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All three men involved in murder of Ahmaud Arbery found guilty of federal hate crimes

The jury reached its decision after several hours of deliberation on the charges against father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan.

Here’s what you need to know about the Russia-Ukraine situation

Alarms are being raised that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could happen at any moment. Here is a quick briefing, based on Globe wire services and major media reports, on what you need to know.

Watch live at 1 p.m.: President Biden speaks about Russia and Ukraine

WFXT Channel 25 acquired by hedge fund Standard General

Cox Media Group is selling the Boston-area TV station as part of a larger deal.

COVID-19: THE LATEST

EU advises further relaxing travel rules for foreigners

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This week’s ever-changing weather could bring record highs and snow

Spring in this part of the country doesn’t arrive overnight. It comes in little waves, with bouts of winter in between. Over the next few days, we’ll have more from both seasons.

Video analysis sheds light on professor’s fatal fall at MBTA station

A Boston University professor's death last September shocked the public and drew scrutiny of the MBTA and state officials’ inaction. ( Video produced by Caitlin Healy/Globe Staff, Reporting by Elizabeth Koh/Globe Staff, Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff )

Video footage sheds light on BU professor’s fatal fall at MBTA station, but key details remain unclear

The Globe analyzed video footage and photos of the staircase that provided a fuller reconstruction of what happened to the professor in the moments leading up to his death.

Bestselling author Ben Mezrich goes behind the scenes of his new book, ‘The Midnight Ride’

The new book, out Tuesday, is based on serialized novella “The Mechanic,” which ran in The Boston Globe for three weeks in 2020.

Cover art for "The Midnight Ride" by Ben Mezrich.

Book excerpt: ‘The Midnight Ride’ by Ben Mezrich

Mezrich’s new novel began as a novella that ran in the Boston Globe in 2020. Read the first chapter of the book, which was released on Tuesday.

Obituary

Dr. Paul Farmer, who tirelessly brought health care to the world’s neediest, dies at 62

A cofounder of Partners in Health, Farmer believed that “medicine should be viewed as social justice work in a world that is so sick and so riven by inequities.”

Appreciation: With Paul Farmer’s passing, the world has lost the gift of a rare man

INNOVATION BEAT

The end of 3G is not just about phones

On Tuesday, AT&T shut down its 3G network. T-Mobile will start to follow suit in a few weeks, and Verizon by year end. Here's what that means for a wide range of devices.

Sam Jones (right) played for the Celtics from 1957 to 1969.

‘Wait, did you play with Bill Russell?’ The quiet, impactful substitute teaching career of Celtics legend Sam Jones.

Sports fans know Jones as a five-time All-Star who won 10 NBA titles with the Celtics. In Maryland in the 1990s and early 2000s, he was Mr. Jones, substitute teacher.

LCD Soundsystem will perform in Boston April 3-6.

LCD Soundsystem announces Boston residency at Roadrunner in April

LCD Soundsystem will perform a four-night run at the new Allston venue from April 3-6. Tickets go on sale on Friday.

Opinion

Joan Vennochi

IBM e-mails about making ‘dinobabies’ extinct confirm what older workers already know

Still, it’s startling to see so much contempt expressed so candidly — and in writing.

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: In search of English’s missing words

EDITORIAL

A better way to admit students to Boston Latin

Myron Rolle

Apply the 2% way to systemic racism

IDEAS | KHARI THOMPSON

A decade after Trayvon Martin’s killing, the burden of Blackness persists

Butter miso noodles with chicken and vegetables from Dumpling Daughter.

PROJECT TAKEOUT

3 places we supported this week

Want to order from local, independent restaurants? Here are some suggestions from Globe staff.

See more from Project Takeout

Eli Lilly to establish $700 million genetic medicine institute in Fort Point

The pharmaceutical giant is expanding into 15 Necco St., an under-construction 12-story lab and office building fronting the Fort Point Channel.

