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MBTA budgets ‘totally incapable of getting us where we need to be,’ board member says

The MBTA’s board of directors unanimously approved a budget Tuesday of $3 billion for the upcoming fiscal year that requires, as in years past, the agency to drain its entire rainy day fund just to cover day-to-day expenses.

‘We’re gonna lock this whack job up.’ Text messages from State Police investigator under scrutiny at Karen Read trial.
Michael Proctor, the lead investigator in the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe, testified that he regretted the messages and stressed that they had “zero impact” on the case.

Lead investigator in Karen Read case admits ‘unprofessional comments,’ including joke there were ‘no nudes’ on her phone

President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial

Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on a gun-purchase form, and illegally possessing a gun for 11 days.

Pamela Smart, serving life, accepts responsibility for her husband’s 1990 killing for the first time

Smart, who had plotted with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, made the admission in a videotaped statement as part of her latest sentence reduction request.

Bedford woman accused of killing her parents suffers from mental illness, her lawyer says

The lawyer for Jessica Lynn Cavallaro, the Bedford woman charged with murder for allegedly shooting her parents to death last week, said Tuesday that his client suffers from a “long-standing mental illness.”

Researchers spotted 161 whales south of Martha's Vineyard and southeast of Nantucket during a recent aerial survey.

More than 160 whales spotted in waters off Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, NOAA reports

Federal appeals court sides with Middleborough schools after they barred student from wearing ‘demeaning’ shirt

Newton’s New Art Center targeted by bomb threat

Blinken welcomes UN vote in favor of Gaza cease-fire plan and again calls on Hamas to accept it

Charges dropped against one UNH student, but not the other 11 people arrested at pro-Palestinian encampment

Kristaps Porzingis suffered another injury in Game 2 of the NBA Finals.

Celtics

What is Kristaps Porzingis’s ‘rare’ leg injury, reminiscent of Curt Schilling’s bloody sock? Doctors explain.

Porzingis suffered a "torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon." Here's what that means.

G League players JD Davison and Drew Peterson aren’t your average Celtics fans in the stands

chad finn

Why the Kristaps Porzingis news shouldn’t change the outcome of this series

Kristaps Porzingis was slow to get up at one point in Game 2.

After suffering ‘rare’ injury, Kristaps Porzingis says the only way he won’t play Game 3 is if ‘I’m told I’m not allowed’

Summer is almost here, but sidewalk dining is fading across most of Boston. Why?
Al fresco tables were hailed as a silver lining of the pandemic but then many restaurants gave up on them.

Here are some of the best patio dining options remaining around Boston

🍽️Connecticut and Maine restaurants take home honors at the 33rd annual James Beard awards🏆

House Speaker Ron Mariano had declared that he wanted his chamber to “go big or go home” on housing.

ADRIAN WALKER

Is Beacon Hill finally getting serious about housing?

In passing a bill almost 50 percent larger than Governor Maura Healey requested, the House seems to be betting that pouring big money into housing production can help to ease the crunch.

Doctorate recipients across all fields are increasingly finding opportunities in industry and business, rather than academia.

More and more doctorate recipients are leaving academia to find work. Here’s what detailed data show.

The shift is a marked change from decades past, when professorship was typically considered the default pipeline for doctorate recipients.

Submerged wreckage in Lake Champlain identified as jet that mysteriously disappeared more than 50 years ago

Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Vermont's Lake Champlain.

Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke outside St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center — a Steward hospital.

Amid Steward fiasco, Warren, Markey pitch bill to regulate private equity in health care

The bill would establish stiff penalties for health care executives whose actions endanger the safety of their patients.

Steward says it has secured funding to run its hospitals through June

A screenshot from Joel Kaimakani Libed's now viral TikTok.

Mass. man went viral after being stopped by TSA with a bag full of SPAM. Now he is becoming a ‘SPAM influencer.’

“I instantly just started thinking of everything bad that could happen. How do I explain myself? This is going to look super suspicious,” the Hawaii native said.

Mayor Michelle Wu vetoes changes to police, fire budgets made by City Council, frustrating some members

The council had cut down Wu’s proposed increases to the Boston Police Department by around $3 million, and the Boston Fire Department by about $735,000.

225,000 Mass. students attend substandard segregated schools, report finds

This GOES-16 satellite image taken on Aug. 26, 2020, shows Hurricane Laura over the Gulf of Mexico.

