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The Celtics were a jubilant bunch after finishing off Miami Sunday to clinch a trip to the NBA Finals.

dan shaughnessy

It’s all about history with the Celtics, and the team’s old-timers feel connected to this group

Hall of Famers Bob Cousy and Tom Sanders are relishing the Celtics' latest trip to the NBA's championship round.

Jayson Tatum was the Eastern Conference finals MVP.

The Globe staff predicts the outcome of the NBA Finals

Five members of our NBA Finals coverage team like the Celtics, while the other four think the Warriors will prevail.

DEVRA FIRST

7 standout restaurants to eat at this Pride Month
They serve everything from ceviche to steak tips to Viet Cajun seafood. And, with queer ownership and/or queer chefs, they offer a delicious way to enjoy, support, and show pride in the community.

BILLY BAKER

Our greatest athlete is a 64-year-old moose antler hunter from Vermont
Over the last four decades, Will Staats has established himself as the premier moose shed hunter in New England with a simple strategy. He out-walks his competition. And one unsuspecting reporter.

ERs reach record capacity as hospitals are inundated with patients

Health systems say they are dealing with record emergency department volume, sicker patients, a compounding mental health crisis, and an ever-beleaguered workforce.

Despite their wealth, Boston and other cities’ political power is fading
The financial power of cities may be causing them to shed political power because of the economic and cultural chasm created in rural and suburban areas.

With Roe set to fall, we must pay more attention to New Hampshire’s new abortion law

New restrictions on those seeking abortions in the Granite State should set off alarms for neighboring New England states and beyond.

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

Hackers linked to Iran targeted Boston Children’s Hospital, FBI director says

Hackers sponsored by the Iranian government last year attempted to conduct a “despicable” cyber attack against Boston Children’s Hospital, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.

Boston College names Blake James, formerly of Miami, as athletic director
James was most recently in the same role at Miami — a fellow ACC school — from 2013-21. He replaces Pat Kraft, who left for Penn State.

Construction at the Magoun Square T station earlier this spring.

Green Line Extension to Medford was set to start service in Dec., then May, then this summer. Now? ‘Tracking for late summer,’ T says.

“Whether it’s late summer or early fall, we know it’s within sight,” said Medford resident and community advocate Laurel Ruma.

NESN began using a broadcast set above the right-field bleachers at Fenway Park this season.

NESN launches app that features live streams of Red Sox and Bruins games

“NESN 360″ offers the same live feed NESN and NESN+ carry, as well as a library of other NESN offerings and original content.

Ankle injury will keep top Red Sox prospect Triston Casas out of Worcester lineup a bit longer

Jada Pinkett Smith.

Jada Pinkett Smith talks about hair-loss ‘shame,’ outcome of Oscar slap

Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband’s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person’s sense of identity.

Opinion

A member of the National Rifle Association plugs his ears with his fingers as he walks past protesters during the NRA's annual meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on May 27.

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

Voters must reject conservatives’ slippery slope alarmism.

IDEAS | YING GAO

A kind gesture from my father for which I didn’t have to say thanks

Biden shouldn’t let bad optics sink a restored nuclear deal with Iran

‘Great replacement’ theories, as old as America, have always been nonsense

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

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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150 years of The Boston Globe

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Interviews begin for Boston Public Schools superintendent candidates

It’s unclear how many candidates are being interviewed, but during a School Committee meeting last week, the search committee co-chair said they were aiming for 20 percent or around 7 people.

This family-run company made 19 custom caskets for victims of Texas school shooting

In the wake of the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a family-run company volunteered their time and resources to customize caskets for those who died.

Man found dead in gator-filled lake near Florida disc golf course
A man died searching for Frisbees in a lake at a disc golf course where people are warned by signs to beware of alligators, police in Florida said.

Bison gores woman in Yellowstone National Park

Video: Rescuers free entangled humpback whale off Cape Cod
A team of rescuers freed a badly entangled humpback whale off the coast of Chatham on Monday.

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‘Crimes of the Future’: What’s a body to do?
Writer-director David Cronenberg reunites with Viggo Mortensen in this story of human anatomy gone rogue.

LOVE LETTERS

My ex cheated on me. Then sent me an e-mail about their great new life.
Should you reply when an ex gets in touch out of the blue?

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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?

More heat waves, rising seas, and intensifying storms will pummel the Boston area, new report finds
By the end of the century, average temperatures in the Boston area could increase as much as 10 degrees above 2000 levels, while seas could rise more than 10 feet, under the worst circumstances, a new study found.

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.

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.”

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Culture & Lifestyle

RM, center, was in Boston over the weekend visiting the "Philip Guston Now" exhibition at the MFA. On Tuesday, he and the rest of BTS were invited to the White House.

RM from BTS stops by Boston’s MFA ahead of White House visit

People embrace for a photo while attending a pride festival that took place after the Nashua Pride parade in 2019.

Here are 12 ways to celebrate Pride Month in Boston

Carrot-lime soup with cilantro

Recipes: Transform your garden vegetables into refreshing summer soups

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

Boston Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ is a spellbinder

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The people you recognize in your neighborhood — are they "neighquaintances," "strangebors," or something else?

