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Del Mar Vacations worker Emily Araujo cleaned the living room of a South Yarmouth rental home that rents for $18,000 a week.

As pandemic boom fades, it might be just a bit easier to find a place on the Cape this summer

The Cape has nearly 18,000 short-term rentals on the market this summer, a 12 percent increase from April last year and nearly 50 percent more than March 2021, according to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and the Cape Cod Commission.

Around New England with Kevin Cullen

The moon’s shadow did something extraordinary to the Keene family in Vermont
Vermonters are used to having flatlanders invade their brave little state, but the total eclipse of the sun brought it to a whole other level.

‘Almost life-changing’: Historic solar eclipse awes crowds across New England Can’t get enough of the total solar eclipse? Here are the next ones to watch for.

On Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine, it’s dark side of the moon

Photos: New England watches the total solar eclipse

Timelapse video shows Monday’s eclipse as seen from Mount Washington

Ben Volin | On Football

After assessing the quarterback options in the draft, one emerges as the clear choice for the Patriots
A little advice for Eliot Wolf and Jerod Mayo, who have been in New England long enough that they probably don’t need it: Size matters.

Brayan Bello and the Red Sox went 39-42 last season at Fenway Park, including 3-9 as the season slipped away in September.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Red Sox need to make Fenway Park less beloved to opposing teams and their fans

“We haven’t made Fenway uncomfortable to the opposition in a long while,” Alex Cora said. “[Fenway] is awesome. I love it. ‘Sweet Caroline’ in the eighth [inning] and all that stuff. But when we’re down seven, ‘Sweet Caroline’ doesn’t sound all that great.”

Remembering Tim Wakefield’s iconic, one-of-a-kind contract with the Red Sox

Fried chicken with mashed potatoes, gravy, and collard greens at Blue Ribbon Brasserie.

8 new restaurants near Fenway Park

Here’s where to eat and drink this baseball season.

Massachusetts House budget plan includes $739m for cash-strapped transit agencies

The proposal has about $555 million for the MBTA and $184 million for the state’s 15 regional transit authorities, according to a preview provided by the office of House Speaker Ronald Mariano.

Mayor Wu proposes $4.6b budget for next fiscal year

Forecast | Ken Mahan

An ideal spring day awaits with lots of sunshine. Late-week storm threat ahead.
Temperatures to push 5 to 10 degrees warmer than average today, including throughout Greater Boston.

Trump’s abortion announcement sparks rare dissent among MAGA faithful

The former president said he was in favor of abortion laws on the state level and made no mention of a federal ban.

Stoneham police sergeant resigns after probe confirms use of racist language on duty, officials say

Allegations concerning Thomas Heller’s conduct surfaced in the spring of 2023, while he was working as a police sergeant, officials said.

Mother of woman killed in alleged act of road rage in Hopkinton hails medical staff who tried to save her
Destini Decoff died Saturday from injuries she sustained when she was hit by a car on Route 85 on Thursday, officials said.

After warning of ‘political theatre,’ Goldberg to close hearing to determine cannabis regulator’s fate

Shannon O’Brien, the state's top cannabis regulator, is scheduled to appear in a two-day administrative hearing on Beacon Hill, during which she can challenge state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg’s decision to suspend her.

Senator Elizabeth Warren says she thinks Israel’s actions in Gaza will be legally ruled genocide
In comments at a Boston-area mosque, the Massachusetts senators said she preferred to speak about what exactly what Israel is doing in Gaza rather than focus on a “labels argument.”

Paying off people’s medical debt has little impact on their lives, study finds

Explosive device thrown onto porch at Satanic Temple in Salem, police say

The Huskies set a record for largest margin of victory over an entire tournament.

UCONN 75, Purdue 60

UConn smothers Purdue, capping a dominant NCAA tournament run with back-to-back titles

The Huskies won the sixth national title in program history and became the first team since Florida in 2006-07 to repeat as national champions,

Former BU coach Jack Parker and former BC coach Jerry York shown in 2005. The two overlapped at the rival universities for 16 seasons, but never made the Frozen Four in the same year.

The blue bloods have returned: For the first time in more than 30 years, BC and BU are both in the Frozen Four

Remarkably, it’s only the fourth time that both BC and BU reached the national semifinals in the same season, and the first since 1990.

Everything you need to know about Boston College and Boston University in the Frozen Four

Amazon opened its largest facility in Massachusetts, a nearly 4-million-square-foot fulfillment center, in North Andover in January.

Amazon debuts $400 million robotic warehouse in North Andover, biggest in the state

The nearly four-million-square-foot fulfillment center on the site of a former telephone company factory will employ 1,500 people — and thousands of robots.

