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Rachael Rollins officially resigns as US attorney in brief letter to President Biden
Rollins, who had signaled earlier in the week that she would be stepping down from her post as the most powerful prosecutor in the state , made the resignation official Friday with a brief letter to President Joe Biden.

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

Jack Teixeira, Air National Guardsman accused of leaking secrets, will remain in custody awaiting trial, judge rules
Granting the government’s request for detention Friday, US Magistrate Judge David H. Hennessy said Teixeira was “cavalier” in his handling of intelligence and did not care about the potential harm of its release, despite receiving repeated warnings not to divulge classified material.

Jim Brown, legendary NFL star and civil rights advocate, dies at 87
Brown was one of the greatest players in NFL history, but cut his career short to focus on acting and social activism. He was a contentious character, arrested a half dozen times, mostly on charges of hitting women.

American Airlines and JetBlue must abandon their partnership in the Northeast, federal judge rules

American Airlines and JetBlue must give up their partnership in the northeast US. That’s what a federal judge in Boston ruled on Friday.

Jimmy Buffett performing in concert at Xfinity Center in 2014.

Singer Jimmy Buffett cancels upcoming show after being hospitalized in Boston

Dartmouth students, alumni alarmed after woman of color is denied tenure

Pastor Pamela Kelly, center, and Rev. John Gibbons (right) sang as they depart the City Council offices at Boston City Hall after delivering a petition to the office of City Council President Ed Flynn in Boston on Friday.

‘Do what you promised’: Group delivers 3,000 signatures to Boston City Hall in support of renaming Faneuil Hall

A dozen religious leaders and activists called on city officials to follow through with their commitment to address harms caused by Boston’s participation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and make renaming racist symbols and monuments a part of that promise.

Follow along as Swifties descend on Gillette for first of three ‘Era’s Tour’ shows
“This is our Super Bowl,” said a woman wearing sequins on the commuter rail approaching the stadium. She and roughly 55,000 others will watch Taylor Swift perform in New England for the fist time since 2018.

Scalpers, scams, and scarcity leave few options for fans still hoping to score Taylor Swift tickets See more news and information about the concerts

From left Chelsea Brayman, Tara Whelan and Nicole Neuhauser ride the commuter line together to Gillette Stadium to see Taylor Swift on Friday. The trio, along with their daughters, have been planning their outfits for months.

They never go out of style: Taylor Swift fans don their best looks for Eras Tour at Gillette Stadium

Swifties are descending on Foxborough by the thousands, dressed in their concert-best.

Game 2: Heat at Celtics | 8:30 p.m.

Celtic Grant Williams has not played at all in five playoff games this season, including Game 1 against the Heat.

Celtics notebook

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

The forward averaged 25.9 minutes per game during the regular season and that figure has been sliced in half during the playoffs.

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

Summer Arts Preview

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

Plus: Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones, Jennifer Lawrence gets raunchy, and Wes Anderson meets aliens.

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Amelia Loverme, a student at Leicester Middle School, can be seen helping her brother after he started choking.

Sixth grader saves her twin brother from choking in Leicester school cafeteria

Amelia Loverme, 12, is being hailed as a hero for taking quick action and saving her brother Charlie from choking.

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

A graduate of Boston University, Rebecca Long quit her job in financial services in Boston to take the Everest trip after her boss wouldn’t allow her to take leave, her twin sister said.

Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell cross Mineral Spring Avenue in North Providence, Rhode Island, on Friday, May 19, 2023, with security, to meet fans.

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Cast of ‘Good Burger 2′ greets fans during filming in North Providence

“Saturday Night Live” superstar Kenan Thompson and co-star Kel Mitchell took time during filming Friday to sign autographs and take selfies.

AAPI Heritage Month

Local businesses Lemon Drop Team and Everyday Bakeshop are donating some of the proceeds from their lemon poppy mochi cake to the nonprofit Heart of Dinner.

Sisters, their Mass. businesses collaborate for AAPI Heritage Month

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

The AAPI History I Carry With Me: Sheena Melwani

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.

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

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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?

MARCELA GARCÍA

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President Biden has endorsed plans to train Ukrainian pilots on US-made F-16 fighter jets, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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Obama, Colbert among 500 Americans banned from going to Russia
In response to a new round of US sanctions, Russia has announced that has banned 500 Americans from entering the country, including former president Barack Obama and comedian Stephen Colbert.

Mass. high court rules judge was wrong to order Boston police to unmask confidential informant

The state’s top court rebuked a judge Friday for ordering Boston police to disclose key details about a confidential informant even though doing so could put the person at risk for physical harm.

DeSantis meets New Hampshire lawmakers, greets voters ahead of expected 2024 announcement

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has met with Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire and stopped by a local diner, where he chatted with a mom whose young son was wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt.

Judge blocks release of video, records in Tyre Nichols beating death investigation
A Tennessee judge has continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and records in the Tyre Nichols investigation.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We follow the same meme accounts’
Will a shared social media feed unite these daters?

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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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.

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.

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.

TOM FARRAGHER

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.

Culture & Lifestyle

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

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

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

Janet Jackson plays the Xfinity Center in Mansfield May 19.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

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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.

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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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.

SCOT LEHIGH

Senate President Spilka says no to legalizing teacher strikes

John Summers

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.

EDITORIAL

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

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

JOAN VENNOCHI

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

They never go out of style: Taylor Swift fans don their best looks for Eras Tour at Gillette Stadium

Swifties are descending on Foxborough by the thousands, dressed in their concert-best.

Follow along as Swifties descend on Gillette for first of three ‘Era’s Tour’ shows

“This is our Super Bowl,” said a woman wearing sequins on the commuter rail approaching the stadium. She and roughly 55,000 others will watch Taylor Swift perform in New England for the fist time since 2018.

