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State?s reopening will start with places of worship, construction, manufacturing; offices, retail likely to follow later this month
The manufacturing and construction industries, as well as houses of worship, will be allowed to resume operations as soon as Monday, according to an e-mail sent to local government officials. As of Sunday evening, Governor Baker was also planning to announce Monday that offices would be permitted to open May 25 at 25 percent capacity. Businesses that are set to get the green light from the state to open May 25 include barbershops, hair salons, and marijuana shops. 2 hours ago

Read the safety guidance for houses of worship, construction, and manufacturing State representative from Cambridge receives threatening message after calling on governor to delay reopening

MGH begins to shift some resources as COVID-19 cases decline

With the peak in cases behind it, the hospital is returning some beds and staffers to their original roles.
See the latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

Once a star surgeon, Dover man now charged in death of his wife
Before Dr. Ingolf Tuerk, a former top surgeon at St. Elizabeth?s Medical Center, was accused by authorities over the weekend of killing his wife, she told police that he had repeatedly abused her during their months-long marriage.

Inspector general was examining whether Pompeo had staffer walk dog, handle dry cleaning, official says

The State Department inspector general fired by President Donald Trump was looking into allegations that a staffer for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was performing domestic errands and chores such as handling dry cleaning, walking the family dog and making restaurant reservations, said a congressional official familiar with the matter.

Trump aide raises tension with CDC after criticizing health agency publicly

Opinion

EDITORIAL

How well is remote learning working in Boston schools? We don?t really know.
JEFF JACOBY

Biden?s best VP choice: Val Demings
IDEAS | DAN O'BRIEN, ALICIA SASSER MODESTINO, REBEKAH GEWIRTZ, NANCY E. HILL, TAYLOR CAIN

Innovation will help us rebuild
MICHAEL A. COHEN

The Era of Stupid

What to watch and do from home

This week?s TV: The legacy of soap operas, ?Homecoming? returns, Gloucester goes fishing

10 more very good movies that you probably haven?t seen

In praise of birdsong

The unscripted silliness of bloopers is a blunder to behold
'THE MECHANIC' BY BEN MEZRICH

Start at the beginning of ?The Mechanic?

Read all the available chapters for the fictional thriller that entwines a card shark, the legacy of Paul Revere, and the Gardner art heist.

Talk about ?The Mechanic? with Ben Mezrich and the Globe

On Wednesday May 20, best-selling author Ben Mezrich will talk with the Globe and readers about the novella recently published in the Globe and on Globe.com. RSVP now to participate.

A note from Ben Mezrich
When The Boston Globe first approached me with the idea of writing a serialized novella that would run for 15 days in the paper and online, I was both excited and terrified.

Comfort Zone

This week on ?Billions,? an entire episode authored by Ben Mezrich

Why Bob Ross?s ?The Joy of Painting? is perfect pandemic television

Watch: Oprah speaks to the graduating class of 2020

At the cemetery, blossoms of hope and new life

The Great Divide
Why is Massachusetts? tech sector so lacking in diversity? Take a look inside AP computer science classes
Black and Latino students? access to advanced computer science offerings is limited in Boston, despity the growing student demand. More than three-quarters of those students who took AP computer science exams in 2018-19 came from one of the city?s three highly-selective exam schools, a Globe analysis of state data found.

Adrian Walker
Boston Resiliency Fund is an under-the-radar success story
More than 5,800 donors have contributed a total of $30.7 million to the Boston Resiliency Fund.

Fed chairman warns US recovery could stretch through end of 2021
The US economy will recover from the coronavirus pandemic, but the process could stretch through until the end of next year and depend on the delivery of a vaccine, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told CBS.

In next phase of pandemic, Trump appears poised to let others take the lead

More women than men are dying of coronavirus in Massachusetts. Why is that?
Experts say behavior, biology, and societal factors may all play a part in sex disparities in COVID-19 deaths. But an important key may be found in nursing homes.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
Provincetown, the country?s unofficial LGBTQ summer playground, faces a unique challenge this year
Provincetown isn?t a place known for social distancing, and that means that what makes this resort town special also makes it vulnerable to the coronavirus.

Appeals hearing in Orchids of Asia case rescheduled as Zoom video conference call June 30
The hearing was originally scheduled for May 21 in a West Palm Beach, Fla., courtroom.

More Recent headlines

Campgrounds, restaurants in Maine go to court over coronavirus reopening restrictions

Motorcycle rider killed in West Dennis crash

Driver hospitalized after early-morning crash in Chicopee

On StatNews.com

FDA says Abbott?s 5-minute Covid-19 test may miss infected patients

Opinion: A pandemic plan was in place. Trump abandoned it ? and science ? in the face of Covid-19

Coronavirus resources

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

Boston is still running

Town-by-town coronavirus data in Massachusetts

A list of layoffs and furloughs in Massachusetts (so far) due to coronavirus

Elegies for those lost to coronavirus

Lines for the elevator. One-way corridors. Zooming with colleagues in the next pod over. Office life is going to be strange

With a phased-in restart of the local economy imminent, companies are preparing to gradually return to dramatically changed workplaces.