Opinion

This file photo taken in 1971 shows a French nuclear test explosion in Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia, in the southern Pacific Ocean.

We need to start worrying about the bomb

The horror of a nuclear attack would be unimaginable. The impact would last generations. And all of it is eminently feasible with only a fraction of the weapons that already exist in the world.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

China and the US have to get off their collision course

MARCELA GARCÍA

The strange tale of a former Holyoke city councilor

Hillary Clinton to students on Gaza: Can we talk with, not shout at, each other?

At age 8, he saw images of starving war-torn kids. He’s seeing them again.

More recent News

What to know about Biden’s latest attempt at student loan cancellation
President Biden is taking another shot at student loan cancellation, hoping to deliver on a key campaign promise that he has so far failed to deliver.

New York appeals judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to delay his April 15 hush money trial
Trump’s lawyers had argued at an emergency hearing that the trial should be postponed while they seek a change of venue to move it out of heavily Democratic Manhattan.

European court hands down mixed rulings on 3 cases seeking to force countries to meet climate goals

Europe’s highest human rights court threw out a case Tuesday brought by six Portuguese youths aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but sided with a group of senior Swiss women who also sought such measures.

Assessing the flood risk: Tips for home buyers from real estate and insurance experts
“There is a house that one of my clients is trying to buy, and I’m trying to get flood insurance on it. And it’s been denied by a lot of our carriers.”

ADDRESS | Spring House Hunt

Proposed commission settlement could hurt veteran home buyers

“I don’t know where all the consumer advocates and veteran advocates are,” said Paul J. Cervone, a Lamacchia Realty agent who specializes in working with veterans. “But they should be screaming from the rooftops, because this is going to absolutely disadvantage VA buyers in the future.”

Mass. man charged with falsifying Matos nomination papers

Christopher Cotham faces two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts in connection with nomination papers filed in East Providence, Newport, and Jamestown during last year’s First Congressional District race.

Recommended reads

The FAFSA debacle has millions of families stuck in college limbo. Mine is one of them.

As a parent going through the college aid process for the first time, everything related to this form has felt like an unmitigated disaster.

‘It’s nonstop’: Striking BU grad workers struggle to balance teaching, studying, life
The Boston University grad students, who have been on strike since late March, are also university employees, which not only adds to their workload but complicates their relationship with the school.

The House impeachment articles against the Homeland Security secretary are headed to the Senate. Now what?
The shelf life of articles in the Democrat-controlled Senate isn’t expected to be long.

Your guide to the 2024 Boston Marathon: What to know, how to watch, and more
Can Evans Chebet make it a three-peat on Boylston Street? Here's everything you need to know.

Culture & Lifestyle

The cast of "The Drowsy Chaperone" at Lyric Stage Company of Boston.

A comic feast in Lyric Stage’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike put her hand to a pearwood piece in progress with the working title, “Sapientia” inside her home studio.

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike tries to ‘let the wood do the talking’

Stephen King

On the 50th anniversary of ‘Carrie’, Stephen King talks about how his first horror novel came to be

Psychotherapist and relationship podcaster Esther Perel, shown on an Australia tour, appears in Boston April 10.

Esther Perel hits Boston for one night to talk love, sex, and relationships

Special Projects

Ashfield, MA 06/13//2023, At Sanderson Academy, books in a fourth-grade classroom.

Suzanne Kreiter\Globe staff

Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

stuart landing page illustration

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Alan Sokal and Richard Dawkins

Sex and gender: The medical establishment’s reluctance to speak honestly about biological reality

The long line of duck boats carrying the World Series champion Red Sox moved along Boylston Street approaching the intersection with Berkeley Street, as thousands upon thousands of fans lined the streets and cheered, Oct. 30, 2004.

A Red Sox parade 86 years in the making with only 72 hours to prepare

The climbing team posed for a photo at their base camp in 1988 on the Tibetan side of Mt. Everest.

IDEAS | MIMI ZIEMAN

Climbing Mt. Everest just got a little less dangerous

Even though Massachusetts has legalized marijuana, workers in the industry face unique challenges because the federal government considers their income to be derived from criminal activity.

Don’t punish marijuana workers in bankruptcy proceedings

The ‘demographic cliff’ is coming. Colleges must be prepared.

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Forecast | Ken Mahan

An ideal spring day awaits with lots of sunshine. Late-week storm threat ahead.

Temperatures to push 5 to 10 degrees warmer than average today, including throughout Greater Boston.

School meals bill to come before N.H. House after recent death of leading proponent

The added cost of expanding access to free meals would fall to the state, which opponents have said may be too expensive.

