Notre Dame, France devastated by fire; Macron vows to rebuild iconic cathedral

A massive blaze Monday toppled the spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and badly damaged its roof, while France and the world watched in horror.

The smoke and fire from the burning Notre Dame Cathedral could be seen across Paris on Monday.

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The smoke and fire from the burning Notre Dame Cathedral could be seen across Paris on Monday.

Firefighters attacked flames burning through the cathedral.

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Firefighters attacked flames burning through the cathedral.

Parisian firefighting crews battled the blazes for hours.

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Parisian firefighting crews battled the blazes for hours.

Fire damaged much of the roof and toppled the iconic spire of the cathedral.

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Fire damaged much of the roof and toppled the iconic spire of the cathedral.

Firefighters attacked flames burning through Notre Dame Cathedral.

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The belltowers of the cathedral appear to have survived the fire due to the efforts of firefighters.

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Here?s what the Notre Dame Cathedral looked like before the fire

A look at the iconic landmark before a fierce fire tore through its roof and consumed its spire.

High drama ? and a drenching ? mark Marathon

After a downpour, world-class runners and novices alike were rewarded with unexpected sun, drying roads ? and then, a desperate, furious duel at the end of the men?s race.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/15/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/tlumackibmarathonfinishline741.jpg This year?s Boston Marathon was a tale of two races

Lawrence Cherono won the men?s race in a sprint, while Worknesh Degefa cruised to victory in the women?s race.

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An estimated 30,000 runners competed in the 123rd Boston Marathon.

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2019 Boston Marathon results

Take a look at the finishing order by gender, division, New England state, and more.

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The Ethiopian runner outdistanced the field for her second career win in a marathon.

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From the start in Hopkinton to the finish in Boston, the men?s elite race was a tightly contested affair.

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Romanchuk, 20, became the race?s youngest wheelchair champ; Schar won her second title in three years.

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Cedric King had finished Boston using a wheelchair and prosthetics, but this was a whole new ballgame.

A step forward for Robert Kraft: No trafficking charges in spa case

?There is no human trafficking that arises out of this investigation,? a prosecutor told a judge last week.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/KREITER02152019weld6.jpg Bill Weld launches campaign for 2020 Republican nomination against Trump

Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld officially announced Monday that he will challenge President Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination.

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Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is wading into controversial policy areas that resonate in the West, where some key states hold early primary contests.

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The parents are facing felony charges in connection with the college entrance scam.

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The Justice Department expects to make a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller?s report on the Russia investigation public on Thursday morning.

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The medal is the nation?s highest honor for a civilian.

Staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel celebrate their bittersweet honor Monday, April 15, 2019, in Deerfield Beach, Fla., after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The newspaper won for its coverage of the Parkland school shooting. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Three newspapers are honored for coverage of mass shootings

The South Florida Sun Sentinel and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won Pulitzer Prizes and were recognized along with the Capital Gazette of Maryland for coverage of three horrifying mass shootings in 2018 at a high school, a synagogue, and a newsroom itself.

Milk Bar renames ?Crack Pie?

Milk Bar, the New York bakery that opened a Cambridge location in February, is changing the name of one of its signature dishes.

Brian Brusseau (left), member of the Roofers Union Local 33, and Senator Edward Markey spoke in support of the United Council of Food Workers who have been picketing outside of Stop & Shop in Quincy for the past four days. Union powerhouses that used to reign over swaths of the New England grocery industry have either consolidated or have fallen into disarray.

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Stop & Shop, among the last union grocery chains, faces pressure inside and out 

One by one, union powerhouses that used to reign over swaths of the New England grocery industry, including A&P, Pathmark, and Grand Union, fell into disarray.

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Continuing waves of younger retirees could add another potential strain to a $1.5 billion pension system where more pensioners are already collecting benefits than there are working paying in.

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Opinion | Aaron Katz

My client is not innocent. Does he deserve the death penalty?

My client is not innocent. But does he deserve the ?cruel and unusual punishment? of death by lethal injection?

JOAN VENNOCHI

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With the purported human trafficking charge having evaporated, the argument for releasing the video of Robert Kraft at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa looks weak at best.

Editorial

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Boston?s journey ? some two decades in the making ? offers a road map of how other cities in Massachusetts can achieve preschool for all.

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KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON HOCKEY

Bruins? top line was far from first-rate in Game 3 loss

The Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak unit was limited to seven shots and no goals.

