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FBI says it interviewed FedEx mass shooter last year

Last year, FBI agents interviewed the gunman who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, the bureau said Friday, as investigators searched the home of the 19-year-old former FedEx employee.
US has been wracked with several mass shootings in 2021

After blowback, White House says Biden will move to lift Trump-era refugee caps

The White House on Friday said President Biden plans to lift his predecessor’s historically low cap on refugees by next month, after initially moving only to expand the eligibility criteria for resettlements.

1,962 confirmed cases, 13 deaths, and 86,934 vaccinations: See today’s new COVID-19 data from Mass.

The total shots administered included 2,963,999 first shots and 1,756,466 second shots. Those who have gotten their second shot of the currently approved two-dose vaccines are considered fully vaccinated.
The latest COVID-19 numbers from Massachusetts
Cynthia Torres and other La Colaborativa staff members and volunteer doctors went door-knocking in Chelsea's hardest-hit neighborhoods to educate residents about the COVID-19 vaccines and help them address their many urgent needs.

Vaccination disparities across race and ethnicity persist in Mass. communities most affected by COVID-19

Japan’s leader urges strong alliance in White House visit

Former Hudson middle school teacher charged with raping student
Raul Castro in 2016.

Raul Castro confirms he’s resigning, ending family’s era of leadership in Cuba

His retirement means that for the first time in more than six decades Cubans won’t have a Castro formally guiding their affairs, and it comes at a difficult time, with many on the island anxious about what lies ahead.
Emily Rooney at the WGBH television studios in Boston, in 2009.

Emily Rooney apologizes after accusations of ‘demeaning and racist commentary’ on ‘Beat the Press’ segment

The segment focused on complaints by a group called Beyond Inclusion about PBS’s ties to Ken Burns and its effect on nonwhite filmmakers.
Actress Helen McCrory, who starred in the television show “Peaky Blinders” and the “Harry Potter” movies, has died. She was 52 and had been suffering from cancer.

‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Harry Potter’ actor Helen McCrory dies at 52

Her husband, fellow actor Damian Lewis, said McCrory died “peacefully at home” after a "heroic battle with cancer.”
School Vacation Week | April 19-23
Maddyn Wise from Needham searched for clown fish at one of the New England Aquarium's exhibits.

The kids are about to be home (again). Here’s how to fill the time
Drawing of a young girl with a net trying to capture butterflies or something.

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

Nikolay Silkina, 7, checked out "Where the Questions Live" at Peabody Essex Museum.

10 ways for youngsters to find a little bliss (finally)
Nibble Kitchen is part of Bow Market in Somerville.

10 kid-friendly patios for April vacation dining
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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Man who allegedly poured vodka on fire, causing it to accelerate and engulf acquaintance in Lowell, held without bail

Eugene Newton, 42, of Lowell, was arraigned Friday on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury after he accelerated a fire on Pevey Street Thursday afternoon, officials said.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
State Department watchdog says Pompeo, wife violated ethics rules
The State Department’s internal watchdog has concluded that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife violated federal ethics rules by asking staffers to run personal errands and perform non-official work such as making restaurant reservations, shopping, and caring for their dog.

The Bruins face the New York Islanders at TD Garden for the second straight night on Friday.
Bruins airing on both NESN, NESN Plus on Friday because of Red Sox postponement
The game at Fenway Park has been rescheduled as the latter half of a Sunday doubleheader, both games of which will air on NESN.

Jeffree Star hospitalized after Wyoming car crash

YouTube personality, businessman and musician Jeffree Star was hospitalized after a car crash in Wyoming.

LOVE LETTERS
Love Letters
How do we solve the intimacy problem?
Is the letter writer being used? Is this relationship transactional? Help.

Aiden Blanchard
Body of missing 12-year-old boy found in Connecticut River
Aiden Blanchard’s body was found at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday by the Chicopee Police Department Underwater Response Team as part of the department’s ongoing search and rescue effort for the boy, who disappeared on Feb. 5, according to a statement from Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni’s office.