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

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

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

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.

IDEAS | CLARA YIM BOLDUC

The real reason nurses are burned out

Metro

Lack of envelopes complicates $850 checks to Maine residents

Most Maine residents will soon receive $850 checks to help them cope with inflation after a shortage of envelopes and paper products threatened to slow delivery.

Video: Rescuers free entangled humpback whale off Cape Cod

A team of rescuers freed a badly entangled humpback whale off the coast of Chatham on Monday.

Interviews begin for Boston Public Schools superintendent candidates

It’s unclear how many candidates are being interviewed, but during a School Committee meeting last week, the search committee co-chair said they were aiming for 20 percent or around 7 people.

Green Line Extension to Medford was set to start service in Dec., then May, then this summer. Now? ‘Tracking for late summer,’ T says.

“Whether it’s late summer or early fall, we know it’s within sight,” said Medford resident and community advocate Laurel Ruma.

Sports

The Celtics were a jubilant bunch after finishing off Miami Sunday to clinch a trip to the NBA Finals.

dan shaughnessy

It’s all about history with the Celtics, and the team’s old-timers feel connected to this group

Hall of Famers Bob Cousy and Tom Sanders are relishing the Celtics' latest trip to the NBA's championship round.

Jayson Tatum was the Eastern Conference finals MVP.

The Globe staff predicts the outcome of the NBA Finals

Five members of our NBA Finals coverage team like the Celtics, while the other four think the Warriors will prevail.

Garrett Whitlock will make his eighth consecutive start for the Red Sox Wednesday night.

Reds at Red Sox | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 51: Reds at Red Sox lineups and notes

Garrett Whitlock will be on the mound when the Red Sox conclude their series with Cincinnati Wednesday night.

NESN launches app that features live streams of Red Sox and Bruins games

Boston College names Blake James, formerly of Miami, as athletic director

Ankle injury will keep top Red Sox prospect Triston Casas out of Worcester lineup a bit longer

Business

US job openings decline from record while remaining elevated

The number of available positions decreased to 11.4 million in the month from an upwardly revised 11.9 million in March.

Janet Yellen says ‘I was wrong’ last year on the path of inflation

"There have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices and supply bottlenecks," the treasury secretary said on CNN.

Hackers linked to Iran targeted Boston Children’s Hospital, FBI director says

THE BIG IDEA | KARA MILLER

Despite their wealth, Boston and other cities’ political power is fading

magazine

What you can do when a loved one is overcome by grief. And what you can’t.

My ex cheated on me. Then sent me an e-mail about their great new life.

Carrot-lime soup with cilantro

Recipes: Transform your garden vegetables into refreshing summer soups

Perspective | Book Excerpt

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

metro

A couple of patients arrived by the emergency room entrance waiting for medical attention at South Shore Health in Weymouth.

ERs reach record capacity as hospitals are inundated with patients

Conn. police seek witnesses to deadly wrong-way crash in Haddam

Shaw Memorial to be rededicated at Boston Common this morning

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

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

Avalanche hang on for wild Game 1 win over Oilers

business

The Tomari Nuclear Power Plant of Hokkaido Electric Power Co. in Tomari village, Hokkaido prefecture, northern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2020. A Japanese court on Tuesday ordered the utility not to restart all three reactors at its nuclear plant in northern Japan, citing inadequate tsunami measures, a decision that upheld residents’ safety worry at a time the government pushes nuclear restarts amid concern stemming from its pledge to ban Russian fossil fuel imports.

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

Starbucks workers in Cleveland Circle strike

Supreme Court halts Texas law that targets social media platforms

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

Officer Joseph Mensah in an undated photo provided by the Wauwatosa Police Department in Wauwatosa, Wis.

Wisconsin deputy not charged after new look at 2016 shooting

Bison gores woman in Yellowstone National Park

Man found dead in gator-filled lake near Florida disc golf course

World

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, during the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster on Oct. 14, 2019 in London, England.

Platinum Jubilee: A last bash for Queen Elizabeth II and the party Brits need

Western nations vow to send more, better arms to Ukraine

Germany to send Kyiv anti-aircraft missiles, radar systems

opinion

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

COVID-19 is stalking Massachusetts schools

Questions surrounding the origins of COVID-19 remain unanswered

lifestyle

Jada Pinkett Smith.

Jada Pinkett Smith talks about hair-loss ‘shame,’ outcome of Oscar slap

RM from BTS stops by Boston’s MFA ahead of White House visit

A COVID case overseas causes trouble at home

food & dining

Drag queen Harlow Havoc (Justin Petrie) has a cocktail as she hosts a watch party for "RuPaul's Drag Race" at Blend in Dorchester.

7 standout restaurants to eat at this Pride Month

Recipes: Transform your garden vegetables into refreshing summer soups

A 12-year-old named Porter, raising money for cancer, and sweet peach tea

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

Léa Seydoux (left), Viggo Mortensen, and Kristen Stewart in "Crimes of the Future."

‘Crimes of the Future’: What’s a body to do?

Rachel Zegler to star in ‘Hunger Games’ prequel

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

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

globe local

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 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