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Jury resumes deliberations in Trump’s hush-money case after rehearing testimony

The jury in former president Donald Trump’s hush-money trial has resumed deliberations after asking to rehear potentially crucial testimony about the alleged scheme at the heart of the history-making case.
What happens now that the jury is deliberating? Here’s what former Trump Cabinet officials and aides have said about him and his presidential bid
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YVONNE ABRAHAM
At a Pittsfield prep school, an alleged abuser had impunity for decades
Over decades, students at Miss Hall’s School told adults that history teacher Matt Rutledge was preying on students. They were ignored and silenced.

Vineyard police reports detail erratic behavior of man accused in stabbing rampage

Police sought to have Jared Ravizza held over his mental-health issues, but an evaluator declined to do so.
What to know about Jared Ravizza, the Martha’s Vineyard man charged in multiple stabbings Attacker ‘had a smile on his face’ and ‘laughed like the Joker,’ victim told police after movie theater stabbings

Hiker injured in N.H. called 911 for help just before her phone lost power

Tara O’Shea called 911 at 7:20 p.m. after injuring her leg, officials said.

Forecast | Ken Mahan
The cooler, rainy weather will taper off this afternoon
But a beautiful stretch of sunny weather awaits for the weekend.

Supreme Court clears the way for NRA’s free speech lawsuit against ex-New York official

Firefighters battle 5-alarm blaze in Chelsea

Porchfests coming to Massachusetts this summer and next fall

The US-built pier in Gaza broke apart. Here’s how we got here and what might be next.

‘I’m not sure people are actually paying attention.’ Wu struggles to rally popular support for property tax push.

While the business community has voiced strong opposition to the measure, Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration has so far struggled to rally popular support for it.

Beth Teitell
A hysterectomy, an abandoned grocery cart, a secret Facebook identity. Karen Read obsession in three chapters.
It’s dictating people’s lives. One person scheduled surgery to maximize trial-watching time. Another sweats through boot camp with his phone in front of his mat. The case has become “my entire personality,” said another.

Boston Globe Today

‘My dream had to change’: Former WBZ-TV anchor Liam Martin talks men’s mental health

For many of us a dream job stays just that – a dream. But for Liam Martin, it was something that he had achieved and decided to walk away from.
SUMMER READING PREVIEW

75 books we’re most excited to read this summer

The Globe’s annual summer reading preview features 75 books — fiction, nonfiction, romance, and mystery — we think you’ll want to slip into that beach bag, backpack, or picnic basket.
Christopher L. Gasper

Why Jrue Holiday is more than Marcus Smart ever was, and other Celtics thoughts as we wait on the NBA Finals

Holiday, a two-time All-Star, is an explicit winner who should have garnered some votes for series MVP against the Pacers.

Northeastern University seeking to replace historic Matthews Arena

Northeastern University has filed a proposal with the Boston Planning and Development Agency to replace 124-year-old Matthews Arena, billed as the world’s oldest ice hockey venue, with a new 290,000-square-foot athletics facility.
Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Steward was fired from a health plan for the military. It has refused to give up the contract.

Brighton Marine, a Boston nonprofit, filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging that Steward was interfering with its efforts to replace the bankrupt hospital company as its main subcontractor on a health plan.
SURVEY SAYS | CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

From thrifty N.H. residents to Connecticut’s big spenders, here’s how much New Englanders spend on vacation

Vacation budgets ranged from about $1,900 to $2,600, with one glaring exception.
LOVE LETTERS

My sister is moving away with her partner

I wish I wasn’t so disappointed.
GLOBE MAGAZINE

Smiles, tears, and a spitting llama: Untold tales from the Stone Zoo

Zookeeper Sandra Elliott shares some of her favorite stories from four decades in Stoneham.
MISS CONDUCT

Advice needed: My 40-year-old son visits us too much

But my wife says he’s always welcome. Plus, this long wedding reception includes cocktails and very little food. What to do?
Opinion
IDEAS | MICHAEL COTTER

Mass. voters emphatically stood up for cage-free eggs. Now factory farms are pushing back.

Agribusiness wants to make food as cheap as possible. That's not always a good thing.
Ashley Groffenberger

Boston needs a temporary tax hike on commercial properties
Carine Hajjar

The issue Biden can’t seem to conquer
JOAN VENNOCHI

The humbling of Harvard
LETTERS

Unkindest cuts of all at GBH
AAPI Heritage Month

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

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

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

Alex Speier | On baseball

In the heavyweight AL East, the middling Red Sox cannot afford to be a middleweight puncher

The Sox have played 21 games spanning seven series against teams that are at least five games over .500 this year. They are now 5-16 in those contests, and 0-7 in those series.

