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As Poland takes center stage in crisis, an awkward alliance warms up

As Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine grinds into its second month, the two presidents who are in many ways ideological opposites now need each other more than ever.

Shelled city in north Ukraine fears becoming ‘next Mariupol’

RUSSIA-UKRAINE: THE LATEST

Biden reassures Poland during visit to important NATO ally

12:07 p.m.
Biden says the U.S. will take 100,000 Ukrainians. But how many will go?
11:22 a.m.
Russia’s failures in Ukraine imbue Pentagon with newfound confidence
8:33 a.m.
Refugees arriving in Poland from Ukraine plead for more help to end war

Ted Cruz criticized Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Antiracist Baby.’ He may have just propelled the book to the top of the bestseller list.
Questioning by Ted Cruz at the Supreme Court hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson may have had the opposite effect of what he intended.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

With free school lunches slated to phase out after June, advocates push state to continue funding
Efforts to pass state legislation covering the cost of universal school food access date back to January 2021, but gained new urgency this month after Congress let the free lunch expansion expire.

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died
Taylor Hawkins, the longtime drummer for the rock band Foo Fighters, has died. He was 50.

Pedestrians walks past Modern Pastry on a sidewalk along outdoor dining areas in the North End, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, when patios were set up around the neighborhood.

North End restaurants, Wu trade shots over outdoor dining fee

Hours after a group of restaurant owners threatened to sue, the mayor signaled she could cancel outdoor dining in the North End entirely.

Christopher L. Gasper

Going around the horn to clean out spring thoughts on the local pro teams
Our teams are relevant, interesting, competitive, and playoff participants.

Despite being one of the elite players in the game, Trevor Story spent the first six years of his career in relative obscurity before signing with the Red Sox.

How Red Sox free agent acquisition Trevor Story went from the shadows of the Rocky Mountains to the spotlight of Boston

Trevor Story is one of four players since 2016 — along with Mookie Betts, Trea Turner, and José Ramírez — with at least 100 home runs and 100 stolen bases.

Russell Wilson makes the Broncos instant contenders.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Examining the NFL teams that made a decision at quarterback this offseason

Eighteen of the 32 teams made a decision on their starting quarterback, or have a big decision still to make.

NAACP says Danvers officials go easy on police sergeant in high school hockey case
Natalie Bowers, president of the NAACP’s North Shore branch, said at a news conference that Danvers Town Manager Steve Bartha and Police Chief James Lovell told her they would “let Baldassare decide what he wants to do” despite wide community opposition to his role in the schools.

Read the original story: Danvers fights efforts to expose high school hockey team’s alleged misconduct

Cassidy Murray, 13, was killed in a boating accident Wednesday while vacationing with her parents in Aruba.

Milton girl, 13, killed in boating accident in Aruba, is remembered as ‘an angel’ with ‘an ear-to-ear smile’

Cassidy Murray, a seventh-grader at Buckingham Browne & Nichols, was fatally injured in a boating accident Wednesday evening, her grieving family said Friday.

Former president Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden.

Biden said he would be ‘very fortunate’ if there was a Trump rematch. Here are three reasons that’s wishful thinking.

Presidential elections these days are very close and a rematch is hardly an easy win.

A team led by The HYM Investment Group is proposing several life science and housing buildings on "Parcel 3" along Tremont Street in Roxbury.

Will big money finally bet on Roxbury?

The 8-acre plot of land in Roxbury known as Parcel 3 has alternately tantalized and frustrated developers for decades.

Opinion

The Massachusetts House of Representatives has not had an Equal Employment Officer for 15 months.

Beacon Hill lags on sexual harassment

Post #Metoo reckoning in the Massachusetts House has given way to the era of . . . whatever.

Shan Soe-Lin and Robert Hecht

The science says we need to remain vigilant about COVID

IDEAS | GREGG MITMAN

An empire of rubber and dashed dreams of Black prosperity in Liberia

MARCELA GARCÍA

Social media platforms must address Russia’s Spanish-language misinformation

An ugly incident raises this question: How do you respond to sudden bigotry?

The Globe turns 150

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150 YEARS OF THE BOSTON GLOBE

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe. We revisit some of the most impactful stories Globe journalists have covered, look back at 150 significant front pages, reflect on how the newsroom and Boston have changed, and much, much more.

Explore the full feature ⟶

Takeout from Shanti. This is Chicken Biryani.

Project Takeout

With patio season upon us, Project Takeout is a wrap. But first, our final batch of Globe staff recommendations.

Here are three local, independent restaurants we supported this week.

