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Why coronavirus has seemingly spared Fall River and New Bedford so far

The coronavirus has hit immigrant and low-income communities especially hard. But Fall River and its neighbor New Bedford are seemingly bucking that demographic trend, registering far lower rates of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths than comparable cities.

Database: Coronavirus cases by nursing home

Look up coronavirus cases by nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout Massachusetts.

Five takeaways from state?s closure of schools for the rest of the academic year

Governor Charlie Baker announced Tuesday that schools in Massachusetts will remain closed for remainder of the academic year, and non-emergency daycare providers will stay shuttered until June 29 amid the continued COVID-19 pandemic.

Baker orders schools stay closed through the end of the school year Q&A: What you need to know about the school closings

Here are the states beginning to lift major coronavirus restrictions

Though the crisis is far from over, some states are beginning to lift their restrictive lockdown measures, allowing businesses like hair salons and retailers to reopen their doors. Here?s a look at which states are reopening.

Jubilee Jim Fisk and the great Civil War score

In 1865, a failed stockbroker tries to pull off one of the boldest financial schemes in American history: the original big short.

NFL Draft 2020: Jim McBride scouts the top players and which fit best with the Patriots

From positions the Patriots need to fill the most (tight end) to the players who might convince Bill Belichick to take a risk, here's a rundown ahead of the start of the draft.

A guide to the 2020 NFL Draft With trade to Buccaneers, Rob Gronkowski gets to return to the NFL on his own terms

A mother bear?s coronavirus pandemic lessons

New Hampshire's most famous bear has something to teach us all through her inspirational journey home from exile.

Opinion

Coronavirus provides cover for assault on abortion rights

It?s not a protest. It?s a Trump-endorsed tantrum

Betty Francisco, Steve Grossman, Segun Idowu, and Bob Rivers

Minority-owned businesses are being left behind ? again

Would Biden want Warren for VP? Don?t count on it.

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Looks like we?ll have to wait until May for warmer weather

Cold Canadian air continues to filter into New England today, keeping readings below where most of us would like it to be. 2 hours ago

Trump says he wants Harvard to pay back $8.6 million in stimulus funds

President Trump took on Harvard University during a White House briefing on the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday afternoon, saying he would personally ask the Cambridge institution to return money it is receiving from the federal government as part of an emergency stimulus package.

Expert: It?s not too soon to make plans to restart the economy, but life won?t be the same when we do

When the economy does get rolling again things are going to be different, with handshakes a waning custom, and people wearing face masks and perhaps checking their temperatures more regularly, said Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg. 35 minutes ago

CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus this winter could be worse

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Is the coronavirus pandemic Mother Nature?s revenge?

On the 50th Earth Day, it?s long past time to recognize that this overcrowded planet has run out of room to cut us any slack.

Opinion | John F. Kerry

The parallels between the coronavirus and the climate crisis

You could just as easily replace the words climate change with COVID-19; it is truly the tale of two pandemics deferred, denied, and distorted.

Opinion | L. Rafael Reif

Has the coronavirus finally taught us how to listen to science?

The fact that we managed, within weeks, to radically rearrange how we live and work, in service of the common good, is a good sign.

Ideas | PETER FOX-PENNER

This crisis provides a very green opportunity

Ideas | COURTNEY HUMPHRIES

When it comes to battling climate change and sea rise, what does it mean to be ?resilient??

Ideas | LEAH STOKES

Upend the political power of carbon polluters

Ideas | MARY ANNAÏSE HEGLAR

In a shrinking world, what will we pass on to our children?

Photos: As people stay home due to coronavirus, Earth turns wilder and cleaner

An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth. As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily.

The return of family dinner

Everyone knows it?s good for us. It only took a pandemic and the near-shutdown of society to make it happen.

Elegies for those lost to coronavirus

Coronavirus has brought sorrow to every corner of the state, while cruelly preventing the bereaved from mourning together. Here, we remember the victims of the coronavirus as unique individuals, to remember them more for how they lived than how they died.

Cambridge is sending out ?sound trucks? to remind residents to stay 6 feet apart and wear masks during coronavirus pandemic

The vehicles will be deployed to parks and neighborhoods beginning Wednesday.

Catholic hospital won?t guarantee ICU nurse a respite from work with coronavirus patients

Twenty-eight weeks pregnant, Mercy Medical Center nurse Lindsay Manning has tested positive for COVID-19 and can't sleep, worried about any potential impacts on her baby.