4-15-19: Boston, MA: The Red Sox Mookie Betts reacts as he heads back to the dugout after striking out swinging to end the fourth inning. The Boston Red Sox hosted the Baltimore Orioles in the annual Marathon Monday 11AM MLB baseball game at Fenway Park. (Jim Davis /Globe Staff).

ALEX SPEIER | ON BASEBALL

Mookie Betts on his slow start: ?what I?m doing is unacceptable?

A sense of urgency is beginning to grow among Betts and the Red Sox to shake their sluggish ways.

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Globe reporter Janelle Nanos sits down with leaders in the city?s business community to talk about their career paths, work and accomplishments, as well as their vision for Boston?s future.

Special reports

The house at 212 Forest St.

He bought the fencing coach?s house. Then his son got into Harvard

The Needham house was assessed at $549,300, but sold for nearly a million dollars. The buyer, who never lived a day there, would sell it 17 months later at a substantial loss in what may become the next chapter in the national debate over fairness in college admissions.

Munch Madness

Munch Madness | Final

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Beloved Boston bakery Flour takes the cake over Sarma to clinch Munch Madness 2019.

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.

Newsletters

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FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2018, file photo, a customer tries a free sample of a pain cream that contains cannabidiol (CBD) for her arthritis at Minnesota Hempdropz in Maplewood, Minn. Mainstream retailers are leaping into the world of products like skin creams and oils that tout such benefits as reducing anxiety and helping you sleep. The key ingredient is CBD, or cannabidiol, a compound derived from hemp and marijuana that doesn?t cause a high. (Jean Pieri/Pioneer Press via AP, File)

Mainstream retailers embrace marijuana?s less taboo cousin

?Game of Thrones? co-creator?s career started at Dartmouth
ONLY FOR KAY LAZAR STORY Bondsville, MA, 03/17/2019 -- Gayle Suzor takes care of a 15 day-old foster child at her home. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: Reporter: Kay Lazar

Foster families say DCF is failing them
Helene and Martin Oppenheimer at NewBridge on the Charles, a senior living community in Dedham. ?Martin relies on me,? she said of her husband, who has Alzheimer?s disease.

New dementia care approaches emerging to support patients and families
David R. Marchant, Professor Climate Change, Process Geomorphology, Antarctica, Mars (Photo fron Boston University Earth and Environment webpage)

BU professor fired after investigation finds he sexually harassed grad student in Antarctica
A KinderCare is opening soon as the Seaport District takes shape outside its windows.

Seaport District is looking more like a neighborhood
The adult white-sided dolphin while getting herded.

Rescued dolphin not spotted yet in Boston Harbor, a good sign, aquarium says

PEBBLE BEACH, CA - FEBRUARY 07: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady hits a tee shot on the 13th hole during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club on February 7, 2014 in Pebble Beach, California. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)

How Tom Brady reacted to Tiger Woods?s victory on his ?only couch day of the year?

The prisons are packed in this week?s ?SNL?

Wrentham, MA., 04/05/2019, Cheryle Reidel has been victim of surprise out of network charges three times in the past 6 years. Globe staff/Suzanne Kreiter

Surprise medical bills add to worries for some patients
CAMBRIDGE, MA - 04/12/2019 Nancy Tobin, far right, walks ahead of national advocacy groups made up of parents who have lost a child to opioid overdose as they march outside of the Arthur M Sackler Museum at a protest to demand removal of the Sackler name from any public space. Tobin lost her 22-year-old son, Scott, to an overdose in 2017. (Erin Clark for The Boston Globe)

Harvard is urged to change name of Sackler museum
Sylvia Ramos on her first trip to Friendly's, which will probably be her dad's last. (Nestor Ramos) 13nestorfriendly

NESTOR RAMOS

One last visit to Friendly?s, before it melts away

Sports

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Toronto Maple Leafs center Nazem Kadri (43) leaves the ice after being ejected during the third period of Game 2 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series against the Boston Bruins, Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON HOCKEY

Out-of-control Nazem Kadri delivers hit, this time to Leafs

A young Toronto team, still learning playoff etiquette, will be without its most physical player for the rest of the series against the Bruins.

Metro

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?It breaks my heart that two people died on my street?

A deadly double shooting that claimed the lives of two men Saturday night on a residential street in Mattapan left neighbors shaken Sunday as police sought the public?s help in the investigation.

Politics

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Pete Buttigieg (left) acknowledged attendees with his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, after announcing his presidential candidacy for 2020 during an event on Sunday in South Bend, Indiana.

