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Woman killed on turbulent flight over New England was prominent executive who served in presidential administrations
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board said they are looking into “a reported trim issue” that occurred on the jet before the turbulence.

Climate change is raising flight turbulence risks. Here’s what to know.

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves at the 66th Emmy Awards in August 2014 at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

Camila Alves, wife of Matthew McConaughey, shares footage of severe turbulence on Lufthansa flight

Leominster man charged with attacking flight attendants, trying to open emergency exit door on LA to Boston flight

Passengers tackled the man, who was restrained with the flight crew’s assistance, prosecutors said.

Planes clip each other at Logan Airport, one week after close call on runway

Woman almost hit by MBTA ceiling panel ‘grateful’ she wasn’t seriously hurt
“As scary as it was, I can acknowledge that it could have been worse,” said Cianna Navarro, who was almost hit by the roughly 25-pound panel in Harvard station last week.

Greater Boston Chamber pushes Governor Healey to pay up to hire a new T boss

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Everett School Committee weighs future of district superintendent who accused mayor of racism

The Everett School Committee is expected to vote Monday night on whether to renew the superintendent's contract. Superintendent Priya Tahiliani has accused some members of the School Committee, including the mayor, of racism and intentionally undermining her.

Woman known as ‘Granby Girl’ identified decades after her killing

Suffolk County Sheriff fined for creating new position for niece, getting child care help from subordinates

Brigham and Women's Hospital.

A bacterial infection killed three patients at Brigham and Women’s. The culprit? A water purification system.

A who-done-it analysis of where the bacteria originated, and the lessons that followed for the hospital about infection control, have been highlighted in a study published by Brigham clinicians on Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

What are borgs, the TikTok-trending drinks UMass blamed in part for ‘Blarney Blowout’ hospitalizations?
After an annual St. Patrick Day’s celebration sent 28 people in the hospital for alcohol intoxication, officials noted the use of “borgs” as a major contributor. But what exactly are borgs, and are they harmful? Here’s what experts have to say.

The Condado waterfront in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Innovation economy

The extreme South Shore: Why these Boston tech entrepreneurs are working from Puerto Rico

They’re taking advantage of post-pandemic flexibility, tax incentives, and nice weather.

Girl Scouts sell cookies from a table in the Ruggles MBTA station.

It’s Girl Scout cookie season in Mass. and ... this flavor is the one that sold out?

No, it’s not your beloved Thin Mints or Peanut Butter Patties.

Aaron Rodgers's time in Green Bay could be up, and if so, he could land with the Jets.

ben volin | on football

How will the NFL quarterback market shake out? Here’s an educated guess.

As many as 17 teams could be making moves at quarterback, so there is a lot to follow this offseason.

Scott Pioli shared a humorous story about Bill Belichick drafting Logan Mankins

Brady retired soon after Tampa Bay suffered a wild-card playoff loss to the Cowboys.

Rich Eisen hints at a possible return for Tom Brady, saying he ‘might not be done after all’

The NFL Network host ran down a series of rumors he heard at the NFL Combine, and put the return of Brady at the top of the list.

Bonnie Donohue fell and knocked out her teeth in December after stumbling over a "rumble strip" that the city of Boston installed near her city-permitted parking area on Summer Street. She blames the city for her ordeal and thinks it should cover the $30,000 cost of dental implants.

A corrugated path, two knocked-out teeth, and a $30,000 dental bill

Bonnie Donohue thinks the City of Boston should be held responsible for her injuries because of the way it configured the area next to the roadway outside her building.

Justin Turner walked off the field after he was hit in the face by a pitch.

Red Sox’ Justin Turner being treated for facial injuries after being hit by pitch

Turner was batting in the first inning of the spring game when he was struck.

Spring training report: Chris Sale hits 96 in return to the mound

Opinion

Brandon Cardet-Hernandez, second from left, is one of the newest appointees to the Boston School Committee.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Let’s go, Brandon: Meet Boston’s bold school committee member

Brandon Cardet-Hernandez, an outsider on the Boston School Committee, is asking tough questions.

