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Trump will be arraigned tomorrow. Here’s what you need to know.

Former President Donald Trump was leaving Florida for New York on Monday for his expected booking and arraignment the following day on charges stemming from hush money payments during his 2016 campaign.

See the latest updates related to Trump’s indictment

Boston City Council to host hearing on banning mini-alcohol bottles
The proposal states that the sale of alcohol bottles of 100 milliliters or less “can have detrimental impacts on the health and well-being of Boston residents and neighborhoods.”

Tell us: Do you think "nips" should be banned in Boston?

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Some rain, lots of clouds, and then — eventually — Boston will see the sun again later this week

All the clouds will prevent much night sky viewing until the weekend.

Jailed Wall Street Journal reporter’s defense appeals his arrest
Evan Gershkovich was detained last week in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city. It was the first time a US correspondent had been detained on spying accusations since the Cold War.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Vanity clashes with common sense in the Ozempic era
The promise of the new generation of obesity drugs must be weighed against their high costs, medical risks, and research data that show how fleeting weight loss can be.

Divers search for vehicle in water in Seaport

Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old student files $40 million lawsuit

Passengers exit an MBTA Blue Line train on March 24, 2023.

MBTA must hire hundreds of employees and needs $12 billion to address safety, capital concerns, foundation warns

The T aims to fill 2,100 positions this fiscal year, a staggering goal nearly equal to the number people the agency has hired in the past four years, according to a new report from Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.

Odie Henderson Review | ★★★★

‘Air’ is the origin story of a shoe — and one of this year’s best films
Director Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Viola Davis lead a star-studded cast bringing their A-game to this comedy about the rise of the Air Jordan brand.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on why they love making movies together: ‘Ya nevah work anothah day in ya life!’

Steven Yeun stars along with Ali Wong in the Netflix road-rage comedy "Beef."

Matthew Gilbert | your TV GPS

This week’s TV: A road-rage comedy, a Beach Boys celebration, and ‘Trump: The Indictment’

A New York grand jury has decided to indict former president Donald Trump. What does this have to do with TV? A whole lot.

Meet the City of Boston’s oldest employee: 98-year-old crossing guard, Beatrice Tyler
"That’s what they tell me, anyway,” Tyler said. “But it’s just a job.”

A full moon rises over capital Nicosia in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, April 26, 2021. The full moon in April, which will illuminate the night sky this week, is called the Pink Moon.

April’s full moon is known as the Pink Moon, but not because of its color

The name originates from the moss pink plant, a low-growing wildflower that blossoms in the spring, according to NASA.

A view of Cahoon Hollow Beach from the Beachcomber in Wellfleet.

No drinking allowed this summer at Wellfleet beach near popular watering hole

Drinking alcohol at Cahoon Hollow Beach in Wellfleet will be barred from late May through early September in an effort to combat rowdy behavior on the shoreline, officials said.

Linus Ullmark (left) and Jeremy Swayman have the Bruins in great position as the playoffs approach.

The 2022-23 Bruins hit the 60-win mark. Will they beat the NHL points record by the end of the season?

The Bruins are cruising toward the league record for wins and points in a season, and Linus Ullmark might be putting up the best performance by a goaltender in league history.

Richelle Brooks became emotional while on the phone with Dr. Christine Duncan, one of Conner’s physicians and a gene therapy expert at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her son, Conner Hess, had just received his stem cell transplant at Boston Children’s Hospital.

A young boy’s nightmare diagnosis, and the $3 million one-time treatment that will likely save his life

The groundbreaking treatment is one of six gene therapies cleared since 2017 that have transformed the outlook for disorders once considered hopeless — and also renewed questions about how the health care system can afford such breathtakingly expensive medicines.

Opinion

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

The totally normal but not entirely rational fear of being duped

No one wants to be played for a sucker, but it’s possible to be excessively on guard against it.

A union at Mass General Brigham would improve life for residents and patients

Unionization at Mass General Brigham puts doctor training at risk

Heather Coleman and Katherine Gergen Barnett

How powerful corporations are contributing to childhood obesity and asthma

A teachable moment in Wayland, but will it be a learnable one?

New College of Florida students and supporters protest ahead of a meeting by the college's board of trustees, Feb. 28, 2023, in Sarasota, Florida. The conservative-dominated board of trustees of Florida's public honors college was meeting to take up a measure making wholesale changes in the school's diversity, equity and inclusion programs and offices.