Low-income and laid-off veterans struggle to access state benefits created for them

With job losses mounting during the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of Massachusetts veterans are turning to a $72 million state program that is intended to provide them with emergency cash assistance for basic needs such as housing, food, fuel, and medical care.

A depth of joy only sorrow can find

For the first time in weeks, my troubles fell away, swept aside by something that felt like grace.

Trump tweets that he ordered Navy to destroy Iranian gunboats

Amid tensions with Iran, President Donald Trump said Wednesday on Twitter he has given orders for the Navy to ?shoot down and destroy? any Iranian gunboats found to be harassing US ships.

MBTA Transit Police welcome home fellow officer recovering from coronavirus

The officer had been taken off of a ventilator and was well enough to go home, Transit Police wrote on Twitter Tuesday evening.

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One-third of tech CEOs continue hiring amid pandemic

Many tech executives are already planning for a brighter future.

For the elderly, coronavirus is not necessarily a death sentence. But it can feel like one

Absent any meaningful data about how many older people survive and recover, fear has spread far quicker than the virus.

Mass. pausing part of its nursing home testing program; state data riddled with inaccuracies

Comfort Zone

Here?s how depressed parents can find help in strange times

Online dating during coronavirus, an awkward but more authentic quest

The kids in Color Killer aren?t alright with ?corona?

Instead of supporting Free Fun Fridays this summer, grants will aid museums

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From the WBZ copter, Kristen Eck is still seeing plenty of traffic ? around grocery stores

The longtime traffic reporter says that even though the city and highways are mostly deserted, bad drivers are still with us.

For the elderly, coronavirus is not necessarily a death sentence. But it can feel like one

Absent any meaningful data about how many older people survive and recover, fear has spread far quicker than the virus.

State firms lagged in receiving federal coronavirus rescue money

Massachusetts ranked 38th among states, while New York and California came in at 49th and 50th, respectively.

Rhode Island

There?s an in-home test for the coronavirus, but R.I. can?t have it (yet)

Rhode Island is one of only four states (along with New York, New Jersey, and Maryland) where in-home tests won?t be available because of state regulations that prohibit individuals from administering lab tests.

Facing economic disaster, R.I. lawmakers have tough decisions as they return to work

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Betty Francisco, Steve Grossman, Segun Idowu, and Bob Rivers

Minority-owned businesses are being left behind ? again

Reelection politics explain Trump?s strange stance

The president fails his own test

With the coronavirus, America?s foster care system is at a tipping point

Postcards from the pandemic

Ideas | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

Flocks of turkeys. Swarms of rats. The pizza groundhog. Animals are taking over the streets.

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When every call is a coronavirus call

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Expert: It?s not too soon to make plans to restart the economy, but life won?t be the same when we do

When the economy does get rolling again things are going to be different, with handshakes a waning custom, and people wearing face masks and perhaps checking their temperatures more regularly, said Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg.

Cyclist fatally struck by vehicle in Boston

Police are investigating the apparent death of a cyclist who was fatally struck Wednesday morning at a Boston intersection.

Looks like we?ll have to wait until May for warmer weather

Cold Canadian air continues to filter into New England today, keeping readings below where most of us would like it to be.

A depth of joy only sorrow can find

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There?s an in-home test for the coronavirus, but R.I. can?t have it (yet)

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NFL Draft 2020: Jim McBride scouts the top players and which fit best with the Patriots

From positions the Patriots need to fill the most (tight end) to the players who might convince Bill Belichick to take a risk, here's a rundown ahead of the start of the draft.

A Gronk-Brady reunion Patriots fans craved will happen in Tampa, not Foxborough

As hard as it will be to see Rob Gronkowski suit up with Tom Brady as a Buccaneer, he was never going to help the Patriots on the field again.

Tom Brady posted a throwback video to celebrate his reunion with Rob Gronkowski

The clip, which was first shared in 2016, shows Brady blowing into a conch shell with Gronkowski rushing in to report for duty.

The NWHL is adding a sixth team and expanding into Toronto

Berlin Marathon organizers say race can?t be run as planned in September

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2010-11 Bruins get together (virtually) to watch Stanley Cup clincher

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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

Coronavirus survives on surfaces up to 72 hours. Here?s how to protect yourself

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Global stocks mixed after Wall St hit by oil market turmoil

Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday as oil prices edged lower amid anxiety about the coronavirus pandemic?s mounting economic damage.

Trump, the company, asks Trump, the administration, for rent relief

President Donald Trump?s signature hotel in the nation?s capital wants a break on the terms of its lease. The landlord determining the fate of the request is Trump?s own administration.

