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Chilmark man charged Sunday with stabbings in Plymouth; ‘likely’ connection with Braintree attacks

Four girls were stabbed at a theater in Braintree, sustaining injuries that were not life-threatening, and two workers were stabbed at a McDonald's in Plymouth, sustaining lacerations.

South Hadley man recalls brutal bear attack at Grand Teton in Wyoming
A South Hadley man who was mauled by a mother grizzly bear while hiking off-trail in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park a week ago described the attack as “the most violent thing I have ever experienced,” in an Instagram post accompanied by gory photos of his injuries.

Bicyclist flown to Boston hospital after being struck by vehicle in Weston

A 58-year-old woman was flown to a hospital in Boston in serious condition after she was hit by a car while riding her bicycle in Weston on Sunday afternoon, the fire department said.

Latest deadly weather in US kills at least 18 as storms carve path of ruin across multiple states
The storms inflicted their worst damage in a region spanning from north of Dallas to the northwest corner of Arkansas, and the system threatened to bring more violent weather to other parts of the Midwest.

Papua New Guinea government says Friday’s landslide buried 2,000 people and formally asks for help

The government figure is roughly triple the UN estimate of 670 killed by the landslide in the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior. The remains of only six people had been recovered so far.

An old worry returns for Steward’s nurses and retirees: Can they count on their pensions?
The future of the pensions — whether workers can count on them for the long haul — is bound up with the fate of hospitals that serve mostly low-income neighborhoods and communities.

Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes kill 35 in Gaza’s Rafah as displaced people are hit
Around New England with Kevin Cullen

From life in a small New Hampshire town to death on a foreign battlefield

An amateur historian stumbled across a story that moved him, of Tim Delano, an alumnus of a summer camp in the small New Hampshire town of Richmond. Delano was later killed in action in the Vietnam War.
Military labs do the detective work to identify soldiers decades after they died in World War II
Forecast | Dave Epstein

Will it rain on your Memorial Day barbecue? Showers may be in the forecast.

The Memorial Day holiday often means cook-outs, but you should make a contingency plan to cook those burgers indoors if the showers become numerous.
Free events happening across Boston on Memorial Day and beyond What’s open and closed on Memorial Day in Massachusetts

Massachusetts to overhaul key educator licensing exam, in an effort to better serve students of color and their families
The changes to the communication and literacy skills tests could also yield another significant benefit, potentially reducing the racial and ethnic disparities in pass rates on the exams, which often keep Black and Latino educators out of public school classrooms.

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL
Rajon Rondo pays visit to Indiana, basking in Celtics’ run toward a championship
“The game is all about adapting and adjusting,” said Rondo, who attended Game 3 with his son. “[The Celtics] are setting the tone, setting the standard of how to play basketball . . . The haters can say what they want to say.”

Rick Carlisle was livid after Game 3 loss to Celtics, but he’s not giving up yet
MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: Benedict Cumberbatch and Jessica Lange in new dramas, and the return of some favorite series

“House of the Dragon,” “The Bear,” “The Umbrella Academy,” “Emily in Paris,” and “Only Murders in the Building” are among the TV shows back for more this summer.
TARA SULLIVAN

Aerin ‘Green Monster’ Frankel, resilient PWHL Boston simply refuse to let season end in Game 4 of finals

 PWHL Boston survives an overturned Minnesota goal and forces a deciding game for the Walter Cup

So you want to be a working musician in Greater Boston? Here’s what it takes.

The region’s cost-of-living crunch has not spared performers like Trama and his craft. Real estate prices are squeezing small performance venues and performers alike.
Opinion
Mark Borrelli

A solution for coastal erosion: managed retreat

Along the outer beaches of Cape Cod the erosion rate is about 3 feet per year, but if the region is hit by a big storm, shorelines can lose up to 30 feet in one day.
Heather Hopp-Bruce

My father’s tools
Ted Weesner

The pool that saved me
EDITORIAL

Booze, Boston, and Beacon Hill need to be shaken and stirred
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

A US intervention that worked out well
AAPI Heritage Month
SHIRLEY LEUNG

In Malden, the booming Asian community could soon have a place of their own

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

More recent News

Family of Grayson Murray says PGA golfer died by suicide
Murray died Saturday at the age of 30, one day after withdrawing from the second round of the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas.

Obituary

John W. Roberts, who led state ACLU in protecting free-speech and abortion rights, dies at 89

John W. Roberts, who as a Presbyterian minister had preached and advocated for racial justice in disadvantaged parts of New York, Chicago, and Cleveland before becoming an ACLU leader, died in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge Tuesday of a blood infection.
Obituary

Zack Norman, actor who juggled multiple professions, dies at 83

In addition to small but memorable roles in “Romancing the Stone” and “Cadillac Man,” he was a producer, art investor, painter, and sometimes real estate developer.

