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As climate change makes more droughts likely, state plans to issue controversial new policy that may increase water restrictions

With climate change expected to increase the frequency of droughts, state officials are preparing sweeping new restrictions to prevent future water shortages, in what would be among the most significant changes to water management in Massachusetts in decades.
After a veto, Baker signs landmark climate bill

COVID-19 cases are rising in what experts say is a warning sign

Though vaccination has thus far staved off a rise in hospitalizations and deaths, epidemiologists warn that the current uptick in cases could still balloon into a surge.
See more COVID-19 vaccine news, resources, and guidance
Alysia Shanahan-Belisle was given flowers by her neighbor Debbie Peckham. Shanahan-Belisle has helped Peckham and over 200 others sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine.

Mass. residents work around the clock to score vaccination slots for people they’ve never met

The state’s vaccine rollout has birthed an army of “vaccine angels” — people so upset by what they are witnessing that they’re up at all hours of the night booking appointments for strangers.

State officials are investigating senator, wife for potential campaign finance violations

A politically powerful Massachusetts couple is asking a judge to temporarily stop the state’s top campaign finance regulator from referring an investigation into them to state prosecutors, marking an extraordinary turn in what had been a private state probe.
Ryan Fitzpatrick locked onto a good situation in Washington, which improved its offense this offseason.
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

NFL free agency’s best moves and biggest head-scratchers

Ron Rivera's team in Washington, not content with last year’s surprising NFC East title, made three great signings, including quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
A group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranberry, N.J., to pick potatoes. The photo was taken near Shawboro, N.C.

Excerpt from Mia Bay’s ‘Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance’

In her new book, a professor explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.
Police SWAT teams surrounded a Rockland Police vehicle that was stolen by an armed robbery suspect and was pulled over on the Burgin Parkway near a BJ's gas station in Quincy on Friday.

After confrontation in Quincy, State Police shoot, kill armed robbery suspect who allegedly stole Rockland cruiser

Police fatally shot a 36-year-old Eric M. Leach Friday morning after he had allegedly robbed a Rockland convenience store with a firearm and then stole a Rockland police cruiser. Leach has ties to Brockton and Winthrop, officials said.
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Sharon Osbourne arrives at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 22, 2019, in Los Angeles.
Osbourne off ‘The Talk’ after inquiry into racism discussion
CBS says Sharon Osbourne will no longer appear on its daytime show “The Talk” after a heated on-air discussion about racism earlier this month.

The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, after it become wedged across the Suez Canal.
New attempt to free huge vessel stuck in Suez Canal is expected this weekend
Progress is being made in the attempt to free the container vessel blocking the Suez Canal, the head of the canal’s authority said Saturday, but declined to set a timetable for when the operation will be over.

Jon Chesto
Harvard has agreed to finance a Boston drainpipe that could serve much of the land it owns in Allston.
In Harvard development standoff, state Representative Mike Moran may have the upper hand
Harvard University is willing to pay $50 million-plus on a massive pipe that would alleviate flooding in Allston. Sounds like a no brainer, right? Moran doesn't think so. The standoff underscores the wariness among many Allston neighbors who still view Harvard as a wealthy interloper from across the river.

As Myanmar death toll climbs, a soldier’s wife is caught between protesters and military

When Myanmar's military seized power in a coup last month, a 32-year-old woman named May quickly became part of the resistance.

MATTHEW GILBERT
Claire Foy and Matt Smith in "The Crown."
The streaming services’ 10 best original shows, ranked
These are my 10 favorites — plus 10 more standouts from an era that began only eight years ago.

A rendering of 1000 Boylston with John Fish (left inset) and Stephen and Adam Weiner (right inset).
In Back Bay condo project gone bad, Fish sues lawyers, too
John Fish, the chairman of construction giant Suffolk, filed suit in Suffolk County Superior Court against law firm Goulston & Storrs, claiming one of the firm’s senior partners committed “legal malpractice."

