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Staffing issues still plague Soldiers? Home in Holyoke despite National Guard presence and state assurances

A week after the intervention, the situation remains bleak, workers at the home say.
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Hospitals brace for a surge of coronavirus patients, but how accurate are the projections?

State releases sparse coronavirus race and ethnicity data, making virus?s impact hard to assess

US stock futures edge higher

Pop-up hospitals in Massachusetts set to open this week to handle influx of coronavirus patients
A converted convention center in Worcester will accept patients Thursday, followed by sites in Boston and on the Cape.

More job cuts hit Boston?s tech sector as coronavirus effects spread
The economic shock is now reaching deeper into Boston?s tech eco-system, with two promising startups announcing layoffs and furloughs of employees in recent days.

Block evictions during the crisis, or just delay them? Lawmakers must decide
Courts in Massachusetts have halted most eviction and foreclosure rulings. But that hasn?t stopped some landlords from pressuring tenants who can?t pay the rent.

Is someone coughing in 11F? Amid coronavirus, condo and apartment buildings have turned into towers of fear

Opinion | Timothy Scalona
Mourning senior year 2020
As we approach summer and a recession, graduating seniors face further job insecurity. Anxiety replaces the joy of senior year as we fight to find balance without resources.

Opinion

Editorial

Trump?s team finds new ways to harm our health
Scot Lehigh

Bernie and company must rally hard around Joe Biden
Joan Vennochi

Report card from Zoom University
Jason Pradarelli and Gerard Doherty

To fight coronavirus, America needs leaders who are first followers
YVONNE ABRAHAM

What if we always loved supermarket workers as much as this?

In the midst of the pandemic, supermarket clerks and other low-wage workers have joined the pantheon of American heroes. Let's keep them there.
After worker?s death, grocery stores lay out measures to keep shoppers, staff safe under new state rules

Tom Brady, in a candid interview with Howard Stern, gave us some answers to questions we?ve been asking

Brady talked about his marital problems, his relationship with Bill Belichick, freezing out receivers, and more.
Brady ?probably knew before the start of last season? he was leaving the Patriots Brady dishes on stepping up for his family: Gisele ?wasn?t satisfied with our marriage?

The race to save lives

The Globe has enlisted three medical workers to tell their stories in their own words. Throughout the coming days, you?ll meet a top emergency room doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital, a young critical care nurse at Tufts Medical Center, and a respiratory therapist at Newton Wellesley Hospital. All have opened up to Globe reporters about their patients and their experiences.
Shirley Leung

Coronavirus could burn through Mass. unemployment insurance fund by summer

Economic forecasts are pretty useless, because there?s no precedent for what is happening. Still, there will come a day when the state?s unemployment insurance fund is depleted.
Ground Game Analysis

Why Bernie Sanders lost the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination

The three big reasons for the Vermont senator's eventual defeat, to Joe Biden.
Bernie Sanders drops out of presidential race Former rivals, supporters offer thanks to Bernie Sanders

Linda Tripp, whose taped calls with Monica Lewinsky led to Bill Clinton investigation, dies at 70

Linda Tripp, a key figure in the presidential sex scandal that nearly brought down the administration of Bill Clinton over his affair with onetime White House intern Monica Lewinsky, leading to the president?s impeachment in 1998, died April 8. She was 70.

For those at the Constitution Marina, boat living during pandemic strengthens community ties

Like most people across the country, Stephanie Muto is working from home, learning to share space with her boyfriend and cat, and coping with the pandemic as best as she can. But she's living on her 35-foot saliboat at Constitution Marina in Charlestown.

Recreational marijuana companies sue Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker over shutdown

The lawsuit came even as the Cannabis Control Commission moved to allow some recreational suppliers to sell to medical dispensaries.

More US Postal Service employees test positive for COVID-19; safety rules in effect

Increasing numbers of US Postal Service employees have been testing positive for COVID-19.

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Haverhill to fine social distancing scofflaws

Trustees to reopen 76 parks and historic sites closed last month

Seventh inmate tests positive for COVID-19 at Billerica jail

Comfort Zone

Photos: Largest supermoon of the year rises around the world

Six podcast picks for body, mind, and spirit

A psychologist on healthy escapism and what we can learn from superheroes

Should you text your ex? A flow chart.