Here’s where the Atlantic hurricane season stands right now. Will June stay quiet for long?

Here's the current state of the tropics as the first month of the Atlantic hurricane season unfolds.

Will this summer be as hot and wet as last year?

Opinion

Hunter Biden arrived at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Del., on June 6.

RENÉE GRAHAM

At Hunter Biden’s trial, many families heard the familiar sorrow of a relative’s struggles with addiction

The verdict against Biden is historic; that another family has been upended by substance use disorder is not.

IDEAS | WILLIAM SCHULZ

The case for animal personhood

Joan Donovan

Beware of identity fraud empowered by generative AI

EDITORIAL

16-year-old Acton girl’s tragic death was preventable

MARCELA GARCÍA

The new reality of racial segregation in Mass. schools

LGBTQ Pride Month

The Boston Pride for the People parade and festival, held Saturday in Boston, is estimated to draw more than 1 million people.

Boston Pride parade awash in positivity

Members of Island Pride Boston dance during the Boston Pride for the People parade.

See photos of Boston’s Pride parade on a sunny and colorful day

Thousands took part in the 2023 Pride parade which started in Copley Square.

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

Leslie Rosenberg of Boston sported a pair of rainbow boots to match her rainbow skirt at a Pride flag raising at Boston City Hall on June 3.

PARENTING UNFILTERED

How parents can support LGBTQ+ youth in an often hostile world

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Raytheon sued for age discrimination in hiring, favoring recent college grads

The suit alleges that a 67-year-old Virginia man applied to many positions at Raytheon since 2019, but was never offered an interview — “based on his age.”

Here’s what to know about upcoming Sumner Tunnel closures (and how to avoid the gridlock)

The Sumner Tunnel has been closing on weekends to allow for repairs, and it will be closed for a month straight starting July 5.

MBTA removes 10 speed restrictions on the Orange Line after completing ‘critical’ track work

‘A phenomena in the town’: Needham middle school will graduate 23 sets of twins Wednesday
The 23 sets of twins, comprising of 46 students, make up almost a tenth of the 454 person eighth grade class graduating on Wednesday.

Gunfire on Boston Common sends people scrambling for safety; police capture suspect after chase

Other officers found a man with multiple gunshot wounds near the Brewer Fountain on Monday.

James Pindell | ANALYSIS

Another way the presidential race is unlike any other: the single criterion Trump is using to select a running mate
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you are willing to do for Donald Trump.

Patriots leave the practice field behind and head out for fun and games in the community
The team's bonding exercise this offseason was a Community Day of dodgeball and other sports with local youth.

At least nine GBH executives had salaries of over $300,000 last year. Reeling from layoffs, employees have questions.

The untouched, high salaries have prompted criticism among current and former employees about the organization’s choices in confronting a budget shortfall of $7 million for its core business.

Here’s a breakdown of the highest-paid employees at GBH

From a hobby to a side hustle: Pickleball pros pick up cash on the side teaching newbies
A sport once dominated by older adults and retirees is now an emerging market, especially for younger generations.

Woburn EV maker wants to crack the market with a van that costs less than $30,000
Indigo Technologies is putting motors inside the wheels of its vehicles to save space and lower battery costs.

US Poet Laureate Ada Limón wants you to picnic with poetry — at our National Parks
This Friday in Provincetown, she’s launching “You Are Here: Poetry in Parks,” a series of nature-poem installations. Read on for the poem she’s chosen to celebrate the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Culture & Lifestyle

Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry in "Treasure."

In ‘Treasure,’ Lena Dunham plays a Holocaust survivor’s daughter who road trips across Poland looking for answers

A lonely dog and build-it-yourself robot become best friends in ‘Robot Dreams,’ one of the year’s best films

Barbara Bosworth, "The Meadow," 2003, from the series "The Meadow."

A ‘Meadow’ in the Fenway and a ‘Glacier’ in Kenmore Square

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez attended Amazon's "This is Me... Now: A Love Story" premiere at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood, Calif., Feb. 13.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez timeline: Couple reportedly selling Beverly Hills mansion

Special Projects

Illustration of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White along with other NBA greats for the 2024 Finals preview.

Where do the 2023-24 Celtics stand among the greatest teams in NBA history?

If Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown beat the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals and carry the team to Banner No. 18, their legacies would be cemented. But all of this year’s success means nothing without a ring.

