Hot time in the summertime continues and other top stories.

• Hot time in the summertime continues

  

  Another day in the 90s.The National Weather Service said temperatures on Friday will once again be in the 90s, and will rise perhaps a degree or two higher than on Thursday when Boston peaked at 92 degrees. Advertisement Further away from the beneficial impact of cooling sea breezes, forecasters said temperatures will easily reach 95 degrees across eastern Massachusetts by day’s end.There is something of a change, however. Forecasters said the humidity, which many complain is more burdensome..

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• Five communities targeted for 'Slow Streets' program

  

  Five Boston neighborhoods will participate this year in the city’s Slow Streets program, which aims to “improve the quality of life on Boston’s local streets,” Mayor Martin J. Walsh said this week.The neighborhood communities selected are Chinatown, Grove Hall/Quincy Corridor, Highland Park, Mount Hope/Canterbury, and the West of Washington Coalition. Advertisement Walsh said in a statement that the community-based initiative is part of Vision Zero, the city’s plan to eliminate serious traf..

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• The 10-game winning streak that ignited Red Sox Nation

  

  This is the third part in a series about the Red Sox Impossible Dream season and the Summer of 1967 in Boston. Learn more about this project. On the night Red Sox Nation was born, the Sox themselves were in the air, flying back from a midsummer road trip. Amid the scattered card games, the banter with the sports writers, and the flirting with the flight attendants in their sugar-spoon hats, the only thing unusual aboard their United charter on July 23, 1967, was that none of the guys were a..

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• At Mayoral Forum, Walsh Defends Actions On Homelessness And ...

  

  At an election forum held at the University of Massachusetts Boston on Thursday, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said he's become a better listener throughout his three years in office.His interview came one day after City Councilor Tito Jackson — his main opponent in this November's mayoral race — participated in the same Q&A.The conversations, which were broadcast live, were sponsored by UMass, WBUR, The Boston Globe and NBC Boston. You can view the mayor's forum below, or via Youtube.At the forum, W..

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• Boston Ranked as 5th Sweatiest US City

  

  In the midst of a potential heat wave, Boston has been named the fifth sweatiest city in the country.New York is number one, followed by Washington, Chicago and Miami. But for Boston, this is about as hot and humid as it gets."You can def see people are struggling a little bit, wearing less clothing," said Haley Demos."They look sweaty and sticky, like you don't want to touch them," another Boston resident, Derrick Reed, said with a smile. "Like, go home and take a shower first and then I'll giv..

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• Friday's business agenda

  EARNINGS DATE Stocks to watch today General Electric Corp. and Eversource Energy are expected to release earnings reports for the fiscal quarter that ended in June. WORKSHOP Back to basics Attend a workshop on Microsoft Excel, hosted by General Assembly. The intro level class is expected to cover the basics of the application. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., General Assembly, 125 Summer St., Boston. $250. INFO SESSION Smart storytelling Advertisement Join the founder of Boston Spea..

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• Boston Students Seek Adventure — And Growth — In 3 Weeks At Sea

  

  Jasline Gonzalez tells her friends that she loves her school, Boston Day And Evening Academy (BDEA).That may be because it’s working as intended: both as a safety net after Gonzalez left her previous school — "my GPA was really low and I had really bad trouble focusing," she says — and as a launch pad for the biggest adventure of her life so far.Gonzalez and 14 other BDEA students recently left Boston aboard the schooner Roseway for three weeks of studying climate change, ecology and the ocean a..

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• McCain tells his Senate best friend to keep it together

  

  WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain is telling his best friend in the Senate to keep it together as he grapples with brain cancer.South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham says McCain called him three times on Thursday about immigration legislation. Graham says McCain ‘‘is yelling at me to buck up so I’m gonna buck up.’’ Advertisement McCain’s glioblastoma diagnosis has devastated his Senate colleagues. But he’s told them he’s not gone yet.The resilience is classic McCain, the Navy pilot and Vietnam pris..

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• Track Talk: Daybreaker's Morning Yoga & Dance Party Faneuil Hall

  At the crack of dawn, hundreds of overachieving Bostonians gathered at Faneuil Hall Marketplace for Daybreaker, a sunrise party that goes down every couple of months.They squished together to do a little early-morning yoga and, after saying namaste, the crowd jammed out to the beats of the DJ with a full-fledged dance party. All while you were still snoozing.

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• New residential buildings are full of amenities, but oh that ...

  

  Welcome to Boston, tech wizard/financial planner/GE executive! Your new apartment has elegant fixtures, stainless appliances, underground parking, a fireplace, and a view of the harbor in a gleaming new building.But that name, though. Advertisement All over Greater Boston, luxurious new living quarters are sprouting up like gleaming, modernist weeds. And a lot of them, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear, have names. Not names like the apartment building you may have grown up in — “23 S..

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John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer .	Boston welcomes Italian Tall Ship into harbor .
Temperatures equal a failing grade in Greater Boston .	It's the end of urban planning as we know it (and we feel fine) .