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19 children, 2 adults killed in Texas school shooting

A woman cried as she left the Uvalde Civic Center on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas.

Deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade renews calls for action as families await news

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing at least 19 children, officials said. It was the latest in a yearslong series of mass killings, but the prospects of any reform of the nation’s gun regulations seemed dim.

What we know about the victims of the Texas school shooting School massacre continues Texas’ grim run of mass shootings Mass. officials call for gun reform following Texas shooting

President Biden spoke to the nation about the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, from the White House on Tuesday.

President Biden says ‘we have to act’ after Texas elementary school shooting

Senator Chris Murphy

‘What are we doing?’ In wake of Texas school shooting, Obama, Connecticut senators invoke Sandy Hook

Warriors coach Steve Kerr.

‘When are we going to do something?’ Warriors coach Steve Kerr makes emotional statement after Texas shooting

Republican gubernatorial candidate Governor Brian Kemp waves during his primary night election party at the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame on May 24, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Kemp cruises to victory in Georgia, dealing blow to Trump but not his voter fraud lies

Still, a vote for Governor Brian Kemp did not necessarily signify a rejection of former president Donald Trump or his claims of fraud.

Takeaways: Trump’s primary defeat; scandals prevail See results from key races in Georgia, Texas, and more

People who rebound with COVID-19 after Paxlovid may be highly contagious, new studies suggest
The findings come as federal regulators issued a warning about Paxlovid rebounds.

In encouraging sign, levels of coronavirus in Eastern Mass. waste water have dipped in recent days

Money, projects starting to flow at Suffolk Downs
Developers at Suffolk Downs, the 161-acre former horse racing track that straddles East Boston and Revere, have landed major financing deals to move forward with a lab and biomanufacturing facility and several thousand housing units.

Suffolk DA unveils pilot restorative justice program in Roxbury, Chelsea, and Charlestown

The alternative justice program will start first as a pilot in Chelsea District Court and the Roxbury and Charlestown Municipal Courts, and will expand to other district and municipal courts if the initiative proves successful.

Voters elected Wu to fix the schools, and she deserves a chance to do it

Mayor Michelle Wu was elected to run city government, and the responsibility for fixing the schools should begin with her. It certainly shouldn’t be snatched away by the state, on some vague promise that it will do better.

The Great Divide: State education commissioner says he’ll give city time on a plan for BPS

After a four-alarm fire, what’s next for the Wayfinder Hotel in Newport?
Sprinklers and alarms worked properly, yet part of the building is a total loss and dozens of hotel rooms have been boarded up.

Search continues for answers in Medford woman’s mysterious death

Barbara Novaes was last seen alive Sunday afternoon, and her body was discovered by authorities Monday behind the duplex at 21 Emery St. where she had lived with her college-age son for many years, according to officials and neighbors.

State Police superintendent’s son to face criminal charges for carrying unsecured weapons in his car

Reid Mason, son of the State Police superintendent, Colonel Christopher Mason, will face five counts of improper storage of firearms after a court hearing that was made public amid concerns that the younger Mason could get favorable treatment due to his father.

Kiké Hernández rounds the bases after hitting the first pitch of the game for a home run Tuesday night.

Peter Abraham | Red Sox 16, White Sox 3

Patience pays off as this Red Sox team is finally forming its own identity

Less than three weeks ago, they were in last place, 10 games out of first, now we’re seeing that identity form and it’s one defined by a relentless offense.

Miami’s Kyle Lowry (left) and Jimmy Butler had no answers for the Celtics in Game 4.

Eight thoughts on the evened-up Celtics-Heat series as it heads back to Miami

Robert Williams’s status for the rest of the series is something to keep an eye on, as is Marcus Smart’s health.

Katherine B. and her family used a bike lane in Cambridge. Because she uses the bike lane with her young children daily, she is hoping the protected bike lanes will come together as soon as possible.

In Porter Square, a fight rages for the future of Cambridge streets

An ambitious plan to add protected bike lanes around the city has spurred a raucous public spat between businesses, city officials, and transit advocates.

Opinion

Emergency personnel gather near Robb Elementary School following a shooting on Tuesday, in Uvalde, Texas.

David Hogg and John Rosenthal

When it comes to gun control, our children are Generation Abandoned

Common-sense gun safety legislation routinely dies in the US Senate because of the filibuster. The Biden administration could get around the filibuster through executive orders, such as the recent one on ghost guns.

