A practitioner performed reiki.

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Reiki masters flex muscle on Beacon Hill

For three years, practitioners of reiki have fought to kill a measure that would require them to be licensed by the state ? an effort intended to rein in human trafficking.

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Community television stations are contending with industry trends and regulatory changes that are threatening their financial support.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/wiggs_Manna_03.jpg Marijuana treatment could act as ?sexual enhancement?

A Worcester startup is working with a Los Angeles urologist who oversaw clinical trials of Viagra and Cialis on a new product that they hope could help women?s sex lives.

John Oliver talks with Monica Lewinsky about public shaming

The comedian tackled the good and the bad of Internet pile-ons with help from one of the most famous targets of negative public attention.

MATTHEW GILBERT/YOUR TV GPS

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Globe critic Matthew Gilbert?s guide to the week in TV.

See which restaurants advanced to Round Two

The top 32 restaurants have advanced to the second round of Munch Madness. Vote to keep your favorites in the running.

Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/15/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Clipboard-5366.jpg ?Left? and ?moderate? don?t describe anything

?Scot Lehigh?s column on two Democratic representatives that he considers ?leftist? was a perfect demonstration of why so much political discourse in the United States today is so unproductive.?

Opinion | Glenn Rifkin

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Patrick McGovern built an unusual, principles-based organization where his tens of thousands of employees felt appreciated, challenged, and well-compensated.

BOSTON, MA - 1/25/2018: The Orange Line morning commute on the MBTA heading inbound. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO TOPIC 26crowding

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Editorial

MBTA and universities should create a ?free? college student pass program

Boston is the ultimate college town, and the MBTA and universities should create a ?free? student pass program similar to what the City of Boston crafted with the agency.

Opinion | Brianna Wu

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/15/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/32ac1374b58744bc9690e88dc2123327-32ac1374b58744bc9690e88dc2123327-0.jpg Senator Warren is onto something: The best way to protect the tech industry is to break it up.

My industry cannot thrive without competition, but that pressure is disappearing.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/2a846762c6c649d693254aabd2a434d5-2a846762c6c649d693254aabd2a434d5-0.jpg ?That love?s going to last forever.? Isaiah Thomas opens up about hurt, hope and his Boston return

The Celtics traded Isaiah Thomas away nearly two years ago, but his connection to this team and this city endures.

Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl celebrates with Horace Spencer (0) and Samir Doughty (10) after beating Tennessee in the NCAA college basketball Southeastern Conference championship game Sunday, March 17, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Auburn won 84-64. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

NCAA bracket: Download and print out a March Madness grid

The selections have been made. Here?s how the 2019 men?s basketball championship teams are matched up.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/10/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/c1591b2becbb4011b3a3a15ec4f99194-c1591b2becbb4011b3a3a15ec4f99194-0.jpg Red Sox reassign 11 players to minor league camp

The Sox now have 36 players in camp with Opening Day on March 28 in Seattle.

3-17-19: Boston, MA: Methuen/Tewksbury players celebrate after Carolyn Curley put the puck past Austin Prep goalie Hannah Aveni (top left) to give their team the victory in the second overtime period. Methuen/Tewksbury met Austin Prep in the MIAA Division One Girl's High School hockey championship game at the TD Garden. (Jim Davis /Globe Staff).

Photos: 2019 high school winter sports championships

Check out the Globe?s photos from championship weekend.

Seth Moulton talks little of defunct startup

Seth Moulton (left) and Dr. Sam Bakri founded Eastern Healthcare Partners on January 1, 2011.

Eastern Healthcare Partners

A closer look at Seth Moulton?s 2013 foray into the weight-loss industry reveals a less illustrious chapter of a career marked by service and ambition.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/tramman1.jpg At least three dead in Dutch tram shooting; gunman on the run

Dutch police have released a photo of a man they say they are looking for in connection with a deadly shooting onboard a Dutch tram Monday.

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Waltham police are looking for an armed suspect in the Bear Hill Road neighborhood on the town line with Weston, police said.

Mucaad Ibrahim, 3.

Youngest New Zealand mosque victim, 3, liked playing with iPad, soccer ball

Mucaad was a joyful, energetic child who always seemed to be laughing, his older brother said.

NESTOR RAMOS

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The latest racist massacre makes one thing clear: The Internet, this thing we all built together, has gotten away from us.

President Donald Trump.

Trump says the media is trying to blame him for the attacks in New Zealand

President Trump says he is being unfairly blamed for the New Zealand mosque attacks in which 50 people died.

Marycatherin DeFazio takes comfort being close to water. She often sits on the benches at Salmon Falls in Shelburne Falls.

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?I?m a shell of who I used to be.? A female prison guard?s tale of torment

First she was assaulted by her husband, then bullied by colleagues at work. A female prison guard found that the system put her on trial, not her tormentors.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/e761aedd6b7d464da25f6f744cf3d4b6-e761aedd6b7d464da25f6f744cf3d4b6-0.jpg Beto O?Rourke says he raised $6.1 million online in 1st 24 hours

The ?record-breaking? $6.1 million came ?without a dime? from political action committees, corporations or special interests, an O?Rourke spokesperson said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/mcgregor1.jpg Conor McGregor leaves St. Patrick?s Day Parade early after fans spill into street to greet his vehicle

?They?re coming right onto the street, they can?t contain it,? a visibly delighted McGregor said in a video clip from the parade posted to his official Instagram account.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/15/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/blanding12141615patriotsday8names.jpg Dropkick Murphys? Ken Casey got into a scuffle at the band?s Friday House of Blues show

?Basically, guy was attacking fans and I was trying to defend them,? the bassist and singer told the Globe.

Newsletters

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Munch Madness

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/munch90x903.jpg Munch Madness 2019: The top restaurants in Boston

If it?s March, it must be time for the tournament everyone awaits all year: Munch Madness.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Season Two: How do you meet someone?

Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.

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Special reports

They were the top of their class at Boston public schools. Then life happened

Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Students stage global protest to speak out on climate change inaction

Students worldwide skipped classes Friday to protest their governments? failure to act against global warming as part of the ?Fridays for Future? movement.

Real Estate

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Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/PVivax_Wellcome-1024x576.jpg China is reviving a discredited AIDS immunotherapy ? for cancer

Injections of malaria parasites, a discredited AIDS treatment once promoted by the father of the Heimlich maneuver, is being tested in China as a cancer immunotherapy.

Podcasts