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On Friday morning, people looked at the FedEx facility where a mass shooting took place Thursday night.

Indianapolis FedEx shooting victims identified by officials

The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis was interviewed by FBI agents last year, after his mother called police to say that her son might commit “suicide by cop,” the bureau said Friday.

Harvard Club, developer plan 11-story building along Mass. Pike

The Harvard Club, along with developer Trinity Financial, filed plans with the city to build two buildings on what’s now the club’s annex and a surface parking lot. The Newbury Street project includes housing and a parking garage.

Jabari Parker (left) averaged 2.7 points over three games with the Kings this season before being released last month.

Celtics sign former No. 2 pick Jabari Parker, waive Moe Wagner

Parker, the second pick of the 2014 draft, has averaged 14.8 points over seven seasons. But his career has been hampered by injuries, most notably a pair of ACL tears.

David Pastrnak got the Bruins on the board in the first period on a pretty feed from Mike Reilly (left).

bruins 3, islanders 0

David Pastrnak gets untracked, Bruins take back-to-back games from Islanders

Pastrnak scored his 17th goal of the season and his first since April 3 in the Bruins' victory.

All good signs for Bruins rookie goaltender Jeremy Swayman

Hiring in Massachusetts remains frustratingly slow

There’s no doubt the local job market is moving in the right direction, but the pace of hiring remains sluggish compared with many other states, a result of our cautious approach to reopening the economy.

Trump loyalists start America First Caucus to promote US as ‘uniquely Anglo-Saxon’

Far-right Republicans in Congress are forming an “America First Caucus” that would promote nativist policies, according to materials outlining the group’s goals first obtained by Punchbowl News.

Hundreds march in Chicago, protesting police shooting of Adam Toledo, 13

Hundreds of people marched through the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago on Friday evening, calling for overhauls to the city’s police department after the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by a police officer in March.

Minnesota mayor blasts police tactics to control protesters

Vehicle inspections will resume Saturday morning at most stations, RMV says

Some inspection stations have “more complex technological issues” to resolve, but most will be able to resume inspections at 7 a.m., the Registry of Motor Vehicles said in a statement.

Former Hudson middle school teacher charged with raping student

Man seriously injured after crash on Route 130 in Sandwich

A Peloton Interactive Inc. Tread exercise machine for sale at the company's showroom in Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.

Peloton fights federal safety recall after its treadmills left one child dead, others injured

The at-home exercise company is fighting a federal safety agency’s request that the company recall the products and has delayed the agency’s investigation into potential safety problems, according to officials.

Emily Rooney at the WGBH television studios in Boston, in 2009.

Emily Rooney apologizes after accusations of ‘demeaning and racist commentary’ on ‘Beat the Press’ segment

The segment focused on complaints by a group called Beyond Inclusion about PBS’s ties to Ken Burns and its effect on nonwhite filmmakers.

Actress Helen McCrory, who starred in the television show “Peaky Blinders” and the “Harry Potter” movies, has died. She was 52 and had been suffering from cancer.

‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Harry Potter’ actor Helen McCrory dies at 52

Her husband, fellow actor Damian Lewis, said McCrory died “peacefully at home” after a "heroic battle with cancer.”

School Vacation Week | April 19-23

Maddyn Wise from Needham searched for clown fish at one of the New England Aquarium's exhibits.

The kids are about to be home (again). Here’s how to fill the time

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

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

Nikolay Silkina, 7, checked out "Where the Questions Live" at Peabody Essex Museum.

10 ways for youngsters to find a little bliss (finally)

Nibble Kitchen is part of Bow Market in Somerville.

10 kid-friendly patios for April vacation dining

After blowback, White House says Biden will move to lift Trump-era refugee caps

The White House on Friday said President Biden plans to lift his predecessor’s historically low cap on refugees by next month, after initially moving only to expand the eligibility criteria for resettlements.

Japan’s leader urges strong alliance in White House visit

Justice Department sues Roger Stone over $2 million in unpaid taxes

The Justice Department sued Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone on Friday, accusing the conservative provocateur and his wife of failing to pay nearly $2 million in income tax.

