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Mass. reports 29 new COVID-19 deaths, 1,880 cases, 58,525 vaccinations Saturday

The number of coronavirus vaccinations administered in Massachusetts rose by 58,525 to 2,863,460, state officials reported Saturday.
The latest COVID-19 numbers from Massachusetts COVID-19 vaccine news, resources, and guidance

The stimulus is giving a lot of money directly to people who need it. Now what?

It’s a markedly different approach than the one taken by the stimulus bill of 12 years ago, a much-debated package of tax cuts and spending programs designed to lift the economy out of the crash of 2008.
What's in the stimulus package for you?

Protesters gather in Atlanta to #StopAsianHate
After a week of pain, fear and mourning, Georgia’s capital city hosted a downtown march and rally Saturday to protest the killing of eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, by a gunman who targeted three Atlanta-area massage businesses.

Shrewsbury woman who died Friday with daughter identified by authorities

The Worcester district attorney’s office identified the woman as Jihyun Lee, 49, but did not provide information on how she or her daughter died, citing an ongoing investigation.

In city after city, police completely mishandled Black Lives Matter protests

For many long weeks last summer, protesters in American cities faced off against their own police forces in what proved to be, for major law enforcement agencies across the country, a startling display of violence and disarray.
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Why Deshaun Watson, facing allegations, should rescind his trade request and remain with the Texans

Given the legal issues — seven lawsuits have been filed against the quarterback as of Friday — it’s tough to see another team giving up a massive trade package, and it’s hard to believe the Texans would get their most competitive offer for Watson now.

Star Tre Mitchell is transferring. Assistant Tony Bergeron is out. What should UMass men’s basketball do now?

Bergeron lost his job on Friday, according to a source with direct knowledge, when AD Ryan Bamford bought out his contract. Now the question is: Will the players he brought over from Woodstock Academy stick with Matt McCall?

Where do the Celtics go from here? Here are three potential paths

They have slipped back below .500, at 20-21, and they entered Saturday night alone in eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
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The latest projection on the Red Sox roster for Opening Day
There is still competition for two or three spots, but the starting rotation appears set.

Globe Magazine
How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed
Dennis McCarthy, a self-taught scholar working from his dinner table, is challenging decades of scholarship on the origins of the Bard’s greatest work.

UMass Amherst plans to hold four in-person commencements in May with no guests
UMass Amherst will host four in-person commencement ceremonies for the graduating class in May, school officials announced Friday. But the celebrations will look a bit different than normal.

After social media callout, NCAA women’s basketball players finally get a full weight room

Players and team staff members displayed on social media the large differences between how much effort the NCAA gave toward creating the men's workout area, while the original women's are had just one weight rack.

Chad Finn | Sports media
Key points regarding the NFL’s new broadcast rights deals
Disney-owned ESPN and ABC pay the highest annual rate in the deals at $2.8 billion, but they made out especially well.

Two Mass. hikers found dead in Acadia National Park

The 28-year-old man and the 30-year-old woman from Rutland were found by searchers late Saturday morning on Dorr Mountain, the National Park Service said.

Fact-checking claims on the migrant surge at the US-Mexico border
With the number of migrants apprehended at the southwestern border expected to reach a two-decade high, Republicans are blaming President Biden for the surge, while Democrats argue that the immigration system he inherited left him ill-prepared.

Charlestown man charged with assaulting 16-year-old girl on MBTA train

Jerome Jarrett, 31, was arrested Thursday, four days after the alleged assault at Ruggles Station, on a charge of indecent assault, Transit police announced Saturday.

Opinion

Elissa Ely

Gather in and pause

It’s hard to sit in meditation for long before the world storms through the door. Feelings spill out.
EDITORIAL

Plymouth DA evades the sunshine
Bill McKibben

Harvard tries to subvert votes too
EDITORIAL

Donald Trump should make a high-profile effort to get his supporters vaccinated

Alex Beam

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Police have long had a haphazard, lax response to domestic violence within the ranks
Experts say domestic abuse within policing is vastly underreported and often overlooked by those in power.

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LeBron James being a Red Sox part-owner is a good thing, and other thoughts

James’s name on the masthead represents progress for a franchise that admits being haunted by the institutional racism of a previous regime.
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After Atlanta slayings, this time needs to be different for Asian Americans

History keeps repeating itself because Asian Americans suffer from structural invisibility. This country needs to realize that many groups are targets of hate, and discrimination against Asian Americans counts.
MUSIC

Strike up the band! Live music will return to Tanglewood this summer

In another sign the pandemic is slowly loosening its grip on the region, the Boston Symphony Orchestra announced that live music will return to Tanglewood this summer for a shortened festival season in the Berkshires, a hopeful note after more than a year without live performances.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Civil rights groups urge state to change ‘discriminatory’ vocational school admissions policies to lottery

The state’s dozens of regional vocational-technical schools consider grades, attendance, and disciplinary histories for admission. The Vocational Education Justice Coalition said those factors are subjective and unfair.

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After a year off stage, 2021’s Youth America Grand Prix is more than just a competition for young dancers

The Youth America Grand Prix semi-final was moved to a larger theater in Worcester this year despite having fewer contestants; another mark of a pandemic that has kept dancers like 12-year-old Coco Clementine of Holliston off stage for an entire year.

Grandmother reunites with family after vaccination

UMass Amherst plans to hold four in-person commencements in May with no guests

Sports

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | MANSFIELD 20, MILFORD 7

Mansfield’s defense proves to be too much for Brady Olson, Milford

The Hornets allowed only one big scoring play and intercepted the Scarlet Hawks senior quarterback three times, including a pick-6 by Anthony Comer, who also had a touchdown run in the win.
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Free agent WR Kenny Golladay reaches agreement with Giants
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Red Sox’ Franchy Cordero makes long-awaited spring training debut

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Larry Culp is the GE CEO who would rather hang out on the factory floor

The stimulus is giving a lot of money directly to people who need it. Now what?