See more from Project Takeout

More recent stories

Man fatally shot by officer in Pittsfield
An investigation is underway after a 22-year-old man was fatally shot by an officer in Pittsfield late Friday night, according to a press release from the police department.

ON BROADWAY

When Broadway hitches its wagon to a star, the ride can get bumpy sometimes
“The Music Man,” “Company,” “MJ,” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” illustrate the obvious upside, the less obvious downside, and the general complications of several different brands of stardom.

The world of big-time development in Boston is overwhelmingly white. There’s a growing push to change that.
A new iteration of what has become known as the “Massport Model” was submitted last month to the Boston Planning & Development Agency that would make diversity and inclusion a factor in all large-project approvals.

Carlisle police continue search for 15-year-old girl missing one week

Eloa de Oliveira was last seen on March 18 around 12:15 p.m. leaving Concord-Carlisle High School on foot, and it appears that she got into a dark sedan parked off-campus, police said.

Biden administration plans to offer second booster shots to those 50 and older

The Biden administration is planning to give Americans age 50 or older the option of a second booster of the Pfizer or Moderna coronavirus vaccine without recommending outright that they get one, according to several people familiar with the plan.

COVID cases soar at Wellesley Middle School after student performance of ‘Frozen’

As of Friday, 44 new cases had been reported among Wellesley Middle School students and staff since March 19, including 28 members of the “Frozen Jr.” cast and crew.

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Attleboro-03/08/22 Derrick Silva, a college student is an apprentice falconer. He recently captured his first hawk that he named Chance. Chance takes off from Silva’s outstretched gloved arm in search of food. Chance is a male juvenile red-tailed hawk that he keeps in a converted backyard shed called a mews. The mews has a large perch with a tray of water and open ventilation. Silva takes the hawk hunting for small animals like rodents, rabbits and snakes in the woods behind his home. Chance was trained by Silva to fly back to his gloved hand. If Chance sees an animal for food, it will fly down and capture it and eat it on the spot. Silva expects to keep Chance until he feels comfortable to release him back into the wild which he says could be in two or three more years. Juvenile hawks do not have a good survival rate in the wild. There are about 60 permitted falconers in Massachusetts and master falconers can own up to five birds of prey. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff (metro)

Are you a good candidate to own a killer bird?

Falconry, an ancient form of hunting using birds of prey to pursue small game, is today practiced by a small number of devoted falconers with understanding spouses, probably.

A running list of the Boston area’s best patios
Many open by April 1, and some are ready now.

A ‘demographic perfect storm’: Suffolk County had one of the steepest population declines in the US, census data show
Suffolk County lost 3.3 percent of its population in just 15 months after tens of thousands of people moved out of Boston and its surrounding communities.

Larry Edelman

There was something about Ned
Ned Johnson, the former Fidelity Investments chief who died on Wednesday, played the long game with more smarts and attention to detail than perhaps any of his competitors.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Oscar statuettes appeared backstage at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles in 2016.

Everything you need to know about the 2022 Oscars

Karoline Boehm Goodnick's recipe for soy-caramel wings.

The Oscars are a great excuse to snack in style. Here’s what to make.

Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in the Broadway revival of "The Music Man."

When Broadway hitches its wagon to a star, the ride can get bumpy sometimes

Jane Campion accepts the award for best director for "The Power of the Dog" at the 27th annual Critics Choice Awards this month. The prevalence of other awards shows on TV might be one of the reasons the Oscars broadcast has lost its hold on viewers.

Matthew Gilbert

Seven reasons why TV audiences are bored with the Oscars

Special Projects

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Into the Red: How the Globe will cover climate change

To report on the most pressing issue of our time, the Globe’s climate team is expanding and rethinking its coverage.

Under the wheel

This is the story of Anthony Pledger and his mother, of Anthony’s lives and deaths, of Anthony and me.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Prices displayed on a sign at a gas station in Milwaukee on Monday, March 14, with a billboard for medical services in the background. Congress needs to enhance the regulatory powers of the FTC in order to protect consumers from price gouging.

Price gouging is rare. But about that $70 COVID test...

The Parker under construction in July 2021 on Lagrange Street, will feature condos.

Jason S. Weissman

Transfer fees aren’t the solution to Boston’s housing crisis

The demolition of Overlook Terrace at Orient Heights gets underway in January. The Boston Housing Authority-owned apartments will be replaced and modernized.

Dan O’Connell and Megan Sandel

One tool to help create affordable housing — real estate transfer fees

A guard in a protective suit watched over a barricaded community locked down in Beijing on Monday.

