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White Milton police officer to face charges for allegedly threatening, intimidating Black teen over support for Black Lives Matter

Patricia Lio, 52, also allegedly attacked her husband, who tried to quell the September confrontation at their Westwood home.

Derek Chauvin invokes Fifth Amendment, will not testify at his murder trial

The defense at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd rested its case Thursday without putting Chauvin on the stand, wrapping up after two days of testimony to the prosecution’s two weeks.

People who are fully vaccinated can't go back to life exactly the way it used to be. Not yet, the CDC says.
We asked experts what they’re comfortable doing now they’ve been vaccinated. Here’s what they said.
Just because you're fully vaccinated doesn't mean you can turn the clock back to 2019, the CDC says.

How does the J&J COVID-19 vaccine pause affect Rhode Islanders? See more vaccine news and resources

A woman walks by the Washington Elms Housing Development in Cambridge, which sits next to high-rise towers in Kendall Square.
Cambridge to begin guaranteed income program for poor families
The pilot program would provide 120 single-parent households with $500 per month with no strings attached.

3-year-old fatally struck by SUV driven by 13-year-old in Maine

Gorham Police Chief Christopher Sanborn said the crash occurred around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, and that the 3-year-old child was pronounced dead at the scene.
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These maps show what to expect from the nor’easter Thursday night into Friday

If you live in central or western Massachusetts, here's how much snow you can expect Thursday night into Friday, according to forecasters.
Up to 8 inches of snow expected in Berkshires with blast of winter; rain expected in Boston
Pallbearers from the US Capitol Police, center, carry the casket of William "Billy" Evans in Adams.

‘Full honors befitting a hero’: Funeral for slain Capitol police officer William Evans held in Adams

Officers from around the state gathered under rainy skies outside the church late Thursday morning, and local residents lined the street outside, watching solemnly as Evans’s flag-draped casket was carried inside the house of worship.
The author, Jonathan Saltzman, working from home using a card table and dining room chair. When a physical therapist saw this photo, she said every thing about his position was wrong.

After a year of working from home at a card table, I’m paying the price at the physical therapist

Physical therapists say that although business plunged during the lockdown in the first half of 2020, they soon saw a surge of patients complaining about of head, neck, shoulder, and back pain linked to ergonomically unsound home office setups.
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Jess Phifer and Melanie DiVista lay down tulips at the Boston Marathon Bombing Memorial near the finish line last year.
Eight years later, Boston marks the marathon bombing anniversary with silence and kindness
Each year, the city marks the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings with One Boston Day, when acts of kindness are paramount even amid the coronavirus pandemic.

In this photo provided by the Coast Guard, crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Glenn Harris worked to rescue survivors after a 175-foot commercial lift boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico.
In race against time, divers aim to reach capsized ship in search for survivors
The Seacor Power flipped over in hurricane-force winds and high seas Tuesday, miles south of the Louisiana coast.

The fire early Dec. 28 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Presbyterian Church in Springfield.
Maine man facing federal hate crime charges for repeated arson of Springfield church
A Maine man who called for the elimination of Black people is facing federal hate crime charges for repeatedly setting fires at a Springfield church named after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

YVONNE ABRAHAMThe courage of a 12-year-old
Imagine being the first one to raise the alarm, to do the thing that should have stopped him, only to watch him pass two more decades with impunity, because nobody who could have intervened had the courage of a 12-year-old.

For years, the Boston Police kept a secret: the union president was an alleged child molester

Ex-Minnesota cop faces first hearing in shooting of Daunte Wright

A white former police officer faced her first court appearance Thursday in the traffic-stop shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright that has engulfed a small Minneapolis suburb in four straight days of bitter conflict between protesters and police.
For fourth night, protesters confront police over fatal shooting

A view of Hudson Yards and New Jersey across the Hudson River.
Rob Gronkowski buying $7 million home in New York’s Hudson Yards near Tom Brady, report says
Rob Gronkowski is reportedly buying up some big-city property back in the Northeast while waiting out the NFL offseason.

Opinion

The Future of Work

The past year has shattered expectations of what workdays look like. Parenting while Zooming. An uncrowded T. Wary interactions with customers. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.
Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldan prepares the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, California on March 25.
Kimberly Atkins

I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The pause makes me believe in it more.
Security personnel stands guard as Independent Election Commission workers unload ballot boxes from a truck to be taken to a counting center the day after Afghanistan held presidential elections, in September, 2019.
H.D.S. Greenway

Afghanistan and Vietnam: How did the US lose two wars?

Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn.
Leonard L. Glass, Edwin B. Fisher, and Lance Dodes

Why did Yale dismiss Bandy X. Lee?
Then-President Donald Trump speaks to the media with Florida Gov. Rick Scott at Eglin Air Force Base in Fla. in 2018.
SCOT LEHIGH

A GOP unity cruise hits the Great Trump-Barrier Reef

Recommended reads

Ethan Simmons and Caroline Thompson are co-workers at Zoominfo, but only met when they realized they both live in the Fenway. Now they take walks together regularly, with her dog, Winston.
‘I’m excited to see how tall people are’: For those hired remotely, it’s the little things they miss most
Many people hired remotely over the past year have never been to the office or met any fellow employees in person, missing out on the many benefits of in-office culture.

Former Alden Shoe Co. CFO charged in $30 million embezzlement scheme

Richard Hajjar, 64, of Duxbury, agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud, unlawful monetary transactions, and filing a false tax return.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Asian American families overwhelmingly reject full-time return to BPS classrooms this month

As Boston prepares to reopen elementary and middle schools full time, Asian American families are choosing to keep their children learning from home at rates higher than any other racial group, amid fears about both the pandemic and a growing tide of racism targeting their community.
Larry Edelman

Madoff was an evil master of financial illusion

Bernie Madoff was a genius and a fraud, a stock market innovator who ended up squandering his considerable talents on propping up the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
DAN MCGOWAN

Is this heaven? No, it’s Worcester

Polar Park is gorgeous, and the former PawSox who play there are looking good. Imagine what Rhode Island could have had if its leaders showed even a tiny sense of vision.

metro

Norah Aguirre, right, 17 of Wakefield, Rhode Island smiles after clinical nurse manager Marlene Reidl, left, delivered her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island on April 3, 2021. The FDA has recently authorized the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 16-years old and older.
CORONAVIRUS

How does the J&J COVID-19 vaccine pause affect Rhode Islanders?

The state will conduct its own review, but some residents feel wary about keeping their appointments.

White Milton police officer to face charges for allegedly threatening, intimidating Black teen over support for Black Lives Matter

These maps show what to expect from the nor’easter Thursday night into Friday

Sports

Veteran's Field in Chatham sat unused last summer as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the Cape League. But baseball will be back this summer.
baseball

After a one-year absence, the Cape League is coming back — but things will be different, that’s for sure

Logistics like finding host families and organizing youth clinics are still being ironed out, but the return of baseball on the Cape is welcomed by league organizers.

Marblehead senior Loeden Rodrigues is the state’s Gatorade Boys’ Cross-Country Athlete of the Year
Red Sox at Twins | 1:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 13: Red Sox at Twins lineups and notes

business

A woman walks by the Washington Elms Housing Development in Cambridge, which sits next to high-rise towers in Kendall Square.

Cambridge to begin guaranteed income program for poor families

After a year of working from home at a card table, I’m paying the price at the physical therapist

US weekly unemployment claims dip to 576,000, the lowest number since start of the pandemic

politics

President Joe Biden.

US expels Russian diplomats, imposes new round of sanctions

US Capitol Police watchdog to testify on Jan. 6 failures

House panel votes to advance bill on slavery reparations

Living Arts

From "Ayouni."
MOVIES

Doc Talk: bearing witness, creating Oz, watching whales
HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE

Baseball packages, New England rail travel, and a food lover’s road trip
ART

He was an MVP basketball player. Now his star is rising as an art quilter

education

Students with parents arrived at the Quincy Elementary School in Chinatown. Asian American parents are reluctant to send their children back to school full time.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Asian American families overwhelmingly reject full-time return to BPS classrooms this month

Globe education reporter earns top prize for coverage of inequity in Massachusetts schools

Poll gives Mass. schools a passing grade for pandemic performance

rhode island

Norah Aguirre, right, 17 of Wakefield, Rhode Island smiles after clinical nurse manager Marlene Reidl, left, delivered her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island on April 3, 2021. The FDA has recently authorized the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 16-years old and older.
CORONAVIRUS

How does the J&J COVID-19 vaccine pause affect Rhode Islanders?
Rhode Map

4 former Lieutenant Governors offer advice to Sabina Matos

Newport psychologist arrested on charges of sexually abusing children as a priest in California

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
A man leaps into the air to try and touch "20 Knots: Daffodils for Boston", an installation originally created to celebrate the Boston Marathon made of twenty 20-foot-tall flowers made to work in concert with the wind displayed in the Seaport in June 2020.
The marathon is canceled, but Boston’s yellow daffodils still stand tall
Thousands of flowers have been gifted to Boston area medical workers, plus there’s a towering Seaport art installation.

