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The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has significant advantages — it requires only one dose, and can be stored easily.

I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Is this scare serious? Here’s what we know

Only six people out of 6.8 million experienced clots after taking the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. That’s fewer than one in a million.
Halt in J&J shots deepens vaccination uncertainties at a critical time Why Biden health officials decided to pause J&J’s coronavirus vaccine

“Moderna will make as many updates to our COVID-19 vaccine as necessary until the pandemic is under control,” said CEO Stephane Bancel.
Data show Moderna’s vaccine continues to provide strong protection six months later
Moderna’s two-shot vaccine prevented more than 90 percent of COVID-19 cases and 95 percent of severe cases in updated trial data. The company also said it has begun testing two tweaked versions of its COVID-19 vaccine on mice in the hope the shots will act against a variant called B.1.351.

More COVID-19 vaccine news, resources, and guidance
Jayson Tatum throws down 2 of his game-high 32 points in the Celtics' road victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday night.
Celtics 116, Trail Blazers 115

Jayson Tatum (32 points) lifts Celtics over Trail Blazers, 116-115

The Celtics have a day off before ending their three-game West Coast trip with a meeting with the Lakers on Thursday.
Jaylen Brown speaks out on fatal shooting of Daunte Wright
New Bruin Taylor Hall gets a high-five from captain Patrice Bergeron after the shootout victory over the Sabres.
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | Bruins 3, Sabres 2 (SO)

Newest Bruins were just OK, but they were part of a win, which is the goal

Ultimately, the most valuable thing the three bring is roster competition.
Bruins in battle to the finish, finally foil Sabres in shootout
Hunter Renfroe, who homered in the fifth inning Tuesday, congratulates Rafael Devers after the latter's 404-foot blast to right field in the ninth.
RED SOX 4, TWINS 2

Bottom of the order, led by Bobby Dalbec, delivers in seventh straight Red Sox win

The Sox started slowly against the Twins in a game that opened amid snow flurries, but got big hits from Hunter Renfroe, Bobby Dalbec, Christian Arroyo, and Rafael Devers.

New Bedford police stopped, frisked, or questioned Black people at significantly higher rates than white people, report says

Ten officers were involved in nearly half of the incidents and primarily focused on Black or Latinx people, the data shows. Many of the incidents were clustered near public housing developments or schools.

Court weighs request for criminal charges against Milton police officer

Westwood police have asked a court clerk to lodge criminal charges against a Milton police officer who allegedly directed a racist rant about the Black Lives Matter movement last September at two house guests, a Black teenager and a Hispanic teenager, who were at the home for a sleepover with the officer’s sons.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey spoke Tuesday about public safety efforts, providing an update on the implementation of police overhaul measures.
Acting Mayor Janey names head of new police accountability office as critics rap her budget plan
Stephanie Everett, an attorney who runs her own private practice, will lead Boston's new Office of Police Accountability and Transparency.

Capitol Police told to hold back on insurrection response on Jan. 6, report finds

Despite being tipped that “Congress itself is the target” on Jan. 6, Capitol Police were ordered not to use their most powerful crowd-control weapons, according to a scathing new watchdog report.
Funeral Mass for Capitol Police Officer William Evans will be held Thursday in Adams

Protesters gathered outside the Federal Bureau of Investigation building in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on Tuesday to protest the death of Daunte Wright, 20, who was killed during a traffic stop.
Decision expected on charges for Minnesota cop who fatally shot Daunte Wright
Prosecutors expect to decide Wednesday whether to charge the white former police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb over the weekend.

Photos: Protests continued in Minneapolis Jeneé Osterheldt: Police violence against Black people is no mistake
Colder than normal mid-April temperatures are in the forecast Thursday.
Forecast | Dave Epstein

A nor’easter — with lots of rain, and possible snow for some — is on its way

With the exception of the very beginning of the month, we have not had any significant rain in April. But this should change on Thursday and Friday, when we might get 24 to 30 hours of wet weather. Higher elevations could even get a little bit of snow.
The booming South Boston Waterfront will get some new additions to its skyline in June. This time, though, those new structures, three giant cranes, will arrive here fully built, and brought here by ship from Shanghai.

