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Stewart Landers at his East Boston home. The pioneering AIDS activist, who himself was diagnosed with HIV in 1985, when most died shortly after diagnosis, takes on a new public health battle, as his life once again hangs in the balance. Landers has a rare cancer, Merkel cell carcinoma, which is becoming more common in the US and is much more lethal than melanoma.

A deadly cancer you probably haven’t heard of is becoming more common. But a pioneering HIV activist is hoping to change that.

Merkel cell carcinoma is about five times more lethal than the better-known skin cancer, melanoma.

With a divided Boston City Council, Mayor Michelle Wu often gets her way

Whether due to councilors' internal divisions or the mayor's broad legal power and political savvy, Michelle Wu has prevailed in disagreements with the legislative body.

Pence says Trump ‘endangered my family’ on Jan. 6

Former vice president Mike Pence on Saturday harshly criticized former president Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol, widening the rift between the two men as they prepare to battle over the Republican nomination in next year’s election.

Late-winter storm is expected to bring a mix of rain, snow, and high winds beginning Monday night

Forecasters have “increased confidence” that parts of the state face the potential for between six to 12 inches of snow and strong winds during the storm, according to a National Weather Service meteorologist.

In ‘Saturday Night Live’ monologue, Jenna Ortega says she’s not as ‘twisted’ as her roles suggest
The 20-year-old Ortega has acted since she was a child, but found fame with Netflix's "Wednesday" last year. The 1975 was the night's musical guest.

‘This hit like a ton of bricks’: Troubles at Silicon Valley Bank ripple across Boston tech scene

Startups and investors who depended on SVB face the reality that their accounts are frozen after the California-based bank, a key player in the tech economy, was seized by regulators.

Silicon Valley Bank collapse sets off blame game in tech industry

Violence has been on the rise in the Talbot Avenue corridor, especially 10 Helen St.

A tiny street in Dorchester is a magnet for street violence. Police say one house is the source of so much trouble.

A teal-colored house at 10 Helen St. has served as a hive of gang activity, raided by police at least three times in as many years, and has been shot at multiple times amid conflicts between rival street crews, including one group that calls the triple decker home, police records and court documents show.

At 80, Doris Kearns Goodwin has a whole new life
The famed historian lives in a condo in the city and hangs out with illustrious pals at the ’Quin, as she works on a different kind of book.

Christopher L. Gasper

New NCAA boss Charlie Baker taking his first small steps in solving the big issues facing college sports
“College sports is obviously going through a challenging period here with all kinds of things pushing and pulling on it, and I would like to think that you know I can solve some of those problems,” said Charlie Baker, who played college basketball at Harvard. “We’ll see.”

MAGAZINE | ODIE HENDERSON

Why I reserve special, ornery ire for the ‘we owe you’ Oscar nomination
I have my own pet peeve: when actors I don’t think deserve Oscar nominations win the Oscar. And it can happen for a number of reasons.

2023 Oscars: Who will win, who should win, and who shouldn’t be here

The Celtics' Marcus Smart was ejected following this late entanglement with the Hawks' Trae Young (center).

CELTICS 134, HAWKS 125

Celtics keep their cool late after Marcus Smart’s ejection, hold off Trae Young and the feisty Hawks

After Smart was ejected, but Al Horford took control of the huddle and told his teammates they had to keep their poise. Jayson Tatum finished the win with 34 points and 15 rebounds.

Patrice Bergeron (left) and teammates celebrate his game-tying goal during the second period Saturday afternoon.

Bruins 3, Red Wings 2

After a slow start, Bruins rally to beat Red Wings on Garnet Hathaway’s first goal as a Bruin

The two teams will meet again on Sunday afternoon, this time in Detroit.

Chris Sale got eight swings and misses against the Twins on Saturday, across all three of his pitches — four-seamer, slider, and changeup.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Another promising afternoon for Chris Sale against the Twins

It was a building-block day,” Sale said after his second Grapefruit League outing. “We’ve got more work to do but it was a step in the right direction."

Peter Abraham: There’s a world of interest in this year’s World Baseball Classic

Opinion

Lawmakers reconsider the secrecy of the confessional

Bills in several states would do away with an ancient legal protection.

Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine. The US should not hold back evidence for the prosecution.

The little boots inside Lindsay Clancy’s house make clear none of it makes any sense at all

Boston’s police watchdog should be doing more

IDEAS | MARY ZIEGLER

Did a 21st-century pharmacy really just cave to the threat of a 19th-century antiabortion law?

Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár in director Todd Field's Tár.

The Emancipator

We need to talk about Tár’s racist ending

In a time of rising anti-Asian hate, Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as a world-famous conductor, carelessly relies on Asian stereotypes to portray its White protagonist’s fall from grace.

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photo illustration of David Sabatini. photo by Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

Transit Police to monitor for hate group activity on public transportation heading to St. Patrick’s Day parade

Elected representatives from South Boston said they met Friday evening with law enforcement officials after members of a neo-Nazi group gathered last year along the parade route and displayed a banner reading, “Keep Boston Irish.”

Man charged with murder in fatal stabbing in Blackstone

The victim, a 42-year-old man, was taken to a Rhode Island hospital where he was pronounced dead, authorities said. A 32-year-old man was later arrested and charged with his death.

Woman threatens MBTA bus driver and spits in his face after being asked to pay fare

No arrest was made, according to Transit Police.

Storm breaches California river’s levee, thousands evacuate
A Northern California agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop was forced to evacuate early Saturday after the Pajaro River’s levee was breached by flooding from a new atmospheric river that pummeled the state.

Postal service offers $50,000 reward in search for man who allegedly robbed letter carrier in Randolph
The robbery happened around 1:50 p.m. Wednesday on Canton Street while the letter carrier was working, USPIS officials said.

Celtics forward Danilo Gallinari shaves head for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, help pediatric cancer care
The injured Celtics forward took part in fund-raising tradition that began when three men shaved their heads on St. Patrick’s Day, 2000, in an Irish pub in New York.

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Movie starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck to film at Bova’s Bakery in the North End

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Bill Janovitz goes deep to tell the story of Leon Russell, a rock showman teetering on a tightrope

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Tucker Carlson, left, with former President Donald Trump at the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in July.

Fox News and Tucker Carlson’s big lies

Elder Sharon Hammond prayed during a vigil for a group of Americans recently kidnapped in Mexico, at Word of God Ministries in Scranton, S.C., on March 8.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Is Mexico a lawless place?

One missing puzzle piece unites a group of strangers, a secret community of enthusiasts who frequent the games corner of the thrift store. We leave notes for one another hidden in the boxes.

Heather Hopp-Bruce

The missing puzzle piece

Ukrainian soldiers manned a checkpoint in Donetsk with a donated American .50-caliber machine gun in May. Since the Russian invasion, the Biden administration has approved hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of private arms sales to Ukraine and sped up the approval time for deals that get weapons to the front lines.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

The incalculable moral cost of proxy wars

Electric Time technician Dan LaMoore adjusted a clock hand on a 1,000-pound, 12-foot diameter clock constructed for a resort in Vietnam, March 9, 2021, in Medfield, Mass. Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. local time March 12, when clocks are set ahead one hour.

As Congress mulls permanent daylight saving time, the Bay State should signal it’s ready

The Central Business District and the Chinatown in Singapore, which has an autocratic government and is known for its cleanliness and low rates of crime.

IDEAS | JASON MIKLIAN

Crazy rich autocracies: What are they doing better than democracies?

Metro

Late-winter storm is expected to bring a mix of rain, snow, and high winds beginning Monday night

Forecasters have “increased confidence” that parts of the state face the potential for between six to 12 inches of snow and strong winds during the storm, according to a National Weather Service meteorologist.

Celtics forward Danilo Gallinari shaves head for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, help pediatric cancer care

The injured Celtics forward took part in fund-raising tradition that began when three men shaved their heads on St. Patrick’s Day, 2000, in an Irish pub in New York.

Postal service offers $50,000 reward in search for man who allegedly robbed letter carrier in Randolph

The robbery happened around 1:50 p.m. Wednesday on Canton Street while the letter carrier was working, USPIS officials said.

Families of Mass. residents killed by police rally to demand end to qualified immunity

The families of several people killed by police were joined at a protest by the founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to demand that legislators end qualified immunity in Massachusetts.

Sports

Canton's A.J. Thomas (right, No. 21) tries to re-direct the puck past Duxbury goalie Sam Mazanec in Saturday's Division 2 semifinal matchup. Thomas wound up scoring a pair of goals for the Bulldogs in a 3-1 win.