COMFORT ZONE
Tufts medical student creates care kits for homeless individuals with coronavirus
?Individuals experiencing homelessness are facing very unique challenges in the current pandemic,? said Haya Raef, the third-year Tufts University medical student behind the project.

Georgia Litwack, whose photography focused on accomplished women, dies at 98 of COVID-19 complications
Though Georgia Litwack started out as a writer, the economic reality of her early freelancing led her to bring a camera along to assignments. ?Every time I did a story on speculation I had to hire a photographer,? she told the Globe in 2003, ?and I had to pay whether the story sold or not.?

Michael Silverman
Marty Walsh on meeting Bobby Orr and missing Boston sports
A chance connection with the hockey legend when Walsh was just 7 made an imprint on the future Mayor of Boston.

Recommended Reads

For Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, a complex history gives way to a new alliance

The two have a long history, which is now in the spotlight as Biden considers Warren for his running mate.

What happens to all the stuff left in college dorm rooms after the coronavirus surge?
Residents at a few select schools, including Boston University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, were on break when the number of coronavirus cases surged. So administrators told them not to return to campus. As a result, thousands of dorm rooms in the state are still full.

With astonishing speed, Covid-19 ripped through a Salem nursing home, bringing chaos and grief
The crisis, at a Salem home and elsewhere, has been aggravated by festering problems in the nursing home industry that policymakers have long pushed to the back burner.

Rhode Island

Narragansett council president wants the seaside town to ignore R.I. governor?s coronavirus rules

In the first official sign of rebellion against Governor Gina Raimondo?s coronavirus-related restrictions, the president of the Narragansett town council wants to order police to let businesses and residents violate her orders with impunity.

Rhode Island won?t start Phase 2 of reopening the economy until June

Grand juries may resume Monday, evictions on June 1, as R.I. courts start to reopen
Newton

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Alan Clayton-Matthews, Michael Goodman, and Alicia Sasser-Modestino

With plummeting revenues, state should impose a temporary tax increase

Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana, and Dominique Méda

Let?s democratize and decommodify work
EDITORIAL

Whistle-blower lays bare incompetence that cost lives
RENÉE GRAHAM

Living apart ? and staying close ? in the coronavirus pandemic
LETTERS

Postcards from the pandemic
IDEAS | Kathryn Paige Harden

Success requires luck. Why don?t we spread it around?

VISUAL STORIES

Patriots defensive end Chase Winovich may be confined, but he?s hardly at a standstill

Photos: Celebrating Mother?s Day, from a social distance

A funeral home copes with the surge during the coronavirus pandemic

Boston Globe staff photographer Erin Clark named Feature Photography Pulitzer finalist for 2020

metro

State representative from Cambridge receives threatening message after calling on governor to delay reopening
Police are investigating after state Representative Mike Connolly received a threatening message on Saturday evening in response to a letter calling on Governor Charlie Baker to extend the stay-at-home advisory until at least the beginning of June.

Phyllis George, trailblazing sportscaster, dies at 70

Ms. George achieved one level of fame as Miss America 1971 and another four years later when CBS hired her as a member of the otherwise all-male cast of ?The NFL Today.?

Michael McCaskey, who succeeded Halas as Bears? leader, dies

Michael McCaskey, who led the Chicago Bears for nearly three decades following the death of his grandfather George Halas, died Saturday after a lengthy battle with cancer, the team said. He was 76.

Once a star surgeon, Dover man now charged in death of his wife

Boston Resiliency Fund is an under-the-radar success story

sports

Chad Finn I Rewatch

Instant replay: The best sports on TV Monday

No live games to watch on television? We have you covered.

Bayern Munich enjoys quiet 2-0 victory

The game was held amid strict hygiene measures with the stands empty, elbow touches replacing embraces, and only 10 reporters in attendance.
NASCAR

Kevin Harvick?s 50th Cup win ?just weird? without fans

Harvick's win was the centerpiece of NASCAR's return to the track Sunday.

Q&A with Ken Dunlap, who managed the clubhouse during Michael Jordan?s baseball days
Golf

Rory McIlroy delivers the winner as live golf returns to TV
Gary Washburn

Diversity helps open a door to talented candidates

STAT

Infect volunteers with Covid-19? A proposal lays bare a minefield of issues

Experts question Facebook?s approach to combat Covid-19 misinformation

Covid-19 has shuttered labs. It could put a generation of researchers at risk

Stay up to date with STAT?s Covid-19 Tracker

An interview with the CDC director on coronavirus, masks, and an agency gone quiet

Business

J.C. Penney hopes for a smooth restructuring, but challenges abound
The 118-year-old retailer called its Friday filing a pre-arranged bankruptcy, meaning its restructuring plan has some support from creditors, but not enough to avoid challenges.