Lauren Friel (left) owner of Rebel Rebel, chatted with customers while working at her wine bar in Bow Market in Somerville. The restrictive Boston liquor license system has pushed throngs of innovative chefs to neighborhood towns with laxer laws, including Brookline, Somerville, and Cambridge.

HIGH & DRY

Priced out: How Boston’s broken liquor license system drives chefs from the city

A stubbornly high price tag for serving alcohol hurts thousands of hospitality workers, aspiring restaurateurs, and the city itself.

Interactive map

Pothole season is upon us. See which neighborhoods have the most reports

Boston’s 311 data provides a day-by-day look at the condition of the city’s streets and sidewalks, which neighborhoods are hit hardest, and just how fast repairs are made.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Pro-Palestinian students and supporters rallied in Washington, D.C., on May 9.

JOAN VENNOCHI

ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis sees free speech retreat in America

The pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Tufts University in Medford, on May 1. The weeks of demonstrations, the most sweeping and prolonged unrest to rock US college campuses since the Vietnam war protests of the 1960s and 70s, led to thousands arrests of students and other activists.

Jeffrey Flier

Don’t compare the Israel-Hamas war protests to Vietnam

IDEAS | MOLLY WADZECK KRAUS

Breaking up with a friend was harder than any romantic split

New York’s beloved traffic jams will live another day, thanks to a last-minute decision by Governor Kathy Hochul to indefinitely pause the city’s congestion pricing system. Set to start in a few weeks, the system was going to be used to help pay for major repairs to the city’s subway system. The governor said that the price, which would have been over $16 for cars, would place a financial burden on New Yorkers and local businesses at a time when the city hasn’t fully recovered from the pandemic.

Alan Wirzbicki

New York’s congestion pricing plan inspired transit advocates nationwide. Now what?

FILE - The Massachusetts Statehouse is seen, Jan. 2, 2019, in Boston. A Massachusetts bill that bars someone from sharing explicit images or videos without their consent was approved Thursday, March 21, 2024, by the Massachusetts Senate. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

EDITORIAL

House’s $6.5 billion housing bill goes big on new development

IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

For years, mothers were reported to DCF simply for taking addiction medication. Massachusetts lawmakers are seeking to end that.

Hospital officials and addiction specialists said the current requirement often means mothers who are taking medication to treat opioid use disorder are then reported and subjected to DCF investigations simply for taking doctor-prescribed drugs.

MBTA budgets ‘totally incapable of getting us where we need to be,’ board member says

Negotiators appear to have deal on legislation that would make Mass. 49th state to outlaw ‘revenge porn’

Nithya Badrinath, policy director of Jane Doe Inc., one of the organizations pushing for the bill’s enactment, said there had been “chatter that some deal is going to come out soon” in recent weeks.

RI POLITICS

No ‘calamari comeback’? The R.I. chef from Democrats’ 2020 convention roll call says he’s a Trump supporter.

Iggy’s Boardwalk Executive Chef John Bordieri stood, wordlessly, clad in black, holding a platter of sautéed squid during a video roll call of states that formally made Joe Biden the party’s presidential nominee in 2020.

Sports

Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (left, No. 72) and center Carter Verhaeghe (No. 23) celebrate Florida's 4-1 victory over the Oilers in Game 2 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals Monday in Sunrise, Fla., The Panthers will take a 2-0 series lead to Edmonton, where the best-of-seven series resumes Thursday night at 8 p.m.

NHL Stanley Cup Final

Locking down games and dominating late has become a hallmark for the Florida Panthers

The Lockdown Cats have taken over the Stanley Cup Final, suffocating the Edmonton Oilers to run down the clock in Games 1 and 2 to move two victories away from the first championship in franchise history.

Natalie Spooner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time winner with Canada at the world championships, claimed the MVP award from the inaugural season of the Professional Women's Hockey League.

PWHL

Toronto’s Natalie Spooner wins first PWHL MVP award; Boston’s Megan Keller, Aerin Frankel make league’s second team

Spooner, a member of the Canadian national team, was the PWHL scoring leader with 20 goals and seven assists in the league’s inaugural season. She was chosen over New York’s Alex Carpenter and Montreal’s Marie-Philip Poulin.

Celtics

After suffering ‘rare’ injury, Kristaps Porzingis says the only way he won’t play Game 3 is if ‘I’m told I’m not allowed’

The center, who wasn't limping while speaking to the media, will receive around-the-clock treatment and is "optimistic," but the medical staff will make the decision.