As pandemic boom fades, it might be just a bit easier to find a place on the Cape this summer

The Cape has nearly 18,000 short-term rentals on the market this summer, a 12 percent increase from April last year and nearly 50 percent more than March 2021, according to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and the Cape Cod Commission.

Timelapse video shows Monday’s eclipse as seen from Mount Washington

The Mount Washington Observatory has released a time-lapse video showing the moon as it passed by the sun, blotting out most of its light, before moving on, a sight that won’t be seen again in these parts for 55 years.

Sports

Former BU coach Jack Parker and former BC coach Jerry York shown in 2005. The two overlapped at the rival universities for 16 seasons, but never made the Frozen Four in the same year.

The blue bloods have returned: For the first time in more than 30 years, BC and BU are both in the Frozen Four

Remarkably, it’s only the fourth time that both BC and BU reached the national semifinals in the same season, and the first since 1990.

Drake Maye and North Carolina went 8-5 in 2023.

Ben Volin | On Football

After assessing the quarterback options in the draft, one emerges as the clear choice for the Patriots

A little advice for Eliot Wolf and Jerod Mayo, who have been in New England long enough that they probably don’t need it: Size matters.

The Huskies set a record for largest margin of victory over an entire tournament.

UCONN 75, Purdue 60

UConn smothers Purdue, capping a dominant NCAA tournament run with back-to-back titles

The Huskies won the sixth national title in program history and became the first team since Florida in 2006-07 to repeat as national champions,

Jerry Grote, star Mets catcher on 1969 championship team, dies at 81

WOMEN'S WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP

Americans warm up for women’s world hockey championship by defeating rival Canada on Kirsten Simms’s OT goal

NCAA president Charlie Baker calls prop betting on college athletes ‘enormously problematic’

Business

As pandemic boom fades, it might be just a bit easier to find a place on the Cape this summer

The Cape has nearly 18,000 short-term rentals on the market this summer, a 12 percent increase from April last year and nearly 50 percent more than March 2021, according to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and the Cape Cod Commission.

ADDRESS | Spring House Hunt

Proposed commission settlement could hurt veteran home buyers

“I don’t know where all the consumer advocates and veteran advocates are,” said Paul J. Cervone, a Lamacchia Realty agent who specializes in working with veterans. “But they should be screaming from the rooftops, because this is going to absolutely disadvantage VA buyers in the future.”

From overcapacity to TikTok, the issues covered during Janet Yellen’s trip to China

TSMC will receive $6.6 billion to bolster US chip manufacturing

magazine

Designer Trisha Luong demonstrates that you don't have to match table and chairs.

Your Home: Renovations

Eight common interior design myths and mistakes, and how to fix them

The homeowners’ art collection inspired the interior color palette. The painting on the left-hand wall by Dominican artist Hilario Rodriguez was a gift from Alejandro Bascuas’s aunt. A grouping of mixed-media portraits hangs above the chair: one by Miriam Tribe on the left and two by Carlos Kahan that the couple brought back from Brazil on the right.

Your Home: Renovations

A ‘micro-addition’ made a big difference in a Jamaica Plain home renovation

This week's daters: Kat and Greg.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We shared roommate stories — a classic Boston experience’

The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse as seen from Kentucky in 2017. Another takes place Monday.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, April 8-14

metro

David Meehan, lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit accusing the State of New Hampshire of covering up decades of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse at its youth detention center, outside his lawyer's office in Portsmouth, N.H., Jan. 10, 2020.

A lawsuit alleging abuse at a NH youth center is going to trial. There are 1,000 more to come.

Massachusetts House budget plan includes $739m for cash-strapped transit agencies

Explosive device thrown onto porch at Satanic Temple in Salem, police say

sports

Peter Reale winds up for a kill against the Braintree back line, contributing to Newton North's 3-0 home win on Thursday.

Boys’ volleyball roundup: No. 4 Natick rides Killer B’s kills to BSC sweep of Brookline

Boys’ lacrosse roundup: AJ Pescara, Arlington Catholic stymie Bishop Stang

Celtics ensure they will have backup big Neemias Queta for playoffs by signing him to NBA contract

business

Siyu Huang, chief executive of Factorial Energy.

Factorial Energy prepares for big move, as battery maker makes tracks for Methuen

‘It’s nonstop’: Striking BU grad workers struggle to balance teaching, studying, life

Culinary diplomacy: The internet is obsessed with what Janet Yellen eats in China

politics

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron, left, meets with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for discussions on the war in Ukraine, at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 6, 2023.

