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Another month, another record for home prices in the Boston area
The typical single-family house now costs a staggering $845,000, but there are signs that the market may be reaching its top.

ADRIAN WALKER

America is locked in a battle, and the haters must lose
Tragedies like the one that occurred in Buffalo are routinely described as shocking. But I wonder if shock is the right response. We should all be beyond shock by now.

In Buffalo, Biden condemns racism, mourns victims of attack

celtcis at heat | 8:30 p.m.

Celtics rule out Marcus Smart and Al Horford for Game 1 at Miami
According to the team, Smart continues to deal with a foot sprain, while Horford has entered COVID protocol.

Six things to watch in the Celtics-Heat Eastern Conference finals

Person of interest sketch released in Concord, N.H., double slaying probe

Authorities in New Hampshire released an artist’s sketch of a man they described as a person of interest in the slayings of Stephen Reid, 67, and Djeswende Reid, 66, whose bodies were found April 21 in a wooded area of Concord, N.H.

2022 midterms: What to watch as 5 states hold primaries
Voters in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Idaho, and Oregon are casting their ballots in midterm elections today.

COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 by state

Charts: COVID-19 has killed 1 million people in the US. See how the virus has affected each state.

Explore the data to see the deadly toll COVID-19 has taken on the US since the virus first emerged.

US deaths from COVID-19 hit 1 million, according to Johns Hopkins FDA clears COVID booster shot for healthy kids ages 5 to 11

CDC transmission level map

Map: A county-by-county look at COVID-19 transmission in the United States

Mass. reports 3,425 confirmed COVID-19 cases; 30 deaths reported over three days

Signage for mandatory masking came down at Logan Airport and maskless passengers were seen in the terminals.

The new, highly transmissible Omicron variant, BA.2.12.1, is dominating in Massachusetts. Now what?

As pollution worsens on Cape Cod, some are investing hopes in a new type of septic system
A coalition of groups in Cape Cod is pressing local and state officials to consider installing a new kind of septic system that they say would curb the vast majority of nitrogen that leaks from traditional systems.

‘You don’t see this every day, folks’: Fishermen spot orca swimming off coast of Cape Cod
Two fishermen in the waters off Cape Cod on Sunday afternoon took video and photographs of a large orca — better known as a killer whale — swimming nearby.

An inbound Red Line train arrived at the Broadway station in Boston.

Red Line passenger ran alongside train before being dragged to his death, preliminary police report says

The preliminary report provides the most detailed account to date of the April 10 incident that killed Robinson Lalin, 39, and reveals that after the incident the train stopped for a short time in the tunnel outside Broadway Station for an “unspecified mechanical issue” before proceeding.

People embraced Sunday outside the parking lot of a Tops Friendly Markets grocery store where 10 people were killed on Saturday in Buffalo.

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK | DEVRA FIRST

The importance of a grocery store

Supermarkets are centers of culture and community. In America, that also makes them targets.

The corporate offices of Massachusetts General Brigham in Assembly Square in Somerville.

Mass General Brigham says it will reduce spending by $70m annually

The announcement is part of the system’s “performance improvement plan,” which the state’s healthcare watchdog agency required of it to curb excess spending.

Opinion

Virginia O'Brien and Carol Deanow joined the Boston Red Cloaks at the State House on May 7 to advocate for women’s rights. The women are all part of the Bad Old Days Posse — a group of women, some of whom have had illegal abortions, who educate college students about what life was like before Roe v. Wade.

Nancy Gertner and John Reinstein

Abortion rights are protected in Massachusetts — or so we thought

And then we read Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft.

IDEAS | Pacifique Irankunda

I grew up during a time of civil war. My childhood was among the casualties.

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Lingering at the table long after the meal has been served

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

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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Arrest warrant issued for suspect in rape in downtown Boston

Boston police on Tuesday obtained warrants for a suspect in a rape that occurred Saturday morning in the downtown area.

Video: Lawmakers open hearing on unexplained aerial sightings — see for yourself
Pentagon officials testifying at a House subcommittee hearing Tuesday showed a previously classified video of an unidentified aerial phenomena, a fleeting color video of a reflective spherical object speeding past a military fighter jet.

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Keeping up with the Crawleys in ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’
The long-anticipated second movie sequel to Julian Fellowes Emmy-Award-winning period drama will satisfy adoring fans.

Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden says he is reviewing nine deadly force cases involving police
Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said Tuesday he is prepared to determine whether to bring criminal charges against police officers as he reviews nine deadly force incidents in Revere, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, and Dorchester dating to 2017.

