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Massachusetts reports more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases, 9 new related deaths

Officials emptying nursing homes across state to create COVID-19 recovery centers
Massachusetts public health officials are working with hospitals and nursing homes to empty out close to a dozen skilled nursing facilities across the state to set up recovery centers for COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals. 2:45 p.m.

In state?s intense chase for protective equipment, coronavirus isn?t the only rival ? the feds are, too Baker asks all travelers arriving in Mass. to self-quarantine

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

Trump says he?s considering quarantine on New York, New Jersey, parts of Conn.

Rhode Island records its first two deaths from the coronavirus; governor issues stay-at-home order

Why does it seem the rich and famous get tested for coronavirus while others don?t? It?s complicated

Power and prestige certainly help ? witness the Boston Celtics enlisting a private company to conduct testing ? but differing interpretations by health care providers of federal and state testing guidelines also play an outsized role.
The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts Mass. public health commissioner tests positive for COVID-19

Live Updates
Italy?s death toll tops 10,000; Coronavirus infections surpass 600,000 worldwide
Here are recent updates on what?s happening in New England, the United States, and around the world.

New York?s staggering coronavirus outbreak, in five charts

With not much of a playbook, here?s how local business leaders acted as the coronavirus crisis spread

Managing people has emerged as a paramount concern as the stresses from working from home and the fear of illness threaten to overwhelm everyone.
Cash-strapped families hope coronavirus rescue arrives in time to pay the rent How much money could you receive from the coronavirus relief bill? It depends on how much you make

Opinion

MICHAEL A. COHEN

The lesson of the coronavirus pandemic? Competence matters
EDITORIAL

To defeat the coronavirus, America needs immigrants
Renée Loth

Old treatments for a novel coronavirus
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

?The strong get stronger?: The coronavirus pandemic will exacerbate some of the most worrisome trends in American life ? unless we take action

Dan Shaughnessy
1969 Holy Cross football team lost its season to a virus
Ninety of 97 Holy Cross players and coaches had contracted hepatitis A.

Mashpee Wampanoag tribe is losing its reservation

In a statement posted on the tribe?s website, Chairman Cedric Cromwell said the Mashpee would continue to fight for sovereignty over its ancestral lands.

GameStop to employees: wrap your hands in plastic bags and go back to work

GameStop is allowing customers to make purchases from outside the door and is instructing employees to wrap a plastic bag around one hand, open the door a crack, and take the customer?s credit card, according to a manager at a local store.

Interactives

The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country. Here?s how we got there

How overwhelmed could New England hospitals become? Explore maps of different scenarios

New York?s staggering coronavirus outbreak, in five charts

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The coronavirus tracker

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

These maps track the path of coronavirus

Dos and Don'ts

Do you need to stock up on bottled water? In a word, no.

Yes, you can still get a package delivered

With the coronavirus restrictions, can I travel by car?

Does your mail have to be quarantined?

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes
NFL Draft will go on, but will some teams have an unfair advantage?
Even though all travel and team facilities have been shut down, a player can still conduct a physical at an outside medical facility in his hometown.

KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON SECOND THOUGHT
It?s time for the NHL and NBA to call it a season
Let?s get back to all of this in September, which we only can hope will bring better times for everyone.

The epic dread of Bob Dylan?s ?Murder Most Foul?
In his 17-minute song about JFK's assassination, Dylan brings the Baby Boom generation?s primal calamity right back home to 2020.

More Recent headlines

Architect Michael McKinnell, co-designer of Boston City Hall, dies at 84

Two Berkley teens killed in fiery car crash; third teen injured

Man, teen arrested on gun charges in Roxbury

Coronavirus resources

How the Greater Boston biomedical community is tackling the coronavirus

Some good coronavirus news: genetic detectives are on the case

At senior living homes, a heightened readiness as coronavirus looms

Mass. insurers to cover full cost of coronavirus testing, treatment

Keeping your hands clean in the time of coronavirus
Access to this important coronavirus content is provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

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What do we cook during trying times? How do we think about food? For answers to these questions, along with plenty of delicious recipes, sign up for Cooking From Home, a two-week newsletter from food critic Devra First about cooking during coronavirus, starting this week.

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For online teachers (and students), school is a work in progress

What does remote education look like in Massachusetts? The picture varies by classroom, by age group, by school, and by community, as educators across the state try to resume teaching, or at least restore connections with their students, whose routines have been upended by coronavirus-related school closures.