The Emancipator

DEI Denial is the modern day lynching

Where lynching was an arbitrary and barbaric act to terrorize Black people, modern attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion threaten the livelihoods of those challenging oppressive systems and keep us all in the dark.

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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

Cambridge mail carrier attacked by turkey had to have hip replaced
“They’re mean,” Ed Mitchell said. “I don’t know if something’s happened to them. Maybe one of them got killed by a mail truck.”

John Oliver rips solitary confinement and its lasting impacts on prisoners

“Solitary isn’t something we do to people behind bars, it’s something we do to them forever,” he says.

‘Saturday Night Live’ sends up Trump indictment in cold open

Northeastern student seriously injured in fall from window in Mission Hill Saturday night

A Northeastern University student was seriously injured Saturday evening after falling from a window in Mission Hill, according to officials.

PC basketball player Alyn Breed held without bail on domestic, firearms charges

One of Breed’s attorneys told the judge that facts in the case were “weak,” and that the woman, with whom Breed has been in an on-again, off-again relationship, seems to be walking back a lot of her allegations.”

Excavation in Newport looks for Gilded Age artifacts
A professor at Salve Regina University is leading a group of students to uncover forgotten mansions under their feet.

Amid rising hate, Mass. group provides lifeline for children on verge of extremism
Pandemic isolation provided a fertile climate for online groups to lure vulnerable kids toward radical ideology, experts say.

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A supporter of the Affordable Care Act stood in front of the Supreme Court in November 2020.

Texas decision on Obamacare could imperil coverage of preventive services in Massachusetts

Though likely to be appealed, the decision voids the requirement that insurers fully cover a large swath of preventive services that the task force has recommended since 2010, when the ACA was passed.

Wisconsin court mega-fight crashes to an end, with a Trump coda
A contentious Supreme Court justice election in Wisconsin has been awash in cash and the result could impact how the state votes for the foreseeable future. The stakes were already sky high, then Trump got indicted.

Inside the state commission for the blind: alleged verbal abuse, shrinking services, questionable spending
Last week, the state’s largest advocacy group for blind and visually impaired people wrote to Governor Maura Healey’s office saying that the commissioner needed to go.

Lithium is becoming more crucial in a warming world, but Maine’s huge deposits may never be mined because of environmental concerns
By some estimates, the lithium deposits near Newry may be the largest in the country — with the potential to become a critical domestic supply for automakers and so valuable that they could provide a needed boost to Maine’s economy. But there's more to the story.

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A preview for the upcoming Jurassic World Live at Agganis Arena was held Friday. A human-operated animatronic baby stegosaurus named Olive met Barrett Bellamy, 7 months old, on the carpet at the event.

Jurassic World Live Tour brings 24 life-size dinosaurs to Boston

A Far Cry violinist Miki Cloud was a soloist during the first public performance of Navajo composer Juantio Becenti's "The Glittering World," inspired by the Navajo mythological origin story.

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A scene from "Shadows Cast."

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On a lot of TV shows, profanity is a blessing, not a curse

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Shawn Collins (left), executive director of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, addressed a meeting of the commission on Feb. 6, 2020, in Worcester.

Transparency needed in Cannabis Control Commission investigations

The chapel on the campus of Asbury University in Wilmore, Ky., became the center of a multi-week religious revival.

Is this how a new Great Awakening begins?

Let’s face it: No matter who you are, you’ll probably do plenty you should be sorry for.

IDEAS | KATHY FLANN

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Boston mayoral candidate Mel King looked up at a campaign banner being towed by an airplane as he campaigned in Roxbury on Oct. 29, 1983. King died March 28 in his South End home at 94.

Voices from the many threads Mel King wove into Boston’s fabric

Donald Trump's playbook of lie, deflect, deny has worked, in that he’s literally normalized the act of escaping accountability for half a century.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Trump’s 50-year playbook of lie, deflect, and deny

A growing number of scientists, investors, and bioethicists believe we can and should engineer longer and healthier lives.

IDEAS | RAIANY ROMANNI

Want to live to 150? The world needs more humans.

Metro

Trump to be arraigned in New York on Tuesday, court officials say

The exact nature of the charges was unclear Friday because the indictment remained under seal, but they stem from payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter.

