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An MBTA employee looked over new Blue Line tracks with flashlight in hand heading toward the exit of a tunnel at the Airport Station.

On Thursday, the T said there had been a construction vehicle derailment. Now it says there were three.

“Derailments are never a good thing," said MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak, who underscored that the carts that went off the rails were carrying tools not passengers.

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The Tech Power Players 50 is a list of the most influential – and interesting – people in the Massachusetts technology scene, as ranked by the Globe’s business journalists and an external advisory committee.

We ranked Carmichael Roberts #1. Here's why. The pandemic spurred a shift in local tech leaders' impact and influence

Dianne Wilkerson left Beacon Hill under a cloud of disgrace. Now, she’s asking voters for another shot.
Years after she was caught slipping cash into her bra as part of an explosive bribery scandal, Dianne Wilkerson wants voters of the Second Suffolk state senate district to send her to Beacon Hill again.

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School takeovers by the state haven’t worked, Globe analysis shows

CVS Chief Health Equity Officer on culturally competent care, bias, and reducing disparities in health care

Republicans who helped advance racist theory connected to Buffalo shooting don’t repudiate their rhetoric

Even the charge Monday by Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, that the “House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and antisemitism” was met largely with silence.

Liz Cheney slams House GOP leaders, says they ‘enabled white nationalism’ In Buffalo, Biden to confront the racism he’s vowed to fight

Senators de la Cruz, Lombardi urge passage of bill to protect teens from predatory adults

The bill, inspired in part by North Kingstown High School basketball coach Aaron Thomas’ naked “fat tests,” would prevent adults in positions of authority from touching or having sexual relationships with students age 14 to 18.

What you need to know about North Kingstown High School Coach Aaron Thomas and the ‘fat test’ issue

Boston superintendent search yields 31 applicants

A panel charged with finding a new superintendent for the Boston Public Schools received 31 applications for the job, city officials said on Monday, but didn’t provide any background information about the candidates.

Malden students walk out in protest of non-renewal notices for some staff

The MBTA is proposing a new bus map. Here’s what it would look like.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority published a map Monday of the new bus service network it plans to roll out over the next five years to increase service and reliability.

Ukraine mounts effort to rescue last fighters at steel mill

The Ukrainian fighters who doggedly defended a steel mill in the devastated port city of Mariupol have completed their mission, Ukrainian officials said, and efforts were underway to rescue the last of the defenders who remained inside.

A two-run home run from Xander Bogaerts in the eighth inning gave the Red Sox some breathing room Monday against the defending American League champion Astros.

RED SOX 6, ASTROS 3

Red Sox big bats come through late, take down Houston to open homestand

After the teams traded single runs for most of the middle innings, which included a 98-minute rain delay and Houston starter Jake Odorizzi being carted off, J.D. Martinez and Xander Bogaerts delivered in the eighth.

Authorities said former MIT professor John J. Donovan, Sr. was sentenced to serve two years to two years and a day behind bars, followed by three years’ probation.

Judge sentences former MIT business prof John Donovan Sr. to two years in prison in forgery plot

An Essex Superior Court judge on Monday sentenced a former MIT business professor to serve two years in state prison following his conviction earlier this month of trying to pilfer millions from his late son’s estate, according to prosecutors and legal filings.

Rajon Rondo attended a Boston Common Magazine party with Ashley Bachelor in 2012. The two are pictured with Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca.

Report: Rajon Rondo pulled gun, threatened to kill mother of his children

Ashley Bachelor wrote that the 36-year-old Rondo “has a history of volatile, erratic, explosive behavior" and "has made several threats on my life, saying at various times he will shoot me or shoot up my car.”

Opinion

Sheenah Reyes, of Methuen, attended the annual Massachusetts Puerto Rican Festival and Parade held on City Hall Plaza in July 2019.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Why are Massachusetts Latinos struggling more than everybody else?

The state Latino poverty rate is nearly 5 percentage points higher than the national Latino rate, more than 6 percentage points higher than the state’s Black poverty rate, and more than three times as high than the state’s white poverty rate.

Buffalo shooting and the politics of hate

How many white Americans will do anything more than shake their heads about the Buffalo massacre?

