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After police denied Jack Teixeira’s gun license application twice, he wrote a letter touting his security clearance

The National Guardsman charged with leaking classified intelligence documents online told police he’d received top secret security clearance from his employer and had “the national trust to safeguard classified information,” legal filings show.
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Jack Teixeira spoke of violence and mass killings, tried to destroy laptop and Xbox, new documents show

Pence testifies before election probe grand jury, AP source says

Former vice president Mike Pence testified Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating efforts by then-President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to a person familiar with the matter.

After woman’s death outside hospital, new ‘Laura’s Law’ rules will require ERs to be more accessible
Laura Levis died in 2016 at age 34, alone on a bench outside a hospital emergency room, unable to get inside.

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Boston police officers acquitted in overtime fraud case

Lawyers for the officers had previously told jurors that there’s no dispute they were paid for overtime hours they didn’t work, but said they were merely following longstanding practices accepted by department leadership.

On both sides of the issue, questions persist about state’s plans for Shattuck Hospital

In Mass., 51 workers died on the job last year

1,034 confirmed cases and 11 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

‘If I were a fish’: These two Berklee College grads wrote the hit song that’s taken over social media

If you’ve heard it — and it's very likely that you have — there’s a strong chance it’s been swimming around in your head ever since.

Here are five things to know about Vantage Travel, the embattled Boston cruise ship company

All travelers really know at this point is that Vantage’s website and call center are down, and many of them are, for the moment, out thousands of dollars.
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Meet the Globe’s Winter 2022-23 All-Scholastics

The Globe salutes the region’s best high school athletes and coaches in the eight winter sports. Find the section in print on Sunday, April 30.
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The GOP’s new political tricks: silencing, censure, expulsion

In Republican-controlled state legislatures, Democrats are being undemocratically punished for dissent.
Jasmine Wynn

I am the ‘successful’ student — yet I was also suicidal for much of high school
Kaivan Shroff

Young voters expect Democrats to hold Supreme Court justices accountable
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Sweeping new narratives of Native history are reorienting the American story

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Can Gen Z build a future in Boston?
Boston Globe business reporter Diti Kohli spoke to residents under the age of 25 about how long they think they can stay in Boston.

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Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.
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Teen accused of 22 civil rights violations in Portsmouth, N.H., vandalism spree

The civil complaint alleges that Loren Faulkner, 17, was responsible for a “spree of antisemitic, homophobic, and racist vandalism” damaging 18 properties on Feb. 21

EPA opposes plan to build machine gun range on Cape Cod, says it would endanger drinking water

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SJC reinstates criminal charges against managers of Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, where 76 died early in pandemic

In a 5-2 ruling handed down Thursday, the Supreme Judicial Court held that the deaths may not constitute a crime but concluded the state Attorney General’s office should have the opportunity to present its criminal case against the two men in Hampden Superior Court.

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Their lives were rerouted after the Marathon bombing. Here’s where they are now.

Five lives were lost; many more, changed.

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

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

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Boston police officers acquitted in overtime fraud case

Lawyers for the officers had previously told jurors that there’s no dispute they were paid for overtime hours they didn’t work, but said they were merely following longstanding practices accepted by department leadership.

Dick Groat, hoops whiz who became a star shortstop, dies at 92

He was an All-American basketball player at Duke in the early 1950s, setting a single-season NCAA scoring record, before becoming an MVP shortstop for the Pirates.

On both sides of the issue, questions persist about state’s plans for Shattuck Hospital

Nearly a year into launching a complete redevelopment of the 13-acre campus, state officials have largely been silent about their next steps, frustrating those who want the site used to provide services and those who want it returned to parkland.

As other states target LGBTQ youth, Mass. should keep working to remain ‘a lighthouse,’ report says

Despite its progress, however, Massachusetts has significant work to do to tackle a rise in anti-LGBTQ activity within the Commonwealth, according to the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth.