A trio of gigantic cargo cranes are headed to South Boston port from Shanghai

The booming South Boston waterfront will get some new additions to its skyline in June. This time, though, those new structures will arrive here fully built, and brought here by ship from Shanghai.
Barry Brodd, a use of force expert, testified on Tuesday in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin.
Derek Chauvin Trial

Defense expert defends Derek Chauvin’s use of force during George Floyd arrest

A former Santa Rosa, Calif., police officer, said officers don’t have to wait for something bad to happen; they need only to have a reasonable fear that there’s a threat and then adjust their actions accordingly.
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State child welfare agency also investigated Patrick Rose decades ago. It, too, believed the union chief had abused a child

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins, whose office is now prosecuting the former police union president, said the case is “an example of how systems can fail people.”
For years, the Boston Police kept a secret: the union president was an alleged child molester

Indicted Gaetz associate is said to be cooperating with Justice Department

Joel Greenberg, a former elected official in Florida, has been talking to federal investigators since last year about the conduct of Representative Matt Gaetz and others.
Florida GOP senators say it’s too soon to weigh in on Gaetz’s future

First lady Jill Biden.
White House: First lady Jill Biden to undergo ‘procedure’
The White House says President Joe Biden will accompany his wife, Jill Biden, early Wednesday morning to an appointment where she will undergo a “common medical procedure.”

Rhode Island man accused of swindling $4.2 million from investors in ‘Magic Mike Live’ show

The 10-count indictment stems from an alleged four-year scheme about a Las Vegas male strip show.

From left, Arthur Hurley, president of the Bunker Hill Monument Association; Julie Hall, president of the Charlestown Historical Society; and Paul Lane, a society board member, at the monument. “They belonged to us,” Hurley said of the guestbooks. “Who knows what happened to them? They should be on exhibit at the Bunker Hill Museum.”
In a surprise, Bunker Hill guestbooks from Civil War emerge in auction
There are 42,000 signatures in three guestbooks kept at the Bunker Hill Monument during the Civil War, an extraordinary collection of American names ranging from leading politicians to captains of industry. The group that built the monument was surprised to find it had lost control of the books.

In this Oct. 31, 2015 file photo, Britain's Prince Harry, left, and his brother Prince William, right, stood with their grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, as they waited for the start of the Rugby World Cup final between New Zealand and Australia at Twickenham Stadium, London.
Royal funeral offers chance for William, Harry to reconcile
When Prince Philip’s funeral takes place on Saturday, it will be more than a focal point for national mourning. Many will also be watching for any signs of reconciliation between Prince Harry and the royal family, especially with his elder brother Prince William.

Opinion

Grading Massachusetts on COVID-19 vaccination
Boston Latin Academy.
EDITORIAL

Boston’s interim exam-school admission plan deserves a shot

Reform to the elite schools’ admissions system has been long overdue.
Antiracism protesters chant at the Huntington Beach pier in opposition to a planned "White Lives Matter'" demonstration on April 11 in Huntington Beach, Calif. The march was organized by ultra-right groups that called for April 11 to be a national day of White Lives Matter.
JEFF JACOBY

Religion in America is fading, but true believers are everywhere
Then-President Donald Trump speaks to the media with Florida Gov. Rick Scott at Eglin Air Force Base in Fla. in 2018.
SCOT LEHIGH

A GOP unity cruise hits the Great Trump-Barrier Reef
Patrick Rose covers his face during his arraignment in August 2020.
EDITORIAL

Ending the code of silence for Boston police
Central American migrants moving toward the United States are seen near the US-Mexico border fence in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, in 2018.
Ali Noorani and Kurt Ver Beek

How the Biden administration can address the situation at the border

Recommended reads

Analysis | James Pindell
President Biden spoke during a meeting with lawmakers to discuss his infrastructure plan in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday.
This is the week Biden’s infrastructure bill could fall apart
Everything has to go perfectly in order for President Biden’s infrastructure bill to pass. With Congress back in session this week, we are about to find out just how imperfect things may be.

