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Research finds stark racial disparities in how Boston responds to unhealthy conditions that trigger asthma

Unhealthy housing conditions that can trigger asthma are more commonplace in Boston’s poorer and more diverse neighborhoods, and the city is slower to address such problems, if at all, in those enclaves than in whiter areas, according to a new research paper.

Foul play not suspected in death of man trapped in door on Red Line train, DA says

The operator of a Red Line train involved in a fatal accident early Sunday that claimed the life of 39-year-old Robinson Lalin, who became trapped in a door of the train as it pulled away, has been taken “out of service” while the investigation into the tragedy continues, officials said.

Man killed after becoming trapped in Red Line train door in South Boston

Two construction workers stabbed in feud over debt, another worker arrested, Cambridge police say

Two construction workers were stabbed and a third worker who allegedly used a knife to collect a debt was wrestled to the ground by a colleague with martial arts training during a violent incident on the top level of a Cambridge construction site Monday.

Russia hits Ukraine’s air defenses ahead of eastern push
Russia is regrouping for a renewed push in the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014 and have declared independent states.

After another bad weekend, what is happening to JetBlue?
The biggest carrier at Logan Airport is facing delays and operational challenges after decades as one of the airline industry’s shining success stories.

As cancellations pile up, airline passengers feel the jet blues

Cassie Watt, the owner of Mud Puddle Toys, purchased the business last year when it was about to close down.

A Marblehead toy store was slated to close. Then, a local couple resurrected it.

When Cassie and Jay Watt heard that Mud Puddle was shutting down, they took on their next adventure: running a toy store in the middle of a pandemic.

So, you want to buy an electric car
Here are five things to know before you buy an electric vehicle in Massachusetts.

Mass. needs at least 750,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2030. We are nowhere close. Auto prices plateau but supply shortages could linger, CarGurus CEO says

chad finn

Statistically speaking, which players in baseball history do these Red Sox resemble?
It's always a fascinating exercise to check out baseball-reference's "similarity scores" feature. Here is this year's version.

Game preview: Red Sox at Tigers, today at 5:10 p.m.

Census home value data for Boston.

Maps: Here’s a closer look at recent Census housing data for Boston neighborhoods

How much did it typically cost to rent or own in different parts of Boston in recent years?

Charts: See how much the typical rental costs are in your town

It feels like we were frozen in time for the past two years even though we continued aging.

The one where they all turn 30 (in a pandemic)

Locked down for two years, people hitting 30 feel like we are jumping headlong into real adulthood, skipping sadly over what were supposed to be carefree times — the best years of our lives.

Should you get that second booster shot?

Wendy Hsu (left) made a selfie with Ed Lui while passing through Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Sunshine, then uncertainty, on its way this week

As we head back to work this Monday, it looks like sunshine will be plentiful along with milder than average temperatures. Then things get less clear.

With warmer days ahead, here’s a running list of the Boston area’s best patios

Vice President Kamala Harris swore in Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor in 2021.

Marty Walsh and Kamala Harris have formed an unlikely bond in politics and beyond

In what has become one of the more unusual pairings in the Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris and Marty Walsh, the Secretary of Labor, have struck up a tight bond that started with policy and has evolved into a personal connection that has surprised even those close to them.

Opinion

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, shown in this illustration performing at the Grammy Awards in 2015 in Los Angeles, have been collaborating since 2011.

Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, and the power of bringing generations together

A new crop of creative collaborations is leading the way with aspirational illustrations of the value and contributions of generations joining forces for mutual benefit and the greater good.

Future of health care shouldn’t be a battle of behemoths

The joy of intergenerational learning

What is QAnon doing in my mailbox?

Biden’s delicate dance on weed is getting clumsy

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.

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Manhole explosion, fires send people running in NYC’s Times Square
The loud noise sent multiple people running from the popular tourist destination at about 7 p.m. Sunday night, videos on social media showed.

Boston police officers open fire as person with gun in SUV crashes in Chinatown
The incident began around 2 a.m. when police were alerted about an armed person sitting in a grey Dodge SUV.

Buffalo officers can return to duty after pushing 75-year-old protester to ground in 2020
An arbitrator concluded the two officers, Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski, used "absolutely legitimate" force and did not violate department policies when they pushed a 75-year-old human rights demonstrator to the ground.

