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2,362 confirmed cases, 35 deaths, and 77,015 vaccinations: See today’s new COVID-19 data from Mass.

The total shots administered included 2,075,557 first shots and 1,143,630 second shots.
COVID-19 vaccine news, resources, and guidance The latest COVID-19 numbers from Massachusetts

Birx says deaths ‘could have been mitigated’ last year

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

Armed robbery suspect whom State Police shot and killed had troubled past; family believed it was behind him

A man who allegedly robbed a Rockland convenience store and stole a police car before State Police fatally shot him in a stand-off Friday had a troubled past that family believed he had put behind him.

Shirley Leung
Thomas Tran, left, stands with his mother, Mai Du, right, owner of Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy in Malden, and grandmother Kathy Luong. Mai Du plays out scenarios on how Thomas can deal with harassment, while she warns her 82-year-old mother to never go grocery shopping alone.
Asian Americans, many for the first time, are giving children and elderly parents ‘The Talk’ on how to protect themselves from hate
Some parents have been putting off these uncomfortable discussions, but they’re now unavoidable after the targeted murders of six Asian American women in the Atlanta area.

Rally along Marathon route denounces racism against Asian people

 Korean groups rally on National Mall to protest racism, violence
The "Golem v. Golem" art installation by Julie Weitz outside Vilna Shul in Beacon Hill celebrates Passover.

Local rabbis reflect on Passover a year into the pandemic

Passover is a time of reflection and hope, and with the coronavirus pandemic’s end finally in sight, its ancient teachings are taking on new meaning for Massachusetts’ Jewish community.
Duxbury High swiftly and justifiably fired football coach Dave Maimaron.
Tara Sullivan

Changing hearts and minds is the challenge after Duxbury High football episode

Questions remain regarding the football team at Duxbury High School. It is only with answers that a path forward can be laid, with a full understanding of how much this culture needs to be changed.
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.
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Tourists navigate police tape blocking several streets along the Virginia Beach Oceanfront on Saturday, March 27, 2021, the morning after a fatal shooting in Virginia Beach, Va.
Police: 2 dead, 8 wounded in Virginia Beach oceanfront shootings
Overnight shootings along the beachfront in Virginia Beach left two people dead and eight wounded in a scene described by authorities on Saturday as “very chaotic.”

Bruins 3, Sabres 2
David Pastrnak of the Bruins reaches for the puck in front of Sabres goalie Linus Ullmark in the first period.
Craig Smith’s late goal helps Bruins extend Sabres’ losing streak to 17 games
Smith scored with 3:50 remaining in the third period, his sixth tally of the season.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes
Mookie Betts winning a second championship will only make him want another.
Some predictions for the 2021 major league baseball season
We can look forward to 162 games, the return of the All-Star Game, and playoff games in front of home crowds.

Eduardo Rodriguez back on mound, feeling better after ‘dead arm’

Connections | Magazine
Rabbi Yael Buechler (left) learns cooking tips from a more experienced chef — her mother.
When my mother got COVID before Passover, it was up to me to make our family recipes
As a rabbi, I realized how much the flavors of this holiday have always been an essential part of my religious experience.

Landlords of Massachusetts properties like these triple-deckers in South Boston are increasingly adding anti-marijuana restrictions to rental leases.
Can landlords really ban marijuana edibles? Usually not, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying
Five years after Massachusetts voters legalized marijuana, the state's 1.6 million-plus renters are at risk of losing access to the drug, as landlords increasingly foist legally questionable anti-cannabis provisions on tenants.

Ryan and Stephanie Fattman.
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.

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

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.

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.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

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.

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

The "Golem v. Golem" art installation by Julie Weitz outside Vilna Shul in Beacon Hill celebrates Passover.

Local rabbis reflect on Passover a year into the pandemic

Passover is a time of reflection and hope, and with the coronavirus pandemic’s end finally in sight, its ancient teachings are taking on new meaning for Massachusetts’ Jewish community.