MIAA hockey tournament semifinals

A.J. Thomas soaks up moment as third-seeded Canton boys’ hockey punches its ticket to the Division 2 state championship at TD Garden

Thomas tallied the winner at 10:24 of the third period and followed with an empty-netter for the third-seeded Bulldogs (21-4) in a 3-1 victory over No. 2 Duxbury for their fourth trip to the Garden since 2019.

Mick Messner scored in the second overtime to send Merrimack to the Hockey East semifinals Friday at TD Garden.

men's hockey east quarterfinals

Mick Messner breaks scoreless tie in second overtime to lift Merrimack men over Boston College in Hockey East quarterfinals

Merrimack will play UMass Lowell and Boston University will face Providence in the semifinals Friday at TD Garden.

The Celtics' Marcus Smart was ejected following this late entanglement with the Hawks' Trae Young (center).

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Celtics keep their cool late after Marcus Smart’s ejection, hold off Trae Young and the feisty Hawks

After Smart was ejected, but Al Horford took control of the huddle and told his teammates they had to keep their poise. Jayson Tatum finished the win with 34 points and 15 rebounds.

MIAA DIVISION 1 BOYS' BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Needham and North Andover finish off the Final 4 in Division 1 boys’ basketball

MIAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Forged by stiff regular-season tests, St. Mary’s boys’ basketball surges into Division 3 semifinals

After a 26-hole day, Scottie Scheffler leads The Players Championship by two shots

Business

Oil giant Saudi Aramco has profits of $161B in 2022

Oil giant Saudi Aramco reported Sunday its profits surged to $161 billion last year off higher crude prices, a record result for an energy firm crucial to the kingdom’s economy.

Silicon Valley Bank collapse sets off blame game in tech industry

For once, the crisis didn’t seem to revolve around a cryptocurrency company.

Gas prices surge in New Jersey, around nation

SVB fallout spreads around the world as UK firms plea for help

magazine

Clockwise from top left: A photograph from the Todd Webb in Africa exhibition; Jamez McCorkle in "Omar"; Simone Leigh’s Cupboard IX; a scene from Justin Peck's ballet "Everywhere We Go"; and The Great Mystery by Kent Monkman.

30 of the best dance, theater, book, art, and classical music events

James Tellin and John O’Reilly in a 2017 photograph by Seth David Rubin.

In the ’60s, a gay couple made their Worcester home into a refuge of art and community

An illustration of the Oscar statuette lying on a therapist's couch with a male therapist, with glasses, a balding head, and a black moustache, sitting on a chair behind the statuette's right shoulder taking notes. The illustration is on a white background and the color palette for the drawing is gold, a dark red, and black.

After a bruising 2022 ceremony, Oscar could use some advice

Front view Oscar award statue isolated on white background. 3D illustration. The base of the statue has been altered to say "Consolation Prize."

Why I reserve special, ornery ire for the ‘we owe you’ Oscar nomination

metro

The Miller Library at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine.

Colby College goes into lockdown after shot fired on campus

A tiny street in Dorchester is a magnet for street violence. Police say one house is the source of so much trouble.

A deadly cancer you probably haven’t heard of is becoming more common. But a pioneering HIV activist is hoping to change that.

sports

Harvard guard McKenzie Forbes drives to the basket against Princeton forward Ellie Mitchell during the first half of the Ivy League championship game. Forbes led Harvard with 16 points, but the Crimson still lost to Princeton.

Harvard women’s basketball falls short in NCAA Tournament bid, Princeton rallies to win Ivy League title

Ellie Shea sizzles again at New Balance Nationals indoor track meet, setting another record, this time in the girls’ 5,000-meter run

Derek Carr joins Saints with a chip on his shoulder after how things ended with the Raiders

business

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks with Politburo Standing Committee member Li Qiang during the fourth plenary session of the National People's Congress on March 11 Beijing, China.

China names Li Qiang premier nominally in charge of economy

SVB China venture says operations have been stable, independent

The strong job market is becoming its own worst enemy

politics

The dome of the U.S. Capitol building on June 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

It was a week when Republicans and Democrats did battle — within their own parties

Ron DeSantis dips a toe in Iowa, with Trump in his sights

Michael Cohen, former Trump lawyer, to testify before grand jury next week, sources say

Nation

A vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a cannabis marketplace on May 24, 2019 in Los Angeles.

Oregon closer to magic mushroom therapy, but has setback

Stripping Confederate ties, the US Navy renames two vessels

Four astronauts fly SpaceX back home, end 5-month mission

World

Smoke rises beyond a wheat field from what may be a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance, near Beryslav, in the Kherson region of Ukraine, on Feb. 19.