Crisis in R.I’s creative capital: Arts organizations are fighting to survive
The Columbus Theatre in Providence is closing in June, and arts leaders say more closures will follow unless the state bails the art sector out.

More than a dozen ways to celebrate Pride Month in the Greater Boston area

In addition to the celebrations highlighted here, many towns and businesses in the Greater Boston area are hosting local Pride festivals, block parties, and bar crawls.
Here’s a partial list of June events in Massachusetts

Cambridge mayor, police not concerned about gunshot detection tech. They say residents aren’t either.

The police commissioner said ShotSpotter technology had, in fact, been helpful over the years.

Bill to add more than 200 liquor licenses in Boston poised to clear the Mass. House on Thursday

The closely watched measure emerges from the House with fewer new licenses, a set aside for nonprofits, and the addition of full-value licenses that can be used anywhere in the city.

Judge stunned as man with suspended license joins Zoom hearing while driving

The hearing, which took place in a Michigan court, is the latest of many bizarre scenes that have unfolded in courtrooms since the onset of the pandemic, when Zoom hearings became commonplace.
Money, Power, Inequality

Local council champions the AAPI business community, while dispelling model minority myth

Justice Department objects to Steward’s timetable for selling its doctors network

Car slams into historic Norwell home causing ‘significant damage,’ officials say

The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits inches up, but layoffs remain low

Officials in Salem remove ‘racist slur’ carved into new sidewalk

Groundbreaking Judge DuBose talks about the turning point in her career

Recommended reads

‘He’s an adopted son’: The three-decade love affair between Gloucester and Sebastian Junger

When “The Perfect Storm” came out in 1997, it forever changed the story of Sebastian Junger, and the city of Gloucester.
2024 summer olympics

Wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and threat of terrorism, loom over Paris Olympics this summer

Paris elevated its terror threat to maximum two months ago, and the opening ceremony will be conducted amid the heaviest security in Olympic history.

PODCAST
Groundbreaking Judge DuBose talks about the turning point in her career
On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Judge Melissa DuBose discusses the decade she spent teaching in Providence schools and her decision to become a prosecutor.

Globe Magazine
Gifted and talented programs are vanishing from schools. That’s a bigger problem than you think.
Public schools in other states offer more support for gifted children than Massachusetts does. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Culture & Lifestyle

We haven’t seen the last of ‘The Last of Us’

Berklee’s Summer in the City series opens a window to fresh sounds

From P!nk to Kenny Chesney, here’s your guide to summer concert season at Gillette

Boston Calling says it was ‘several thousand below’ capacity despite some complaints about crowd size

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

JOAN VENNOCHI

The humbling of Harvard
SCOT LEHIGH

How I learned to get over my anxiety of flying
IDEAS | ROB HENDERSON

Don’t be a stranger: The power of renewing old friendships
JEFF JACOBY

The law that ruined America’s immigration system
EDITORIAL

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

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

30 guns stolen from Warwick, R.I., shop after entry smashed in, police say

Police are investigating a smash-and-grab heist of at least 30 handguns that left a gaping hole in the entrance area of a Warwick gun shop early Thursday morning.

Hiker injured in N.H. called 911 for help just before her phone lost power

Tara O’Shea called 911 at 7:20 p.m. after injuring her leg, officials said.

Northeastern University seeking to replace historic Matthews Arena

Northeastern University has filed a proposal with the Boston Planning and Development Agency to replace 124-year-old Matthews Arena, billed as the world’s oldest ice hockey venue, with a new 290,000-square-foot athletics facility.

Porchfests coming to Massachusetts this summer and next fall

Now, with summer in the air, more porchfests are scheduled around Massachusetts from June 1 to October.

Sports

celtics

Mike Breen shares emotional story about Bill Walton’s kindness

Walton formed a friendship with Breen's father near the end of his life.
beat writer's notebook

NBA title optimism, more Bill Walton memories, Jaylen Brown’s MVP run, and other thoughts on the Celtics

Co-owner Wyc Grousbeck is bullish on his team's chances: “I think this team is different from teams that have gone before. They’ve got a warrior mentality and they’re a unified force.”
Tigers at Red Sox | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 57: Tigers at Red Sox lineups and notes

Nick Pivetta will be on the mound when the Red Sox open a four-game series with Detroit at Fenway Park.

High school boys’ volleyball: Favorites, sleepers, players to watch for Division 1 and 2 tournaments
patriots

Meet coordinator Alex Van Pelt, the man charged with reviving the Patriots offense

Business

RI ARTS

Crisis in R.I’s creative capital: Arts organizations are fighting to survive

The Columbus Theatre in Providence is closing in June, and arts leaders say more closures will follow unless the state bails the art sector out.