Opinion

Tigrinyan refugee women prepared bread for their family in Umm Rakouba refugee camp in eastern Sudan in December 2020. President Biden is on track to admit fewer refugees than any president has since 1980.
EDITORIAL

Biden’s delay on refugees

The White House’s failure to lift the historically low refugee cap means thousands of lives hang in the balance.
Law enforcement officers cleared an area of demonstrators outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a protest on April 14 over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.
Dean A. Strang and Nancy Gertner

Supreme Court rulings on traffic stops reinforce structural racism in policing
Then-Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris in her Converse sneakers at a drive-in campaign event at the Infinite Energy Center on Nov. 1 in Duluth, Georgia.
Alex Beam

What’s afoot, politically?
Anne Bernays

Throw Shakespeare from the train
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

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Analysis
President Joe Biden.
Obama talked about a ‘pivot to Asia.’ Biden is actually doing it
Years after the Obama administration, the pivot to Asia is finally happening. But the person doing it is Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden.

Cheating allegations engulf Dartmouth medical school

More than a dozen students are accused of accessing online course materials while taking a test on a different software platform. At least nine of the accused say that they are innocent, and that Dartmouth doesn’t understand how its own software platforms work.

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.
Billy Baker

How a lockdown game became a monthly treasure hunt with a cult following

Ryan Collins created “Happy Hunting” to distract himself and his friends. Now, his intricate puzzles have a growing fan base of devotees who race around the state each month looking for his hidden treasures.

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

Leaders of civil rights, community, and education advocacy organizations and attorneys who intervened in the recent lawsuit challenging Boston Public Schools’ updated admissions process held a press conference Friday morning.

Plaintiffs seek emergency injunction to halt Boston exam school admission decisions, as they seek appeal

A federal court decision on temporary changes to the admission of students to Boston exam schools is being called historic by civil rights leaders who also say it could lead to a permanent revision of the admission policy.

‘Peaky Blinders’ actor Helen McCrory dies of cancer at 52

To cut paper waste, Belmont entrepreneurs sell reusable cloth gift wrap

Sports

Stanford freshman Caroline Guden, a Milton Academy alumna from Waltham, has entered the transfer portal to keep her options open.

Stanford’s puzzling cut of field hockey leaves a Waltham athlete with a murky future in the sport

The university has a $28.9 billion endowment, and a successful team, but Caroline Guden is facing an abrupt ending there.
MLB NOTEBOOK

AP: Median MLB salary down more than 6 percent since 2017

Browns release veteran DT Sheldon Richardson, a head-scratching salary-cap move

business

A rendering of the proposed Mildred Hailey development bound by Centre Street to the south, Bickford Street to the west, Heath Street to the north, and the Southwest Corridor Park to the east in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.

BPDA OKs re-do of Jamaica Plain’s Mildred Hailey complex

Harvard Club, developer plan 11-story building along Mass. Pike

Amazon plans furniture assembly service to catch Wayfair

politics

President Biden.

After blowback, White House says Biden will move to lift Trump-era refugee caps

State Department watchdog says Pompeo, wife violated ethics rules

Japan’s leader urges strong alliance in White House visit

Living Arts

Love Letters

How do we solve the intimacy problem?

Boston Children’s Museum brings back play with reopening in May

Emily Rooney apologizes after accusations of ‘demeaning and racist commentary’ on ‘Beat the Press’ segment

education

Leaders of civil rights, community, and education advocacy organizations and attorneys who intervened in the recent lawsuit challenging Boston Public Schools’ updated admissions process held a press conference Friday morning.

Plaintiffs seek emergency injunction to halt Boston exam school admission decisions, as they seek appeal

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

Federal judge upholds Boston exam school admissions policy

rhode island

Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston, R.I, on Feb. 21, 2021.
RI HEALTH

McKee administration puts hold on plans for major changes at Eleanor Slater Hospital

AROUND RI

Welcoming spring at Bristol’s Audubon Nature Center and Aquarium
RHODE MAP

A secret donor has been paying for major Providence projects. Here’s who it is

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

Families can immediately purchase timed tickets for Saturdays and Sundays next month, with extended hours arriving in June.
Boston Children’s Museum brings back play with reopening in May
Families can immediately purchase timed tickets for Saturdays and Sundays next month, with extended hours arriving in June.

This "Postcards from Allston" image features a man walking by an Allston construction site.
‘Postcards from Allston’ photographer captures a changing neighborhood and its residents
Edward Boches set out to document "one of the most authentic communities in Boston.”

Actors perform scripts created from Revolutionary-era depositions and interviews, including testimonials from white women.
With a gallery revamp, Concord Museum summons forgotten voices of 1775
The Battle of Lexington and Concord is reframed to include the contributions of white women and people of color.

