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Game 4 | Panthers 3, Bruins 2
Tara Sullivan

Jeremy Swayman was on his game once again, but where were his Bruins teammates when he needed them?

The Bruins lost Game 4 to the Panthers and are a game away from playoff extinction, but don’t blame the goalie.
Bruins grab two-goal lead in first period before allowing three unanswered to lose Game 4 to Panthers
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON HOCKEY

Hey Siri, if that’s not goaltender interference, what is? Facing elimination, the Bruins have a problem with the refs — and their offense.

If the Bruins are saddled with ludicrous calls like the one that allowed Sam Bennett’s tying goal and fail to mount more of an attack, the fait accompli of a Panthers victory will turn into hard reality.

Suspended MIT and Harvard protesters barred from graduation, evicted from campus housing
“The level of risk we are taking on is nothing compared to what Palestinians are going through in Gaza,” one graduate student said. “Children are being intentionally starved as a military strategy. This is a super urgent situation.”

Harvard police say lock on main gate was cut with bolt cutters during pro-Palestinian protest As campus protests linger, parents anxiously watch from afar

‘All eyes are on us’: Pro-Palestinian protests divide graduates at Emerson commencement

The furor appeared to further divide Emerson’s campus over the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza — a controversy that last month led to the arrest of more than 100 demonstrators, including many students, and criticism of Bernhardt’s handling of the protests.

After decrying ‘disinvestment’ in the MBTA, proposals by Healey and the Legislature fail to fully fund the agency
Their spending plans leave the T hundreds of millions of dollars short on its operating budget in the upcoming fiscal year.

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

Jasper White, inventive chef who helped put Boston on the culinary map, has died

“I was part of a group of chefs that, in the early ‘80s, nationwide, started the American cuisine movement,” Mr. White told the Globe.

Two weeks into Karen Read trial, questions of investigation, memory, and connections
These opening weeks have included crucial testimony, with local police officers and paramedics talking about responding to the scene and collecting evidence in plastic cups and friends of Read and O’Keefe talking about the night before his death.

Trump trial arrives at a pivotal moment: Star witness Michael Cohen is poised to take the stand
The star prosecution witness in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is set to take the stand with testimony that could help shape the outcome of the first criminal case against an American president.

Sheriff’s race in Maine county where mass shooting occurred is usually a staid affair, but not this year
The race for Sagadahoc sheriff has become a deeply emotional and divisive topic: candidates faulted for failing to intervene and prevent the mass shooting.

How Black, rural voters in one state could upend the 2024 presidential Electoral College math
North Carolina represents the best state where Joe Biden can go on offense in a state Donald Trump won in 2020. But key to winning is holding the line with rural Black voters in the state.

In the skin care game, young women were smarter than Neutrogena’s executives
The company had cachet and momentum, but Neutrogena is now trying to play catch-up in skin care.

Swastika found drawn on desk at Newton South High School

A pair of students discovered the drawing on a student desk the morning of May 6, officials said.

Israel moves deeper into Rafah and fights Hamas militants regrouping in northern Gaza

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated opposition to a major military assault on Rafah, and told CBS that Israel would “be left holding the bag on an enduring insurgency” without an exit from Gaza and postwar governance plan.
US Senator Reed says Netanyahu should step down

Teen pronounced dead, several injured after shooting at Northborough house party
On baseball | Red Sox 3, Nationals 2

Red Sox happily accept presents of outs gifted by the Nationals as they head into an important stretch

On Mother's Day, Boston won for only the fourth time in 10 games. The team can't expect so many breaks when it plays the Rays in a stretch of AL East games.
Nationals run into a formidable Red Sox defense and a good enough Brayan Bello in his return
LOVE LETTERS

My husband is on Tinder

He explained why, but it doesn’t make me feel great about this marriage!
Chad Finn

Jrue Holiday was at his best in Game 3 against Cleveland, and that’s exactly what the Celtics need

Holiday put together arguably his finest performance as a Celtic on Saturday night.
Stars Tatum, Brown paint Cleveland green with strong inside play
Matthew Gilbert | 'SNL' Showdown

Aykroyd vs. Murray. Fey vs. Poehler. Vote in Round 4 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.
Round 2 recap

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

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

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

Eight restaurants to eat at for AAPI Heritage Month
COMMENTARY | JEANNIE SALOMON

This AAPI Heritage Month, it’s time to get serious about teaching AAPI history in Rhode Island
Opinion
IDEAS | SCOTT KIRSNER

I signed up to drive for DoorDash. Now I know why food delivery causes traffic chaos.