IDEAS | CHARLES DUNST

COVID reveals the weakness of China’s authoritarianism

The 1,000-year old Caves Monastery, one of the world's holiest sites for Eastern Orthodox Christianity, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

IDEAS | JULIE ZIGORIS

This ancient monastery in Kyiv is at the heart of Putin’s spurious rationale for the war in Ukraine

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during questioning by Senator Ted Cruz on Wednesday.

As Republicans flailed, Ketanji Brown Jackson never flinched

Metro

What is a receivership? And why is concern growing over a potential state takeover of Boston Public Schools?

As the state prepares to conduct a review Boston Public Schools next week, concerns are rising that it will place the district in a receivership.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

With free school lunches slated to phase out after June, advocates push state to continue funding

Efforts to pass state legislation covering the cost of universal school food access date back to January 2021, but gained new urgency this month after Congress let the free lunch expansion expire.

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died

Taylor Hawkins, the longtime drummer for the rock band Foo Fighters, has died. He was 50.

RHODE MAP AT MARCH MADNESS

🏀 Providence’s season ends in a heartbreaking loss to Kansas

The Friars launched an impression comeback in the second half, but the top-seeded Jayhawks overpowered them down the stretch to advance to Elite Eight, 66-61.

Sports

Despite being one of the elite players in the game, Trevor Story spent the first six years of his career in relative obscurity before signing with the Red Sox.

How Red Sox free agent acquisition Trevor Story went from the shadows of the Rocky Mountains to the spotlight of Boston

Trevor Story is one of four players since 2016 — along with Mookie Betts, Trea Turner, and José Ramírez — with at least 100 home runs and 100 stolen bases.

The Bruins should do whatever it takes to let Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand lift the Stanley Cup again.

Christopher L. Gasper

Going around the horn to clean out spring thoughts on the local pro teams

Our teams are relevant, interesting, competitive, and playoff participants.

Dennis Eckersley, who has been with NESN since 2003, remains as sharp and entertaining as any color analyst in baseball.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

Here are NESN’s travel plans for its Red Sox broadcasters

This season, NESN plans to call a majority of road games in person, starting with the season-opening series against the Yankees in New York.

Kevin Paul Dupont | Sunday hockey notes

Bruins GM Don Sweeney may have won the trade deadline, but those big deals rarely lead to the Stanley Cup

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Evaluating baseball’s winners and losers since the end of the lockout

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Kyrie Irving can now play in home games, but will that be enough for the Nets?

Business

North End restaurants, Wu trade shots over outdoor dining fee

Hours after a group of restaurant owners threatened to sue, the mayor signaled she could cancel outdoor dining in the North End entirely.

Kaspersky named first Russian company on security risk list

The US placed Internet-security provider AO Kaspersky Lab on a list of companies deemed a threat to national security, for the first time adding a Russian entity to a list dominated by Chinese telecoms.

Mass. plans bond sale of $2 billion to $3 billion to bolster unemployment trust fund

Utah bans transgender athletes in girls sports despite GOP governor’s veto

magazine

Chunky knit valances, a rug with a Greek key design based on a Miles Davis album cover, and pillows made from upholstery salvaged from the couple’s old sofas enhance the living room ensemble.

They went looking for underused space in a renovation, and found 1,550 square feet

John Revelstoke Rathom was among the most famous journalists in the United States before he was blackmailed by the government in 1918.

We can’t choose our free-speech heroes. But we need all of them.

The writer’s mother dressed up to watch the Oscars at home in Florida. She’s holding her grandchild, the writer’s daughter.

Why I owe it to my late mother to watch the Oscars all the way through to Best Picture

Roasted Eye of Round With Miso, Orange, and Five-Spice

Recipes: Four boldly seasoned roasts using less expensive eye of round

metro

Providence coach Ed Cooley consoled leading scorer Al Durham after the loss to Kansas.

Providence run comes to an end in Sweet 16 loss to Kansas in men’s NCAA Tournament

NAACP says Danvers officials go easy on police sergeant in high school hockey case

Carlisle police continue search for 15-year-old girl missing one week

sports

Russell Wilson makes the Broncos instant contenders.

Examining the NFL teams that made a decision at quarterback this offseason

Miami beats Iowa State to advance to Elite Eight for first time in men’s NCAA Tournament

Caleb Love’s big shots lift North Carolina past UCLA and into Elite Eight in men’s NCAA Tournament

business

Intending to finance initiatives affordable housing advocates have been protesting for, multiple states vied to access the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to start their own programs to increase the amount of housing and decrease homelessness rates.