From GOAT to ‘GROAT’? Tom Brady will executive produce a new Netflix comedy series. And yes, he’ll be in it.
Netflix on Tuesday announced an upcoming series of comedy roasts with Tom Brady serving as executive producer. “Greatest Roasts of All Time,” or “GROAT,” will debut in 2023. First up in the hot seat? Brady himself, of course.

Fall of Mariupol appears at hand; fighters leave steel plant
Mariupol appeared on the verge of falling to the Russians on Tuesday as Ukraine moved to abandon the steel plant where hundreds of its fighters had held out for months under relentless bombardment in the last bastion of resistance in the devastated city.

150 years of The Boston Globe
Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

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Proposed frequent-service bus routes on the MBTA's new bus network map, released on Monday.

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.

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.

Brookline classes resume Tuesday after one-day strike
The union agreed to pay $50,000 in damages in exchange for the district not pursuing fines related to the contempt order,

Jeneé Osterheldt

We should all celebrate Haitian Flag Day
As we celebrate Haitian Heritage Month, we must remember America's role in Haiti's past and present.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Series stars Theo James and Rose Leslie attended the HBO premiere of "The Time Traveler's Wife" last week in New York.

Missed connections in ‘Time Traveler’s Wife’

Tea meets art in the library of the Mayflower Inn & Spa in Washington, Conn.

Pinkies up! 6 great spots for a spot of tea around Boston

Spiced Lamb Burgers With Feta and Tahini Sauce

Recipes: Take your cookout to the next level with spicy burgers from around the world

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

Special Projects

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Into the Red illustration.

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.

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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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A child is comforted on a bus headed to a hotel after she arrived from Mariupol in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

IDEAS | Pacifique Irankunda

I grew up during a time of civil war. My childhood was among the casualties.

For many Europeans, the best part of the meal comes when it ends.

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Lingering at the table long after the meal has been served

People attend a prayer vigil in Buffalo on Sunday for the victims killed in the Saturday mass shooting.

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

A worshiper wipes away tears while praying at Macedonia Baptist Church in Buffalo, N.Y., on Sunday, for the victims of the mass shooting at Tops supermarket.

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

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?

IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

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Metro

‘I was middle class, and now I feel like I’m at the poverty line.’ Inflation is hitting Mass. residents painfully hard, despite rosy big-picture stats.

“The majority of people say right now we’re in a recession or depression, which isn’t borne out by the statistics,” said pollster David Paleologos. “But sometimes people are ahead of the statistics.”

Chef Douglass Williams to serve as Newton Mayor’s Community Breakfast keynote speaker

Newton chef Douglass Williams, a James Beard Foundation 2022 nominee for Outstanding Chef, will serve as keynote speaker for the upcoming Mayor’s Community Breakfast.

America is locked in a battle, and the haters must lose

Tragedies like the one that occurred in Buffalo are routinely described as shocking. But I wonder if shock is the right response. We should all be beyond shock by now.

Mass. reports 3,425 confirmed COVID-19 cases; 30 deaths reported over three days

Here’s a look at the latest coronavirus numbers in Massachusetts, including case numbers, deaths, demographics, and more.

Sports

The Bruins have made the playoffs six straight seasons under coach Bruce Cassidy.

What Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy believes went wrong against the Hurricanes

There was no overlooking that the Bruins scored just six goals in the four road games.

Orioles pitcher Matt Harvey has not yet pitched in any games, at any level, this season.

Baseball notebook

Orioles’ Matt Harvey suspended 60 games for distributing drugs

Federal prosecutors said Tyler Skaggs was killed by fentanyl provided to him by Eric Kay, not the Percocet given to him by Matt Harvey.

Tiger Woods was fairly critical of Phil Mickelson on Tuesday.

Tiger Woods says he’s all about majors, a Phil Mickelson rebuke

"I believe in legacies," Woods said. "I believe in major championships. I believe in big events, comparisons to historical figures of the past."

CAM KERRY | SOFTBALL NOTEBOOK

With star shortstop Haley Coupal leading the way, Bishop Feehan softball remains on top

Celtics rule out Marcus Smart and Al Horford for Game 1 at Miami

Maple Leafs say Mitch Marner was victim of carjacking

Business

‘I was middle class, and now I feel like I’m at the poverty line.’ Inflation is hitting Mass. residents painfully hard, despite rosy big-picture stats.

“The majority of people say right now we’re in a recession or depression, which isn’t borne out by the statistics,” said pollster David Paleologos. “But sometimes people are ahead of the statistics.”

Musk says Twitter deal ‘cannot move forward’ without more information

Musk’s increasingly skeptical — and erratic — comments about the takeover have kept investors, bankers, and Twitter itself guessing about his motives.

