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Federal judge upholds Boston exam school admissions policy

In a letter to families Thursday night announcing the ruling, school officials said they hoped to notify students about admission decisions by the end of the month.

This image from Chicago Police Department body cam video shows the moment before Chicago Police officer Eric Stillman fatally shot Adam Toledo, 13, on March 29, 2021, in Chicago.
Video shows Chicago 13-year-old boy wasn’t holding gun when shot by cop
On Thursday, Chicago’s police review board released body camera video of a police officer’s fatal shooting of a teen boy late last month.

‘You’re ranting again’: Dr. Fauci and Representative Jordan spar over COVID-19 measures

During a hearing on the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ohio Republican repeatedly pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci on what metric COVID-19 infections in the United States would have to reach before Americans can stop wearing masks and social distancing.

These 59 Massachusetts communities are at high risk for COVID-19
This week’s total of 59 high-risk communities marks the first time in a month that the number of high-risk communities has dropped.

See how Massachusetts’ COVID-19 risk map has evolved week-by-week Weekly coronavirus cases among public schools students hits record high

Celtics 121, Lakers 113
Jaylen Brown, shooting over Lakers' Alex Caruso, was on the mark in the first half.
Celtics pass ball beautifully in rout of Lakers, and other observations
Jaylen Brown exploded for 40 points as the Celtics went 3-0 on their road trip.

bruins 4, islanders 1

Taylor Hall scores first goal as a Bruin to boost victory over Islanders

Brad Marchand scored twice, including his 21st of the season.
Watch: Taylor Hall gets his first goal
Adam Foss spoke on stage at Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards in 2016.

Former Suffolk assistant district attorney violated expectations but didn’t break law, probe finds

Adam Foss, who worked in the Suffolk DA’s office from 2008 to 2016, was accused by several women last November of “behavior that ranged from inappropriate and an abuse of his authority, to unethical and criminal,” according to a statement from the office of Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins, who brought in the law firm of Goodwin Procter to investigate the allegations.
Robinhood has disputed state regulators' characterization of how it conducts business.

Regulators seek to revoke Robinhood’s Massachusetts license

Robinhood “has continued a pattern of aggressively inducing and enticing trading among its customers — including Massachusetts customers with little or no investment experience,” state regulators say.
Officials subpoena former MassMutual supervisors of Keith Gill, local investor known as ‘Roaring Kitty’
Flags, wreaths, and words of remembrance and love on the grounds of the Holyoke Soldiers' Home.

Mass. COVID-19 death toll in nursing homes drops by 1,200 as the state adopts a new way to report long-term-care deaths

State officials say the COVID-19 death toll in nursing homes was not quite as high as previously reported.
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Peter Abraham I On baseball
Red Sox manager Alex Cora was ejected by plate umpire Jordan Baker in the eighth inning.
A lot of strange things happened on the way to the Red Sox’ winning streak ending
Among other things, there was a four-minute pause because of a citywide test of the tornado warning system.

Alex Speier: Red Sox acknowledge uncomfortable reality on Jackie Robinson Day

In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and defendant, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin address Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill.
Defense rests without Derek Chauvin’s testimony 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.

Protesters demand reopening of cases of police-involved deaths

Holbrook man charged after allegedly trying to run over Black children

Shane Belleville, 36, was released after he paid $750 bail following his arraignment on hate crime charges Thursday in Quincy District Court, Holbrook police said.

Katie Wright and Aubrey Wright, Daunte Wright's parents, at a press conference at New Salem Missionary Church in Minneapolis on Thursday.
Wright’s family wants stiffer charge for Minnesota ex-officer
Daunte Wright’s family members joined with community leaders Thursday in calling for more serious charges against the white former police officer who fatally shot him.

Ex-Minnesota police officer faces first hearing in shooting of Daunte Wright

Milton officer Patricia Lio entered Dedham District Court Tuesday to testify before a clerk magistrate, who ruled Thursday to charge Lio in an off-duty incident during which she allegedly directed a racist rant at a teen and assaulted her husband.
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.