Affordable housing, long overlooked, getting federal boost

Biden strikes gas deal to reduce Europe’s reliance on Russia

Germany says it is moving quickly to cut the cord on Russian energy

politics

President Biden met with Ukrainian refugees and humanitarian aid workers in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday.

‘Your freedom is ours,’ Biden says in Poland as he seeks to reassure important NATO ally

Ted Cruz criticized Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Antiracist Baby.’ He may have just propelled the book to the top of the bestseller list.

Justice Thomas ruled on election cases. Should his wife’s texts have stopped him?

Nation

President Biden met with Ukrainian refugees and humanitarian aid workers in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday.

‘Your freedom is ours,’ Biden says in Poland as he seeks to reassure important NATO ally

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died

Ted Cruz criticized Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Antiracist Baby.’ He may have just propelled the book to the top of the bestseller list.

World

A man rode a bicycle as black smoke rose from a fuel storage of the Ukrainian army following a Russian attack, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 25, 2022.

Biden reassures Poland during visit to important NATO ally

NATO deputy: Putin can’t win his ‘unprovoked, illogical’ war

Shelled city in north Ukraine fears becoming ‘next Mariupol’

opinion

A man wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus views the seasonal cherry blossoms at Ueno Park on March 24 in Tokyo.

Too soon to relax our defenses against COVID

Urgent need to teach kids media literacy

An ugly incident raises this question: How do you respond to sudden bigotry?

lifestyle

Love Letters

We married other people, but I still love him

A running list of the Boston area’s best patios

The Oscars are a great excuse to snack in style. Here’s what to make.

food & dining

The patio at Grand Tour on Newbury Street.

A running list of the Boston area’s best patios

The Oscars are a great excuse to snack in style. Here’s what to make.

The Burlington Mall gets a saucy addition with Manhattan’s Parm

travel

Carrabassett Valley has miles and miles of hiking trails, including parts of the Appalachian Trail. Pictured here is Bigelow Mountain.

Carrabassett Valley for all seasons

Dinosaurs at Faneuil Hall, yurts in Nova Scotia, and Boston-London flights on United

‘The reality is no longer enough’: Immersive experiences are filling travel itineraries

Arts

"Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen," Joseph Mallord William Turner, about 1805–06.

At the MFA, the stormy seas of change in ‘Turner’s Modern World’

Welcome to the woodshop: Alison Croney Moses is expanding access to the craft she loves

‘Beyond King Tut’ immersive experience coming to Boston

Books

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas held Ibram X. Kendi’s "Antiracist Baby" while he spoke during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Ted Cruz criticized Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Antiracist Baby.’ He may have just propelled the book to the top of the bestseller list.

Our tangled family trees in Maud Newton’s ‘Ancestor Trouble’

Rebecca Mead on books to learn about London and New York

Movies

The writer’s mother dressed up to watch the Oscars at home in Florida. She’s holding her grandchild, the writer’s daughter.

Why I owe it to my late mother to watch the Oscars all the way through to Best Picture

Seven reasons why TV audiences are bored with the Oscars

A band apart; a Band coming apart; a place apart

Television

Shortly after Bob Saget (pictured in LA in December) died in January, many of his friends and colleagues held a tribute to him at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood.

Comedy Store’s Bob Saget tribute coming to Netflix in June

Mastering the art of portraying Julia Child

Seven reasons why TV audiences are bored with the Oscars

music

Dan Reynolds and Wayne Sermon of Imagine Dragons perform at UBS Arena on Feb. 14, 2022 in Elmont, New York.

Imagine Dragons announces Fenway Park show in August

Good Taste Records gears up for North End opening as surge in vinyl sales continue

At 23, Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram is making sure the future of the blues is in good hands

Theater/Dance

Donnla Hughes plays Darja, and Rodney Witherspoon II plays Vic, in The Gamm Theatre's production of "Ironbound."

Powerful acting in ‘Ironbound’ brings life to stories of survival and determination

When Broadway hitches its wagon to a star, the ride can get bumpy sometimes

Hello, gorgeous: ‘Funny Girl’ costume designer on the delights of dressing the Broadway revival

globe local

Should Massachusetts ban protests within 100 yards of an elected officials’ home?

Burlington rallies around sculpture by Ukrainian artist Nikita Zigura

A tiny treefrog with a big voice heralds the arrival of spring

Obituaries

Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters performed onstage at the after party for the Los Angeles premiere of "Studio 666" at the Fonda Theatre on Feb. 16, 2022 in Hollywood, Calif.

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died

Edward C. Johnson III dies; his leadership of Fidelity helped transform investing

Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the meme-favorite GIF, has died