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Rollins’s ‘extraordinary abuse’ of power is ripe for Mass. bar investigation, experts say

Rachael Rollins's greatest legal exposure, experts and attorneys say, could lie with Massachusetts’ own bar, which they say has wide leeway to pursue an investigation and potential sanctions up to revoking her law license after two government investigations found she repeatedly committed ethical breaches as US attorney.

Newly released federal reports fault Rachael Rollins’s conduct as US attorney for Mass. Yvonne Abraham: The damage Rachael Rollins has done Kevin Cullen: Rachael Rollins and the poisoned chalice

Rollins’s troubles blow back on Warren and Markey, who pushed her nomination

The path that led to Rollins’s nomination, confirmation, and resignation in disgrace is complicated, with unresolved questions about what was ignored or missed.

Boston councilor Erin Murphy criticizes Ricardo Arroyo after reports on US Attorney Rollins’s election interference

Her staff told her not to attend a Democratic fund-raiser. Rachael Rollins went anyway.

A decade later, a murder charge in the Jeremiah Oliver case

The boyfriend of the boy's mother pleaded not guilty to one count of murder in a case that led to a reexamination of how the Department of Children and Families monitors distressed families.

Man charged in connection with death of Jeremiah Oliver, 5-year-old who went missing in 2013, ordered held without bail

Where 3 Mass. cities rank among best places to live, according to US News & World Report
Three Massachusetts cities ranked among the best places to live in the country in the annual US News & World Report list released this week, but none ranked as high as one city in Maine.

World leaders gather for G7 meetings, ready to pile fresh sanctions on Russia over Ukraine war

The G7 nations, which officials said have reached new levels of cooperation more than a year into Russia's brutal war, were set to unveil a new round of sanctions against Moscow when the summit officially opens on Friday, a U.S. official said.

Zelensky is expected to travel to Japan for G7, seeking arms and aid

Debt ceiling negotiators pushing for weekend deal, but much work remains

These were the most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 2022

A willet landed near Plymouth Beach. A new study finds that, over a period of 30 years, nearly every species of shorebirds across the Atlantic Coast have declined, with some seeing a fall of more than 50 percent.

Shorebird species along the Atlantic are in decline, study finds, telling the story of a planet in peril

Some species experienced more than 50 percent losses since 1980, according to researchers from the United States and Canada who analyzed nearly four decades of observations.

Taylor Swift at Gillette Stadium

Confused by Taylor Swift hype over ‘The Eras Tour’? A superfan is here to help explain it all.
One of several in-house Globe Swifties, who by Spotify’s count listened to 46,968 minutes of the artist's music last year, is here to help with a crash course in Swift fandom ahead of this weekend’s three-night stand at Gillette Stadium.

Dave Epstein: Here’s the forecast for Taylor Swift’s three Gillette Stadium shows this weekend Scalpers, scams, and scarcity leave few options for fans still hoping to score Taylor Swift tickets 10 Taylor-made moments from the Eras Tour

Terrible Taylor Swift traffic and lessons learned: From podcasts to bathroom breaks, here’s how to prepare
It happened to me. Let me talk you through the journey.

Police and stadium officials tell Taylor Swift fans: Get there early, and don’t show up without a ticket

“If you don’t have a ticket, we really encourage you not to come,” a Gillette Stadium official said. “That’s for both public safety and it’s also for the enjoyment of the people who do have tickets.”

Fraud emerged as a major problem across the country during the height of the pandemic, when states were inundated with claims for unemployment benefits at the same time tens of thousands of legitimate applicants who had lost their jobs were filing for help.

Massachusetts again targeted by thieves trying to steal unemployment benefits

A flood of fraudulent submissions in Massachusetts skewed the national figures on new unemployment claims.

A puzzling pattern on the parquet: Why do Celtics have these lapses in home games?
They are just 4-4 at TD Garden in this postseason, and players are citing "physicality" and "intensity" as the culprits.

Chad Finn: Game 1 was frustratingly familiar, but Celtics should still win this series

Offensive tackle Yodny Cajuste, a third-round pick in 2019, signed his tender in March.