1,962 confirmed cases, 13 deaths, and 86,934 vaccinations: See today’s new COVID-19 data from Mass.

The total shots administered included 2,963,999 first shots and 1,756,466 second shots. Those who have gotten their second shot of the currently approved two-dose vaccines are considered fully vaccinated.

Raul Castro confirms he’s resigning, ending family’s era of leadership in Cuba

His retirement means that for the first time in more than six decades Cubans won’t have a Castro formally guiding their affairs, and it comes at a difficult time, with many on the island anxious about what lies ahead.

LOVE LETTERS

How do we solve the intimacy problem?

Is the letter writer being used? Is this relationship transactional? Help.

ALEX SPEIER | ON BASEBALL

How a former Rookie of the Year helped the Red Sox snag revelation Garrett Whitlock

Bob Hamelin, whose contract the Red Sox didn't renew last September, was the scout who clued them in to a potential-laden pitcher with the Yankees' Double-A club.

Opinion

Tigrinyan refugee women prepared bread for their family in Umm Rakouba refugee camp in eastern Sudan in December 2020. President Biden is on track to admit fewer refugees than any president has since 1980.

Biden’s delay on refugees

The White House’s failure to lift the historically low refugee cap means thousands of lives hang in the balance.

Law enforcement officers cleared an area of demonstrators outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a protest on April 14 over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.

Dean A. Strang and Nancy Gertner

Supreme Court rulings on traffic stops reinforce structural racism in policing

Then-Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris in her Converse sneakers at a drive-in campaign event at the Infinite Energy Center on Nov. 1 in Duluth, Georgia.

What’s afoot, politically?

Throw Shakespeare from the train

In this image made from a Windsor Police video, a police officer uses a spray agent on US Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario on Dec. 20, 2020, in Windsor, Va. Nazario is suing two Virginia police officers over a traffic stop during which he says the officers drew their guns and pointed them at him while he was dressed in uniform.

Police must be guardians, not warriors

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Analysis

Obama talked about a ‘pivot to Asia.’ Biden is actually doing it

Years after the Obama administration, the pivot to Asia is finally happening. But the person doing it is Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden.

Cheating allegations engulf Dartmouth medical school

More than a dozen students are accused of accessing online course materials while taking a test on a different software platform. At least nine of the accused say that they are innocent, and that Dartmouth doesn’t understand how its own software platforms work.

Vaccination disparities across race and ethnicity persist in Mass. communities most affected by COVID-19

Despite efforts to ensure the COVID-19 vaccines are distributed equitably across Massachusetts, predominantly Black and Latino communities, where the risk of infection is greatest, still have among the lowest inoculation rates in the state, according to a new analysis.

Billy Baker

How a lockdown game became a monthly treasure hunt with a cult following

Ryan Collins created “Happy Hunting” to distract himself and his friends. Now, his intricate puzzles have a growing fan base of devotees who race around the state each month looking for his hidden treasures.

Lowell is an immigrant city on the precipice of change

The old guard is begrudgingly making room for more diverse leadership, and community activists are demanding that city leaders recognize racism as an urgent problem.

metro

An inspection station in Lexington.

Vehicle inspections will resume Saturday morning at most stations, RMV says

Some inspection stations have “more complex technological issues” to resolve, but most will be able to resume inspections at 7 a.m., the Registry of Motor Vehicles said in a statement.

Former Hudson middle school teacher charged with raping student

Vartan Gregorian, former Brown University president and savior of the New York Public Library, dies at 87

Sports

Not even a snow shower could damper Jeremy Swayman's focus, who stopped 25 shots.

All good signs for Bruins rookie goaltender Jeremy Swayman

During warm-ups, Swayman spotted a couple of fans holding a “Swayman For President 2024” sign.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | MARSHFIELD 36, HINGHAM 6

Perfect in the Patriot League: Marshfield picks it back up, dominates Hingham

Celtics sign former No. 2 pick Jabari Parker, waive Moe Wagner

business

A Peloton Interactive Inc. Tread exercise machine for sale at the company's showroom in Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.