Carlo Ratti and Robert Muggah

The pushback against the 15-minute city

As long as paper checks remain a thing, banks need to fight fraud

Wen Fan and Juliet Schor

US has an overwork problem. A four-day workweek can fix it.

Rachelle G. Cohen

Biden is right about junk fees — Americans are tired of being played for suckers

A protester holds signs in support of supervised injection sites in Philadelphia.

The Emancipator

The Black opioid crisis reveals that barriers to treatment must come down

Urban Black communities are now ground zero for overdose deaths, yet Black people don’t get the same access to life saving medication. Systemic racism in healthcare is making this epidemic deadlier.

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photo illustration of David Sabatini. photo by Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

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Gavin Newsom says California is ‘done’ with Walgreens over abortion pill
California Governor Gavin Newsom said the state will stop doing business with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. after the retailer said it will refrain from selling abortion pills in 20 Republican-led states.

Prosecutors say gun dealer had explosive materials in his Revere apartment
Cory Daigle, 28, who is currently facing federal charges in connection to a firearms business he ran in Littleton, pleaded not guilty to a charge of possessing an incendiary device.

STAT

With a push from pharma, new weight loss drugs are changing the narrative on obesity
A two-part message is permeating the halls of medicine and the fabric of society, sliding into medical school lectures, pediatricians’ offices, happy hours, and social feeds: Obesity is a chronic biological disease — and it’s treatable with a new class of medications.

Man accused of attacking two Newton police officers ordered held without bail
The suspect appeared in Newton District Court where not guilty pleas were entered on his behalf to six charges.

Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley
Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.

Another Starbucks closure — this one in Cleveland Circle — highlights union tensions
The store needs repairs, but workers see the sudden closure as yet another move to squelch their union effort.

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His skill at one-liners has helped him get on local TV broadcasts again and again. And again.

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James Taylor (left) and Peter Asher in December 1969.

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Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film "Raging Bull."

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Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band performed in Nashville on New Year's Eve 2022.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

President Biden delivered remarks on the economy on Oct. 26, 2022, in Washington, D.C., where he outlined his plan to to target and end "junk fees."

Rachelle G. Cohen

Biden is right about junk fees — Americans are tired of being played for suckers

As long as paper checks remain a thing, banks need to fight fraud

A man sits on a picnic table with a view of downtown Cleveland in 2014. Conspiracy theorists are increasingly convinced the concept of a “15-minute city” is the latest plot to curtail individual freedoms. But urban experts say the design principle embraced by cities, including Cleveland, is simply about building more compact, walkable communities where people are less reliant on cars.

Carlo Ratti and Robert Muggah

The pushback against the 15-minute city

Wen Fan and Juliet Schor

US has an overwork problem. A four-day workweek can fix it.

Pearl, a 10-day-old newborn twin, is burped by a registered nurse after a feeding at Emerson Hospital.

License midwives to help struggling birth centers

Wei Huang applies the final press on Army dress pants in the factory in Lawrence.

IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI

Threading the needle to keep clothing manufacturing alive in Massachusetts

Metro

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Quiet weather might be good for stargazing this week

After quite a bit of precipitation last week we are in a relatively dry pattern for the next several days.

Push renewed for R.I. abortion coverage bill

House Judiciary Committee hears testimony for and against the Equality in Abortion Coverage Act, which would provide abortion coverage for Medicaid recipients and state employees.

Woman almost hit by MBTA ceiling panel ‘grateful’ she wasn’t seriously hurt

“As scary as it was, I can acknowledge that it could have been worse,” said Cianna Navarro, who was almost hit by the roughly 25-pound panel in Harvard station last week.

