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Boston police were deployed to clear the pro-Palestinian protest camp at Emerson College on April 25.

As campus protests linger, parents anxiously watch from afar

For many parents, whether their students have been protesting or not, the friction between police, local lawmakers, administrators, faculty, and counterprotesters has triggered mixed emotions.

Pro-Palestinian MIT protesters held a rally on campus before they then marched to the house of the president on Memorial Drive.

Pro-Palestinian protesters march to MIT president’s home

After nearly three weeks on campus, MIT’s pro-Palestinian student encampment ends with arrests

Harvard University Police walked past a pro-Palestinian tent encampment in Harvard Yard Friday morning.

Harvard’s encampment is the last one standing in Greater Boston

Students attended a rally at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt., Thursday, May 2, 2024.

Around New England with Kevin Cullen

At the University of Vermont, protest ends abruptly but peacefully

Panthers 6, Bruins 2

Tara Sullivan

The burning question after Game 3′s debacle: Where did the Bruins’ best players go?
David Pastrnak isn’t shooting enough. turnover-prone Charlie McAvoy hasn’t established a consistent presence, and top-line center Charlie Coyle has one goal these playoffs.

Bruins show a little life in third period but it’s too little, too late in Game 3 loss to Panthers

Bruins captain Brad Marchand injured, sits out third period of Game 3 loss to Panthers

KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON HOCKEY

These Bruins again can’t seem to handle the Florida heat

Photos: Northern lights illuminate night skies in New England, across Northern Hemisphere
An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere early Saturday, with no immediate reports of disruptions to power and communications.

The science behind the Northern Lights Solar storm intensifies, filling skies with northern lights

The 19th-century mansion at 130 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston's Back Bay is listed on the market for $29.9 million.

Check out Boston’s most expensive single-family home: Back Bay mansion on market for $29.9 million

What else makes this property at 130 Commonwealth Ave. stand out? Skulls. Lots of skulls.

Guster performing in 2015.

‘This has gotta be a scam.’ How a Somerville resident found out Guster wanted to perform on his porch at Porchfest.

Local indie icons Guster have toured the world. On Saturday, they just announced, they'll play from a smaller stage, er, porch.

Harvard scientists unveil the most detailed map of the brain ever: ‘It’s an alien world inside your own head’

The researchers, with Google and other partners, spent a decade deciphering 1 cubic millimeter of tissue.

‘It feels pointless sometimes’: As hospitals grow more corporate, fed-up doctors are pushing back
Burned out and frustrated with bottom-line-oriented hospital management, doctors are starting to unionize, including at Salem Hospital.

Lights, camera ... climate? Report finds Hollywood is depicting a world without climate change.
“To learn that only 10 percent of the films over the last decade — over this critical period — are even including climate change in their story worlds ... it’s disappointing.”

Massachusetts Democrats pitch energy transition to union workers: ‘This is a huge construction project’

Karen Read and John O’Keefe ‘never entered my house,’ Canton homeowners testify

As the second week of the murder trial of Karen Read concluded, Brian and Nicole Albert testified that O’Keefe and Read did not step foot in their home, contradicting a central claim by Read’s defense team.

How Friday's testimony unfolded

Former Patriots coach Bill Belichick buys (another) home on Nantucket

The former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick recently closed on a $4.8 million home on Fair Street, according to the Nantucket Current.

Bill Belichick cuts a relaxed figure behind a microphone these days now that he's no longer the coach of the Patriots.

Bill Belichick will be a new member of the ManningCast show during the 2024 NFL season

US says Israel’s use of US arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete

UN assembly approves resolution granting Palestine new rights and reviving its UN membership bid Israel orders new evacuations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah as it prepares to expand operations

A tractor-trailer struck a bridge heading towards Storrow Drive in the early Friday morning.

Crews remove tractor-trailer ‘storrowed’ beneath Bowker Overpass on Storrow Drive

Musician Brian Wilson, left, and his wife Melinda Ledbetter Wilson arrive at the Grammy Awards in 2013.

