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A Boston man died after he got trapped in the door of a Red Line subway car. The T isn’t answering basic questions about what happened.

“It should be really, really hard for someone to get hurt or die getting on or off the T,” said Stacy Thompson, executive director of LivableStreets Alliance, a public transportation advocacy group. “The alarm bells should have gone off six months ago.”

‘We have to begin somewhere.’ Facing system in crisis, Mass. House leaders propose boost for child care provider pay.

House Speaker Ronald Mariano acknowledged Monday that it’s a “little tough to pinpoint exactly what is going to change” as far as what families pay under the plan.

Two Saudi students drowned trying to save two boys in the Chicopee River. A lawsuit claims a dam owner and operator are to blame.
A lawsuit alleges the hydroelectric dam’s owner and the dam operator were negligent in how they managed the flow of water and for failing to post signs or warn the public in a recreational area.

As Russia prepares for expected assault, mayor of Ukrainian city says more than 10,000 civilians have died
Russian forces are believed to be preparing for an offensive in Ukraine's east, after withdrawing from around Kyiv. Meanwhile, the mayor of Mariupol said thousands of civilians have died.

Telehealth reimbursement rules pit insurers against doctors

Boston community members voice concern over possible state takeover of schools

Northeastern student killed last week remembered as active campus member

Newton's Veronica Burton (left) was chosen seventh in Monday's WNBA draft.

Newton native Veronica Burton goes seventh to Dallas in WNBA draft

Burton was a two-time Globe All-Scholastic Super Team selection at Newton South and a three-time Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year at Northwestern.

TIGERS 3, RED SOX 1

Bats go quiet, bullpen cracks as Red Sox drop series opener to Tigers
J.D. Martinez hit his first home run of the season, but the Red Sox couldn't put much together offensively, and Ryan Brasier allowed a tie-breaking two-run homer in the eighth.

christopher l. gasper

Insensitive comments in wake of Dwayne Haskins’s death say something about sports culture
We all would do well to remember that there are human beings under those helmets.

Jayson Tatum (right) and the Celtics could get another shot at Kyrie Irving and the Nets.

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

Celtics are keen observers of the play-in — rather than participants — as potential Nets matchup awaits

Boston could have a chance to avenge last year's drubbing against Brooklyn, but Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving have a young Cleveland team to get through first.

Customers wore face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia in February.

Philadelphia to restore indoor mask mandate amid COVID-19 case surge

Philadelphia is the first major US city to go back to requiring masks since cases declined at the beginning of the year.

Mass. reports 4,000 coronavirus cases; 7 deaths reported Friday COVID-19 vaccines prevented more than 2.2 million US deaths, study says

So, you want to buy an electric car

Here are five things to know before you buy an electric vehicle in Massachusetts.

Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday detailed plans for events this week designed to welcome workers back to downtown Boston, where businesses have struggled with a loss of foot traffic since the start of the COVID pandemic more than two years ago.

Music, food, Dunkin’: Here’s how Wu wants to bring people back downtown

City leaders hope a Boston Blooms Block Party Wednesday will add a jolt of renewed energy, vigor and foot traffic to small businesses in the neighborhood.

Opinion

MARCELA GARCÍA

Taxing Massachusetts millionaires to boost racial justice

The fair-share tax amendment would not only make the Commonwealth’s tax code fairer; it also has the potential to tackle racial and economic injustice.

As Zelensky begs us not to look away from Ukraine, Putin counts on us to do just that

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

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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‘We know our rights’: Two Boston-area Starbucks become first locations in Mass. to unionize
Baristas at 1304 Commonwealth Ave. in Allston and 277 Harvard St. in Brookline unanimously elected to join Workers United Monday afternoon.

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.

Britney Spears announces she’s pregnant
The pop star on Monday posted a lengthy statement to her Instagram revealing the pregnancy news, which comes just months after a legal battle brought an end to her 13-year conservatorship.

Senate hires one-time Rosenberg adviser to counsel position
Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka announced Monday that she has hired former Senate policy adviser and counsel James DiTullio to permanently fill the open role of Senate counsel.

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.

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?

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

The pandemic stole the last years of my 20s

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Rob Mariano hosts "Boston Rob Does Beantown," premiering April 21.

‘Boston Rob’ explores the far-flung land of . . . Boston

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

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

The corporate offices of Mass General Brigham hospitals in Assembly Square in Somerville.

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

The conspiracy postcard that many people in the Boston area received in the mail. The QR code on this mailer has been blacked out.

What is QAnon doing in my mailbox?

Workers harvest cannabis flowers at Copperstate Farms in Snowflake, Ariz., March 2021. A majority of states, including Massachusetts, have loosened their marijuana laws over the last decade.

Biden’s delicate dance on weed is getting clumsy

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

The joy of intergenerational learning

The War Room where everything is revealed in “Dr. Strangelove.”

IDEAS | MATT BIVENS

The end of privacy could also mean the end of nuclear weapons

Metro

Man taken into police custody after seven hours barricaded in Jamaica Plain apartment

Police were called to 57 Horan Way inside the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments at 11:23 a.m. on a report that a man with a knife had barricaded himself inside, Boston police Officer Andre Watson, a department spokesman, said.

A Boston man died after he got trapped in the door of a Red Line subway car. The T isn’t answering basic questions about what happened.

“It should be really, really hard for someone to get hurt or die getting on or off the T,” said Stacy Thompson, executive director of LivableStreets Alliance, a public transportation advocacy group. “The alarm bells should have gone off six months ago.”