Woman known as ‘Granby Girl’ identified decades after her killing

Authorities on Monday revealed the identity of a 28-year-old woman found shot to death in Granby in 1978 as Patricia Ann Tucker. Officials said her husband at the time, who died in a Massachusetts prison in 1996, is a person of interest in her death.

Sports

Ryan O'Reilly took a puck off his left hand in the second period of a 4-1 loss Saturday night at Vancouver.

Maple Leafs’ Ryan O’Reilly out at least 10 games with a broken finger

He won’t be eligible to return until Toronto’s game March 29 against Florida at the earliest.

Calvin Ridley is eligible to participate in all team activities beginning immediately.

NFL reinstates Jaguars WR Calvin Ridley after gambling suspension

Ridley had been suspended indefinitely since March 2022 while a member of the Falcons.

Giannis Antetokounmpo tried to steal a triple-double, but the NBA took it back upon review.

Giannis Antetokounmpo’s stolen triple-double is taken away by the NBA in stat review

The league adjusted the statistics from Sunday's game and erased Antetokounmpo’s final rebound.

Rich Eisen hints at a possible return for Tom Brady, saying he ‘might not be done after all’

49ers quarterback Brock Purdy to have surgery Friday

Jaguars place franchise tag on tight end Evan Engram after his career year

Business

UMass Boston’s first on-campus dorm to be named after former chancellor Keith Motley and his wife

Bold Types is our weekly roundup of the movers and shakers of Boston's business scene.

Requirements for Made in the USA label getting tighter

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley

LARRY EDELMAN | TRENDLINES

Healey stakes out middle ground on the economy

magazine

My first meeting with Afghan women when I was deployed with the Air Force gave me hope

3D-printed shoes from artist Sebastian Errazuriz are part of the Peabody Essex Museum's collection. The museum will reopen its Fashion & Design Gallery.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, March 6-12

An alleged drug trafficker, a detective trying to take him down, and the woman caught in the middle

The strange story of the man behind the popularization of ‘resilience thinking’

metro

An annual St. Patrick Day’s celebration at UMass Amherst sent 28 people to the hospital for alcohol intoxication.

What are borgs, the TikTok-trending drinks UMass blamed in part for ‘Blarney Blowout’ hospitalizations?

A bacterial infection killed three patients at Brigham and Women’s. The culprit? A water purification system.

Leominster man charged with attacking flight attendants, trying to open emergency exit door on LA to Boston flight

sports

Tony Pollard rushed for 1,007 yards and nine touchdowns and caught 39 passes for 371 yards and three TDs last season.

Cowboys place franchise tag on running back Tony Pollard after his breakout year

Monday’s spring training report: Chris Sale hits 96 in return to the mound as Red Sox win again

Super savers Linus Ullmark and Jeremy Swayman could put Bruins in record book

business

Cambridge-based Biogen has a lot riding on the success of Leqembi.

Full approval and Medicare coverage of new Alzheimer’s drug could come in July

Gavin Newsom says California is ‘done’ with Walgreens over abortion pill

Twitter glitched for more than an hour as links, images failed to load

politics

A few weeks after Republican attorneys general in 21 states sent letters threatening legal action against retail pharmacy chains if they dispensed the abortion pill mifepristone, Walgreens said it would not distribute the pill in those states.

Gavin Newsom says California is ‘done’ with Walgreens over abortion pill

Biden reelection bid faces resistance from some Democrats

Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and husband are divorcing

Nation

FILE - A bed is seen through the bars in one of the holding cells near the death chamber at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., March 24, 2021. The Virginia Department of Corrections has recorded audio of at least 30 executions over the last three decades, but it has no plans to release the tapes publicly. The department rejected an Associated Press request under the state's public records law to release the recordings after NPR obtained and reported on four of them. They offer a rare glimpse into executions. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Virginia agency says execution audio tapes should remain secret

E-bikes are convenient. They can also catch fire and destroy buildings.

Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley

World

Prime Minister Kaja Kallas speaks to the media in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 5.