Judge finds Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson needs conservatorship because of mental decline

The front desk at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge in October 2021.

Union dispute bubbles up at Harvard Book Store

The labor dispute comes just two months after management canceled the planned second location in the Prudential Center.

Tyler O'Neill was tagged out trying to score in the first inning.

NATIONALS 5, RED SOX 1

Flailing Red Sox bats leave Tanner Houck high and dry in loss to Nationals

Notebook: Jarren Duran has graduated from uneven promise to steady performance for the Red Sox

Sarah Connor watered one of her many houseplants.

The houseplant therapist will see you now

Houseplants are supposed to be calming, but they can trigger lovers’ quarrels, anxiety, even grief.

Matthew Gilbert | 'SNL' Showdown

Belushi vs. Wiig. Murphy vs. Murray. Vote in Round 3 of our best ‘SNL’ cast member bracket.

Vote in the Globe’s "SNL" Showdown bracket to help pick the best cast member from the past five decades.

Bill Murray over Mike Myers? Voters again show that they prefer ‘SNL’ cast members of a certain vintage.

Round 2's biggest surprise was Bill Murray's lopsided win over Mike Myers. And its toughest call may have been Cecily Strong vs. Maya Rudolph.

AAPI Heritage Month

Anne Nishimura Morse, the William and Helen Pounds Senior Curator of Japanese Art, sits for a portrait in one of the newly renovated galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

MFA reopens its Arts of Japan galleries after six years of closure

Amy Tan, pictured here in a park near Harvard Square, was recently in Cambridge on a book tour for her latest work, "The Backyard Bird Chronicles."

Amy Tan reflects on her new nonfiction book. ‘Birds were fun ... fiction writing is torment.’

The oxtail pho with bone marrow at Le Madeline in Quincy.

Eight restaurants to eat at for AAPI Heritage Month

Jeannie Salomon speaking at the Cultural Society for Entrepreneurship, Bilingualism, Resources and Inspirations' May 4 AAPI Heritage Month Celebration.

COMMENTARY | JEANNIE SALOMON

This AAPI Heritage Month, it’s time to get serious about teaching AAPI history in Rhode Island

Opinion

Shoppers visited the grand opening of the Dorchester Food Co-op, Oct. 14, 2023.

Joan Fitzgerald and Gregory King

How to bring solar energy to low-income communities

Low- and moderate-income households are only a small percentage of those benefiting from community solar. A couple of projects in Boston are seeking to change that.

Legislature should pass health equity bill

Mass. should focus on long-term solutions for homeless families

IDEAS | LARISSA KOSMOS

Mother of dragons

The politicization of climate change

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ADRIAN WALKER

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and activist Denella Clark join forces to help women giving care to terminally ill loved ones
This Mother’s Day Weekend they are launching the Pressley-James Lovin’ Gestures Fund, which will provide financial help to people providing care to terminally ill close relatives.

Fake Irish heiress arrested in Maine should be extradited to UK, judge rules
Marianne Smyth, who accusers say has also fashioned herself as a witch, a psychic and a friend to Hollywood stars, has been in a Maine jail waiting to learn if she will be extradited. She faces allegations that she stole more than $170,000 from the victims from 2008 to 2010 in Northern Ireland.

Trump heading to Jersey Shore to rally ‘mega crowd’ in weekend break from hush money trial
Donald Trump is heading to the Jersey Shore after a long week in court.

Judge directs Michael Cohen to keep quiet about Trump ahead of his hush money trial testimony

TRAVEL

Welcome to the most Vermont-ish village in the Green Mountain State
Like many small New England communities, Putney has experienced the push-pull of progress. What doesn’t seem to change: Putney’s long-standing embrace of artists and craftspeople. Here's what we love about Putney.

There’s a good reason she didn’t respond …
They met on an app, but maybe they already knew each other. Maybe they knew each other very well.

