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This scene of traffic at the mouth of the Sumner Tunnel was taken during the morning rush hour in December 2018.

‘It’s going to have a major impact’: Boston neighborhoods brace for Sumner Tunnel construction, closures

The upcoming closures of the Sumner Tunnel will not only affect motorists, but also residents and businesses in East Boston, South Boston, and the North End as traffic is rerouted.

Mass. average gas price reaches record high of $4.39 a gallon, AAA says

Jaylen Brown works on free throws before the game.

Live updates: Celtics are in Milwaukee for Game 4 where they hope to tie series

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Woman testifies that Chef Mario Batali was ‘grabbing me in a way that I was never touched before’
The leadoff witness in the case testified Monday about the encounter between her and celebrity chef Mario Batali in a downtown Boston bar in 2017.

Mario Batali pleads not guilty to sex assault charge in Boston court

Charlie Baker warns driver’s license bill would lead to ‘huge numbers of provisional votes’

The second-term Republican governor didn't say what he would do if a bill that would allow residents without legal immigration status to get licenses landed on his desk.

In its first COVID-19 data report since Friday, Mass. reports 8,625 confirmed cases; 1 death reported Friday

Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge schools urging students to mask up after rise in COVID-19 cases

In GBH interview, Fauci criticizes ‘growing anti-science attitude,’ vaccine conspiracy theories

Ex-jail official and inmate she helped escape have been caught, sheriff says
Escaped inmate Casey White and former jail official Vicky White were taken into custody Monday in Indiana, according to an Alabama sheriff.

Her nickname is ‘nanoqueen.’ Now Julie Chen adds another title: UMass Lowell chancellor
The veteran administrator is the second woman to lead the Lowell campus and the first openly gay chancellor in the state’s higher ed system.

No end in sight for Ukraine war as Putin hails Victory Day

Russian President Vladimir Putin's much-anticipated speech offered no new insights into how he intends to salvage the grinding war and instead stuck to allegations that Ukraine posed a threat to Russia.

Zelensky rebuts Putin’s Victory Day speech in new video

Gianna Pecchia, center, used Tinder to give her kickball community a boost -- and got banned from the dating app for life. Here, she's flanked by Clubwaka League commissioner Gina Beretta, left, and general manager Johanna Hueber.

Warwick woman who recruited a Tinder kickball team is banned from the dating app for life.

Swiping right on everyone helped her build a real-life community where some people even found love. But Tinder says Gianna Pecchia, 30, violated its Terms of Service and Community Guidelines by soliciting the people she met on the app.

The Lazy Susans chat with Kelly Clarkson. From left, Imge Ceranoglu , Martha Kennedy, Joanna Weiss, Leila Mitchell, Heather Shaw, and Kelly Clarkson.

A group of Milton moms started a rock band during the pandemic. Now, they’re performing on Kelly Clarkson’s show.

The band, called the Lazy Susans, began as a mid-pandemic project for a group of longtime friends from Milton. It was a bit of a lark. Some had never picked up an instrument before. Now, the women are having a moment on national TV, appearing on Monday's episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”

Alex Verdugo is one of the Sox hitters that just can't get it going in 2022.

The Red Sox have had decent production from their stars, but the rest of the lineup has cratered

J.D. Martinez, Rafael Devers, and Xander Bogaerts have swung the bat well; the rest of the lineup has been stunningly poor.

These struggling Sox sure look like they’re in a dreaded ‘Bridge Year’

Opinion

Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing

Future-proofing the presidency

As lawmakers craft their own tax relief package, they need to consider at least one thing Governor Baker got right — that policy counts, that this is the time to make policy changes that need to be made anyway.

Tax relief gets trendy on Beacon Hill

With the state Treasury rolling in dough, taxpayers look for a break.

It’s not enough to shut down ‘failed’ Mission Hill School. BPS owes the public some answers on the scandal.

Massachusetts should have a state-owned bank

Boston’s ignominious record of disrespecting free speech

Massachusetts lawmakers should put their name where their vote is

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Child-care workers and advocates rallied at about 90 playgrounds, T stops, and public squares across Massachusetts Monday to talk to parents and community members about the importance of their work and to call for publicly funded universal early childhood education.

Pulitzer Prizes award Washington Post for Jan. 6 coverage
The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. The Boston Globe’s Abdallah Fayyad was also nominated as a finalist for editorial writing.

Burlington police release chilling 911 call from witness to attempted abduction of woman
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‘We are caught in an inflationary vise.’ At BU, tuition surges past $61,000 in largest hike in 14 years.
Boston University will raise undergraduate tuition by 4.25 percent in the fall to $61,050, marking the highest tuition hike at the school in the past 14 years, according to the university’s president, Robert Brown. With room and board, that brings annual costs to just shy of $80,000 a year.