R.I. Governor Dan McKee formally announces gubernatorial bid

“I am running to create good-paying jobs, and support small businesses, to grow our economy, and fight for hard-working people and their families in all 39 cities and towns,” he said in his announcement on Tuesday.

The Massachusetts State House reopened to public Tuesday — mostly

The Massachusetts State House reopened to the public on Tuesday, exactly 708 days after legislative leaders closed its doors at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But not everything is open. A hearing later Tuesday featuring Governor Charlie Baker will be livestreamed, but the public will not be allowed into the hearing room.

Body found at Woburn apartment complex

Woburn police received a 911 call reporting a body on the property just after 7 a.m., Lieutenant Paul Carpenter said.

Nonprofit library book reading of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ interrupted by protesters with Nazi flag

The publication of the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels manifesto is celebrated each year by thousands around the world as “Red Book Day.”

PlantPub is coming to the Fenway this spring

Owners of PlantPub in Cambridge are teaming up with vegan celebrity chef Matthew Kenney to open a second location in the former Boston BeerWorks space.

The Constitution and the Ten Commandments: A Christian group plants its flag

A look inside Camp Constitution, a New Hampshire-based organization whose request to fly a Christian flag for an hour outside Boston City Hall was rejected by city officials in 2017. The case has been taken up by the US Supreme Court.

Spotlight Follow-up

Mass. General pays $14.6 million to settle whistle-blower suit over concurrent surgeries

Anesthesiologist Lisa Wollman alleged that at least five orthopedic surgeons regularly kept patients under anesthesia longer than medically necessary because the doctors were juggling two operations at once.

Law firms under pressure to stop representing fossil fuel interests

An increasingly vocal group of law students around the country are pressuring law firms to cut ties with oil and gas companies and their allies.

beth teitell

We’re not hosting the Olympics in 2024. Who’s luckier — Boston or the Olympics?

If Boston’s bid had been successful, we’d be looking back now with nostalgia at the days when all we fought about were vaccine mandates and masking rules.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny in the 1957 Looney Tunes short "What's Opera, Doc?"

What’s up, Doc? Just the Bugs Bunny Film Festival at the Brattle.

Sam Waterston returns as DA Jack McCoy for the 21st season of "Law & Order."

MATTHEW GILBERT

‘Law & Order’ should have remained a closed case

Paul McCartney, shown in concert at Fenway Park in 2016, returns on June 7.

Paul McCartney has a date at Fenway Park on June 7

David Parker's New York-based The Bang Group brings Dance Now to Cambridge for two weekends.

New York and Boston mix when Dance Now returns to Cambridge for two weekends

Special Projects

Into the Red: How the Globe will cover climate change

To report on the most pressing issue of our time, the Globe’s climate team is expanding and rethinking its coverage.

Under the wheel

This is the story of Anthony Pledger and his mother, of Anthony’s lives and deaths, of Anthony and me.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Pine Street Inn guests talk with the media outside the inn on Nov. 25, 2021.

Lyndia Downie and Ray Hammond

Boston has what it takes to end homelessness

A pedestrian passes City Hall on Congress Street, Dec. 30, 2021.

EDITORIAL

The $1 fine for jaywalking is high enough already

Passersby are reflected in the window of a closed Starbucks on State Street in Boston on Aug. 9, 2021.

LETTERS

Boston’s small businesses have waited long enough. Get back to the office.

It's no wonder there is serious talk of “rewilding” the planet and handing suzerainty back to the bonobos and the manatees, who could hardly make a greater hash of things than we have.

Alex Beam

Pets over people

Tip O'Neill, who served in the House of Representatives for 34 years and was speaker of the House from 1977 until his retirement in 1987.

Linda Melconian

Tip O’Neill’s House could serve as a lesson to today’s Congress

IDEAS | JOE KEOHANE

Why does parenthood make us nostalgic?

Metro

Coronavirus Live Updates

EU advises further relaxing travel rules for foreigners

The latest news and guidance on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England and beyond.