PC basketball player Alyn Breed held without bail on domestic, firearms charges

One of Breed’s attorneys told the judge that facts in the case were “weak,” and that the woman, with whom Breed has been in an on-again, off-again relationship, seems to be walking back a lot of her allegations.”

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Use The Boston Globe app to get news alerts from the Boston Globe New Hampshire team on your mobile device.

No drinking allowed this summer at Wellfleet beach near popular watering hole

Drinking alcohol at Cahoon Hollow Beach in Wellfleet will be barred from late May through early September in an effort to combat rowdy behavior on the shoreline, officials said.

Sports

Providence College basketball player Alyn Breed, 21, appears in Providence District Court Monday for an arraignment on charges that he illegally entered his ex-girlfriend’s city apartment and robbed her of her cellphone at gunpoint.

PC basketball player Alyn Breed held without bail on domestic, firearms charges

One of Breed’s attorneys told the judge that facts in the case were “weak,” and that the woman, with whom Breed has been in an on-again, off-again relationship, seems to be walking back a lot of her allegations.”

Angel Reese pointed to her ring finger near the end of LSU's win over Iowa in the national title game.

college basketball

LSU’s Angel Reese unapologetic over gestures to Iowa star Caitlin Clark: ‘I’m going to be me’

“I don’t fit in a box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto," Reese said after LSU won the title. "But when other people do it, y’all say nothing. So this was for the girls that look like me."

Kutter Crawford became the fourth rookie since 2016 to make 12 or more starts with the Red Sox last season.

Pirates at Red Sox | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 4: Pirates at Red Sox lineups and notes

Kutter Crawford will be on the mound when the Red Sox open a three-game series with Pittsburgh at Fenway Park Monday night.

The 2022-23 Bruins hit the 60-win mark. Will they beat the NHL points record by the end of the season?

‘He’s heavy. He’s mean. He’s a Bruin.’ Garnet Hathaway never stops grinding away.

Bucks 117, 76ers 104

Bucks beat 76ers, move two games up on Celtics with four games to play for top seed in the East

Business

From interest rates to credit card debt, it’s a messy world for consumers. Here’s what to know.

Consumers have faced a rocky road in recent years, facing the pandemic, high gas and oil prices, inflation, high interest rates, and bank failures.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Vanity clashes with common sense in the Ozempic era

The promise of the new generation of obesity drugs must be weighed against their high costs, medical risks, and research data that show how fleeting weight loss can be.

MBTA must hire hundreds of employees and needs $12 billion to address safety, capital concerns, foundation warns

Swiss prosecutors probe Credit Suisse ahead of UBS takeover

magazine

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

My new house saved my life. I decided to return the favor.

Two giant windows transformed dead space into a light-filled reading nook between the sitting areas in the front and the back of the house on the second floor.

Your Home | Renovations

Turning a cookie-cutter town house into a cheerful forever home

This week's daters: Monica and David.

Dinner with Cupid

I want to yell at a kids' coach but I can't. So what can I do?

An illustration showing two women in separate panels. One panel shows a woman standing near a hospital bed in a hospital setting. The second shows a woman standing by herself with her head bowed as if sad.

When I lived too far to help my dying dad, a stranger stepped in to help

metro

Beatrice Tyler, 98, poses for a portrait in her Roxbury home.

Meet the City of Boston’s oldest employee: 98-year-old crossing guard, Beatrice Tyler

Some rain, lots of clouds, and then — eventually — Boston will see the sun again later this week

MBTA must hire hundreds of employees and needs $12 billion to address safety, capital concerns, foundation warns

sports

Brooks Koepka shot a 3-under-par 68 to capture the Orlando event.

Brooks Koepka becomes first multiple LIV winner, and shows form heading into the Masters

Mets’ Kodai Senga features ‘ghost forkball’ to win first start in MLB against the Marlins

LSU’s 59 first-half points, 102 total set NCAA women’s title game records

business

Richelle Brooks became emotional while on the phone with Dr. Christine Duncan, one of Conner’s physicians and a gene therapy expert at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her son, Conner Hess, had just received his stem cell transplant at Boston Children’s Hospital.

A young boy’s nightmare diagnosis, and the $3 million one-time treatment that will likely save his life

Photos of the Gray family

Clean Harbors founder Alan McKim steps aside as CEO after 43 years

politics

Court police gatherrf outside of a Manhattan courthouse as the city prepared for the arrival of former president Donald Trump to the court on Tuesday to be arraigned after he was indicted on April 03, 2023 in New York City.

