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LaShyra Nolen

'We have to look at the small insidious ways that we might be actually doing more harm than good'

FILE - This file image made from May 25, 2020 video provided by Christian Cooper, shows Amy Cooper with her dog talking to Christian Cooper in Central Park in New York. Amy Cooper, walking her dog who called the police during a videotaped dispute with Christian Cooper, a Black man, was charged Monday, July 6, 2020, with filing a false report. (Christian Cooper via AP, File)

Case against Amy Cooper lacks key element: Victim's cooperation

Students from Newton North High School faced off with a man who interrupted a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest.

Newton police investigating after man confronts student protesters, drives ‘aggressively’ through demonstrators

The Supreme Court, Wednesday, July 8, 2020, in Washington.

Supreme Court: Some employers can refuse to offer free birth control July 8, 2020 | 6:31 PM

An information sign ask people to keep social distance due to the corona pandemic, where people stroll, sunbathe and swim at a bathing jetty in Malmo, Sweden, on June 25, 2020, during a heatwave with temperatures over 30 degrees Celcius. (Photo by Johan NILSSON / various sources / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by JOHAN NILSSON/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Sweden has become the world's cautionary tale July 8, 2020 | 5:40 PM

A Boston Police cruiser drives down Huntington Avenue.

With budget in rearview, Boston city councilors turn to police overtime spending and union contracts July 8, 2020 | 5:05 PM

110 Mercer St., South Boston

11-year-old injured when a lit firework explodes in his hand in South Boston July 8, 2020 | 4:40 PM

Mass. reports 30 new COVID-19 deaths, 162 new cases July 8, 2020 | 4:19 PM

Boston, MA - 7/8/2020: Melissa Leaston of Whittier Street Health Center uses a nasal swab to collect a specimen outside the Catherine Hardaway Residences in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, MA on July 08, 2020. A full day of free community-based testing took place at Central Boston Elder Services and its Catherine Hardaway Residences for the elderly and people with disabilities in the Roxbury. CBES and partner Whittier Street Health Center provided this opportunity to all members of the community who wish to be tested. (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) coronavirus Covid-19

Here are the updated town-by-town coronavirus numbers July 8, 2020 | 4:11 PM

Contraception coverage has emerged as a key battleground in the culture wars, one in which successive administrations have switched sides.

Supreme Court lets employers opt out of providing free birth control July 8, 2020 | 3:31 PM

Beverly Horribles Parade 2008

Horribles Parade

Fourth of July parade draws ire for reportedly racist content, personal attacks July 8, 2020 | 3:30 PM

Brooks Brothers on Newbury Street in Boston.

Brooks Brothers files for bankruptcy, plans to close dozens of stores July 8, 2020 | 2:36 PM

A medical worker screens people arriving at a COVID-19 testing site in Boston back in March.

State launches 8 free COVID-19 testing sites July 8, 2020 | 2:19 PM

Tropical storm Fay likely to form south of New York City, bring heavy rain to Northeast July 8, 2020 | 2:04 PM

A ground mural depicting a portrait of Breonna Taylor is seen at Chambers Park, Monday, July 6, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. The mural honors Taylor, a 26-year old Black woman who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment. The artwork was a team effort by the Banneker-Douglass Museum, the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, and Future History Now, a youth organization that focuses on mural projects. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Streaming: Kyrie Irving produces TV special seeking justice for Breonna Taylor, features Rep. Pressley July 8, 2020 | 1:47 PM

Flags found burned in Needham.

Dozens of flags found burned in Needham park July 8, 2020 | 1:15 PM

Department of Justice seal

Massachusetts man pleads guilty to role in romance scam July 8, 2020 | 1:06 PM

An Atlantic white shark. Four white sharks were detected off Block Island by the Atlantic Shark Institute's acoustic array.

4 great white sharks detected near Rhode Island shore July 8, 2020 | 12:47 PM

Charlie Baker at a recent press conference.

Holyoke Soldiers' Home

Charlie Baker's reforms for Holyoke Soldiers' Home don't mandate license for next superintendent. Here's why. July 8, 2020 | 12:47 PM

The M.I.T. campus.

RETURN TO CAMPUS

MIT, Brown release reopening plans as Trump slams Harvard approach July 8, 2020 | 12:26 PM

supercuts employee fired for racist remark to child

Supercuts employee fired after allegedly making racist comment about 7-year-old customer July 8, 2020 | 12:08 PM

Nicolaus Czarnecki

Watch: Charlie Baker's coronavirus update July 8, 2020 | 11:53 AM

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 1998, file photo, Mary Kay Letourneau listens to testimony during a court hearing in Seattle Letourneau, who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted for raping him, has died. She was 58. Her lawyer David Gehrke told news outlets Letourneau died Tuesday, July 7, 2020, of cancer. The former suburban Seattle teacher was arrested in 1997 after she became pregnant with Vili Fualaau's child. She later pleaded guilty to second-degree child rape. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times via AP, Pool, File)

Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher jailed for raping student, dies July 8, 2020 | 11:10 AM

Cambridge, MA - 4/16/20 - Harvard Hall in Harvard Yard on April 16, 2020. (Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe)

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

'We believe the ICE order is bad public policy, and we believe that it is illegal' July 8, 2020 | 11:00 AM

Ryan Coite and John Antonelli helped save a diver who was in distress in the water in York, Maine on Monday morning.

Bystanders form human chain to help pull diver in distress out of water in Maine July 8, 2020 | 10:43 AM

Trump threatens to cut federal aid if schools don't reopen July 8, 2020 | 10:40 AM

Supreme Court sides with Catholic schools in employment suit July 8, 2020 | 10:23 AM

Demonstrators kneel in a moment of silence outside the Long Beach Police Department in Long Beach during a protest over the death of George Floyd.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Movement for Black Lives seeks sweeping legislative changes July 8, 2020 | 10:15 AM

Amy Kennedy.

Amy Kennedy wins N.J. Democratic primary, to face Trump loyalist July 8, 2020 | 9:51 AM

Kanye West confirmed to Forbes that he plans a late-hour White House bid this year.

Kanye West says he's serious about a 2020 White House bid despite no organization and other obstacles July 8, 2020 | 9:26 AM

Update: Woman struck on I-93 had been ejected from her vehicle July 8, 2020 | 9:13 AM

Worcester

DA: Dispute over restaurant bill leads to deadly shooting in Worcester July 8, 2020 | 9:05 AM

Chief Justice Roberts recently spent a night in a hospital July 7, 2020 | 11:20 PM