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Gunman’s final 90 minutes fuel questions about police delays

Public anger and scrutiny over law enforcement’s response to Tuesday’s rampage continues to mount

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) looked on as Texas Governor Greg Abbott spoke during a press conference at Uvalde High School on May 25, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas.

Republicans face heat for ideas to stop mass shootings that avoid gun restrictions

Most Republican lawmakers say there’s one line they won’t cross: adding any significant hurdles to access weapons in a nation that has more guns than people.

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City of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu

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With control of Boston Public Schools on the line, Wu’s counterproposal advocates for a stronger state partnership

“The City of Boston, the Boston Public Schools, and [state education department] agree to work together in a targeted, strengthened partnership to immediately address systemic barriers to educational opportunity,” said Mayor Michelle Wu’s counterproposal, obtained by the Globe.

State releases blistering review of Boston Public Schools: ‘BPS needs immediate improvement’

Geoff Diehl’s daughter wasn’t forced to sign a ‘white privilege’ pledge, superintendent says
Whitman-Hanson Regional School District Superintendent Jeff Szymaniak told the Globe that Geoff Diehl’s daughter was never forced to sign a pledge to acknowledge her white privilege. No such pledge exists, he said.

MGH vaccinating workers against monkeypox, the first time the shots have been used in the US

Massachusetts General Hospital this week began vaccinating a small group of workers who came into close contact with a man hospitalized for monkeypox earlier this month.

CDC monkeypox warning urges precautions for travel

What’s supercharging inflation and dragging down the economy? The price of diesel.
Consumers are picking up the tab for diesel fuel every time they buy groceries, clothing, furniture, or anything else delivered by truck, train, or cargo ship.

After years of silence, a survivor finds her voice

Having suffered extended bouts of being mute, a 23-year-old woman testified against a former teacher who raped her in elementary school, ensuring justice not just for her, but for others.

Man shot in downtown Boston; police search for suspect
No arrests had been made as of about 7 p.m., police said, and there was no update on the victim’s medical condition.

The "Conjuring" house, in Burrillville, R.I., is a 3,100 square foot farmhouse and eight-acre property made famous by the movie series that began in 2013.

Rhode Island’s ‘Conjuring’ house sold, with one stipulation: No one can live there year-round

The new owners paid $1.525 million for the Burrillville home — well above the $1.2 million asking price. “I came to visit and thought, ‘I have to have this house,’ Jacqueline Nuñez said.

Trevor Story gets treated to a laundry cart ride in the dugout after belting a 3-run home run in the second inning to give the Red Sox a 6-0 lead in the fifth inning.

Red Sox 16, White Sox 7

Red Sox sock it to White Sox, take two out of three in explosive finale of set

Every batter in the Red Sox starting lineup got a knock in the 19-hit assault, with five recording multi-hit nights led by Trevor Story (2 for 4, 4 RBIs) and Alex Verdugo ( 4 for 6, 3 RBIs).

Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and the Celtics can finish off the Heat Friday night at TD Garden.

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The Celtics have been close before, but this feels different

The Celtics were up, 3-2, in the Eastern Conference finals in 2018 and couldn’t close out the Cavaliers. They lost the 2020 conference finals to Miami in six.

Opinion

People mourn as they attend the vigil in Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

State must be ready to act before the Supreme Court rolls back its gun control law

Lawmakers on Beacon Hill and local officials throughout the state cannot afford to give an inch when it comes to protecting the strides made to maintain one of the lowest gun death rates in America.

Obama’s campaign ‘gaffe’ now seems prophetic

Even if Congress won’t act on gun safety, states can

One pill, two pill, red pill, blue pill

Attacked with Chromebooks, scalded with soup, menaced with bullets: BPS students and staff deserve better

Centering critical voices, debates, and evidence-based opinion to reframe the national conversation on racial equity and hasten a more racially just society.

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‘It’s so scary,’ hearing someone shouting after MBTA passenger takes control of public address system on Red Line train, rider says
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‘I want to be in school forever’: Maggie Rogers graduates from Harvard Divinity
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MBTA will restart search for company to build Quincy bus garage after bids exceed budget

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Actor Ray Liotta, best known for his role in the Martin Scorsese mob classic “Goodfellas,” has died, according to multiple reports citing a statement from Liotta’s publicist.

Massachusetts lawmakers send Baker a bill allowing driver’s licenses for undocumented people

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Out of the past and onto the stage

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Fans dance and sing along to Marina at the 2019 Boston Calling festival at the Harvard Athletic Complex.
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Community members in Uvalde, Texas, embrace each other at a vigil on Wednesday for the 21 victims of the mass shooting at Rob Elementary School.

Gun violence is a disease. Health care can help.

