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Biden says he’s praying for ‘right verdict’ in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial

President Biden said Tuesday that he believed the case, which has gone to the jury and put the nation on edge, to be “overwhelming.”
Out of sight but center stage, jurors weigh murder case against Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s death

Police investigate gunfire at Long Island grocery store
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said in a tweet Tuesday there had been shooting at a Stop & Shop supermarket in West Hempstead and that the suspect has not been apprehended.

Missing girl found; truck driver facing federal charges

A Virginia truck driver wanted in Texas for sexual assault of a child was found in Rhode Island with a teenage girl reported missing nearly a year ago, authorities said.

Parking ticket amnesty ends for health care workers in Boston
For more than a year, the city has allowed health care workers to have parking tickets dismissed if they were ticketed while working. Last week, the city announced the program would expire Tuesday.

Fans protested outside Elland Road stadium in Leeds against Liverpool's decision to be included amongst the clubs attempting to form a new European Super League.

Fenway Sports Group facing serious backlash from livid Liverpool fans over Super League plan

The Boston-based owners, who also own the Red Sox, are facing vitriol from fan groups, and Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is distancing himself from the idea.
UEFA president urges Super League owners to reverse decision: ‘Gentlemen, you made a huge mistake’
Mary Ann Vecchio gestured and screamed as she kneeled by the body of a student lying face down on the campus of Kent State University in 1970. (AP Photo/Valley Daily News, John Filo)

The girl in the Kent State photo and the lifelong burden of being a national symbol

The photo of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Kent State University student Jeffrey Miller is one of the most important images of the 20th century.
Parents of transgender children and others gathered in Austin, Texas, recently to make their voices heard.

Republicans, out of power and squabbling, are targeting transgender kids to score political points, activists say

LGBTQ rights’ advocates argue that Republicans are targeting transgender youth now as a way to score political points with a segment of their base at a time when the party is out of power at the federal level and squabbling over some of the fundamental policies that used to unite them.
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Ted Nugent revealed he was in agony after testing positive for coronavirus — months after he said the virus was “not a real pandemic.” "I thought I was dying," Nugent says in a Facebook live video posted Monday.
Ted Nugent, who once dismissed COVID-19, sickened by virus
The singer is revealing he was in agony after testing positive for coronavirus — months after he said the virus was “not a real pandemic.”

Ride-hailing service driver arrested in Boston on sexual assault charge

Sonpreet Singh surrendered to police on Sunday after a woman told detectives on April 14 she had been assaulted by the driver, according to Boston police.

Passengers made their way to Terminal B at Logan Airport in November 2020.
Did it seem like lots of people moved out of Boston during the COVID-19 pandemic? New data confirm it
In 2020, more people moved out of Boston than arrived, while smaller Massachusetts communities saw an influx of residents, according to new Postal Service data.

Traffic at Logan Airport spiked last week

Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin.
A year later, Boston officials recounted the vote. Now, the top vote-getter is suing to be seated
An obscure election for a seat on the GOP state committee is at the center of an unusual — and messy — legal battle that has entangled the City of Boston, Secretary of State William Galvin, and the Massachusetts Republican Party.

Love Letters
Her husband’s comments on her body have shaken her
She’s hurt but wonders if she should just let it go.

Love Letters Podcast: New crush, old bones

Chad army spokesman General Azem Bermandoa Agouna, center, announces the death of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, on state television Tuesday.
Military says that Chad’s president killed on battlefield
Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, died Tuesday of wounds suffered on the battlefield during a fight against rebels, the military announced on national television and radio.

Opinion

Smoke rises around Boston police on May 31, 2020, as they use pepper spray during a Black Lives Matter protest.
Andrea J. Campbell

Time and again, the Boston Police Department has proved it can’t be trusted to police itself

The department needs transparency and accountability. But that won’t happen in a vacuum. It requires hands-on leadership.
Migrants from Central American countries wait to be taken to a Border Patrol intake station after being smuggled across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas, on March 30.
MARCELA GARCÍA

A young migrant’s perilous journey and the cost of inaction
EDITORIAL

There’s too much secrecy in state government. It’s time for a constitutional amendment to change that
In this image taken from courtroom video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as his attorney, Eric Nelson, gives his closing defense argument Monday at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd.
Joan Vennochi

Believe what you saw. Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd
People are checked for a Florida ID as they enter a mass site to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on March 9 in Miami.
Harald Schmidt and Rebecca Weintraub

An ID shouldn’t be a requirement for the COVID vaccine

Recommended reads

Jeneé Osterheldt
Nancy Fields and her daughter Kylee. A year ago, Fields was so sick she could barely move. Now she's healthy and having a baby.
A year ago she had COVID. Now she’s having a baby
Coronavirus taught Nancy Fields not to take life for granted.

As the gender reveal party death toll mounts, people ask ‘Why???’

Wildfires, malfunctioning explosive devices, a plane crash. Are gender reveal parties cursed?