A cry for help from inmates caught in a coronavirus outbreak in Bridgewater
Fourteen inmates and staff members at the Massachusetts Treatment Center have tested positive for COVID-19, but inmates say they have no way to protect themselves.

Stuck inside during coronavirus outbreak, many are using the downtime to tap into new and old skills
Some people are rediscovering passion projects they?d long ago abandoned, or broadening their horizons when it comes to their favorite hobbies.

Rhode Island

Rhode Island records its first two deaths from the coronavirus; governor issues stay-at-home order

On the same day that Rhode Island announced its first two deaths from the coronavirus, Governor Gina Raimondo unveiled a sweeping round of new restrictions, including a stay-at-home order and a ban on all gatherings of more than five people.

Love in the time of COVID-19 brings wedding-bell blues

Raimondo says fines, arrests are on the table for those who violate self-quarantine rule
Newton

Special Projects

Back to the battleground

What we learned from each of the battleground states we visited ahead of the 2020 election
Who will win in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin next year? The Globe?s D.C. bureau spent time reporting in these crucial battleground states. This is what they found.

Trump?s evangelical support mystifies his critics, but in Wisconsin, it looks stronger than ever
The president?s personal behavior and some of his core political beliefs, including his hostility toward refugees, seem at odds with the major tenets of Christianity. But Trump?s bond with evangelicals has proven to be remarkably resilient.

More from the Battleground project

Trump promised Wisconsin?s farmers his trade wars would pay off. They?re still waiting

A Pennsylvania roofer loved Bill Clinton and voted for Obama. Here?s how Trump lured him from the Democrats

Prayers in Vegas, slumped shoulders in N.H. ? inside the final days of Warren?s campaign

Elizabeth Warren reflected on what was happening in a series of behind-the scenes interviews with the Globe in the final month of her campaign.
Education

The Great Divide

A new Globe initiative exploring the deep inequalities in our public education system, examining both the challenges and possible solutions to creating equal opportunity for all students.
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Seeing Red: A Globe Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling traffic

We endure some of the nation?s worst rush hour traffic. Our aging transit system is maddeningly unreliable. It is a crisis ? a very slow moving crisis ? that puts our region?s economic prosperity at risk. Who is to blame? Can anything be done? The Globe Spotlight Team investigates.
At the edge of a warming world

On Cape Cod, climate change is already terrifyingly real

Come with us as we explore the Cape to better understand what climate change is doing here, what it means for the future of this beloved place, and what the cost of inaction might be.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Katherine Gergen Barnett

On the front line of the coronavirus and breaking the rules
JEFF JACOBY

A civil liberties pandemic
Boston Infectious Disease Specialists

Boston?s infectious disease specialists? message to the public: Fighting coronavirus is a sprint ? and a marathon
RENÉE GRAHAM

Coronavirus doesn?t discriminate. Neither should testing and treatment.
LETTERS

Postcards from the pandemic
IDEAS | MATTIA FERRARESI

Lesson from Italy: As US coronavirus deaths climb, country should find way to honor the dead

VISUAL STORIES

Surf?s up in Narragansett: Riders are social distancing themselves on the waves

17 photos of the coronavirus?s effect around the world

Photos: Tom Brady?s 20-year career with the Patriots

Photos: Coronavirus concerns empty public spaces around the world

metro

No dining in restaurants, but what about takeout lines?
Since Governor Charlie Baker ordered restaurants and bars to stop serving food and drinks on site two weeks ago, concerns have been raised about whether the ban just shifted the risk from the dining room to the take-out line as restaurant patrons gather en masse at meal times to pick up food to go.

Does Chinatown count?

"There?s nothing so bad that it couldn?t be worse." That old saying was never truer than now. Especially in one Boston neighborhood.

Virus?s long reach imposes a heart-wrenching isolation on all of us

The coronavirus pandemic has upended life as we knew it. The virus moves invisibly along the bonds between us, tearing through families and groups of friends, traveling on touch and love and connection. It demands distance when we most need each other.

Architect Michael McKinnell, co-designer of Boston City Hall, dies at 84

Newton students on changes during coronavirus

STAT

Coronavirus survives on surfaces up to 72 hours. Here?s how to protect yourself

?It?s been kind of rough?: Seattle ICU nurse shares her experience treating Covid-19 patients

WHO to launch multinational trial to jumpstart search for coronavirus drugs

Will immune therapies for the coronavirus be ready in time?

sports

red sox

Ron Roenicke considers himself a student and a teacher. His next subject? Managing the Red Sox

His education has never stopped since childhood, and he feels right for this job because he's a man who makes connections.
Bob Ryan

The Dream Team was the vision of the 'Inspector of Meat?

