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Vermont shocked by decision to remove books from state college libraries

Leaders of Vermont’s public colleges are taking an extraordinary step to save money: getting rid of most of the books in the campus libraries.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Nor’easter will hit southern New England late Monday, continue into Tuesday

The most intense part of the storm for Greater Boston is Tuesday afternoon and early evening.

Winter storm expected to bring high tides, some coastal flooding to Mass. and R.I.

These maps show how much snow New England can expect from the nor’easter
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TOM FARRAGHER

Their school faces bankruptcy, so St. Bernard alumni step up to buy it for $6.2 million
“It seemed like they were just punishing the kids. It seemed that way.”

How developer and pizza magnate Sal Lupoli found his dream home, atop the harbor tunnels
A grand old state office building in the North End is set to become a prominent Merrimack Valley businessman's home in Boston.

Waltham paid $17.4m for historic farmland. Now the city is placing a longtime community farm at risk, advocates say.

Add 20 minutes to your commute for now if you are taking the MBTA, officials say

President Biden spoke about the US banking system on Monday.

Biden reassures US customers that ‘banking system is safe’ after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

President Biden said he’d seek to hold those responsible accountable, and pressed for better oversight and regulation of larger banks. And he promised no losses would be borne by taxpayers.

Lines outside the SVB Private branch in Wellesley, Mass., on March 13, 2023.

Worried SVB customers queue up in Wellesley to get money, answers

The Wellesley branch of Silicon Valley Bank was a scene of crowding and confusion on Monday morning, as dozens of customers lined up to withdraw money and close accounts at the failed California-based bank.

SVB failure sparks blame game over Trump-era regulatory rule

Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are no longer after regulators took over the lenders and said depositors would not lose any money.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

How the collapse of SVB is different from 2008

Federal regulators moved to protect all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which failed after a run by customers. But markets remained on edge Monday morning.

US regional banks remain under pressure as First Republic sinks

What questions do you have about the SVB collapse?

Jonathan Jones will be back with the Patriots next season.

NFL free agency live updates: Patriots will re-sign Jonathan Jones

The Patriots have 16 "in-house" free agents who could walk, and a number of needs across different position groups. Follow along as we track all of the news.

Patriots re-sign cornerback Jonathan Jones, their most important free agent

Patriots trade tight end Jonnu Smith to the Falcons

Left to right, Jonathan Wang, Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, winners of the Best Director and Best Picture award for "Everything Everywhere All at Once," attended the Governors Ball during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.

95th Academy Awards

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ wins best picture, plus six more Oscars

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who graduated from Emerson College, took home the award for best director for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis also won supporting acting awards for the indie hit, and Michelle Yeoh made history as the first Asian woman to win best actress.

The meaning behind the blue ribbons at the Oscars More Oscars coverage

Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Silicon Valley Bank became the biggest US bank failure in more than a decade, after its long-established customer base of tech startups grew worried and yanked deposits.

Four days in startup land: Boston entrepreneurs, VCs reflect on SVB and what’s ahead

Startups and tech investors are accustomed to dealing with a dozen types of risk daily. Now, there's a new one they have to plan for.

Nick Mohammed (left) and Jason Sudeikis in "Ted Lasso."

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: The warm return of ‘Ted Lasso,’ Bob Odenkirk’s new dramedy, and an Elvis cartoon

“Ted Lasso” returns for its third, and possibly last, season, while new shows premiering this week include Bob Odenkirk in “Lucky Hank,” the horror thriller “Swarm,” and the animated series “Agent Elvis,” with Matthew McConaughey voicing Elvis.

‘The Last of Us’ season finale: Tell us what you think

Opinion

Former secretary of state Colin Powell, right, took part in a meeting with President George W. Bush and former secretaries of defense and state to discuss the Iraq War at the White House on Jan. 5, 2006. Shown are former secretary of state (Reagan administration) Alexander Haig Jr., from left; former secretary of defense Robert McNamara (Kennedy/Johnson administrations); former secretary of defense Melvin Laird (Nixon administration); former secretary of defense James Schlesinger (Nixon/Ford administration); former secretary of defense Frank Carlucci (Reagan administration); former secretary of defense William Perry (Clinton administration); chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace; former secretary of defense William Cohen (Clinton administration); Commanding General Multi National Forces Iraq George Casey; secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld; Vice President Dick Cheney; President George W. Bush; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Powell.