COMFORT ZONE
Editor James Crews, top center, wants to help readers love their lives as they are. Poets include Amanda Gorman, Ted Kooser, Ross Gay, and Joy Harjo.
‘The mission is joy’ for editor of new all-star poetry collection
Editor James Crews wants to help readers love their lives as they are.

COMFORT ZONE
For season three, Chelsea Ursin is handing the microphone to some of her peers from the indie music scene.
‘Dear Young Rocker’ invites guests to revisit their own adolescent angst
In the new season that just launched, Chelsea Ursin is working with fellow female rockers, as well as trans and nonbinary performers, to address their own younger selves.

WELLNESS
Open to anybody feeling overwhelmed, Chelvanaya Gabriel's Creative Dialogue Series focuses on recovery through nonverbal expression.
Artist creates a space for healing on Zoom: ‘You’re stepping into resilience just by showing up’
Open to anybody feeling overwhelmed, Chelvanaya Gabriel's Creative Dialogue Series focuses on recovery through nonverbal expression.

MUSIC
A Lexington 10th-grader named Phoebe, at right, wrote "We Are Proud to Be Asian" after the murders of six Asian women in Atlanta last month.
Lexington teen’s ‘We Are Proud to Be Asian’ song inspires weekend rally at Boston Common
An original music video will also be released at the event on Sunday.

Special Projects

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.
See the full project Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

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

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PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

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.

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A police officer from Prince George's County, Maryland, awaits a procession for Capitol Police Officer William Evans on April 13 in Washington, D.C. A ceremony honoring Evans was held in the rotunda of the US Capitol after he was killed in the line of duty when a car drove into security barriers on April 2.
Joan Vennochi

‘Your dad was a hero’ — the clashing views about American police

Boston Latin Academy.
EDITORIAL

Boston’s interim exam-school admission plan deserves a shot
Patrick Rose covers his face during his arraignment in August 2020.
EDITORIAL

Ending the code of silence for Boston police
Antiracism protesters chant at the Huntington Beach pier in opposition to a planned "White Lives Matter'" demonstration on April 11 in Huntington Beach, Calif. The march was organized by ultra-right groups that called for April 11 to be a national day of White Lives Matter.
JEFF JACOBY

Religion in America is fading, but true believers are everywhere
Central American migrants moving toward the United States are seen near the US-Mexico border fence in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, in 2018.
Ali Noorani and Kurt Ver Beek

How the Biden administration can address the situation at the border
The MBTA Commuter Line at the Upham's Corner station in May 2020.
IDEAS | Jarred Johnson and Luc Schuster

A key to a better Boston, hiding in plain sight

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
Drawing of a young girl with a net trying to capture butterflies or something.
School Vacation

15 last-minute ideas for things to do with kids during April school vacation

The Bunker Hill Community College food pantry.
College & COVID

How the pandemic worsened food insecurity among college students
Michael and Elizabeth on their Zoom blind date.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘Her March Madness bracket was busted like the rest of us’
The Little River flows through the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge in Wells, Maine.
Perspective

Terry Tempest Williams: We have to bridge our divides. My uncle reminded me how to begin

sports

COVID-19 cases have been rising across Japan, prompting officials to caution that cancellation could still happen.

Cancellation of Tokyo Olympics is still an option, officials say

White Sox’ Carlos Rodón throws no-hitter, but loses perfect game in ninth

King Philip girls’ volleyball ousts Canton in Hockomock Cup semifinal, next faces Franklin in final

metro

Members of the Rodman family, including Nathaniel ‘Nate the Great’ Rodman, mother Kristine Rodman, and father, Randolph Police officer Matthew Rodman, were escorted by several local police departments to Boston Children’s hospital yesterday prior to Nathaniel’s surgery.

Police departments escort Whitman toddler to Children’s Hospital for heart surgery

Maine man facing federal hate crime charges for repeated arson of Springfield church

‘Full honors befitting a hero’: Funeral for slain Capitol police officer William Evans held in Adams

Nation

People who are fully vaccinated can't go back to life exactly the way it used to be. Not yet, the CDC says.