Peloton fights federal safety recall after its treadmills left one child dead, others injured

BPDA OKs re-do of Jamaica Plain’s Mildred Hailey complex

Harvard Club, developer plan 11-story building along Mass. Pike

politics

President Joe Biden speaks about new sanctions on Russia, from the East Room of the White House, in Washington on Thursday, April, 15, 2021.

After blowback, White House says Biden will move to lift Trump-era refugee caps

State Department watchdog says Pompeo, wife violated ethics rules

Japan’s leader urges strong alliance in White House visit

Living Arts

Love Letters

How do we solve the intimacy problem?

Boston Children’s Museum brings back play with reopening in May

Emily Rooney apologizes after accusations of ‘demeaning and racist commentary’ on ‘Beat the Press’ segment

education

Leaders of civil rights, community, and education advocacy organizations and attorneys who intervened in the recent lawsuit challenging Boston Public Schools’ updated admissions process held a press conference Friday morning.

Plaintiffs seek emergency injunction to halt Boston exam school admission decisions as they pursue appeal

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

Federal judge upholds Boston exam school admissions policy

rhode island

In this June 23, 2004, file photo, President Bush presents Vartan Gregorian with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Gregorian, the noted scholar and philanthropic leader who has led the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997, died Thursday, April 15, 2021, after being hospitalized for stomach pain. He was 87.

Vartan Gregorian, former Brown University president and savior of the New York Public Library, dies at 87

RI HEALTH

McKee administration puts hold on plans for major changes at Eleanor Slater Hospital

AROUND RI

Welcoming spring at Bristol’s Audubon Nature Center and Aquarium

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Comfort Zone

Boston Children’s Museum brings back play with reopening in May

Families can immediately purchase timed tickets for Saturdays and Sundays next month, with extended hours arriving in June.

‘Postcards from Allston’ photographer captures a changing neighborhood and its residents

Edward Boches set out to document "one of the most authentic communities in Boston.”

With a gallery revamp, Concord Museum summons forgotten voices of 1775

The Battle of Lexington and Concord is reframed to include the contributions of white women and people of color.

NAMES

Two performers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ Top 12

Watch and vote Sunday night on ABC.

COMFORT ZONE

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.

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

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

Reverend Erika Wilson, from the Awakening Spiritual Community of San Antonio, speaks at the Whole Women's Health clinic in 2019.

Mary Ann Sorrentino

The chipping away of a woman’s right to choose

A Ukrainian serviceman walks along a trench on the front line with Russia-backed separatists near Gorlivka, Donetsk region, on April 15.

Biden’s mission: Stand up for Ukraine

Worcester Red Sox players held a scrimmage at their new Polar Park stadium on April 8.

Rhode Islanders, don’t go to Polar Park

Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn.

Leonard L. Glass, Edwin B. Fisher, and Lance Dodes

Why did Yale dismiss Bandy X. Lee?

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.

The Future of Work

STAT

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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.

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.

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.

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 on school vacation

MassArt student Bobbi Colburn wearing a face mask she created.

College & COVID

‘There’s so much beautiful work that’s come out of this’: College art students in the COVID era

Advice: How do you handle shower invitations for pandemic-style weddings?

Authors Live in Your Living Room features Adrian Miller, author of "Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue," on April 15.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do, April 12-25

sports

David Pastrnak got the Bruins on the board in the first period on a pretty feed from Mike Reilly (left).

David Pastrnak gets untracked, Bruins take back-to-back games from Islanders

O’Bryant football storms past Brighton with a prolific rushing attack

Surging starters will still need to tighten up if Red Sox want to stay hot

metro

Leaders of civil rights, community, and education advocacy organizations and attorneys who intervened in the recent lawsuit challenging Boston Public Schools’ updated admissions process held a press conference Friday morning.

Plaintiffs seek emergency injunction to halt Boston exam school admission decisions as they pursue appeal

‘Peaky Blinders’ actor Helen McCrory dies of cancer at 52

To cut paper waste, Belmont entrepreneurs sell reusable cloth gift wrap

Nation

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene along with Rep. Paul Gosar are reportedly behind the MAGA caucus.

