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Oscars

Will Smith, Chris Rock, and the hypocrisy of us all

At the Oscars, in the midst of a slap, we missed the deep pain of how we ignore a certain kind of violence.

Academy condemns Will Smith’s actions, launches review

Will Smith hit Chris Rock on stage during the Oscars on Sunday.

Will Smith apologizes to Chris Rock, says he was ‘out of line’ and ‘wrong’

In an Instagram post Monday, Will Smith said that "violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive." Smith slapped Chris Rock during the Oscars on Sunday.

Kevin Cullen: Love will make you do crazy things? So will arrogance.

Mikaela Teixeira, center, reacts to "CODA" winning best picture at an Oscars viewing party held at Berklee College of Music. Berklee is featured prominently in "CODA," a shot-in-Massachusetts movie that won all three awards for which it had been nominated.

From Gloucester to Berklee, ‘CODA’ Oscar triumphs are a cause for celebration

Behind the film’s groundbreaking night were folks from the Bay State — from the Gloucester maritime community, to Berklee College of Music students and alumni, to the local crew members — who helped propel it into history.

Here's the full list of 2022 Oscar winners and nominees

PERSPECTIVE

I was convinced I didn’t have Lyme disease. But guess what?
The tick-borne illness can manifest in mysterious ways — which is why we should test for it more often.

Coming soon to your benefits package: student debt relief
As companies struggle to hire and retain workers during a nationwide labor shortage and waves of post-pandemic turnover, nearly one-third of large employers are offering to help pay off one of the biggest debts young people owe.

Biden defends unscripted remark about Putin, saying he ‘was expressing moral outrage’

President Biden on Monday insisted that he wasn’t pushing for regime change in Russia when he said on Saturday in Poland that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.”

Ukrainians claim to retake ground ahead of latest talks

RUSSIA-UKRAINE: THE LATEST

Russia shifts strategy, targets Ukraine’s eastern defenses

10:34 p.m.
Zelensky: Russians still attacking Kyiv, driven out of Irpin
10:32 p.m.
UN chief wants Ukraine humanitarian cease-fire
9:54 p.m.
Would Putin strike NATO supply lines to Ukraine? History suggests no.

Jan. 6 committee votes to hold Scavino, Navarro in contempt

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol voted unanimously Monday night to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress for their monthslong refusal to comply with subpoenas.

Jan. 6 committee to seek interview with Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Judge sees likely Trump crimes in attempt to stop certification of 2020 election

Investigators search for cause of garage collapse in Boston that killed worker

As investigators sought answers to a parking garage collapse at a downtown Boston construction site over the weekend, relatives of the man killed in the accident said Monday they are in shock over his death.

Family of worker killed in garage collapse is ‘overwhelmed’ by gestures of support Boston detail officer witnessed fatal garage collapse

Three dead in snowy pileup of dozens of vehicles in Pennsylvania
Tractor-trailers and other vehicles slammed into each other during a snow squall on an icy interstate in Pennsylvania on Monday creating a pileup that killed at least three people and injured more than a dozen.

Globe Spotlight Investigation

Unfinished justice

The state’s high court in 2017 struck down a murder law that had condemned men who never killed to die behind bars. But what about those already facing that dire penalty? They are waiting.

Two families, two views of felony murder Video: Here's how the state's felony murder law worked prior to 2017 Yvonne Abraham: Flawed justice, but we can fix this

Felony murder explained

An explainer about how the Massachusetts felony murder law had worked -- and why some say current reforms aren't enough. ( Video Produced by Anush Elbakyan/Globe Staff, Animation by Dominic Smith )

Celtics guard Marcus Smart, the lone healthy starter in the lineup vs. the Raptors, drives to the basket against Toronto's Scottie Barnes during the first half of Monday night's game.

Raptors 115, Celtics 112 (OT)

Shorthanded Celtics falter in overtime road loss vs. the Toronto Raptors

Pascal Siakam led the Raptors with a season-high 40 points to go with 13 rebounds before he fouled out with less than a minute left in OT. Marcus Smart had 28 for the Celtics who were missing four starters.

Celtics’ Robert Williams has a torn meniscus, and the team has no timeline for a return yet

Brooklyn's Kyrie Irving (above) is now allowed to play home games after New York Mayor Eric Adams loosened the rules, but Irving's defiant stance hurt the Nets all season.

christopher l. gasper

Defying a vaccine mandate does not inoculate athletes from the consequences

If someone such as Kyrie Irving wants to refuse the vaccination in the name of personal freedom, fine, but there is a price to pay.

