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Nine Zero terminates majority of staff, the latest Boston hotel to cut workers

The Kimpton Nine Zero Hotel, a high-end property in downtown Boston, terminated the majority of its staff Monday, the fourth hotel in the city to terminate furloughed workers as the industry struggles to recover from devastating financial losses brought on by the pandemic.
Union calls out hotels that haven’t committed to rehiring workers

Supreme Court to consider reinstating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence

The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, presenting President Biden with an early test of his opposition to capital punishment.

Police chief says Miami partying ‘couldn’t go on any longer’
Pointing to over 1,000 arrests in one of the nation’s top party spots, Miami Beach officials warned Sunday that the unruly spring break crowd gathering by the thousands, fighting in the streets, destroying restaurant property, and refusing to wear masks has become a serious threat to public safety.

Spring fever is real. And it’s a mess
With the clocks moved forward an hour and daylight stretching past 12 hours, the annual phenomenon has arrived in full, fidgety force.

Forecast: The first week of spring will be untraditionally dry and warm These restaurant patios are open for springtime gatherings
Ben Volin | On Football

There are two apparent reasons behind the Patriots’ uncharacteristic spending spree

The Patriots signed 20 free agents and agreed to pay more than $160 million in fully guaranteed money to vastly upgrade the roster heading into the 2021 season. Why the rush to spend now?
Robert Kraft explains why the Patriots went on a big spending spree in free agency Patriots receiver Kendrick Bourne is already gameplanning with his new quarterbacks

Inside the state’s $3.3 million scramble to build a better vaccine website

Records show that the state awarded five companies up to $3.3 million in contracts, mostly within a span of 11 days, in a flurry of activity aimed at fixing the much-maligned vaccine registration system.

‘Afraid of taking the subway’: Atlanta murders raise safety concerns for Asian workers, businesses

Asian American business owners have been reeling from the downturn caused by the pandemic and are struggling with discrimination and cultural barriers that make it difficult to seek support.
Local vigils support Asian Americans in wake of Atlanta-area killings
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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AstraZeneca says US trial data shows vaccine 79 percent effective
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection against disease and complete protection against hospitalization and death across all age groups in a late-stage US study, the company announced Monday.

Tracker: The latest on COVID-19 vaccine frontrunners

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS
This week’s TV: The life of Tina Turner, ‘City on a Hill,’ and the return of ‘Shtisel’
Globe critic Matthew Gilbert navigates the week in TV.

‘Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal’ reenacts and reorients a scandal

UK judge says newspaper can delay statement on Meghan Markle case
A British newspaper doesn’t have to run a front-page statement about the Duchess of Sussex’s legal victory until it has had the chance to challenge the order, a judge ruled Monday.

Two Lawrence residents killed in crash on I-93 in New Hampshire

Lesley Martinez Velazquez, 23, and Sasha Peralta, 31, of Lawrence were killed in a crash Monday morning, according to the New Hampshire State Police.

Tom Brady’s one-time condo in Back Bay is now on the market
Boston’s Burrage Mansion, where former Patriots quarterback Tom Brady used to live, has an opening.

UMass forward Bobby Trivigno named Walter Brown award winner
The award, given by the Gridiron Club of Boston, is awarded to the top American-born New England college hockey player each season.

Two hikers from Mass. who died in Acadia National Park identified
Wayne Beckford, 28, and Kassandra Caceres, 30, appeared to have fallen about 100 feet from an ice covered cliff on Dorr Mountain, officials said.

N.H. expands vaccine eligibility today

New Hampshire residents ages 50 and older on Monday may start signing up for appointments to get COVID-19 vaccinations.
Providence, Pawtucket expands vaccine eligibility to younger residents

Opinion

EDITORIAL

Dragging state prisons into the 21st century

Criminal “justice” shouldn’t end when the cell door closes for those with mental illness.
Elizabeth Dugan

How Massachusetts can become a living laboratory for aging
Jean Accius

A living laboratory must close the equity and opportunity gaps

OPINION

How to build a living laboratory
IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

Just what is the BettyLab cooking up for girls?
A collaboration between BU's Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe's Opinion team.
Learn more Sign up for the newsletter, 'Unbound' The Emancipator seeks editor in chief based at The Boston Globe

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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.

Stimulus payments are a lifeline for households pushed to the edge

Stimulus payments are many things — compensation for the losses of the past year, a jolt to the economy, and a way to give money directly to people in need.
DEVRA FIRST

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

It’s been a long, difficult year, one during which we've lost loved ones, experiences, and connections. And we've learned a lot, including how much restaurants mean to us, and how challenging the restaurant business is.

What we know about the victims of the Atlanta shootings

One was a newlywed bride getting a massage with her husband. Another was an immigrant from China who proudly built her business from nothing. The youngest was 33. The oldest was 74.

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

No corner of Massachusetts life was more devastated by the coronavirus a year ago than long-term care. And none has seen infection rates drop faster since COVID-19 vaccines rolled out at the end of last year.