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

IDEAS | JEFF HOWE

Telecommuting will make Boston share the wealth

Old ways of working and living will give way to a ‘polycentric’ region.
In this image made from a Windsor Police video, a police officer uses a spray agent on US Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario on Dec. 20, 2020, in Windsor, Va. Nazario is suing two Virginia police officers over a traffic stop during which he says the officers drew their guns and pointed them at him while he was dressed in uniform.
SCOT LEHIGH

Police must be guardians, not warriors
Worcester Red Sox players held a scrimmage at their new Polar Park stadium on April 8.
Mike Stanton

Rhode Islanders, don’t go to Polar Park
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

Tito Jackson and Rachel E. Twymon embraced in her kitchen in New Bedford after reliving the struggle they had to find each other.
Tito Jackson found his birth mother. Their family’s journey is a tale of Boston history
After yearning for decades, Jackson and his biological mother Rachel Twymon finally reunited, and are ready to share their story — one that is intertwined with Boston history.

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.

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.

‘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.

Lowell is an immigrant city on the precipice of change

The old guard is begrudgingly making room for more diverse leadership, and community activists are demanding that city leaders recognize racism as an urgent problem.

metro

In October, protesters at Boston Latin School called for keeping the admission exam in place.

Federal judge upholds Boston exam school admissions policy

In a letter to families Thursday night announcing the ruling, school officials said they hoped to notify students about admission decisions by the end of the month.

Protesters demand reopening of cases of police-involved deaths
Forecast | Dave Epstein

Nor’easter starts slogging, soaking journey through New England

Sports

Jaylen Brown, shooting over Lakers' Alex Caruso, was on the mark in the first half.
Celtics 121, Lakers 113

Celtics pass ball beautifully in rout of Lakers, and other observations

Jaylen Brown exploded for 40 points as the Celtics went 3-0 on their road trip.
nhl

NHL delays Canucks’ return to play after COVID-19 outbreak

As Jayson Tatum rises, so do Celtics

business

The State House is looking to soften the impact of a hike in unemployment fees businesses pay.

Businesses get a one-month reprieve from huge increase in unemployment fees

Regulators seek to revoke Robinhood’s Massachusetts license

Officials subpoena former MassMutual supervisors of Keith Gill, local investor known as ‘Roaring Kitty’

politics

Vice President Mike Pence.

Former VP Pence undergoes surgery to implant pacemaker

Watch live: Janey marks anniversary of Boston Marathon bombing

Senator Markey, House Democrats propose bill to expand number of Supreme Court justices to 13

Living Arts

"Poires dans une assiette blanche (Pears on a White Plate)" is part of "Cézanne: Influence" at the Museum of Fine Arts through Oct. 17.

What’s happening in the arts world
TELEVISION

In HBO’s ‘Mare of Easttown,’ Kate Winslet is investigating a murder — and maybe her own life

BOOK REVIEW

Brave women fighting Nazis in ‘The Light of Days’

education

In October, protesters at Boston Latin School called for keeping the admission exam in place.

Federal judge upholds Boston exam school admissions policy

Cheating allegations chill students at Dartmouth medical school

Weekly coronavirus cases among public school students hit record high, surpassing 1,000 for first time

rhode island

Dr. Jack A. Elias announced last week that he would be transitioning from his post as dean of Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School to a position where he will be solely focused on the merger between Lifespan Corporation and Care New England.
RI BUSINESS

Dr. Jack Elias on how the Lifespan-CNE merger will change the health care and business landscapes in R.I.
RI HEALTH

R.I. to offer free transportation to vaccine appointments starting Monday
RI POLITICS

R.I. attorney general calls for pause in review of medical waste-to-energy proposal

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

More

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

Worcester Red Sox players held a scrimmage at their new Polar Park stadium on April 8.
Mike Stanton

Rhode Islanders, don’t go to Polar Park
Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn.
Leonard L. Glass, Edwin B. Fisher, and Lance Dodes

Why did Yale dismiss Bandy X. Lee?
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?