Andrew Bacevich

The self-deceived deceivers of war

The Iraq War, its 20th anniversary now at hand, offers an example.

Locking in tuition at state universities needs to offer affordability, not just predictability

Paul Milgrom, Zachary Bogue, and Silvia Console Battilana

The world needs more water flowing where it’s needed most

How to prevent MassHealth enrollees from losing their coverage

IDEAS | GEORGE ROGERS

Lost winter: A season on thin ice is a bad time for poutine

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

Serious close calls at Boston’s airport are rare, but overall ‘runway incursions’ are on the rise
Less serious runway incursions, where planes have more time to avoid each other, are on the rise at Boston’s airport, the FAA data shows.

Biden backs $8 billion Alaska oil project despite climate peril
President Biden authorized a giant ConocoPhillips oil project in northwest Alaska that environmentalists argue has no place in a warming world, even as he sought to bar future drilling across US Arctic waters and lands.

Telehealth at a crossroads: When does it work best? What should it cost?
The future of remote medical care remains unclear as patients flock back to the office, the rules shift once again, and insurers start to curtail their payments.

Men's college basketball

NCAA Tournament: Providence men’s basketball earns No. 11 seed, will play No. 6 Kentucky

The Friars will travel to Greensboro, N.C., to play Friday.

Full men’s NCAA Tournament bracket Full women’s NCAA Tournament bracket

As food aid program winds down, another piece of the COVID-era safety net gets snipped away
People who've received expanded food benefits for the past three years face the program's end, even as food prices remain sky-high.

LOVE LETTERS

How do we explain her past in pornography?
I want us prepared for the judgment.

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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

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

A teal-colored house on 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, police records and court documents show.

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

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Anthony Bova, co-owner of Bova's Bakery.

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

Bill Janovitz (above) conducted more than 130 interviews, including Eric Clapton and Randy Newman, for his biography of Leon Russell.

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

Lawmakers reconsider the secrecy of the confessional

A villager passed by debris of homes destroyed in Russia's night rocket attack on a village in the Zolochevsky district of the Lviv region of Ukraine on March 9.

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

Boston, MA - 11/5/2020: A Boston police officer watches over the scene at Codman Square where a Boston Fire truck had driven into a Bank of America branch in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA on November 04, 2020.

Boston’s police watchdog should be doing more

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

Walgreens announced on March 2 that it will not start selling mifepristone, an abortion pill, in 21 states that had warned of legal consequences if it did so.

IDEAS | MARY ZIEGLER

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

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

Winter storm expected to bring high tides, some coastal flooding to Mass. and R.I.

Seas could rise as high as 22 feet Tuesday off Nantucket, and 20 feet or higher in waters off the Gloucester, Winthrop, and Duxbury areas, as well as on the Outer Cape, according to a weather service “surf zone” forecast.

These maps show how much snow New England can expect from the nor’easter

New England is expected to get hit with a nor’easter starting Monday night, bringing strong and potentially damaging winds, rainfall, and heavy wet snow to the region.

The (loose) Rhode Island ties to Silicon Valley Bank

There are a couple of R.I. connections: Two members of SVB's executive team went to college here. Neither are considered responsible for the bank's failure.

Firefighters battle 5-alarm blaze in Townsend

The Townsend Fire-EMS Department said crews were out working to put out the fire Sunday morning at 205 Main St., officials wrote on Facebook.

Sports

Jonathan Jones has played all seven of his seasons in New England

Patriots re-sign cornerback Jonathan Jones, their most important free agent

Jones, long one of the Patriots top defenders and core special teamers, has played all seven of his seasons in New England.

Led by star freshman Brandon Miller, Alabama is the top overall seed in the men's field.

NCAA basketball

Previewing the men’s basketball Division 1 NCAA Tournament

A look at the local connections and most intriguing first-round games, plus Final Four picks and more.

Jonathan Jones will be back with the Patriots next season.

