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Newly released federal reports fault Rachael Rollins’s conduct as US attorney for Mass.

The findings of two federal agencies conducting ethics investigations of US Attorney Rachael Rollins were released Wednesday, giving the public some insight into why she decided to resign after 16 months in office.

Key findings of the two ethics probes Read the two ethics reports on Rachael Rollins

Prince Harry, Meghan say they were involved in ‘near catastrophic’ car chase by ‘aggressive’ paparazzi
A spokesperson for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan says the couple were involved in a car chase while being followed by photographers.

It’s not your imagination. The allergy season is longer and more intense nowadays.
Pollen is surging across Massachusetts, and spring’s usual villains — itchy eyes, runny noses, shortness of breath — are among the worst they’ve ever been, according to area allergists.

Five revelations in the new lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani

The lawsuit was filed by Noelle Dunphy, who says she worked as an off-the-books employee for Rudy Giuliani during his stint as former president Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.

Woman sues Rudy Giuliani, saying he coerced her into sex, owes her $2 million in unpaid wages

Man convicted of burglary after hiding in woman’s attic, secretly photographing her asleep

House Democrats launch long-odds push to get around GOP leaders on debt ceiling

Biden ‘confident’ there will be no US debt default

Firefighters rescue window washer dangling outside 12th story of Brookline apartment building, officials say

Snow expected to fall on Mount Washington, officials issue weather advisory

Taylor Swift.

Fans recall the night Taylor Swift danced in the pouring rain with all of Gillette Stadium

A rain-soaked 2011 concert in Foxborough has achieved almost legendary status for Taylor Swift fans and for the artist herself, who has called the performance one of her greatest memories.

Why the Celtics are embracing a quote from ‘The Town’ as part of their ‘ride-or-die’ mantra in the playoffs
Turns out Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla is obsessed with the movie starring Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner.

Jaylen Brown shows off during the Celtics' Game 7 win over the 76ers.

Jaylen Brown had another message for TD Garden fans ahead of Celtics-Heat Game 1

Brown called the fans out before Game 7 and it worked.

See TD Garden's new food, beverage, and merchandise options for series against Heat

Cataplana at the new Row 34 in Kendall Square.

At Kendall Square’s new Row 34, you can talk IPOs — and IPAs

The air-conditioning is cold, the ceilings are high, and the tables are spaced far enough apart to do business in peace. Seafood is the star.

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This bridge needed lifesaving barriers. It took a grieving mother to get them.
For years, locals have described the Franklin County bridge as a “loaded gun” for people in crisis. Why did it take so long to get suicide-prevention barriers installed?

If you are about to start earning your first steady paycheck or have come into new money through a bonus or gift, you may have questions about how to manage your money.

For recent grads, or those who’ve come into new money, some tips on managing finances

Here's a breakdown of how best to save, spend, and invest.

Singer Martha Davis of the band the Motels with cake celebrating their album success upstairs at Spit.

Inside Boston’s punk scene of the ’70s and ’80s

Michael Grecco’s photographs of the acts who played local clubs in punk’s early days are on display in the South End.

‘He can’t tell me why he loves me’

It upsets me that he can’t define his feelings for me. Am I overthinking this?

AAPI Heritage Month

(Left to right) Members of the Northeastern University Nakhraas, Shreya Oberai, Haley Patel, and Tara Meyyappan performed at the City of Boston's Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration.

Wu, city councilors, and community members celebrate the first AANHPI Heritage Month on City Hall Plaza

The author with his older sister and grandfather, who are wearing hanbok, traditional Korean clothing, on New Year’s Day in 1984.

I struggled with my Korean-American name. Now I realize it was a gift.

Local dumpling restaurant Mei Mei has kicked off Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month by launching a “Dumpling Disloyalty” campaign to support other AAPI-owned businesses in Massachusetts.

Mei Mei launches dumpling campaign for AAPI Heritage Month

Bob and Andy Wong in front of their family's restaurant, Kowloon in Saugus.

The legacy of Kowloon: A restaurant, a family, and the remarkable perseverance of Chinese cuisine in America

Opinion

The Coolidge Corner stop on the Green Line in Brookline.

The MBTA Communities law is putting Brookline’s liberal values to the test

A plan to allow denser housing along Harvard Street is controversial, but would be an important step to make the town more inclusive while also helping address the state’s housing shortage.

IDEAS | CLARA YIM BOLDUC

My stepfather was dying. Why wouldn’t his doctors just say so?

Did the Varsity Blues prosecutions really belong in federal court?

A brutal attack in the Senate chamber

When professional white women say they aren’t focused on social activism

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Massachusetts' new public health commissioner on the many challenges that face him, and his way of handling the accompanying stress.

Frozen by interest rates, Greater Boston’s housing market took a rare spring dip in April

For the fourth time in the last five months, median home prices in Greater Boston declined in April, a sign of how sharply the rise in interest rates has spooked potential homebuyers and sellers alike.

Takeaways from Kentucky and Pennsylvania primary elections

Tuesday brought primary elections across the country — from a governor’s race in Kentucky to a mayoral race in Philadelphia — setting the stage for November elections that could point to trends for the 2024 presidential race.

