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Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright to be charged with manslaughter

Kim Potter will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Jeneé Osterheldt: Police violence against Black people is no mistake
Derek Chauvin Trial

Judge refuses request to acquit Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s death

Judge Peter Cahill pressed on with the case after Derek Chauvin's attorney said the prosecution’s expert witnesses gave conflicting opinions about what caused George Floyd’s death.
Watch live: The trial of Derek Chauvin

Baker expects ‘minimal disruptions’ to vaccine appointments despite pause in Johnson & Johnson shots

This week, Governor Baker said, Johnson & Johnson doses accounted for just 3 percent of the total vaccine doses allocated to the state from the federal government.
How serious is this J&J scare? Here’s what we know White House speeding up vaccination drive and pressuring states to follow its lead

Bernie Madoff in 2009.
Bernie Madoff, who defrauded investors of billions, has died in prison
Madoff perpetrated one of the biggest financial scandals in US history. He died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., apparently from natural causes.

From the archives: How Bernie Madoff conned longtime friends, clients, family members, and hedge funds
The Massachusetts State House.

Mass. House leaders unveil $47.6b spending plan that forgoes broad-based tax hikes

The budget proposal instead would allow the state to pluck up to $1.9 billion from the state’s emergency savings, a nod to the relatively careful forecasting lawmakers say the state will need amid its still-uncertain path through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Worcester Red Sox players held a scrimmage at their new Polar Park stadium on April 8, 2021. A player warmed up in the dugout runway before the game.
DAN MCGOWAN

Is this heaven? No, it’s Worcester

Polar Park is gorgeous, and the former PawSox who play there are looking good. Imagine what Rhode Island could have had if our leaders showed even a tiny sense of vision.
Photos: Worcester’s new stadium a polar opposite of Fenway Park
Milton police Officer Patricia Lio entered the courtroom as she passed one of the alleged victims seated with family members and his attorney.

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.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE
Students with parents arrived at the Quincy Elementary School in Chinatown. Asian American parents are reluctant to send their children back to school full time.
Asian American families overwhelmingly reject full-time return to BPS classrooms this month
As Boston prepares to reopen elementary and middle schools full time, Asian American families are choosing to keep their children learning from home at rates higher than any other racial group, amid fears about both the pandemic and a growing tide of racism targeting their community.

Forecast | Dave Epstein
Colder than normal mid-April temperatures are in the forecast Thursday.
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.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey (left) and Councilor Michelle Wu.
WBUR poll shows Janey, Wu lead crowded Boston mayoral field, but race still in the early innings
A new poll shows Acting Mayor Kim Janey and Councilor Michelle Wu are currently garnering more support than their rival mayoral candidates in what’s shaping up to be a crowded field, though nearly half the poll respondents said they were undecided in a race that’s still very much in the early stages.

Janey unveils $3.75 billion operating budget for Boston

TRAVEL
Setting up a canvas tent in the 1950s.
Eat, drink, read, swim, nap, repeat: Island camping at Lake George for 60 years
Camping isn’t for everyone. Our family is definitely not everyone.

Underwood, the former football tight end who found fame on “The Bachelor” has revealed that he is gay.
‘The Bachelor’ star Colton Underwood comes out as gay
"I’m gay," he told "Good Morning America" Wednesday. "And I came to terms with that earlier this year and have been processing it. And the next step in all of this was sort of letting people know.”

Wayland resident Rob McCallum reached the lowest point in the world's oceans in a dive Friday.
Wayland resident reaches deepest point in world’s oceans, company says
The 12-hour dive aboard Limiting Factor, a Triton 36,000/2, which is touted as the world’s first and only submersible capable of diving to any depth, was undertaken for primarily scientific purposes but happened to set a few records in the meantime, Wayland resident Rob McCallum wrote in a statement.

Opinion

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

Patrick M. Rose Sr., then the president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, testified in a Suffolk Superior Court hearing about body cameras in 2016. Rose left the union and retired in early 2018. He's now charged with sexually abusing six children.
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.”

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.

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.
Analysis

Under the radar, states around the country are quickly making marijuana legal

On Monday, New Mexico became the third state in three weeks and the seventh since November to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
Analysis | James Pindell

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.

metro

Governor Charlie Baker.

Watch live: Governor Baker gives an update on COVID-19 vaccinations

Governor Charlie Baker is set to give an update on COVID-19 vaccinations from the mass vaccination site at the Hynes Convention Center on Wednesday morning.

