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Biden says US sending medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine

The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will send Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have been begging for as they struggle to stall Russian progress in the Donbas region.

After a holiday weekend of record gas prices, Biden refocuses on inflation

The president rolled out a three-part plan to bring down rising prices as he tries to keep his economic message from being drowned out.

Dispatcher helped adults try to save 4-year-old boy who drowned in Brookline pool

Adults tried to save the life of a 4-year-old child who drowned in a swimming pool in Brookline home on Monday.

Teacher shut door at Texas school, but it didn’t lock before attack, police say
An exterior door at Robb Elementary School did not lock when it was closed by a teacher shortly before a gunman used it to get inside and kill 19 students and two teachers, leaving investigators searching to determine why, state police said Tuesday.

After Uvalde, holiday weekend sees shootings nationwide We asked you to share messages about the recent mass shootings. Here’s what you said.

Coronavirus levels in E. Mass. waste water saw upticks late last week

An encouraging downward trend in coronavirus levels in Eastern Massachusetts waste water was interrupted by two upticks late last week.

Reds 2, Red Sox 1

Slumping, sloppy Red Sox can’t complete ninth-inning comeback in loss to lowly Reds

The Sox only had one hit entering the ninth, and allowed two runs on throwing errors to fall to 2-4 during this homestand.

Tower Road looked out across the ocean surrounding Cuttyhunk Island. At 0.91 square miles, it is the outermost of the Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts.

On Cuttyhunk Island, dwindling year-rounders look to recruit newcomers

Here, there is no wintertime grocery store, the Wi-Fi is spotty, and golf carts are the main mode of transportation. Can the 12 full-time residents, who aren't getting any younger, find a way to recruit a new generation to live there year-round?

A ‘wall of pollen’ turned the sky a yellowish-green after a cold front moved in
Residents were left covering their faces Tuesday morning after the sudden weather shift created a pollen-heavy scene that resembled smog or “wildfire smoke” in the air. Parts of the region became so hazy that people described it as a “wall of pollen.”

Who has been getting abortions in Massachusetts? Take a look at the data.
Here’s a look at who has been getting abortions in Massachusetts, based on 2020 statistics, the most recent data available, and who the rights codified by the state in 2020 will continue to protect.

Jayson Tatum's grandmother Rose Mary Johnson, sports a signed jersey given to her by old friend Jo Jo White (right).

How Jayson Tatum’s grandmother forged a lifelong bond with Celtics great Jo Jo White

Rose Mary Johnson and Jo Jo White were childhood friends — so close, in fact, that their two families were like one big family.

Tara Sullivan: You can root against Steve Kerr on the court, but you should listen to his voice off it

Three of Deepwater Wind's turbines stand in the water off Block Island, R.I. The minimum offer price rule was created to help insulate fossil fuel power plants from having to compete against renewables, such as wind energy, that cost less.

Federal regulators uphold controversial grid proposal that could slow clean energy

A plan by the region’s energy grid operator would encourage the development of major wind and solar projects, legislators and advocates say, but not for another two years — effectively slowing the pace of clean energy at precisely the time when it needs to grow.

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Supreme Court halts Texas law that targets social media platforms

A divided US Supreme Court blocked a Texas law that critics say would fundamentally transform Twitter and Facebook by requiring them to allow hate speech and extremism.

Opinion

Biden’s misguided faith in ‘rational’ Mitch McConnell on gun reform

For years, the Kentucky senator has derailed efforts to deter mass shootings. Massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde won’t change that.

The world won’t end if we enact better gun laws

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: What to call the familiar strangers in your midst?

Rollins picks a fight worth fighting

COVID-19 is stalking Massachusetts schools

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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Portsmouth, N.H., boy fatally shot in ‘random’ gunfire incident while on vacation in South Carolina

School officials said 8-year-old Quarius Naqua Dunham was the victim of a random shooting while he was on vacation with his family in South Carolina.