RI POLITICS

R.I. Governor Dan McKee formally announces gubernatorial bid

“I am running to create good-paying jobs, and support small businesses, to grow our economy, and fight for hard-working people and their families in all 39 cities and towns,” he said in his announcement on Tuesday.

RI NEWS

Nonprofit library book reading of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ interrupted by protesters with Nazi flag

The publication of the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels manifesto is celebrated each year by thousands around the world as “Red Book Day.”

The Massachusetts State House reopened to public Tuesday — mostly

Sports

Basketball

‘Wait, did you play with Bill Russell?’ The quiet, impactful substitute teaching career of Celtics legend Sam Jones.

Sports fans know Jones as a five-time All-Star who won 10 NBA titles with the Celtics. In Maryland in the 1990s and early 2000s, he was Mr. Jones, substitute teacher.

In this July 7, 2019, file photo, United States' Megan Rapinoe lifts up a trophy after winning the Women's World Cup final soccer match between US and The Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France.

American women players settle suit vs. US Soccer Federation for $24 million

US women soccer players reached a landmark agreement with the sport’s American governing body to end a six-year legal battle over equal pay, a deal in which they are promised $24 million plus bonuses that match those of the men.

Brian Flores and Bill Belichick worked together for many years before Flores left for Miami.

NFL

Brian Flores says he’s not mad at Bill Belichick, explains why he made text exchange public

“I’m not mad,” Flores said. “He sent a text message to the wrong person. I’m certainly guilty of that.”

Monday's boys' basketball roundup

Mike Loughnane has top-ranked and unbeaten BC High boys’ basketball team rolling as the postseason approaches

Some Team USA players didn’t waste any time getting right back into action with their college teams

MLB

MLB owners, players meet for four hours, remain far apart on key issues as season delay deadline looms

Business

WFXT Channel 25 acquired by hedge fund Standard General

Cox Media Group is selling the Boston-area TV station as part of a larger deal.

Parliament grants permission for Putin to use force outside Russia

The move could presage a broader attack on Ukraine after the US said an invasion was already underway there.

INNOVATION BEAT

The end of 3G is not just about phones

Slack is ‘not loading for some users’

STAT

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‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities

A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.

Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms

STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South

Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.

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Freshman Alyssa Holguin at her high school in San Francisco, in front of a mural about resistance.

Globe Magazine

New ethnic studies requirements mean more lessons on race in Boston classrooms

GLOBE MAGAZINE

No, college students aren’t obsessed with free speech. Here’s what they do worry about.

PERSPECTIVE

If we love our pets so much, why do we treat their veterinarians so poorly?

Portuguese-Style Rice With Kale and Plum Tomatoes.

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All three men involved in murder of Ahmaud Arbery found guilty of federal hate crimes

Here’s what you need to know about the Russia-Ukraine situation

WFXT Channel 25 acquired by hedge fund Standard General

This week’s ever-changing weather could bring record highs and snow

Video footage sheds light on BU professor’s fatal fall at MBTA station, but key details remain unclear

Bestselling author Ben Mezrich goes behind the scenes of his new book, ‘The Midnight Ride’ The new book, out Tuesday, is based on serialized novella “The Mechanic,” which ran in The Boston Globe for three weeks in 2020.

Book excerpt: ‘The Midnight Ride’ by Ben Mezrich

Obituary Dr. Paul Farmer, who tirelessly brought health care to the world’s neediest, dies at 62 A cofounder of Partners in Health, Farmer believed that “medicine should be viewed as social justice work in a world that is so sick and so riven by inequities.”

The end of 3G is not just about phones

‘Wait, did you play with Bill Russell?’ The quiet, impactful substitute teaching career of Celtics legend Sam Jones.

LCD Soundsystem announces Boston residency at Roadrunner in April

IBM e-mails about making ‘dinobabies’ extinct confirm what older workers already know

May I have a word: In search of English’s missing words

A better way to admit students to Boston Latin

Apply the 2% way to systemic racism

A decade after Trayvon Martin’s killing, the burden of Blackness persists

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Eli Lilly to establish $700 million genetic medicine institute in Fort Point The pharmaceutical giant is expanding into 15 Necco St., an under-construction 12-story lab and office building fronting the Fort Point Channel.

