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Duxbury football game vs. Hingham canceled after use of anti-Semitic terms by Duxbury players

The decision was made in collaboration with officials at Hingham. Saturday’s junior varsity and Monday’s freshman games also were canceled.
Anti-Defamation League seeks investigation into Duxbury High football team for use of Holocaust-related terms on field

What we know about the Duxbury football team’s Holocaust-related play calls

Players were heard using the words "rabbi," "dreidel," and "Auschwitz" to call audibles during a March 12 game.

Star Samkus, who works at the King Soopers grocery store and knew three of the victims of a mass shooting at the store a day earlier, cries while kneeling in front of crosses placed in honor of the victims in Boulder, Colo.
Authorities seek motive in Colorado shooting
Law enforcement officials and former associates of a 21-year-old accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket described the suspect as someone prone to sudden rage who was suspended from high school for a sudden attack on a classmate that left the student bloodied.

Cruz accuses Democrats of playing ‘political theater’ for proposing gun safety measures ‘every time there’s a shooting’ Boulder victims: A police officer, grocery workers, the son of refugees

Suspect accused of attacking 11 men in Waltham ordered held without bail

The man accused of attacking 11 men in Waltham last November was ordered held Wednesday pending a dangerousness hearing now set for April 1.
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Elsa Gomes Bondlow and Luisa Peña Lyons of the Social Equity Access Fund stand with Suzanne Lee, activist and president emeritus of the Chinese Progressive Association, and Ben Hires, chief executive of the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center. The group of activists worked together to create a fund for businesses and families in Chinatown.

‘We don’t know how long people can hang on’: New fund launches to help Chinatown restaurants, residents

The new fund awards money to small, family-owned restaurants in Chinatown, while also giving food vouchers to community members in need.
Governor Charlie Baker defended his administration’s use of mass vaccination sites to administer the coronavirus vaccines on Tuesday.

‘We’re living in two different worlds’: Baker defends vaccine rollout amid criticism at legislative panel

National statistics show that Massachusetts now ranks among the top states for percentage of residents receiving at least one dose of the vaccine. Governor Charlie Baker highlighted that status and seemed frustrated with Democratic lawmakers who have criticized his approach.
Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard lead the state in coronavirus vaccinations
MISS CONDUCT

Following current events can be upsetting. Is it OK to stop paying attention?

Setting rules for social media and news consumption may help.
Does it matter if one spouse doesn’t wear a wedding ring?

Claudia Thompson of Malden is getting ready for the end of the coronavirus pandemic restrictions. After drinking a lot of tea during the shutdown, she has started whitening her teeth.
‘I’m not ready for prime time.’ Appearance anxiety is mounting as we emerge from our bubbles
Teeth are being whitened. Personal trainers are being retained. Wrinkles are being Botoxed. With the vaccine rollout accelerating, many people feel the race is on to prepare themselves for social life.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan during a March 18 press conference during which she announced the name of the person now charged for a series of attacks in Waltham.
Suspect accused of attacking 11 men in Waltham ordered held without bail
The man accused of attacking 11 men in Waltham last November was ordered held Wednesday pending a dangerousness hearing now set for April 1.

Dulcena Fernandes, a custodian at Brockton High School, sanitized the school building while classes were in session earlier this month.
State approves requests from 58 school districts to delay full-time reopening. Petitions from Boston, other towns still pending
The districts that received approval for an extension include Brockton, Chelsea, Springfield, and Somerville. State Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley is planning to scrutinize requests from 10 other districts, including Boston and Worcester, before making a final decision.

Moncef Slaoui, the former head of GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine division.
Former Operation Warp Speed head fired from company board over sexual harassment allegations
Slaoui was fired from the board of Galvani Bioelectronics, a company controlled by GlaxoSmithKline.

Family of hiker who died in Acadia National Park recalls his ‘gentle soul’
The family of a 28-year-old Rutland, Mass., man who was found dead Saturday along with his girlfriend at Acadia National Park in Maine recalled him in his obituary as a devoted father and “a loving and caring gentle soul who always put others before himself.”

Boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal.
The curious case of the Cinnamon Toast Crunch box
On Monday morning, he ate a bowl of his favorite cinnamon sugar-striped cereal. As he began filling a second bowl, “something plopped out of the box,” he said in an interview. “I picked it up, and I was like, ‘This is clearly a shrimp tail.’”

