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Federal panel recommends continued ‘pause’ on J&J vaccine. Doctors hope to reconvene in a week to 10 days

After a four-hour emergency meeting, the panel of independent experts who advise the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they needed more time to assess the potential risks of the shot, including whether it posed a danger to men and older people.

Forecast | Dave Epstein
Snow (yes, you read that right) is on the way for some parts of Mass.
Even by the unpredictable standard of weather we have in southern New England, snowfall after April 15 is still unusual. But areas west of Interstate 495 could see snow on Thursday and Friday, and the highest reaches of the Berkshires could get as much as 6 inches.

City to observe One Boston Day in honor of Marathon bombing victims

Acting Mayor Kim Janey is urging residents to spread kindness Thursday as the city marks its annual One Boston Day observances to honor those killed in the Boston Marathon bombings, as well as the resilience the Hub demonstrated in the aftermath of the tragedy that consumed the city on April 15, 2013.
YVONNE ABRAHAM

The courage of a 12-year-old

Imagine being the first one to raise the alarm, to do the thing that should have stopped him, only to watch him pass two more decades with impunity, because nobody who could have intervened had the courage of a 12-year-old.
For years, the Boston Police kept a secret: the union president was an alleged child molester

Newport psychologist arrested on charges of sexually abusing children as a priest in California

The former Rev. Christopher J. Cunningham was arrested early Wednesday at his home and charged with lewd acts on boys under 14 years old.
Harry Markopolos, an independent financial fraud investigator and former money manager, warned about Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme long before it collapsed in 2008.
Larry Edelman

Madoff was an evil master of financial illusion

Bernie Madoff was a genius and a fraud, a stock market innovator who ended up squandering his considerable talents on propping up the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
Bernie Madoff’s death recalls a devastating period in Boston
Ethan Simmons and Caroline Thompson are co-workers at Zoominfo, but only met when they realized they both live in the Fenway. Now they take walks together regularly, with her dog, Winston.

Starting a job remotely means never meeting your co-workers face to face

Many people hired remotely over the past year have never been to the office or met any fellow employees in person. And what they really want to know is: How tall are my co-workers?
Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, center, listened as Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Tex., right, chair of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, attended a markup in the House Judiciary Committee of a bill to create a commission to study and address social disparities in the African American community today.

House panel votes to advance bill on slavery reparations

A House panel advanced a decades-long effort to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves by approving legislation Wednesday that would create a commission to study the issue.
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Derek Chauvin Trial

Defense expert claims Floyd died of a heart rhythm problem, contradicting several experts who said he died of lack of oxygen

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.

Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright is charged with manslaughter

Kim Potter was being held on $100,000 bail and was scheduled to make her initial court appearance Thursday afternoon.
For fourth night, protesters confront police over fatal shooting Friends and family remember Daunte Wright

Virginia police chief says backlash from viral video of pepper spray incident caused him to fire officer

A police chief in a small Virginia town said Wednesday that he fired the officer who pepper-sprayed an Army lieutenant during a traffic stop in December only after realizing that public reaction to a viral video of the incident had made it impossible for the policeman to continue to serve the community.

Capitol Police officers looked at a program prior to a ceremony honoring fellow Officer William Evans, whose body lay in honor in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
Funeral Mass for Capitol Police Officer William Evans will be held Thursday in Adams
Officer William “Billy” Evans was killed April 2 when a vehicle rammed into him and another officer at a barricade just 100 yards from the Senate side of the Capitol.

House Ways and Means Chairman Aaron Michlewitz and House Speaker Ronald Mariano, both Democrats, brief reporters Wednesday morning in the Massachusetts State House library about their state budget proposal for fiscal year 2022.
Despite pandemic’s upheaval, fiscal outlook appears stable for state government
The Massachusetts House unveiled a $47.7 billion budget proposal Wednesday with a notable takeaway: The budget doesn’t propose big service cuts or major tax hikes, a far cry from the deep cuts feared a year ago because of uncertainty about the new virus.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey has proposed a a year-over-year increase of 3.9 percent in the city budget.
Janey says proposed $3.75b city budget is ‘built around an equitable recovery, reopening, and renewal’
Acting Mayor Kim Janey introduced a proposed $3.75 billion budget for next fiscal year, which starts July 1, saying it includes a “slate of investments that will help us create a more resilient city.”