Opinion

Stephen Miller films an interview for Fox News at the White House on July 15. Instead of normalizing him, more media outlets should focus on humanizing the migrants whom Miller has worked so hard to vilify.
Marcela García

Media are falling into Stephen Miller’s trap

Journalists who normalize Trump’s former senior adviser ‘are helping him launder his white supremacist ideas into the mainstream.’
A courtroom sketch of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, center, with his defense attorneys as his death sentence was read on May 15, 2015.
JEFF JACOBY

Death is the right penalty for Tsarnaev
A Duxbury High School athlete stretches on a fence that surrounds the football field on March 24.
EDITORIAL

Lessons from Duxbury High: A ‘never again’ moment
Coal is transported via conveyor belt to the coal-fired Jim Bridger Power Plant that supplied by the neighboring Jim Bridger mine outside Point of the Rocks, Wyoming, in 2014.
Sharon E. Burke

The high cost of achieving net zero
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

The Boston Public Schools are in crisis. Harvard (or BC or MGH) can help.

Recommended reads

THE GREAT DIVIDE
Fredy Solís, a recent immigrant from Guatemala, spent the last year trying to learn from home. The Globe followed Fredy's 11-member Spanish class at Boston International Newcomers Academy through the pandemic, to better understand how school closures have affected the city's most vulnerable students.
A year of grit and despair: For one class of immigrant students, the pandemic threatens to upend their educational dreams
To understand the remarkable forces and obstacles newcomers to America have to contend with, a Globe team closely tracked one class at Boston International Newcomers Academy — BINcA for short — for most of a year.

More cases tied to scandal-plagued drug lab could be tossed in ‘nightmare scenario’ for state’s criminal justice system

The Middlesex DA wants the Supreme Judicial Court to investigate and potentially invalidate a decade’s worth of drug tests conducted by a scandal-plagued state laboratory, a sweeping move that could result in the dismissal of tens of thousands of criminal charges and convictions.

Diversity expanding within the growing Black American population, new data show

Blackness in the United States has long encompassed a wide range of communities, and in the past two decades as the Black population overall has grown, so too has diversity within it, a new report from Pew Research Center says.

A ‘Not Haunted’ sign was placed outside of a home for sale west of Boston — and people have questions

Margot Bloomstein has some questions about a home in her neighborhood that recently hit the market. Thousands of other people online also had some queries.

Does WeWork still work after the pandemic? A $1.3b deal says yes

One of the biggest operators of office space in downtown Boston will go public through a SPAC.

metro

Acting Mayor Kim Janey received the “congregational prayer and laying of hands” during the Celebration of Prayer Interfaith Service held in her honor at the Congregación León de Judá on Friday. Bishop Gilbert Thompson (right) led the congregational prayer, one of many at the celebration.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey joins interfaith leaders for South End prayer service

Local religious leaders gathered for an interfaith prayer service in Acting Mayor Kim Janey’s honor at Congregación Leon de Judá in the South End Friday evening.

Harvard sanctions professor with close Jeffrey Epstein ties, closes program he ran

After confrontation in Quincy, State Police shoot, kill armed robbery suspect who allegedly stole Rockland cruiser

Sports

For Alex Cora and the Red Sox, there's no where to go but up.
baseball 2021 | the preview

Read the Globe’s 2021 Red Sox season preview

Brick by brick, the Red Sox are trying to rebuild — don’t say that out loud — and stay competitive as they upgrade their player development system. Here's everything you need to know about the 2021 season.

Brad Marchand added to NHL’s COVID-19 protocol list
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

NFL free agency’s best moves and biggest head-scratchers

business

Harvard has agreed to finance a Boston drainpipe that could serve much of the land it owns in Allston.
Jon Chesto

In Harvard development standoff, state Representative Mike Moran may have the upper hand

Secondhand clothes site ThredUp jumps after $168 million IPO

Piracy fears mount as ships take long way around Africa to avoid blocked Suez Canal

politics

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House.

