The Boston Globe

Bay State College to lose accreditation after appeal fails

After Aug. 31, students will not be able to access federal financial aid and credits may not transfer to other institutions.

Hospitals plead for flexibility on spending amid soaring costs of temporary nurses

Massachusetts hospitals spent $1.5 billion on temporary labor in 2022, up 610 percent over 2019.

US prosecutors ask judge to hold Stash’s Pizza owner, charged with exploiting workers, pending trial

US Magistrate Judge Judith Dein took the question of whether to release Stavros Papantoniadis on bail under advisement Monday after a three-hour hearing in federal court in Boston.

Owner of Dorchester pizza shop charged with exploiting undocumented workers

Harvard commissions independent review of women’s hockey program and coach Katey Stone

The Globe in January reported wide-ranging abuse allegations, including hazing, under Stone, who has coached the Crimson since 1994.

A Trump indictment wouldn’t test democracy, but experts warn Republican resistance just might

Experts in democracy say the real test will come not with the prosecution itself, but with the response from Trump and the rest of the Republican Party.

New York law enforcement prepares as speculation builds over possible Trump arrest House GOP, defending Trump, targets New York DA ahead of expected indictment

Company offering new AI body scans slated to open in Mass. Experts warn about cost, false positives.
Some experts are concerned that these new body scans for the “worried well” are surging ahead of the current science on AI.

Skier dies after hitting tree on Wachusett Mountain Ski Area trail

Five Conn. children, ages 8-17, dead after New York crash

Owner reunited with dog that was snatched from sidewalk on Beacon Hill

Do you have a New Hampshire story you want us to look into? Tell us about it here.

Boston Latin School student Lauren Choy (second from right) led a discussion on the experience of Asian American students at Boston Public Schools. She was joined by (from left) Boston Latin Academy student Phuong To, Josiah Quincy Upper School student Qiwen Su, and John D. O'Bryant School of Math and Science student Ngan Huynh. The discussion was part of an event at VietAID in Dorchester.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

‘Asians are an afterthought’: Asian American students at BPS report feeling less safe, more undervalued

“The dominant narrative out there in Boston Public Schools, as well as many other places, is that Asian students are doing fine,” said former BPS teacher Go Sasaki. “Based on our experiences and anecdotes, we know that is not the case.”

Waterfront mansion in Beverly sells for $18.2 million. See the photos.
Known as “Rock Edge,” the Georgian Revival-style mansion spans about 28,000 square feet on a rocky bluff above 400 square feet of private beachfront, according to marketing materials.

peter abraham | on baseball

Sox Showcase: Japan’s Masataka Yoshida, Mexico’s Alex Verdugo come through in clutch during epic World Baseball Classic semifinal
A third Red Sox player, Jarren Duran, pinch ran for Verdugo and scored an insurance run.

Japan rallies in ninth inning to edge Mexico, advance to play United States in World Baseball Classic final

Roger Berkowitz showed off some of the new items from his new online food company.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Roger Berkowitz’s next act

The former CEO of Legal Sea Foods is taking the wraps off Roger's Fish Co., an online purveyor of flash-frozen fish, live and cooked lobsters, and ready-to-heat meals for the let’s-eat-out-at-home set.

A member of staff cleaned ATMs at the headquarter of Credit Suisse bank in Zurich on Monday.

kara miller | the big idea

After another week of turmoil, how safe are banks?

First, we’re likely to see more consolidation and regulation. And second, there is the potential for more pain as banks adjust to a new, higher-interest-rate reality.

Senator Elizabeth Warren says she favors increasing FDIC’s deposit insurance cap Fate of First Republic uncertain as shares plummet again

Bill Belichick's Patriots are 25-26 (including playoffs) over the last three seasons.

christopher l. gasper

Patriots’ offseason moves have been OK, but they aren’t nearly enough to make the team a contender

Bill Belichick may be making the mistake — again — of thinking his team isn't that far from challenging the Bills for AFC East supremacy.