NFL free agency live updates: Patriots will re-sign Jonathan Jones

The Patriots have 16 "in-house" free agents who could walk, and a number of needs across different position groups. Follow along as we track all of the news.

NFL FREE AGENCY

Your Patriots free agency primer: Who could walk, what they need, and players to know

bruins notebook

When Brandon Carlo goes down the way he did, concussion is always a concern

Patriots trade tight end Jonnu Smith to the Falcons

Business

US regional banks remain under pressure as First Republic sinks

The rapid selloff comes even as the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said they were introducing a new backstop for banks that would be large enough to protect the entire nation’s deposits.

Biden reassures US customers that ‘banking system is safe’ after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

President Biden said he’d seek to hold those responsible accountable, and pressed for better oversight and regulation of larger banks. And he promised no losses would be borne by taxpayers.

The Silicon Valley Bank collapse: How it happened and what we know

Worried SVB customers queue up in Wellesley to get money, answers

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

Passengers entered and left the Forest Hills station on Monday in Boston.

Add 20 minutes to your commute for now if you are taking the MBTA, officials say

R.I. health tech startup aims to reach pediatric anxiety patients where they are

To ease suffering for terminally ill patients, Rhode Island should legalize medically assisted death

sports

Xaverian has earned a return trip to TD Garden for the Division 1 state hockey final, where the Hawks will play Pope Francis Sunday.

Here’s the schedule for the six MIAA hockey championship games Sunday at TD Garden

Revolution’s perfect start ends with 4-0 road loss to Los Angeles FC

Joey Meneses homers twice, Mexico clobbers US 11-5 in WBC

business

Signage outside Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on March 9, 2023.

What questions do you have about the SVB collapse?

Four days in startup land: Boston entrepreneurs, VCs reflect on SVB and what’s ahead

Silicon Valley Bank failure sparks blame game over Trump-era regulatory rule

politics

This 2019 aerial photo provided by ConocoPhillips shows an exploratory drilling camp at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope. President Joe Biden will prevent or limit oil drilling in 13 million acres of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean, an administration official said on Sunday, March 12, 2023.

Biden backs $8 billion Alaska oil project despite climate peril

Vice President Harris to visit Africa in latest US outreach

Trump returns to Iowa aiming for more disciplined campaign

Nation

Edward Berger, winner of the Best International Feature Film award for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front', wore a blue ribbon on his left shoulder at the 95th Academy Awards.

The meaning behind the blue ribbons worn at the Oscars

Cohen to testify before grand jury in Trump hush-money investigation

Eight dead after smuggling boats capsize off San Diego coast

World

Local authorities try to put out a fire at Royal Residence in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on March 12.

Fire damages part of Cambodian king’s residence near temple

Ukraine steps up calls for evacuation of Kupiansk under relentless Russian shelling

War in Ukraine puts centuries of Swiss neutrality to the test

opinion

Cannabis gear in the form of caps, T-shirts, and other goods were for sale at Theory Wellness, a dispensary in Great Barrington.

Group is focused on clearing the air on quality of cannabis

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

A ‘national divorce’? Is there no middle ground, or common ground?

lifestyle

How do we explain her past in pornography?

She never left her husband

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

food & dining

Gardner’s Wharf — which includes the seafood market — is for sale for $2.695 million in Wickford, a village in North Kingstown, R.I.

Looking to buy a restaurant? There’s a ton for sale in R.I.

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

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

Edward Berger, winner of the Best International Feature Film award for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front', wore a blue ribbon on his left shoulder at the 95th Academy Awards.

The meaning behind the blue ribbons worn at the Oscars

Watching the Oscars with my friends

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ wins best picture, plus six more Oscars

Television

Pedro Pascal in HBO's "The Last of Us."

‘The Last of Us’ season finale: Tell us what you think

This week’s TV: The warm return of ‘Ted Lasso,’ Bob Odenkirk’s new dramedy, and an Elvis cartoon

An overlong Oscars broadcast won’t be winning any awards

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

Lewis Spratlan raised more than $70,000 to fund two performances of his opera's second act in January 2000.

Lewis Spratlan, who raised funds to premiere his Pulitzer-winning opera, dies at 82

Pat McCormick, 4-time Olympic diving champion, dies at 92

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