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Charts: 10 US counties with the most coronavirus cases (beyond N.Y. and N.J.)

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

The coronavirus tracker

These maps track the path of coronavirus

On StatNews.com

With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19

After 9/11, we gave up privacy for security. Will we make the same trade-off after Covid-19?

Data for Gilead?s potential coronavirus therapy are coming soon. Here?s what you need to know

Coronavirus resources

Kids and the coronavirus: what you need to know

How to apply for unemployment benefits in the era of coronavirus

Yes, you can still get a package delivered. Just wash your hands, expert says

A coronavirus-inspired window sing-along version of ?Sweet Caroline? springs up in Boston

I tried to go 24 hours without touching my face. I made it 18 minutes
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Lost wages. Broken dreams. Tales from inside the restaurant trenches

Restaurant Diaries captures the stories of the owners, chefs, and staffers upended by business closures.

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In these times of darkness, they light a candle
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In a huge shift because of coronavirus, most doctors now ?seeing? patients by phone or video
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Rhode Island

Raimondo: Five more deaths, 220 more cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island

As Rhode Island health officials race to ramp up testing and track the spread of the coronavirus, the disease has also sped up its pace: Fatalities have more than tripled in a week, and since April 1, there are more than double the number of people hospitalized.

Masks reveal the changing face of Rhode Island

What you should know about R.I.?s kids during the coronavirus crisis
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Back to the battleground

What we learned from each of the battleground states we visited ahead of the 2020 election
Who will win in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin next year? The Globe?s D.C. bureau spent time reporting in these crucial battleground states. This is what they found.

Trump?s evangelical support mystifies his critics, but in Wisconsin, it looks stronger than ever
The president?s personal behavior and some of his core political beliefs, including his hostility toward refugees, seem at odds with the major tenets of Christianity. But Trump?s bond with evangelicals has proven to be remarkably resilient.

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Elizabeth Warren reflected on what was happening in a series of behind-the scenes interviews with the Globe in the final month of her campaign.
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The Great Divide

A new Globe initiative exploring the deep inequalities in our public education system, examining both the challenges and possible solutions to creating equal opportunity for all students.
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Seeing Red: A Globe Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling traffic

We endure some of the nation?s worst rush hour traffic. Our aging transit system is maddeningly unreliable. It is a crisis ? a very slow moving crisis ? that puts our region?s economic prosperity at risk. Who is to blame? Can anything be done? The Globe Spotlight Team investigates.
At the edge of a warming world

On Cape Cod, climate change is already terrifyingly real

Come with us as we explore the Cape to better understand what climate change is doing here, what it means for the future of this beloved place, and what the cost of inaction might be.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Renée Graham

Trump is battling his critics more fiercely than coronavirus
Michael A. Cohen

Wisconsin Republicans put political power ahead of public health
Junaid Nabi and Quoc-Dien Trinh

How COVID-19 can exacerbate racial disparities

Marcela García

Chelsea, city of the working Latino immigrant, emerges as a COVID-19 hotspot
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VISUAL STORIES

Globe staff photos of the month, March 2020

Life during the coronavirus pandemic

Surf?s up in Narragansett: Riders are social distancing themselves on the waves

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Body of missing great-grandson of RFK recovered in Maryland
Gideon McKean, the son of Maeve Fahey Kennedy Townsend McKean and David McKean and grandson of former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and her husband, David, was found by searchers around 1:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Maryland Natural Resources Police.

For those at the Constitution Marina, boat living during pandemic strengthens community ties

Like most people across the country, Stephanie Muto is working from home, learning to share space with her boyfriend and cat, and coping with the pandemic as best as she can. But she's living on her 35-foot saliboat at Constitution Marina in Charlestown.

Pop-up hospitals in Massachusetts set to open this week to handle influx of coronavirus patients

A converted convention center in Worcester will accept patients Thursday, followed by sites in Boston and on the Cape.
YVONNE ABRAHAM

What if we always loved supermarket workers as much as this?

