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‘You want to get it right’: As Gaza protests roil Emerson, student journalists at center of dispute

The Berkeley Beacon, the campus newspaper at Emerson College in Boston, has faced previous criticism for coverage decisions. And now its student journalists are trying to report on protests.
Arrests roil campuses nationwide ahead of graduation as protesters demand Israel ties be cut

Quiet weekend at pro-Palestinian encampments at Harvard and MIT

Once dominant at CBS News before a bitter departure, Dan Rather makes his first return in 18 years
Former anchor Dan Rather was on CBS airwaves on Sunday morning, 18 years after he left the network under a cloud.

Obituary
Franklin Dalembert, who fostered dignity and respect for Haitian immigrants, dies at 65
He died while doing exactly what he wanted to do – be of service to the community,” said Geralde Gabeau, executive director of the Immigrant Family Services Institute.

After last year’s two-alarm fire, a renovated Spirit of Boston is ready to sail again
A newly renovated Spirit of Boston is back on the Boston Harbor waters after a two-alarm fire sidelined the popular event ship last year.

16-year-old arrested in Worcester shooting that left 14-year-old dead

Police discovered the 14-year-old with a severe gunshot wound. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

A Florida sheriff says 10 people were wounded by gunfire during an argument at a party venue

3 Louisiana officers wounded by gunfire in standoff with shooting suspect, police say

Biden and Netanyahu speak as pressure’s on Israel over planned Rafah invasion and cease-fire talks

A Salem State class teaches the joys, and frustrations, of fly fishing

All semester, the students had been studying the intricacies of tying flies, knots, studying insect hatches, wading safely, and, most frustratingly, trying to cast a line, which they had practiced at the school’s ice rink.

Meet the Globe’s Winter 2023-24 All-Scholastics

The Globe salutes the region's best high school athletes and coaches in eight winter sports. Click on each sport to read about the honorees. Find the All-Scholastics section in print on Sunday, April 28.
Terrence Clarke died three years ago. A tidal wave of elite Mass. basketball players is keeping his memory alive.

A key piece of the Karen Read case remains a mystery due to Mass. law: the autopsy report
Some experts say speculation surrounding the case, fueled by photos of the alleged victim's body, shows why full autopsy reports should be public documents, as they are in several other states.

Patriots finish off draft season, agree to deals with a slew of undrafted free agents

Here are 10 prospects that agreed to deals with New England, as the team searches for another diamond in the rough.
Meet the eight players drafted by the Patriots, and learn how they’ll fit on the depth chart The Falcons selecting Michael Penix was the biggest head-scratcher of the NFL draft

This part of Massachusetts ranked as the third most competitive rental market in the country. It’s not the Boston area.
At less than 2 percent, the metro area had the second-lowest rental vacancy rate in the country, a study has found.

LOVE LETTERS

How do I introduce myself in person?

I’m in college, and saying hi isn’t easy.
Chad Finn

The Celtics’ Game 3 win was the blueprint for dispatching the Heat. Now do it again, please.

When Boston plays like it did on Saturday, Miami can't compete.
Celtics’ defense ‘hit first’ and blunted any momentum the Heat thought they might have built
ALEX SPEIER | ON BASEBALL

The banged-up Red Sox really have no business competing in the AL East, but here they are

Thanks to a remarkable performance by the pitching staff over the season's first month, the injury-depleted Red Sox are within arm’s reach of first place.
Kevin Paul Dupont | On hockey

Bruins focused on struggling Maple Leafs, not last year’s playoff collapse

Just last April, the Bruins held a 3-1 lead in their first-round series, but the Panthers ran the table over the final three games.
Bruins made the right call sticking with Jeremy Swayman in Game 4
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Consolidation shouldn’t be a dirty word for public universities

With enrollment dropping, can public universities truly become a system?
EDITORIAL

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

What happened when a young Israeli walked into an anti-Israel protest
IDEAS | ADRIANA BARTON

Can Minecraft’s virtual world help grieving children cope with real loss?
Jaime Bedrin

Want your kids to jump out of bed to get to school? Put them on the bike bus.

More recent News

WNBA
Candace Parker, three-time WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist, retires
Parker, 38, won two MVP awards and Rookie of the Year honors with the Los Angeles Sparks, then won WNBA titles with the Sparks, Chicago Sky, and Las Vegas Aces.

John McDaniel brings stars to Provincetown this summer with Broadway series
Tony Award winner Betty Buckley opens and co-headlines “John McDaniel’s Broadway Series” at Provincetown Town Hall on June 23.

