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Boston scientists say they’re a step closer to growing human eggs in the lab

George Church’s lab at the Wyss Institute of Harvard is one of a handful around the globe trying to coax adult stem cells, derived from blood or skin, to become human eggs capable of forming an embryo.

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

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.

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.

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

Skier dies after hitting tree on Wachusett Mountain Ski Area trail

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

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

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.
Opinion
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

How Uphams Corner got wealthier, not whiter

The scrappy Dorchester neighborhood has fulfilled the community activist’s dream: development without displacement.
EDITORIAL

Putin now a pariah on the world stage
Hussain S. Lalani, Sarosh Nagar, Jerry Avorn, and Aaron S. Kesselheim

Not so fast on COVID vaccine price hike
NEWSLETTER

People are going to bring animals onto the subway. Should the T fight it or accept it?
JOAN VENNOCHI

Protesters won’t let Cambridge sweep fatal police shooting ‘under the rug’
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.
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Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

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

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Carol Sloane, graceful jazz singer for decades, dies at 85
In a 60-year recording career, Ms. Sloane said she would only sing “the most beautiful songs.”

World has less than a decade to stop catastrophic warming, UN panel says
Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade, and nations will need to make an immediate and drastic shift away from fossil fuels to prevent the planet from overheating dangerously beyond that level, according to a major new report released Monday.

North Atlantic right whale and her calf seen in Cape Cod Bay
The sighting of a North Atlantic right whale named Porcia and her calf on March 18 was the first North Atlantic whale sighting in Cape Cod Bay this year.

Owner reunited with dog that was snatched from sidewalk on Beacon Hill
A Beacon Hill resident said her dog, Rose McNugget, a small, tan mixed-breed terrier, was snatched from the sidewalk while her walker went inside another building to pick up another dog.

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.

Gary Washburn | On Basketball
The Celtics have been wobbly since the All-Star break, and it all starts in the fourth quarter
Struggles in the clutch have made the Celtics a middling team since they returned from the break.

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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.

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.

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.”

Medical residents at Mass General Brigham could soon unionize. Here’s why.
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Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

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From the ‘Chowdah Pie’ to the ‘Rhode Island,’ get ready for new takes on an old favorite: the clam pizza

Pizza Marvin in Providence and Nana’s Bakery & Pizza in Westerly have introduced pizzas featuring locally sourced fresh clams.

This winter, haunting signs of climate change were everywhere

It was a weird and often warm winter in New England, the country, and around the world, with haunting signs of the climate crisis everywhere. Here's a look back at the season.
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First came the weight loss. Then came the drama around Ozempic.

Ozempic started life as a drug to treat Type 2 diabetes. But ever since Hollywood and TikTok discovered it was a miracle weight loss treatment, things have gotten intense.

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.

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We really could use a break from these endless sports-betting commercials

Nobody ever loses in these ads. Everybody’s happy, surrounded by young, attractive friends, making cash without actually working.
WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL | MIAMI 70, INDIANA 68

Destiny Harden makes sure Miami women get by top-seeded Indiana and into the Sweet 16

Harden made the tie-breaking shot and the Hurricanes reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1992.
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.
wbc semifinal: japan 6, mexico 5

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

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

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

Business

Boston scientists say they’re a step closer to growing human eggs in the lab

George Church’s lab at the Wyss Institute of Harvard is one of a handful around the globe trying to coax adult stem cells, derived from blood or skin, to become human eggs capable of forming an embryo.

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

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

How to get the most out of a visit to London, before the coronation crowds take over
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Learning to relax at the Kripalu retreat in the Berkshires
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Dinner with Cupid

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

metro

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

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

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

sports

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

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

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

business

Roger Berkowitz’s next act

Silicon Valley Bank successor’s auction extended by FDIC

The governor needs a transportation czar

politics

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates debate as voting begins

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

Nation

Biden to designate national monuments in Nevada, Texas

Gloria Dea, Las Vegas magician who vanished into obscurity, dies at 100

Federal judge blocks key parts of California handgun law

World

US tells China not to overread likely Taiwan president visit

Japan, China leaders visit rival capitals in Ukraine war

Ignoring experts, China’s sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives

opinion

The financial fragility of single parents who need child care

Health care costs need to be contained

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

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’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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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