RB Damien Harris reportedly signs with the Bills A closer look at Patriots free agency

Doctor David Enze Wang talked with a patient's family member on the phone in the Special Pathogen Unit ICU at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on April 27, 2020. The hospital converted the cardiovascular center into a COVID-19 intensive care unit.

Three years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, how cautious are the experts?

Some say they’ve loosened up, at least in their personal lives, but there are things they’re still keeping an eye on.

Inside the weird, wonderful world of ‘Buy Nothing’ groups

The offbeat giveaway groups on Facebook flourished during the pandemic, with membership numbers more than tripling.

Tell us: What items have you picked up or given away for free on Facebook?

Opinion

Protesters gather to demand justice for Arif Sayed Faisal during a protest held by The Bangladesh Association of New England in January.

Protesters won’t let Cambridge sweep fatal police shooting ‘under the rug’

A coalition of college students is helping to keep the cause for more transparency alive.

Twenty years after Iraq War, what happened to the children?

Timothy Scalona

I am a survivor of the child welfare system. Family surveillance is not the solution to poverty.

IDEAS | CRAIG FEHRMAN

The quietly radical genius of Phillis Wheatley

The financial fragility of single parents who need child care

Actor Shameik Moore poses with young movie-goers during the ‘Spiderman Into The Spider-Verse’ Atlanta screening at Regal Atlantic Station on Dec. 6, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Emancipator

How to tell if a film or TV Show is antiracist

While conversations about representation are essential, we also need to talk about the way racism itself is portrayed. The stories we tell can help solve the problem — or can perpetuate it.

A Beautiful Resistance

Jeneé Osterheldt

The women’s history I carry with me is love: Chardline Chanel

A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Black love as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

Watch: The embrace of Imari & Miriam See more from ‘A Beautiful Resistance’ Follow on Instagram

Love is Freedom: The Embrace of Imari & Miriam

Imari Paris Jeffries and Miriam Ortiz understand liberation as a love language, not just in their community work, but with one another, too.

High Med. Low

Select a county:

Special reports

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

Live musket round fired inside Westford Museum; no injuries reported

The gunshot was fired sometime between 2:30 and 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon by a member of the 6th Middlesex Regiment reenactment group, which was holding a meeting at the museum, said Leslie Howard, president of the Westford Historical Society and Museum.

World on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report gives stark warning
Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday.

‘Ted Lasso’ cast visits White House to promote mental health care
Ted Lasso was at the White House on Monday, where Jason Sudeikis and other cast members talked about mental health. That topic is one of the themes of the award-winning show.

More than 40 knives, brass knuckles found in home of Belmont, N.H., man authorities say
Authorities said they found weapons, which also included rifle magazines and realistic-looking airsoft guns, and multiple bags of suspected drugs, according to the statement.

Monica Cannon-Grant arraigned in federal court on new fraud charges
Cannon-Grant and her husband were arraigned Monday on nine new counts, including the filing of false tax returns, that a federal grand jury added to an 18-count indictment filed against them a year ago.

Former Bruin Zdeno Chara to run his first Boston Marathon for The Hoyt Foundation, Thomas E. Smith Foundation
Chara announced his intentions on Instagram Sunday.

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Send The Boston Globe a confidential news tip
Do you have a tip about something that needs to be investigated? Do you have documents or data we should dig into? We want to hear from you.

Recommended reads

A rendering from the proposal for Flagpole of Freedom Park near Columbia Falls, Maine. If built, the more than $1 billion attraction would include the tallest flagpole in the world.

A proposal to build the ‘world’s tallest flagpole’ looms over a small community in Maine

What would become of this picturesque community five hours north of Boston if a powerful local family’s proposal to turn hundreds of acres of nearby wilderness into a billion-dollar patriotic theme park — complete with a 1,461-foot flagpole — moves ahead?