IDEAS | CLARA YIM BOLDUC

The real reason nurses are burned out

America let George Floyd’s death fester in vain

Georgia voters expose the ‘Jim Crow’ smear as a lie

Biden takes the ‘ambiguity’ out of defending Taiwan

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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Hard Rock Cafe near Faneuil Hall to close in June
The restaurant chain known for music memorabilia says it “remains open” to opening somewhere else in Boston.

Steven Tyler enters treatment after relapsing, Aerosmith cancels part of Vegas residency
Boston-based rock band Aerosmith announced they are canceling part of their upcoming Las Vegas residency as frontman Steven Tyler has voluntarily entered rehab.

Brown adopts land acknowledgment, recognizing its location within ancestral homelands of Narragansett Indian Tribe
The land acknowledgment is an optional recognition statement to honor the campus’ location within the ancestral homelands of the tribe.

Moderna says it’s starting to work on a monkeypox vaccine

The Cambridge company is in the early stages of developing an mRNA vaccine for the viral disease that is spreading in the US and Europe.

What is monkeypox, the rare disease now confirmed in Mass.?

Scars of war seem to be everywhere in Ukraine after 3 months
Chernihiv was in the way of Russian forces as they advanced toward Kyiv early in the war. At least 700 residents were killed, and part of a city park now holds a cemetery, where some of them are buried.

Federal officials bust alleged money laundering ring linked to Colombian cartels

An international crackdown on money laundering by Colombian drug cartels has led to a sweeping federal indictment in Boston charging 20 people with moving millions of dollars in drug proceeds through various banks, including in Massachusetts, authorities announced Tuesday.

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For expectant moms, the state of the world is a lot to carry

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When it comes to summer vacations, Maine has Massachusetts beat, according to US News & World Report
In a list released Tuesday of the best places to visit in the United States, Bar Harbor ranked number 16, while Boston landed at 19 on the list. But what destination came in first?

Mayor Wu announces ‘warm weather’ plan to address humanitarian crisis at Mass. and Cass
The announcement comes amid growing anxiety among business owners and residents that crime and vagrancy have persisted.

Larry Edelman

Coming to terms with this inevitable bear market
There are times, like right now, when relying on stocks dooms us to a Sisyphean cycle of bull and bear markets.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Michael J. Bramwell will join the Museum of Fine Arts as its inaugural Joyce Linde Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art.

MFA hires curator of folk art, a first for the museum

From left: Nael Nacer, John Kuntz, and Marianna Bassham in "People, Places & Things." The SpeakEasy Stage Company production won three Elliot Norton Awards, including Bassham as outstanding actress in the midsize theater category.

SpeakEasy, Huntington, Gloucester Stage lead the honorees at a virtual Norton awards ceremony

The Del Fuegos (with Dan Zanes, center) play a reunion show at the Paradise in June 2011, the last time the band performed together.

A Del Fuegos reunion rewinds to the 1980s and the heyday of the Channel

Garth Brooks performs at Gillette Stadium Friday night, the first of his two shows in Foxborough.

Garth Brooks gets rowdy with his friends in Gillette’s low places

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Alexander Vindman appeared before the House Intelligence Committee during President Trump's impeachment hearings in 2019.

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA

Speaking up before it’s too late

Mitchell Zuckoff

Is cryptocurrency a Ponzi scheme?

Mayor Michelle Wu and state regulators are expected to meet on Tuesday to discuss a new audit of Boston Public Schools that found the system hobbled by "entrenched dysfunction."

A damning audit calls for action at BPS

MARCELA GARCÍA

Communications 101: Closing the language barriers in state agencies

District Attorney Kevin Hayden, with other law enforcement, announced a first-in-New England initiative on May 12 to stem the tide of illegal guns turning up on Boston streets.

DA Kevin Hayden believes in criminal justice reform and public safety. What’s so bad about that?

Bridget Harvey, an artist in the UK, bought this sweater secondhand and turned it into a statement.

IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

Radical menders vs. disposable everything

Metro

After a four-alarm fire, what’s next for the Wayfinder Hotel in Newport?

Sprinklers and alarms worked properly, yet part of the building is a total loss and dozens of hotel rooms have been boarded up.