Hyannis man held on $100,000 bail after allegedly making a school shooting threat online to ‘scare people’
A Hyannis man allegedly threatened to commit a school shooting on social media because he “wanted to scare people,” but later said he tried to delete the Facebook posting when he concluded he had made a mistake, according to police.

Cleveland Circle Starbucks workers stage one-day strike over water leak
Employees at the coffee shop walked out Tuesday over what they claimed were unsafe conditions. The company says it acted quickly to resolve the problem.

South Boston man ordered held without bail in 1984 murder linked to drug trade, ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s shakedowns

A 61-year-old South Boston man was held without bail at his arraignment Tuesday for allegedly murdering 22-year-old Brian Watson in 1984 in a case that authorities believe was linked to notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger’s long reign of terror in the neighborhood.

Winchendon man arrested for allegedly disabling women’s vehicles, offering them rides, police say
Alexander Yee, 38, of Winchendon was arrested Tuesday on warrants issued out of Milford District Court charging him in two separate incidents in Milford and Bellingham, police said.

How Brad Raffensperger beat ‘Stop the Steal’
As he ramped up his bid for re-election last year, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had a problem: His fellow Republicans did not want to hear from him.

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Cindy Tsai, 51, lost $2.5 million to a sophisticated online scammer who convinced her to invest her money using a fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platform. Tsai met her scammer, "Jimmy," on WhatsApp in October 2021.

Lured on dating apps and social media, Asian Americans are crypto scammers’ latest target

Online romance scams have exploded since the coronavirus pandemic began. About 56,000 such scams were reported to the Federal Trade Commission in 2021, more than double than in 2019. And growing curiosity about cryptocurrency has served as a strategic — and lucrative — hook for scammers.

‘They treated me like I was an inmate.’ Despite protests, state continues to support prison-based programs for addicted men.
Advocates and addiction specialists have long decried the practice of forcing men into correctional settings for addiction treatment, saying that doing so shames and often traumatizes people who are sick but have not committed a crime.

Golf

Cracking the code at Brookline’s venerable and fiercely private The Country Club
The world’s best golfers and thousands of spectators will descend on the club for the US Open in June.

Even in Massachusetts, GOP politics are all about Trump
A quite conservative party convention in a reliably blue state raises questions about the future of moderate Republicans.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Viktorina Kapitonova and Lasha Khozashvili in Boston Ballet's presentation of "Swan Lake."

Boston Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ is a spellbinder

From left: Kurt Csolak, Beanie Feldstein, and Justin Prescott in "Funny Girl," a revival of the musical that made Barbra Streisand a star.

Out of the past and onto the Broadway stage

A typical afternoon of speed chess and trash talk outside Harvard Square's Pavement Coffeehouse.

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

Ben Whishaw in "This Is Going to Hurt."

In most TV medical dramas, doctors are heroes. This isn’t one of them

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The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The opposition by Quincy officials to the rebuilding of Long Island Bridge in Boston Harbor has become the subject of a civil rights investigation launched by US Attorney Rachael Rollins.

Rollins picks a fight worth fighting

Students Hasnain Ali, Giordano Cinci, Samuel Hernandez, Ruslan Lavrishin and Ryan Mahmoud enjoy lunch on the lawn at the Watertown Middle School in September, 2021.

COVID-19 is stalking Massachusetts schools

Azavia Barsky-Elnour

Brookline’s Black students have the right to achieve. Why won’t the schools let us?

Jeffrey D. Sachs and Neil L. Harrison

Questions surrounding the origins of COVID-19 remain unanswered

The Aalto library in Vyborg, Russia, on Aug. 24, 2020.

Joan Wickersham

Things fall apart and get rebuilt. Things get built and fall apart.

Registered traveling nurse Patricia Carrete, of El Paso, Texas, walked down the hallway during a night shift at a field hospital set up to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients in Cranston, R.I., on Feb. 10, 2021.

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The real reason nurses are burned out

Metro

Late co-owner of Sea Tow Boston honored with new life jacket station in Winthrop

The new life jacket loaner station at the Cottage Park Yacht Club in Winthrop honors the late Capt. Steve Winkler, the long-time co-owner of Sea Tow Boston, who died last year.