With the Buffalo massacre, Fox News has blood on its hands — again

Another mass shooting, and a need to take hard look at ourselves

Centering critical voices, debates, and evidence-based opinion to reframe the national conversation on racial equity and hasten a more racially just society.

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“I am obviously acutely aware that my presence at this podium represents a few firsts,” Karine Jean-Pierre said before taking questions from reporters. “I am a Black, gay, immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this position.”

Biden administration lifting some Trump-era restrictions on Cuba
The Biden administration announced a partial lifting of sanctions on Cuba, including expanding flights beyond Havana and restarting a program to reunify Cuban families in the US, its first moves toward fulfilling President Biden’s campaign promise to reverse many of the sanctions imposed by his predecessor.

Musk: Doubt about spam accounts could scuttle Twitter deal
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can’t move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the platform are fake or spam.

Three home break-ins reported in Belmont early Monday

The suspect cut through the screens of open windows or doors that were unlocked and was targeting electronics and other valuable items, police said. Four laptops were stolen in the break-ins. The suspect was traveling between houses by going through backyards, according to police.

Train carrying hazardous cargo derails in Fall River, causing diesel fuel to leak
A freight train carrying hazardous cargo hit a tree on the tracks in Fall River on Monday evening, causing it to derail and its fuel tank carrying thousands of gallons of diesel to puncture and leak, police said.

Four people dead in Worcester building fire; two more victims found
The officials confirmed during a briefing Monday that bodies of four victims had been recovered from the scene, up from the two confirmed fatalities that had been confirmed over the weekend. None of the four victims were named.

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Cliff Diving World Series to return to the ICA and Boston Harbor
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US reaches deal to reopen shuttered baby formula plant
Under the agreement, Abbott must work with outside experts to upgrade its standards and reduce bacterial contamination at the Sturgis, Michigan, facility, which the Food and Drug Administration has been investigating since early this year.

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Conductor Keith Lockhart will lead the Boston Pops in an in-person spring season that runs May 19 to June 11.

Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops have some spring in their step

Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick."

Tom Cruise is at his Tom Cruise-iest in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Boston Ballet's 59th-anniversary season will feature Stephen Galloway’s “DEVIL’S/eye” (pictured) as part of “My Obsession” (Oct. 6–16).

Boston Ballet announces its 59th-anniversary season

The late comedian Norm Macdonald.

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A woman covers her mouth with her hand as people gather outside of Tops market on Sunday in Buffalo, New York. The day before a gunman opened fire at the store, killing ten people and wounding another three.

The politics of white backlash and the endless cycle of racial violence, division, and anger

A 2017 Globe’s 2017 Spotlight series on race in Boston highlighted a major wealth gap problem in Massachusetts. Here, a laborer passes an advertisement at the Pier 4 project on Northern Ave in the Seaport District on Sept. 27, 2017.

The $8 figure that shamed Boston gets an update

Pro-choice demonstrators outside the house of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in Alexandria, Va., on Monday.

IDEAS | DAVID DECOSIMO

Why it’s wrong to protest at a judge’s home

In this undated photo provided by Al Jazeera Media Network, Shireen Abu Akleh stands next to a TV camera in an area where the Dome of the Rock shrine at Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem is seen at left in the background.

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Protestors prepare to take abortion pills as they demonstrate in front of the US Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021. The court was hearing arguments in an abortion-rights case from Mississippi. A ruling from the court in that case this term is expected to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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In new memoir, Davis shares feeling ‘invisible’ growing up in poverty in Central Falls

The actress found her calling when she saw Cicely Tyson appear in ‘The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.'

On Thursday, the T said there had been a construction vehicle derailment. Now it says there were three.

“Derailments are never a good thing," said MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak, who underscored that the carts that went off the rails were carrying tools not passengers.

Forest fire in N.H. White Mountains recedes following rain, but officials warn of dry conditions ahead

The Bemis Fire was first reported Saturday morning and has been burning in a section of Crawford Notch State Park, the White Mountain National Forest, and on private land, officials said.

