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Donald Trump to be arraigned Tuesday to face hush money indictment

The indictment against him remains sealed and the specific charges were not immediately known, but according to Associated Press sources, he faces multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense.

Former president Donald Trump boarded his plane at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., on March 13.

Live Updates

What Trump’s indictment could mean for his third run for president

Lindsey Graham on the verge of tears. Marjorie Taylor Greene vowing to protest in New York. See GOP reactions to Trump’s indictment.

Scot Lehigh | Opinion

Trump’s indictment lands in two separate media realities

See the latest updates related to Trump’s indictment

Here are five ways Mass. could reduce pedestrian deaths, according to experts
After Massachusetts saw a sharp increase in fatal pedestrian crashes in 2022, experts say there are ways the state can improve safety.

Pedestrians killed in crashes rose by 35 percent across Massachusetts last year, study finds

Two buildings, two vehicles catch fire in Lynn

A fire that began in a driveway spread to two homes in Lynn Friday, officials said.

Tornado slams Little Rock, smashes rooftops, flips vehicles
Meteorologists are urging people in parts of the Midwest and southern US to be ready Friday for dangerous weather including tornadoes, saying the conditions are similar to those a week ago that unleashed a devastating twister that killed at least 21 people in Mississippi.

Former Stoneham police officer arrested for allegedly defrauding landlords out of thousands of dollars

Robert Kennedy, a detective sergeant who worked for the Stoneham Police Department from January 2001 until this February, owes his most recent landlord $14,000, according to an FBI affidavit calling him a “serial debt fraudster.”

Clean Harbors founder Alan McKim steps aside as CEO after 43 years

A non-expert’s guide to what the banking turmoil means for you

Masataka Yoshida appeared to be averting his eyes as the Orioles ran up an early lead Thursday. The Red Sox made it close in the late innings but still lost on Opening Day.

Here’s hoping that, with one game behind us, the Red Sox won’t give us any more reminders of last year

We always overstate the importance of Opening Day, but this one looked enough like the 2022 season to give us a shudder.

Here’s where the Red Sox’ top prospects have been assigned as the new minor league season begins Dan Shaughnessy: Not surprisingly, the Red Sox already are back in last place Rafael Devers was the first player in MLB history to be called out for a pitch-clock violation

Boston College's Zay Flowers (left) is one of four wide receivers expected to be drafted in the first round.

With the 14th overall pick in the NFL Draft, the Patriots have an opportunity to fill position of need

The Patriots could go any number of ways in the first round with wide receiver, offensive tackle, tight end, and safety needs all on the table.

The Chicago Blackhawks hosted a Pride night, but did not have players wear Pride-themed warmup jerseys, citing an anti-gay law in Russia.

Some NHL players are refusing to wear ‘Pride’ jerseys. Marty Walsh says the LGBTQ community shouldn’t feel slighted.

The new NHLPA director said he thinks the refusal to wear rainbow-colored jerseys shouldn't be a sign players are "turning their back" on the LGBTQ community.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Rain and wind are coming to the Boston area this weekend
Temperatures will fall a bit when the precipitation starts Friday evening.

We moved and now he’s miserable

I love the job I moved for. Do I have to give it up?

This week's daters: Monica and David.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I started to feel really comfortable, like I wouldn’t need the pepper spray I had in my pocket’

Will a late night treat end this date on a sweet note?

Linus Ullmark (left) and Jeremy Swayman have the Bruins in great position as the playoffs approach.

The 2022-23 Bruins have set the team record for wins and earned the President’s Trophy. Which marks will fall next?

The Bruins are cruising toward the league record for wins and points in a season, and Linus Ullmark might be putting up the best performance by a goaltender in league history.

Bruins win Presidents' Trophy By adding a scrappy edge to his game, Bruins’ Jakub Lauko gets minutes and results Resourceful Tyler Bertuzzi picked his spot and picked up the Bruins

Opinion

Donald Trump's playbook of lie, deflect, deny has worked, in that he’s literally normalized the act of escaping accountability for half a century.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Trump’s 50-year playbook of lie, deflect, and deny

Trump’s long track record of questionable behavior, so excessively dishonorable and often outright heinous, practically drowns out the act of allegedly paying hush money to a porn star.

