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1 million more Mass. residents now eligible for COVID-19 vaccine as state moves closer to normalcy

The state took another major step toward achieving normalcy on Monday, with an additional 1 million new people now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines and nearly all public school districts sending elementary students back to full-time, in-person learning this morning.
Most Mass. elementary schools return to full-time, in-person learning on Monday Here's who is eligible to receive a vaccine in Mass. See more vaccine news, resources, and guidance

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
Yellen calls for minimum global corporate income tax
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday urged the adoption of a minimum global corporate income tax, an effort to offset any disadvantages that might arise from the Biden administration’s proposed increase in the US corporate tax rate.

DEREK CHAUVIN TRIAL

Emergency room doctor says he theorized George Floyd most likely suffocated

Dr. Bradford Langenfeld, who was a senior resident on duty that night at Hennepin County Medical Center, said Floyd’s heart had stopped by the time he arrived.
Watch live: Trial of Derek Chauvin, ex-officer charged with murder of George Floyd

Woman’s ‘suspicious’ death under investigation in Derry, N.H., authorities say

Police are investigating the woman's death after a fire at a residence that also left a man hospitalized.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified during a hearing on the federal coronavirus response on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 18, 2021.
Fauci pushes back on GOP criticisms, calls claims ‘bizarre’
Facing criticism from several high-profile Republicans in recent weeks, the country's top infectious-disease expert, Anthony Fauci, pushed back on some of the claims, calling the remarks flat-out “bizarre.”

Rachel Miller Munzer, a co-owner of Mameleh's, is using PPP funds to raise wages and get rid of tipping.
For the hospitality industry, struggling to recover, it’s a moment of reckoning
The restaurant trade has a reputation for grueling work and long hours, wildly uneven pay, and a sometimes hostile environment. Some owners are taking steps to improve the life.

Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
Vaccinations
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MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS
A stage adaptation of "Game of Thrones" will feature some of the show's characters as younger versions of themselves, including Jaime Lannister, played in the HBO series by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
This week’s TV: ‘Hemingway’ arrives, ‘Shameless’ leaves, and ‘Game of Thrones’ heads to the stage
Globe critic Matthew Gilbert navigates the week in TV.

INNOVATORS Q&A
Andrew Naperotic, left, and Anders Hansen, founders of ADDASPACE.
An alternative to expensive home renovations: Shipping containers
The containers by ADDASPACE can become freestanding home offices, guest bedrooms, home gyms, or even yoga studios.

This 2015 photo shows the peak of Mount Monadnock, elevation 3,165 feet, near Jaffrey, N.H., which draws more than 100,000 hikers annually.
Mass. hiker falls off rock ledge after getting lost in N.H. state park
Officials located Jennifer Publicover using her phone's GPS coordinates and she was later transported by helicopter to UMass Memorial Medical Center.

The US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
High court sides with Google in copyright fight with Oracle
The Supreme Court sided Monday with Google in an $8 billion copyright dispute with Oracle over the internet company’s creation of the Android operating system used on most smartphones worldwide.

Supreme Court nixes Alex Jones’ appeal in Newtown shooting case

Beverage Manager Cassidy Spire poured a flight of Night Shift beer to be photographed inside what will become the Night Shift Brewing Kitchen & Tap at Encore in Everett.
Encore, Night Shift to open brew pub
It’s one of several changes being made at the Everett casino as more patrons return.

Boston Globe Columnist Jeneé Osterheldt (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)
Boston Globe columnist wins News Leaders Association opinion prize
Boston Globe culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt has been awarded a prestigious prize from the News Leaders Association for her opinion writing.

Frozen Four
Carson Gicewicz leads the Minutemen with 17 goals this season.
Extra year of eligibility has resulted in trip to Frozen’s Four for Carson Gicewicz of UMass
Gicewicz and the Minutemen have a semifinal date Thursday night with Minnesota-Duluth, the two-time defending national champion.

This combination photo shows authors Harper Lee, left, and Toni Morrison, whose books, “To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Bluest Eye” were among the more than 270 challenged books in 2020.
Books by Steinbeck, Alexie among those objected to in 2020
The American Library Association reported more than 270 challenges to books in 2020, from Toni Morrison's “The Bluest Eye” to Harper Lee's “To Kill a Mockingbird,” compared to 377 the year before.

