Gabriel House in connection with fire that killed 10 in Fall River

A farm grows in Springfield. But for how much longer?

politics

National Guard troops on DC streets for Trump’s crackdown will start carrying guns

FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton. Follow live updates.

Search of Bolton’s home shows uneasy mix of retribution and law enforcement

Nation

New York City death toll from Legionnaires outbreak rises to six

Lil Nas X jailed on suspicion of charging at police on LA street where he walked nearly naked

Erik Menendez was denied parole. Here’s what he said at his hearing

World

Israel’s defense minister says Gaza City could be destroyed as Israeli strikes kill 17 Palestinians

Famine grips Gaza’s largest city and is likely to spread, authority on food crises says

South Korea must navigate the ‘Trump risk’ at key summits in Japan and US

opinion

A Nobel Peace Prize for Trump — but seriously, folks

Echoes of FDR, Stalin, and Yalta at Anchorage summit

Wu takes on Trump and Kraft scrambles

lifestyle

93 percent of Gen Z loses sleep because of social media. But changing that isn’t a dream.

Worst song ever? Starship’s ‘We Built This City’ remains pop’s most loathed tune.

Hurricane Erin’s massive waves threaten to isolate North Carolina’s Outer Banks

food & dining

With Post 1917, Lexington gets the suave steakhouse it deserves

Beacon Hill welcomes nine in the old No. 9 Park space; Anna’s Taqueria celebrates a milestone

New chef, new era: Inside Sur Lie’s next chapter in Portland, Maine

travel

Yoga, fitness classes and massages? Today, wellness travel goes much deeper than that.

How to score Wimbledon tickets without spending thousands

Love a good, hot soak? How about 50 of them?

Arts

Shelly Zegart, who stitched quilting to history and art, dies at 84

White House lists Smithsonian exhibits it finds objectionable, including an animation of Anthony Fauci

What we stand to lose in Trump’s war against the Smithsonian and the ugly truth of slavery

Books

Author readings around Boston this week

Forty new books for the best fall reading

The Associates of the Boston Public Library announces 2025-26 Writer-in-Residence

Movies

‘Dog Day Afternoon’ at 50: How Sidney Lumet brought empathy to the heist movie

‘Peacemaker,’ the best Boston movies, and more weekend streaming picks

I was a skeptic. But now I’m sold – along with millions of kids. ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ rocks.

Television

That’s a wrap: ‘And Just Like That...,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ and what we want from a series finale

‘Peacemaker,’ the best Boston movies, and more weekend streaming picks

I was a skeptic. But now I’m sold – along with millions of kids. ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ rocks.

music

Neil Young offers folk songs, fist-shaking feedback anthems in Gilford

New Beatles ‘Anthology’ projects will be released this fall

Josh Ritter pens an ode to an unexpected muse with ‘I Believe in You, My Honeydew’

Theater/Dance

In ‘Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions,’ a complicated portrait of a mother emerges

Ayo Edebiri to make Broadway debut next year alongside Don Cheadle

Boston Ballet announces roster for 2025-26

Health

Eight states, including Mass., met this week in a step toward public health independence from the federal government

Map: Boston and nine other towns at high risk of West Nile virus

GLP-1s, cancer care are driving higher employer health care costs in 2026

Obituaries

Shelly Zegart, who stitched quilting to history and art, dies at 84

Warren Brodey, 101, dies; a visionary at the dawn of the Information Age

Judge Frank Caprio, America’s ‘nicest judge,’ dies at 88