RI FOOD & DINING

It’s National Wine Day 2022. Visit one of these Rhode Island vineyards

The Ocean State has micro-climates where the soil conditions closely resemble some of the best sought-after wine regions in the world.

COLUMN | DAN MCGOWAN

What Boston can learn from the state takeover of Providence schools

Mass. officials may still be deciding how to solve Boston’s school problems, but there’s a lot that can be learned from Rhode Island's experience running Providence schools.

Cardinal O’Malley calls Texas shootings ‘unthinkable,’ says ‘senseless carnage’ must stop

O’Malley reflected in a statement Tuesday night on “the unthinkable loss of so many innocent young lives and the teacher who devoted her life to educating and nurturing the children."

Sports

Warriors coach Steve Kerr.

‘When are we going to do something?’ Warriors coach Steve Kerr makes emotional statement after Texas shooting

Steve Kerr, the championship-winning coach of the Golden State Warriors, issued an emotional call for action on gun control in the wake of the shooting that killed at least 19 children in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday.

Kiké Hernández rounds the bases after hitting the first pitch of the game for a home run Tuesday night.

peter abraham | on baseball

Patience pays off as this Red Sox team is finally forming its own identity

Less than three weeks ago, they were in last place, 10 games out of first, now we’re seeing that identity form and it’s one defined by a relentless offense.

Trevor Story and Rafael Devers connected for two of the Red Sox' four home runs on Tuesday night.

Red Sox 16, White Sox 3

Red Sox erupt early, cruise to sixth straight win

All nine Red Sox starters collected at least one hit, eight drove in at least one run, and seven had multiple hits.

TUESDAY'S SCHOOLS ROUNDUP

Dominic Terrazzano sets the tone early as Billerica boys’ lacrosse beats North Andover

Rangers power past Hurricanes, 4-1, to even Eastern Conference series

Jayson Tatum named All-NBA first team

Business

FDA chief to detail delays inspecting baby formula plant

Federal plans to inspect a baby formula factory linked to the nationwide shortage were slowed by COVID-19, scheduling conflicts and other logistical problems, according to prepared testimony from the head of the Food and Drug Administration.

After a four-alarm fire, what’s next for the Wayfinder Hotel in Newport?

Sprinklers and alarms worked properly, yet part of the building is a total loss and dozens of hotel rooms have been boarded up.

RI FOOD & DINING

It’s National Wine Day 2022. Visit one of these Rhode Island vineyards

Scars of war seem to be everywhere in Ukraine after 3 months

magazine

Anania Williams just finished his bachelor’s degree at Emerson College, and is planning to move to New York City to look for work on the stage. But he’s already making a decent living as a social media influencer.

College & Careers

Lots of young people dream of being an influencer. He’s really doing it.

College & Careers

The 4 fastest growing jobs for college graduates in 2022

Love Letters

I have a crush on the person I carpool with. At risk: My heart and my ride.

This week's daters: Desire' and Kevin.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He has a dog who was popping in and out of the Zoom’

metro

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey at the groundbreaking site of the Embrace Memorial on the Boston Common on April 27.

ExxonMobil must face AG Healey’s climate lawsuit, Massachusetts supreme court rules

State Police superintendent’s son to face criminal charges for carrying unsecured weapons in his car

Boston School Bus Drivers Union votes to approve contract

sports

“He was trying to provoke me. He knew what he was doing,” the White Sox' Tim Anderson said of a comment last week from the Yankees' Josh Donaldson.

Tim Anderson said Josh Donaldson was trying to rattle him with ‘Jackie’ remark

Doncic, Mavericks force Warriors, Western finals back to California

Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale encouraged by recent progress in injury rehab

business

Facebook’s parent company Meta said that it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads, such news only added to the troubles social media companies have faced this year.

Social media companies face mounting questions over advertising

Genocea Biosciences to close

Money, projects starting to flow at Suffolk Downs

politics

Republican Governor Brian Kemp holds his fingers out denoting four more years in front of supporters during an election night watch party, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Atlanta.

Takeaways: Trump’s big primary defeat; scandals for the win

Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger beats Trump ally

‘What are we doing?’ In wake of Texas school shooting, Obama, Connecticut Senators Blumenthal and Murphy invoke Sandy Hook

Nation

Michelle Saenz of Santee, Calif. buys baby formula at a grocery story across the border, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Tijuana, Mexico.