Patriots

Patriots claim linebacker Steele Chambers off waivers from the Lions

Paris Olympics

The USA women’s basketball roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics is set

chad finn

Why the Kristaps Porzingis news shouldn’t change the outcome of this series

Business

Biden administration seeks to wipe consumer medical debt off most credit reports with proposed rule

The proposed rule also would prevent lenders from repossessing medical devices such as wheelchairs if people cannot repay a loan.

Bigbelly launches US manufacturing of solar-powered trash cans in Methuen

The Needham-based receptacles, which line the streets of Boston, were previously built in Mexico.

Attraction starring Disney’s first Black princess replaces ride based on film many viewed as racist

World Bank sees rosier growth outlook

magazine

Jo Douglas trails behind some of her heifers.

Globe Magazine

She wanted cows for her growing Vineyard farm. First, she had to catch them.

Cooking

On the grill or in the oven, these skewer recipes are great for pork, chicken, and beef

Enjoy live string music and some good food during the Father’s Day Bluegrass BBQ at Powisset Farm in Dover.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, June 10-16

Stacked accordion doors on this Needham accessory dwelling unit allow Jan Moscowitz to open two sides of the studio to the outdoors, where she often entertains.

Summer Living

Bad drivers get canceled online

MBTA budgets ‘totally incapable of getting us where we need to be,’ board member says

President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial

Pamela Smart, serving life, accepts responsibility for her husband’s 1990 killing for the first time

Bedford woman accused of killing her parents suffers from mental illness, her lawyer says

More than 160 whales spotted in waters off Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, NOAA reports

Federal appeals court sides with Middleborough schools after they barred student from wearing ‘demeaning’ shirt

Newton’s New Art Center targeted by bomb threat

Blinken welcomes UN vote in favor of Gaza cease-fire plan and again calls on Hamas to accept it

What is Kristaps Porzingis’s ‘rare’ leg injury, reminiscent of Curt Schilling’s bloody sock? Doctors explain.

chad finn Why the Kristaps Porzingis news shouldn’t change the outcome of this series

After suffering ‘rare’ injury, Kristaps Porzingis says the only way he won’t play Game 3 is if ‘I’m told I’m not allowed’

Summer is almost here, but sidewalk dining is fading across most of Boston. Why? Al fresco tables were hailed as a silver lining of the pandemic but then many restaurants gave up on them.

🍽️Connecticut and Maine restaurants take home honors at the 33rd annual James Beard awards🏆

Is Beacon Hill finally getting serious about housing?

More and more doctorate recipients are leaving academia to find work. Here’s what detailed data show.

Submerged wreckage in Lake Champlain identified as jet that mysteriously disappeared more than 50 years ago

Amid Steward fiasco, Warren, Markey pitch bill to regulate private equity in health care

Mass. man went viral after being stopped by TSA with a bag full of SPAM. Now he is becoming a ‘SPAM influencer.’

Mayor Michelle Wu vetoes changes to police, fire budgets made by City Council, frustrating some members

Here’s where the Atlantic hurricane season stands right now. Will June stay quiet for long?

At Hunter Biden’s trial, many families heard the familiar sorrow of a relative’s struggles with addiction

The case for animal personhood

Beware of identity fraud empowered by generative AI

16-year-old Acton girl’s tragic death was preventable

The new reality of racial segregation in Mass. schools

Boston Pride parade awash in positivity

See photos of Boston’s Pride parade on a sunny and colorful day

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

How parents can support LGBTQ+ youth in an often hostile world

More recent News

Raytheon sued for age discrimination in hiring, favoring recent college grads

Here’s what to know about upcoming Sumner Tunnel closures (and how to avoid the gridlock)

‘A phenomena in the town’: Needham middle school will graduate 23 sets of twins Wednesday The 23 sets of twins, comprising of 46 students, make up almost a tenth of the 454 person eighth grade class graduating on Wednesday.

Gunfire on Boston Common sends people scrambling for safety; police capture suspect after chase

James Pindell | ANALYSIS Another way the presidential race is unlike any other: the single criterion Trump is using to select a running mate Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you are willing to do for Donald Trump.

Patriots leave the practice field behind and head out for fun and games in the community The team's bonding exercise this offseason was a Community Day of dodgeball and other sports with local youth.