Blind date: ‘I really wish I asked him what his skin care regimen was’

Oklahoma man indicted by federal grand jury for allegedly throwing pipe bomb at Satanic Temple in Salem
Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, who was arrested in his home state on April 17, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston and will be brought to Massachusetts to face charges for allegedly throwing a pipe bomb onto the porch of the Satanic Temple in Salem last month, acting US Attorney Joshua S. Levy’s office said Friday.

college football

Joseph Griffin Jr. will be leaving Boston College football for Wisconsin after two seasons
The wide receiver from Springfield was the Eagles' second-leading receiver last season.

WWII soldiers posthumously receive Purple Heart medals 79 years after fatal plane crash
The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II have received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final days of the conflict.

Ginkgo Bioworks to slash labor costs, jobs
After lackluster first-quarter earnings, Ginkgo Bioworks said it will slash labor expenses by at least 25 percent, which will include an unspecified number of job cuts.

Recommended reads

The MBTA is paying consultants from Ernst & Young as much as $610 per hour to do research for Governor Maura Healey's transportation funding task force. MassDOT says it will reimburse MBTA for the $450,000 contract.

The T is paying consultants up to $610 per hour — to figure out how to save money

The MBTA entered into a $450,000 contract with a consulting firm last month, with consultants charging between $244 and $610 per hour.

The 20 best albums of 2024 (so far)
We’re not even at the midway point of the year, but a lot of great albums have already arrived in 2024, and Globe music writers have been listening closely. Here are 20 of their favorites.

no stupid questions

Introducing No Stupid Questions, how-to guides for navigating adult life in Boston
The first installment of this series will cover five topics: Traffic, taxes, networking, finding a neighborhood to call home, and locating trustworthy services. It launches on May 13.

BLOTTER TALES

A new police dog joins the force, two guys fall asleep in the wrong hotel room, and arguments ensue over an Asteroids video game
Two men fall asleep in the wrong hotel room, people argue over an Asteroids video game, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.

Culture & Lifestyle

Boston Ballet in Ken Ossola's "The Space Between."

Boston Ballet is in shape for Paris with ‘Spring Experience’

Psychotherapist and Gay Sons & Mothers founder Rick Miller (right) used to pose for photos like his mother, Suzanne (left), with a bent knee.

A Boston therapist assumed gay sons and their mothers had strong bonds. Then he heard more of their stories.

Conductor Keith Lockhart is in his 29th year leading the Pops, whose spring season begins Friday.

A new season’s afoot as Keith Lockhart and the Pops spring into action

At the Citizens Bank Opera House, Boston Ballet music director Mischa Santora conducts the orchestral rehearsal of “Toccata,” for the ballet “The Space Between.”

Boston Ballet orchestra adds live electronics to the mix for ‘The Space Between’

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

Police line tape covered part of a campus map after police officers cleared a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at George Washington University on May 8, in Washington, D.C.

I’m a conservative student. Freedom of speech protects pro-Palestinian protesters too.

Renderings for the White Stadium renovation proposal

Despite shaky rollout, Wu’s White Stadium plan is good for student athletes

Former vice president Mike Pence, left, and former national security adviser John Bolton, right, shown with then-president Donald Trump at the White House in 2018, are on the long list of former Trump administration alums who have made it clear that they won’t support Trump again.

Readers respond: There are ways to talk to family and friends who support Trump

When you smell a flower (or anything at all), your experience is being filtered through things that may be far older than the concept of smell itself.

IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

A sensory twist in the story of human evolution

IDEAS | MAURA KELLY

How to hang out better

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

At 11, she’s a TikTok sensation, raising awareness about her rare bone disorder. But this Marlborough tween has bigger plans.

Vitoria Bueno is a TikTok star — dancing her way into the hearts of 1.4 million followers and educating them about her battle with osteogenesis imperfecta.

Check out Boston’s most expensive single-family home: Back Bay mansion on market for $29.9 million

What else makes this property at 130 Commonwealth Ave. stand out? Skulls. Lots of skulls.

As campus protests linger, parents anxiously watch from afar

For many parents, whether their students have been protesting or not, the friction between police, local lawmakers, administrators, faculty, and counterprotesters has triggered mixed emotions.