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Fed, business groups to update study that found average Black Boston household had net worth of $8

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and business groups aim to take deeper look at the racial wealth gap in Massachusetts, after a high-profile 2015 study found that the average Black household in Boston had only $8 in assets.

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From left: James Jackson Jr., Jason Veasey, Michael Lyles, Jaquel Spivey, L Morgan Lee, John-Andrew Morrison, and Antwayn Hopper during a performance of "A Strange Loop" in New York. Spivey, Lee, and Morrison were all nominated for Tony Awards.

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Mukhlis "Mike" Murad in 2018, after he was swept up in a deportation raid in Michigan.

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This engraving, based on a photograph, shows Ellen Craft in her disguise as a white man, which she used to escape slavery with her husband.

Women who refused to let gender roles get in their way

My mother, Julia Mazur, as the maid of honor at her brother's wedding.

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Pro-choice protesters rally in front of the Supreme Court on Monday night after news broke that the court has the support to overturn Roe v. Wade.

MARCELA GARCÍA

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Students prepare to go to Mission Hill School on Oct. 15, 2021.

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Salem firefighters battling 3-alarm fire

Members of the public were asked to avoid the area and to not approach the scene, the City of Salem tweeted shortly after 4 p.m.

‘We are caught in an inflationary vise.’ At BU, tuition surges past $61,000 in largest hike in 14 years.

Boston University will raise undergraduate tuition by 4.25 percent in the fall to $61,050, marking the highest tuition hike at the school in the past 14 years, according to the university’s president, Robert Brown. With room and board, that brings annual costs to just shy of $80,000 a year.

Rhode Island political news: May 2022

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Warwick woman who recruited a Tinder kickball team is banned from the dating app for life.

Swiping right on everyone helped her build a real-life community where some people even found love. But Tinder says Gianna Pecchia, 30, violated its Terms of Service and Community Guidelines by soliciting the people she met on the app.

Sports

Jaylen Brown works on free throws before the game.

Live updates: Celtics’ Robert Williams out for Game 4 vs. Bucks

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Boston University introduced its new men's hockey coach, Jay Pandolfo on Monday afternoon at Agganis Arena, where the 47-year-old Burlington native and former BU hockey player addressed the heightened expectations for the program.

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Embracing the expectations, Jay Pandolfo aims to set a new standard as BU’s new men’s hockey coach

Said Pandolfo, 47, a Burlington native and former Terrier player: “The BU hockey program isn’t broken. What we need to do is everything just a little bit better."

Nikola Jokic couldn't lead the Nuggets past Andrew Wiggins and the Warriors in the first round of the playoffs.

Nuggets star Nikola Jokic expected to be named NBA MVP for second straight season

The 7-foot center became the first player in league history to eclipse 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, and 500 assists in a season.

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Guggenheim latest institution to remove Sackler name

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Boeing’s Max 10 regulatory delays threaten $16 billion bonanza

Regulatory delays are bogging down the launch of a new jet model with an estimated $16 billion in potential orders, threatening the planemaker’s comeback in the critical market for midsize jets.

Biden announces program offering discounted internet service

Haul of Atlantic cod, once abundant, reaches new low

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This week's daters: Jessica and Ajey

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He . . . was quick to apologize for his choice of shoes’

She’s 30 and feels like time is running out on her dreams

An A.D. Makepeace solar array in Wareham.

A solar battle in sleepy Wareham is pitting environmentalists against each other

At Nuggets in Kenmore Square, Ekenedilichukwu Uwanaka (left) and Stephanie Laporte browse vinyl for their new record player.

Why it seems like everyone you know is buying vinyl and record players

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This scene of traffic at the mouth of the Sumner Tunnel was taken during the morning rush hour in December 2018.

‘It’s going to have a major impact’: Boston neighborhoods brace for Sumner Tunnel construction, closures

Warwick mayor and staff members owe health insurance premium payments

Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge schools urging students to mask up after rise in COVID-19 cases

sports

The Islanders went 152-102-34 in the regular season and 28-21 in the playoffs under coach Barry Trotz.

Islanders fire coach Barry Trotz after team misses playoffs

Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman will start Game 5, his third straight against Hurricanes

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The New York Stock Exchange.

Stocks closed sharply down again on Monday, tumbling to lowest point in over a year

Her nickname is ‘nanoqueen.’ Now Julie Chen adds another title: UMass Lowell chancellor

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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has interviewed nearly 1,000 people, and members of the committee are debating whether to call former president Donald Trump and former vice president Mike Pence.