Opinion

Security personnel stands guard as Independent Election Commission workers unload ballot boxes from a truck to be taken to a counting center the day after Afghanistan held presidential elections, in September, 2019.
H.D.S. Greenway

Afghanistan and Vietnam: How did the US lose two wars?

In the end, our clients could never shake the impression that they were puppets fighting for foreigners.
Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldan prepares the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, California on March 25.
Kimberly Atkins

I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The pause makes me believe in it more.
A police officer from Prince George's County, Maryland, awaits a procession for Capitol Police Officer William Evans on April 13 in Washington, D.C. A ceremony honoring Evans was held in the rotunda of the US Capitol after he was killed in the line of duty when a car drove into security barriers on April 2.
Joan Vennochi

‘Your dad was a hero’ — the clashing views about American police

Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn.
Leonard L. Glass, Edwin B. Fisher, and Lance Dodes

Why did Yale dismiss Bandy X. Lee?
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

Recommended reads

DAN MCGOWAN
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.
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 its leaders showed even a tiny sense of vision.

Innovation Economy

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

The Burlington company was a pioneer in a field that still has plenty of room for innovation.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

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.
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.
CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

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

Singapore-based Raffles chose Boston to open its first North American hotel, and after years of planning, the 35-story building will loom large in the Back Bay.

metro

Tito Jackson’s biological mother shares her story

Tito Jackson’s biological mother, Rachel Twymon, shares her story about how she was raped and impregnated at age 12.

Tito Jackson reunites with his birth mother, Rachel Twymon

City to observe One Boston Day in honor of Marathon bombing victims

Sports

Carlos Rodón pitched the second no-hitter in the majors this season, and the 20th in White Sox history.

White Sox’ Carlos Rodón throws no-hitter, but loses perfect game in ninth

Rodón plunked Roberto Pérez on his back foot with an 0-and-2 slider with one out in the ninth.
WEDNESDAY'S SCHOOLS ROUNDUP

King Philip girls’ volleyball ousts Canton in Hockomock Cup semifinal, next faces Franklin in final
peter abraham | on baseball

Could this early-season series in Minnesota be the start of something big for Red Sox?

business

Delta Air Lines will stop blocking middle seats in May, meaning that no more US airlines will limit capacity on flights to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19.

Study finds that blocking seats on planes reduces virus risk

Constant Contact has a new CEO

Hundreds of companies unite to oppose voting limits, but others abstain

politics

The top watchdog for the US Capitol Police will testify to Congress for the first time about the department’s broad failures before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection

US Capitol Police watchdog to testify on Jan. 6 failures

House panel votes to advance bill on slavery reparations

‘Time to end America’s longest war’: Biden announces timetable for Afghanistan withdrawal

Living Arts

Kirsten Greenidge (top left), Mike Lew (top right), Lydia R. Diamond (bottom right), and Heidi Schreck (bottom left)
Theater

Huntington Theatre announces a full 2021-22 season of indoor productions that includes ‘Common Ground’
MOVIES

In Focus: Are you a ‘Squatcher’? That’s what believers in Bigfoot are called
HOBBIES

Crocheters celebrate one of their own: Vice President Harris

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

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

Poll gives Mass. schools a passing grade for pandemic performance

rhode island

Father Christopher Cunningham in a picture taken shortly after he was ordained in 1990.
RI CRIME

Newport psychologist arrested on charges of sexually abusing children as a priest in California
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