Borislav Stankovic, who died March 20 at age 94, was obsessed with elevating international basketball.
Chad Finn | Sports media

The games may be fake, but Sean Grande and Cedric Maxwell are really calling the action
Dan Shaughnessy

1969 Holy Cross football team lost its season to a virus

Politics

Trump suggests he can gag inspector general for stimulus bailout program

Business

With not much of a playbook, here?s how local business leaders acted as the coronavirus crisis spread

Marijuana

Americans want medical marijuana dispensaries deemed ?essential? amid coronavirus outbreak, poll finds
magazine
Dispatches from the Edge

Apocalypse preppers and survivalists aren't that worried
Dispatches from the Edge

How religious leaders are keeping the faith during coronavirus
Miss Conduct

How to maintain personal connections in times of distance
Cooking

Recipes: Three comforting soups for an unsettling time

sports

New Balance is working to manufacture facial masks during coronavirus pandemic

Medical professionals are the real heroes

Which players should the Bruins protect in the 2021 expansion draft?

metro

No dining in restaurants, but what about take-out lines?

Does Chinatown count?

Virus?s long reach imposes a heart-wrenching isolation on all of us

Nation

Coronavirus infections top 600,000 worldwide as officials brace for long fight ahead

Trump issues order to bring former troops back to active duty to assist in coronavirus response

United Nations says 86 staff members have coronavirus

World

Venezuela?s only telecoms satellite is lost in space

Canada urges US not to put troops at border during pandemic

To slow coronavirus, China bars entry by almost all foreigners

politics

?Dreamers? tell Supreme Court ending DACA during pandemic would be ?catastrophic?

Mass. delegation calls on Trump administration to resume visa processing for international health care workers

John Kerry, President Trump unite in criticizing Representative Thomas Massie on Twitter over tactic on coronavirus bill

business

With not much of a playbook, here?s how local business leaders acted as the coronavirus crisis spread

Italy?s death toll tops 10,000 in a Europe divided by virus

Trump says he?s considering quarantine on New York, New Jersey, parts of Conn.

lifestyle

When students have to evacuate Spain in two days, emotions run high

Time on your hands? Learn to juggle

For grown-ups, online classes to engage, soothe, or distract your mind

marijuana

Americans want medical marijuana dispensaries deemed ?essential? amid coronavirus outbreak, poll finds

Marijuana industry is stepping up to help with coronavirus response, Colorado senator says

Ohio AG rejects recreational pot issue lacking valid signers

opinion

The lesson of the coronavirus pandemic? Competence matters

To defeat the coronavirus, America needs immigrants

Old treatments for a novel coronavirus

food & dining

Caledonia Spirits shuts down its bar and store, makes hand sanitizer

Dishes you can make with what?s on hand

A certified sommelier will personally shop for you, and deliver to your door

travel

When students have to evacuate Spain in two days, emotions run high

Why a Northampton family is staying put in Spain

?Skip-gen? travel trend adds a new segment to the family vacation

Books

Hilary Mantel on re-reading

?Too Much? draws a direct line from Victorian to contemporary restraints on women

Speculation on the afterlife in ?Heaven and Hell?

Movies

R. Crumb?s cartoon therapy; a cruel solution to overpopulation

Extra-sensory perception from a trio of boundary pushers

You?re bored. You?re stuck indoors. Here?s your guide to free streaming movies

Television

Rediscovering Ricky Gervais?s hilarious BBC comedy ?Extras?

?Will & Grace,? the finale ? take two

Like ?Show Me a Hero?? Then show yourself these other excellent miniseries

music

The epic dread of Bob Dylan?s ?Murder Most Foul?

From their homes to yours, sidelined Boston musicians are still putting on a show

Where to hear Boston Lyric Opera?s canceled ?Norma? production

Theater/Dance

John Douglas Thompson to star in Shakespeare on the Common?s ?Tempest?

In Cameron Esposito?s memoir, Boston ?plays a big role?

Boston Ballet announces dancer promotions for the 2020-2021 season

globe local

Get crafty with your holiday shopping at local fairs

Hardiest hikers, campers don?t come in from the cold

Should Massachusetts exempt police body camera footage from state public records law?

Obituaries

Architect Michael McKinnell, co-designer of Boston City Hall, dies at 84

Terrence McNally, Tony-winning playwright, dies at 81 of coronavirus complications

Amherst golf coach Tracy Mehr, who ?embraced each teachable moment,? dies at 91