Red Sox 2, Brewers 1
Tanner Houck’s strong outing, Jarren Duran’s game-winning single helps Red Sox avoid sweep in chippy win over Brewers
Houck had to settle for a no-decision after allowing just one earned run on seven hits in six innings.

People and their pets are advised to stay away from part of Natick lake due to bacteria, officials say
The Department of Conservation and Recreation reported the presence of a cyanobacteria bloom Natick’s Lake Cochituate.

Mass. man dies after fiery rollover crash at toll plaza on I-95 in Hampton, N.H.
A Massachusetts man died after the pickup truck he was driving crashed into a concrete barrier at a toll plaza on Interstate 95 in New Hampshire, rolled over, and caught fire on Saturday evening, authorities said.

Recommended reads

The YIMBYs are coming, to the suburbs

There's a fast-growing network of new advocacy groups that have sprung up in suburbs across Greater Boston, whose members go to public meetings to say yes to more housing development, instead of no.

At Harvard, a confrontation during a protest erupts in political controversy — and lands in court
The incident might have been forgotten as a minor tussle. Instead, it has ricocheted across the globe in viral videos, civil lawsuits, missives from lawmakers, and news reports.

THE FINE PRINT
Think you’re buying Tanglewood concert tickets from the BSO? Make sure you double check.
Joe Berger paid $822 for four tickets on a ticket resale website thinking he was on the BSO’s official site, where equivalent tickets were available for only $316.

At a Cambridge elementary school, an effort to teach students English, and a controversy about how they’re doing it
As thousands of new migrants arrive in Massachusetts, schools like the Kennedy-Longfellow Elementary School in East Cambridge are scrambling to help them learn English. One approach is Sheltered English Immersion.

Culture & Lifestyle

A fans’ guide to Boston Calling: Performance times, food lineup, and everything you need to know

In the Huntington’s ‘Toni Stone,’ a player in a league of her own

As the Rolling Stones prepare to hit Gillette, here’s a tour through their recent live releases

So many ways to savor Memorial Day weekend in and around Boston

Special Projects

Beyond the Gilded Gate

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

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.

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

JEFF JACOBY

Generation Z has serious problems. It has serious advantages, too.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Donald Trump is testing America. We’re failing.

Drew Gilpin Faust

US higher education is endangered
EDITORIAL

International graduates of US colleges should have an easier path to stay
IDEAS | VANESSA BRAGANZA

The new Amy Winehouse biopic and our obsession with tragic geniuses
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

INNOVATOR Q&A

From trash to textiles: URI professor promotes sustainability in the Ocean State

URI Professor Dr. Izabela Ciesielska-Wrobel focuses on refurbishing ocean waste, and she’s ushing lawmakers to require filters in washing machines to prevent microfibers from contaminating waterways.

Outside the Karen Read trial, pink-clad supporters find community

In the sensational murder case, the action isn’t just inside the courtroom.
Money, Power, Inequality

Guaranteed basic income helps working class families. So why isn’t it more widespread?

In addition to helping people buy food, pay rent, and save money, UBI programs are giving them an even more valuable commodity: time.
Forecast | Dave Epstein

Will it rain on your Memorial Day barbecue? Showers may be in the forecast.

The Memorial Day holiday often means cook-outs, but you should make a contingency plan to cook those burgers indoors if the showers become numerous.

Sports

FRANK DELL'APA | ON SOCCER

The Revolution may be sorting out other problems, but their offensive ineptitude is crippling

“It is starting to look more and more like the team I envisioned,” coach Caleb Porter said. “It’s too bad that it’s 13 games in and our record is what it is.”

Report: Japanese carmaker Toyota set to end massive Olympic sponsorship deal

Reports in Japan are saying vehicle manufacturer Toyota will end its massive sponsorship deal with the International Olympic Committee after this year’s Paris Olympics.
NASCAR

Christopher Bell able to soak in victory at rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600; Kyle Larson shut out

The race was red-flagged just as Kyle Larson arrived at Charlotte Motor Speedway to take over driving the Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 5 Chevrolet.
PWHL

Schedule and results for PWHL Boston’s Walter Cup Finals series vs. Minnesota
GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

Rajon Rondo pays visit to Indiana, basking in Celtics’ run toward a championship

Business

Report: Japanese carmaker Toyota set to end massive Olympic sponsorship deal

Reports in Japan are saying vehicle manufacturer Toyota will end its massive sponsorship deal with the International Olympic Committee after this year’s Paris Olympics.