Rhode Island leaders call for action on gun bills

'When our children die, we die too. Enough is enough,' said Diana Garlington, a Providence resident whose 21-year-old daughter was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2011.

Stephanie Colotti Ferrie, 43, charted a voyage for her family through illness and life

'While cancer changed my life forever, it also helped me live my life differently,' Ms. Colotti Ferrie wrote in a blog about her family's expedition.

Rhode Island political news: May 2022

Regular updates about Rhode Island politics and political leaders.

Sports

Joey Votto hit the top of the Green Monster in the eighth for his second double of the night.

Reds slugger Joey Votto goes deep twice but not quite deep enough, settling for two doubles at Fenway

Votto twice came within inches of a homer, hitting the top of the Red Sox bullpen on one shot and the top of the Green Monster on the other.

John Wroblewski, the new head coach of the US women's national hockey team, spent the past two seasons coaching the Los Angeles Kings’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Ontario Reign.

John Wroblewski named the coach of US women’s national hockey team

Wroblewski spent four years with the National Team Development Program, producing 29 NHL Draft picks, including 11 first-rounders

The Avalanche’s eight goals were tied for the most in a playoff game in franchise history.

Game 1: Avalanche 8, Oilers 6

Avalanche hang on for wild Game 1 win over Oilers

J.T. Compher scored twice and Cale Makar had a goal and two assists for Colorado.

Boys' Volleyball

2022 MIAA boys’ volleyball Division 2 state tournament bracket

Reds 2, Red Sox 1

Slumping, sloppy Red Sox can’t complete ninth-inning comeback in loss to lowly Reds

Dustin Johnson defies PGA Tour and joins Saudi-funded series

Business

Japanese court says nuclear plant can’t reopen without better tsunami protections

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Starbucks workers in Cleveland Circle strike

Supreme Court halts Texas law that targets social media platforms

Oil prices surge, gas hits new high after EU cracks down on Russia

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Liuginsa Rosa (left) and Ersen’S Joseph.

College & Careers

These students saved big money on their college degrees. Here’s how.

Perspective | Book Excerpt

Charlie Baker: What happened to reaching across the aisle to get things done?

Spiced Lamb Burgers With Feta and Tahini Sauce

Recipes: Take your cookout to the next level with these spicy burgers

The Solid Sound festival at Mass MoCA features dozens of musical acts, including Wilco, in addition to comedy performances, food, and more.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do in and around Boston, May 23-June 5

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Students who support abortion rights marched last month in New York.

Insurers and employers in Mass. scramble to keep out-of-state workers covered for abortion

As Pawtucket soccer stadium costs soar, R.I. considers more public funding

Dispatcher helped adults try to save 4-year-old boy who drowned in Brookline pool

sports

From left, sophomore Julia Malowitz, sophomore Katie Fox, freshman Isabella Boyer, and senior Haley Rapaglia have Central Catholic ready for the MIAA Tournament.

Central Catholic put aside a rough start and is primed for Division 1 tournament

How Jayson Tatum’s grandmother forged a lifelong bond with Celtics great Jo Jo White

2022 MIAA boys’ volleyball Division 1 state tournament bracket

business

Travelers queued up at the north security checkpoint in the main terminal of Denver International Airport last Thursday. US airlines canceled more than 2,800 flights from Thursday through Monday, or about 2 percent of their schedules, according to tracking service FlightAware.

Canceled flights mar first weekend of summer for travelers

Advisory firm urges Spirit shareholders to vote against merger with Frontier

GSK to buy Cambridge vaccine startup Affinivax for $2.1b, with more payments possible

politics

President Biden in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 31, 2022.

Biden says US sending medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine

After a holiday weekend of record gas prices, Biden refocuses on inflation

Conn. looks to hire an expert in combating election misinformation

Nation

Pallbearers carried the coffin of Amerie Jo Garza at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday.

