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People exit the Senate chamber of the Massachusetts State House on August 1, 2022.

On Beacon Hill, backroom infighting over committee rules spills into public, reveals simmering House-Senate tension

The bickering has injected a highly-unusual level of drama into the typically drab legislative process, and pulls the curtain back on long-simmering tensions between the Massachusetts Legislature’s two chambers.

Summer arts preview

10 TV shows we’ll be watching over the summer
Highlights include "Hijack" with Idris Elba, Tom Holland in "The Crowded Room," a new "Full Monty" with the original cast, and "Painkiller" with Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick.

A scene from "Barbie," featuring Margot Robbie as Barbie (center) and Ryan Gosling as Ken (to the right).

30+ movies we’re excited to see this summer, from ‘Barbie’ to ‘Spider-Man’

Beyoncé comes to Gillette Stadium Aug. 1.

10 concerts not to miss this summer, from Bruce to Beyoncé

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

Terrible Taylor Swift traffic and lessons learned

10 Taylor-made moments from the Eras Tour

Few options for fans still hoping to score tickets

This week's daters: Jonah and Surabhi.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We follow the same meme accounts’

Will a shared social media feed unite these daters?

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.

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.

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

Rachael Rollins and the poisoned chalice

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.

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.

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.

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.

Where 3 Mass. cities rank among best places to live, according to US News & World Report

MGH employee took hunting rifle to hospital, police say

The beautiful resistance of Boston-based singer, songwriter and influencer, Sheena Melwani.

The AAPI History I Carry With Me: Sheena Melwani

Nearly 10 million TikTok fans tune in to hear the Boston-based songwriter. As an influencer, much of what she creates is a mash-up of music, comedy, and fun.

Rebecca Long, 29, has her picture taken during a short acclimatization hike around Everest Camp II. She reached the summit on Thursday, her twin sister said.

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.

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.

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

IDEAS | TOM JOUDREY

The beauty of ugliness

The body positivity movement wants to call everyone beautiful. But what if instead of gazing into the mirror we smashed it?

Reading the tax-relief tea leaves

How ‘anti-woke’ laws are awakening Florida’s students

Rachael Rollins was a disgrace

Rachelle G. Cohen

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

More recent News

These were the most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 2022
The most popular boy's name in Massachusetts has held the top spot for three years running. The top girl's name has been number one even longer.

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.

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.

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.

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought

A bowling alley that’s rolling right along more than 100 years after opening
A walk through the alley’s front door is a delightful, nostalgic stroll back in time.

Zelensky to attend G7 summit Sunday as world leaders tighten sanctions against Russia over Ukraine

Leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies vowed Friday to tighten punishments on Russia for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine, days before President Volodymyr Zelensky joins the Group of Seven summit in person on Sunday.

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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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Former housing secretary Julian Castro (top left), President Biden (top center), Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley (top right), Representative Ro Khanna (bottom left), former Ohio state senator Nina Turner (bottom center), and former New York governor Andrew Cuomo (bottom right).

ANALYSIS | JAMES PINDELL

Five Democrats who could still challenge Biden for the presidential nomination

Joe Biden is one of the weakest incumbents running for president in decades. But the list of candidates who could (or would) mount a challenge is very short.

EDUCATION

Ousting of teachers at St. Thomas Aquinas school sparks outrage in N.H.
Parents, students, and alumni point to a shift in ideology at the Catholic school in Dover, N.H., claiming that contracts for four well-liked teachers were not renewed because they were supportive of the LGBTQ community.

Winthrop Center is readying for its debut at last
The 691-foot tower is the tallest ever built in Boston’s downtown core.

Massachusetts’ public housing is deteriorating. The cost to fix it could be billions.
The state public housing portfolio has gone so underfunded for so long that many of the buildings are in a state of chronic disrepair. Its residents — some of the state's poorest — pay the price.

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

Clockwise, from left: Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Han (Sung Kang), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), Dom (Vin Diesel), Little Brian (Leo Abelo Perry), Abuelita (Rita Moreno), Mia (Jordana Brewster), Tej (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, back to camera) and Roman (Tyrese Gibson, back to camera) in "Fast X," directed by Louis Leterrier.

