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White House faces pressure to act after string of mass shootings

A gunman's rampage that claimed eight lives Thursday in Indianapolis became the latest mass shooting to set off the well-known pattern of condolences, lowered flags and a somber presidential statement calling on Congress to act.
Victims are identified in Indianapolis shooting in which eight died What we know so far about the victims of the Indianapolis shooting

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’
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.

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
Longtime GBH-TV host Emily Rooney apologized Friday for on-air comments she made in response to concerns raised by filmmakers of color about PBS’s decades-long relationship with documentarian Ken Burns.

Former Hudson middle school teacher charged with raping student

A former Hudson middle school teacher pleaded not guilty Friday to charges she repeatedly raped a 13-year-old girl a decade ago after meeting her at the school where she worked and where the child was a seventh-grader.
Justin Turner said the Dodgers and Padres will play "19 World Series games" this season.
Peter Abraham I Sunday baseball notes

Southern California has become baseball central

The Dodgers, Padres, and Angels have never made the playoffs in the same season. Could this be the year?
NFLPA president J.C. Tretter cites three main reasons for wanting an all-virtual offseason: COVID-19 concerns, injury concerns, and the fact that it worked well last year.
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Offseason workouts a sticking point between NFL and NFLPA

The NFLPA wants the entire nine-week program to be held virtually, like last year. The NFL wants to hold five weeks virtually and the last four weeks in person.
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.
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
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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Weekend Arts

Boston-based artist Niu Raza released her debut album, "Mm-hmm," in late January. The native of Madagascar is a Berklee School of Music graduate.
MUSIC

Nine albums by local artists that have gotten this year off to an exciting start
On "Best Friend," Laufey pairs a swinging, jazzy lope with a mechanical drum-machine beat.
Album Reviews

The sound of our town in nine new singles
A scene from “A Very English Scandal,” starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw.
MATTHEW GILBERT

Cold? What a perfect excuse to spend the day watching TV
Elisabeth Moss and Max Minghella in Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale"
MATTHEW GILBERT

At last, 9 returning TV shows to look forward to this spring and summer

Minnesota mayor blasts police tactics to control protesters

Elected leaders in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright want officers to scale back their tactics amid nightly protests, leaving some law enforcement called in to assist asking whether the city still wants their help.
Hundreds march in Chicago, protesting police shooting of Adam Toledo Police declare riot in Portland Protests in Oakland end with fires, damage

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.
Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 million

Extras dressed up as Yale graduates outside the Harvard Club during recent filming for the George Cooney-directed movie "The Tender Bar."
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.

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.”

Sgt. Rossano Gerald testified before Congress in Washington on March 30, 2000.
Mistreatment of Black service members was common even before Virginia case
Police treatment of a Black Army officer in a small town in Virginia has put a focus on other encounters by Black service members with law enforcement officers.

LOVE LETTERS
Love Letters
How do we solve the intimacy problem?
Is the letter writer being used? Is this relationship transactional? Help.

Opinion

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

This most private personal decision, as the Supreme Court declared, must be protected.
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
In an interview, Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu didn’t have concrete answers to some of the most controversial questions about BPS.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Can Michelle Wu fix Boston Public Schools?
Anne Bernays

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.
SCOT LEHIGH

Police must be guardians, not warriors

Recommended reads

Billy Baker
When Ryan Collins decided to create a hunt of his own, he hid a hundred dollar bill at the Saugus Iron Works.
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.

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.

Lowell is an immigrant city on the precipice of change

Tensions are high as this immigrant city faces the beginning of the end of majority-white rule. 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.
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.

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
RI NEWSMAKERS

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

Sports

NFLPA president J.C. Tretter cites three main reasons for wanting an all-virtual offseason: COVID-19 concerns, injury concerns, and the fact that it worked well last year.
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Offseason workouts a sticking point between NFL and NFLPA

The NFLPA wants the entire nine-week program to be held virtually, like last year. The NFL wants to hold five weeks virtually and the last four weeks in person.
white sox vs. red sox | 4:05 p.m. (nesn)

Game 14: White Sox at Red Sox lineups and notes
Peter Abraham I Sunday baseball notes

Southern California has become baseball central

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

A family of immigrants arrived across the Rio Grande river from Mexico stood in line at a processing checkpoint before being detained at a holding facility by border patrol agents in the border city of Roma, Texas.

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
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.
RI NEWSMAKERS

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

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

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

This "Postcards from Allston" image features a man walking by an Allston construction site.
‘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.”

Actors perform scripts created from Revolutionary-era depositions and interviews, including testimonials from white women.
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
Beane performs on stage as "American Idol" gets closer to crowning a winner.
Two performers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ Top 12
Watch and vote Sunday night on ABC.

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.

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

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.
EDITORIAL

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

Biden’s mission: Stand up for Ukraine
Worcester Red Sox players held a scrimmage at their new Polar Park stadium on April 8.
Mike Stanton

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.
ideas

The Future of Work

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 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
MISS CONDUCT

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

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

All good signs for Bruins rookie goaltender Jeremy Swayman

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

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

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

‘Castle Rock,’ the Stephen King-inspired television series, received $14 million in state subsidies

Vartan Gregorian, transformative civic leader and tireless educator, dies at 87

Nation

Bodies were carried away on Friday from the scene of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.

White House faces pressure to act after string of mass shootings

Mistreatment of Black service members was common even before Virginia case

What we know so far about the victims of the Indianapolis shooting

World

The casket arrived at St George's Chapel for the funeral of Britain's Prince Philip inside Windsor Castle.

See photos from the funeral of Prince Philip

Watch a livestream of the funeral of Prince Philip

Prince Philip’s funeral to praise ‘courage’ and support for the queen

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

In an interview, Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu didn’t have concrete answers to some of the most controversial questions about BPS.

Can Michelle Wu fix Boston Public Schools?

Can you believe it? Religion’s been taking a hit

Still one major disconnect in our regional rail: between north and south

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

Cold? 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

Vartan Gregorian in New York City in October 2020

Vartan Gregorian, transformative civic leader and tireless educator, dies at 87

Donald Ryder, architect of Black heritage sites, dies at 94

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