Many Ukrainian prisoners of war show signs of trauma and sexual violence

Ukraine is just beginning to understand the lasting effects of the traumas its prisoners of war experienced, but it has been failing to treat them properly and returning them to duty too early, some say.
As Ukraine runs low on ammunition, civilians build DIY drones at home

OPERA REVIEW
An extraordinary Don Giovanni uplifts a messy ‘Don Giovanni’
Making his role debut as the infamous skirt-chaser, baritone Sidney Outlaw was magnetic.

Tornadoes kill 4 in Oklahoma; governor issues state of emergency for 12 counties amid power outages
Oklahoma's governor says tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma and flattened buildings in one rural town have killed at least four people.

ACC CHAMPIONSHIP: BC 15, SYRACUSE 8
Kayla Martello’s six goals fueled Boston College’s rally to capture a second straight ACC women’s lacrosse championship
Junior Mckenna Davis tallied two goals and three assists, breaking Kenzie Kent’s all-time school assist record of 131.

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Middle schools in Norway banned smartphones. The benefits were dramatic, a study shows.

The long-running debate over whether to ban smartphones in schools has intensified in recent months. This week, social media was abuzz about a study from Norway earlier this year that showed bans can have real impacts.

The best gardening tips to get your plantings in shape this weekend
We’ve finally escaped the frost, so here’s what to know to get your garden spring ready.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
Two nights, three provinces, and 1,600 miles. A sleeper train through Maritime Canada is slow travel at its best.
Via Rail’s sleepy eastern route brings travelers through rural villages and towns in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Here's what it's like.

How a Tesla EV charging station ended up next to a shelter for migrant children
The strange scene in Foxborough reflects the state’s efforts to address two of its biggest challenges: migrants and climate change.

Culture & Lifestyle

Five Hispanic photographers tackle matters of home, identity, and migration

Boston Ballet scores with ‘Kingdom of the Shades’ and ‘Carmen’

At Mass MoCA, Joseph Grigely invites visitors into his soundless world

High Street Place hosts the Big Queer Food Fest Sunday, featuring big-name chefs

Special Projects

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.

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 doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | MARIANNE MOLLMANN AND EDUARDO GONZALEZ CUEVA

Our daughter is a student protester at Emerson. The police went too far.

CARINE HAJJAR

What happened when a young Israeli walked into an anti-Israel protest
IDEAS | ROB HENDERSON

Why are women becoming so much more liberal than men?
LETTERS

Readers respond to student protests against war in Gaza
Christopher Weyant

New school mascot?
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

A Salem State class teaches the joys, and frustrations, of fly fishing

All semester, the students had been studying the intricacies of tying flies, knots, studying insect hatches, wading safely, and, most frustratingly, trying to cast a line, which they had practiced at the school’s ice rink.

Franklin Dalembert, who fostered dignity and respect for Haitian immigrants, dies at 65

He died while doing exactly what he wanted to do – be of service to the community,” said Geralde Gabeau, executive director of the Immigrant Family Services Institute.

Quiet weekend at pro-Palestinian encampments at Harvard and MIT

At MIT and Harvard, there was a sense of calm on Saturday and late into the evening, after police raids to remove encampments at Northeastern and Emerson in recent days.

Authorities investigate apparent murder-suicide in Lowell

A man who called 911 and said he shot his wife and child was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound when police reached his Lowell apartment Saturday morning, officials said.

Sports

MSTCA DIVISION 2 RELAYS

State-best boys’ 4x400 relay caps victorious Division 2 Relays day for host North Andover

While the Scarlet Knights boys rolled to a dominant victory, the girls only won one event but used their depth to also take first place.
Kevin Paul Dupont | On hockey

Bruins focused on struggling Maple Leafs, not last year’s playoff collapse

Just last April, the Bruins held a 3-1 lead in their first-round series, but the Panthers ran the table over the final three games.
KNICKS 97, 76ERS 92

Jalen Brunson erupts for 47 points as Knicks take a 3-1 lead on 76ers

Brunson added 10 assists and surpassed the 46 points scored by Bernard King in 1984 to set a new Knicks playoff record.
ALEX SPEIER | ON BASEBALL

The banged-up Red Sox really have no business competing in the AL East, but here they are

ACC CHAMPIONSHIP: BC 15, SYRACUSE 8

Kayla Martello’s six goals fueled Boston College’s rally to capture a second straight ACC women’s lacrosse championship

Business

RFK Jr. is scaring Biden’s allies. But he is a threat to Trump, too.