Six newborn puppies found abandoned in a box in Holliston

The puppies were left in a box on the side of Cedar Street sometime between 8 and 9 p.m., police said in a statement. It is illegal to abandon animals in Massachusetts, police said.

Sports

A two-run home run from Xander Bogaerts in the eighth inning gave the Red Sox some breathing room Monday against the defending American League champion Astros.

RED SOX 6, ASTROS 3

Red Sox big bats come through late, take down Houston to open homestand

After the teams traded single runs for most of the middle innings, which included a 98-minute rain delay and Houston starter Jake Odorizzi being carted off, J.D. Martinez and Xander Bogaerts delivered in the eighth.

Noel Tripp (far right) of Whittier Tech won the girls' small schools mile during the State Vocational Track and Field Championships.

STATE VOCATIONAL TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Tauzanaya Shearrion steps up at right time, helps Southeastern to sweep of Vocational Schools track and field championship

The senior pulled out a late victory in the 400-meter hurdles to spark the Hawks, who took both girls and boys large schools team titles.

First-year coach Megan Johnston (center) has led the North Quincy boys' volleyball team to an 11-1 start.

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' VOLLEYBALL NOTEBOOK

Led by first-year coach Megan Johnston, North Quincy boys’ volleyball posting a breakout season

After dropping their first match, the Red Raiders have run off 11 victories in a row and have lofty goals in the South Alliance and for the MIAA postseason.

Report: Rajon Rondo pulled gun, threatened to kill mother of his children

Bruins notebook

It was a long, tough year for David Pastrnak

Pelicans already luckiest team in Tuesday’s NBA Draft Lottery

Business

Ukraine mounts effort to rescue last fighters at steel mill

The Ukrainian fighters who doggedly defended a steel mill in the devastated port city of Mariupol have completed their mission, Ukrainian officials said, and efforts were underway to rescue the last of the defenders who remained inside.

Musk: Doubt about spam accounts could scuttle Twitter deal

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can’t move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the platform are fake or spam.

New US hospitals face fiscal crisis over COVID relief money

Vertex doubles down on Seaport lab space

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Homeowner Sarah Reilly and rescue pup, Piper, relax in the living room. Her partner, Per Ostman, climbs to the loft that they use as a TV room. The upper stairs lead to the common roof deck. A still life by William Ciccariello and landscape by Lynne Foy punctuate the main level, while a giant Roy Lichtenstein print left behind by the prior owners makes a statement from above.

Make It Your Own

A funky Cambridge loft with a mirrored shower that’s like being in ‘a Picasso’

I live with my elderly mother. Will anyone want to date me?

Jim C. and MaryKate K.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘She dramatically talked with her hands and spilled a martini on me’

Pedal over to Downtown Crossing to celebrate National Bike to Work Day on Friday.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do in and around Boston, May 16-22

metro

Providence Police investigate a shooting on Carolina Avenue, late Thursday, May 13, 2021, in Providence, R.I.

Rhode Island crime news: May 2022

Boston superintendent search yields 31 applicants

Thunderstorms are rolling across Mass. Monday evening. These maps show what to expect.

sports

The coaching fraternity in Boston is a close one, with then-Celtics coach Brad Stevens visiting Alex Cora and Red Sox training camp in 2019.

Alex Cora steers into potential turnaround comparisons with Celtics

Can’t stop the Yankees: New York wins in Baltimore to reach MLB-best 26-9

Johnny Gaudreau boosts Flames over Stars in overtime

business

McDonald's said it has plans to sell its business to a local buyer in Russia.

After 32 years, McDonald’s plans to sell its Russia business

More than 260 fighters evacuated from Mariupol mill, Ukraine says

US reaches deal to reopen shuttered baby formula plant

politics

President Biden arrives at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Friday, May 13, 2022.

In Buffalo, Biden to confront the racism he’s vowed to fight

Republicans who helped advance racist theory connected to Buffalo shooting don’t repudiate their rhetoric

‘Representation does matter’: Karine Jean-Pierre holds first briefing as White House press secretary

Nation

Investigators work the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Monday, May 16, 2022.