Nate Eovaldi threw 78 pitches in six innings of a simulated intrasquad scrimmage at JetBlue Park.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

With start of the season fast approaching, Red Sox continue to work out some of the kinks

During an intrasquad scrimmage on a scheduled day off, Nate Eovaldi threw 78 pitches and Trevor Story got some swings, but questions still loom for the team.

Opinion

There’s an element of unfairness to the fee Boston Mayor Michele Wu plans to impose on North End restaurants that want to set up outdoor seating.

Joan Vennochi

From vaccines to North End restaurants, Mayor Michelle Wu creates her own equity problems

She created problems for herself, ironically, in a realm she said she champions — equity.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Who wouldn’t want tacos at midnight on Newbury Street?

Rachelle G. Cohen

Will Smith, Chris Rock, and the slap heard round the world

SHARON E. BURKE AND BRAM GOVAERTS

Multiple breadbasket failures: Nations must address looming food emergencies

Tim Fitzgerald

We can eat our way out of climate change

The Globe turns 150

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.

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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.

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PRIDE 4, WHALE 2 | ISOBEL CUP FINAL

Boston Pride rally with three-goal third period to win second straight Isobel Cup
The Pride overturned a 2-1 deficit after two periods to make it back-to-back.

NCAA women's tournament | UConn 91, N.C. State 87

UConn needs double overtime to beat N.C. State
The Huskies had been 0 for 5 in the NCAA Tournament in overtime in their history.

Former UMass student found guilty of 2017 rape in campus dorm

The jury convicted Ryder Chilcoff of Villa Park, Calif., who faces up to 20 years in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender, Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan’s office said.

Governor Charlie Baker makes first statewide endorsement this year, backing Anthony Amore in auditor race

Baker is backing Republican candidate for auditor Anthony Amore, the director of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum who unsuccessfully ran for secretary of state in 2018.

More people need mental health care. But those who want to help them pay dearly.
At a time when people wait weeks or months for mental health treatment, the people training to be therapists confront one hurdle after another — most of them financial.

Love Letters

Should we give it another shot, now that we live in the same area again?
We broke up after he got a job transfer, but we stayed in touch.

Dear home staging client, your house is lovely, but please throw away everything you own immediately!

As home sellers fall under the influence of TikTok staging stars and throw-pillow-focused reality TV shows, a home-staging arms race is building.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Pulling back the curtain on Boston’s new exam school admission process
School officials are asking families to be patient as they await admission decisions, which might not come out until late April or early May

Larry Edelman

Mass. employers pick up hiring but jobless rate remains above the US average
Like New York, California, and other states hit hard by COVID-19, Massachusetts was slower to drop pandemic restrictions, and that has held back job growth.

Hospitals on high alert for possible Russia cyberattacks
Health care entities in Mass. have been victims of Russia-based cyberattacks in the past and more could be on the way.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Azniv Korkejian, who performs as Bedouine, has recorded three albums, including 2021's "Waysides."

Bedouine launches her spring tour at City Winery

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

ON BROADWAY

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

DEVRA FIRST

We are all Chowhounds now

A scene from the Broadway production of "Six." A touring version of the show will come to the Emerson Colonial Theatre Nov. 9-Jan. 15, 2023.

Broadway In Boston’s new season to include ‘Tina,’ ‘Six,’ ‘Jagged Little Pill’

Special Projects

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

Elena Suazo carries the hospital sheets she replaced for her father, and the protective medical gear she wore to attend to him at José Gregorio Hernández Hospital as she walks home in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, in 2020. A shortage of doctors and nurses left families rushing to fill the void at facilities that treat the poor, to feed them, bathe them, and change their bedsheets.

EDITORIAL

Tapping Venezuela’s oil wealth to help its impoverished citizens

Facial recognition technology was demonstrated on a video screen at the World Internet Conference is Wuzhen, China, Nov. 7, 2018.

EDITORIAL

When the bad guys are just a face in the crowd

How do you respond when something that raw comes out of seemingly nowhere?

SCOT LEHIGH

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

Lew Zackin shops in Newton on March 16 with his mask on. He is not planning to go maskless in public even though the guidelines say he can.