Globe education reporter earns top prize for coverage of inequity in Massachusetts schools

The award recognizes Bianca Vázquez Toness for her reporting that highlighted “systemic failures and abuses during the pandemic — and beyond — through the stories of the students and parents most deeply affected.”

In a surprise, Bunker Hill guestbooks from Civil War emerge in auction

There are 42,000 signatures in three guestbooks kept at the Bunker Hill Monument during the Civil War, an extraordinary collection of American names ranging from leading politicians to captains of industry. The group that built the monument was surprised to find it had lost control of the books.

In $19.7 billion deal for Nuance, Microsoft sees big opportunity in health care and artificial intelligence

The acquisition of Burlington-based Nuance Communications, subject to approval by shareholders and regulators, is Microsoft’s biggest since the company paid $26 billion in 2016 to acquire LinkedIn.
ESSAY | MARK SHANAHAN

After a year of hiding away, a return to normalcy feels ... abnormal

I quarantined to stay safe, but now it feels like a way of life.

metro

State Representative David Morales, a Providence Democrat who, at age 22, is Rhode Island's youngest legislator and one of the youngest Latino legislators in the country.
RI POLITICS

Rhode Island’s youngest state legislator: An advocate for the working class

Representative David Morales, 22, brings a “Power to the Workers” message to the State House – and a Spider-Man costume to community events
DAN MCGOWAN

Is this heaven? No, it’s Worcester

Police seek public’s help in locating Somerville hit-and-run driver

Sports

Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown wanted to discuss the recent events in Minneapolis following the death of Daunte Wright at the hands of police on April 11.

Jaylen Brown speaks out on fatal shooting of Daunte Wright

After the Celtics beat the Trail Blazers Tuesday night, Jaylen Brown, one of the team's more thoughtful and poignant voices on social issues, wanted to discuss the recent events in Minneapolis following the death of Daunte Wright.
Celtics 116, Trail Blazers 115

Jayson Tatum (32 points) lifts Celtics over Trail Blazers, 116-115
Kevin Paul Dupont I On hockey

Newest Bruins were just OK, but they were part of a win, which is the goal

business

Senate President Karen Spilka spoke at an event in March to celebrate the signing of a new climate bill.

Senate President pressed on big fee on businesses for unemployment benefits

Former congressman joins board of enVerid Systems

Executives call for deep emission cuts to combat climate change

politics

Representative Grace Meng, D-N.Y., spoke during a news conference on Capitol Hill, in Washington on Tuesday.

Senate poised to advance measure aimed at hate crimes against Asian Americans

White House: First lady Jill Biden to undergo ‘procedure’

Florida GOP senators say it’s too soon to weigh in on Gaetz’s future

Living Arts

Thousands of flowers have been gifted to Boston area medical workers, plus there's a towering Seaport art installation.
COMFORT ZONE

The marathon is canceled, but Boston’s yellow daffodils still stand tall

Final thoughts from Rep. John Lewis to be published in July
SEASONAL RECIPES

Recipe: Rosy blood orange juice stars in this olive oil loaf cake with pistachios

education

A first-grade classroom at McGlynn Elementary School in Medford.

Poll gives Mass. schools a passing grade for pandemic performance
THE GREAT DIVIDE

One Massachusetts town is putting its Native American logo to a vote. Residents say the debate is tearing the town apart

Northeast Metro Tech students repair car for Haverhill National Guard veteran

rhode island

State Representative David Morales, a Providence Democrat who, at age 22, is Rhode Island's youngest legislator and one of the youngest Latino legislators in the country.
RI POLITICS

Rhode Island’s youngest state legislator: An advocate for the working class
DAN MCGOWAN

Is this heaven? No, it’s Worcester
RI BUSINESS

When is a tax actually tax relief? McKee explains his proposal to tax a portion of forgiven PPP loans

Newton

Australian portrait photographer June Newton dies at 97

video

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
Thousands of flowers have been gifted to Boston area medical workers, plus there's a towering Seaport art installation.
The marathon is canceled, but Boston’s yellow daffodils still stand tall
Thousands of flowers have been gifted to Boston area medical workers, plus there’s a towering Seaport art installation.