Opinion

Taylor Trudon

The kids are not OK

America’s youth are facing a mental health crisis, one that is as detrimental as the pandemic responsible for it.
A report from the MBA urges Governor Charlie Baker to adopt new guidelines that would prioritize clemency for victims of domestic violence, those convicted at a very young age, and those who are now elderly, frail, or chronically ill.
EDITORIAL

State parole board, clemency process need reform
Mary Beth Tinker in 2013. Tinker was just 13 when she spoke out against the Vietnam War by wearing a black armband to her Iowa school in 1965. When the school suspended her, she took her free speech case all the way to the US Supreme Court and won.
Alex Beam

It’s ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ all over again
A woman is administered the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine by a medical technician in Bates Memorial Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky.
Tamara Rushovich and Sarah S. Richardson

The intersection of Black women, COVID, and death rates
White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci listen as President Trump speaks at a coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 20, 2020.
EDITORIAL

Let’s hear the truth, for once, from former Trump officials

Recommended reads

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

Mass. becomes state with most cases of new COVID-19 variant after Cape Cod outbreaks

The new P.1 variant of COVID-19 first found in travelers from Brazil has been detected in Massachusetts more than anywhere else in the country, according to researchers.

Will Acting Mayor Janey run for a full term?

While Acting Mayor Kim Janey has yet to say whether she plans to run for a full term, she does not appear to be treating her new role as Boston’s chief executive as a months-long stewardship.
The Battle For The GOP

‘An incredibly difficult balancing act’: Will Kevin McCarthy lead the fractious House Republicans to the majority?

McCarthy is positioning himself to reach his ultimate goal — speaker of the House — if he can navigate the land mines of being a Republican leader in the post-Trump era.
Yvonne Abraham

State has hopefully struck a fatal blow to Springfield power plant

The Department of Environmental Protection on Friday revoked its approval of the Springfield biomass-fired power plant, citing an overlong interruption in its construction.

metro

Acting Mayor Kim Janey.

Watch live: Acting Mayor Janey holds a press conference at 1:30

Janey is holding a press conference to announce a new initiative to promote equitable recovery for Boston industries.

Boston Globe columnist wins News Leaders Association opinion prize
RHODE MAP

Rhode Island’s most vaccinated cities and towns

Sports

Carson Gicewicz leads the Minutemen with 17 goals this season.
Frozen Four

Extra year of eligibility has resulted in trip to Frozen’s Four for Carson Gicewicz of UMass

Gicewicz and the Minutemen have a semifinal date Thursday night with Minnesota-Duluth, the two-time defending national champion.
Gary Washburn | On basketball

If Celtics buckle down, they can still grab that fourth playoff spot

Shohei Ohtani throws fastest pitch by starting pitcher this season, crushes hardest-hit home run

business

The US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

High court sides with Google in copyright fight with Oracle

DraftKings acquires Tel Aviv company to offer jackpot promotions

The old Harborlights concert tent has a new sponsor: Leader Bank

politics

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

Yellen calls for minimum global corporate income tax

Supreme Court nixes Alex Jones’ appeal in Newtown shooting case

Supreme Court dismisses case over Trump and Twitter critics

Living Arts

This combination photo shows authors Harper Lee, left, and Toni Morrison, whose books, “To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Bluest Eye” were among the more than 270 challenged books in 2020.

Books by Steinbeck, Alexie among those objected to in 2020
MUSIC

Maxwell’s slow-burning debut still simmers after 25 years
MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: ‘Hemingway’ arrives, ‘Shameless’ leaves, and ‘Game of Thrones’ heads to the stage

education

Students filed into the Beebe School in Malden as they returned to full-time in-person classes on Monday.

Most Mass. elementary schools return to full-time, in-person learning on Monday

Rising coronavirus cases among students and staff members don’t mean schools are unsafe, officials and health experts say

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map

rhode island

RHODE MAP

Rhode Island’s most vaccinated cities and towns
RI CRIME

Jury trials still haven’t resumed in Rhode Island, and there’s no clear answer why not
INNOVATORS Q&A

An alternative to expensive home renovations: Shipping containers

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
Hikers took in views from the boardwalk at Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary in Norfolk.
5 boardwalks to elevate the hiking experience
These trails are accessible, kid-friendly, and just a skip from Boston.

TELEVISION
From left: Brennan Hepler (whose stage name is Beane), Grace Kinstler, and Colin Jamieson have made the Top 24 on "American Idol."
3 singers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ all-star duets
Locals will sing April 4 and 5 with Joss Stone, Josh Groban, and Tori Kelly.