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

ideas

The Future of Work

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

Duxbury fans, who numbered 80 strong, came out to cheer on the Dragons in a 20-13 victory over host Scituate on Thursday.

This was anything but a typical night under the lights for Duxbury football

Taylor Hall scores first goal as a Bruin to boost victory over Islanders

Duxbury football closes out turbulent season with satisfying win at Scituate

metro

In addition to his work as a teacher and composer, Mr. Boykan was the pianist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the mid-1960s.

Martin Boykan, a composer and Brandeis professor who was ‘a great sage,’ dies at 89

Dr. Jack Elias on how the Lifespan-CNE merger will change the health care and business landscapes in R.I.

Former Suffolk assistant district attorney violated expectations but didn’t break law, probe finds

Nation

Katie Wright and Aubrey Wright, Daunte Wright's parents, at a press conference at New Salem Missionary Church in Minneapolis on Thursday.

Wright’s family wants stiffer charge for Minnesota ex-officer

Video shows Chicago teen wasn’t holding gun when shot by cop

Video shows Chicago 13-year-old boy wasn’t holding gun when shot by cop

World

A Pale-headed snake photographed in a bag of lettuce in Sydney.

Sydney man finds snake in lettuce bought at supermarket

US and allies plan fight from afar against Al Qaeda once troops exit Afghanistan

US imposes stiff sanctions on Russia, blaming it for major hacking operation

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

business

Instagram was urged to scrap plans for a platform just for children.

Zuckerberg urged to scrap plans for an Instagram for children

Union workers and community supporters step up efforts to spur GE to invest more in Lynn

Quickbase moving headquarters to Boston

lifestyle

Love Letters

He can’t leave his girlfriend

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

Crocheters celebrate one of their own: Vice President Harris

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

In this image made from a Windsor Police video, a police officer uses a spray agent on US Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario on Dec. 20, 2020, in Windsor, Va. Nazario is suing two Virginia police officers over a traffic stop during which he says the officers drew their guns and pointed them at him while he was dressed in uniform.

Police must be guardians, not warriors

Rhode Islanders, don’t go to Polar Park

Miranda rights for police

food & dining

A beer from Night Shift Brewing.

Crave comes to Allston, breweries launch beer gardens, and the South End welcomes a brasserie

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

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

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

Brave women fighting Nazis in ‘The Light of Days’

For Ruth Ware, it was the year reading ‘got squeezed into odd corners’

This thing called life in Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Souvenir Museum’

Movies

Janet Leigh in "Touch of Evil."

When Orson Welles doesn’t make the cut

Doc Talk: bearing witness, creating Oz, watching whales

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

Television

Kate Winslet in the HBO series Mare of Easttown.

In HBO’s ‘Mare of Easttown,’ Kate Winslet is investigating a murder — and maybe her own life

At last, 9 returning TV shows to look forward to this spring and summer

As his career soars, Rob Delaney joins ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’

music

Mark Sandman (left) with bandmates Mike Rivard and Tom Halter (partially shown) at a Hypnosonics show at the Middle East in 1987 or 1988.

On two new releases, fans can hear Mark Sandman’s ‘secret band’ in full

Amplifying the Black composers who brought spirituals to classical music

Gil Shaham kicks off GBH concerts for German classical streaming service

Theater/Dance

Screen shot of Seth Rudetsky in "The Seth Concert Series."

Theater without theater

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

ART’s Diane Borger is stepping down

globe local

Mobile Burrell, 31, of Roxbury, held an umbrella with the names of victims during a State House protest Thursday.

Protesters demand reopening of cases of police-involved deaths

Compassionate release revoked for two convicted killers who survived COVID-19

Boy Scouts clear walking trail in Medway

Obituaries

In addition to his work as a teacher and composer, Mr. Boykan was the pianist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the mid-1960s.

Martin Boykan, a composer and Brandeis professor who was ‘a great sage,’ dies at 89

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

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