Passenger travel at Logan is beginning to pick up

politics

Biden administration faces criticism amid an increase of migrants at Mexico border

Five will exit White House over past use of marijuana

Investigators have no evidence yet for Atlanta-area hate crime charge, source says

Living Arts

DEVRA FIRST

When we all gather again in restaurants, we will do so changed
OUTDOORS

Imagination reigns on the lawns of Watertown with YardArt project

Could I have been more patient about the bad timing?

education

New federal guidance supports what Mass. school officials said for months: 3 feet of distance between most students can be enough

Boston Public Schools hit highest-ever four-year graduation rate in 2020

CDC changes school distancing guidance, recommending 3 feet between students instead of 6 feet

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RI POLITICS

Fierce divisions as hundreds testify on gun legislation in Rhode Island

RI POLITICS

R.I. poised to pass ‘Act on Climate’ bill, making carbon reduction goals mandatory
RI BUSINESS

Three generations later, a family’s jewelry factory thrives in Rhode Island

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Comfort Zone

OUTDOORS
Imagination reigns on the lawns of Watertown with YardArt project
More than 120 residences are festooned with original artwork for the inaugural YardArt Watertown.

NAMES
Marty Walsh goes to Washington with a new ‘mayoral portrait’
The small canvas painting features a graphic-style deception of Walsh’s face over the American flag.

MUSEUMS
MFA keeps up the Impressionism with second Monet show
"Legacy Illuminated" will feature fewer Monets but more historical context.

IN THE FAMILY WAY
In the rush to resume normalcy, don’t overlook your teenager’s mental health
Puberty is tough enough. Now add in a pandemic. Here are five things to keep in mind.

Make the most of spring muck
There are plenty of ways to enjoy New England’s mud season. Here are some ideas.

Special Projects

PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.
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On the Street

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

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A Beautiful Resistance
Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Globe Spotlight Investigation
Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Marcela García

More stonewalling from the Boston police
Renée Graham

A massacre targeting Asians in Georgia wasn’t a ‘bad day.’ It was a hate crime.
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Dreaming of a Federal Writers’ Project 2.0
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Biden puts a bull’s-eye on today’s lazy faux filibuster
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A derailment and packed trains? Sounds like the same old T
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The next pandemic challenge: Reacquainting ourselves with everyday risks

STAT

The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
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I’m keeping an Instagram pandemic diary. When should I stop?
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sports

Saturday’s Red Sox spring training report: Martín Pérez roughed by Braves

Key points regarding the NFL’s new broadcast rights deals

The latest projection on the Red Sox roster for Opening Day

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George Bass, archaeologist of the ocean floor, dies at 88

‘You are my sunshine’: For nursing homes, COVID-19 vaccinations bring hope amid an uncertain future

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Nation

Protesters gather in Atlanta to #StopAsianHate

Mass. reports 29 new COVID-19 deaths, 1,880 cases, 58,525 vaccinations Saturday

After being scratched and punched, Trump wax figure is removed

World

Striking Myanmar rail workers move out as protests continue

Turkey withdraws from European treaty protecting women

Half of UK adults have gotten one dose of COVID-19 vaccine

politics

Report: Current aide accuses Cuomo of sex harassment

Several dozen House Democrats call for expulsion of Marjorie Taylor Greene from House

Biden slips while boarding Air Force One; White House says he’s ’100 percent’ fine

business

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp go down for some users

Scientist behind coronavirus vaccine says next target is cancer

Child dies in accident involving Peloton treadmill

lifestyle

In the rush to resume normalcy, don’t overlook your teenager’s mental health

Vincent’s replaces Cafe du Pays, Uni takes to the streets, and ‘Top Chef’ contestant Carl Dooley lands at Mooncusser

Janet Wu on Africa, Asia, a bar with good onions, and being a grandmother

marijuana

Marijuana-infused ice cream is coming to a dispensary near you, just in time for summer

A green wave? Mexico’s marijuana market may be middling

Mexico set to legalize marijuana, becoming world’s largest market

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Health, education, and the T

Compassion has a price, but so does the lack of it

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Vincent’s replaces Cafe du Pays, Uni takes to the streets, and ‘Top Chef’ contestant Carl Dooley lands at Mooncusser

A Palestinian cook is serving specialties from home in his Natick cafe

travel

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Books

From Bowie to Beyoncé, Berklee authors look at musicians as models of innovation

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A new biography gives us Francis Bacon in full

Movies

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Television

New Apple TV+ series may have a ‘Forever’ feel

Flashbacks and flash-forwards are the latest trend in giving TV viewers a headache

Matthew McConaughey returns to HBO — and a breakthrough role

music

Strike up the band! Live music will return to Tanglewood this summer

The era of genius worship must end with James Levine

Scullers joins five other East Coast clubs for a virtual jazzfest

Theater/Dance

‘The Conjurors’ Club’ is not quite magical enough

Jacob’s Pillow is a go with an all-outdoor dance festival

In ‘A Brimful of Asha’ and ‘The Pink Unicorn,’ mothers grapple with the independence and identities of their children

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Somerville builds for future with $256 million high school

Should sports betting be legalized in Massachusetts?

Birds and squirrels got us through, but now we long for humanity

Obituaries

George Bass, archaeologist of the ocean floor, dies at 88

Spring comes bounding into view

Marianne Carus, whose Cricket magazine reached young readers, dies at 92