Patriots cut Yodny Cajuste, closing the book on their disappointing 2019 10-player draft class

The Patriots will save $2.7 million in salary-cap space.

Lynn MacLeod displayed a collection of memories about her father, Einar Gustafson, at home in Buzzards Bay. Gustafson, was the the original Jimmy of the Jimmy Fund which is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Their dad was the ‘Jimmy’ of Jimmy Fund fame, a man in a league of his own

Jimmy, the symbol of the Jimmy Fund, is marking an anniversary this year — 75 years at the old, beloved ballyard on Lansdowne Street.

The inaugural Breeze Airways nonstop flight to Los Angeles International Airport takes off Wednesday from T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Breeze Airways debuts Providence-to-LA nonstop service. But will it last?

Breeze’s Flight 700 on Wednesday was, according to the R.I. Airport Corporation, the first-ever commercial nonstop flight from Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport to the West Coast.

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

Yvonne Hao, secretary of economic development in Governor Maura Healey's administration.

‘This is the moment’: Yvonne Hao stepped up just in time for Mass. tech

Opinion

Rachael Rollins in January.

Rachael Rollins was a disgrace

Massachusetts’ worst US attorney in decades thought basic ethics — and the law — were beneath her.

Nancy Gertner: Don’t scrap improved process for picking US attorney

Rachelle G. Cohen

Mark Wolf was called ‘obsessed’ with what Judicial Conference got wrong about Clarence Thomas

Senate President Spilka says no to legalizing teacher strikes

MassHealth’s Personal Care Attendant Program’s hybrid model cheats families like mine

More recent News

Senator Dianne Feinstein suffered more complications from illness than were publicly disclosed
Feinstein’s frail appearance at the Capitol last week was a result of several complications after she was hospitalized for shingles in February, some of which she has not publicly disclosed.

Lowell IT systems slowly coming back online weeks after cyber attack
In its first public update in nearly two weeks, city officials said Wednesday that telephone service that had been disconnected in the breach has returned for about 95 percent of city agencies while work continues to scrub and restore all desktop PCs.

Logo for 2026 World Cup in Boston revealed as officials crank up excitement
It is still unknown how many games will be played at Gillette Stadium.

Michael Delaney withdraws as US Circuit judge nominee amid controversy over his role as a lawyer in a notorious N.H. sexual assault case

Delaney’s nomination has been languishing for months, and a Judiciary committee vote was delayed again on Thursday despite the panel returning to full strength with the return last week of Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Amid probe of treatment of transgender students, Amherst-Pelham district leaders name acting superintendent
Douglas Slaughter, finance director of the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District, will serve as interim superintendent through Sept. 30.

Boston woman summits Everest after fellow climber in expedition group dies
“She’s the type of person once she decides to do something, nothing will change her mind,” Melanie Long said in a phone interview Thursday, hours after receiving a text from Rebecca’s satellite phone reporting that she reached the summit shortly after sunrise in the Himalayas.

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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.

Tell us: How have things changed in Boston since you were in your early 20s?

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EDUCATION

Ousting of teachers at St. Thomas Aquinas school sparks outrage in N.H.
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Culture & Lifestyle

Kristine Giarrusso and her daughter, Quinn, who is turning 13 soon, are heading to Gillette Stadium this weekend to see Taylor Swift. It'll be Quinn's first concert ever.

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

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A screenshot from Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom," which released on May 12.

In ‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,’ you compose your own adventure

Janet Jackson plays the Xfinity Center in Mansfield May 19.

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Special Projects

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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, 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

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

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Hundreds of community members and teachers gathered to demonstrate for new teacher contracts in Malden and Haverhill outside of Malden City Hall in Malden, Mass. on Oct. 15, 2022.

Senate President Spilka says no to legalizing teacher strikes

MassHealth’s Personal Care Attendant Program’s hybrid model cheats families like mine

A statue of a minuteman, the mascot of UMass Amherst, in front of the school's Old Chapel.