The houseplant therapist will see you now

Houseplants are supposed to be calming, but they can trigger lovers’ quarrels, anxiety, even grief.

Sports

Nikola Jokic of the Nuggets enjoys a moment in front of Mike Conley of the Timberwolves during Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinal series Friday.

nuggets 117, timberwolves 90

Nuggets rout Timberwolves to pick up crucial road win and avoid a 3-0 deficit

Host Minnesota became the last NBA team in these playoffs to taste defeat.

David Pastrnak (left), who showed some fight when he answered the call of Matthew Tkachuk at the end of Game 2, tries ducking his bit by Panthers left wing Eetu Luostarinen (right) during the second period of Friday's Game 3 loss at TD Garden.

The burning question after Game 3′s debacle: Where did the Bruins’ best players go?

David Pastrnak isn’t shooting enough. turnover-prone Charlie McAvoy hasn’t established a consistent presence, and top-line center Charlie Coyle has one goal these playoffs.

Wellesley's Kimmy Tai (above) serves in her match in Thursday's 5-0 sweep of Brookline in a Bay State Conference match at Wellesley High.

Girls’ tennis roundup: Delaney Hughes’s win in third singles propelled Whitman-Hanson past Abington in nonleague match

Check out the latest high school girls’ tennis scores, news, and highlights from The Boston Globe.

pwhl toronto 2, pwhl minnesota 0

PWHL Toronto moves one game closer to gaining a spot in the Walter Cup final

The Bruins came alive late but couldn’t overcome a slow start in Game 3 loss to the Panthers. See how it unfolded.

Business

Check out Boston’s most expensive single-family home: Back Bay mansion on market for $29.9 million

What else makes this property at 130 Commonwealth Ave. stand out? Skulls. Lots of skulls.

America’s debt tops $34 trillion, but a commission to address it appears dead in Congress

A promising start has given way to challenging political realities for supporters of a bipartisan commission to tackle the federal government’s growing debt challenges.

Federal judge temporarily halts Biden plan to lower credit card late fees to $8

Union dispute bubbles up at Harvard Book Store

magazine

Tech Power Players 2024

Meet the CEOs, founders, and investors on the Globe’s third annual list of New England tech leaders

This week's daters: Ben and Gabe

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I really wish I asked him what his skin care regimen was’

After more than a half century in business, the Christmas Tree Shops closed its remaining stores last summer to the dismay of devoted customers.

My mom and I butted heads. But never at the Christmas Tree Shops.

Photos of Shelby Hewitt, including her 2023 booking photo (center).

The secret lives of Shelby Hewitt, 32-year-old high school imposter

metro

The northern lights appeared in the sky above the footbridge across Lobster Cove in the Annisquam neighborhood of Gloucester, Mass., early on May 11.

Photos: Northern lights illuminate night skies in New England, across Northern Hemisphere

Here’s where and when the Northern Lights will be visible over New England tonight

Fake Irish heiress arrested in Maine should be extradited to UK, judge rules

sports

Former Celtic Aaron Nesmith (23) celebrates a play with Pacers teammate Pascal Siakam during Game 3 of their second-round playoff series against the Knicks on Friday.

Andrew Nembhard’s improbable 3-pointer spurs Pacers past banged-up Knicks in Game 3

Bruins captain Brad Marchand injured, sits out third period of Game 3 loss to Panthers

These Bruins again can’t seem to handle the Florida heat

business

Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick faced reporters during an NFL football news conference on Jan. 11, 2024 in Foxborough. The Nantucket Current reports that Belichick recently purchased another home on the island.

Former Patriots coach Bill Belichick buys (another) home on Nantucket

Ginkgo Bioworks to slash labor costs, jobs

Home prices in New Hampshire set yet another record in April

politics

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Freeland, Mich., on May 1.