Forget the conga line and bring a mask. Large weddings planned for 2021 will look different

Local vendors say their schedules are almost booked for the rest of the year, with their first triple-digit guest-list weddings since the pandemic scheduled for as soon as this summer.

Approaching Boston from the west will never be the same: Long-planned Fenway Center is about to rise

The Fenway Center project will put a two-acre deck, followed by a 350-foot tower, above the Massachusetts Turnpike between Brookline Avenue and Beacon Street.

The Future of Work

The past year has shattered expectations of what workdays look like. Parenting while Zooming. An uncrowded T. Wary interactions with customers. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.

metro

A total of 199,236 passengers departed Logan Airport last week.

Traffic at Logan Airport spiked last week

Though traffic was still far below prepandemic levels, data showed “a big jump” last week, according to a spokesperson for Massport, which runs Logan.

Parking ticket amnesty ends for health care workers in Boston
RHODE MAP

What 3 R.I. mayors have learned in their first 100 days

Sports

Syracuse cornerback Ifeatu Melifonwu is about to follow in his brother's footsteps to the NFL.
ben volin | on football

Grafton’s Ifeatu Melifonwu is on the verge of realizing his NFL dream

The Syracuse cornerback is expected to be taken in the second or third round of the draft, and thinks he has an outside shot of going late in the first round.
BLUE JAYS at RED SOX | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 18: Blue Jays at Red Sox lineups and notes
NWHL

Former gold medalist Colleen Coyne named president of NWHL’s Boston Pride

business

A sign at the Vertex Pharmaceuticals headquarters in the Seaport.

Vertex doubles down on gene editing in $900 million investment with CRISPR Therapeutics

Amazon accused of corrupting the union voting process at an Alabama warehouse

BAA extends deal with Adidas

politics

Former Vice President Walter Mondale during an interview on Dec. 12, 1983.
Obituary

Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter’s vice president, dies at 93

Republicans, out of power and squabbling, are targeting transgender kids to score political points, activists say

In an interview, former president George W. Bush talks of ‘compassionate conservatives,’ his belief in unification

Living Arts

Meklit Hadero performing in 2017.

Better late than never: Meklit finally makes her Celebrity Series debut

Recipe: The Butter Rice episode in the series ‘Midnight Diner’ will make you want to try this simple Japanese dish
WHAT SHE'S HAVING

Butter Rice? They had what he was having

education

Northeastern University is one of at least 20 colleges or universities that have announced students are required to be vaccinated against the coronavirus before returning to campus in the fall.

Colleges are starting to require student vaccinations

Massachusetts, other states need to increase spending for preschools, report says
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Mass. education commissioner recommends vocational school admissions changes to boost fairness

rhode island

Warwick Mayor Frank J. Picozzi in front of his famous Christmas display.
RHODE MAP

What 3 R.I. mayors have learned in their first 100 days
RI CRIME

As protests against killings by police continue, some look to refocus on Rhode Island
CORONAVIRUS

R.I. residents age 16 and older can get the COVID-19 vaccine. But are they signing up?

Newton

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Comfort Zone

The summer season at Jacob's Pillow will include a performance of “joyUS justUS" by CONTRA-TIEMPO.
After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021
The June 30-Aug. 29 season will also offer unprecedented online access to most festival programming.

COMFORT ZONE
Safiya Leslie
This musical journey around the globe comes once a month in a box
Berklee grad Safiya Leslie — a singer/songwriter and entrepreneur — is giving world music fans a chance to explore the sounds of a different country each month through her Safiya’s World Music Tour Playlist subscription boxes.

COMFORT ZONE
People in Boston and beyond can grab a free BlueBike to reach their vaccination site starting April 19.
Take a free Bluebike to your COVID-19 vaccine appointment
The complimentary trips will be available in Arlington, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Newton, Revere, Somerville, and Watertown.

COMFORT ZONE
Volunteer Coordinator Carol Carlson will read “Carl and the Meaning of Life” by Deborah Freedman and “Trees Make Perfect Pets” by Paul Czajak and Cathy Gendron at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Eight Earth Day events for the whole family
From your backyard to your favorite trail, enjoy these virtual (or socially distanced) events that make you proud to be an earthling.

COMFORT ZONE
Some of Carol Resende's propagating plants.
How houseplant propagation kept some Bostonians well-rooted through the pandemic
Enthusiasts regularly trade clippings and solicit gardening advice on Facebook groups like Boston Plant Swap. Instagram accounts devoted to succulent propagation have picked up thousands of followers, and “plantfluencers” are finding fertile ground on TikTok for doling out gardening advice.