We asked experts what they’re comfortable doing now they’ve been vaccinated. Here’s what they said.

In race against time, divers aim to reach capsized ship in search for survivors

Derek Chauvin invokes Fifth Amendment, will not testify at his murder trial

World

Britain's Prince William, right, and Prince Harry attend the Remembrance Sunday ceremony in 2015. Senior royals must wear civilian clothes to Prince Philip’s funeral, defusing potential tensions over who would be allowed to don military uniforms.

Princes William, Harry won’t walk side-by-side at funeral

Blinken in Afghanistan to sell Biden troop withdrawal

Months after hack, US poised to announce sanctions on Russia

politics

President Joe Biden spoke from the Treaty Room in the White House about the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan on Wednesday in Washington, DC.

‘Time to end America’s longest war’: Biden announces timetable for Afghanistan withdrawal

Watch live: Biden speaks on Afghanistan

No charges against officer who fatally shot woman during insurrection at US Capitol in January, prosecutors say

business

The exterior of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., in Waltham, Mass. Thermo Fisher is buying clinical research company PPD in a deal valued at $17.4 billion.

Thermo Fisher to buy PPD for $17.4 billion as health care deals soar during the pandemic

Federal panel recommends continued ‘pause’ on J&J vaccine. Doctors hope to reconvene in a week to 10 days

Constant Contact has a new CEO

lifestyle

Karida Collins, owner of Neighborhood Fiber Co. in Baltimore, holds Observatory Circle, the yarn color she created to honor the vice president.

Crocheters celebrate one of their own: Vice President Harris

Pottery stores turn to paint-your-own at home

Cicada Coffee Bar: a restaurant, a cafe, a community

marijuana

Jennifer Flanagan speaks during a meeting of the commission in Worcester in February 2020.

Cannabis Commissioner Jennifer Flanagan to resign from state marijuana board

Mass. cannabis commission launching online catalog of marijuana products

Marijuana store sues Haverhill, saying steep ‘impact’ fees are not justified

opinion

Miranda rights for police

The Future of Work

New clothes, new hours, and other expert advice

food & dining

Hotel Commonwealth.

Baseball packages, New England rail travel, and a food lover’s road trip

Cicada Coffee Bar: a restaurant, a cafe, a community

Recipe: Rosy blood orange juice stars in this olive oil loaf cake with pistachios

travel

Erin French in one of the dining cabins that will be used to host small groups at The Lost Kitchen.

All is not lost at The Lost Kitchen, as chef Erin French adjusts and reinvents, yet again

Chris Wallace on ear plugs, his Globe years, and that time he went to Russia right after a tough Putin interview

Eat, drink, read, swim, nap, repeat: Island camping at Lake George for 60 years

Books

Alfred Hitchcock at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972.

‘Twelve Lives,’ one master of suspense

Final thoughts from Rep. John Lewis to be published in July

‘The mission is joy’ for editor of new all-star poetry collection

Movies

From "Ayouni."

Doc Talk: bearing witness, creating Oz, watching whales

In Focus: Are you a ‘Squatcher’? That’s what believers in Bigfoot are called

‘Jakob’s Wife’: part vampire movie, part female empowerment

Television

Russell Wilson and his wife, Ciara, are hosts of the "Roll Up Your Sleeves" special.

Stars gather for a vaccination booster

‘The Bachelor’ star Colton Underwood comes out as gay

‘Shameless’ ending was more of the same

music

The violinist headlines the first of five video concerts recorded at Fraser Performance Studio.

Gil Shaham kicks off GBH concerts for German classical streaming service

The sound of our town in nine new singles

Nine albums by local artists that have gotten this year off to an exciting start

Theater/Dance

Kirsten Greenidge (top left), Mike Lew (top right), Lydia R. Diamond (bottom right), and Heidi Schreck (bottom left)

Huntington Theatre announces a full 2021-22 season of indoor productions

ART’s Diane Borger is stepping down

‘Hype Man’ returns, this time online, and it’s even more compelling

globe local

Boy Scouts cleared a walking trail in Medway on Sunday.

Boy Scouts clear walking trail in Medway

A 9/11 victim’s name to live on at Stonehill College where a seed of peace will blossom in his memory

It’s time to embrace your outdoor space

Obituaries

Bernie Madoff in 2009.

Bernie Madoff, who defrauded investors of billions, dies in prison

Ramsey Clark, former attorney general and rebel with a cause, dies at 93

Australian portrait photographer June Newton dies at 97