An old worry returns for Steward’s nurses and retirees: Can they count on their pensions?

The future of the pensions — whether workers can count on them for the long haul — is bound up with the fate of hospitals that serve mostly low-income neighborhoods and communities.
THE FINE PRINT

Think you’re buying Tanglewood concert tickets from the BSO? Make sure you double check.

G7 officials make progress but no final deal on money for Ukraine from frozen Russian assets
magazine
from the archives

How strangers honored my uncle, who went M.I.A. in Vietnam, for years
Summer Travel

30 ways to have the perfect Cape Cod vacation

GLOBE MAGAZINE

We set out to kayak the entire Charles River. It was that or pickleball.
Things to do

40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

metro

South Hadley man recalls brutal bear attack at Grand Teton in Wyoming

From life in a small New Hampshire town to death on a foreign battlefield

Chilmark man charged Sunday with stabbings in Plymouth; ‘likely’ connection with Braintree attacks

sports

Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving take it up a notch late for Mavericks, who move one win from NBA Finals

Braves superstar Ronald Acuna Jr., the reigning NL MVP, will miss rest of season with ACL tear

PWHL Boston survives an overturned Minnesota goal and forces a deciding game for the Walter Cup

business

US airports set a new record: The most passengers screened in one day

Wayfair goes brick-and-mortar with first big-box store. Take a look inside.

The YIMBYs are coming, to the suburbs

politics

Trump, accustomed to friendly crowds, confronts repeated booing during Libertarian convention speech

Vice president announces commitment to increase internet access in Africa

Trump will address the Libertarian Party convention as he goes after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nation

Military labs do the detective work to identify soldiers decades after they died in World War II

Latest deadly weather in US kills at least 18 as storms carve path of ruin across multiple states

More than a dozen dead in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas after severe weather roars across region

World

Protests shut streets in Armenia’s capital, roads in other parts to demand the prime minister resign

Iran’s acting president addresses new parliament after helicopter crash killing president, others

Poland rolls out plans for fortifications on its border with Russia and Belarus

opinion

The new Amy Winehouse biopic and our obsession with tragic geniuses

Generation Z has serious problems. It has serious advantages, too.

Argentina’s new leader is aiming his ‘chainsaw’ at rule of law

lifestyle

The siblings who changed how we party

I have a boyfriend — and a crush on my friend, who’s a woman

Ed Sheeran and Reneé Rapp attend Boston Celtics game at TD Garden

food & dining

It’s patio weather! Here are some of the best ones around.

What’s open and closed on Memorial Day in Massachusetts

A new Citrus & Salt comes to Fort Point

travel

Memorial Day travelers withstand higher prices in the hurry to kick off summer fun

Forget the beach: This is the most kid-friendly spot in Hyannis

They’re sweet on the Cape: Who needs Wonka when you’ve got caramels with local sea salt and freeze-dried Skittles?

Arts

Free events happening across Boston on Memorial Day and beyond

At ICA’s Watershed, Hew Locke’s rough pageant of humanity

A portrait of Princess Kate is drawing backlash. Is it really that bad?

Books

New wisdom from 826 Boston, a memoir of circus life, and a bookstore springs up in Springfield

Author readings around Boston through June 1

Local bestsellers for the week ended May 19

Movies

Zack Norman, actor who juggled multiple professions, dies at 83

It’s no wonder I love the flicks I do. Like so many filmmakers and fans, I got my movie education from Roger Corman.

Jennifer Lopez says ‘you know better than that’ when asked about Ben Affleck rumors

Television

This week’s TV: Benedict Cumberbatch and Jessica Lange in new dramas, and the return of some favorite series

‘Dexter: Original Sin’ will present serial killer’s origin story

TV shows that are tapped out after one season don’t know when to stop

music

Free events happening across Boston on Memorial Day and beyond

A heartfelt set from Tyler Childers caps Boston Calling’s countrified second day

The Killers pack their arena anthems into the cozy confines of the Paradise, and everyone has a blast

Theater/Dance

‘Gatsby’ arrives at the ART, driven by a powerhouse creative team

In the Huntington’s ‘Toni Stone,’ a player in a league of her own

ArtsEmerson’s 2024-25 season includes a musical inspired by a viral video of inmates dancing to ‘Thriller’

Health

In CVS’s home state, pharmacists in 2 retail stores vote to unionize

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

Obituaries

Zack Norman, actor who juggled multiple professions, dies at 83

John W. Roberts, who led state ACLU in protecting free-speech and abortion rights, dies at 89

Michael Sugrue, whose philosophy lectures were a Youtube hit, dies at 66