Call Pence or Trump? It’s decision time for Jan. 6 panel

If leaked draft becomes final, national abortion ban ‘possible’, Mitch McConnell says

Jill Biden makes surprise visit to Ukraine, meets nation’s first lady in village near border

Nation

Casey White, left, and Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White.

Ex-jail official and inmate she helped escape have been caught, sheriff says

In its first COVID-19 data report since Friday, Mass. reports 8,625 confirmed cases; 1 death reported Friday

Pulitzer Prizes award Washington Post for Jan. 6 coverage

World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestured during a joint press conference with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (UNSEEN) in Kyiv on May 8, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Zelensky rebuts Putin’s Victory Day speech in new video

No end in sight for Ukraine war as Putin hails Victory Day

Russian ambassador to Poland hit with red paint

opinion

A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.

Boston’s ignominious record of disrespecting free speech

‘Philip Guston Now,’ finally

Parting nod to retiring crossword creators: 8 letters for gratitude, starts with T

lifestyle

The Lazy Susans chat with Kelly Clarkson. From left, Imge Ceranoglu , Martha Kennedy, Joanna Weiss, Leila Mitchell, Heather Shaw, and Kelly Clarkson.

A group of Milton moms started a rock band during the pandemic. Now, they’re performing on Kelly Clarkson’s show.

Provincetown International Film Festival announces Jenny Slate and Bowen Yang are part of 2022 lineup

Seaport to host an open-air market for four weekends this summer

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Customers eat and drink in the cozy booths near the back of Anchovies in 2019.

Favorite restaurants (old and new) in Boston

Beat Brew Hall reopens in Harvard Square; R.F. O’Sullivan & Son returns to Somerville

9 of the best rooftop bars and restaurants around Boston

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Back to Boston

Welcome back to Boston

Hidden (in plain sight): Boston’s secret spaces

Where to eat brunch in Boston

Arts

"Watermark," 2022, two-channel video installation with sound.

‘Rights Along the Shore’ probes painful history of segregation and swimming

Boston Children’s Museum celebrates trans children’s dreams in new exhibit

Are we ready to look at ‘Philip Guston Now’?

Books

"Young Rich Widows" is set in Providence

‘Young Rich Widows’: This Providence-based thriller has a twist of its own

Stealing back what’s been stolen in ‘Portrait of a Thief’

Seeing where the wild things are in ‘The Lioness’

Movies

Rock band Spinal Tap, with Mr. Parnell on drums, performed at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis in 1992. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images).

Ric Parnell, real drummer in a famous fake band, dies at 70

Can I learn to love Doctor Strange?

Building a house and ‘Building a Bridge’

Television

The Lazy Susans chat with Kelly Clarkson. From left, Imge Ceranoglu , Martha Kennedy, Joanna Weiss, Leila Mitchell, Heather Shaw, and Kelly Clarkson.

A group of Milton moms started a rock band during the pandemic. Now, they’re performing on Kelly Clarkson’s show.

This week’s TV: ‘This Is Us’ gets ready to go, Claire Danes returns, and the Kids in the Hall reunite

SNL addresses Roe v. Wade as Benedict Cumberbatch hosts

music

Rachel Sumner

Will this Winchester songwriter win the $20k Lennon grand prize? That’s up to Bob Weir, Flea, and Sheila E.

A group of Milton moms started a rock band during the pandemic. Now, they’re performing on Kelly Clarkson’s show.

Ric Parnell, real drummer in a famous fake band, dies at 70

Theater/Dance

Billy Crystal appears on stage during the Broadway opening night curtain call of "Mr. Saturday Night" at the Nederlander Theatre.

First staged in the Berkshires, Billy Crystal’s ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ nominated for top Tony Award

Select list of nominees for 2022 Tony Awards

Livestream: Nominations announced for the 2022 Tony Awards

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Burlington police released surveillance images of a suspect who allegedly tried to kidnap a female victim.

Police seek suspect in attempted kidnapping in Burlington

Methuen man convicted of child rape who fled trial arrested in Maine

How everyone can become the Belle of the ball

Obituaries

Rock band Spinal Tap, with Mr. Parnell on drums, performed at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis in 1992. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images).

Ric Parnell, real drummer in a famous fake band, dies at 70

Dr. Waldo L. Fielding, who wrote of pre-Roe v. Wade’s medical horrors, dies at 100

Mickey Gilley, country music star whose club inspired ‘Urban Cowboy,’ dies at 86