Hampshire College extends warm welcome to students from New College of Florida, a DeSantis target
Ed Wingenbach, president of Hampshire College, said his team reached out to student organizers at New College in Sarasota, Fla., because the two colleges are “very similar institutions.”

When only affluent fans can afford concert tickets, there’s a price to be paid
The cost to see Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and other megastars is widening the gulf between haves and have-nots, and fraying the connection between artists and their fan bases.

Medical residents at Mass General Brigham could soon unionize. Here’s why.
The health system is pushing back, with program directors holding individual meetings with residents to discourage the effort.

video

Culture & Lifestyle

James McMurtry plays a sold-out show at City Winery Tuesday night.

James McMurtry lets the characters in his songs do the talking

Eunji Lim and Jeffrey Song in "Wild Goose Dreams" at SpeakEasy Stage Company.

Connection and disconnection in SpeakEasy’s ‘Wild Goose Dreams’

Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey leans into the crowd at MGM Music Hall at Fenway Saturday night.

With Dropkick Murphys at full roar, it must be that time of year again

Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the BSO and singers of the Lorelei Ensemble in Julia Wolfe's “Her Story” on Thursday in Symphony Hall.

Sounding ‘Her Story’ and the music of loss

Special Projects

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

FROM OUR PARTNERS

product by Studio/B. What is this?This content was produced by Boston Globe Media's Studio/B in collaboration with the advertiser. The news and editorial departments of the Boston Globe had no role in its production or display.

product by BG BRANDLAB. What is this?This content was produced by Boston Globe Media's Studio/B in collaboration with the advertiser. The news and editorial departments of the Boston Globe had no role in its production or display.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Sulaiman Fayadh Sulaiman, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since he was shot as a 3-year-old in 2003, lives in Baghdad and is a member of the Iraqi Paralympic archery team, competing internationally.

Twenty years after Iraq War, what happened to the children?

A mother is reflected in the mirror as she cleans her children's room before a visit from a DCF worker at her home in Revere in 2019.

Timothy Scalona

I am a survivor of the child welfare system. Family surveillance is not the solution to poverty.

The Phillis Wheatley statue on Commonwealth Avenue.

IDEAS | CRAIG FEHRMAN

The quietly radical genius of Phillis Wheatley

Teacher Dina Gomes held Rory as she rocked Railey (bottom) in the infant room at the Nurtury Center in Roxbury, Feb. 7. In Massachusetts, child care for the youngest residents is more difficult to find and harder to afford than most other places in the country.

The financial fragility of single parents who need child care

Even at an annualized rate, health care costs rose on average 3.2 percent a year since 2019 — higher than the state’s 3.1 percent target.

Health care costs need to be contained

IDEAS | ELOISE DAVENPORT

My fitness trackers took me hostage

Metro

More than 40 knives, brass knuckles found in home of Belmont, N.H., man authorities say

Authorities said they found weapons, which also included rifle magazines and realistic-looking airsoft guns, and multiple bags of suspected drugs, according to the statement.

Do you have a New Hampshire story you want us to look into? Tell us about it here.

The Globe NH team wants to hear from you! Here's how you can share your tips and ideas.

US prosecutors ask judge to hold Stash’s Pizza owner, charged with exploiting workers, pending trial

US Magistrate Judge Judith Dein took the question of whether to release Stavros Papantoniadis on bail under advisement Monday after a three-hour hearing in federal court in Boston.

Hospitals plead for flexibility on spending amid soaring costs of temporary nurses

Massachusetts hospitals spent $1.5 billion on temporary labor in 2022, up 610 percent over 2019.

Sports

Azzi Fudd was driven in the third quarter, scoring 16 of her 22 points as UConn seized control against Baylor.

WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL | UCONN 77, BAYLOR 58

UConn women knock off Baylor, book their 29th straight trip to the Sweet 16 of NCAA Tournament

Azzi Fudd led the way for the Huskies with 22 points, Aaliyah Edwards added 19 points and Nika Muhl had 10 assists. UConn will play Ohio State in a regional semifinal in Seattle.

Japan celebrated after Munetaka Murakami's walkoff double beat Mexico in the World Baseball Classic semifinals.

wbc semifinal: japan 6, mexico 5

Japan rallies in ninth inning to edge Mexico, advance to play United States in World Baseball Classic final

Shohei Ohtani began the ninth with a leadoff double and Munetaka Murakami hit a walkoff, two-run double. The championship game is Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Cam Newton went 7-8 as a starter during his one season with the Patriots, in 2020.

Former Patriots quarterback Cam Newton to throw at Auburn’s Pro Day in hopes of an NFL job

Newton, 34, hasn’t played in the NFL since 2021, when he rejoined the Panthers midseason and went 0-5 as a starter.

Boston Marathon

Former Bruin Zdeno Chara to run his first Boston Marathon for The Hoyt Foundation, Thomas E. Smith Foundation

WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC

Red Sox’ Masataka Yoshida blasts three-run homer for Japan to tie World Baseball Classic semifinal, then Alex Verdugo puts Mexico back ahead

peter abraham | on baseball

Sox Showcase: Japan’s Masataka Yoshida, Mexico’s Alex Verdugo come through in clutch during epic World Baseball Classic semifinal

Business

Fate of First Republic uncertain as shares plummet again

First Republic Bank remained imperiled Monday as last week’s $30 billion cash infusion by some of the nation’s biggest banks and a frantic effort to sell a stake in the bank to raise additional cash did little to calm investors and depositors.

Bush’s ZUS Health raises largest funding round yet

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Mass. General Hospital grant enables West End Museum to hire its first salaried executive director

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Roger Berkowitz’s next act

magazine

London's Elizabeth Tower, also known as Big Ben.

How to get the most out of a visit to London, before the coronation crowds take over

Practicing a yoga pose by the Stockbridge Bowl, which is also called Lake Mahkeenac.

Learning to relax at the Kripalu retreat in the Berkshires

The town of Myrina, capital of Lemnos island.

Looking for a gorgeous Greek island you can actually afford to visit?

This week's daters: Anna and Chris

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We both enjoy music; he is much more into classical music’

metro

Boston Latin School student Lauren Choy (second from right) led a discussion on the experience of Asian American students at Boston Public Schools. She was joined by (from left) Boston Latin Academy student Phuong To, Josiah Quincy Upper School student Qiwen Su, and John D. O'Bryant School of Math and Science student Ngan Huynh. The discussion was part of an event at VietAID in Dorchester.

‘Asians are an afterthought’: Asian American students at BPS report feeling less safe, more undervalued

Bay State College to lose accreditation after appeal fails

A new proposal would replace R.I.’s controversial coastal regulator

sports

Joe Mazzulla (left) and Jayson Tatum each have some improving to do if the Celtics are to return to their best.

The Celtics have been wobbly since the All-Star break, and it all starts in the fourth quarter

Mercyhurst hockey player Carson Briere faces misdemeanor charges for pushing wheelchair down stairs

Spring practices start with a well-earned respite for winter champions

business

Customers outside Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.

Silicon Valley Bank successor’s auction extended by FDIC

The governor needs a transportation czar

New Starbucks CEO takes reins early from Howard Schultz

politics

A woman holds up a poster as part of a protest in front of the courthouse ahead of former president Donald Trump's anticipated indictment on March 20, in New York.

In Trump case, NY grand jury appears near end of its work

A Trump indictment wouldn’t test democracy, but experts warn Republican resistance just might

Here are some of the charges that could arise from the Trump investigations

Nation

Chris Puehse, owner of Foothill Ammo, displays .45-caliber ammunition for sale at his store in Shingle Springs, Calif., on June 11, 2019.