Opinion

A police cruiser parked outside the Boulder Police Department was covered with bouquets in tribute to an officer, who was one of the victims of a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo. on Monday.
EDITORIAL

A new window for gun reform

With Democrats in control of Congress and the White House, there is no excuse to pass the buck on gun control.
JEFF JACOBY

Does the GOP have a problem with the vaccine?
A Soviet poster from 1918 that urged women to work on cooperative farms.
IDEAS | Marcel Fafchamps

Was the Soviet Union an idea ahead of its time?
Boston City Council President Kim Janey will soon become Boston's acting mayor.
Kim Janey

Hello, Boston — it’s a new day for the city
Boston mayor Marty Walsh in 2017.
Martin J. Walsh

Goodbye and thank you, Boston

Announcing: The Emancipator

A collaboration between BU's Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe's Opinion team.
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Alleging state troopers are being cheated out of overtime pay, labor union sues
The union representing Massachusetts state troopers is accusing the State Police of breaking state and federal labor laws by intentionally miscalculating what qualifies as the officers’ regular pay and, it argues, costing rank-and-file members millions a year in overtime pay.

‘Surprise, here’s a pandemic’: For the second time, their birthdays fall during COVID

Sure, things are looking up — the weather’s improving, businesses are reopening, and more people are getting vaccinated by the day — but for the second straight year, many birthdays passed with hardly a hint of fanfare.
Globe Magazine

How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed

Dennis McCarthy, a self-taught scholar working from his dinner table, is challenging decades of scholarship on the origins of the Bard’s greatest work.

Spring fever is real. And it’s a mess

With the clocks moved forward an hour and daylight stretching past 12 hours, the annual phenomenon has arrived in full, fidgety force.

Chart: How much money will each Mass. town receive from the American Rescue Plan?

Massachusetts is set to receive more than $2 billion in direct aid. Where is that money going?

metro

Kim Janey, Boston’s acting mayor.

Watch live: Acting Boston mayor Kim Janey is sworn in

Watch the ceremony live.

Suspect accused of attacking 11 men in Waltham ordered held without bail

Astronomers at Harvard, Smithsonian Center release images of black hole’s magnetic field

Sports

Duxbury football has won five state titles since coach Dave Maimaron took over.
high school sports

Duxbury football game vs. Hingham canceled after use of anti-Semitic terms by Duxbury players

The decision was made in collaboration with officials at Hingham. Saturday’s junior varsity and Monday’s freshman games also were canceled.

Patriots re-sign longtime running back James White
HIGH SCHOOLS

What we know about the Duxbury football team’s Holocaust-related play calls

business

Tesla vehicles after arriving at a port in Yokohama, Japan.

Tesla will accept Bitcoin as payment, Musk says

Vail put next season’s Epic Passes on sale, and they are 20 percent cheaper than last year

Former Operation Warp Speed head fired from company board over sexual harassment allegations

politics

President Joe Biden.

Democrats vow vote on gun bills; Biden says ‘we have to act’

Cruz accuses Democrats of playing ‘political theater’ for proposing gun safety measures ‘every time there’s a shooting’

Democrats refuse to back nominees until Biden taps more Asian Americans

Living Arts

Carefully painted and maintained, tiny summer cottages in Oak Bluffs on the island of Martha's Vineyard off the Cape Cod coast of Massachusetts are adorned with colorful hanging geraniums.

Two Mass. beach towns beat out most East Coast waterfronts on a new Conde Nast list
MOVIE REVIEW

‘Tina,’ on HBO, shows how Anna Mae Bullock became Tina Turner
TRAVEL

Jay Peak, a mountain with soul

education

Kim Janey, Boston’s acting mayor.

Watch live: Acting Boston mayor Kim Janey is sworn in

Government data show race, region disparities in school reopening

The state board of higher education is pushing community colleges to offer more in-person classes this fall

rhode island

In this Jan. 8, 2021 file photo, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Commerce, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington.
RHODE MAP

Gina Raimondo’s COVID-19 approval rating plummeted during her final month as governor
RI CRIME

Following the money: Police shut down 3 Pawtucket massage parlors
RI POLITICS

Rhode Island’s Act on Climate bill passes House, 53-22

Newton

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Comfort Zone

ARTS
Julie Weitz’s “Golem v. Golem” photo installation graces the façade of Beacon Hill's Vilna Shul Jewish center.
In Beacon Hill, the Golem rises as ‘a protector of all people’ for Passover
Julie Weitz’s “Golem v. Golem” photo installation graces the façade of Beacon Hill's Vilna Shul Jewish center.

