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Trump’s legal team, Secret Service prepare ahead of Tuesday arraignment

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.

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When will Trump appear in court? Here’s what we know about the former president’s historic indictment.

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

ANALYSIS | JAMES PINDELL

For Trump, as so often occurs, it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup

See the latest updates related to Trump’s indictment

Texas decision on Obamacare could imperil coverage of preventive services in Massachusetts

Though likely to be appealed, the decision voids the requirement that insurers fully cover a large swath of preventive services that the task force has recommended since 2010, when the ACA was passed.

Fire involving two homes and two cars in Lynn displaces 10 people
When firefighters arrived at 109 and 111 Chestnut St. around 1:15 p.m. Friday, they saw electrical wires knocked down on the street in addition to flames coming from the buildings and vehicles, said Lynn Fire Chief Dan Sullivan.

CELTICS 122, JAZZ 114

After an overnight delay in Milwaukee, the Celtics figure it out together, get home, and beat the Jazz
"We just wanted to kind of go through it with the guys and rock out and play and figure it out. And it was fun," Jayson Tatum said of the Celtics' long night, day, and night again.

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

First Lady Jill Biden to visit Maine, Vermont on Wednesday as part of ‘Investing in America Tour’

Biden’s one-day swing through Northern New England is part of the administration’s “Investing in America Tour” and will follow stops in Colorado and Michigan on Monday, Biden’s office said in a statement.

Fire Chief: 1 killed, 28 injured in roof collapse during concert at Illinois theater

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

The forthcoming Embrace Center will include another memorial which its proponents hope "is in conversation" with "The Embrace" sculpture in Boston Common.

After ‘The Embrace,’ Boston to see two more memorials to MLK and Coretta Scott King

The two projects showcase a continued commitment to cementing the Kings’ legacy in Boston, an effort to recognize grassroots organizing work by them and other Black residents that has been overlooked in a city with a historic reputation for racism.

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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

Flames forward Milan Lucic sports Calgary's Pride night jersey earlier this week.

Marty Walsh on NHL players refusing to wear ‘Pride’ jerseys: ‘You have to support someone’s individual right’

In an interview with the Globe, the new NHLPA executive director said he knows there's a "hurtfulness" for the LGBTQ community around the issue.

Loretta McLaughlin is famous for breaking the Boston Strangler case, but coworkers remember so much more
Where an editor saw a handful of unrelated deaths, Loretta McLaughlin saw a series of connected murders that were likely committed by a single person.

How accurate is Hulu’s ‘Boston Strangler’? Here’s what to know.

The cheeseburger and fries at Hojoko.

10 restaurants to eat at near Fenway Park

The surrounding neighborhood offers everything from handmade Japanese noodles to lobster rolls and oysters to Yemeni stews with fresh-baked flatbreads. Here are some places that hit it out of the park.

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

With the 14th pick in the NFL Draft, the Patriots have an opportunity to fill a 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.

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?

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

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Wisconsin firebombing suspect arrested at Boston’s Logan International Airport

Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 29, of Madison, Wisc., made an initial appearance Tuesday in US District Court in Boston. A detention hearing was scheduled for Thursday.

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.

Archdiocese of Boston releases Holy Week schedule of services at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Cardinal Seàn P. O’Malley will say Mass with Blessing of Palms at 11:30 a.m. Sunday to begin Holy Week.

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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.

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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

Kamaia, a 14-year-old lion at Franklin Park Zoo, has serious pneumonia, officials say

Recent exams show Kamaia has other underlying chronic medical issues in addition to the pneumonia, but diagnostic tests have been inconclusive, Zoo New England said in a statement 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.

Wisconsin firebombing suspect arrested at Boston’s Logan International Airport

Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 29, of Madison, Wisc., made an initial appearance Tuesday in US District Court in Boston. A detention hearing was scheduled for Thursday.

First Lady Jill Biden to visit Maine, Vermont on Wednesday as part of ‘Investing in America Tour’

Biden’s one-day swing through Northern New England is part of the administration’s “Investing in America Tour” and will follow stops in Colorado and Michigan on Monday, Biden’s office said in a statement.

Sports

Jayson Tatum has scored 79 points over his last two games, while knocking down 13 of 18 3-pointers.

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

The motivated Celtics refuse to stop chasing the Bucks and the No. 1 seed

The Celtics spent their evening fighting off Jazz runs, moving the ball for open 3-pointers, and valiantly defending in the paint without their top two centers.

Iowa's Caitlin Clark is fouled by South Carolina's Brea Beal as Iowa upset the undefeated Gamecocks in the NCAA semifinals.

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Iowa women’s basketball stuns South Carolina in NCAA semifinal

Clark now has back-to-back 40-point games.

LSU coach Kim Mulkey gave her team a rousing pep talk before the fourth quarter and the Tigers rallied to win their NCAA semifinal over Virginia Tech.

Women's NCAA semifinal

LSU women’s basketball rallies in fourth quarter to beat Va. Tech and reach the NCAA championship game

“It’s like a dream, it still hasn’t hit me that I’m at the Final Four,” LSU's Angel Reese said.

Sabres 3, Rangers 2 (OT)

Former Northeastern goaltender Devon Levi wins NHL debut for Sabres, who remain in the playoff hunt

CELTICS 122, JAZZ 114

After an overnight delay in Milwaukee, the Celtics figure it out together, get home, and beat the Jazz

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Former Celtics assistant Will Hardy returns to TD Garden for first time as Jazz coach

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

At least two vehicles and two houses caught fire in Lynn Friday afternoon, according to the Lynn Fire Department. (District Chief Joseph Zukas/Lynn Fire Department)

Fire involving two homes and two cars in Lynn displaces 10 people

Texas decision on Obamacare could imperil coverage of preventive services in Massachusetts

From the ashes, the laughter of children rises again

sports

Batting cleanup, Anthony Rendon went 0 for 3 with a walk on Thursday in Oakland.

MLB investigating purported Anthony Rendon scuffle with fan

Purdue’s Zach Edey receives all but one vote for AP men’s Player of the Year

Minor leaguers vote nearly unanimously to ratify first-ever collective bargaining agreement

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.

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

Trump’s legal team, Secret Service prepare ahead of Tuesday arraignment

For Trump, as so often occurs, it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup

Nation

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

Fire Chief: 1 killed, 28 injured in roof collapse during concert at Illinois theater

Trump prepares to surrender in New York as police brace for protests

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

Amtrak routinely reconfigures its trains, but when it does, it needs to ensure the passengers who paid for a higher level of service get compensated.

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

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

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