‘Like every other day:’ 10 lives lost on a trip to the store

Accused gunman who killed 10 at Buffalo grocery store planned to continue attack

New US hospitals face fiscal crisis over COVID relief money

World

Oleksiy Polyakov, right, and Roman Voitko check the remains of a destroyed Russian helicopter lie in a field in the village of Malaya Rohan, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, May 16, 2022.

Ukraine mounts effort to rescue last fighters at steel mill

Biden administration lifting some Trump-era restrictions on Cuba

More than 260 fighters evacuated from Mariupol mill, Ukraine says

opinion

A robot weeding my garden? That does not compute

Make abortion pills available over the counter

Who’s afraid of liberal media bias?

lifestyle

Orlando Duque of Colombia dives from the 27.5 meter platform during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Boston on August 25, 2013.

Cliff Diving World Series to return to the ICA and Boston Harbor

Lisa Donovan, ‘Matty in the Morning’ cohost, returns to the airwaves after month-long hiatus

At 29, I feel undatable

food & dining

The oldest of Moscow's McDonald's outlets, which was opened on Jan. 31, 1990, was closed on Aug. 21, 2014. McDonald’s said it's started the process of selling its Russian business, which included 850 restaurants that employed 62,000 people. The fast food giant pointed to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war, saying holding on to its business in Russia “is no longer tenable, nor is it consistent with McDonald’s values.” The Chicago-based company had temporarily closed its stores in Russia but was still paying employees.

McDonald’s to close Russian business due to the region’s economic isolation

Who’s ready for outdoor dining on Federal Hill in Providence? It’s here

PiANTA: A new plant-based restaurant blooms on Federal Hill in Providence

travel

Tripadvisor recently released its list of the best B&Bs and inns in the country and world.

This bed and breakfast on Cape Cod was ranked the best in the country by Tripadvisor

A perfect afternoon at Gilmanton Winery

Museum hopping is one way to get to know the Granite State

Arts

Celeste Rapone, "Spring Couple," 2021.

At the ICA, ‘A Place For Me’ breathes new life into an old art form

6 art-school stars from around Boston to watch in 2022

Can art inspire environmental action?

Books

Award-winning actor Viola Davis, the author of "Finding Me."

In new memoir, Davis shares feeling ‘invisible’ growing up in poverty in Central Falls

‘It’s made me increasingly paranoid:’ LGBTQ-themed library in Waltham reports books stolen for fourth time this year

‘The Wild Robot’ wins Massachusetts Children’s Book Award

Movies

Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick."

Tom Cruise is at his Tom Cruise-iest in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Matt Damon slammed for crypto commercial amid market meltdown

DocYard ends its season with ‘Nuclear’ option

Television

Quinta Brunson and Tyler James Williams in ABC's “Abbott Elementary,” which has been renewed for another season.

This week’s TV: What’s been renewed and canceled, Emmy Rossum’s back, and remembering George Carlin

Selena Gomez exuded confidence on SNL... and oh she’s looking for love

‘Married … With Children’ to return as animated show

music

Conductor Keith Lockhart will lead the Boston Pops in an in-person spring season that runs May 19 to June 11.

Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops have some spring in their step

At the Orpheum, Tori Amos and an enthralled crowd share more than a feeling

From the New Orleans Jazz Fest to New England: 13 electrifying artists there who’ll be coming here

Theater/Dance

Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick."

Tom Cruise is at his Tom Cruise-iest in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Boston Ballet announces its 59th-anniversary season

Jean Appolon Expressions works through ‘Traka’

globe local

Stephanie Beard was last seen driving this silver Subaru Impreza on Interstate 293 near Manchester, N.H.

Woman wanted for allegedly fatally stabbing elderly man, stealing his car, in Manchester, N.H.

Rep. McGovern urges defense of democracy at UMass Amherst commencement

Cardinal O’Malley reaffirms Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion in new blog post

Obituaries

Founder of Boston Scientific Peter Nicholas in his office. Photo courtesy of Boston Scientific.

Peter Nicholas, cofounder of Boston Scientific, dies at 80

Lil Keed, up-and-coming Atlanta rapper, dies at 24

Sheikh Khalifa, UAE ruler, is dead at 73