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A demonstrator made the victory sign during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who had been arrested by Iran's Islamic "morality police."

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The protests in Iran could be a turning point

The government crushed previous uprisings and will probably crush this one too. But that could lead young people to radicalize in response. 2 hours ago

Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt as brothers in the 1992 movie "A River Runs Through It."

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The high cost of Hollywood nostalgia

Thirty years after its release, ‘A River Runs Through It’ stands out as a rarity: a film that finds meaning in the past without yearning to restore it. 3:00 a.m.

In an undated image provided by Guy Stern, via PBS, from left, Gunther and Werner Stern, with their mother, Hedwig.

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A powerful new account of how Washington abandoned Hitler’s victims

Ken Burns’s team chronicles America’s refusals to offer haven to Jews during the Holocaust. 10:02 a.m.

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

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Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Boston’s Latinx Community History online archive offers the pleasure of revisiting daily life in another time. 11:15 a.m.

Michael T. "Nuf Ced" McGreevy, in center with megaphone, led the Royal Rooters back to Boston from Pittsburgh during the 1903 World Series. The Boston Americans left Boston trailing the Pittsburgh Pirates but returned with the series lead.

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Red Sox Nation, meet your horn-tooting, rabble-rousing granddaddies, the Royal Rooters

They were the original sports fans, ebullient and rowdy and committed. For them, it was never only a game. 10:53 a.m.

After the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, union miners surrendered to federal troops and handed over their weapons.

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The Red Neck Army and the bloodiest labor battle in American history

A century ago, thousands of West Virginia coal miners, armed to the teeth, began a long, arduous fight to unionize. This is their story. 4:34 p.m.

Boris Johnson, then prime minister of the United Kingdom; President Biden; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz; and France's president, Emmanuel Macron, during the G7 Summit in Germany on June 28.

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The West is languishing without great leaders

Commanding political figures with coherent world views are becoming harder to find. 2:59 a.m.

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, in Bonn, West Germany, on June 13, 1989.

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Gorbachev failed. That’s why he was showered with honors.

The last ruler of the USSR never intended to break it up. 4:56 p.m.