Women's Soccer

How viable is a National Women’s Soccer League team in Boston?
The league is looking for two more teams to begin play in 2026. The NWSL commissioner believes the group behind a Boston expansion bid has a lot going for it.

How New Englanders are saving cash — and reducing waste — by heading to the library

Hoping to check out single-use goods, seasonal tools, one-time experiences, or new hobbies? Your local library may have you covered.

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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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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and President Biden met with other lawmakers in the Oval Office at the White House on May 9 in Washington, D.C., to negotiate how to address the debt ceiling before June 1, when the United States is expected to default on its debts.

Fixing our fiscal woes will take both tax hikes and spending restraint

Daniel Penny, charged with manslaughter in the killing of Jordan Neely, is escorted by police after he turned himself in at the New York Police Department’s Fifth Precinct in Manhattan on Friday, May 12.

Republicans’ financing of white vigilantism

A Longwood Medical Area shuttle.

Legislature airs ideas for making the T safer — and bigger

Karl Gönner, the Nazi whose life and legacy is explored in “Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets" by his grandson Burkhard Bilger.

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When someone close to you has done very bad things

Turkey's presidential candidates on a ballot at a polling station in Istanbul.

A glimmer of democracy shines in Turkey

"I want to sound an alarm," the author writes, "that our health care system is set up in a way that makes emergency rooms doomed to fail to meet patients’ expectations."

IDEAS | BRIAN MCGUIRE

America broke George Clooney’s ER

Metro

Key findings of the ethics probes into US Attorney Rachael Rollins

“We found Rollins’s conduct described throughout this report violated federal regulations, numerous DOJ policies, her Ethics Agreement, and applicable law, and fell far short of the standards of professionalism and judgment that the Department should expect of any employee, much less a U.S. Attorney,” the inspector general’s report said.

Newly released federal reports fault Rachael Rollins’s conduct as US attorney for Mass.

The findings of two federal agencies conducting ethics investigations of US Attorney Rachael Rollins were released Wednesday, giving the public some insight into why she decided to resign after 16 months in office.

Fans recall the night Taylor Swift danced in the pouring rain with all of Gillette Stadium

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Stop & Shop to stop offering single-use plastic bags by July, now charging for paper

A 10-cent charge on paper bags at supermarket chain went into effect on April 30, the company said, to incentivize customers to bring their own reusable bags.

Sports

A slimmer Phil Mickelson, often pointed in his remarks about the PGA Tour, remains a staunch defender of LIV.

Five players you might have fun watching at the PGA Championship

These players might not win, but they should make the season's second major a little more spicy.

Jaylen Brown shows off during the Celtics' Game 7 win over the 76ers.

Jaylen Brown had another message for TD Garden fans ahead of Celtics-Heat Game 1

Brown called the fans out before Game 7 and it worked.

The Sun reached the WNBA Finals last season, losing to the Las Vegas Aces.

NBC Sports Boston reaches deal to broadcast 31 Connecticut Sun games this season

The WNBA team opens its season Friday night with a game that actually will air on NECN.

TD Garden is bringing the heat for the Eastern Conference Finals. See their new food, beverage, and merchandise options.

Why the Celtics are embracing a quote from ‘The Town’ as part of their ‘ride-or-die’ mantra in the playoffs

Mariners at Red Sox | 7:10 p.m.

Game 44: Mariners at Red Sox lineups and notes

Business

Stop & Shop to stop offering single-use plastic bags by July, now charging for paper

A 10-cent charge on paper bags at supermarket chain went into effect on April 30, the company said, to incentivize customers to bring their own reusable bags.

Biden ‘confident’ there will be no US debt default

President Biden said he was “confident” that the US would avoid an unprecedented and catastrophic debt default.

CVS Health to close clinical trial unit, pushes ahead on growth initiatives

For recent grads, or those who’ve come into new money, some tips on managing finances

magazine

The author with his older sister and grandfather, who are wearing hanbok, traditional Korean clothing, on New Year’s Day in 1984.

I struggled with my Korean-American name. Now I realize it was a gift.

‘He can’t tell me why he loves me’

I spent $900 on Taylor Swift tickets and won’t even get inside Gillette

Chinese Beef Skewers (Niu Rou Chuan).

Add salmon kimchi burgers or Chinese beef skewers to your barbecue mix

metro

Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket, which was closed in 2017. The state Department of Housing is considering seizing the property through eminent domain.

Bipartisan concerns about Housing Secretary Pryor’s proposed use of eminent domain

Providence Police searching for middle school student last seen Friday

Here’s what to know about the ethics investigation into Rachael Rollins

sports

Portland Thorns FC won the NWSL championship in 2022.

How viable is a National Women’s Soccer League team in Boston?

In Jayson Tatum, Mike Krzyzewski sees the maturation of a young talent he helped nurture

Red Sox resupply bullpen with two new arms from Worcester

business

A Wells Fargo Bank branch in New York.

