Workplace death rate hits a 10-year high
In October 2016, a trench collapsed on Dartmouth Street in Boston, killing two workers.

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Seventy workers died in Massachusetts in 2016, and Trump-era rollbacks could make jobs less safe.

The Trump presidency

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President Donald Trump has told Mexican and Canadian leaders he won?t terminate NAFTA, and all parties have agreed to renegotiate.

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The biggest benefits would go to businesses, which would see the top corporate drop by more than half.

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President Trump unveiled tax cuts of historic proportions Wednesday.

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Ivanka Trump said in an interview aired Wednesday that the United States might need to admit more refugees from Syria.

Metro

Bernadette Macon-Bell checked the train schedule in Mattapan.

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Fairmount Line ridership has tripled since 2012, study finds

About 2,260 riders took Fairmount Line commuter rail trains on a typical weekday in 2016.

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In the wake of President Trump?s immigration stance, immigrants are avoiding accessing basic services.

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A conference Wednesday focused on ways to improve experience of LGBTQ students in Boston Public Schools.

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The parents of a Brockton teenager who died in a car crash led his funeral ceremony inside their church.

Business

13leftturn - Hardware and software is used to prevent self driving cars from getting into accidents. (TED Talks)

TED Talks

For driverless cars, a left-hand detour

A driverless car has to read human psychology to navigate one of the hardest maneuvers on the road.

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It?s up to the Trump administration to save the Net neutrality activists from themselves.

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Got the DISH Network? Then you?ve got Channel 5 back in your life.

Local politics

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Could a Nantucket guy ever really be happy on Martha?s Vineyard?

Yvonne Abraham

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Well played, future Ambassador Scott Brown. You gambled, and you won big.

Sports

Boston MA 4/26/17 Boston Celtics Avery Bradley scores a layup beating Chicago Bulls Robin Lopez during first quarter action of game 5 of the NBA Playoffs at TD Garden. (Photo by Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) topic: reporter:

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CELTICS 108, BULLS 97

Celtics take control of series with a technical knockout in Game 5

When the Bulls lost their cool in fourth quarter, the Celtics got hot and surged to 3-2 series lead.

Yankees 3, Red Sox 1

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Aaron Judge?s 2-run homer off Rick Porcello in the second proved decisive in New York?s 3-1 victory.

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The sports network laid off approximately 100 employees, including several on-air talents.

Arts

Television Review

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The new Starz series based on Neil Gaiman?s 2001 novel paints a supernaturalist portrait of America.

Opinion & Ideas

EDITORIAL

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Bringing some clarity to what the state knows about the rumors about Hernandez would help clear the way to focus on what really matters in the investigation of his death.

Special reports

Summer of ?67

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The nation was splintering, and Boston wasn?t immune. But something was happening here.

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In America, everyone who has a cellphone thinks they are a professional photographer. They are not.

Investigations

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If you have been a victim or witnessed a hate incident, share your information here so we can investigate.

STAT

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Pay for female doctors varies widely, but a new report says women are always paid significantly less than men.

Globe must-reads

Worcester, MA - 4/26/2017 - Attorney Larry Army, Jr. stands next to a blow up of a portion of a letter allegedly written by former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez as he speaks to members of the media about his client Kyle Kennedy and the relationship Kennedy had with Hernandez in Worcester, MA, April 26, 2017. (Keith Bedford/Globe Staff)

Lockdown continues at prison where Hernandez died

President Donald Trump, right, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, second from left, and his wife Karen, left, applauded after recognizing 2017 National Teacher of the Year award to Codman Academy 9th grade humanities teacher Sydney Chaffee.

Nothing more important than being a teacher, Trump says
Filmmaker Jonathan Demme (pictured in Venice in 2015) died Wednesday morning of esophageal cancer and complications of heart disease at the age of 73.

Appreciation | Ty Burr

Jonathan Demme will be remembered far beyond ?Philadelphia?
Twitter shares rose nearly 8 percent Wednesday on news that the service added users and revenue fell less than expected.

Twitter?s business shrinks, but investors see a glimmer of hope

Salem Mayor spots ?eerie? face in lamp post light
Aquinnah, MA - 9/17/2015: On Martha's Vineyard at Aquinnah ....... Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribal properties at Menemsha Pond. The odyssey of the Aquinnah, who once swore off a casino in return for their ancestral lands, but now want both. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff Photo) SECTION: METRO TOPIC xxaquinnah

Opponents of casino on Martha?s Vineyard file appeal

Man lights up by ?no smoking? sign. Police find he is wanted in 2 states.
William Camuti

Jury convicts man of murder for poisoning ?Whitey? Bulger extortion victim

N.H. lawmaker accused of starting ?Red Pill? forum on Reddit won?t resign
Jeff Goldblum in a food truck.

Jeff Goldblum will be in the next ?Jurassic World? movie
President Trump garnered the attention of the masses, in part, because he sounded different from what the public had come to expect from politicians.

What?s up with the way Trump talks?

Love Letters

She kissed her married co-worker. Now what?