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Cast of ‘Good Burger 2′ greets fans during filming in North Providence

“Saturday Night Live” superstar Kenan Thompson and co-star Kel Mitchell took time during filming Friday to sign autographs and take selfies.

‘Bittersweet’: Bay State College holds final commencement before permanent shutdown

Last month, the 77-year-old, for-profit school announced it would shut down at the end of August, leaving undergraduates scrambling to find another institution that would accept their transfer credits.

Sports

Joe Mazzulla (left) and Marcus Smart in conversation during Game 1.

live updates

Can the Celtics turn things around and take Game 2 from the Heat? Follow along with live updates from TD Garden.

Boston lost home-court advantage when it ceded Game 1 to Jimmy Butler and Miami. Game 2 tips at 8:30 p.m. on TNT.

Golf

PGA club professional Michael Block has to work Monday, but before that he is playing on the weekend at the PGA Championship

Block shot his second straight even-par 70 to easily make the cut for the first time in his seven tries at a major.

The Panthers' Matthew Tkachuk (center) celebrates his goal in the fourth overtime against the Hurricanes with with Aaron Ekblad in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals in Raleigh, N.C.

nhl notebook

An endless game until Panthers’ Matthew Tkachuk ended it in fourth overtime

“It was a good goalie battle,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said.

NBA

Nikola Jokic-Jamal Murray combination commands respect with Nuggets up 2-0 on Lakers in West finals

BOYS' VOLLEYBALL NOTEBOOK

After a soul-searching team meeting, Lexington boys’ volleyball closed ranks, and rekindled its joy for the game

minor details

Adding strength and a cutter has lefty Shane Drohan on the rise in the Red Sox system

Business

American Airlines and JetBlue must abandon their partnership in the Northeast, federal judge rules

American Airlines and JetBlue must give up their partnership in the northeast US. That’s what a federal judge in Boston ruled on Friday.

Mass. labor market tightened in April

The state’s unemployment rate fell to 3.3 percent last month, lowest since the onset of the pandemic, from 3.5 percent in March.

NASA picks Bezos’ Blue Origin to build lunar landers for moonwalkers

Debt limit talks in standstill as Republicans, White House face ‘real differences’

magazine

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

Globe Magazine

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

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

PERSPECTIVE

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

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Jim Brown, legendary NFL star and civil rights advocate, dies at 87 Brown was one of the greatest players in NFL history, but cut his career short to focus on acting and social activism. He was a contentious character, arrested a half dozen times, mostly on charges of hitting women.

American Airlines and JetBlue must abandon their partnership in the Northeast, federal judge rules

Singer Jimmy Buffett cancels upcoming show after being hospitalized in Boston

Dartmouth students, alumni alarmed after woman of color is denied tenure

‘Do what you promised’: Group delivers 3,000 signatures to Boston City Hall in support of renaming Faneuil Hall

They never go out of style: Taylor Swift fans don their best looks for Eras Tour at Gillette Stadium

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

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

Explore more from our summer arts preview →

Sixth grader saves her twin brother from choking in Leicester school cafeteria

Boston woman summits Everest after fellow climber in expedition group dies

Cast of ‘Good Burger 2′ greets fans during filming in North Providence

Sisters, their Mass. businesses collaborate for AAPI Heritage Month

The AAPI History I Carry With Me: Sheena Melwani

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

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

The beauty of ugliness

Who else should be accountable for Rachael Rollins’s brazen abuse of power?

Reading the tax-relief tea leaves

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

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

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Obama, Colbert among 500 Americans banned from going to Russia In response to a new round of US sanctions, Russia has announced that has banned 500 Americans from entering the country, including former president Barack Obama and comedian Stephen Colbert.

Mass. high court rules judge was wrong to order Boston police to unmask confidential informant

DeSantis meets New Hampshire lawmakers, greets voters ahead of expected 2024 announcement

Judge blocks release of video, records in Tyre Nichols beating death investigation A Tennessee judge has continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and records in the Tyre Nichols investigation.

Dinner with Cupid Blind date: ‘We follow the same meme accounts’ Will a shared social media feed unite these daters?

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They never go out of style: Taylor Swift fans don their best looks for Eras Tour at Gillette Stadium

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Cast of ‘Good Burger 2′ greets fans during filming in North Providence

‘Bittersweet’: Bay State College holds final commencement before permanent shutdown

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Can the Celtics turn things around and take Game 2 from the Heat? Follow along with live updates from TD Garden.

PGA club professional Michael Block has to work Monday, but before that he is playing on the weekend at the PGA Championship

An endless game until Panthers’ Matthew Tkachuk ended it in fourth overtime

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American Airlines and JetBlue must abandon their partnership in the Northeast, federal judge rules

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Jim Brown, legendary NFL star and civil rights advocate, dies at 87
Brown was one of the greatest players in NFL history, but cut his career short to focus on acting and social activism. He was a contentious character, arrested a half dozen times, mostly on charges of hitting women.

Biden endorses F-16 training for Ukrainians as Zelensky is set to attend G7 summit
President Biden has endorsed plans to train Ukrainian pilots on US-made F-16 fighter jets, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Obama, Colbert among 500 Americans banned from going to Russia
In response to a new round of US sanctions, Russia has announced that has banned 500 Americans from entering the country, including former president Barack Obama and comedian Stephen Colbert.

Judge blocks release of video, records in Tyre Nichols beating death investigation
A Tennessee judge has continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and records in the Tyre Nichols investigation.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We follow the same meme accounts’
Will a shared social media feed unite these daters?

Send The Boston Globe a confidential news tip
Do you have a tip about something that needs to be investigated? Do you have documents or data we should dig into? We want to hear from you.

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.

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.

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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.