Parents rally outside State House to denounce lack of input in school reopening plan

Armed robbery suspect whom State Police shot and killed had troubled past; family believed it was behind him

Sports

Two talented freshmen go head to head as Caitlin Clark of Iowa drives to the basket ahead of UConn's Paige Bueckers.

UConn upperclassmen make the difference in No. 1 seed’s victory over No. 5 Iowa

Christyn Williams led the Huskies with 27 points.
Peter Abraham I On baseball

Uneventful Red Sox spring training got eventful in a hurry
NCAA men's basketball | Oregon State 65, Loyola Chicago 58

Picked last in the Pac-12, Oregon State proves elite with NCAA win over Loyola Chicago

business

The Mass General Brigham offices in Somerville. More than 25 years after Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s hospitals joined forces to boost their clout with penny-pinching HMOs, trustees and executives are making their most sweeping attempt yet to set aside old rivalries and work as a unified health care system.

At Mass General Brigham, a sweeping effort to unify hospitals and shed old rivalries
Shirley Leung

Asian Americans, many for the first time, are giving children and elderly parents ‘The Talk’ on how to protect themselves from hate
Jon Chesto

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

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

The exterior of The Newbury Boston hotel.
CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

This grand old lady is almost ready to show off her new look
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

education

Shirley Porcena, of Roxbury, mother of four, who suffered from long-term COVID-19 infection, was joined by her daughter Melody Cubias, 5, as she addressed parents of color gathered at the Massachusetts State House to protest their exclusion from the discussion of school reopening policy. Also seen is Julian Gayle, 5, of Boston.

Parents rally outside State House to denounce lack of input in school reopening plan

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

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

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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
Illustration highlighting popular home renovation trends, including touchless faucets and backyard putting greens.
Globe Magazine

Most-wanted COVID-19 home renovations: More space, touchless faucets, and ... putting greens?
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

Barring another setback, Eduardo Rodriguez could pitch the second or third game of the season.

Eduardo Rodriguez back on mound, feeling better after ‘dead arm’

Craig Smith’s late goal helps Bruins extend Sabres’ losing streak to 17 games

St. Cloud State ends BU’s hockey season in opening round of NCAAs

metro

People gathered for the Rally & Run To Stop Asian Hate in Hopkinton.

Rally along Marathon route denounces racism against Asian people

Howard Schnellenberger, 87, Miami, Louisville coach, dies

Liesbeth Stoeffler, a runner kept going by rare lung treatment, dies at 61

Nation

Members of the Korean American Community Association of Greater Washington hold a memorial service at the Lincoln Memorial.

Korean groups rally on National Mall to protest racism, violence

Birx says deaths ‘could have been mitigated’ last year

2,362 confirmed cases, 35 deaths, and 77,015 vaccinations: See today’s new COVID-19 data from Mass.

World

Healthcare workers transport a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at the Hospital das Clinicas in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Friday, March 19, 2021.

As daily deaths near 4,000, worst may lie ahead for Brazil

Dozens gunned down in ‘day of shame’ for Myanmar

‘A very big problem.’ Giant ship in the Suez remains stuck.

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

Thousands of garments are stored on a three-tiered conveyor system at the ThredUp sorting facility in Phoenix.

Secondhand clothes site ThredUp jumps after $168 million IPO

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

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

lifestyle

Love Letters

Unsure about the relationship after a miscarriage

How to talk to kids about gun violence

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

marijuana

Landlords of Massachusetts properties like these triple-deckers in South Boston are increasingly adding anti-marijuana restrictions to rental leases.

Can landlords really ban marijuana edibles? Usually not, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying

New York reaches deal to legalize recreational marijuana

Five will exit White House over past use of marijuana

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

The exterior of The Newbury Boston hotel.

This grand old lady is almost ready to show off her new look

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

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

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

Howard Schnellenberger held the game balls prior to the start of the 2014 Boca Raton Bowl NCAA college football game between Marshall and Northern Illinois at FAU Stadium in Boca Raton, Fla.

Howard Schnellenberger, 87, Miami, Louisville coach, dies

Liesbeth Stoeffler, a runner kept going by rare lung treatment, dies at 61

Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary dies at 104