Trump will be arraigned tomorrow. Here’s what you need to know.

Trump to be arraigned in New York on Tuesday, court officials say

In days before Trump appears in court, few signs point to a Jan. 6 repeat

Nation

A model of the Orion capsule and the service module is displayed at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018.

NASA’s first moon crew in 50 years includes one woman, three men

Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old student files $40 million lawsuit

About 25 train cars derail in Montana, no injuries reported

World

Russian Emergency Situations Ministry stand at the side of an explosion at a cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 2.

Russia blames Ukraine for bomb that killed military blogger

Jailed Wall Street Journal reporter’s defense appeals his arrest

Finland to join NATO Tuesday, military alliance chief says

opinion

This photo illustration shows newspapers featuring Britain's Queen Elizabeth II one day after her death, Sept. 9, 2022, in New York.

The journalistic obligation — and mission — of objectivity

In Uphams Corner, things are looking up, looking the same. But look closer.

The misleading arguments of MCAS foes

lifestyle

A preview for the upcoming Jurassic World Live at Agganis Arena was held Friday. A human-operated animatronic baby stegosaurus named Olive met Barrett Bellamy, 7 months old, on the carpet at the event.

Jurassic World Live Tour brings 24 life-size dinosaurs to Boston

Should I move to a city with more single men?

Boston indie-rockers Q-Tip Bandits will bring a taste of Boston Calling downtown

food & dining

Pizza Marvin co-owner Jesse Hedberg with his Pepperoni Negroni bottled cocktail, which features pepperoni gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, inside Pizza Marvin on Wickenden Street in Providence.

A Negroni made of pepperoni grease? The backstory and recipe behind this novelty cocktail

10 restaurants to eat at near Fenway Park

Drag brunch is a celebration

travel

Are people losing interest in sustainable travel? This study says so.

Does Amtrak owe me anything for a forced downgrade?

Learning in action in Acton, Amtrak fully reopens Northwest route, and an armchair trip around the globe

Arts

Matteo Perez de Alesio's "Virgin Mary Reading," circa 1589-1616 (center), is installed at the heart of Harvard Art Museums' “From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire,” on display through July 30.

Under Spain’s thumb, a mysterious art took root

Gawking at the weird and the wild at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery

Tillie Walden will be Vermont’s fifth — and youngest — ‘cartoonist laureate’

Books

The heroine of Victor LaValle’s western gothic ‘Lone Women’ wrestles with a horror from her past

Amid colonial rule and Japanese occupation, young lovers pay the price of modernity in Rachel Heng’s ‘The Great Reclamation’

Blythe Roberson sorts her unread books by color and credits her love of reading to Pizza Hut

Movies

Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro in "Air."

‘Air’ is the origin story of a shoe — and one of this year’s best films

‘A Thousand and One’: a family drama unspools across a changing city

Donald Glover participated in a panel discussion at Berklee ‘Career Jam’ event

Television

John Oliver on HBO's "Last Week Tonight."

John Oliver rips solitary confinement and its lasting impacts on prisoners

This week’s TV: A road-rage comedy, a Beach Boys celebration, and ‘Trump: The Indictment’

‘Saturday Night Live’ sends up Trump indictment in cold open

music

Jelly Roll performs "Need A Favor" at the CMT Music Awards on April 2, at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas.

‘Son of a Sinner’ Jelly Roll reigns at CMT Music Awards show

‘The Glittering World’ shines with perpetually fresh A Far Cry

Ryuichi Sakamoto, eclectic composer who saw no borders, dies at 71

Theater/Dance

A scene from "Shadows Cast."

In ‘Shadows Cast,’ a haunting dreamscape where secrets go to hide

A chef’s kiss for ‘Clyde’s’

After more than 30 years, Central Square’s Dance Complex still has the moves

globe local

Firefighters at Glades Road in Scituate where multiple homes were on fire.

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

Reading harpist returns to hometown for performance with the US Air Force Concert Band

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

Obituaries

Nelson Kiang, former director of Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass Eye and Ear.

Nelson Kiang, groundbreaking researcher at Mass Eye and Ear, dies at 93

Ryuichi Sakamoto, eclectic composer who saw no borders, dies at 71

Suzanne Rheinstein, designer of classic American interiors, dies at 77