SHIRLEY LEUNG

The sale of the Hynes is a chance to do something bold in the Back Bay
Don’t just sell to the convention center to the highest bidder. Instead, the state should make the redevelopment of the prime real estate something extraordinary.

There’s a virtual dating event for Boston Marathon runners and enthusiasts
Christopher Coppola, 43, allegedly fired a shotgun into a neighbor's home at 1 Driftwood Road just after 2:15 p.m. Saturday.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: More Kardashian hustle, the ‘First Lady’ dramas, and women who ‘Roar’
The family that marketed themselves into models of aspiration from 2007-21 can’t quit us, and, it seems, the feeling may be mutual. "The Kardashians" on Hulu is among several new series premiering this week.

Recommended reads

Governor Charlie Baker meets with staff twice a week to go over COVID data.

Groundbreakings and potholes, Charlie Baker’s public schedule looks like 2019. Behind the scenes, COVID looms.

What the governor calls the Massachusetts’ “giant surveillance effort,” the largely behind-the-scenes work tracking COVID-19, has trudged on after the daily press conferences and regular mandate announcements have steadily fallen away.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Crowdfunding haters
It’s one thing to help fund white supremacists and other haters. It’s entirely another to do it in God’s name.

Here are the 27 locals on the Forbes billionaires list
The 27 billionaires who live in Massachusetts or Rhode Island, or have close ties to the states, are worth nearly $96 billion combined, according to the 2022 Forbes world’s billionaires list, which came out this week.

THE GREAT DIVIDESchool construction in Boston takes two steps forward, one step back
In an effort to modernize its decades-old buildings, Boston school officials are planning to renovate or replace a South End elementary school and are moving forward with a new elementary school in East Boston after years of delays.

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Culture & Lifestyle

DakhaBrakha describes its sound as “ethnic chaos."

Ukraine’s DakhaBrakha brings a beguiling blend of music from an anguished nation

Studios manager Hope Greene (left) with Jim Grace, executive director of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston.

Does the answer to Boston’s cash-strapped arts community lie in Lowell?

Three books to celebrate National Poetry Month: Melanie Crawford’s “Audacity,” "Whoo-Ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story” by Massachusetts author Maria Gianferrari, and Connecticut author Susan Hood’s “The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics," a picture book in verse."

Eight rhythmic reads to celebrate National Poetry Month with young poets

“Immersive Klimt: Revolution” will feature a number of Klimt's works such as "The Kiss," shown here at the Toronto exhibit.

‘Immersive Klimt: Revolution’ brings slice of Vienna to Boston

Special Projects

Paul Gunter.

Spotlight Team 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.

Into the Red illustration.

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.

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

State Attorney General Maura Healey (right) and state Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz at a Democrat Caucus event in Worcester on Tuesday. In their race to be the Democratic nominee for governor, Chang-Díaz has proposed three live televised debates before the Democratic party convention in June. Healey has proposed two, which would take place after the convention.

What’s Maura Healey afraid of?

Pedestrians walks past Modern Pastry on a sidewalk along outdoor dining areas in the North End on May 26, 2021, in Boston.

The streets belong to the people

Natanael Monroy participates in a November 2019 protest march from East Boston to Winthrop to build support for legislation that would allow all state residents to apply for driver's licenses.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Dear Governor Baker: You’re wrong on driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants

A photograph of the Northern High Service Middlesex Fells Reservoir in Stoneham, circa 1900.

IDEAS | DAN MCKANAN

A century before the first Earth Day, there was the Forest Festival in the Middlesex Fells

Wellesley College students reach out to runners at the 125th Boston Marathon on Oct. 11, 2021.

Let Russians run in the Boston Marathon

IDEAS | BEN KISSAM

Confessions of a professional clickbait writer

Metro

Research finds stark racial disparities in how Boston responds to unhealthy conditions that trigger asthma

Unhealthy housing conditions that can trigger asthma are more commonplace in Boston’s poorer and more diverse neighborhoods, and the city is slower to address such problems, if at all, in those enclaves than in whiter areas, according to a new research paper.