Telehealth reimbursement rules pit insurers against doctors

Delays in releasing regulations for a January 2021 law have thrown insurers and doctors back into debate about which visits should be fully covered, and some say it could undo gains the industry has made in adopting telehealth over the course of the pandemic.

Gary Brown, former running back and coach, dies at 52

Brown rushed for 4,300 yards while playing on three NFL teams in the 1990s before going on to coach running backs in the pro and college ranks.

Sports

Rays outfielder Brett Phillips got an inning-ending double play in the eighth, but yielded a grand slam in the ninth.

Athletics 13, Rays 2

Rays, routed by Athletics, use outfielder to pitch final two innings in first loss of season

Paul Blackburn allowed three hits in five scoreless innings for Oakland.

UConn's Christyn Williams was drafted by Washington in the second round.

Three players from UConn selected in WNBA Draft

All three were taken in the second round.

Jayson Tatum (right) and the Celtics could get another shot at Kyrie Irving and the Nets.

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

Celtics are keen observers of the play-in — rather than participants — as potential Nets matchup awaits

Boston could have a chance to avenge last year's drubbing against Brooklyn, but Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving have a young Cleveland team to get through first.

MONDAY'S SOFTBALL Roundup

Westford Academy’s Ragini Kannan shines on mound in upset of No. 1 Lowell

Peter Abraham | On Baseball

Former Red Sox Eduardo Rodriguez feels at home with Tigers, and gets the start Wednesday against his old teammates

MONDAY'S BASEBALL ROUNDUP

Bolstered by its offense, Taunton rallies twice to hand No. 2 Franklin its first loss

Business

MassDevelopment issues tax-exempt bond for BC High projects

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

While others pull back on office space, this Quincy-based executive is doubling — or tripling — down

Bold Types is our weekly round-up of movers and shakers in Boston's business scene.

Truck makers face a tech dilemma: batteries or hydrogen?

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

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

In a three-hour public hearing Monday, various City Council members, academic researchers, parents and teachers testified against the prospect of state receivership.

Boston community members voice concern over possible state takeover of schools

Senate hires one-time Rosenberg adviser to counsel position

Two Saudi students drowned trying to save two boys in the Chicopee River. A lawsuit claims a dam owner and operator are to blame.

sports

FILE - Trainer Bob Baffert has now been removed from two of this spring’s three Triple Crown races after the Maryland Racing Commission announced he is suspended from next month's Preakness Stakes.

Bob Baffert suspended from Preakness Stakes by Maryland Racing Commission

Bats go quiet, bullpen cracks as Red Sox drop series opener to Tigers

Newton native Veronica Burton goes seventh to Dallas in WNBA draft

business

Where would we be without these shots? A study says the already tragic pandemic would be a lot worse.

COVID-19 vaccines prevented more than 2.2 million US deaths, study says

Music, food, Dunkin’: Here’s how Wu wants to bring people back downtown

Once a retail giant, Kmart nears extinction after closure

politics

President Biden paused as he met virtually with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At the end of their meeting, White House officials couldn't say if India stood with them in full condemnation of Putin and said the choice ultimately rested with Modi’s government.

Biden urges Modi not to step up Indian use of Russian oil

Biden nominates new ATF director, finalizes restrictions on ghost guns

What are ghost guns? Why is Biden taking action?

Nation

A deserted street in Shanghai, China, on Saturday, April 9, 2022.

US orders consular to leave Shanghai amid COVID outbreak

Marty Walsh, Kamala Harris, and the unlikely bonds of politics

COVID-19 vaccines prevented more than 2.2 million US deaths, study says

World

A deserted street in Shanghai, China, on Saturday, April 9, 2022.

US orders consular to leave Shanghai amid COVID outbreak

As Russia prepares for expected assault, mayor of Ukrainian city says more than 10,000 civilians have died

With threats all around, Japan moves to shed its pacifist constraints

opinion

Worcester Bishop Robert J. McManus speaks during the "To Live Each Day with Dignity" conference at Assumption College in Worcester in 2012.

The bishop vs. the Worcester Catholic school

Many of us want our work friends back

We need housing policy that supports diverse workforce

lifestyle

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

Johnny Depp suit against Amber Heard starts with jury picks

Britney Spears announces she’s pregnant

Flight canceled? Delayed? Here’s a list of tips to avoid travel chaos.

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

Luggage left over at baggage claim from Jet Blue delays at Logan Airport on April 5, 2022.

Flight canceled? Delayed? Here’s a list of tips to avoid travel chaos.

After another bad weekend, what is happening to JetBlue?

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

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

The best-selling novelist Henry Patterson, in an undated photo, who wrote 85 books using the pseudonym Jack Higgins, has died at age 92.

‘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

Rob Mariano hosts "Boston Rob Does Beantown," premiering April 21.

‘Boston Rob’ explores the far-flung land of . . . Boston

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’

music

From left: Camryn Manheim, Anthony Anderson, and Jeffrey Donovan in "Law & Order."

‘Law & Order’ charged with lazy writing

Britney Spears announces she’s pregnant

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

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

Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller was photographed during a news conference in Boston on April 5, 2022. Six days later, she announced that she tested positive for COVID-19.

Newton mayor tests positive for COVID-19

Palm Sunday in Boston in photos

A Jewish-Ukrainian rally for peace in Brookline

Obituaries

Dallas Cowboys running backs coach Gary Brown looked at the scoreboard during an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins in Landover, Md., Oct. 21, 2018.
Wisconsin’s athletic department and the Dallas Cowboys announced that Brown died Sunday.

Gary Brown, former running back and coach, dies at 52

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

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