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At least nine GBH executives had salaries of over $300,000 last year. Reeling from layoffs, employees have questions.

From a hobby to a side hustle: Pickleball pros pick up cash on the side teaching newbies A sport once dominated by older adults and retirees is now an emerging market, especially for younger generations.

Woburn EV maker wants to crack the market with a van that costs less than $30,000 Indigo Technologies is putting motors inside the wheels of its vehicles to save space and lower battery costs.

US Poet Laureate Ada Limón wants you to picnic with poetry — at our National Parks This Friday in Provincetown, she’s launching “You Are Here: Poetry in Parks,” a series of nature-poem installations. Read on for the poem she’s chosen to celebrate the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Culture & Lifestyle

In ‘Treasure,’ Lena Dunham plays a Holocaust survivor’s daughter who road trips across Poland looking for answers

A lonely dog and build-it-yourself robot become best friends in ‘Robot Dreams,’ one of the year’s best films

A ‘Meadow’ in the Fenway and a ‘Glacier’ in Kenmore Square

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez timeline: Couple reportedly selling Beverly Hills mansion

Special Projects

Where do the 2023-24 Celtics stand among the greatest teams in NBA history?

Priced out: How Boston’s broken liquor license system drives chefs from the city

Pothole season is upon us. See which neighborhoods have the most reports

Nightmare in Mission Hill

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis sees free speech retreat in America

Don’t compare the Israel-Hamas war protests to Vietnam

Breaking up with a friend was harder than any romantic split

New York’s congestion pricing plan inspired transit advocates nationwide. Now what?

House’s $6.5 billion housing bill goes big on new development

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

For years, mothers were reported to DCF simply for taking addiction medication. Massachusetts lawmakers are seeking to end that.

MBTA budgets ‘totally incapable of getting us where we need to be,’ board member says

Negotiators appear to have deal on legislation that would make Mass. 49th state to outlaw ‘revenge porn’

No ‘calamari comeback’? The R.I. chef from Democrats’ 2020 convention roll call says he’s a Trump supporter.

Sports

Locking down games and dominating late has become a hallmark for the Florida Panthers

Toronto’s Natalie Spooner wins first PWHL MVP award; Boston’s Megan Keller, Aerin Frankel make league’s second team

After suffering ‘rare’ injury, Kristaps Porzingis says the only way he won’t play Game 3 is if ‘I’m told I’m not allowed’

Patriots claim linebacker Steele Chambers off waivers from the Lions

The USA women’s basketball roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics is set

Why the Kristaps Porzingis news shouldn’t change the outcome of this series

Business

Biden administration seeks to wipe consumer medical debt off most credit reports with proposed rule

Bigbelly launches US manufacturing of solar-powered trash cans in Methuen

Attraction starring Disney’s first Black princess replaces ride based on film many viewed as racist

World Bank sees rosier growth outlook

She wanted cows for her growing Vineyard farm. First, she had to catch them.

On the grill or in the oven, these skewer recipes are great for pork, chicken, and beef

Five things to do around Boston, June 10-16

chad finn

Why the Kristaps Porzingis news shouldn’t change the outcome of this series

Summer is almost here, but sidewalk dining is fading across most of Boston. Why?
Al fresco tables were hailed as a silver lining of the pandemic but then many restaurants gave up on them.

‘A phenomena in the town’: Needham middle school will graduate 23 sets of twins Wednesday
The 23 sets of twins, comprising of 46 students, make up almost a tenth of the 454 person eighth grade class graduating on Wednesday.

James Pindell | ANALYSIS

Another way the presidential race is unlike any other: the single criterion Trump is using to select a running mate
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you are willing to do for Donald Trump.

Patriots leave the practice field behind and head out for fun and games in the community
The team's bonding exercise this offseason was a Community Day of dodgeball and other sports with local youth.

From a hobby to a side hustle: Pickleball pros pick up cash on the side teaching newbies
A sport once dominated by older adults and retirees is now an emerging market, especially for younger generations.

Woburn EV maker wants to crack the market with a van that costs less than $30,000
Indigo Technologies is putting motors inside the wheels of its vehicles to save space and lower battery costs.

US Poet Laureate Ada Limón wants you to picnic with poetry — at our National Parks
This Friday in Provincetown, she’s launching “You Are Here: Poetry in Parks,” a series of nature-poem installations. Read on for the poem she’s chosen to celebrate the Cape Cod National Seashore.