‘I’m not sure people are actually paying attention.’ Wu struggles to rally popular support for property tax push.

While the business community has voiced strong opposition to the measure, Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration has so far struggled to rally popular support for it.
Boston Globe Today

‘My dream had to change’: Former WBZ-TV anchor Liam Martin talks men’s mental health

The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits inches up, but layoffs remain low
magazine
Summer Travel

Gifted and talented programs are vanishing from schools. That’s a bigger problem than you think.
LOVE LETTERS

My fiancé and I aren’t sure we should go through with the wedding
PERSPECTIVE

I’m a normal mom, I swear. So how did my kids turn out so bougie?
Cooking

Sweet treats for strawberry season

metro

‘We tried everything’: Anchor & Hope winery in R.I. files for bankruptcy

Cambridge mayor, police not concerned about gunshot detection tech. They say residents aren’t either.

Local council champions the AAPI business community, while dispelling model minority myth

sports

Ryan Casey and Roman Pavluchenko power through, Monomoy boys’ tennis advances in Division 4 tournament

Oilers roar back, even Western Conference finals with five-goal outburst to beat Stars

Riley Ament, Brookline girls’ tennis show persistence in Division 1 first-round win over Methuen

business

Bill to add more than 200 liquor licenses in Boston poised to clear the Mass. House on Thursday

Steward was fired from a health plan for the military. It has refused to give up the contract.

Boeing reaches deadline for reporting how it will fix aircraft safety and quality problems

politics

Supreme Court clears the way for NRA’s free speech lawsuit against ex-New York official

Jury in Trump hush money trial resumes deliberations after rehearing instructions, testimony

Jury resumes deliberations in Trump’s hush-money case after rehearing testimony

Nation

Judge stunned as man with suspended license joins Zoom hearing while driving

Power outages could linger for days after storms batter Texas again, leaving 1 dead

VP Harris to address US Air Force Academy graduates

World

Israel says it’s taken control of key area of Gaza’s border with Egypt awash in smuggling tunnels

Papua New Guinea landslide survivors slow to move to safer ground after hundreds buried

14 pro-democracy activists convicted, 2 acquitted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case

opinion

Don’t be a stranger: The power of renewing old friendships

We should be asking primary care doctors, ‘How was your day?’

Why study philosophy? Well, for one, because we’re humans.

lifestyle

My sister is moving away with her partner

More than a dozen ways to celebrate Pride Month in the Greater Boston area

TikTok rediscovers an old rural beauty secret

food & dining

New shows at the whaling museum, a Seattle hotel with a robotic butler, and TripIt kicks it up a notch

Bill to add more than 200 liquor licenses in Boston poised to clear the Mass. House on Thursday

‘We tried everything’: Anchor & Hope winery in R.I. files for bankruptcy

travel

New shows at the whaling museum, a Seattle hotel with a robotic butler, and TripIt kicks it up a notch

Scott Bonn studies serial killers — but it’s the idea of an unplugged vacation that scares him

I canceled my airline tickets months ago, so where’s my money?

Arts

At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, the photograph as reliquary

How do you sit still and get paid at the same time? Try becoming a nude, figure-drawing model.

The many selves of Gearóid Dolan, MIT instructor, activist, and costumed artist

Books

Novelist Simon Van Booy thinks we should give mice more credit

Local bestsellers for the week ended May 26

75 books we’re most excited to read this summer

Movies

Cabot director addresses Richard Dreyfuss rant that sparked ‘wave of walkouts’

Albert Ruddy, Oscar-winning producer of ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ dies at 94

A Boston filmmaker looks to slay dragons, and Hollywood, with help from Dane Cook

Television

A whole bunch of New Englanders battle it out on this season of NBC’s ‘American Ninja Warrior’

In ‘Eric,’ a distraught puppeteer turns to his right-hand man

We haven’t seen the last of ‘The Last of Us’

music

Porchfests coming to Massachusetts this summer and next fall

Berklee’s Summer in the City series opens a window to fresh sounds

Boston Calling says it was ‘several thousand below’ capacity despite some complaints about crowd size

Theater/Dance

At Vilna Shul synagogue, the souls of the dead are stirring

‘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

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

Sue Johnson, psychologist who took a scientific view of love, dies at 76

Stanley Goldstein, who helped start and build the CVS drugstore empire, dies at 89

Joseph Slavet, ‘fearless’ and thoughtful watchdog of Boston government, dies at 104