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No new vaccine appointments at Fenway, Gillette, Reggie Lewis Center Thursday

After a smaller than usual number of new appointments were allotted on Thursday, all were booked by mid-morning.
Vaccinating educators is a start, but more challenges ahead on reopening schools Interactive: When will you be eligible for the vaccine? See more COVID-19 vaccine news

Bucking GOP trend, Alabama governor extends mask order

Following the recommendations of medical officials, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said she will keep the mask order set to expire Friday in place until April 9.

Jackie Bradley Jr. agrees to a two-year, $24 million deal with Brewers
The center fielder's tenure with the Red Sox officially ends after eight seasons, and it means all three starting outfielders from 2018 are gone.

Barros makes it official, joins Boston mayor’s race
John Barros, the city’s chief of economic development for the past seven years, officially launched his campaign for mayor Thursday, saying he has the experience and skillset to help Boston respond, recover, and reopen after the pandemic.

Tracker: Who is running for mayor in Boston?

Middlesex DA Ryan, state lawmakers file bill to close loophole in hate crime statute

Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan has filed a bill to close a loophole in state law that allows people to avoid being charged with civil rights violations if they harass or intimidate someone by scrawling slurs on property that doesn’t belong to the victim, Ryan said Thursday.

tara sullivan
Suicide of gymnastics coach charged with abuse can be a beginning, not an end
John Geddert cannot be confronted by his accusers in court, but his fate can be another impetus to effect change in a sport still poisoned by enablers.

Billy Baker
How to be a modern ski bum
Last winter, I set out to find the modern incarnation of the quintessential New England ski bum, scouring the local ski industry in search of the guy Matthew McConaughey would play in the movie.

Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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SOURCE: Mass. Dept. of Public Health

Triple-deckers can rise again for the 21st century

These beloved Boston buildings are center stage in the quest for energy-efficient, affordable housing.

Top Red Sox prospect Triston Casas under evaluation in Boston for non-baseball medical issue

Manager Alex Cora called it a "personal" issue for the 21-year-old first baseman.

Bluespotted Maskrays born at New England Aquarium

The New England Aquarium welcomed four bluespotted maskray pups in January, the first time since 2017 any of the species had been born at the Aquarium, officials said.

Opinion

EDITORIAL

How to get away with murder

Keeping the heat on Mohammed bin Salman will help all Saudi journalists, especially those in prison.
Michael Calabrese and Lester Salamon

To close digital equity gaps, US should endow a private Digital Futures Foundation
IDEAS | MEG STONE

After a year of teaching self-defense on Zoom, I want to come back kicking
Joan Vennochi

Andrew Cuomo has a problem. But why are Democrats pushed to resign?
IDEAS | HEETEN KANTI KALAN

I am not ‘nonwhite’

Raimondo: ‘We need to go fast and we need to go big’ to expand broadband in US
Newly confirmed US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Thursday the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted significant gaps in broadband internet access across the country, and vowed to take a “bold” approach to expand that service.

Senate energy panel backs Haaland for interior secretary

Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston gets historic designation
Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Woman contacts Transit Police after man, 22, claims to be Satan on Orange Line train
On Monday, a 22-year-old man claiming to be Satan, confronted a woman on an Orange Line train, prompting her to contact authorities, according to a statement from MBTA Transit Police.

Police request 60-day extension of National Guard at US Capitol
The request underscores the continuing concerns about security and the potential for violence at the Capitol, two months after rioters breached the building in violence that left five people dead.

Ballys: R.I. COVID-19 business restrictions had negative impact on Q4
Former Governor Raimondo’s three-week pause period, which shut down the company’s two Rhode Island casinos, hurt the company’s final quarter.

Driver killed in rollover tractor-trailer crash in Belmont

The crash occurred near Common Street and Dunbarton Road around 3 a.m. The truck was transporting produce when it rolled, trapping the driver.

Doctor raises alarms about discharges from state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital

In a scathing open later, the doctor accuses the R.I. hospital of “unethical, non-compassionate, non-standard care.”

Man charged in attack on two women in Haverhill faces arraignment

Jake Kavanaugh, 23, is due to be arraigned in Haverhill District Court on charges related to Wednesday's attacks.