Shan Soe-Lin and Robert Hecht

The science says we need to remain vigilant about COVID

Misinformation in Spanish has rapidly spread on social platforms — and often gone unchecked or left up longer than it survives in English.

MARCELA GARCÍA

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

As COVID and its consequences intensified poverty, many health care workers became more active in prescribing financial resources. A growing body of evidence says those prescriptions might be just as important as pharmaceutical ones.

IDEAS | JULIA HOTZ

Take this cash and call me in the morning

Metro

Investigators search for cause of garage collapse in Boston that killed worker

Man who allegedly strangled officer at Stop & Shop after shoplifting ordered held without bail

A man who allegedly strangled a Boston police officer after a shoplifting incident at a Stop & Shop over the weekend was ordered held without bail at his arraignment Monday, the Suffolk district attorney’s office said.

RI SPORTS

Maryland hires former Rhode Island head coach David Cox

“This is a great fit and we can’t wait to get to work recruiting and developing the future stars of Maryland basketball,” Cox -- a Maryland native -- said in a statement

RI CRIME

Rhode Island crime news: March 2022

Regular updates from police and the Rhode Island courts.

Sports

Senators owner Eugene Melnyk died Monday at the age of 62.

NHL

Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk dies from illness at 62

Melnyk, the Senators owner since 2003, had a liver transplant in 2015 after a public campaign for a donor.

Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk dies from illness at 62

Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has died from an illness, the team said Monday night. He was 62.

Jillian Dempsey (left), pictured here in February 2021, scored the opener as the Pride won their second consecutive Isobel Cup.

PRIDE 4, WHALE 2 | ISOBEL CUP FINAL

Boston Pride rally with three-goal third period to win second straight Isobel Cup

The Pride overturned a 2-1 deficit after two periods to make it back-to-back.

Raptors 115, Celtics 112 (OT)

Shorthanded Celtics falter in overtime road loss vs. the Toronto Raptors

NCAA women's tournament | UConn 91, N.C. State 87

UConn needs double overtime to beat N.C. State

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

With start of the season fast approaching, Red Sox continue to work out some of the kinks

Business

Hometown Financial Group to buy Randolph Bancorp

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Taking the reins at K&L Gates’ Boston office

Bold Types is our weekly roundup of the movers and shakers of Boston's business scene.

A new supply chain risk: 22,000 dockworkers who may soon strike

US to more than double fines for fuel-efficiency violations

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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.

Home Refresh

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.

PERSPECTIVE

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.

CONNECTIONS

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

COOKING

Will Smith, Chris Rock, and the hypocrisy of us all

Will Smith apologizes to Chris Rock, says he was ‘out of line’ and ‘wrong’

From Gloucester to Berklee, ‘CODA’ Oscar triumphs are a cause for celebration

PERSPECTIVE I was convinced I didn’t have Lyme disease. But guess what? The tick-borne illness can manifest in mysterious ways — which is why we should test for it more often.

Coming soon to your benefits package: student debt relief As companies struggle to hire and retain workers during a nationwide labor shortage and waves of post-pandemic turnover, nearly one-third of large employers are offering to help pay off one of the biggest debts young people owe.

Biden defends unscripted remark about Putin, saying he ‘was expressing moral outrage’

Jan. 6 committee votes to hold Scavino, Navarro in contempt

Investigators search for cause of garage collapse in Boston that killed worker

Three dead in snowy pileup of dozens of vehicles in Pennsylvania Tractor-trailers and other vehicles slammed into each other during a snow squall on an icy interstate in Pennsylvania on Monday creating a pileup that killed at least three people and injured more than a dozen.

Unfinished justice

Shorthanded Celtics falter in overtime road loss vs. the Toronto Raptors

Defying a vaccine mandate does not inoculate athletes from the consequences

With start of the season fast approaching, Red Sox continue to work out some of the kinks

From vaccines to North End restaurants, Mayor Michelle Wu creates her own equity problems

Who wouldn’t want tacos at midnight on Newbury Street?

Will Smith, Chris Rock, and the slap heard round the world

Multiple breadbasket failures: Nations must address looming food emergencies

We can eat our way out of climate change

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NCAA women's tournament | UConn 91, N.C. State 87 UConn needs double overtime to beat N.C. State The Huskies had been 0 for 5 in the NCAA Tournament in overtime in their history.