COMFORT ZONE
Poet James Crews edited “How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope,” available April 13.
‘The mission is joy’ for editor of new all-star poetry collection
Editor James Crews wants to help readers love their lives as they are.

COMFORT ZONE
For season three, Chelsea Ursin is handing the microphone to some of her peers from the indie music scene.
‘Dear Young Rocker’ invites guests to revisit their own adolescent angst
In the new season that just launched, Chelsea Ursin is working with fellow female rockers, as well as trans and nonbinary performers, to address their own younger selves.

WELLNESS
Open to anybody feeling overwhelmed, Chelvanaya Gabriel's Creative Dialogue Series focuses on recovery through nonverbal expression.
Artist creates a space for healing on Zoom: ‘You’re stepping into resilience just by showing up’
Open to anybody feeling overwhelmed, Chelvanaya Gabriel's Creative Dialogue Series focuses on recovery through nonverbal expression.

MUSIC
A Lexington 10th-grader named Phoebe, at right, wrote "We Are Proud to Be Asian" after the murders of six Asian women in Atlanta last month.
Lexington teen’s ‘We Are Proud to Be Asian’ song inspires weekend rally at Boston Common
An original music video will also be released at the event on Sunday.

Special Projects

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.
See the full project Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

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

PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

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.

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

David Almond was found unresponsive in his family’s Fall River apartment.
EDITORIAL

Fixing the chasm that claimed the life of David Almond
Damon Krukowski and Joyce Linehan

Spotify and the recording artist
Rosa Yanes.
MARCELA GARCÍA

The lessons of a Chelsea family’s COVID-19 ordeal

Will Johnson

Crypto fans are revolutionizing online investing
Acting Mayor Kim Janey has a big platform to demand transparency from the Boston Police.
Joan Vennochi

Wanted: A Boston mayor who stands up to police and for the public’s right to know
The MBTA Commuter Line at the Upham's Corner station in May 2020.
IDEAS | Jarred Johnson and Luc Schuster

A key to a better Boston, hiding in plain sight

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
Drawing of a young girl with a net trying to capture butterflies or something.
School Vacation

15 last-minute ideas for things to do with kids during April school vacation

The Bunker Hill Community College food pantry.
College & COVID

How the pandemic worsened food insecurity among college students
Michael and Elizabeth on their Zoom blind date.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘Her March Madness bracket was busted like the rest of us’
The Little River flows through the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge in Wells, Maine.
Perspective

Terry Tempest Williams: We have to bridge our divides. My uncle reminded me how to begin

sports

Kevan Miller connects with a right to the face of Buffalo's Tage Thompson during a second-period fight Tuesday at TD Garden.

Bruins in battle to the finish, finally foil Sabres in shootout

Pria Parker, Hingham girls go the distance in Patriot Keenan track championship

Oregon’s own Payton Pritchard excited for first NBA trip to Portland

metro

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell (at the podium) said in a statement that the city "will closely review the report and take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that policing in our city is evenhanded.”

New Bedford police stopped, frisked, or questioned Black people at significantly higher rates than white people, report says

Halt in J&J shots deepens vaccination uncertainties at a critical time

Boy Scouts clear walking trail in Medway

Nation

Representative Grace Meng, D-N.Y., spoke during a news conference on Capitol Hill, in Washington on Tuesday.

Senate poised to advance measure aimed at hate crimes against Asian Americans

Why Biden health officials decided to pause J&J’s coronavirus vaccine

Decision expected on charges for Minnesota cop who fatally shot Daunte Wright

World

In this file photo dated June 16, 2012, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip took a salute as the Guards marched past outside Buckingham Palace after the Trooping The Color parade at Horse Guards Parade in London.