Einat Cohen's “Royal & Gold Textured Bell-Shaped Earrings,” made with tyvek paper and resin.
CraftBoston permanently hangs its sign online
A forever version of the popular expo kicks off with an online earrings show.

FIRST PERSON
Online museum tours have been big during the pandemic.
Even in a year of staying put, I’ve gone far and wide — and even learned to folk dance
I’m taking full advantage of the virtual content that organizations have been offering during the pandemic. And it has gotten me through what would otherwise be a lonely time.

Text and photographs from MARTHA STEWART’S VERY GOOD THINGS. Copyright © 2021 by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Martha Stewart wants to help you turn up the charming
The gorgeous "Martha Stewart's Very Good Things" is packed with lovely little lifehacks for your home.

Special Projects

The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
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

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation
Evening light sets upon stores and restaurants on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

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

More

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

Amazon headquarters in Seattle.
IDEAS | BRIAN ALEXANDER

If you think the health care industry is unhealthy now, just wait till Amazon gets in deeper
Jan Mijtens (Dutch, c. 1614–1670), Portrait of Maria of Orange with Hendrik van Nassau-Zuylestein and a Black Child (detail), c. 1655. Oil on canvas.
IDEAS | KELLY HORAN

How do museums exhibit the colonial past?
Josie and Lydia Jackson, Alaina Roberts's great-great-grandmother and great-great-great grandmother.
RENÉE GRAHAM

An overdue reckoning for Black Freedmen on native lands
Bandages and alcohol pads at a mass vaccination site at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn.
Elissa Ely

The pharmacist
A voter submits a ballot in an official drop box during early voting in Athens, Ga., Oct. 19, 2020. A new Georgia law, among other constraints on voting, restricts the availability of drop boxes for absentee ballots.
EDITORIAL

MLB, corporate leaders wake up to assault on voting rights
Bystanders watch as demonstrators march against anti-Asian violence in New York City on March 27.
IDEAS | NOAH Y. KIM

The power and the perils of an Asian American political awakening

STAT

Road ahead illo
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.

Ahoskie Mayor Weyling White, left, and Hertford County Magistrate Deborah Morrison, right, pose for a portrait on railroad tracks that divide the predominantly White and predominantly Black parts of town in Ahoskie, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo © Landon Bost 2020)
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.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: People walk through the snow and sleet in Manhattan on February 12, 2019 in New York City. New York City, in a winter that has been light on snow this season, is expected to receive two inches of snow before the storm moves later this evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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.

Boston, MA -- 06/04/2020 -- Yoldana Desir displays a photograph of her late sister, Marie Deus, who died of Covid-19, after contracting it as a food service worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
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?

magazine
Malcolm Cawthorne at Brookline High School.
on the cover

The exhaustion of being a Black teacher in a school when you’re one of too few educators of color

Illustration of someone shoveling piles of money.
Excerpt

The costs of a secretive ‘wealth defense industry’ of shell companies, offshore tax havens, and empty luxury condos

An illustration of a pair of scissors cutting through a pair of blue and white checked boxer shorts.
Connections

What would it take to teach my son not to leave his boxers on the bathroom floor?
Rigatoni With Roman Broccoli Sauce.
Cooking

Recipes: Pasta dishes that take a break from red sauce

sports

The Celtics' Evan Fournier (17 points) is fouled by Hornets guard and former Celtic Terry Rozier (22 points) during second quarter at TD Garden.

There are signs of hope for the Celtics, and other observations from a rout of the shorthanded Hornets

Red Sox can’t lose sight of the many warning signs from terrible opening weekend

Stanford beats Arizona to win first NCAA women’s Tournament title since 1992

metro

This 2015 photo shows the peak of Mount Monadnock, elevation 3,165 feet, near Jaffrey, N.H., which draws more than 100,000 hikers annually.

Mass. hiker falls off rock ledge after getting lost in N.H. state park

Most Mass. elementary schools return to full-time, in-person learning on Monday

Welcome to the socialist revolution in Somerville

Nation

Witness Dr. Bradford Wankhede Langenfeld, the doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead, testified as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presided on Monday in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin.

Emergency room doctor says he theorized George Floyd most likely suffocated

Minor 4.0-magnitude earthquake strikes Los Angeles area

Yellen calls for minimum global corporate income tax

World

Bahrain’s Everest expedition climbers worked out at a gym in Kathmandu, on March 26, 2021, before heading to the Everest region.

As climbers return to Everest, an already dangerous ascent becomes extra perilous

US looks to build on secret portions of Taliban deal to reduce violence

Hymns through masks: Christians mark another pandemic Easter

politics

In this March 31, 2021, file photo, President Biden delivered a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center in Pittsburgh.