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
A man leaps into the air to try and touch "20 Knots: Daffodils for Boston", an installation originally created to celebrate the Boston Marathon made of twenty 20-foot-tall flowers made to work in concert with the wind displayed in the Seaport in June 2020.
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
Editor James Crews, top center, wants to help readers love their lives as they are. Poets include Amanda Gorman, Ted Kooser, Ross Gay, and Joy Harjo.
‘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

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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

Boston Latin Academy.
EDITORIAL

Boston’s interim exam-school admission plan deserves a shot
Patrick Rose covers his face during his arraignment in August 2020.
EDITORIAL

Ending the code of silence for Boston police
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
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
David Almond was found unresponsive in his family’s Fall River apartment.
EDITORIAL

Fixing the chasm that claimed the life of David Almond
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

From left, Will Leese, Colby Sheehan, Hutch Rose, and Will Gallagher helped the Duxbury boys place second in the Fall II Patriot League track & field championships.

Duxbury’s Will Gallagher makes a speedy return at Patriot League track championships

Jadeveon Clowney signs with Browns

Bill Belichick didn’t attend QB prospect Justin Fields’ second pro day, but several Patriots execs did

metro

Father Christopher Cunningham in a picture taken shortly after he was ordained in 1990.

Newport psychologist arrested on charges of sexually abusing children as a priest in California

Snow (yes, you read that right) is on the way for some parts of Mass.

Janey says proposed $3.75b city budget is ‘built around an equitable recovery, reopening, and renewal’

Nation

A demonstrator held an American flag as he spoke to the crowd outside the Brooklyn Center police station while protesting the death of Daunte Wright who was shot and killed by a police officer.

Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright is charged with manslaughter

Friends and family remember Daunte Wright, known as jokester, young dad

US Capitol Police watchdog to testify on Jan. 6 failures

World

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Months after hack, US poised to announce sanctions on Russia

Afghans wonder ‘what about me’ as US troops prepare to withdraw

Biden says US troops will be out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11

politics

President Joe Biden.

Watch live: Biden speaks on Afghanistan

No charges against officer who fatally shot woman during insurrection at US Capitol in January, prosecutors say

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

business

Harry Markopolos, an independent financial fraud investigator and former money manager, warned about Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme long before it collapsed in 2008.

Madoff was an evil master of financial illusion

Nine Zero hotel to reinstate terminated workers, union says

Many are placing bets on summer travel

lifestyle

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

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

Why your next rental car might cost more than a plane ticket

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

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

Security personnel stands guard as Independent Election Commission workers unload ballot boxes from a truck to be taken to a counting center the day after Afghanistan held presidential elections, in September, 2019.

Afghanistan and Vietnam: How did the US lose two wars?

N.Y. is right, Governor Baker — bring on the vaccine passport

Whatever the outcome in Chauvin trial, justice will have been served

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

Alfred Hitchcock at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972.

‘Twelve Lives,’ one master of suspense

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

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

Movies

Plaster casts alleged to be of Sasquatch footprints.

In Focus: Are you a ‘Squatcher’? That’s what believers in Bigfoot are called

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

In ‘Monday,’ Greece is the word

Television

Russell Wilson and his wife, Ciara, are hosts of the "Roll Up Your Sleeves" special.

Stars gather for a vaccination booster

‘The Bachelor’ star Colton Underwood comes out as gay

‘Shameless’ ending was more of the same

music

The violinist headlines the first of five video concerts recorded at Fraser Performance Studio.

Gil Shaham kicks off GBH concerts for German classical streaming service

The sound of our town in nine new singles

Nine albums by local artists that have gotten this year off to an exciting start

Theater/Dance

Kirsten Greenidge (top left), Mike Lew (top right), Lydia R. Diamond (bottom right), and Heidi Schreck (bottom left)

Huntington Theatre announces a full 2021-22 season of indoor productions that includes ‘Common Ground’

ART’s Diane Borger is stepping down

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

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

Bernie Madoff in 2009.

Bernie Madoff, who defrauded investors of billions, dies in prison

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

Australian portrait photographer June Newton dies at 97