The one where they all turn 30 (in a pandemic)

Locked down for two years, people hitting 30 feel like we are jumping headlong into real adulthood, skipping sadly over what were supposed to be carefree times — the best years of our lives.

Foul play not suspected in death of man trapped in door on Red Line train, DA says; operator ‘taken out of service’

The operator of a Red Line train involved in a fatal accident early Sunday that claimed the life of 39-year-old Robinson Lalin, who became trapped in a door of the train as it pulled away, has been taken “out of service” while the investigation into the tragedy continues, officials said.

Marty Walsh and Kamala Harris have formed an unlikely bond in politics and beyond

In what has become one of the more unusual pairings in the Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris and Marty Walsh, the Secretary of Labor, have struck up a tight bond that started with policy and has evolved into a personal connection that has surprised even those close to them.

Sports

Former Angels outfielder Jim Edmonds (right) matches up with a current member of the Red Sox.

Statistically speaking, which players in baseball history do these Red Sox resemble?

It's always a fascinating exercise to check out baseball-reference's "similarity scores" feature. Here is this year's version.

Guard Veronica Burton appeared in 86 games at Northwestern and averaged 11.9 points in three seasons.

WNBA DRAFT | MONDAY, 7 p.m.

WNBA draft: Newton’s Veronica Burton is ‘pro ready’ and a likely first- or second-round pick

The Northwestern star will be in attendance at the WNBA's first in-person draft since 2019 on Monday at 7 p.m.

Michael Wacha will make his first start in a Red Sox uniform Monday in Detroit.

Red Sox at Tigers | 5:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 4: Red Sox at Tigers lineups and notes

Michael Wacha will be on the mound as the Red Sox open a three-game series at Detroit Monday.

Celtics will open playoffs at home Sunday against winner of Nets-Cavaliers play-in game

Red Sox 4, Yankees 3

Red Sox avert a sweep — thanks to the much-maligned bullpen — and tip Yankees in series finale

Gary Washburn | On basketball

The Celtics did things the right way and earned the No. 2 seed in the East

Business

A Marblehead toy store was slated to close. Then, a local couple resurrected it.

When Cassie and Jay Watt heard that Mud Puddle was shutting down, they took on their next adventure: running a toy store in the middle of a pandemic.

Amazon’s drone delivery program is hit by crashes and safety concerns

Despite spending more than $2 billion and assembling a team of more than 1,000 people around the world, Amazon is a long way from launching a drone delivery service.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk won’t join Twitter’s board after all

China closes Guangzhou to most arrivals as outbreak spreads

magazine

Children from the Love Canal area protest the lack of immediate relief for families advised to leave their homes in 1978.

She was determined to expose the health risks at Love Canal, whatever the cost

How do I stop my relative from going off on hateful rants?

The Monster Energy Supercross Championship returns to Gillette Stadium on April 23.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do in and around Boston, April 11-24

Are young women catching ‘TikTok tics’ from social media? The answer is complex.

metro

Two workers were stabbed and a co-worker arrested at a Wheeler Street construction site in Cambridge Monday. Cambridge firefighters used construction equipment to remove the victims from the third floor of the building under construction.

Two construction workers stabbed in feud over debt, another worker arrested, Cambridge police say

The most (and least) boosted cities and towns in Rhode Island

Sunshine, then uncertainty, on its way this week

sports

Garrett Whitlock is 25 years old.

Red Sox sign pitcher Garrett Whitlock to four-year contract extension

It’s easy to root for a Celtics playoff match with Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, and the Nets

Tiger Woods will play in British Open at St. Andrews

business

JetBlue planes at Logan Airport last week.

After another bad weekend, what is happening to JetBlue?

The sale of the Hynes is a chance to do something bold in the Back Bay

Macron set to face Le Pen in runoff for French presidency

politics

President Biden.

Biden to nominate new ATF director, release ghost gun rule

Biden expected to release rule on ghost guns in days

Jan. 6 panel has evidence for criminal referral of Trump, but splits on sending

Nation

Crowds lined up in Times Square in Manhattan last month.

Manhole explosion, fires send people running in NYC’s Times Square

The one where they all turn 30 (in a pandemic)

Buffalo officers can return to duty after pushing 75-year-old protester to ground in 2020

World

Firefighters cleared the debris and searched for bodies under the rubble of a building hit weeks ago by a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday.