Estonia’s pro-Ukraine prime minister Kallas wins reelection

Trailblazing transgender lawmaker Georgina Beyer dies at 65

Nations agree on ‘world-changing’ deal to protect ocean life

opinion

Former first lady Michelle Obama during "The Light We Carry" tour in December in Atlanta.

For (probably not) the last time: Michelle Obama isn’t running for president

Families face agonizing choices in nursing home crunch

Doctors pose statins, and patients, many of them women, say, ‘Nah’

lifestyle

TikTok celebrity Coinneach MacLeod, a baker who shares recipes and stories from his hometown in the Hebrides off the coast of Scotland.

The TikTok star known as ‘The Hebridean Baker’ dishes on the story behind traditional Scottish cuisine

Women’s History Month events include panels with local female changemakers, a festival featuring women-directed films, and art celebrating important women

We’ve gained weight — as a couple

food & dining

Girl Scouts sell cookies from a table in the Ruggles MBTA station.

It’s Girl Scout cookie season in Mass. and ... this flavor is the one that sold out?

Where going out is a deal

‘The future of restaurants’: How kitchen fees are meeting the economic moment

travel

Carmen Santos thought she lost her engagement ring in an Enterprise rental.

$452 bill charged after requesting help for lost engagement ring

Cool classes on the Cape, a winter fest in Portland, and personal alarms for travel and daily life

Howie Day on Alaska, not living in a bubble, and how to make easy iced coffee on the road

Arts

Joseph Mallord William Turner’s “Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway,” 1844, was painted as London's skies were being choked by industrial smog.

An early climate warning lies in the paintings of JMW Turner and Claude Monet, new research shows

At the MFA, a small photography show leaves a big impression

Intimate moments of self-reflection in seemingly ordinary spaces in Helena Wurzel’s solo exhibition

Books

In ‘Liliana’s Invincible Summer,’ Cristina Rivera Garza gives a searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact

Jenny Odell on breaking free of the ultimate tyranny in ‘Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock’

NoViolet Bulawayo on horror stories and talking animals in Zimbabwe’s culture

Movies

Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film "Raging Bull."

Our movie critic is a sucker for boxing movies. Here are 5 favorites.

‘Return to Seoul’ is a patience-testing trip

New documentary ‘American Bolshevik’ looks at the vilification of the coyote

Television

Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the Oscars Sunday night on ABC.

This week’s TV: The Oscars watch begins, ‘Perry Mason’ returns, and Mel Brooks makes ‘History’ (again)

How a Boston comedian and duck boat tour guide has ended up on the news dozens of times

On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Chiefs’ Travis Kelce pokes fun at rival brother in opening monologue

music

The Boston Symphony Orchestra performed "The Passion of Octavius Catto" with pianist and composer Uri Caine, vocalist Barbara Walker, the Catto Chorus, and conductor André Raphel.

An invitation to learn more was bundled into ‘The Passion of Octavius Catto,’ and Lawrence Brownlee’s ‘Rising’ recital program

Pop music’s Peter Asher is the narrator of his own ‘60s adventure

Lynyrd Skynyrd founding member Gary Rossington dead at 71

Theater/Dance

Scott Miller, Marcus Adolphy, Clare Perkins, and the company of "The Wife of Willesden."

A free spirit soars beyond convention in ART’s ‘The Wife of Willesden’

Broadway In Boston announces 2023-24 season

Hoops and history converge in Lyric Stage’s ‘The Great Leap’

globe local

Bay State Banner founder and publisher, Melvin B. Miller, sold the 58-year-old paper to two longtime Black media journalists, Ron Mitchell and André Stark.

With new ownership comes new beginnings for Bay State Banner

The show must go on — outdoors

The questions I wished I’d asked my father

Obituaries

Richard Rosenberg in 1995.

Former Bank of America CEO Richard Rosenberg dies at 92

Brian Donnelly, former US representative and ambassador, dies at 76

Judy Heumann, disability rights activist, dies at age 75