Joe Biden’s supporters are trying to blunt the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. even as he poses a challenge to Donald Trump as well.

‘You want to get it right’: As Gaza protests roil Emerson, student journalists at center of dispute

The Berkeley Beacon, the campus newspaper at Emerson College in Boston, has faced previous criticism for coverage decisions. And now its student journalists are trying to report on protests.

How abrupt u-turns are defining US environmental regulations

Long lines form and frustration grows as Cuba runs short of cash
magazine
Summer Travel

30 ways to have the perfect Cape Cod vacation

Summer Travel

We set out to kayak the entire Charles River. It was that or pickleball.
MISS CONDUCT

What to do when someone overshares details on a first date
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘The host actually sat us at two different tables’

metro

Police clear 100 protesters from pro-Palestinian encampment at Northeastern University

MIT president says pro-Palestinian encampment on campus needs to wind down

Sarah-Ann Shaw, Boston’s first Black woman TV reporter, honored at funeral service

sports

Celtics’ defense ‘hit first’ and blunted any momentum the Heat thought they might have built

Bruins made the right call sticking with Jeremy Swayman in Game 4

‘That’s why he’s the best’: How the Revolution tried to defend Lionel Messi, and how the greatest took them apart

business

Middle schools in Norway banned smartphones. The benefits were dramatic, a study shows.

How a Tesla EV charging station ended up next to a shelter for migrant children

Trump’s lawyers try to discredit testimony of prosecution’s first witness in hush money trial

politics

As he exits Congress, Blumenauer wants his party to embrace pot legalization

See photos from the White House correspondents’ dinner, protests outside

Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza

Nation

5,000 miles away, a Michigan mayor at the center of the Gaza storm

Obstacles remain as women seek more leadership roles in America’s Black churches

Tornadoes kill 4 in Oklahoma; governor issues state of emergency for 12 counties amid power outages

World

Biden and Netanyahu speak as pressure’s on Israel over planned Rafah invasion and cease-fire talks

Many Ukrainian prisoners of war show signs of trauma and sexual violence

As Ukraine runs low on ammunition, civilians build DIY drones at home

opinion

Un vuelo ‘perr-fecto’: La mejor forma de viajar con tu perro

New airline allows pawsengers in the cabin

Our daughter is a student protester at Emerson. The police went too far.

lifestyle

How do I introduce myself in person?

We might be ‘the greatest love story ever told’

National College Decision Day isn’t a referendum on how well you did as a parent

food & dining

Baleia takes Boston on a Portuguese holiday

It’s almost Mother’s Day. Here’s where to brunch.

Jerry Seinfeld talks JFK, Bill Burr, and feeding his inner child with ‘Unfrosted’

travel

After last year’s two-alarm fire, a renovated Spirit of Boston is ready to sail again

There’s a lot of money floating around Miami. Here’s what to do there if very little of it is yours.

Two nights, three provinces, and 1,600 miles. A sleeper train through Maritime Canada is slow travel at its best.

Arts

At Mass MoCA, Joseph Grigely invites visitors into his soundless world

At the MFA, ‘Songs for Modern Japan’ is music for the eyes

Yoko Ono to be honored at Edward MacDowell Medal ceremony in New Hampshire

Books

Local bestsellers for the week ended April 21

Author readings around Boston through May 4

As Earth Week ends, here are five takeaways on the climate crisis from Elizabeth Kolbert

Movies

Independent Film Festival Boston turns 21: ‘We see the festival and the city as kind of intertwined’

Steve Carell and John Krasinski had a mini ‘The Office’ reunion while making new movie ‘IF’

In ‘We Grown Now,’ a tragic event tests the friendship between two 12-year-old boys

Television

Netflix: What’s the secret to its continuing popularity and profitability?

Dan Rather returns to CBS Sunday, but not the era he embodied

Damn! Damn! Damn! ‘Good Times’ turns 50

music

An extraordinary Don Giovanni uplifts a messy ‘Don Giovanni’

BSO delivers dose of history along with American premiere of ‘The Wrath of God’

Why two hours of Bach keeps selling out the house

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet scores with ‘Kingdom of the Shades’ and ‘Carmen’

Boston stars will shine on the Common this summer in ‘The Winter’s Tale’

Robert Frost, with help from Gordon Clapp, takes the stage at the Calderwood Pavilion

Health

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

Franklin Dalembert, who fostered dignity and respect for Haitian immigrants, dies at 65

Cecil Williams, whose San Francisco church became a haven, dies at 94

Mike Pinder, founding keyboardist of the Moody Blues, dies at 82