Forget about TikTok, we’ve got Trump to fire us up again

A middle-of-Fifth-Avenue moment for Trump

Erwin Chemerinsky

No one, including a former president, is above the law

For Trump and America, a sort of judgment day

New College of Florida students and supporters protest ahead of a meeting by the college's board of trustees, Feb. 28, 2023, in Sarasota, Florida. The conservative-dominated board of trustees of Florida's public honors college was meeting to take up a measure making wholesale changes in the school's diversity, equity and inclusion programs and offices.

The Emancipator

DEI Denial is the modern day lynching

Where lynching was an arbitrary and barbaric act to terrorize Black people, modern attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion threaten the livelihoods of those challenging oppressive systems and keep us all in the dark.

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Special reports

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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R.I. Attorney General is filing a motion to intervene on Memorial Hospital development
The attorney general’s office is the guardian of charitable trusts, including the one that dictates the land and building use for the former hospital campus in Pawtucket. Neronha’s motion would block a possible foreclosure of the property.

Tidewater Landing’s funding was ‘absolutely’ ready to go. Until it wasn’t.
Since news first emerged about the delayed public bonds, answers about what’s gone wrong, how the problem will be solved, and the scale of the private financing gap have been hard to come by.

Fatal fire at New Bedford rooming house caused by microwave or wall outlet, officials say
Two people were killed and five others hospitalized as a result of the March 28 blaze, which caused “catastrophic” damage to the four-story building, officials said.

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

‘White House Plumbers’ satirically plumbs Watergate
The HBO limited series examines how President Nixon’s own political saboteurs, E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux), toppled the presidency they were trying to protect.

More than 70 dogs removed from Plainfield woman’s home
The dozens of dogs were removed from the woman’s home Monday after she reached out to a shelter, overwhelmed by the number of animals in her care.

Cash use is way down, so why have members of Gen Z embraced coin collecting?
Make way for the new generation of coin collectors.

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Push to unionize at college dorms is growing
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On a lot of TV shows, profanity is a blessing, not a curse

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Threats against Boston Children’s Hospital for its transgender care are forcing providers to grapple with the fear of possible violence.

How Massachusetts can protect trans people

At the Auerbach Center, a discussion featured Celtics players, coaches, and others, September 2022. Later there was a basketball game between formerly incarcerated people and former Celtics coaches and players, part of the Celtics United push to support the “raise of age” of who is considered a juvenile offender. Celtics players in the background are (left to right) Jayson Tatum, Derrick White (holding a microphone), Payton Pritchard, and Jake Layman.

Malcolm Brogdon

Juvenile justice should focus on rehabilitation not punishment

Boston Police detective Luis Anjos got the COVID-19 vaccine at Tufts Medical Center on Jan. 11, 2021.

Boston scores a win on vaccine mandates

"The single biggest change that I’ve seen in my 22 years of teaching science is that most kids don’t spend time outside like they used to."

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As my students watch animals online, I witness a kind of extinction

I dream of knees

A growing number of scientists, investors, and bioethicists believe we can and should engineer longer and healthier lives.

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Want to live to 150? The world needs more humans.

Metro

R.I. Attorney General is filing a motion to intervene on Memorial Hospital development

The attorney general’s office is the guardian of charitable trusts, including the one that dictates the land and building use for the former hospital campus in Pawtucket. Neronha’s motion would block a possible foreclosure of the property.

Donald Glover participated in a panel discussion at Berklee ‘Career Jam’ event

Singer, actor, and comedian Donald Glover was at Berklee College of Music on Friday.

Trump to be arraigned in New York on Tuesday, court officials say

The exact nature of the charges was unclear Friday because the indictment remained under seal, but they stem from payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter.