Baker expects ‘minimal disruptions’ to vaccine appointments despite pause in Johnson & Johnson shots

Amtrak Downeaster service to Maine will return to pre-pandemic levels

Sports

Alex Cora is introduced as Red Sox manager on Opening Day at Fenway Park.
dan shaughnessy

It’s clear that rehiring Alex Cora was the right move by the Red Sox

Cora has the Sox playing with intensity and enjoying the game — in stark contrast to last year — so his sins are forgiven.
Red Sox at Twins | 2:10 p.m. (NESN)

Games 11 and 12: Red Sox at Twins lineups and notes

Premier Lacrosse League to open 11-stop season at Gillette Stadium June 4

business

Jim and Janet Baker, cofounders of the speech recognition pioneer Dragon Systems, whose technology later became part of Nuance Communications.
Innovation Economy

After the Nuance deal, what’s next for voice recognition tech?

Bernie Madoff, who defrauded investors of billions, has died in prison

Tango Therapeutics to go public in $353 million SPAC deal

politics

First lady Jill Biden.

White House: Jill Biden ‘tolerated’ medical procedure ‘well’

‘Time to end America’s longest war’: Biden set to make speech on Afghanistan withdrawal

Analysis

Under the radar, states around the country are quickly making marijuana legal

Living Arts

Barbara Crampton in "Jakob's Wife."

‘Jakob’s Wife’: part vampire movie, part female empowerment

In ‘Monday,’ Greece is the word

‘In the Earth’: at play in the fields of the weird

education

Students with parents arrived at the Quincy Elementary School in Chinatown. Asian American parents are reluctant to send their children back to school full time.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Asian American families overwhelmingly reject full-time return to BPS classrooms this month

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

rhode island

Sabina Matos is sworn in as Rhode Island's lieutenant governor by Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea while surrounded by her family and Governor Daniel J. McKee (left). Holding the Bible is Matos' daughter, Annemarie Ward. Behind them are Matos' husband, Patrick Ward, and their son, Diego Matos.
RI POLITICS

Sabina Matos to focus on increasing affordable housing in Rhode Island
RI POLITICS

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

Is this heaven? No, it’s Worcester

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

The Minutemen celebrate their 5-0 win over St. Cloud State.

UMass national championship win a ratings success for ESPN

Celtics’ Jayson Tatum reveals he now uses an inhaler before games after contracting COVID-19

Jaylen Brown denounces fatal shooting of Daunte Wright: ‘We know what this system is’

metro

Sabina Matos is sworn in as Rhode Island's lieutenant governor by Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea while surrounded by her family and Governor Daniel J. McKee (left). Holding the Bible is Matos' daughter, Annemarie Ward. Behind them are Matos' husband, Patrick Ward, and their son, Diego Matos.

Sabina Matos to focus on increasing affordable housing in Rhode Island

Mass. House leaders unveil $47.6b spending plan that forgoes broad-based tax hikes

Watch live: Acting Mayor Janey presents administration’s proposed budget to Boston City Council

Nation

Protesters confronted police near the scene of a police shooting in Brooklyn Center, Minn.

Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright to be charged with manslaughter

Judge refuses request to acquit Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s death

White House: Jill Biden ‘tolerated’ medical procedure ‘well’

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

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

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

Pelosi invites Biden to address Congress on April 28

business

A desk at the Coinbase office in San Francisco in 2017.

Wall Street will be ‘laser focused’ on Coinbase IPO

Senate President pressed on big fee on businesses for unemployment benefits

Former congressman joins board of enVerid Systems

lifestyle

Setting up a canvas tent in the 1950s.

Eat, drink, read, swim, nap, repeat: Island camping at Lake George for 60 years

You may not know the name of this hotel yet, but soon it will be a standout in the Boston skyline

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

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

Vinh Le, one of the owners of Cicada Coffee Bar.

Cicada Coffee Bar: a restaurant, a cafe, a community

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

travel

Chris Wallace and his wife, Lorraine, at Catherine's Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2018.

Chris Wallace on ear plugs, his Globe years, and that time he went to Russia right after a tough Putin interview

Eat, drink, read, swim, nap, repeat: Island camping at Lake George for 60 years

You may not know the name of this hotel yet, but soon it will be a standout in the Boston skyline

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

Barbara Crampton in "Jakob's Wife."

‘Jakob’s Wife’: part vampire movie, part female empowerment

In ‘Monday,’ Greece is the word

‘In the Earth’: at play in the fields of the weird

Television

Underwood, the former football tight end who found fame on “The Bachelor” has revealed that he is gay.

‘The Bachelor’ star Colton Underwood comes out as gay

‘Shameless’ ending was more of the same

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

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