UK’s David Cameron heads to Washington for Ukraine talks after meeting Donald Trump in Florida

What to know about Biden’s latest attempt at student loan cancellation

Trump’s abortion announcement sparks rare dissent among MAGA faithful

Nation

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and his wife Yuko Kishida participate in an arrival ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on April 8.

Biden to meet Japan’s PM Kishida amid shared concerns about China and differences on US Steel deal

New WIC rules include more money for fruits and veggies. They also expand food choices.

Years after college student is stabbed to death, California man faces trial in hate case

World

People demonstrate outside the European Court of Human Rights, April 9, in Strasbourg, eastern France.

European court hands down mixed rulings on 3 cases seeking to force countries to meet climate goals

Bulgarian parliament formally approves caretaker government to run country until June 9 elections

Palestinians returning to Khan Younis after Israeli withdrawal find an unrecognizable city

opinion

The climbing team posed for a photo at their base camp in 1988 on the Tibetan side of Mt. Everest.

Climbing Mt. Everest just got a little less dangerous

Sex and gender: The medical establishment’s reluctance to speak honestly about biological reality

A Red Sox parade 86 years in the making with only 72 hours to prepare

lifestyle

Jerusalem-based Vertigo Dance Company's "Makom," a Celebrity Series presentation at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre this weekend.

Vertigo finds its place with ‘Makom’

Saw my friend’s wife on a dating app

My husband isn’t brushing his teeth

food & dining

Fried chicken with mashed potatoes, gravy, and collard greens at Blue Ribbon Brasserie.

8 new restaurants near Fenway Park

Ziggy Bombs opens in Brookline; Nightshade Clam Shack prepares for summertime in Lynn

Lawson’s Finest Liquids in Vermont made a special eclipse beer. (You have to make a special trip to get it.)

travel

Del Mar Vacations worker Emily Araujo cleaned the living room of a South Yarmouth rental home that rents for $18,000 a week.

As pandemic boom fades, it might be just a bit easier to find a place on the Cape this summer

So much beauty, so many sieges in Girona, Spain

Keep a fresh eye: Six strategies for visiting some of New England’s art museums

Arts

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike put her hand to a pearwood piece in progress with the working title, “Sapientia” inside her home studio.

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike tries to ‘let the wood do the talking’

At the ICA, the powerful, personal histories of Firelei Báez

The National Black Doll Museum celebrates 20 years and a new home, in North Attleborough

Books

Stephen King

‘He was without a doubt one of the most fascinating people I’ve interviewed’: Readers share their Stephen King memories

Amanda Montell lays bare your ‘mental magic tricks’ in ‘The Age of Magical Overthinking’

Maggie Nelson contemplates freedom through words and art in ‘Like Love’

Movies

Léa Seydoux and George MacKay in "The Beast."

In ‘The Beast,’ the past is another country — and the future is, too

Actor Jonathan Majors sentenced to probation, avoiding jail time for assaulting ex-girlfriend

‘Coup de Chance’: Woody Allen revisits one of his go-to themes: men getting away with murder

Television

Dan Schneider, then Nickelodeon’s star producer, accepts a lifetime achievement award at the network’s Kids’ Choice Awards in 2014.

Everything we learned from the new episode of ‘Quiet on the Set’

Actor Jonathan Majors sentenced to probation, avoiding jail time for assaulting ex-girlfriend

This week’s TV: Michael Douglas as Ben Franklin, an animated ‘Good Times,’ and the cast of ‘SNL 1975′

music

Billie Eilish at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Billie Eilish announces new album: ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ arrives next month

Morgan Wallen has been arrested after police say he threw a chair off of the roof of a 6-story bar

Jelly Roll dominates the 2024 CMT Music Awards with host Kelsea Ballerini and a Toby Keith tribute

Theater/Dance

The cast of "The Drowsy Chaperone" at Lyric Stage Company of Boston.

A comic feast in Lyric Stage’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’

At the Opera House, the pleasure of Sondheim’s ‘Company’

Playwright Christopher Durang mastered the art of misbehaving

Health

Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, R.I.

Centurion Foundation was the ‘only viable’ buyer for Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals, CEO says

Agent Orange exposure damages the brain in ways similar to Alzheimer’s disease, new study says

R.I.’s largest hospital system may no longer take Cigna health insurance

Obituaries

Mr. Grote was an All-Star in 1968 and 1974, and finished among the National League’s top five catchers in fielding percentage seven times.

Jerry Grote, star Mets catcher on 1969 championship team, dies at 81

Rev. Cecil ‘Chip’ Murray, voice of calm during L.A. riots, dies at 94

Mary Ann Zielonko, partner of Kitty Genovese, dies at 85