NAMES
Beane performs on stage as "American Idol" gets closer to crowning a winner.
Two performers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ Top 12
Watch and vote Sunday night on ABC.

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.

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

Reverend Erika Wilson, from the Awakening Spiritual Community of San Antonio, speaks at the Whole Women's Health clinic in 2019.
Mary Ann Sorrentino

The chipping away of a woman’s right to choose
A Ukrainian serviceman walks along a trench on the front line with Russia-backed separatists near Gorlivka, Donetsk region, on April 15.
EDITORIAL

Biden’s mission: Stand up for Ukraine
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.
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 on school vacation
MassArt student Bobbi Colburn wearing a face mask she created.
College & COVID

‘There’s so much beautiful work that’s come out of this’: College art students in the COVID era
MISS CONDUCT

Advice: How do you handle shower invitations for pandemic-style weddings?
Authors Live in Your Living Room features Adrian Miller, author of "Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue," on April 15.
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do, April 12-25

sports

The Bruins face the New York Islanders at TD Garden for the second straight night on Friday.

Bruins airing on both NESN, NESN Plus on Friday because of Red Sox postponement

Revolution look to change their fortunes in season openers Saturday

Friday’s Red Sox-White Sox game postponed because of inclement weather

metro

Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston, R.I, on Feb. 21, 2021.

McKee administration puts hold on plans for major changes at Eleanor Slater Hospital

‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Harry Potter’ actor Helen McCrory dies at 52

Body of missing 12-year-old boy found in Connecticut River

Nation

President Biden.

After blowback, White House says Biden will move to lift Trump-era refugee caps

State Department watchdog says Pompeo, wife violated ethics rules

The latest COVID-19 numbers from Massachusetts

World

Raul Castro in 2016.

Raul Castro confirms he’s resigning, ending family’s era of leadership in Cuba

Hong Kong court sentences Jimmy Lai and other pro-democracy leaders to Prison

Iran starts enriching uranium to 60 percent, its highest level ever

politics

President Joe Biden.

Watch live: Biden holds joint press conference with Japanese prime minister

AG Garland rescinds Trump-era curtailing of consent decrees used in investigations of police departments

Obama talked about a ‘pivot to Asia.’ Biden is actually doing it

business

Bill Gates-backed Vicarious Surgical to go public in $1.1 billion SPAC deal

The Massachusetts jobs recovery remains frustratingly slow

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

lifestyle

People wait in line at National rental agency in the Miami International Airport Car Rental Center on April 12, in Miami. Customers are finding that car rental agencies have limited or no supply of vehicles as people begin traveling again after being locked down during the pandemic.

Why your next rental car might cost more than a plane ticket

Everything you want to know about COVID-19 and kids (but were afraid to ask)

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

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

Law enforcement officers cleared an area of demonstrators outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a protest on April 14 over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.

Supreme Court rulings on traffic stops reinforce structural racism in policing

Biden’s delay on refugees

The chipping away of a woman’s right to choose

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

People wait in line at National rental agency in the Miami International Airport Car Rental Center on April 12, in Miami. Customers are finding that car rental agencies have limited or no supply of vehicles as people begin traveling again after being locked down during the pandemic.

Why your next rental car might cost more than a plane ticket

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

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

When the Oscars broadcast begins April 25 on ABC, there won’t be an audience. For the producers, the challenges of COVID are an opportunity to, finally, rethink the Oscars.

The pandemic has upended the Oscars. Good, producers say

When Orson Welles doesn’t make the cut

Doc Talk: bearing witness, creating Oz, watching whales

Television

Camille Cottin plays Andrea, the character on whom the "Call My Agent" film spinoff will focus.

‘Call My Agent’ gets a fifth season — and more

Snow? What a perfect excuse to spend the day watching TV

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

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

Cindy Estes (left) and Monica O'Neil are the founders of Belmont-based Rapt.

To cut paper waste, Belmont entrepreneurs sell reusable cloth gift wrap

Lexington confronts history of slavery in liberty’s birthplace

Should Massachusetts decriminalize psychedelic plants?

Obituaries

Actress Helen McCrory arrived at the British Academy Television Awards in London on May 8, 2016.

‘Peaky Blinders’ actor Helen McCrory dies of cancer at 52

‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Harry Potter’ actor Helen McCrory dies at 52

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