President Biden blasts Georgia elections law as ‘Jim Crow in the 21st Century’

Georgia lawmaker arrested as governor signs sweeping voting law

Romney gets Profile in Courage Award for impeachment vote

Living Arts

Wellesley College's outdoor labyrinth is made from trees recovered from campus.
COMFORT ZONE

Walking in circles is healthy at these four local labyrinths

At Legacy Place, free postcards make for ‘positive ripples of connection’ in the pandemic

Unsure about the relationship after a miscarriage

education

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attended The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005, in New York City.

Harvard sanctions professor with close Jeffrey Epstein ties, closes program he ran

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map
La Gran División

Un año de lucha y desesperación: la pandemia amenaza con poner fin a los sueños de una clase de estudiantes inmigrantes

rhode island

Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston, R.I.
RI HEALTH

R.I. can start billing the feds for its state-run hospital again
RI CRIME

R.I. AG wants to charge the East Greenwich road-rage suspect with a hate crime
RI NEWSMAKERS

Breaking the cycle of abuse, from Providence to Madagascar

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

NAMES
Leonard Nimoy did his famous hand gesture after receiving an honorary degree at Boston University in 2012.
With a new sculpture, Leonard Nimoy’s legacy will ‘live long and prosper’
A hand-shaped memorial will stand outside the Museum of Science, just blocks from where the actor grew up.

COMFORT ZONE
Wellesley College's outdoor labyrinth is made from trees recovered from campus.
Walking in circles is healthy at these four local labyrinths
Find your way to relaxation with these outdoor spots around Boston.

COMFORT ZONE
Lily King's latest novel is "Writers & Lovers"
Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ will be adapted for film and directed by Toni Collette
The Mass.-native's best-selling novel, about an aspiring writer, is set in Boston

ART AUCTION
Before the auction begins, visitors will be able to attend free preview parties.
MassArt’s annual auction, virtual this year, supports student scholarships
Holding live and silent auctions virtually means no space constraints and the potential for much wider reach.

Gloria Steinem in her New York apartment
For her 87th birthday, Gloria Steinem opens her apartment to visitors, online
The virtual tour lets you see where the feminist icon has lived since 1966.

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

Joan Wickersham

Messages from my mother
The Rose Kennedy Greenway featured Yinka Shonibare's "Wind Sculpture" in August 2020.
Renée Loth

From gripes to gratitude on the Greenway
Boston Marathon bombing survivor Celeste Corcoran stands on the marathon finish line in 2016 as she waits for runners in her running group, 50 Legs, to cross. Celeste lost both legs in the 2013 marathon bombing. Officials let her stand there to watch the runners.
Kimberly Atkins

Boston and the Marathon bombing survivors can’t shake Tsarnaev — unless Biden acts now
A coal miner near Wylo, W. Va.
IDEAS | SUSANNE BROOKS & DANIEL RAIMI

Give former fossil fuel workers a stake in the clean energy future
New research indicates that when cold viruses are circulating widely, COVID-19 case counts could be lower than would otherwise be expected.
IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

The common cold could inhibit COVID-19 — and what else?
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
A ball of dry brown garden grass.
Perspective

Lawn care for the lazy: Turns out being eco-friendly can be the easy way
MISS CONDUCT

Following current events can be upsetting. Is it OK to stop paying attention?
Savory Bread Pudding With Mushrooms, Gruyère, and Tarragon.
Cooking

Make-ahead recipes for Easter brunch
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

sports

Infielder Triston Casas is the top prospect in the Red Sox system.

Triston Casas. Tanner Houck. Jarren Duran. With the Red Sox’ prospects, there’s hope on the horizon

Red Sox pitcher Matt Barnes tests positive for COVID-19

The Red Sox’ Xander Bogaerts didn’t expect to be part of a rebuild in his prime. He hopes patience pays off

metro

Ryan and Stephanie Fattman.

State officials are investigating senator, wife for potential campaign finance violations

Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary dies at 104

This weekend will have both spring sunshine and spring showers

Nation

The Rio Grande running beneath a bridge connecting Mexico and Eagle Pass, Texas, March 17, 2021.