Tidewater Landing’s funding was ‘absolutely’ ready to go. Until it wasn’t.

Since news first emerged about the delayed public bonds, answers about what’s gone wrong, how the problem will be solved, and the scale of the private financing gap have been hard to come by.

Sports

Garrett Whitlock (right) is expected to make one more minor league rehab start before joining the big league rotation in mid-April.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Garrett Whitlock pitched with urgency and execution in Worcester Red Sox’ season opener at Polar Park

He came out firing in the first inning, sitting at 94 miles per hour with his sinker and topping out at 95 before his velocity ticked down.

Patrick Rodgers, who finished his opening-round 66 on Friday morning, birdied four of the final five holes in his second round for a 67.

Patrick Rodgers needs to win in Texas to qualify for next week’s Masters, and he’s halfway there

Rodgers has a three-stroke lead midway through the second round of the weather-delayed Valero Texas Open.

Fencing is an influential sport in Olympic circles. IOC president Thomas Bach is a former fencer who won gold at the 1976 Olympics.

Fencing event in France canceled after Russians readmitted to play

The French Fencing Federation said it would not host the men’s Challenge Monal epee tournament near Paris in May.

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All the pieces are in place for Needham, a two-time defending Division 1 state champion, to sustain its standard of success

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Mid-majors step into the spotlight as Florida Atlantic and San Diego State face off in Final Four

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Business

Clean Harbors founder Alan McKim steps aside as CEO after 43 years

His two deputies will take over operations of the Norwell-based environmental services company.

Italy privacy watchdog blocks ChatGPT, citing data breach

The watchdog’s measure comes days after a group of scientists and tech industry leaders published a letter calling for companies such as OpenAI to pause the development of more powerful AI models until the fall to give time for society to weigh the risks.

New federal rules will make many electric cars ineligible for tax credits

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Businesses still want a break on the COVID unemployment surcharge

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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

My new house saved my life. I decided to return the favor.

Two giant windows transformed dead space into a light-filled reading nook between the sitting areas in the front and the back of the house on the second floor.

Your Home | Renovations

Turning a cookie-cutter town house into a cheerful forever home

This week's daters: Monica and David.

Dinner with Cupid

I want to yell at a kids' coach but I can't. So what can I do?

An illustration showing two women in separate panels. One panel shows a woman standing near a hospital bed in a hospital setting. The second shows a woman standing by herself with her head bowed as if sad.

When I lived too far to help my dying dad, a stranger stepped in to help

metro

A Duxbury police officer lit a candle in January during a vigil at Holy Family Church after resident Lindsay Clancy murdered her three children at their home. First responders witnessed a traumatic scene. The nonprofit Law Enforcement Officer Support Foundation is stepping up to help the first responders cope with their stress.

Duxbury police, fire to be feted at comedy night

Fatal fire at New Bedford rooming house caused by microwave or wall outlet, officials say

‘This has been devastating’: Wayland is divided over racism allegations after Black superintendent is placed on leave

sports

LaMarcus Aldridge was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome — an abnormality that can cause a rapid heartbeat — as a rookie in 2007.

LaMarcus Aldridge, seven-time NBA All-Star, announces retirement

Wimbledon drops ban on Russians, will allow them to play as neutrals

At unexpected Final Four, UConn is in familiar territory

business

FILE - An electric vehicle plugged into a charger in Los Angeles, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. Fewer new electric vehicles will qualify for a full $7,500 federal tax credit later this year, and many will get only half that under rules proposed Friday, March 30, 2023, by the US Treasury Department. The rules are required under last year’s Inflation Reduction Act.

Many electric vehicles to lose big tax credit with new rules

Illegal Amazon miners are expanding into copper as prices surge

Law firm Goulston & Storrs inks 100,000-square-foot lease in Post Office Square tower

politics

Former president Donald Trump boarded his plane at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., on March 13.