Pete Buttigieg makes his campaign for president official

The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, kicked off his campaign Sunday by claiming the mantle of a youthful generation ready to reshape the country.

Real Estate

Luxury Home of the Week: An Andover Colonial with a putting green for $1.69 million

The home has four bedrooms and 4.5 baths. See inside this and other luxury listings to buy or rent at realestate.boston.com.

Nation & World

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President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.

Chinese woman charged with illegally entering Mar-a-Lago denied bail

A federal judge denied bail Monday for a Chinese woman charged with lying to illegally enter President Donald Trump?s Mar-a-Lago club.

Cars

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All-new 2020 Nissan Versa debuts at Tortuga Music Festival

Versa offers style and features in an affordable compact sedan.

Columnists

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 14: Tiger Woods of the United States celebrates after sinking his putt on the 18th green to win during the final round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on April 14, 2019 in Augusta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

TARA SULLIVAN

A symmetry to Tiger?s fifth Masters crown, 22 years after his first

Boston-04/13/2019 Boston Bruins vs Toronto Maple Leafs- Playoffs game 2 -Bruins Chris Wagner and Leafs Nikita Zaitsev get into a little closeup confrontation in front of the Leafs net in the 2nd period. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(sports)

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Bruins channel their Big, Bad days in Game 2 win
According to a report commissioned by the attorney general, 500,000 Massachusetts residents who switched to competitive supply companies are paying more, on average, than they would if they?d stayed with Eversource, National Grid, or Unitil.

Yvonne Abraham

End the energy supply scam now
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 12: Jason Day of Australia reacts on the second hole during the second round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on April 12, 2019 in Augusta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

Tara Sulllivan

Back pain slows but doesn?t stop Jason Day
Representative Katherine Clark at a January news conference.

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Katherine Clark takes on DeVos on ?racist? policy change
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 11: Tiger Woods of the United States waves on the 18th green during the first round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on April 11, 2019 in Augusta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

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Tiger Woods is happy as he sits comfortably in a familiar position after his opening round
Ina photo from June 2018, people who?d been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, rested in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas.

Yvonne Abraham

It?s important to stay outraged
Toronto Blue Jays' Kevin Pillar (11) tosses his bat after striking out during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers in Toronto, Thursday, March 28, 2019. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Tanking is prevalent in baseball, but why is it tolerated?
Sean Mulveyhill, right, enters a court room before a pretrial hearing in Hampshire Superior Court, in Northampton, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Mulveyhill is one of six South Hadley, Mass., teens charged in connection with South Hadley High School freshman Phoebe Prince's suicide in January of 2010. (AP Photo/Dave Roback, The Republican) Library Tag 09162010 Metro Library Tag 04282011 Metro

Kevin Cullen

Not so happy days in the Happy Valley
Jennifer Kupcho holds the trophy after winning the Augusta National Women's Amateur golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., Saturday, April 6, 2019. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

TARA SULLIVAN

A note to Augusta National: The Women?s Amateur is good ? but still not enough
Beverly Beckham, at age 11, wearing her favorite dress. ?It was pink, not too pale and not too bright,? she writes.

BEVERLY BECKHAM

Somewhere between pretty in pink and lady in red
The Encore Boston Harbor luxury resort and casino in Everett is slated to open in June.

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For Gaming Commission, it?s Wynn or lose

Business

Landmark Properties recently agreed to invest in Tremont Crossing?s first phase: retail, an apartment tower, as well as a garage, museum, and central plaza (above).

Finally, a green light for long-vacant Roxbury parcel

The list of uses proposed over five decades for this unused city-owned property on Tremont Street in Roxbury extends longer than the Orange Line that rumbles by.

Arts

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Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, shown in the original ?High School Musical.? The new Disney+ outlet will be launching a scripted series that follows a group of students getting ready for their school?s production of ?High School Musical.?

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The week in watching: Disney?s streaming plans, Beychella, and Iron Throne selfies in Boston

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

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Globe staff photos of the month, March 2019

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: a fire in the Fens, the beginning of spring, Ice Castles in New Hampshire, and the annual citywide youth Spelling Bee.

Spring House Hunt

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A hot housing market forgives a lot of mistakes, but that doesn?t stop sellers from undermining their own home sale.

STAT

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Lawmakers hoping to strike an accord with the Trump administration have had to confront a faction pressing the party to pursue a bolder progressive agenda.

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