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CORONAVIRUS

Providence, Pawtucket expands vaccine eligibility to younger residents

The COVID-19 hospitalization rate for young people in certain hard-hit ZIP codes is higher than the rate in the rest of Rhode Island for people over 60 years old, the mayor of Providence explained.
Weather | Dave Epstein

The first week of spring will be unseasonably dry and warm

Spring fever is real. And it’s a mess

Sports

Patriots

Patriots receiver Kendrick Bourne is already gameplanning with his new quarterbacks

Jarrett Stidham is linking up with his batterymates in California, and Cam Newton has already invited Bourne to Atlanta for a workout.

UMass forward Bobby Trivigno named Walter Brown award winner

Ben Volin | On Football

There are two apparent reasons behind the Patriots’ uncharacteristic spending spree

business

Nine Zero terminates majority of staff, the latest Boston hotel to cut workers

UK judge says newspaper can delay statement on Meghan Markle case

Massachusetts should have a centralized ‘hub’ to help women entrepreneurs, report says

politics

Supreme Court to consider reinstating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence

Republican Representative Tom Reed, accused of misconduct, will retire

Clash between union campaigns and private property at Supreme Court

Living Arts

‘Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal’ reenacts and reorients a scandal
MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: The life of Tina Turner, ‘City on a Hill,’ and the return of ‘Shtisel’
COMFORT ZONE

A half-decade later, a chapter of ‘Harry Potter and the Sacred Text’ ends

education

Harvard is studying its ties to slavery, but is that enough?

Somerville builds for future with $256 million high school

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

rhode island

CORONAVIRUS

Providence, Pawtucket expands vaccine eligibility to younger residents

RHODE MAP

Providence teachers vote no confidence in Commissioner Infante-Green, Superintendent Peters
INNOVATORS Q&A

Brown senior and his 17-year old brother develop app to rate a business on COVID-19 protocols, cleanliness

Newton

video

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.
See the full project

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

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

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Jeneé Osterheldt
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

EDITORIAL

Stop the filibuster’s stranglehold on civil rights

IDEAS | VICTOR BENJAMIN

Divisive, demoralizing bots are winning, so big tech needs to think bigger
JEFF JACOBY

This is no time to bring back earmarks

Elissa Ely

Gather in and pause
EDITORIAL

Plymouth DA evades the sunshine
IDEAS | ANDY ROSEN

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
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

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Perspective

I’m Asian American and racism makes COVID-19 more than a pandemic for me
Globe Magazine

Inside the effort to build trust in COVID vaccines
Joanna Weiss

I’m keeping an Instagram pandemic diary. When should I stop?
COOKING

Recipes: Three creamy vegetable soups with a twist: no dairy necessary

sports

Robert Kraft explains why the Patriots went on a big spending spree in free agency

Updated: What’s next for in the Patriots’ free-agent blitz? Try our simulator and pick your own players

U.S. men’s soccer scores late, beats Dominican Republic in Olympic qualifying game

metro

Providence teachers vote no confidence in Commissioner Infante-Green, Superintendent Peters

Brown senior and his 17-year old brother develop app to rate a business on COVID-19 protocols, cleanliness

Starting today, Mass. residents over 60 and some essential workers are eligible for vaccination, as the state eases business restrictions

Nation

Supreme Court to consider reinstating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence

Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker: The latest on vaccine frontrunners

N.H. expands vaccine eligibility today

World

Acclaimed Polish poet Adam Zagajewski dies at age 75

Palestinians and Israelis both vote soon. The differences are stark

AstraZeneca, once touted as a pandemic slayer, faces challenges

politics

Evidence in Capitol attack most likely supports sedition charges, prosecutor says

President Biden says he plans to visit US-Mexico border ‘at some point’

Intelligence officials: Iran threatens US Army post in D.C. and top general

business

UK says it’s developing fast test for COVID-19 variants

‘Afraid of taking the subway’: Atlanta murders raise safety concerns for Asian workers, businesses

Recast as ‘stimmies,’ federal relief checks drive a stock buying spree

lifestyle

Marty Walsh goes to Washington with a new ‘mayoral portrait’

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

marijuana

Five will exit White House over past use of 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

opinion

For Janey, ‘acting’ should mean action

Dragging state prisons into the 21st century

How Massachusetts can become a living laboratory for aging

food & dining

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

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

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

Make the most of spring muck

How to use your travel vouchers and credits

Books

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

Recalling a medium’s first ladies in ‘When Women Invented Television’

A new biography gives us Francis Bacon in full

Movies

‘Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal’ reenacts and reorients a scandal

The play’s the thing? Not always on screen it isn’t

Zack, Joss, and me

Television

This week’s TV: The life of Tina Turner, ‘City on a Hill,’ and the return of ‘Shtisel’

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

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

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

globe local

A president’s visit, Little League heroics, fires and funerals: A small town rallies to save its history

Tom Brady’s one-time condo in Back Bay is now on the market

Should sports betting be legalized in Massachusetts?

Obituaries

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

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

Famed Tiffany jewelry designer Elsa Peretti dead at age 80