Donald Trump to be arraigned Tuesday to face hush money indictment

Trump to be arraigned in New York on Tuesday, court officials say

Biden to Russia on detained US journalist: ‘Let him go’

Nation

A car is upturned in a Kroger parking lot after severe storm swept through Little Rock, Ark., Friday, March 31, 2023.

Tornado slams Little Rock, smashes rooftops, flips vehicles

California to require half of all heavy trucks sold by 2035 to be electric

California to require half of all heavy trucks sold by 2035 to be electric

World

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko delivers a state-of-the nation address in Minsk, Belarus, Friday.

Russia might put strategic nukes in Belarus, leader says

Pope is expected to be released from hospital Saturday

Ukraine marks grim Bucha anniversary, calls for justice

opinion

This 93-year-old Pembroke woman, pictured with her husband, who is 96, fell victim to a phone scam. They agreed to have their photo taken but asked that their names be withheld so that they aren't targeted again.

The $9,500 question: what to make of the ‘grandparents’ scam

There seems to be no healing the ills of our insurance system

No one, including a former president, is above the law

lifestyle

Donald Glover.

Donald Glover participated in a panel discussion at Berklee ‘Career Jam’ event

Boston indie-rockers Q-Tip Bandits will bring a taste of Boston Calling downtown

Cash use is way down, so why have members of Gen Z embraced coin collecting?

food & dining

The cheeseburger and fries at Hojoko.

10 restaurants to eat at near Fenway Park

Drag brunch is a celebration

Eat like a sophisticated shepherd at Bar Vlaha

travel

Are people losing interest in sustainable travel? This study says so.

Does Amtrak owe me anything for a forced downgrade?

Learning in action in Acton, Amtrak fully reopens Northwest route, and an armchair trip around the globe

Arts

Matteo Perez de Alesio's "Virgin Mary Reading," circa 1589-1616 (center), is installed at the heart of Harvard Art Museums' “From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire,” on display through July 30.

Under Spain’s thumb, a mysterious art took root

Gawking at the weird and the wild at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery

Tillie Walden will be Vermont’s fifth — and youngest — ‘cartoonist laureate’

Books

The heroine of Victor LaValle’s western gothic ‘Lone Women’ wrestles with a horror from her past

Amid colonial rule and Japanese occupation, young lovers pay the price of modernity in Rachel Heng’s ‘The Great Reclamation’

Blythe Roberson sorts her unread books by color and credits her love of reading to Pizza Hut

Movies

Donald Glover.

Donald Glover participated in a panel discussion at Berklee ‘Career Jam’ event

Loretta McLaughlin is famous for breaking the Boston Strangler case, but coworkers remember so much more

‘Paint,’ starring Owen Wilson, continues a tradition of movies with painter heroes

Television

Donald Glover.

Donald Glover participated in a panel discussion at Berklee ‘Career Jam’ event

Loretta McLaughlin is famous for breaking the Boston Strangler case, but coworkers remember so much more

‘White House Plumbers’ satirically plumbs Watergate

music

Donald Glover.

Donald Glover participated in a panel discussion at Berklee ‘Career Jam’ event

Born into a cult, singer Mikel Jollett is reaching out to students about turning their own trauma into art

Arlo Guthrie on aging, Alice, and why he’s unretiring . . . sort of

Theater/Dance

Harold Surratt and Cyndii Johnson in "Clyde's."

A chef’s kiss for ‘Clyde’s’

After more than 30 years, Central Square’s Dance Complex still has the moves

In ‘Middleton Heights,’ a Filipino American story of assimilation across generations

globe local

Firefighters at Glades Road in Scituate where multiple homes were on fire.

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

Reading harpist returns to hometown for performance with the US Air Force Concert Band

Autism Alliance is teaching restaurants and other places how to accommodate families with special needs children

Obituaries

Navajo President Peterson Zah is pictured following a news conference after speaking with state health officials in Window Rock, Ariz., June 2, 1993.

Peterson Zah, 85, Navajo Nation’s first president, dies

Emily Fisher Landau, theft victim turned art patron, dies at 102

British comedian and TV star Paul O’Grady dies at 67