Wells Fargo agrees to $1 billion shareholder settlement

Bank executives blame panicked depositors for failures, but senators blame them

ChatGPT chief says artificial intelligence should be regulated by a US or global agency

politics

Governor Ron DeSantis talks during a press conference before signing legislation on Monday, May 15, 2023, at New College of Florida in Sarasota, Fla., where he signed a bill that blocks public colleges from using federal or state funding on diversity programs.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs bills targeting drag shows, pronouns, bathroom use and transgender children

House Democrats launch long-odds push to get around GOP leaders on debt ceiling

Newly released federal reports fault Rachael Rollins’s conduct as US attorney for Mass.

Nation

Protesters on both sides of the issue hold signs as North Carolina House members debate, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Raleigh, N.C.

Key abortion debates this week in US courts and statehouses

Penguin Random House sues Fla. school district over book bans

Republican abortion debate inches toward resolution in South Carolina

World

Meghan Markle, and her husband Prince Harry.

Prince Harry, Meghan say they were involved in ‘near catastrophic’ car chase by ‘aggressive’ paparazzi

European nations back system to calculate damage Russia caused in Ukraine

Lawmakers warn leaky, crumbling UK Parliament at risk of ‘catastrophic’ event

opinion

Daniel Penny, charged with manslaughter in the killing of Jordan Neely, is escorted by police after he turned himself in at the New York Police Department’s Fifth Precinct in Manhattan on Friday, May 12.

Republicans’ financing of white vigilantism

A glimmer of democracy shines in Turkey

When someone close to you has done very bad things

lifestyle

Authors from last year's inaugural RomCon at Ashland Public Library (front row, from left): Caroline Linden, Namrata Patel, Loretta Chase, Blair Babylon, KD Fisher, and Evelyn Richardson; (back row, from left): Julia Kent, Weina Dai Randel, Hannah Reynolds, Peggy Jaeger, and Kate Canterbary.

RomCon fosters a community of fiercely passionate romance authors and readers

Lansdowne Street Country Crawl shuts down street for all-day country music in bars and other venues

How New Englanders are saving cash — and reducing waste — by heading to the library

food & dining

Fans have plenty of options to celebrate Jayson Tatum with new merchandise showing his likeness that will be on sale during the Eastern Conference Finals.

TD Garden is bringing the heat for the Eastern Conference Finals. See their new food, beverage, and merchandise options.

At Kendall Square’s new Row 34, you can talk IPOs — and IPAs

FoMu’s popsicles are parties on a stick

travel

A year after a four-alarm fire destroyed parts of the property, The Wayfinder Hotel in Newport, R.I., will reopen this summer.

Wayfinder hotel in Newport to partially reopen this summer, nearly a year after fire

One of the best gifts from my mother is one she actually gave to others: The Grandmere Trip

Artists on an island, bike trips in the canyon, and fully charged adventures

Arts

JON HENRY, Untitled #48, Inglewood, CA., 2019. (Jon Henry)

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Photographer Jon Henry’s ‘Stranger Fruit’ is a portrait of collective grief

Dinorá Justice turns to ‘Mother/Nature’ to reimagine artists’ objectification of women

Meet the Makers: Painter and public school art teacher Liana Farmer

Books

Penguin Random House sues Fla. school district over book bans

‘Sky Above Kharkiv’ is an intimate account of the earliest months of war from Serhiy Zhadan, Ukraine’s most beloved poet

Abraham Verghese’s long-awaited ‘The Covenant of Water’ chronicles three generations of an Indian family haunted by a water curse

Movies

A still from "Hide and Seek." The Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston runs online May 19-21.

Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston presents politically engaged documentaries for its eighth year

‘The Starling Girl’ is a provocative drama set in an evangelical community

First-time filmmaker Amanda Kim explores the life of the ‘father of video art’ Nam June Paik

Television

Nicholas Hoult and Elle Fanning in "The Great."

Side characters have a say in season 3 of ‘The Great’

A ‘Succession’ without Logan Roy is exactly what the show needed

This week’s TV: ‘Alaska Daily’ folds, remembering Donna Summer, and a Sly Stallone reality series

music

Taylor Swift.

Fans recall the night Taylor Swift danced in the pouring rain with all of Gillette Stadium

For many mothers and daughters, instead of a rift, there’s Taylor Swift

Lansdowne Street Country Crawl shuts down street for all-day country music in bars and other venues

Theater/Dance

Cambridge, MA - 5/5/2023 American Repertory Theater upcoming production of "Evita." Actress Shereen Pimentel (cq) middle who'll be playing Eva Peron in the title role at a rehearsal in Cambridge. ( Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff)

In the revival of ‘Evita’ at the ART, a tango between the two sides of Eva Perón

You’ll want to accept this invitation to ‘The Prom’

Five standout shows at the Boston Comedy Festival

globe local

Brothers Brian Worrell (left), District 4 Councilor, and state Representative Chris Worrell just opened a district office on Erie Street.

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

Ms. Amendola, on the other side of the lens, in Harvard Yard in 2015.

Photographer Elise Amendola, who documented decades of sports and news, dies at 70

Doyle Brunson, called the Godfather of Poker, dies at 89

Owen S. Walker, state’s first federal public defender, dies at 79