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Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Koji Uehara throws in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Saturday, April 22, 2017, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

PETER ABRAHAM

Koji Uehara returning to the scene of his prime

Now with the Cubs, he could be in for an emotional reunion with the Fenway fans, who embraced him here.

Metro

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Cambridge, MA., 09/20/06, Robert Marshall, cq, of Harvard Book and Binding---he does restoration and bookbinding, buys and sells rare, old and used books.He also gives a tour to Harvard freshman. Section: Cityweekly. Reporter: Janice O'Leary. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff photo. Library Tag 09242006 City Weekly

Robert Marshall, 74, Harvard Square ?mayor?

Mr. Marshall was a fixture in Harvard Square for more than 45 years.

Real Estate

Open house: Marblehead single-family walking distance from the beach

The updated kitchen opens up to the den, dining area, and a living room with a fireplace.

Politics

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FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2016 file photo, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown talks with media at Trump Tower in New York. President Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate Brown to be the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Flying foxes, pawpaws, and Scott Brown

Here?s everything you need to know about Samoa.

Cars

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Self-driving car company OK'd to expand testing in Boston

NuTonomy's general counsel tells The Boston Globe the company hopes to be on the new test roads soon, depending on weather conditions.

Columnists

President Trump spoke March 15 during a rally in Nashville, Tenn.

Renée Graham

Trump supporters still standing by their man
Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly.

Opinion | Michael A. Cohen

Homeland Security?s John Kelly is unhinged
Representative Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut, questioned FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers last month during a hearing on Capitol Hill.

SCOT LEHIGH

The New Democrats bring their pitch to Boston
A makeshift memorial sits along a fence near where Robert Godwin Sr. was killed in Cleveland earlier this month.

JEFF JACOBY

No man is entitled to forgive another man?s killer

Shirley Leung

No, Boston, it?s not all about the money
Millennium Partners wants to tear down the old Winthrop Square garage (at right) and replace it with a $153 million skyscraper.

Adrian Walker

Building downtown tower will benefit entire city
Congressman Seth Moulton arrived for a town hall meeting at North Shore Community College on April 8.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Impure thoughts about a ?purity? test

DUDLEY, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 22: Prime Minster Theresa May delivers a stump speech at Netherton Conservative Club during the Conservative Party's election campaign on April 22, 2017 in Dudley, England. (Photo by Chris Radburn - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

JEFF JACOBY

Britain?s campaign has started ? and it?s almost over
Boston Celtics' Gerald Green (30) dunks over Chicago Bulls' Dwyane Wade (3) Robin Lopez (8) and Nikola Mirotic during the second half in Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series in Chicago, Sunday, April 23, 2017. The Celtics won 104-95. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Gerald Green to the rescue? Who would have thought?
Alex Jones, conservative conspiracy theorist host of Infowars.com, prepares to host his live show in his studio in Austin, Texas, Feb. 17, 2017. Jones seems to be taking on a unique new role as occasional information source and validator for the president of the United States, with whom, Jones says, he sometimes speaks on the phone. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)

Alex Beam

The wingnuts abandon Trump
A portion of the UMass Boston campus underground garage that served as a foundation for five campus buildings and was built to accommodate over a thousand cars has been closed.

Adrian Walker

Garage fiasco shows how officials view UMass Boston
The Bruins were dejected after the Senators? overtime goal ended their season.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Bruins were a borderline team that reached its limits

Nation & World

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Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is greeted by workers outside a whirlpool home appliance factory in Amiens, France, Wednesday April 26, 2017. While her centrist presidential opponent Macron was meeting with union leaders from the Whirlpool plant in northern France, Le Pen popped up outside the factory itself, amid its workers and declared herself the candidate of France's workers.(AP Photo)

Le Pen upstages Macron in battle for blue-collar votes

Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen turned an appliance factory into a battleground Wednesday for France?s blue-collar vote.

Business

Long inspired by Justice Brandeis, he ends up at Brandeis University

Former banker and UMass Boston official Ira Jackson is Brandeis University?s new senior vice president for communications.

Arts

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Paula Plum and Steve Barkhimer at a rehearsal for Actors? Shakespeare Project?s production of ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream.?

Stages

A ?Midsummer Night?s Dream? that brings music, magic into harmony

For this Actors? Shakespeare Project production, a score composed by David Reiffel is meant to enhance the play?s moods and mystical elements.

Lifestyle

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Love Letters

I don?t think I love her

She?s great to me, my kids, my family, and everyone loves her. I have yet to express love to her though. I expressed it in past relationships, but not this one. I don?t know what it is.

The story behind ?Spotlight?

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

California drought: then and now

Getty Images photographer Justin Sullivan documented California?s severe drought conditions in 2014 and recently returned to the same places to compare the drastic changes.

Magazine

The cover for the April 23 2017 issue

There?s a simple solution to preventing fiascoes like United?s, says kayak.com?s cofounder

The cover for the April 16 2017 issue

Hot pink is hot for spring

The cover for the April 9 2017 issue

Kind of a funny story about death and tax returns

The cover for the April 2 2017 issue

Which is better: Peeps or Cadbury Creme Eggs?