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Saxophonist Seventh Sun rehearsing at Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Dorchester. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Arts & Culture

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Jazz saxophonist Seventh Sun releases a bright collaborative debut

25-year-old saxophonist Seventh Sun has long dreamed of making an album. His just-released debut honors jazz's traditions and collaborative spirit while exploring its infinite possibilities.

Hall of Fame radio broadcaster Joe Castiglione. (Sharon Brody/WBUR)

Meet the newest baseball hall-of-famer: Red Sox announcer Joe Castiglione

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An MBTA Red Line train barrels down the tracks on its way to Braintree station in 2015. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

MBTA to close part of Red Line in September, with plans for 50 mph trains

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President Biden does some retail campaigning at Mario's Westside Market in Las Vegas, alongside Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., on July 16. A case of COVID took Biden off the trail the following day. (AFP via Getty Images)

More Democrats ask Biden to drop out. His campaign says he'll be back next week

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is introduced during the final night of the Republican National Convention. (AP)

Trump paints a familiar vision for his 2nd term at the Republican convention

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A mixing board sits on top of a piano in a former studio at the Brighton Sound Museum, which closed in 2023. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

City adds affordable housing to Allston rehearsal space project

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Republican presidential candidate and former president, Donald Trump, speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Essay: Why Donald Trump's candidacy rings false with veterans

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“Wail on Whalers, a Portrait of Amos Haskins” by Felandus Thames, an “homage to escaped enslaved people who found autonomy in whaling,” is comprised of hairbeads strung on coated wire. (Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public)

Museum exhibit aims to tell Indigenous and Black maritime stories

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Singer Diana Ross poses for a portrait session in 1975. (Photo by Harry Langdon/Getty Images)

Commentary: In praise of hoops

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Clockwise from left, a composite of scenes from the Cape, Boston, central and western Massachusetts. (WBUR file photos and Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative)

Day trips in Massachusetts: Hikes, history and ice cream

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An illustration of various attractions in Vermont. (Sophie Stephens and Zoe McDonald/Vermont Public)

Day trips in Vermont: Lakeside adventures, rural curiosities and plenty of creemees

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A worker at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana takes a piping hot pizza out of a coal oven and places it into a to-go box during a weekday lunchtime rush. The restaurant was founded in 1925 by Italian immigrant Frank Pepe in New Haven, and has since opened locations across the Northeast.

Day trips in Connecticut: 50 fun things to do, from pizza to parks (and a castle, too)

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A sign for Geddy's restaurant in Bar Harbor, Maine on June 3, 2024.

Day trips in Maine: 3 itineraries for eating, drinking and adventuring your way through Vacationland

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A greenhouse atop Massachusetts General Hospital houses psychoactive plants to be studied by the Center for Neuroscience of Psychedelics. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Atop MGH, psychedelics scientists grow plants that could change your mind

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The Strathmore Mill property in Montague, Massachusetts. (Barbara Moran/WBUR)

Western Mass. town gets $10 million to convert abandoned mill buildings to riverfront park

Environment

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Company can't dump nuclear plant wastewater into Cape Cod Bay, Mass. rules

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Heat waves distort the view of a work crew as they resurface a road in South Boston. (Chris Christo/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

Workers struggle to stay cool as summer heat continues to worsen

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This aerial photo of the Butler Farm Show, site of the Saturday, July 13, 2024 Trump campaign rally, shown Monday, July 15, 2024 in Butler, Pa. On Saturday, Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was wounded during an assassination attempt while speaking at the rally. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Essay: We need each other to prevent extremism

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A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman. (Teresa Crawford/AP)

Researchers try to keep new mothers from the 'postpartum cliff'

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Sue McGrew, of Tacoma, Washington, works on her sand sculpture during the International Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, in Revere, Mass. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

5 things to do this weekend, including the Revere sand sculpting fest

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Busing's Legacy in Boston, 50 years later

Volunteer parents and family members lead children through activities at a parent-child play group at the Mario Umana Academy in East Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

As Boston pursues 'hub' model, city battles memories of segregated neighborhood schools

Education

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Police officers break up a scuffle amid demonstrators outside South Boston High School on the first day of a court-ordered busing program to integrate Boston public schools in 1974.(Peter Bregg/AP)

The complicated history of school choice in Boston

Education

Suzanne Lee and Leola Hampton at WBUR's studios in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

'We were fighting for our life': Former Boston Public Schools student, teacher reflect on busing, 50 years later

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In this image made from video provided by NASA, Kelly Haston, a crew member of the first CHAPEA mission, speaks in front of other members, from left to right, Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones, and Anca Selariu, Saturday, July 6, 2024, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth. The four volunteers crew members spent more than 12 months inside NASA's first simulated Mars environment at Johnson Space Center in Houston, coming out of the artificial alien environment Saturday. (NASA via AP)

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Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia performs on stage during the 37th Jazz Festival of Vitoria on July 20, 2013 in the northern Spanish Basque city of Vitoria. (Rafa Rivas/AFP via Getty Images)

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Some New Hampshire voters are panicked about President Biden's chances in November

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Listen to 'Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard'

Last Seen Season Four: Postmortem, The Stolen Bodies of Harvard

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The former morgue manager of Harvard Medical School in Boston has been accused of stealing and selling body parts. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Episode 1: The crime

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Episode 2: The victims

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