The design of delivery apps encourages drivers to double park and block bike lanes. The city needs to hold them accountable.
JEFF JACOBY

I rejoice that Boston didn’t get the 2024 Olympics
EDITORIAL

Let’s integrate primary care and mental health care
IDEAS | HARSHEE SHAH

A mother-daughter tradition lost — and found
CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

It turns out RFK Jr. is a pretty good job creator

More recent News

Man, 65, found dead after boat crash off Salem coast

Officials recovered the body of a 65-year-old man after a boat was discovered lodged against the rocky shoreline of Little Misery Island off the coast of Salem on Saturday.

A community on Mother’s Day for parents whose children have been killed
Thousands of people filled the streets of Dorchester early Sunday morning, honoring mothers whose children have been killed while also commemorating their childrens’ lives, in the 28th Mother’s Day Walk 4 Peace.

Putin replaces Sergei Shoigu as Russia’s defense minister as he starts his 5th term
In line with Russian law, the entire Russian Cabinet resigned Tuesday following Putin’s glittering inauguration in the Kremlin, and most members have been widely expected to keep their jobs, while Shoigu's fate had appeared uncertain.

Hikers from Boston area rescued from New Hampshire’s Mount Flume

A man and three teenagers from the Boston area were rescued from Mount Flume in New Hampshire’s White Mountains after they ran out of daylight while attempting to descend the mountain on Saturday, officials said.

Man dies in apparent drowning after canoe capsizes on lake in Halifax
Police are investigating the suspected drowning of a man after the canoe he was in capsized on East Lake in Halifax, officials said.

Trump vows ‘day one’ executive order targeting offshore wind
Donald Trump made his most explicit threat yet against offshore wind, in a sign of his increasing aggressiveness toward the growing industry.

Recommended reads

A Massachusetts disability rights warrior’s posthumous last battle against estate recovery

A Massachusetts advocate for disability rights may be subject in death to a policy he spent his last years fighting.

TV news jobs are rife with noncompete agreements. Banning them could be a boon for journalists.
The change could give workers in broadcast media more flexibility at a time when it is harder than ever to build a sustainable career in media.

Mass. man who received first kidney transplant from genetically engineered pig has died, family says
“Our family is deeply saddened about the sudden passing of our beloved Rick but take great comfort knowing he inspired so many,” his family said in a statement Saturday.

A few Mass. Democrats put $5m into the budget for dog parks, a castle, and more. And they did it in secret.
With 15 in total, the House budget’s primary author included more individual earmarks for himself than any of the chamber’s other 158 representatives.

Culture & Lifestyle

The Boston Pops swings into spring with a rousing opening-night performance

Boston Dance Theater reaches for the ‘Pinnacle’

What Mother’s Day cards should really say

The 20 best albums of 2024 (so far)

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

Judith Garcia

Legislature should pass health equity bill
Kim Janey

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

Readers respond: There are ways to talk to family and friends who support Trump
IDEAS | LARISSA KOSMOS

Mother of dragons
LETTERS

The politicization of climate change
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Harvard police say lock on main gate was cut with bolt cutters during pro-Palestinian protest

“The intentional step by what appears to have been someone inside Harvard Yard to cut a lock on the Johnston Gate during a protest is extremely concerning," said Harvard spokesperson Jonathan Swain.

Swastika found drawn on desk at Newton South High School

A pair of students discovered the drawing on a student desk the morning of May 6, officials said.