Federal judge blocks key parts of California handgun law

Attorneys make divergent closings in trial of Haitian mayor

States look at harsher fentanyl penalties

World

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

Japan’s Kishida heading to Ukraine for talks with Zelensky

Ukraine hints it hit Russian missiles in occupied Crimea

Putin and Xi celebrate ties unbroken by Russia’s war in Ukraine

opinion

Wisdom, not ageism, is essential for a healthy society

Delight found in ‘missing puzzle piece’

How to tell if a film or TV Show is antiracist

lifestyle

I’m waiting on his divorce

Tooth gems are sparking joy in Greater Boston

She could have been ... my girlfriend in Canada

food & dining

Roger Berkowitz showed off some of the new items from his new online food company.

Roger Berkowitz’s next act

🍳 Learn how to make this delicious Portuguese breakfast

Bar Vlaha prepares to open in Brookline; Lehrhaus debuts outside Inman Square

travel

A rendering from the proposal for Flagpole of Freedom Park near Columbia Falls, Maine. If built, the more than $1 billion attraction would include the tallest flagpole in the world.

A proposal to build the ‘world’s tallest flagpole’ looms over a small community in Maine

Visiting Zermatt and the Mighty Matterhorn

Why you should visit Alexandria, Va.

Arts

Artist Betye Saar at her house in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.

To search, to seek, to see: Betye Saar brings her travels to the Gardner Museum

A timeline of the Gardner Museum art heist

Darrel Ellis: A fractured life in pictures at the Carpenter Center

Books

Illustration from "Where Are You Going? To See My Friend!" by Eric Carle and Kazuo Iwamura.

Spotlighting Cambridge’s Blacksmith House Poetry Series, Dan Levitt’s ‘What’s Gotten Into You,’ and a new Eric Carle exhibit

Matthew Desmond’s ‘Poverty by America’ turns its lens on those who profit from it

John Sayles on reading for and during the making of a film

Movies

Anthony Bova, co-owner of Bova's Bakery in the North End, which is usually open 24 hours a day.

Bova’s Bakery closes this week for Damon, Affleck movie shoot

How accurate is Hulu’s ‘Boston Strangler’? Here’s what to know.

Five things we learned from Ben Affleck’s Hollywood Reporter interview

Television

From left: Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, and Kieran Culkin in "Succession."

This week’s TV: ‘Succession’ is back, a Dickens adaptation arrives, and Kiefer Sutherland stars in new thriller

Keri Russell returns to TV in ‘The Diplomat’

Five things we learned from Ben Affleck’s Hollywood Reporter interview

music

Ryan McKinny and Naomi Louisa O'Connell in rehearsal for BLO's "Bluebeard's Castle"/"Four Songs."

Director, dancers, and singers build BLO’s ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ together

James McMurtry lets the characters in his songs do the talking

With Dropkick Murphys at full roar, it must be that time of year again

Theater/Dance

Eunji Lim and Jeffrey Song in "Wild Goose Dreams" at SpeakEasy Stage Company.

Connection and disconnection in SpeakEasy’s ‘Wild Goose Dreams’

Gibney Company’s engaging Boston debut explores what separates us, what brings us together

Boston Ballet presents its best ‘Don Quixote’ yet

globe local

At Dave & Buster’s in the Natick Mall, Joey Lively, 11, plays one of the video games.

Autism Alliance is teaching restaurants and other places how to accommodate families with special needs children

What else is drifting away from us besides the moon?

Turkish-born faculty at Framingham State mobilize to help earthquake survivors

Obituaries

Carole Sloane, with Peter Bernstein on guitar and Ray Drummond on bass, at a concert of Duke Ellington’s music in New York in 2006. (Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times)

Carol Sloane, graceful jazz singer for decades, dies at 85

Former US representative John Jenrette, jailed in Abscam scandal, dies

Rafael Viñoly, architect who designed the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, dies at 78