Trump loyalists start America First Caucus to promote US as ‘uniquely Anglo-Saxon’

Minnesota mayor blasts police tactics to control protesters

Hundreds march in Chicago, protesting police shooting of Adam Toledo, 13

World

Raul Castro in 2016.

Raul Castro confirms he’s resigning, ending family’s era of leadership in Cuba

Hong Kong court sentences Jimmy Lai and other pro-democracy leaders to prison

Iran starts enriching uranium to 60 percent, its highest level ever

politics

President Joe Biden.

Watch live: Biden holds joint press conference with Japanese prime minister

AG Garland rescinds Trump-era curtailing of consent decrees used in investigations of police departments

Obama talked about a ‘pivot to Asia.’ Biden is actually doing it

business

The Wayfair website.

Amazon plans furniture assembly service to catch Wayfair

Bill Gates-backed Vicarious Surgical to go public in $1.1 billion SPAC deal

Hiring in Massachusetts remains frustratingly slow

lifestyle

People wait in line at National rental agency in the Miami International Airport Car Rental Center on April 12, in Miami. Customers are finding that car rental agencies have limited or no supply of vehicles as people begin traveling again after being locked down during the pandemic.

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

Everything you want to know about COVID-19 and kids (but were afraid to ask)

Crave comes to Allston, breweries launch beer gardens, and the South End welcomes a brasserie

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

Law enforcement officers cleared an area of demonstrators outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a protest on April 14 over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.

Supreme Court rulings on traffic stops reinforce structural racism in policing

Biden’s delay on refugees

The chipping away of a woman’s right to choose

food & dining

A beer from Night Shift Brewing.

Crave comes to Allston, breweries launch beer gardens, and the South End welcomes a brasserie

Baseball packages, New England rail travel, and a food lover’s road trip

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

travel

People wait in line at National rental agency in the Miami International Airport Car Rental Center on April 12, in Miami. Customers are finding that car rental agencies have limited or no supply of vehicles as people begin traveling again after being locked down during the pandemic.

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

All is not lost at The Lost Kitchen, as chef Erin French adjusts and reinvents, yet again

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

Books

Brave women fighting Nazis in ‘The Light of Days’

For Ruth Ware, it was the year reading ‘got squeezed into odd corners’

This thing called life in Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Souvenir Museum’

Movies

When the Oscars broadcast begins April 25 on ABC, there won’t be an audience. For the producers, the challenges of COVID are an opportunity to, finally, rethink the Oscars.

The pandemic has upended the Oscars. Good, producers say

When Orson Welles doesn’t make the cut

Doc Talk: bearing witness, creating Oz, watching whales

Television

Camille Cottin plays Andrea, the character on whom the "Call My Agent" film spinoff will focus.

‘Call My Agent’ gets a fifth season — and more

Snow? What a perfect excuse to spend the day watching TV

In HBO’s ‘Mare of Easttown,’ Kate Winslet is investigating a murder — and maybe her own life

music

Mark Sandman (left) with bandmates Mike Rivard and Tom Halter (partially shown) at a Hypnosonics show at the Middle East in 1987 or 1988.

On two new releases, fans can hear Mark Sandman’s ‘secret band’ in full

Amplifying the Black composers who brought spirituals to classical music

Gil Shaham kicks off GBH concerts for German classical streaming service

Theater/Dance

Screen shot of Seth Rudetsky in "The Seth Concert Series."

Theater without theater

Huntington Theatre announces a full 2021-22 season of indoor productions

ART’s Diane Borger is stepping down

globe local

Caitlin Harding was arraigned via Zoom Friday in Middlesex Superior Court.

Former Hudson middle school teacher charged with raping student

To cut paper waste, Belmont entrepreneurs sell reusable cloth gift wrap

Lexington confronts history of slavery in liberty’s birthplace

Obituaries

Actress Helen McCrory arrived at the British Academy Television Awards in London on May 8, 2016.

‘Peaky Blinders’ actor Helen McCrory dies of cancer at 52

‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Harry Potter’ actor Helen McCrory dies at 52

Martin Boykan, a composer and Brandeis professor who was ‘a great sage,’ dies at 89