Two weeks into Karen Read trial, questions of investigation, memory, and connections

These opening weeks have included crucial testimony, with local police officers and paramedics talking about responding to the scene and collecting evidence in plastic cups and friends of Read and O’Keefe talking about the night before his death.
GLOBE RI + RI PBS

US Senator Reed says Netanyahu should step down

The wide-ranging interview with Reed aired on Rhode Island PBS Weekly and an extended version is available on the Rhode Island Report podcast.

Sports

KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON HOCKEY

Hey Siri, if that’s not goaltender interference, what is? Facing elimination, the Bruins have a problem with the refs — and their offense.

If the Bruins are saddled with ludicrous calls like the one that allowed Sam Bennett’s tying goal and fail to mount more of an attack, the fait accompli of a Panthers victory will turn into hard reality.
live updates

How the Bruins’ 3-2 loss to the Panthers in Game 4 unfolded

Boston is down 3-1 and will head to Florida for Tuesday’s Game 5 with one more chance to extend their season.
Game 4: Panthers 3, Bruins 2

Bruins allow three unanswered to lose Game 4 to Panthers

Florida has a chance to close out this best-of-seven second-round Stanley Cup playoff series Tuesday in Sunrise.
GAME 4: NUGGETS 115, TIMBERWOLVES 107

Aaron Gordon nearly perfect as Nuggets even series with Timberwolves
BRUINS

It’s Bruins vs. Panthers in the second round of the NHL playoffs. See the schedule and results here.

Business

Trump vows ‘day one’ executive order targeting offshore wind

Donald Trump made his most explicit threat yet against offshore wind, in a sign of his increasing aggressiveness toward the growing industry.

In the skin care game, young women were smarter than Neutrogena’s executives

The company had cachet and momentum, but Neutrogena is now trying to play catch-up in skin care.

TV news jobs are rife with noncompete agreements. Banning them could be a boon for journalists.

Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese animatronic band
magazine
Tech Power Players 2024

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

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

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

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

metro

Suspended MIT and Harvard protesters barred from graduation, evicted from campus housing

‘All eyes are on us’: Pro-Palestinian protests divide graduates at Emerson commencement

Man dies in apparent drowning after canoe capsizes on lake in Halifax

sports

PWHL Boston playoff schedule and results

Brad Keselowski ends three-year drought with win in Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown show they can own the paint when the big men can’t

business

Red, yellow, green ... and white? Smarter vehicles could mean big changes for the traffic light.

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

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

politics

Blinken delivers some of the strongest US public criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza

US Senator Reed says Netanyahu should step down

How Black, rural voters in one state could upend the 2024 presidential Electoral College math

Nation

Trump trial arrives at a pivotal moment: Star witness Michael Cohen is poised to take the stand

Jury selection to begin in the corruption trial of Senator Bob Menendez

Wisconsin Supreme Court considers expanding use of absentee ballot drop boxes

World

Putin replaces Sergei Shoigu as Russia’s defense minister as he starts his 5th term

Israel moves deeper into Rafah and fights Hamas militants regrouping in northern Gaza

A plane with 3 aboard lands without landing gear at an Australian airport after burning off fuel

opinion

How to bring solar energy to low-income communities

Legislature should pass health equity bill

Mother of dragons

lifestyle

My husband is on Tinder

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

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

food & dining

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

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

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

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

Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and ‘King of the Bs,’ dies at 98

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

Television

Aykroyd vs. Murray. Fey vs. Poehler. Vote in Round 4 of our best ‘SNL’ cast member bracket.

‘Saturday Night Live’ cast opens show joking around with their moms as Maya Rudolph hosts

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

music

The Boston Pops swings into spring with a rousing opening-night performance

The 20 best albums of 2024 (so far)

Sarah Shook and the Disarmers: attitude with a twang

Theater/Dance

Boston Dance Theater reaches for the ‘Pinnacle’

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.

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

Jasper White, inventive chef who helped put Boston on the culinary map, has died

Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and ‘King of the Bs,’ dies at 98

Sean Burroughs, Little League hero and former MLB player, dies at 43