The documentary follows the work of break dancer, skateboarder, and artist Bill Shannon over two decades.
‘Crutch’ star went straight from walking to moonwalking
The documentary follows the work of break dancer, skateboarder, and artist Bill Shannon over two decades.

COMFORT ZONE
Ted Danson and Shelley Long in "Cheers," the durable sitcom that lives on through streaming services.
With vast streaming libraries, what’s old is new again
The streamers know that if they have a solid catalog of old series, they are more likely to attract — and, more important, keep — subscribers.

COMFORT ZONE
Columbia employee Katy Tassmer and one of her "Page Turner" reading selections.
By reading (and stretching, and walking, and cooking), employees are rising to the challenge
Columbia, a North Reading construction management firm, is among many companies setting wellness goals for their workers.

COMFORT ZONE
Lauren Weintraub moved from Sudbury to Nashville to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter.
Sudbury singer-songwriter Lauren Weintraub on her Nashville dreams and the ‘random thing’ that got everyone’s attention
The TikTok of her singing “She’s Mine,” recorded in her car, has been viewed over 1.7 million times.

Special Projects

The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
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

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation
Evening light sets upon stores and restaurants on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Renée Graham

A shot against COVID-19 — and a fear of needles
In this 2019 file photo, Bennett Walsh, then-superintendent of the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, speaks at a 9/11 ceremony in West Springfield.
Joan Vennochi

Change the system that allowed for 76 COVID-19 deaths at Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke
Migrants who were found crossing into the United States and were deported rest under a ramp that leads to the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge on Thursday in Reynosa, Mexico.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Border ‘crisis’ misses the big picture
The Green Line's B train stops at the Pleasant Street stop on Feb. 15.
EDITORIAL

Money talks: The MBTA walks back service cuts
Elizabeth Dugan

How Massachusetts can become a living laboratory for aging
IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

Just what is the BettyLab cooking up for girls?

STAT

Road ahead illo
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.

Ahoskie Mayor Weyling White, left, and Hertford County Magistrate Deborah Morrison, right, pose for a portrait on railroad tracks that divide the predominantly White and predominantly Black parts of town in Ahoskie, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo © Landon Bost 2020)
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.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: People walk through the snow and sleet in Manhattan on February 12, 2019 in New York City. New York City, in a winter that has been light on snow this season, is expected to receive two inches of snow before the storm moves later this evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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.

Boston, MA -- 06/04/2020 -- Yoldana Desir displays a photograph of her late sister, Marie Deus, who died of Covid-19, after contracting it as a food service worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
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
An illustration of William Shakespeare peeking through writing quills.
On the cover

How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed
Stacey Kokaram, the clinic manager for a vaccination site at the Reggie Lewis center, checks on the booths where the shots are given.
Globe Magazine

Inside the effort to build trust in COVID vaccines
Jennifer and Manuel on their Zoom blind date.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I told him to ignore any weird snoring cause my dog was sleeping’
Saxophonist Tim Hall gives a free online performance on Sunday.
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do online, March 22-28

sports

Tim Peel has been an NHL official since 1999.

NHL fires referee who was caught saying he wanted to call a penalty on the Predators

Mashpee makes history, and is making the most of its abbreviated first varsity season

Heat opening vaccinated-only sections for fans on April 1

metro

Acting Mayor Kim Janey.

Kim Janey sworn in as acting mayor of Boston; ‘Today is a new day’

Gina Raimondo’s COVID-19 approval rating plummeted during her final month as governor

Firefighter trapped in assisted living home blaze found dead

Nation

Star Samkus, who works at the King Soopers grocery store and knew three of the victims of a mass shooting at the store a day earlier, cries while kneeling in front of crosses placed in honor of the victims in Boulder, Colo.

Authorities seek motive in Colorado shooting

Boulder victims: A police officer, grocery workers, the son of refugees

Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard lead the state in coronavirus vaccinations

World

Likud party supporters wave flags bearing the party's leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at their party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem Tuesday after the end of voting in the fourth national election in two years.