Trump heading to Jersey Shore to rally ‘mega crowd’ in weekend break from hush money trial

Barron Trump, 18, won’t be serving as a Florida delegate to the Republican convention after all

US says Israel’s use of US arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete

Nation

Northern lights glow in the sky near Kroschel, Minn., late Friday, May 10, 2024. (Owen Caputo Sullivan via AP)

Solar storm intensifies, filling skies with northern lights

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asks judge to dismiss ‘false’ claim that he, others raped 17-year-old girl

WWII soldiers posthumously receive Purple Heart medals 79 years after fatal plane crash

World

An Afghan man carries his belongings as he walks through a mud-covered street following a flash flood after a heavy rainfall in Laqiha village of Baghlan-i-Markazi district in Baghlan province, Afghanistan on May 11.

Flash floods kill hundreds and injure many others in Afghanistan, Taliban says

Israel orders new evacuations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah as it prepares to expand operations

Panama’s next president says he’ll try to shut down one of the world’s busiest migration routes

opinion

I’m boring. So are you.

A sensory twist in the story of human evolution

Does focus on youth mental health do no harm? It’s debatable.

lifestyle

From left: the cover of "Shanghailanders," and its author, Juli Min.

Juli Min’s ‘Shanghailanders’ transports readers to the root of one family’s fractured relationships

There’s a good reason she didn’t respond …

What Mother’s Day cards should really say

food & dining

A rendering of CanalSide Food + Drink, opening this fall.

There’s a new food hall coming to Cambridge (and it will appeal to ‘90s ‘mall babies’)

For Providence Brewing Company, the American Dream is within reach

What is ‘queer food’? A conference at BU explores that question and others.

travel

Michael’s on the Hill, an elegant restaurant located in an 1820 farmhouse, serves classic, well-composed European fare, emphasizing local ingredients, like the crab cake shown here.

Waterbury, Vt.: The best little foodie town in New England

A trip to The Vermont Country Store is a trip back in time

Welcome to the most Vermont-ish village in the Green Mountain State

Arts

This fall at the Museum of Fine Arts, Anastasia Christophilopolou will begin as George D. and Margo Behrakis Chair, Art of Ancient Greece and Rome.

MFA appoints Anastasia Christophilopoulou as new chair of ancient Greek and Roman art

Two shows in Maine highlight Louise Nevelson, a giant of American Modernism

At Worcester Art Museum, photo show gives a different lay of the land

Books

From left: the cover of "Shanghailanders," and its author, Juli Min.

Juli Min’s ‘Shanghailanders’ transports readers to the root of one family’s fractured relationships

Jamaica Kincaid’s primer on colonialism’s flora resonates with history behind Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s honeyed memories

An homage to eros in new poetry collection; Roxbury book festival returns for a second year; and more

Movies

A scene from "Evil Does Not Exist," directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi on letting real life frame his new film, ‘Evil Does Not Exist’

Never see R-rated films with Mom — and other life lessons I learned movie-watching with my mother

‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ is a simian snore

Television

In Round 2, only one half of the "Wayne's World" tandem survived.

Bill Murray over Mike Myers? Voters again show that they prefer ‘SNL’ cast members of a certain vintage.

Belushi vs. Wiig. Murphy vs. Murray. Vote in Round 3 of our best ‘SNL’ cast member bracket.

TV’s Holocaust dramas are part remembrance, part warning

music

The 20 best albums of 2024 (so far)

Sarah Shook and the Disarmers: attitude with a twang

Crazy Horse’s Billy Talbot on Neil Young, the ragged glory of their live shows, and the road ahead

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet in Ken Ossola's "The Space Between."

Boston Ballet is in shape for Paris with ‘Spring Experience’

A Boston therapist assumed gay sons and their mothers had strong bonds. Then he heard more of their stories.

From the highest high to the horrific in Apollinaire’s ‘Touching the Void’

Health

What we’re starting to learn about H5N1 in cows, and the risk to people

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

Obituaries

San Francisco 49ers Jimmy Johnson is shown in 1973.

Hall of Fame defensive back Jimmy Johnson dead at age 86

Pete McCloskey, GOP congressman who called for Nixon’s resignation, dies at 96

Steve Albini, legendary producer for Nirvana and the Pixies and an alternative rock pioneer, dies at 61