Man accused of extorting rabbi has criminal record

The suspect in the case has in the past been arrested for threatening to kill a man.

Hub schools in disarray, review finds

Academic departments are “badly fractured, distrustful, and lacking a sense of teamwork or shared responsibility for the district’s students,” according to the report.

Shirley Leung

Sodexo drops health care benefits for some, blaming Obamacare

Something stinks in college cafeterias managed by the French catering company, and it has nothing to do with the food.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/05/22/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/martin&Monty-001.jpg NESN: In 30 years, how a channel has changed

No one saw the first Red Sox game carried on NESN. Now the network is a broadcasting behemoth.

Scores killed in Syria mortar attack

A mortar shell struck a gathering for backers of President Bashar Assad, state media and opposition activists reported.

John Farrell has the look of a man whose fuse may be getting shorter. AP Photo/Charles Krupa

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DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Good times seem like a year ago

Last season, everything fell into place for the Red Sox. This season, everything seems to be falling apart.

The panel cited several specific cases, including Father Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul, a priest who returned to his native India after being charged with molesting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota in 2004 and is currently being pursued by American prosecutors.

John L. Allen Jr.

Second UN panel criticizes Vatican on sex abuse

This report mixes criticism with praise for steps taken by the church over the last decade to combat abuse.

Bill Clinton shared a hug with Stephen Spaloss, City Year’s regional vice president, after getting the award.

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Bill Clinton celebrates with City Year

The former president was at Symphony Hall to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the service organization.

KEVIN CULLEN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/05/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cullen_20131206[1].jpg A debacle becomes a teaching moment

The speaker at Smith College’s commencement reminded those in attendance that free speech isn’t just about listening to views mimicking yours.

Opinion

JAMES CARROLL

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The pope invited the rabbi and the Muslim leader to Israel as companions to send a message about the urgency of inter-religious reconciliation.

Movies

Movie Review

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The latest film in the series upholds the acceptably high batting average of Marvel’s second-tier movie franchise.

Globe must-reads

Notre Dame, which last played in Boston at BC in 2012, will be back in 2015 - but this time in a “home” game at Fenway Park.

Tickets will be scarce for BC-Notre Dame at Fenway

Matt Guthmiller, a 19-year-old MIT freshman, is trying to become the youngest pilot to make a solo flight around the world.

Teen wants to be youngest to fly solo around the world
This May, whale watchers have been treated to a rare abundance of humpback whales.

Whale watchers in humpback bliss
Law enforcement officials worked at the scene of the shooting in Orlando, Fla., on May 22, 2013.

Pension for FBI agent draws scrutiny
The Tribe hummus factory in Taunton.

Warnings, fine preceded worker’s death

Interactive

A look at Aaron Hernandez’s tattoos
Aug. 29, 1941: The Globe caption read: “A kiss for Hitler from the boys’ best gals. The Fuhrer’s name was scribbled on the shell.” The shell was being fired in a training exercise at Fort Warren by Battery A of the National Guard Coast Artillery Regiment in New England. They were firing at targets 10 miles away. These were the men on whom Boston depended to protect from an ocean attack.

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The Boston Harbor islands

The FBI is offering a $5 million dollar reward in the case of the missing Gardner Museum artworks.

FBI has confirmed sightings of Gardner artwork
Ian McKellan (top) and Patrick Stewart as Magneto and Xavier, respectively.

Movie Review

‘X-Men’ returns to ’70s

Tech Lab

Your online story, told your way
“The only time I really was upset about it was the night I was diagnosed,” Joe McCormick says. “After that, I thought, this is what I have to do.”

Unstoppable slugger playing baseball blind

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Cast revealed for Bulger film

Sports

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BLUE JAYS 7, RED SOX 2

Jon Lester allowed seven runs on seven hits in the first two innings and dropped to 4-6 on the season.

Red Sox lose their seventh straight

Jon Lester was roughed up in the first two innings as the Blue Jays completed their three-game sweep at Fenway.

Metro

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Jared Remy appeared for a hearing in Middlesex County Superior Court on Thursday.

Jared Remy makes brief court appearance

Remy was in court as prosecutors and defense attorneys met in the judge’s chambers.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Calling the bluff on charter schools

JOANNA WEISS

The same old script about a gender double standard
People line up to enter the 9/11 Memorial Museum on public opening day Wednesday in New York.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Outrage over 9/11 museum store
Stephen Drew is back for another tour of duty with the Red Sox.

Christopher L. Gasper

Stephen Drew’s comeback was inevitable

YVONNE ABRAHAM

A salary that’s hard to defend

ALEX BEAM

Apologies, years after Hillsborough
President Obama has the chance to lay out a creative foreign policy plan for the end of his second term.

NICHOLAS BURNS

Obama needs to reset foreign strategy

Adrian Walker

Finding the thrown-away key
Michigan Representative John Conyers, serving his 25th term, was disqualified from the Democratic primary ballot.

JEFF JACOBY

How political insiders control the ballot
Truro residents Eileen Counihan,48, and her partner Erin Golden,45, outside Provincetown Town Hall after obtaining their marriage license May 17, 2004.

SCOT LEHIGH

Gay marriage: A look back after 10 years
Phyllis Yale.

Shirley Leung

More women helm health care boards
Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at Boston College’s commencement.

KEVIN CULLEN

Open season on free speech

Politics

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley greeted supporters at a rally in Dorchester last week.

Coakley trouncing primary rivals, poll finds

Martha Coakley leads Steve Grossman in the Democratic gubernatorial race, 51 percent to 7 percent, according to a WBUR poll.

Nation & World

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A television cameraman filmed the apartment complex in the city of Bell Gardens.

Mother told woman to report her kidnapping

A woman who disappeared a decade ago as a 15-year-old reunited recently with her mother, who persuaded her to go to authorities.

Business

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Intel Corp.’s Hudson facility consists of more than 1.3 million square feet of office and industrial space in four buildings.

Intel gets help shopping massive Hudson site

The site of Intel’s soon-to-close chip plant could become a biotech facility, a digital data center or a manufacturing site for high-technology hardware.

Arts

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Diamond entangles ‘Smart People’ in race

Lydia R. Diamond’s new play examines the volatile dynamics of race among four members of the Harvard community.

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Will the Green Line Extension make Somerville real estate go crazy?

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Alan Guth: What made the Big Bang bang
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Who will support Boston’s museums, symphonies?

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Two decades after the war, can a nation that learns separately ever be united?