Recommended reads

State Police colonel tasked with reform is accused of breaking rules to promote his allies

A lawsuit filed by three Massachusetts State Police veteran supervisors alleges recent improprieties around the agency’s promotional exam and promotions process, laying blame on Colonel Christopher Mason. The accusations could further damage trust in the state’s largest law enforcement agency.

Ty Burr
The Seuss controversy isn’t ‘cancel culture.’ It’s about recognizing changing attitudes
No, they’re not canceling Dr. Seuss. But a lot of people want you to think so. It’s worth thinking about why that is.

One worker killed, second injured at First Street Garage construction site in East Cambridge
One worker was killed and a second was critically injured in Cambridge Wednesday when a section of concrete stairwell inside a city-owned parking garage collapsed during renovation work.

metro

Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston gets historic designation
Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

RI BUSINESS

Ballys: R.I. COVID-19 business restrictions had negative impact on Q4

Middlesex DA Ryan, state lawmakers file bill to close loophole in hate crime statute

Sports

coronavirus
The six pro leagues participated in a heart study related to COVID-19. Here’s what they learned
Heart problems may be rare in pro athletes after COVID-19, according to a study involving the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, and MLS.

Red Sox

Top Red Sox prospect Triston Casas under evaluation in Boston for non-baseball medical issue
tara sullivan

Suicide of gymnastics coach charged with abuse can be a beginning, not an end

business

Retail trading frenzy lifts fortune of Fidelity’s Johnson family to $60 billion
Robinhood Markets has snared most of the attention for attracting an army of day traders during the pandemic. But far bigger profits are flowing to the family behind Fidelity Investments in Boston.

US jobless claims rose to 745,000 last week

Massachusetts biopharma firms raised a record $5.8 billion in venture capital last year

politics

Senate energy panel backs Haaland for interior secretary
The committee's approval clears the way for a Senate vote that is likely to make Representative Deb Haaland the first Native American person to lead a Cabinet agency.

Police request 60-day extension of Guard at US Capitol

Police request 60-day extension of National Guard at US Capitol

lifestyle

TABLES
A tavern comes to Brookline; a beer hall opens in Belmont; and Del’s Lemonade plans a Massachusetts flagship
Restaurant news you can use.

Five years in, it’s terrible

7-year-old Alabama girl helps to fund her own brain surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital

arts

ARCHITECTURE
Triple-deckers can rise again for the 21st century
These beloved Boston buildings are center stage in the quest for energy-efficient, affordable housing.

MOVIES

Raise high the roof beam, Joanna
ART REVIEW

Art blossoms into ‘Paradise’ at Cade Tompkins Projects

rhode island

RI BUSINESS
Ballys: R.I. COVID-19 business restrictions had negative impact on Q4
Former Governor Raimondo’s three-week pause period, which shut down the company’s two Rhode Island casinos, hurt the company’s final quarter.

POLITICS

Raimondo: ‘We need to go fast and we need to go big’ to expand broadband in US
CORONAVIRUS

R.I. receives 9,100 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Newton

Special Projects

PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.
See the full project

On the Street

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

More

Jeneé Osterheldt
A Beautiful Resistance
Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Globe Spotlight Investigation
Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE

Boston poet laureate Porsha Olayiwola is at HOME on the open mic

The theme interested the Chicago transplant long before the pandemic.
COMFORT ZONE

GBH’s ‘Masterpiece’ reflects on 50 Years with a new podcast

The three-part series is "a superhero origin story," according to host Jace Lacob.
ART

‘Against all odds,’ Peabody Essex show leads to discovery of second Jacob Lawrence painting

The piece was hanging all these years in a nurse's apartment on the Upper West Side.
COMFORT ZONE

Passim’s Matt Smith brings his love of local music to the airwaves

The new host of WMVY's "Local Music Café" is excited to showcase New England artists.
TELEVISION

The line is blurrier, but there’s still a big difference between TV and movies

Artistically speaking, series TV and film exist in different time zones.
LIVE MUSIC

Tickets on sale for Opera North’s open-air Summerfest 2021

Live performances will once again grace the outdoor stage in Cornish, N.H., from July 16 through Aug. 1.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Linda J. Bilmes and Margaret Bourdeaux

Massachusetts should pay people to quarantine
SCOT LEHIGH

Maine makes age the vaccine metric that matters
Renée Graham

Andrew Cuomo and the post-#MeToo reckoning that never was
Joanne Hilferty, Dan Kenary, and Brooke Thomson

We can’t afford to let women fall through the economy’s cracks
EDITORIAL

The Senate must pass the Equality Act
IDEAS | Rachel Rebouché and Mary Ziegler

Could Roe v. Wade really become ‘the law of the land’?