R.I. Governor Dan McKee formally announces gubernatorial bid “I am running to create good-paying jobs, and support small businesses, to grow our economy, and fight for hard-working people and their families in all 39 cities and towns,” he said in his announcement on Tuesday.

The Massachusetts State House reopened to public Tuesday — mostly

Body found at Woburn apartment complex Woburn police received a 911 call reporting a body on the property just after 7 a.m., Lieutenant Paul Carpenter said.

Nonprofit library book reading of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ interrupted by protesters with Nazi flag

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Boston has what it takes to end homelessness

The $1 fine for jaywalking is high enough already

Boston’s small businesses have waited long enough. Get back to the office.

Pets over people

Tip O’Neill’s House could serve as a lesson to today’s Congress

Why does parenthood make us nostalgic?

Metro

EU advises further relaxing travel rules for foreigners

R.I. Governor Dan McKee formally announces gubernatorial bid

Nonprofit library book reading of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ interrupted by protesters with Nazi flag

The Massachusetts State House reopened to public Tuesday — mostly

Sports

‘Wait, did you play with Bill Russell?’ The quiet, impactful substitute teaching career of Celtics legend Sam Jones.

American women players settle suit vs. US Soccer Federation for $24 million

Brian Flores says he’s not mad at Bill Belichick, explains why he made text exchange public

Mike Loughnane has top-ranked and unbeaten BC High boys’ basketball team rolling as the postseason approaches

Some Team USA players didn’t waste any time getting right back into action with their college teams

MLB owners, players meet for four hours, remain far apart on key issues as season delay deadline looms

Business

WFXT Channel 25 acquired by hedge fund Standard General

Parliament grants permission for Putin to use force outside Russia

The end of 3G is not just about phones

Slack is ‘not loading for some users’

STAT

‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.

Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.

New ethnic studies requirements mean more lessons on race in Boston classrooms

No, college students aren’t obsessed with free speech. Here’s what they do worry about.

If we love our pets so much, why do we treat their veterinarians so poorly?

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Littleton police ask for public’s help in locating puppies stolen during armed robbery

New Jersey woman rescued while hiking in White Mountains

Bestselling author Ben Mezrich goes behind the scenes of his new book, ‘The Midnight Ride’

The new book, out Tuesday, is based on serialized novella “The Mechanic,” which ran in The Boston Globe for three weeks in 2020.

Obituary

Dr. Paul Farmer, who tirelessly brought health care to the world’s neediest, dies at 62

A cofounder of Partners in Health, Farmer believed that “medicine should be viewed as social justice work in a world that is so sick and so riven by inequities.”

Eli Lilly to establish $700 million genetic medicine institute in Fort Point

The pharmaceutical giant is expanding into 15 Necco St., an under-construction 12-story lab and office building fronting the Fort Point Channel.

R.I. Governor Dan McKee formally announces gubernatorial bid

“I am running to create good-paying jobs, and support small businesses, to grow our economy, and fight for hard-working people and their families in all 39 cities and towns,” he said in his announcement on Tuesday.

Body found at Woburn apartment complex

Woburn police received a 911 call reporting a body on the property just after 7 a.m., Lieutenant Paul Carpenter said.

PlantPub is coming to the Fenway this spring

Owners of PlantPub in Cambridge are teaming up with vegan celebrity chef Matthew Kenney to open a second location in the former Boston BeerWorks space.

Law firms under pressure to stop representing fossil fuel interests

An increasingly vocal group of law students around the country are pressuring law firms to cut ties with oil and gas companies and their allies.

beth teitell

We’re not hosting the Olympics in 2024. Who’s luckier — Boston or the Olympics?

If Boston’s bid had been successful, we’d be looking back now with nostalgia at the days when all we fought about were vaccine mandates and masking rules.

‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities

A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.

Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms

STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South

Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.