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IDEAS | KARA MILLER

Public colleges should be truly public again

President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland at a White House event on Wednesday.

Biden and Garland should play it safe in choice to replace Rollins

US Attorney Rachael Rollins on Jan. 13, 2022, in Boston.

The case against Rachael Rollins — she waged it herself

"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."

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Metro

Amid probe of treatment of transgender students, Amherst-Pelham district leaders name acting superintendent

Douglas Slaughter, finance director of the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District, will serve as interim superintendent through Sept. 30.

A decade later, a murder charge in the Jeremiah Oliver case

The boyfriend of the boy's mother pleaded not guilty to one count of murder in a case that led to a reexamination of how the Department of Children and Families monitors distressed families.

Equality in Abortion Coverage Act signed into law

After votes in the Rhode Island Senate and House of Representatives, Governor McKee signs bills providing publicly funded abortion coverage for state employees and Medicaid recipients.

Rollins’s ‘extraordinary abuse’ of power is ripe for Mass. bar investigation, experts say

Rachael Rollins's greatest legal exposure, experts and attorneys say, could lie with Massachusetts’ own bar, which they say has wide leeway to pursue an investigation and potential sanctions up to revoking her law license after two government investigations found she repeatedly committed ethical breaches as US attorney.

Sports

Jamal Murray, who finished with 37 points, ignited a 15-1 run that gave Denver a 96-84 lead in the fourth.

Game 2: Nuggets 108, Lakers 103

Jamal Murray scores 23 points in fourth quarter as Nuggets forge 2-0 lead over Lakers

Murray missed 12 of 17 shots through three quarters but found his touch in the fourth, going 6 for 7, including four 3-pointers.

After wading in the mud, Tom Kim (right) played the rest of his round with his pants rolled up to his knees.

Tom Kim went into waist-deep mud for his golf ball, comes out a viral sensation

He emerged without the ball, his shirt and pants covered in mud.

The Yankees' Aaron Judge (right) celebrates his two-run home run against the Blue Jays with Gleyber Torres adding to the team's total of 33 home runs in 17 games this month.

Baseball notebook

Yankees get 11th win in 16 games as Aaron Judge starts off victory over Jays with two-run homer

Anthony Volpe also homered for the Yankees, who took three of four from Toronto.

A slimmer Bryson DeChambeau comes up big in suspended first round of PGA Championship

King Philip 12, North Attleborough 0

No. 2 King Philip softball barrels it up in its Hockomock League offensive assault on No. 10 North Attleborough

Logo for 2026 World Cup in Boston revealed as officials crank up excitement

Business

Most say pair debt limit increase with deficit cuts, but few following debate closely, new poll shows

A new poll finds that most US adults say they are highly concerned about the impact on the national economy if the US debt limit is not increased and the government defaults on its loans.

GE gets a new CFO

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Massachusetts again targeted by thieves trying to steal unemployment benefits

Deutsche Bank will pay $75 million to victims of Epstein

magazine

The French King Bridge, opened in 1932, spans the Connecticut River between Erving and Gill.

This bridge needed lifesaving barriers. It took a grieving mother to get them.

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.

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

The inaugural Breeze Airways nonstop flight to Los Angeles International Airport takes off Wednesday from T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Breeze Airways debuts Providence-to-LA nonstop service. But will it last?

Lowell IT systems slowly coming back online weeks after cyber attack

N.H. House authorizes Medicaid expansion to help more people get access to health care

sports

BC's Cassidy Weeks, right, celebrates her second-quarter goal with teammates Kayla Martello, left, and Belle Smith Thursday against Notre Dame.

BC women’s lacrosse advances to Final Four with blowout of Notre Dame

Patriots cut Yodny Cajuste, closing the book on their disappointing 2019 10-player draft class

The absence of Grant Williams in the Celtics’ playoff rotation is hard to figure

business

Pipeline used to carry crude oil at the Superior, Wis., terminal of Enbridge Energy. A federal judge said Thursday that the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's inaction in negotiating with Enbridge undermined claims it has made that the pipeline must be shut down.