STAT

The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
Pandemic Parenting

4 ways families can find silver linings from this terrible pandemic year
Pandemic Parenting

We can care about education and be OK writing this year off
Pandemic Parenting

What should kids expect at summer camps this year?
Cooking

Recipes: Thai stir-fried glass noodles plus soup and dessert

sports

Jackie Bradley Jr. agrees to a two-year, $24 million deal with Brewers

Detectives look at SUV’s ‘black box’ from Tiger Woods crash

Zdeno Chara quietly returns to Boston, and Capitals hand Bruins a hard-luck shootout loss

metro

Raimondo: ‘We need to go fast and we need to go big’ to expand broadband in US

R.I. receives 9,100 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Bluespotted Maskrays born at New England Aquarium

Nation

Bucking GOP trend, Alabama governor extends mask order

Senate energy panel backs Haaland for interior secretary

Police request 60-day extension of Guard at US Capitol

World

Hospitalized Prince Philip has successful heart procedure

Palace: Prince Philip had a successful heart procedure

Three have life-threatening wounds after Sweden ax attack

politics

A conversation with Representative Ayanna Pressley

N.H.’s Maggie Hassan is the most vulnerable Senate Democrat up for reelection next year

With Biden’s backing, Democrats revive bill to overhaul policing

business

Texas power grid CEO fired after deadly February blackouts

Momentum builds on Beacon Hill for PPP tax fix, but time’s running out

Facebook to remove ban on political advertising

lifestyle

With the Cantab all but gone, Boston Poetry Slam rewrites its way to the future

A JP resident and her punk rock aerobics star in Green Day’s new music video

Advice for planning that family reunion you just can’t wait to have

marijuana

Mass. marijuana has to be ultra-sterile. Just one problem: It’s a plant

Marijuana company sues Boston zoning board over rejection

New Jersey governor signs laws to set up marijuana market

opinion

How to get away with murder

To close digital equity gaps, US should endow a private Digital Futures Foundation

The pains and ills of being a person of color in a ‘high-performing district’

food & dining

A tavern comes to Brookline; a beer hall opens in Belmont; and Del’s Lemonade plans a Massachusetts flagship

At The Federal, a miracle to go: perfectly cooked steak

3 places we supported this week

travel

Advice for planning that family reunion you just can’t wait to have

My eyes have been opened to the very real threat of avalanches, even in New England

Still a family favorite, Mount Abram celebrates 60th anniversary

Books

Are you doing too much? Let the Dutch introduce you to the art of ‘niksen’

She answered J.D. Salinger’s fan mail, and now her memoir is a movie

The Seuss controversy isn’t ‘cancel culture.’ It’s about recognizing changing attitudes

Movies

Raise high the roof beam, Joanna

In Focus: This year’s Boston Israeli Film Festival looks at war and peace

Language lessons, a classic reissued, subversive entertainment

Television

Teens on the edge in HBO Max’s ‘Generation’

‘It’s a Sin’ and ‘The Great Believers’ deserve to be watched and read

‘Behind Her Eyes’ and that bizarre ending

music

With another album in the works, singer Lizzy McAlpine has left Berklee behind

Passim’s Matt Smith brings his love of local music to the airwaves

When Beethoven resonates in a crisis

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet celebrates Jorma Elo in a rich program of new work and past highlights

On your screen but outside the box: Theater companies rise to a creative challenge

Stars to come out (remotely) for a new Boston clinic for homeless women

globe local

Quincy literacy program shows that where there’s a will, there’s a way

Wellesley voters back referendum question renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Shipwrecks, Route 9, and a virtual bingo night

Obituaries

Bunny Wailer, reggae luminary and last Wailers member, dies

Vernon Jordan, former Clinton adviser, has died

Michael Downing, whose books illuminated his illness and the lives of others, dies at 62