Congress set to pass $483b virus aid as Trump eyes next deal

Nike donates face shields and respirator lenses to three Boston hospitals

Once bankrupt, a tiny broadband company thrives in the Trump era

State firms lagged in receiving federal coronavirus rescue money

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Here are the states beginning to lift major coronavirus restrictions

Trump tweets that he ordered Navy to destroy Iranian gunboats

Dan Scavino promoted as Meadows shuffles White House communications team

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Ben & Jerry?s uses 4/20 to promote marijuana reform as other brands market off the holiday

Here?s what politicians are saying about marijuana on 4/20

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Top spots to live in Greater Boston in 2020

Dinner With Cupid

Blind date: ?I was nervous to have such an unconventional first date?

Stop treating old people like we?re about to drop dead

Three easy vinaigrettes and 15 ideas for what to use them on

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Ex-Governor?s Academy star lineman Matt Peart has his eye on the NFL

Parcells, Seymour, Vrabel named finalists for Patriots Hall of Fame

Will A-Rod and JLo buy the New York Mets?

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Expert: It?s not too soon to make plans to restart the economy, but life won?t be the same when we do

Cyclist fatally struck by vehicle in Boston

Looks like we?ll have to wait until May for warmer weather

Nation

These nurses hold their patients? hands and erect a critical bridge to loved ones now heartbreakingly out of reach

Low-income and laid-off veterans struggle to access state benefits created for them

Cambridge is sending out ?sound trucks? to remind residents to stay 6 feet apart and wear masks during coronavirus pandemic

World

If not Kim Jong Un, who? Possible heirs to North Korea?s throne

Trudeau promises gun control legislation after deadliest shooting in Canadian history

Deal extends Netanyahu?s rule as rival accepts Israeli unity government

politics

Trump tweets that he ordered Navy to destroy Iranian gunboats

Joe Biden to name VP selection panel by May 1

Dan Scavino promoted as Meadows shuffles White House communications team

business

Global stocks mixed after Wall St hit by oil market turmoil

Trump, the company, asks Trump, the administration, for rent relief

Congress set to pass $483b virus aid as Trump eyes next deal

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Learn how to cook through online classes

The hobbyists who love travel, even when they can?t actually do it

The return of family dinner

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Ben & Jerry?s uses 4/20 to promote marijuana reform as other brands market off the holiday

Here?s what politicians are saying about marijuana on 4/20

Pot entrepreneurs sue LA over process for approving shops

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Pregnancy And Parenting During A Pandemic

What?s the best case scenario for the coronavirus pandemic?

Coronavirus provides cover for assault on abortion rights

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Curbside at the Quincy Dairy Queen, you can get a Blizzard to help weather this storm

A burger that?s better for you (and the planet)

Chickpea of the Sea

travel

With her book tour halted, she?s dreaming of Mexico (and snacking on almonds)

Virtual farm tours for kids, plus hotel credits to help save jobs

Coronavirus outbreak kept Sonia Manzano ? Maria from ?Sesame Street? ? from North End eating. But she?ll be back

Books

Everything I know about surviving in quarantine I learned from ?The Long Winter?

On meeting your mother, before she was your mother in Emily Gould?s ?Perfect Tunes'

New poetry, an online literary festival, an honor for Ng

Movies

In ?Salesman,? a joyless reality of the American Dream

Mushroom crowd, the midnight hour, northern lights

Bruce Baillie and perfection; local arthouses and their future

Television

Will David Simon finally get his due for ?The Plot Against America??

This week?s TV: ?Homeland,? ?Will & Grace,? it?s time to go; Chris Evans brings the local flavor; a salute to Prince

Here are some highlights from last night?s ?One World: Together at Home? global concert

music

The kids in Color Killer aren?t alright with ?corona?

Boston Symphony Orchestra to cut musician pay, furlough staffers

Warming up with the big-hearted folk singer Lara Herscovitch

Theater/Dance

Playwrights are adapting to the change of scenery

Huntington, SpeakEasy, Moonbox lead the nominees for the Elliot Norton theater awards

Shakespeare & Company cancels summer season

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Sailing to gold, no matter the obstacle

For my mother, a ?Dorothy? tree

No lazy April break for Milford?s softball team

Obituaries

Jane Darrah Claflin, first woman on boards of MGH and Trinity Church, dies at 103

John Horton Conway, a ?magical genius? in math, dies at 82

Doug Sanders, golf?s ?peacock of the fairways,? at 86