Former UMass student found guilty of 2017 rape in campus dorm

Governor Charlie Baker makes first statewide endorsement this year, backing Anthony Amore in auditor race

More people need mental health care. But those who want to help them pay dearly. At a time when people wait weeks or months for mental health treatment, the people training to be therapists confront one hurdle after another — most of them financial.

Love Letters Should we give it another shot, now that we live in the same area again? We broke up after he got a job transfer, but we stayed in touch.

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Dear home staging client, your house is lovely, but please throw away everything you own immediately!

THE GREAT DIVIDE Pulling back the curtain on Boston’s new exam school admission process School officials are asking families to be patient as they await admission decisions, which might not come out until late April or early May

Larry Edelman Mass. employers pick up hiring but jobless rate remains above the US average Like New York, California, and other states hit hard by COVID-19, Massachusetts was slower to drop pandemic restrictions, and that has held back job growth.

Hospitals on high alert for possible Russia cyberattacks Health care entities in Mass. have been victims of Russia-based cyberattacks in the past and more could be on the way.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Bedouine launches her spring tour at City Winery

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

We are all Chowhounds now

Broadway In Boston’s new season to include ‘Tina,’ ‘Six,’ ‘Jagged Little Pill’

Special Projects

Into the Red: How the Globe will cover climate change

Under the wheel

A Beautiful Resistance

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

FROM OUR PARTNERS

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Tapping Venezuela’s oil wealth to help its impoverished citizens

When the bad guys are just a face in the crowd

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

The science says we need to remain vigilant about COVID

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

Take this cash and call me in the morning

Metro

Investigators search for cause of garage collapse in Boston that killed worker

Man who allegedly strangled officer at Stop & Shop after shoplifting ordered held without bail

Maryland hires former Rhode Island head coach David Cox

Rhode Island crime news: March 2022

Sports

Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk dies from illness at 62

Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk dies from illness at 62

Boston Pride rally with three-goal third period to win second straight Isobel Cup

Shorthanded Celtics falter in overtime road loss vs. the Toronto Raptors

UConn needs double overtime to beat N.C. State

With start of the season fast approaching, Red Sox continue to work out some of the kinks

Business

Hometown Financial Group to buy Randolph Bancorp

Taking the reins at K&L Gates’ Boston office

A new supply chain risk: 22,000 dockworkers who may soon strike

US to more than double fines for fuel-efficiency violations

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

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

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

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

metro

Boston detail officer witnessed fatal garage collapse

Governor Charlie Baker makes first statewide endorsement this year, backing Anthony Amore in auditor race

In its first COVID-19 data report since Friday, Mass. reports 2,430 confirmed cases; 3 deaths reported on Friday

PERSPECTIVE

I was convinced I didn’t have Lyme disease. But guess what?
The tick-borne illness can manifest in mysterious ways — which is why we should test for it more often.

Coming soon to your benefits package: student debt relief
As companies struggle to hire and retain workers during a nationwide labor shortage and waves of post-pandemic turnover, nearly one-third of large employers are offering to help pay off one of the biggest debts young people owe.

Three dead in snowy pileup of dozens of vehicles in Pennsylvania
Tractor-trailers and other vehicles slammed into each other during a snow squall on an icy interstate in Pennsylvania on Monday creating a pileup that killed at least three people and injured more than a dozen.

PRIDE 4, WHALE 2 | ISOBEL CUP FINAL

Boston Pride rally with three-goal third period to win second straight Isobel Cup
The Pride overturned a 2-1 deficit after two periods to make it back-to-back.

NCAA women's tournament | UConn 91, N.C. State 87

UConn needs double overtime to beat N.C. State
The Huskies had been 0 for 5 in the NCAA Tournament in overtime in their history.

More people need mental health care. But those who want to help them pay dearly.
At a time when people wait weeks or months for mental health treatment, the people training to be therapists confront one hurdle after another — most of them financial.

Love Letters

Should we give it another shot, now that we live in the same area again?
We broke up after he got a job transfer, but we stayed in touch.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Pulling back the curtain on Boston’s new exam school admission process
School officials are asking families to be patient as they await admission decisions, which might not come out until late April or early May

Larry Edelman

Mass. employers pick up hiring but jobless rate remains above the US average
Like New York, California, and other states hit hard by COVID-19, Massachusetts was slower to drop pandemic restrictions, and that has held back job growth.

Hospitals on high alert for possible Russia cyberattacks
Health care entities in Mass. have been victims of Russia-based cyberattacks in the past and more could be on the way.