Wayfair freezes hiring for 90 days citing economic uncertainty

Former Haemonetics headquarters in Braintree leased

magazine

A mural depicting George Floyd with makeshift memorials in his honor in Minneapolis on March 30, 2021.

What happens when you tell the truth about racism in America?

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

The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council hosted a gubernatorial candidate forum on Thursday, May 5, at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick hotel. Moderator Steph Machado of WPRI Channel 12, right, was the forum moderator. The candidates are, from left: Dr. Luis Daniel Muoz, incumbent Governor Daniel McKee, Republican candidate Ashley Kalus, Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea, former CVS executive Helena B. Foulkes, and former secretary of state Matt Brown.

Poll: McKee, Gorbea in tight race for Rhode Island governor; many voters still undecided

BU police investigating sexual assault; suspect at large

The Salon, a downtown lounge, finally reopens with an emphasis on local Providence music

sports

Tom Brady is interviewed on the field after the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, in Tampa, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021.

From GOAT to ‘GROAT’? Tom Brady will executive produce a new Netflix comedy series. And yes, he’ll be in it.

Game 36: Astros at Red Sox lineups and notes

New winger Dylan Borrero is ready to get started with Revolution

business

Ukrainian servicemen sat in a bus after they were evacuated from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, near a prison in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday.

Fall of Mariupol appears at hand; fighters leave steel plant

The Salon, a downtown lounge, finally reopens with an emphasis on local Providence music

Netflix, struggling with subscriptions, lays off about 150 workers

politics

Attorney General Merrick Garland appears to be ramping up the pace of his investigation into the 2021 Capitol riot.

Justice Department requests transcripts from Jan. 6 committee

House panel opens public hearing on unexplained aerial sightings

Clinton campaign lawyer sought to ‘use’ FBI, prosecutor says

Nation

People dined outside in the West Village in Manhattan on Monday.

New York City placed on high alert over rise in cases

With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools

Mass. reports 3,425 confirmed COVID-19 cases; 30 deaths reported over three days

World

Ukrainian servicemen sat in a bus after they were evacuated from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, near a prison in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday.

Fall of Mariupol appears at hand; fighters leave steel plant

Biden administration lifting some Trump-era restrictions on Cuba

More than 260 fighters evacuated from Mariupol mill, Ukraine says

opinion

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

Another abortion horror story, etched in memory — and policy

In fever to cut taxes, Mass. first should tackle crisis in human services

lifestyle

Alisa Amador of Cambridge won the national NPR Tiny Desk Contest.

Cambridge singer-songwriter Alisa Amador wins NPR Tiny Desk Contest

From GOAT to ‘GROAT’? Tom Brady will executive produce a new Netflix comedy series. And yes, he’ll be in it.

‘Too much mustard’: DJ Steve Aoki airmails first pitch at Fenway

food & dining

People embraced Sunday outside the parking lot of a Tops Friendly Markets grocery store where 10 people were killed on Saturday in Buffalo.

The importance of a grocery store

The Salon, a downtown lounge, finally reopens with an emphasis on local Providence music

New England has another strong showing in annual specialty food awards

travel

An aircraft passes the full moon over Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, May 15, 2022.

I canceled my flight to Frankfurt, but now I can’t use my credit

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

A perfect afternoon at Gilmanton Winery

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

Viola Davis discusses her book "Finding Me" at the 92nd Street Y on April 27 in New York.

In new memoir, Viola 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

Netflix, struggling with subscriptions, lays off about 150 workers

Keeping up with the Crawleys in ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’

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

Television

Tom Brady is interviewed on the field after the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, in Tampa, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021.

From GOAT to ‘GROAT’? Tom Brady will executive produce a new Netflix comedy series. And yes, he’ll be in it.

Missed connections in ‘Time Traveler’s Wife’

Netflix, struggling with subscriptions, lays off about 150 workers

music

Alisa Amador of Cambridge won the national NPR Tiny Desk Contest.

Cambridge singer-songwriter Alisa Amador wins NPR Tiny Desk Contest

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

Theater/Dance

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

Jean Appolon Expressions works through ‘Traka’

In ‘Sea Sick,’ an expert on oceans sees a world of trouble

globe local

MIDA chef and owner Douglass Williams

Chef Douglass Williams to serve as Newton Mayor’s Community Breakfast keynote speaker

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

Obituaries

Dr. Barbara Herbert.

Dr. Barbara Herbert, public health ‘change-maker’ for the at-risk and marginalized, dies at 73

Peter Nicholas, cofounder of Boston Scientific, dies at 80

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