Russia hits Ukraine’s air defenses ahead of eastern push

Human rights groups concerned over Nigeria’s secret terrorism trials

Racing for safety, Ukrainians meet new perils

opinion

Highland Terrace, an affordable housing development in Chelsea, as seen in November 2020.

We need housing policy that supports diverse workforce

Let Russians run in the Boston Marathon

Consider this: Panel discussions around Boston, April 9-15

lifestyle

Boston, MA--10/11/2021-- A runner casts a shadow as she crosses the finish line of the 125th Boston Marathon. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

There’s a virtual dating event for Boston Marathon runners and enthusiasts

Eight rhythmic reads to celebrate National Poetry Month with young poets

I was toxic to her

food & dining

The patio at Grand Tour on Newbury Street.

With warmer days ahead, here’s a running list of the Boston area’s best patios

A vegan seafood restaurant opens in Quincy (and its patio is no shrimp, either)

At Ovenbird Café, a Belmont staple soars even higher

travel

JetBlue planes at Logan Airport last week.

After another bad weekend, what is happening to JetBlue?

The TSA isn’t known for its sense of humor. But its Instagram account is.

For a change of scenery minus the hassle, think Gloucester

Arts

An aerial view of the designs for the renovations of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, featuring a new wing and exterior plaza.

Dartmouth unveils designs for $88 million expansion of Hopkins Center for the Arts

From Ukraine to Maine: How Louise Nevelson’s roots shaped her into one of the most important artists of the 20th century

‘Becoming Trees,’ and learning from them, at Concord Center for the Visual Arts

Books

Undated handout photo issued by HarperCollins Publishers of best-selling novelist Henry Patterson, who wrote 85 books, including The Eagle Has Landed, using the pseudonym Jack Higgins, has died aged 92. (HarperCollins Publisher/PA via AP)

‘The Eagle Has Landed’ author Jack Higgins dies at 92

Saving the forests to save ourselves, in ‘Ever Green’

A brutal coming of age in Douglas Stuart’s ‘Young Mungo’

Movies

Chris Rock and Will Smith.

Will Smith gets 10-year Oscars ban over Chris Rock slap

Mark Wahlberg reportedly puts his Beverly Hills mansion on the market for $87.5 million

Nehemiah Persoff, one of Hollywood’s busiest actors, dies at 102

Television

Kim Kardashian and the rest of her extended family return to reality TV with Hulu's "The Kardashians."

This week’s TV: More Kardashian hustle, the ‘First Lady’ dramas, and women who ‘Roar’

‘Brokeback Mountain’ actor Jake Gyllenhaal makes a comeback to ‘SNL’

Alfonso Cuarón is bringing a series to Apple TV+

music

DakhaBrakha describes its sound as “ethnic chaos."

Ukraine’s DakhaBrakha brings a beguiling blend of music from an anguished nation

To have the Vijay Iyer Trio back in Boston? It’s music to our ears

At BSO, a program of the moment

Theater/Dance

Richard Thomas as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird."

With this ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ a classic remains a classic

In Kirsten Greenidge’s ‘Our Daughters, Like Pillars,’ family ties get tangled

Cirque du Soleil bringing ‘ ‘Twas the Night Before …’ to the Wang for the holidays

globe local

The Rev. Morgan S. Allen, rector of Trinity Church, leads the procession around the church in Copley Square before the 10 a.m. Palm Sunday service.

Palm Sunday in Boston in photos

A Jewish-Ukrainian rally for peace in Brookline

‘Very familiar and yet so different.’ Easter brings hope as congregations gather in person again

Obituaries

Undated handout photo issued by HarperCollins Publishers of best-selling novelist Henry Patterson, who wrote 85 books, including The Eagle Has Landed, using the pseudonym Jack Higgins, has died aged 92. (HarperCollins Publisher/PA via AP)

‘The Eagle Has Landed’ author Jack Higgins dies at 92

Rayfield Wright, Cowboys’ Hall of Fame lineman, dies at 76

Patricia MacLachlan, best-selling author of ‘Sarah, Plain and Tall’ children’s book, dies at 84