9-year-old migrant girl dies trying to cross Rio Grande into US

Osbourne off ‘The Talk’ after inquiry into racism discussion

COVID-19 cases are rising in what experts say is a warning sign

World

Demonstrators scattered as police fired tear gas during a protest Saturday in Mandalay, Myanmar. Myanmar security forces reportedly killed 93 people Saturday in the deadliest day since last month’s military coup.

As Myanmar death toll climbs, a soldier’s wife is caught between protesters and military

New attempt to free huge vessel stuck in Suez Canal is expected this weekend

UN commission urges equality for women in decision-making

politics

President Joe Biden departed his news conference at the White House in Washington on Thursday.

Biden assails Republicans over voting rights and defends record on border

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany credits Trump for US vaccination rate with tweet that gets called out for typo

‘My plan is to run for reelection’ in 2024, Biden says

business

A rendering of 1000 Boylston with John Fish (left inset) and Stephen and Adam Weiner (right inset).

In Back Bay condo project gone bad, Fish sues lawyers, too

South Boston convention center will welcome thousands for a volleyball competition in May

COVID-19 vaccine testing turns to kids

lifestyle

A mourner leaves a flower at a memorial for the victims of a shooting at King Soopers, in Boulder, Colo.

How to talk to kids about gun violence

Peeps and Pepsi have teamed up to make a marshmallow soda, just in time for Easter

She loves Paris, pastries, and ‘Women Who Rock’

marijuana

New York reaches deal to legalize recreational 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

opinion

Duxbury High School football's practice sleds sit idle next to the football field, after football games were cancelled and Duxbury High School fired their football coach, Dave Maimaron after his team used anti-Semitic terms in a recent game.

A coach is fired, but now the work must begin

Is any place safe?

Media are falling into Stephen Miller’s trap

food & dining

Paul Barker, owner of Pauli's North End sub shop, posed for a portrait with his 14-ounce "Lobsta Sub" on April 24, 2013.

Free sandwiches after COVID-19 vaccines, Easter specials, and more

At The Farmer’s Daughter in Sudbury, brunch is the main attraction

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

travel

Susan Wilson feeds pigeons on the Seine in Paris.

She loves Paris, pastries, and ‘Women Who Rock’

It’s all about nature at these four family-friendly New England resorts

Excerpt from Mia Bay’s ‘Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance’

Books

Caught in between in ‘Of Women and Salt’

New books about life in our galaxy, and beyond it.

C. Pam Zhang on reading books to start each day

Movies

Sir David Attenborough in London's Richmond Park.

Species threatened, corporations ascendant, death discussed

George Segal: a point man for his times

‘The Human Voice’: an Almodóvar marvel, short on length, long on everything else

Television

Stanley Tucci (left, with Colin Firth) in a scene from "Supernova."

Stanley Tucci: from busy man to ‘Inside Man’

The streaming services’ 10 best original shows, ranked

Bo Burnham as Larry Bird? He will be in upcoming HBO series.

music

Elton John after performing "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again," at the 2020 Oscars. John is celebrating his 74th birthday on Thursday — and he's sending fans a very rare present. Six deep cuts have been made available on streaming and digital formats for the first time.

It’s Elton John’s birthday, and he’s got rare music for fans

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

Theater/Dance

Faith Soloway

With ‘Banned in Boston,’ Urban Improv keeps the Faith

New PBS documentary illuminates choreographer Twyla Tharp’s expansive, trailblazing career

With delightful studio performances, Boston Ballet celebrates the classical art form

globe local

Gov. Charlie Baker held a press conference at the State House on March 25, 2021 to provide updates on COVID-19 vaccination in Massachusetts.

Watch live: Governor Baker signs climate legislation

Newton Youth Commission reaches out with mental health campaign

Art reflecting our world: Peabody Essex Museum launches exhibits that portray today’s concerns

Obituaries

Beverly Cleary signed books at the Monterey Bay Book Festival in Monterey, Calif., in April 1998.

Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary dies at 104

Larry McMurtry, chronicler of an unalloyed American West, dies at 84

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