Raimondo: Five more deaths, 220 more cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island

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An interview with the CDC director on coronavirus, masks, and an agency gone quiet

Americans are underestimating duration of coronavirus crisis, experts say

A nurse?s coronavirus routine: Recording videos she hopes her family will never need to watch

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Pandemic insurance package will allow Wimbledon to recoup $141 million, per report

Massive insurance payout will cushion the financial blow.
Sports Log

Tiger Woods and his caddie face lawsuit

Florida man alleged Joe LaCava, caddie for Woods, pushed him to the ground during a PGA Tour event two years ago.

Kobe Bryant?s latest book to debut atop best-seller list

It?s a double whammy for minor league baseball schedule makers

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Federal stocks of protective equipment nearly depleted

Business

US stock futures edge higher

Marijuana

Recreational marijuana companies sue Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker over shutdown
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Connections

A taste of my Italian family?s grace and humor in the time of coronavirus
Dispatches from the Edge

At risk populations: ?What helps is feeling like you?re not going it alone?

Dispatches from the Edge

My 46-hour hunt for toilet paper

sports

Here are the Globe?s 2020 Super Teams for boys? and girls? basketball

Tom Brady, in a candid interview with Howard Stern, gave us some answers to questions we?ve been asking

We held a draft that split the Celtics organization in two. Here?s what happened

metro

Body of missing great-grandson of RFK recovered in Maryland

For those at the Constitution Marina, boat living during pandemic strengthens community ties

Pop-up hospitals in Massachusetts set to open this week to handle influx of coronavirus patients

Nation

Conn. teen arrested after ?Zoom bombing? high school classes

Federal stocks of protective equipment nearly depleted

Staffing issues still plague Soldiers? Home in Holyoke despite National Guard presence and state assurances

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With Johnson ailing, UK faces a leadership quandary

China ends Wuhan lockdown, but normal life is a distant dream

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Second US study for coronavirus vaccine uses skin-deep shots

US charges 2 with terror crimes over threats to spread coronavirus

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Smoking helps open gateway to coronavirus infection, study shows

Expansion of liquor licenses in Boston faces pushback from restaurant group

lifestyle

New challenges for farmers, farmers? markets, and delivery services grappling with surge in demand

A psychologist on healthy escapism and what we can learn from superheroes

During lockdown, more celebrities are mirroring us ? unshaven, unwashed, and not ashamed

marijuana

Recreational marijuana companies sue Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker over shutdown

Businesses that ?indirectly? work with marijuana industry ineligible for federal coronavirus loans

Kids released from Utah hospital after eating THC candy from donation

opinion

An uncomfortable curtain is closed around open spaces

Bernie and company must rally hard around Joe Biden

Trump?s team finds new ways to harm our health

food & dining

Cheese advice from a pro

Recipe: For the Easter table, pan-sear lamb chops and sprinkle with mint gremolata

Recipe: Beijing Bolognese at the Dumpling Daughter restaurants is a highly seasoned ground pork sauce

travel

7 virtual tours that can take you there

Heading outdoors for home-school history lessons

Spend time at home planning for your next adventure

Books

A reader?s walking path: 5 books to inspire your next jaunt

TaraShea Nesbit on reading history, poetry, and fairy tales during the pandemic

In Anne Tyler?s ?Redhead by the Side of the Road,? a quiet life, interrupted

Movies

You don?t have to be a book lover to watch ?The Booksellers,? but you might become one after you do

?And Then We Danced? stages a pas de deux with a difference in Tbilisi

The movies of 1970 were a ball of confusion

Television

Carell, Kudrow power Netflix?s upcoming ?Space Force?

This Netflix special will help summon your courage

James Taylor to appear on ?The Voice? as a mentor

music

James Taylor pays tribute to a ?hero of mine,? John Prine

Boston Pops cancels its 2020 spring season

?I?m gonna shake God?s hand?: An appreciation for John Prine

Theater/Dance

Stages going dark in the Berkshires

Wake up your flagging spirits with 'The Drowsy Chaperone?

Melinda Lopez?s 'Mala? to be shown on WGBH 2

globe local

Get crafty with your holiday shopping at local fairs

Hardiest hikers, campers don?t come in from the cold

Should Massachusetts exempt police body camera footage from state public records law?

Obituaries

John Prine, poignant, comic chronicler of holes in the soul

Peter A. Brooke, dean of Boston?s venture capitalists, dies at 90

Al Kaline, Tigers? perennial all-around All-Star, 85