Judge signals hesitance to shut down pipeline, pleads with Wisconsin tribe to work with oil company

Walmart shines in rough retail environment, ratchets up outlook after strong first quarter

How Rhode Island’s ‘Dignity Bus’ homeless shelter deal fell apart

politics

The US Capitol in Washington.

Most say pair debt limit increase with deficit cuts, but few following debate closely, new poll shows

Debt ceiling negotiators pushing for weekend deal, but much work remains

Rollins’s troubles blow back on Warren and Markey, who pushed her nomination

Nation

Oregon State Police troopers and firefighters work near the site of a wrecked tractor-trailer, on May 18.

Seven dead in vehicle crash on Interstate 5 in Oregon

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

Large US cities regain population lost during pandemic, census data shows

World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky is expected to travel to Japan for G7, seeking arms and aid

World leaders gather for G7 meetings, ready to pile fresh sanctions on Russia over Ukraine war

Myanmar raises death toll from Cyclone Mocha to 54, but full extent of damage still unknown

opinion

US Attorney Rachael Rollins on Jan. 13, 2022, in Boston.

The case against Rachael Rollins — she waged it herself

DeSantis’s anti-woke laws can’t stand up to the First Amendment. They’re still dangerous.

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

lifestyle

Aliki Kitas, 5, and her brother Pantelis, 4, reach out to touch their newborn brother, Iraklis, as his mom, Paula holds him. Iraklis, the first baby born in Boston in 2023, was born at 12:07 a.m. on New Year's Day at at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

These were the most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 2022

Black Owned Bos. Market returns to Seaport with most vendors yet

Is it too late for closure?

food & dining

Doughnut holes from Mass Hole Donuts.

Bar Toscana and Stubbys arrive in the Seaport; Mass Hole Donuts debuts in Somerville

Conversation about toxic kitchen culture takes the stage at WBUR

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travel

Chris Bordenca, "Toy Chest 2"

A Northampton arts festival, a poncho for chilly times, and a gravel race for all ages

Ellie Smart on diving into travel, a great fanny pack, and loving Oprah Winfrey

I got downgraded on a Lufthansa flight, so where’s the refund?

Arts

Zhang Xiao, "Villagers wearing a lion dance costume for two performers, Huozhuang Village, Henan Province," 2018.

Zhang Xiao’s photos look at rural life during Lunar New Year celebrations in northern China

Andy Warhol violated a photographer’s copyright on image of Prince, Supreme Court rules

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

Books

illo for sunday books 5/21

In R.F. Kuang’s ‘Yellowface,’ intellectual theft by a white writer unleashes hauntings of all kinds

Millennials, in Brandon Taylor’s ‘The Late Americans,’ confront a broken world through sex and theory

Burkhard Bilger on German Westerns and his favorite historical novels

Movies

"It Ain't Over" is a new documentary about baseball legend Yogi Berra (center).

You can observe a lot by watching the Yogi Berra doc ‘It Ain’t Over’

‘Master Gardener’ is a lot of raging bull

‘Fast X’ reunites the family

Television

From left: Nick Mohammed, Anthony Head, and Jason Sudeikis in "Ted Lasso."

‘Ted Lasso’ stays positive to the (likely) end

First ‘Survivor’ winner Richard Hatch on taxes, Trump, and reality TV

Toasting the 30th anniversary of ‘Cheers Day’

music

Swiftmania at Gillette

Berklee grads go viral to spread self-love

Terrible Taylor Swift traffic and lessons learned: From podcasts to bathroom breaks, here’s how to prepare

Theater/Dance

ArtsEmerson is presenting nora chipaumire's "Nehanda" through Sunday.

In ‘Nehanda’ at ArtsEmerson, the spirit of resistance

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’

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

Billionaire Sam Zell, founder and chairman of Equity Group Investments Inc., at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2017.

Sam Zell, billionaire real estate investor, dies

Robert E. Lucas Jr., Nobel laureate, economist, dies at 85

Amy Silverstein, who chronicled a life of three hearts, dies at 59