Biden’s big infrastructure plan hits McConnell, GOP blockade

Biden steps up federal efforts to combat domestic extremism

After fatal attack outside Capitol, security concerns wrestle with need for public access

business

Beverage Manager Cassidy Spire poured a flight of Night Shift beer to be photographed inside what will become the Night Shift Brewing Kitchen & Tap at Encore in Everett.

Encore, Night Shift to open brew pub

For the hospitality industry, struggling to recover, it’s a moment of reckoning

Facebook data on more than 500M accounts found online

lifestyle

Vincent Petryk, founder and owner of J.P. Licks, opened the ice cream shop's doors in Jamaica Plain in 1981. The shop has remained a Boston staple ever since.

As Boston ice cream shop J.P. Licks celebrates its 40th anniversary, expect ‘flavors from the vault’

Wife wants to go on a college tour with her ex

10 ways to make your days easier starting now

marijuana

New York legalizes recreational marijuana

Prominent executive at NETA parent company fired after husband opens competing marijuana store

New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana

opinion

Principal Sebastian LaGambina walks down a hallway in Somerville's new high school.

MCAS is a distraction we don’t need this year

Opening Day with a healthy asterisk

State parole board, clemency process need reform

food & dining

Vincent Petryk, founder and owner of J.P. Licks, opened the ice cream shop's doors in Jamaica Plain in 1981. The shop has remained a Boston staple ever since.

As Boston ice cream shop J.P. Licks celebrates its 40th anniversary, expect ‘flavors from the vault’

Breweries team up for a Travis Roy tribute beer

Where to dine al fresco, plus sweet deals at J.P. Licks

travel

The author’s son, Sam Wright, 9, explores a wintery landscape while hiking along the Nooksack River in Washington’s Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, during a winter camping trip in February.

Reflecting on a winter of snow camping and its many peaceful pleasures

Love animals? Here are some things not to do on your next vacation

When she needs a break, she zips down to the Cape for a lobster roll

Books

This combination photo shows authors Harper Lee, left, and Toni Morrison, whose books, “To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Bluest Eye” were among the more than 270 challenged books in 2020.

Books by Steinbeck, Alexie among those objected to in 2020

A new biography presents the unvarnished Philip Roth, revealing a complex man

Andrea Lee on living in Italy, and reading in English

Movies

Michelle Pfeiffer in "French Exit."

Michelle Pfeiffer on making an entrance in ‘French Exit’

Ken Burns: many hours, special moments

Oscar shorts nominees; madame, he’s Adam

Television

A stage adaptation of "Game of Thrones" will feature some of the show's characters as younger versions of themselves, including Jaime Lannister, played in the HBO series by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

This week’s TV: ‘Hemingway’ arrives, ‘Shameless’ leaves, and ‘Game of Thrones’ heads to the stage

Daniel Kaluuya highlights racism in Boston during ‘SNL’ debut

‘SNL’ takes aim at Matt Gaetz amid reported sex trafficking investigation

music

Maxwell continues to reign as an R&B auteur.

Maxwell’s slow-burning debut still simmers after 25 years

Rickie Lee Jones, memoirist: candid, cosmic, and so cool

Groupmuse aims for ‘structural change’ with switch to musician-owned business model

Theater/Dance

The renowned Shakespeare & Company theater group in Massachusetts plans to resume live, in-person performances this summer with a production of “King Lear,” starring Christopher Lloyd (pictured). The organization said in a statement this week that “King Lear” will run July 2 through Aug. 29.

Shakespeare & Company to resume live, in-person performances this summer

From the lived experiences of scientists, Melinda Lopez crafts ‘Young Nerds of Color’

Reagle Music Theatre founder Robert J. Eagle to retire after 52 years

globe local

Fire crews from Somerville, Cambridge, and Malden battled a four-alarm fire in Somerville, near Davis Square.

Four-alarm fire in Somerville quickly extinguished

‘Death didn’t have the final say’: Easter delivers a message of hope after a year filled with despair

Should Massachusetts require auto insurers to refund premiums with people driving less during the pandemic?

Obituaries

This Jan. 1990 file photo shows playwright Arthur Kopit in Los Angeles.

Arthur Kopit dies at 83; playwright was a Tony nominee, Pulitzer finalist

Constance Demby, prominent New Age composer, dies at 81

Michael Friedlander, urban architect of offbeat designs, dies at 63