FDA chief to detail delays inspecting baby formula plant

What we know about the victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas

19 students, 2 adults killed in Texas elementary school shooting, officials say

World

People walked past a destroyed building in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, on Saturday.

200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol’s ruins, Ukraine says

Turkey lists demands before talks with Sweden and Finland on NATO bids

Russia and China hold military exercise in East Asia as Biden visits

opinion

Mayor Michelle Wu and state regulators are expected to meet on Tuesday to discuss a new audit of Boston Public Schools that found the system hobbled by "entrenched dysfunction."

A damning audit calls for action at BPS

Is cryptocurrency a Ponzi scheme?

What the Mass. secretary of state apparently thinks of Republicans

lifestyle

A dunlin and sandpipers search for food.

Bird sightings on Cape Cod

Steven Tyler enters treatment after relapsing, Aerosmith cancels part of Vegas residency

Where to play chess in Boston: 4 places to deliver checkmate around town

food & dining

Glasses of wine sit on a table in Providence, Rhode Island.

It’s National Wine Day 2022. Visit one of these Rhode Island vineyards

How to get rid of fruit flies — and stop them before they appear

Delini Gelato shop owner is back from Paris with fresh ideas and a reopened shop

travel

People look on as firefighters battle a fire at The Wayfinder Hotel in Newport on Monday.

After a four-alarm fire, what’s next for the Wayfinder Hotel in Newport?

When it comes to summer vacations, Maine has Massachusetts beat, according to US News & World Report

A music fest in Lowell, a wellness fest in Sun Valley, and a speaker to go

Arts

Michael J. Bramwell will join the Museum of Fine Arts as its inaugural Joyce Linde Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art.

MFA hires curator of folk art, a first for the museum

Watertown exhibition ‘Across Cultures’ breaks down borders

When the wild rumpus gave way to Mozart: Maurice Sendak at the Gardner

Books

‘Either/Or’: When the college novel deserves a second look

Peter Swanson: reading scary books at a young age

Young love is in bloom in ‘Avalon’

Movies

Buzz Lightyear, voiced by Chris Evans, in "Lightyear."

Summer’s hottest movies, from ‘Top Gun’ to ‘Nope’

9 spots around Boston to see a drive-in movie

‘Hold Your Fire’: finding high drama in ‘dynamic inactivity’

Television

This combination of photos shows departing "Saturday Night Live" cast members (from left) Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, and Kyle Mooney.

For ‘SNL,’ veterans’ departures may signal fresh start for younger cast members

This week’s TV: The end of ‘This Is Us,’ the return of ‘Stranger Things,’ the arrival of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’

‘SNL’ celebrates veteran comedians Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney as they say goodbye

music

Baritone Brian Major (left) and baritone Markel Reed portrayed prizefighter Emile Griffith at different stages of his life in Boston Lyric Opera's production of Terence Blanchard's "Champion."

Overcoming COVID obstacles, ‘Champion’ is a winner

A Del Fuegos reunion rewinds to the 1980s and the heyday of the Channel

Under new leadership, Phoenix takes on Mahler and Schreker

Theater/Dance

From left: Nael Nacer, John Kuntz, and Marianna Bassham in "People, Places & Things." The SpeakEasy Stage Company production won three Elliot Norton Awards, including Bassham as outstanding actress in the midsize theater category.

SpeakEasy, Huntington, Gloucester Stage lead the honorees at a virtual Norton awards ceremony

ArtsEmerson’s 2022-2023 season leans into social justice

In connecting the busing era to today, ‘Common Ground Revisited’ follows a long, complicated path to the stage

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Middle school students

Newton police investigating swastika found at Brown Middle School

Shawn Newton to return to Salem State as dean of students

‘It’s a great community’: Want List Records joins stores at Newton’s Mall at Echo Bridge

Obituaries

FILE - Joe Pignatano, newly signed baseball catcher for the New York Mets, poses for a photo July 14,1962, at the Polo Grounds in New York. Pignatano, who made his major league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1957 and later was a coach for the Mets, died Monday, May 23, 2022, in Naples, Fla. (AP Photo/Harry Harris; File)

Ex-Brooklyn Dodgers catcher, Mets coach Joe Pignatano dies at 92

Simon Preston, Acclaimed Organist and Conductor, Dies at 83

Urvashi Vaid, pioneering LGBTQ activist, is dead at 63