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Dick Groat, hoops whiz who became a star shortstop, dies at 92

He was an All-American basketball player at Duke in the early 1950s, setting a single-season NCAA scoring record, before becoming an MVP shortstop for the Pirates.
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On both sides of the issue, questions persist about state’s plans for Shattuck Hospital

Nearly a year into launching a complete redevelopment of the 13-acre campus, state officials have largely been silent about their next steps, frustrating those who want the site used to provide services and those who want it returned to parkland.

In Mass., 51 workers died on the job last year

The emerging cannabis industry was singled out in the report for failing to protect employees even as strict controls have been put in place to protect consumers.
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R.I. House passes Equality in Abortion Coverage Act

Teen accused of 22 civil rights violations in Portsmouth, N.H., vandalism spree

Jack Teixeira spoke of violence and mass killings, tried to destroy laptop and Xbox, new documents show

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Lamar Jackson and Ravens agree to a five-year deal

Meet Duxbury slugger Nick Ayers, who is leading the state in home runs and shows no signs of slowing down

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A new plan for Nubian Square in Roxbury

Here are five things to know about Vantage Travel, the embattled Boston cruise ship company

Hope springs anew that Postal Service could move to make way for South Station expansion

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Pence testifies before election probe grand jury, AP source says

West Va. governor to seek Manchin’s seat

Jack Teixeira spoke of violence and mass killings, tried to destroy laptop and Xbox, new documents show

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Trump lawyer cross-examines accuser at rape lawsuit trial

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

1,034 confirmed cases and 11 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

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Looting, roadblocks: Paramilitary is a scary neighbor in Sudan’s capital

As they repel Russian attacks, Ukrainian soldiers hope Western arms turn the tide

King’s coronation part of long evolution for Queen Camilla

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I’m a Charles man, always have been. Long live the king!

Republicans are right to hold the line on the debt ceiling

Free speech, yes, but not freedom of megaphones drowning out speech

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The one who got away ... has returned!

Tim’s big secret

A new picture book explores the creators behind the most beloved ducklings in Boston

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Deep Ellum’s triumphant return

Pizza Project serves Sicilian slices at the Speedway; Harvard Square’s Bar Enza gets a notable new chef

A beloved Cambridge bar was transformed into a tiny pub on wheels — and you can rent it

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Here are five things to know about Vantage Travel, the embattled Boston cruise ship company

New England hostels, an app to make travel more accessible, and hats that protect from the sun

The ‘Sistine Chapel of America’ is in Woonsocket, R.I. Here’s how the St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center came to be.

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At MoMA, a free and fluid Georgia O’Keeffe

At the Griffin: pandemic associations, US-Philippine relations, cross-cultural concerns

At Boston Sculptors Gallery, two artists explore language — lost and found

Books

Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’ wrestles with the dilemma of great art made by morally flawed people

‘The Rediscovery of America,’ a new US history by Ned Blackhawk, aims to reorient accounts of the past by grounding them in the experience of Native Americans

Noel Kingsbury on gardening books and the human condition

Movies

‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.’ A classic novel becomes a must-see film.

‘Polite Society’: Smashing the patriarchy with fists of fury and satire

Celebrating Donna Summer — and 20 years of IFFBoston

Television

Jerry Springer, a sower of TV chaos whose impact was also felt in Trump-era politics

‘Jackass’ star Bam Margera in court, denies hitting brother

Jerry Springer, onetime Cincinnati mayor whose namesake TV show unleashed chaos, dies at 79

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This ‘Beetlejuice’ is full of tricks

Rhiannon Giddens’s opera ‘Omar’ prompts conversation about slavery, history

In Lucinda Williams’s memoir, lessons of compassion

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‘And So We Walked’ is a powerful, and long overdue, history lesson

American Repertory Theater announces 2023-24 season, including an aimed-for-Broadway musical based on an American classic

An immigrant family’s tensions boil over in ‘The House of Ramón Iglesia’

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Worrell brothers, one a councilor and one a state representative, open joint Dorchester office for ‘top-notch constituent services’

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

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

Obituaries

Dick Groat, hoops whiz who became a star shortstop, dies at 92

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman at the center of the 1955 lynching of Black teen Emmett Till, has died

Jerry Springer, onetime Cincinnati mayor whose namesake TV show unleashed chaos, dies at 79