In fields sown with bombs, Ukraine’s farmers risk deadly harvest

Front line shifts in Russia’s and Ukraine’s battle for Bakhmut, analysts say

Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinian militants in West Bank

opinion

Elder Sharon Hammond prayed during a vigil for a group of Americans recently kidnapped in Mexico, at Word of God Ministries in Scranton, S.C., on March 8.

Is Mexico a lawless place?

America’s next generation of liars

Fox News and Tucker Carlson’s big lies

lifestyle

She never left her husband

The envelope (or e-mail), please: How to brace for college admissions season

Freshman at Brown wins $100,000 in ‘Jeopardy!’ high school reunion tournament

food & dining

From bottom right, clockwise: The Newport Saint Patrick's Day parade (Discover Newport), customers sitting at the bar at Skeff's Neighborhood Pub in East Providence (Globe staff), a reuben at McBride's Pub (McBride's), Irish flag (Globe staff), musicians performing at Skeff's (Globe staff), fish and chips (Globe staff), pint of Guinness (Globe staff), Busker's in Newport (Discover Newport).

Where you should eat, drink, and celebrate for Saint Patrick’s Day in Rhode Island

D.C. standout Del Mar will open downtown; Hue brings colorful nightlife to the old Storyville space

It’s a new season for Season to Taste

travel

Ice prepares to greet admirers at the Kitty Cat Cafe in Peabody. He was recently adopted and will soon be in a permanent home.

Coffee, tea, or cats? A new cafe in Peabody caters to feline fanatics.

The Newport Car Museum is ‘not only a car museum . . . it’s an art museum’

A Costa Rican getaway turns into a 17-hour road trip to Texas

Arts

A visitor to the Museum of Fine Arts takes in David Drake’s “Storage jar, 1858” at the exhibition “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina."

At the MFA, enslaved Black potters’ work brings lives into the light in ‘Hear Me Now’

Abstraction is women’s work, too, at Addison Gallery of American Art

The politics of play at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360

Books

Nancy Hopkins and her colleagues challenged a culture of male dominance at MIT in the 1990s — and won. Kate Zernike’s ‘The Exceptions’ tells us how.

Sabrina Orah Mark seeks the place where old and new collide

An eccentric matriarch takes in the family black sheep in Cathleen Schine’s tender ‘Kunstlers in Paradise’

Movies

Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. joins Boston-based cybersecurity company’s board of directors

Robert Blake, actor acquitted in wife’s killing, dies at 89

Good Will (apartment) Hunting: Unit in triple-decker where Matt Damon’s character lived costs $4,500 a month

Television

Jenna Ortega attends the world premiere of Paramount's "Scream VI" at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on March 6 in New York City.

In ‘Saturday Night Live’ monologue, Jenna Ortega says she’s not as ‘twisted’ as her roles suggest

Can-do attitude prevails, as ‘Shrinking’ earns a second season

8 of the most memorable fictional TV music makers

music

On Thursday night in Symphony Hall, (from left to right) conductor Thomas Wilkins, guest artist Earl Howard, composer Anthony Davis, and clarinet soloist Anthony McGill took a bow after the BSO's performance of Davis's work "You Have the Right to Remain Silent."

A clarinet’s right to remain silent, and to speak out

Bill Janovitz goes deep to tell the story of Leon Russell, a rock showman teetering on a tightrope

In demand and on the move, Ambrose Akinmusire’s explorations lead to Boston and beyond

Theater/Dance

Fortune Feimster is performing four shows at the Chevalier and Wilbur theaters March 16-18.

For comedian Fortune Feimster, ‘live, laugh, love’ is a way of life

Comedian Sam Morril on elevating his game and teaming up with Julian Edelman

A free spirit soars beyond convention in ART’s ‘The Wife of Willesden’

globe local

Clare Fortune-Lad plays with her son Benton, 3, in their Billerica home.

‘Remember that time when there was nowhere else we needed to be?’

The Argument: Should Massachusetts provide rental assistance for all who qualify?

Police help the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile

Obituaries

Michael Gruenbaum lived in Brookline.

Michael Gruenbaum, Holocaust survivor who wrote about boyhood in a Nazi concentration camp, dies at 92

Eugene Kohn, architect of skyscraping ambitions, dies at 92

Jean Faut, star pitcher in women’s baseball league, dies at 98