Israel vote deadlock: Netanyahu appears short of majority

Hong Kong suspends Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines over packaging defects

White House: North Korea conducted short-range missile test

politics

Dr. Vivek Murthy.

Dr. Vivek Murthy, newly confirmed surgeon general, to focus on COVID-19, opioids

Walsh sworn in as labor secretary by Vice President Harris

Democrats campaigned hard on gun control. Will they follow through?

business

In this photo released by the Suez Canal Authority, a boat navigates in front of a massive cargo ship.

Skyscraper-sized cargo ship becomes wedged, blocks Egypt’s Suez Canal

Travel tech firm Hopper raises $170 million, gears up for vacation boom

Slower mail, fewer office hours part of Postal Service plans

lifestyle

A passenger aircraft operated by Deutsche Lufthansa AG takes off from Frankfurt Airport.

Help! Lufthansa canceled our tickets but kept our money

Arriving this summer in the Seaport: an Omni hotel with an outdoor pool deck, a posh sports bar, and loft-like rooms

Boston has a long tradition of Asian women chefs and restaurateurs. Here are eight standout businesses to support

marijuana

Five White House staffers have been fired because of their past use of drugs, including marijuana.

Five will exit White House over past use of marijuana

Marijuana-infused ice cream is coming to a dispensary near you, just in time for summer

A green wave? Mexico’s marijuana market may be middling

opinion

Does the GOP have a problem with the vaccine?

Was the Soviet Union an idea ahead of its time?

Make benefits for children permanent

food & dining

Asia Mei, owner of Moonshine 152 in South Boston.

Boston has a long tradition of Asian women chefs and restaurateurs. Here are eight standout businesses to support

Recipe: A juicy braised chicken with crispy skin is a festive Seder dish or a mid-week Passover dinner

From Bundt to bunnies

travel

The top of the Flyer Express Quad at Jay.

Jay Peak, a mountain with soul

Solve real-life problems at the Museum of Science, get married in a hot-air balloon, and read about women explorers

Help! Lufthansa canceled our tickets but kept our money

Books

David Bowie's ability to move from one persona to the next set the blueprint for the likes of Madonna and Lady Gaga, say authors Panos A. Panay and R. Michael Hendrix.

From Bowie to Beyoncé, Berklee authors look at musicians as models of innovation

Recalling a medium’s first ladies in ‘When Women Invented Television’

A new biography gives us Francis Bacon in full

Movies

Tina Turner performing in 1973.

‘Tina,’ on HBO, shows how Anna Mae Bullock became Tina Turner

Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’ to debut on Disney+ and in theaters

‘Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal’ reenacts and reorients a scandal

Television

Camille Cottin (pictured at Cannes) plays Andrea Martel in "Call My Agent!"

Wit and heart are well represented in ‘Call My Agent!’

With vast streaming libraries, what’s old is new again

This week’s TV: The life of Tina Turner, ‘City on a Hill,’ and the return of ‘Shtisel’

music

Lauren Weintraub moved from Sudbury to Nashville to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter.

Sudbury singer-songwriter Lauren Weintraub on her Nashville dreams and the ‘random thing’ that got everyone’s attention

Strike up the band! Live music will return to Tanglewood this summer

The era of genius worship must end with James Levine

Theater/Dance

The documentary follows the work of break dancer, skateboarder, and artist Bill Shannon over two decades.

‘Crutch’ star went straight from walking to moonwalking

‘The Conjurors’ Club’ is not quite magical enough

Jacob’s Pillow is a go with an all-outdoor dance festival

globe local

Nick Peto and Phil DeCisero helped remove the archives from the Clinton Daily Item on March 6. Volunteers managed to move over150 years' worth of archives in about 90 minutes.

A president’s visit, Little League heroics, fires and funerals: A small town rallies to save its history

Tom Brady’s one-time condo in Back Bay is now on the market

Should sports betting be legalized in Massachusetts?

Obituaries

Mr. Segal was nominated for an Oscar for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''

George Segal, durable veteran of drama and TV comedy, dies at 87

Charley Hill, art detective who found ‘The Scream’ and studied the Gardner heist, dies at 73

George Bass, archaeologist of the ocean floor, dies at 88