Fed chief warns US economic recovery could stretch through end of 2021
Jerome Powell said people should never ??bet?? against the American economy, but he took care not to promise a swift, so-called V-shaped rebound.

To reopen, restaurants will need to completely reinvent themselves

Fed chairman warns US recovery could stretch through end of 2021

New Bedford factory?s masks are a team effort

Lines for the elevator. One-way corridors. Zooming with colleagues in the next pod over. Office life is going to be strange

Politics

Trump ousted State Department inspector general at Pompeo?s urging; Democrats open inquiry

Obama criticizes virus response in online graduation speeches

Democrats begin investigation of removal of State Department inspector general

Marijuana

About two-thirds of people feel Mass. marijuana legalization was a success, according to new poll

Arizona court rejects online initiative signature gathering for initiatives such as marijuana legalization
magazine
Cover story

The 5 scariest ways scammers try to rip us off
Class of 2020

The 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' author has a special message for this year's graduates
Cooking

Quick and easy asparagus recipes
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do online, May 11-17

sports

Appeals hearing in Orchids of Asia case rescheduled as Zoom video conference call June 30

Carles Gil is ready to hit the ground running

Marty Walsh on meeting Bobby Orr and missing Boston sports

metro

State representative from Cambridge receives threatening message after calling on governor to delay reopening

Phyllis George, trailblazing sportscaster, dies at 70

Michael McCaskey, who succeeded Halas as Bears? leader, dies

Nation

Top US official says country safe to reopen as governors stress social distancing

With no leader, commission overseeing virus relief struggles

Health care workers live apart to protect families

World

Europe bids adieu to cheek kiss in coronavirus era

Jordan warns Israel of ?massive conflict? over annexation

Hong Kong watchdog absolves police over protest crackdown, dimming prospects of accountability

politics

Obama criticizes virus response in online graduation speeches

Democrats begin investigation of removal of State Department inspector general

Trump fires State Department inspector general, in latest move against watchdogs, drawing complaints from Democrats

business

J.C. Penney hopes for a smooth restructuring, but challenges abound

Fed chief warns US economic recovery could stretch through end of 2021

To reopen, restaurants will need to completely reinvent themselves

lifestyle

Tufts medical student creates care kits for homeless individuals with coronavirus

Peabody designer attracts attention of Conan O?Brien and Ben Affleck

Provincetown, the country?s unofficial LGBTQ summer playground, faces a unique challenge this year

marijuana

About two-thirds of people feel Mass. marijuana legalization was a success, according to new poll

Arizona court rejects online initiative signature gathering for initiatives such as marijuana legalization

Maine scuttles residency requirement for pot businesses

opinion

Science-denying administration is a danger to next generation

Death rates in Mass. surged in areas already hard hit

Innovation will help us rebuild

food & dining

Recipe: French yogurt cake takes so little effort and gives you so much in return

Recipe: This classic all-beef meatloaf is a comfort-food classic

Cooking together, cooking apart

travel

Provincetown, the country?s unofficial LGBTQ summer playground, faces a unique challenge this year

3 Rhode Island road trips to consider when you want to get out safely but start small

Congress introduces new bill requiring cash refunds from airlines ? regardless of who cancels the trip

Books

Chapter 21: An ending and a beginning

Chapter 20: Eagle of the Seas

A note from Ben Mezrich

Movies

10 more very good movies that you probably haven?t seen

Doc Talk: Two looks at COVID-19, Louis Malle?s America, Henri Langlois salute

?The Last Dance? as choreography; or why Larry Bird and John Wayne are different

Television

This week?s TV: The legacy of soap operas, ?Homecoming? returns, Gloucester goes fishing

Barack Obama, LeBron James, Malala Yousafzai salute high school class of 2020 in 'Graduate Together? virtual ceremony. Here?s what you missed

Michelle Obama helps bring ?prom-athon? to MTV

music

BSO cancels Tanglewood for the first time in 75 years

Housebound with my records, my preschooler, and a resolve to fill the silence

For musicians, unemployment coverage is out of step

Theater/Dance

In isolation, theater couples entertain new ideas ? and each other

Gloucester Stage cancels summer season

Urbanity Dance is projecting pop-up dance videos, powered by car battery, onto Boston buildings

globe local

Should recreational marijuana businesses be allowed to operate in Massachusetts during the pandemic?

?Happy 78th birthday, Ray. Keep waving. Keep smiling.?

Technology helps keep formerly homeless veterans in Somerville monitored during pandemic

Obituaries

Phyllis George, trailblazing sportscaster, dies at 70

Michael McCaskey, who succeeded Halas as Bears? leader, dies

Fred Willard, the comedic improv-style actor, has died at 86