Members of Gays Against Guns in New York City held pictures of individuals murdered in anti-gay violence.

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I am a gay man, and I sense danger coming

The floating pools in Paris's Bassin de la Villette waterway have provided an in-lake swimming spot, but some locals are reluctant to take the plunge.

Doubts dog a Paris-prompted vision for swimming in Boston

A family grieves outside of the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas.

We live with the carnage of gun violence because that’s what America wants

Republicans return to their roots as the antiwar party

Registered traveling nurse Patricia Carrete, of El Paso, Texas, walked down the hallway during a night shift at a field hospital set up to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients in Cranston, R.I., on Feb. 10, 2021.

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Metro

Texas elementary school shooting: The latest

As official accounts about Texas shooting shift, more questions than answers about police response

A gunman on Tuesday killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which is located about 85 miles west of San Antonio. Here are the latest updates.

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With control of Boston Public Schools on the line, Wu’s counterproposal advocates for a stronger state partnership

“The City of Boston, the Boston Public Schools, and [state education department] agree to work together in a targeted, strengthened partnership to immediately address systemic barriers to educational opportunity,” said Mayor Michelle Wu’s counterproposal, obtained by the Globe.

A Rhode Island teen with a $1 million idea

Mariam Kaba, 16, submitted the winning idea for the first Transform Rhode Island Scholarship offered by the Papitto Opportunity Connection.

‘Republicans are owned by them’: Gun lobby unmoved despite mass shootings

These horrors do not appear to cow the NRA and its supporters, who double down instead on their rigid insistence that any form of gun control infringes on the constitutional right to bear arms.

Sports

Trevor Story gets treated to a laundry cart ride in the dugout after belting a 3-run home run in the second inning to give the Red Sox a 6-0 lead in the fifth inning.

Red Sox 16, White Sox 7

Red Sox sock it to White Sox, take two out of three in explosive finale of set

Every batter in the Red Sox starting lineup got a knock in the 19-hit assault, with five recording multi-hit nights led by Trevor Story (2 for 4, 4 RBIs) and Alex Verdugo ( 4 for 6, 3 RBIs).

The Warriors' Draymond Green hoists the Western Conference Champion trophy.

Draymond Green says his Warriors will be playing Celtics in NBA Finals

"We’re gonna play Boston. That’s who we’re gonna play,” Green told TNT after Golden State beat Dallas Thursday night.

Klay Thompson was unstoppable against the Mavericks, finishing with 32 points.

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The Warriors advanced to their sixth NBA Finals in the past eight seasons by beating Dallas, 120-110, in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals.

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David Ortiz relishes his new permanent home in Red Sox Hall of Fame

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NRA opens gun convention in Texas after school massacre

The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” — and deflect any blame for — the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

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Rhode Island’s ‘Conjuring’ house sold, with one stipulation: No one can live there year-round

MGH vaccinating workers against monkeypox, the first time the shots have been used in the US

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Perspective | Book Excerpt

Charlie Baker: What happened to reaching across the aisle to get things done?

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The 4 fastest growing jobs for college graduates in 2022

Anania Williams just finished his bachelor’s degree at Emerson College, and is planning to move to New York City to look for work on the stage. But he’s already making a decent living as a social media influencer.

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Lots of young people dream of being an influencer. He’s really doing it.

The Solid Sound festival at Mass MoCA features dozens of musical acts, including Wilco, in addition to comedy performances, food, and more.

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Five things to do in and around Boston, May 23-June 5

metro

The "Conjuring" house, in Burrillville, R.I., is a 3,100 square foot farmhouse and eight-acre property made famous by the movie series that began in 2013.

Rhode Island’s ‘Conjuring’ house sold, with one stipulation: No one can live there year-round

Man shot in downtown Boston; police search for suspect

MGH vaccinating workers against monkeypox, the first time the shots have been used in the US

sports

For the first time in his career, all of Kiké Hernández's starts have come at one position: center field.

Versatile Kiké Hernández improves prospects for Gold Glove by staking his claim at one position: center field

Simona Halep falters after panic attack at French Open

Like Tom Brady, Red Sox DH J.D. Martinez understands what it’s like to have the answers to the test

business

Delta Air Lines said it will trim about 100 flights a day in the United States and Latin America from July 1 through Aug. 7 to help bolster reliability for remaining flights.

Delta is cutting flights to ‘relieve pressure’ on operations

Britain announces tax on oil and gas profits to fund cost-of-living payments

Broadcom to acquire VMware in $61b enterprise computing deal

politics

A convention attendee looks at NRA branded shirts for sale at the NRA Store at the NRA Annual Meeting held at the George R. Brown Convention Center Thursday, May 26, 2022, in Houston.