Teacher shut door at Texas school, but it didn’t lock before attack, police say

After Uvalde, holiday weekend sees shootings nationwide

Uvalde grieves, says goodbyes at visitations and funerals

World

Relentless Russian artillery has damaged 90 percent of the buildings in Sievierodonetsk.

Russian forces advance in city of Sievierodonetsk

Iran disrupts Internet, experts say; building collapse deaths at 34

Monkeypox patients should abstain from sex while symptomatic, UK says

opinion

A 1970 federal law required that cold, hard facts guide credit decisions, rather than the prejudicial inclinations that were normal at the time. This resulted in the rise of the credit score.

Where credit scores come from and why they don’t quite add up — but can

Hold large corporations accountable for exposing the public to ‘forever chemicals’

Patents are only as good as the laws and rules intended to enforce them

lifestyle

Students with congratulations throwing graduation hats in the air celebrating,

Beyond ‘Oh, The Places You’ll Go’: Grad gifts that aren’t cliché

Bay State Strongman Rob Kearney lends his colorful, queer experiences to ‘Strong’

Here are 12 ways to celebrate Pride Month in Boston

food & dining

Fermentation expert and author Alex Lewin

Fermentation expert Alex Lewin has a message in a bottle

These chips have a healthy twist: They’re made from yogurt

Classic Cape cocktails, now in a can

travel

Travelers queue up at the south security checkpoint in the main terminal of Denver International Airport, Thursday, May 26, 2022.

Canceled flights mar first weekend of summer for US travelers

On Cuttyhunk Island, dwindling year-rounders look to recruit newcomers

Testing positive and using the ‘backdoor’ to get into the US

Arts

Installation view of "Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms," currently at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston's Watershed in East Boston. Left, Ebony G. Patterson, "...and the dew cracks the earth, in five acts of lamentation ... between the cuts ... beneath the leaves ... below the soil...," 2020; center, Madeline Hollander, "Heads/Tails: Walker & Broadway 2," 2020; right, El Anatsui, "Area B," 2007.

Gorgeous trash and radical recycling at ICA’s Watershed

At the MFA, a camera-ready country

You can judge an album by its cover

Books

Rachel Zegler arrived at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Rachel Zegler to star in ‘Hunger Games’ prequel

A deadly silence

The power of books to challenge dictators

Movies

Rachel Zegler arrived at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Rachel Zegler to star in ‘Hunger Games’ prequel

Out of the frying pan into a film for ‘Bob’s Burgers’

‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’ has heart — and (mostly) hits the spot

Television

From left: Busy Philipps, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sara Bareilles, and Paula Pell in "Girls5eva."

Let the silliness — and satire — continue in season 2 of ‘Girls5eva’

This week’s TV: Ray Liotta’s TV series, Norm Macdonald’s special, and the Sex Pistols

‘Stranger Things’ features Emerson College in its new season. One student is raising thousands for Uvalde victims as a result.

music

Jeff Tweedy performs with Wilco during the band's headlining set on Saturday at the Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA.

At Solid Sound, Wilco contemplates a ‘Cruel Country’

Ronnie Hawkins, rockabilly road warrior, is dead at 87

Metallica emphatically brings Boston Calling to a close

Theater/Dance

Viktorina Kapitonova and Lasha Khozashvili in Boston Ballet's presentation of "Swan Lake."

Boston Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ is a spellbinder

A high-profile dance fest rises again

Out of the past and onto the Broadway stage

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Emerson College is located in downtown Boston.

‘Stranger Things’ features Emerson College in its new season. One student is raising thousands for Uvalde victims as a result.

Boston Calling shut down for about 2 hours by severe weather

Safety at the beach and around the barbeque paramount this Memorial Day weekend, state officials say

Obituaries

Ms. Colotti Ferrie, with her husband, Kevin.

Stephanie Colotti Ferrie, 43, charted a voyage for her family through illness and life

Ronnie Hawkins, rockabilly road warrior, is dead at 87

Angelo Sodano, once-powerful Vatican prelate, dies at 94