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

Students sit separated by plastic dividers during lunch at Wyandotte County High School in Kansas City, Kan. on the first day of in-person learning on March 31.
Paul Reville

Pandemic learning loss can be a post-pandemic opportunity for education reforms
Steven Prescod as Tereek (left) and Robert Tarango as Artie, in a scene from "Feeling Through."
Dave Power

What TikTok users who doubt Helen Keller can learn this Oscar season
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Isreal (center) attends a Memorial Day ceremony honoring Israel's fallen soldiers, in Jerusalem, April 14.
EDITORIAL

Biden must be blunt with Israel about the Iran deal
L. Rafael Reif

The ‘super wicked problem’ of climate change is our Earthshot
Pump jacks and wind turbines are visible inside of a cotton field near Lamesa, Texas, in 2015.
Frances Moore Lappé

It’s not too late to make a difference on the climate crisis
ideas

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.

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
Person wearing a "Hello I am ... bored" sticker on their shirt.
Perspective

Dear Grads: Don’t believe the myth that work has to be a slog

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
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

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin criticized the owners of six English clubs, which include Fenway Sports Group and other American billionaires, along with Middle East royalty and a Russian oligarch, over their plan.

UEFA president urges Super League owners to reverse decision: ‘Gentlemen, you made a huge mistake’

Celtics coach Brad Stevens says he didn’t receive an offer to coach Indiana after all

The Celtics could have beaten the Bulls; that they didn’t shows where they must clean things up

metro

“As of April 13, 168,145 Boston residents have been vaccinated,” the city tweeted.

Nearly 29 percent of adult Bostonians fully vaccinated against COVID-19

As protests against killings by police continue, some look to refocus on Rhode Island

Dr. Barbara Rockett, first female president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, dies at 89

Nation

Police responded to the scene of a shooting at a Stop & Shop supermarket in West Hempstead, N.Y., on Tuesday.

Police investigate gunfire at Long Island grocery store

Biden says he’s praying for ‘right verdict’ in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial

Did it seem like lots of people moved out of Boston during the COVID-19 pandemic? New data confirm it

World

Chad army spokesman General Azem Bermandoa Agouna, center, announces the death of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, on state television Tuesday.

Military says that Chad’s president killed on battlefield

Queen enters ‘twilight’ of reign after farewell to Philip

EU regulator prepares to issue advice on use of J&J vaccine

politics

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is held by pharmacist Madeline Acquilano at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. U.S. on March 3, 2021.

Half of US adults now have received at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot

One America News Network stays true to Trump

GOP White House hopefuls move forward as Trump considers run

business

GreenLight Fund founders Margaret Hall and John Simon

Bain Capital commits $4m to help the Boston nonprofit GreenLight Fund expand nationally

Women’s digital health startups reap record VC funding on COVID surge

2 US agencies send teams to probe Tesla crash with no driver

lifestyle

Mary Ann Vecchio gestured and screamed as she kneeled by the body of a student lying face down on the campus of Kent State University in 1970. (AP Photo/Valley Daily News, John Filo)

The girl in the Kent State photo and the lifelong burden of being a national symbol

What does it take to run a small-town restaurant during a pandemic?

Joyful reunions as regulars reunite with their favorite restaurant workers

marijuana

Marijuana plants stand in a room at the grow facility for Sense of Healing dispensary in Denver, Colorado.

US House passes marijuana banking bill with bipartisan support

With marijuana legal in New York, and other states close behind, will Mass. dispensaries along state borders survive?

Cannabis Commissioner Jennifer Flanagan to resign from state marijuana board

opinion

Smoke rises around Boston police on May 31, 2020, as they use pepper spray during a Black Lives Matter protest.

Time and again, the Boston Police Department has proved it can’t be trusted to police itself

There’s too much secrecy in state government. It’s time for a constitutional amendment to change that

Pandemic learning loss can be a post-pandemic opportunity for education reforms

food & dining

'Midnight Diner' Butter Rice.

Recipe: The Butter Rice episode in the series ‘Midnight Diner’ will make you want to try this simple Japanese dish

Butter Rice? They had what he was having

3 places we supported this week

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

Dartmouth's Joshua Bennett is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner

Dartmouth professor Joshua Bennett awarded two major literary prizes inside a week

Brave women fighting Nazis in ‘The Light of Days’

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

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

Phoebe Dynevor and Rege-Jean Page in a scene from Netflix's "Bridgerton," among the many streaming series engineered for binge-watching.

Some shows are meant to be binged, not savored

This week’s TV: The Oscars at long last, Earth Day shows, and a new Ed Helms comedy

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

music

Meklit Hadero performing in 2017.

Better late than never: Meklit finally makes her Celebrity Series debut

This musical journey around the globe comes once a month in a box

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

Theater/Dance

The summer season at Jacob's Pillow will include a performance of “joyUS justUS" by CONTRA-TIEMPO.

After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021

Theater without theater

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

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

In addition to her many other accomplishments, Dr. Barbara Rockett was a fine equestrian.

Dr. Barbara Rockett, first female president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, dies at 89

Donald Junkins, poet who led UMass Amherst creative writing program, dies at 89

Alma Wahlberg, mother of Mark, Donnie Wahlberg, dies at 78