Queen returns to royal duties after death of Prince Philip

Royal funeral offers chance for William, Harry to reconcile

Concerns over Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine are another blow to Europe’s inoculation push

politics

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., spoke with President Biden as they attended the service for US Capitol Officer William "Billy" Evans at the Capitol Rotunda, Tuesday, in Washington.

Pelosi invites Biden to address Congress on April 28

Capitol Police told to hold back on insurrection response on Jan. 6, report finds

Biden to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11

business

Automotive tires are stacked at the Continental Tire distribution center in Sumter, S.C. Snarled shipping lines are disrupting the movement of natural rubber, a key material used in tires as well as components under the hood.

Rubber scarcity creates new headache for beleaguered automakers

A trio of gigantic cargo cranes are headed to South Boston port from Shanghai

New York Times tech workers form a union

lifestyle

Grilled Asparagus with Creamy Garlic Vinaigrette.

Recipe: Grilled asparagus with creamy garlic vinaigrette goes with everything from tofu to steak

Recipe: Classic Cantonese steamed cod with ginger and scallions sits on a bed of zucchini

He turns expired beer into Craft Beer Vinegar

marijuana

Jennifer Flanagan speaks during a meeting of the commission in Worcester in February 2020.

Cannabis Commissioner Jennifer Flanagan to resign from state marijuana board

Mass. cannabis commission launching online catalog of marijuana products

Marijuana store sues Haverhill, saying steep ‘impact’ fees are not justified

opinion

Boston Latin Academy.

Boston’s interim exam-school admission plan deserves a shot

Religion in America is fading, but true believers are everywhere

A GOP unity cruise hits the Great Trump-Barrier Reef

food & dining

Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake.

Recipe: Rosy blood orange juice stars in this olive oil loaf cake with pistachios

Recipe: Grilled asparagus with creamy garlic vinaigrette goes with everything from tofu to steak

He turns expired beer into Craft Beer Vinegar

travel

Siasconset Beach on Nantucket

This Mass. beach is one of the best in the world, according to Condé Nast Traveler

Move over, Austin: These towns are weirder

Bike camps for girls, a whimsical glass exhibit in Vermont, and getting ready to ride the rails

Books

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.. Some last thoughts from Lewis will be published this summer. Grand Central Publishing announced Tuesday that Lewis’ “Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation” will come out July 13, almost a year after he died at age 80.

Final thoughts from Rep. John Lewis to be published in July

‘The mission is joy’ for editor of new all-star poetry collection

Taking on the Sacklers in ‘Empire of Pain’

Movies

Don Knotts, right, in "The Incredible Mr. Limpet."

The Globe staff’s favorite kids movies

Netflix scores streaming rights to new top Sony films

Famous producer, infamous boss

Television

William H. Macy as Frank Gallagher in "Shameless."

‘Shameless’ ending was more of the same

On matters of misogyny, can you trust a male TV critic’s opinion?

Prince Philip vs. Philip of ‘The Crown’: Fact and fiction

music

For season three, Chelsea Ursin is handing the microphone to some of her peers from the indie music scene.

‘Dear Young Rocker’ invites guests to revisit their own adolescent angst

With a new series, BSO’s Lucia Lin insists: ‘Classical music is not Eurocentric’

Taylor Swift rereleases ‘Fearless’ with six tracks from the vault and plenty of contributors

Theater/Dance

American Repertory Theater executive producer Diane Borger

ART’s Diane Borger is stepping down

‘Hype Man’ returns, this time online, and it’s even more compelling

Erica Rhodes gets her laughs at the drive-in

globe local

Boy Scouts cleared a walking trail in Medway on Sunday.

Boy Scouts clear walking trail in Medway

A 9/11 victim’s name to live on at Stonehill College where a seed of peace will blossom in his memory

It’s time to embrace your outdoor space

Obituaries

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark in 1974.

Ramsey Clark, former attorney general and rebel with a cause, dies at 93

Australian portrait photographer June Newton dies at 97

Ray Lambert, D-Day survivor, WWII torch bearer, dies at 100