‘Fast X’ reunites the family

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.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Special Projects

Main marathon 10th anniversary gif

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.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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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.

(Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe)

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."

IDEAS | BRIAN MCGUIRE

America broke George Clooney’s ER

Metro

SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW

10 folk and country shows that’ll bring the sunshine this summer

Valerie June, Calexico, and Rodney Crowell are among the Americana artists who'll be heating up concert stages this summer.

On Beacon Hill, backroom infighting over committee rules spills into public, reveals simmering House-Senate tension

The bickering has injected a highly-unusual level of drama into the typically drab legislative process, and pulls the curtain back on long-simmering tensions between the Massachusetts Legislature’s two chambers.

The AAPI History I Carry With Me: Sheena Melwani

Nearly 10 million TikTok fans tune in to hear the Boston-based songwriter. As an influencer, much of what she creates is a mash-up of music, comedy, and fun.

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.

Sports

At the Shelburne Falls Bowling Alley, players still use pencil and paper to keep their scores, and everyone must rent old-timey tie-up shoes ($3 per pair).

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought

A bowling alley that’s rolling right along more than 100 years after opening

A walk through the alley’s front door is a delightful, nostalgic stroll back in time.

Florida won its seventh straight road game in these playoffs and improved to 5-0 in overtime. Game 2 is Saturday night in Raleigh.

Game 1: Panthers 3, Hurricanes 2, (4OT)

Matthew Tkachuk ends 6th-longest game in NHL history, Panthers outlast Hurricanes in 4th OT

Matthew Tkachuk beat Frederik Andersen in the final seconds of the fourth overtime to lift the Florida Panthers past the Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 early Friday to open their Eastern Conference final series.

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.

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

Baseball notebook

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

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

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

Russia fires 30 cruise missiles at Ukrainian targets; Ukraine says 29 were shot down

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

Rhode Island Governor Daniel J. McKee, center, prepares to sign the Equality in Abortion Coverage Act, flanked by House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, House Majority Whip Katherine S. Kazarian, and Senator Bridget Valverde.

Equality in Abortion Coverage Act signed into law

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

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

sports

The second-ranked King Philip softball team waits at home plate to greet Taylor Regan (No. 7) after her home run in Thursday's 12-0 rout of No. 10 North Attleborough.

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

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

business

The settlement would resolve a proposed class-action suit that alleged the bank had helped enable Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of young women.

Deutsche Bank will pay $75 million to victims of Epstein

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

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

President Joe Biden, centre, sits with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second left, during a bilateral meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, opposite, in Hiroshima, Japan, Thursday, May 18, 2023, ahead of the start of the G-7 Summit.

Zelensky to attend G7 summit Sunday as world leaders tighten sanctions against Russia over Ukraine

Australian police use Taser on 95-year-old with dementia who held steak knife

Myanmar says official death toll from Cyclone Mocha at least 145, says aid is being provided

opinion

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

(Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe)

Public colleges should be truly public again

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

Old Sturbridge Village finds itself in a charter school dust-up

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

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

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

Texas Isaiah, "My Name Is My Name I," 2016, from As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic (Aperture, 2021).

Picture by picture, a Canadian dentist built a photography collection by artists from the Black Atlantic

10 museum shows you’ll want to wander this summer

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

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

Idris Elba in the Apple TV+ miniseries "Hijack," which will unfold in real time over seven episodes. It premieres June 28.

10 TV shows we’ll be watching over the summer

In ‘American Born Chinese,’ a shy high school teen meets supernatural forces

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

music

Rodney Crowell plays Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport July 20.

10 folk and country shows that’ll bring the sunshine this summer

10 classical concerts to invigorate your summer

At BAMS Fest, kei is poised for her hometown showcase

Theater/Dance

Dutch National Ballet will perform at Jacob's Pillow this summer.

July offers a rare chance to see the celebrated Dutch National Ballet in New England

10 standout shows for theatergoers this summer

With her hot dog chronicle, Jamie Loftus is on a roll

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