NRA opens gun convention in Texas after school massacre

Senators grasp for a bipartisan gun deal, facing long odds

Republicans face heat for ideas to stop mass shootings that avoid gun restrictions

Nation

President Biden spoke May 17 in the White House Rose Garden. His administration is firming up plans to cancel $10,000 in student debt per borrower for people who earned up to $150,000 the year before.

Latest White House plan would forgive $10,000 in student debt per borrower

What research shows on the effectiveness of gun-control laws

Gunman’s final 90 minutes fuel questions about police delays

World

Ukrainian soldiers from the 95th Air Assault Brigade loaded a weapon onto an armored vehicle near the city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine, May 25, 2022.

Russia slams sanctions, seeks to blame West for food crisis

Scientists try to bring Australian ‘tiger’ back from extinction

US aims to constrain China by shaping environment around it, Blinken says

opinion

Members of Threshold Choir in Concord, Mass., sang at the bedside of a dying patient in 2019. Left to right, Richard Friday, Patty Fraser, and Fran Hunt.

Lullabies for the dying

Social Studies: Female lawmakers’ burden; the voice in your head; change yourself or change your job?

Republicans return to their roots as the antiwar party

lifestyle

Maggie Rogers.

‘I want to be in school forever’: Maggie Rogers graduates from Harvard Divinity

Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular to return to the Esplanade this July 4

329 years later, last Salem ‘witch’ who wasn’t is pardoned

food & dining

The Seafood Platter at Salt + Stone restaurant on Assembly Row.

At Assembly Row’s Salt + Stone, something for everyone, with a smile

Faccia Brutta opens on Newbury Street; Telegraph Hill returns to Southie

It’s National Wine Day 2022. Visit one of these Rhode Island vineyards

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Formerly the Providence Biltmore, the redesigned landmark in the heart of downtown is now part of the Graduate Hotels’ hand-crafted collection of accommodations located in university towns in the US and U.K.

A Beaux-Arts bash in Providence, a stylish base camp in N.H., and a Grand Canyon getaway

Her travel advice? Keep your papers safe, ‘mind your manners,’ and eat like vacation calories don’t count

Beyond Bean: 10 things to love about Freeport, Maine

Arts

Installation view of "Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms," currently at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston's Watershed in East Boston. Left, Ebony G. Patterson, "...and the dew cracks the earth, in five acts of lamentation ... between the cuts ... beneath the leaves ... below the soil...," 2020; center, Madeline Hollander, "Heads/Tails: Walker & Broadway 2," 2020; right, El Anatsui, "Area B," 2007.

Gorgeous trash and radical recycling at ICA’s Watershed

At the MFA, a camera-ready country

You can judge an album by its cover

Books

A deadly silence

Three books on Stalin that shed light on Russian history

Toni Bentley: reading everything by Edith Wharton

Movies

Jimmy Pesto Jr. (left, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) and Tina Belcher (voiced by Dan Mintz) in "The Bob's Burgers Movie."

‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’ has heart — and (mostly) hits the spot

‘Goodfellas’ actor Ray Liotta dies at 67, reports say

World Cinema Film Festival offers passport to intriguing stories

Television

Ben Whishaw in "This Is Going to Hurt."

In most TV medical dramas, doctors are heroes. This isn’t one of them

Kristen Wiig says hi, hi (to) ‘Mrs. American Pie’

Kevin Spacey charged in UK with 4 counts of sexual assault

music

Mr. Fletcher, performing with Depeche Mode in Washington, D.C., in 2017.

Depeche Mode founding keyboardist Andy Fletcher dies at 60

Alan White, longtime drummer for prog rock’s Yes, dead at 72

‘I want to be in school forever’: Maggie Rogers graduates from Harvard Divinity

Theater/Dance

Dorrance Dance will appear at the Emerson Cutler Majestic on June 2.

A high-profile dance fest rises again

Out of the past and onto the stage

In Concord, ‘The Colored Museum’ puts racial stereotypes on exhibit

globe local

Kate Darling posed for a portrait in Cambridge.

‘It’s so scary,’ hearing someone shouting after MBTA passenger takes control of public address system on Red Line train, rider says

Safety at the beach and around the barbeque paramount this Memorial Day weekend, state officials say

Newton city councilors call on mayor to use more federal aid money to avoid school job cuts

Obituaries

Mr. Fletcher, performing with Depeche Mode in Washington, D.C., in 2017.

Depeche Mode founding keyboardist Andy Fletcher dies at 60

Alan White, longtime drummer for prog rock’s Yes, dead at 72

‘Goodfellas’ actor Ray Liotta dies at 67, reports say