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A primer on home buying and selling in this soft market

Greater Boston’s limited housing supply, even in a softer market, means people can’t necessarily afford to wait around for better borrowing conditions.

Address: The home price is right — or is it? Here’s where single-family homes in the state gained the most value

Ten years ago, the Boston Marathon ended in tragedy. Nine years ago, it rose again.
Race day in 2014 was about both reflection and rebirth as American winner Meb Keflezighi brought triumph back to Boylston Street.

Their lives were rerouted after the Marathon bombing. Here’s where they are now.
It was a perfect spring afternoon 10 years ago when two young men dropped homemade bombs amid the Marathon throng and history swerved. Five lives were lost; many more, changed. A new story for an old town, built of sorrow and resolve, with still no finish line in sight.

He captured the image that told the story of the Boston Marathon bombing. Ten years later, he finally met the subject.

GLOBE MAGAZINE

How President Obama wrote his ‘love letter to Boston’ after the Marathon bombing
In his address at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the president sought to put words to the city’s resilience.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Expect a sweet spot for runners with cool temperatures and limited rain on Marathon Monday
The lack of sunshine means temperatures will be in a fairly steady state all day and won’t vary much beyond 52 to 55 degrees no matter what time you are on the course and where you are.

In his second outing since coming off the injured list, Garrett Whitlock allowed only one run on three hits in the longest start of his career.

Red Sox 2, Angels 1

Garrett Whitlock responds to the Red Sox needing a big start with seven strong innings in another win over the Angels

Kaleb Ort and Ryan Brasier followed Whitlock with scoreless innings and Justin Turner suppled the offensive support with a two-run homer, his first for the Sox.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

A Maine mother’s lawsuit over her child’s gender transition highlights tension between student protections and parental rights
Amber Lavigne’s suit is the latest legal challenge in New England over schools’ ability to protect the privacy and safety of transgender and gender-nonconforming students and their parents’ right to know.

Missing Medford men found stabbed to death in Brighton storage unit; one man arrested

The couple had been missing since late March.

Colleges scramble to prepare for possible end of affirmative action

School officials and admissions consultants say universities are seeking to strengthen relationships with community colleges and high schools in underserved areas to reach prospective students.

Clarence Thomas has for years claimed income from a defunct real estate firm
This is among a series of errors and omissions that Thomas has made on required annual financial disclosure forms over the past several decades, a review of those records shows.

High school star among 4 slain in Alabama party shooting
Four people have been killed and multiple people injured during a shooting Saturday night in Dadeville, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said.

Man taken into custody after 12-hour standoff with Worcester police

Worcester police said the man “was threatening to stab officers and continued to behave erratically,” and had allegedly said he was “armed and ready.”

School officials identify N.H. teenager shot and killed in Providence, police say

‘SNL’ gets serious with message for trans youth as Ana de Armas hosts

Ellen Fitzgerald poses for a portrait at her home on April 14, 2023. Fitzgerald is recent a victim of "check washing," when a check is stolen from a mailbox and the payee and amount of payment is changed by the scammer. It's a growing hazard for anyone dropping their checks into the mail.

THE FINE PRINT

Still writing checks? You might want to reconsider as check fraud skyrockets

Last year, banks reported 460,000 cases of check fraud, including "check-washing," almost double the number the year before, according to the Treasury Department.

Mr. Wolff with his wife, Dr. Cheri Blauwet, and their children, Spencer and Stella, photographed last October.

Eli Wolff, leading advocate for athletes with disabilities, dies at 45

"I knew that I wanted to try to make a difference," Mr. Wolff said of his advocacy for opening sports more fully to those with disabilities.

Patrice Bergeron pushed to play in the regular-season finale Thursday in Montreal, seeking to stay sharp before the playoffs, then was out after only eight shifts with an unspecified injury.

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Hockey

Relative silence around Patrice Bergeron’s availability only makes questions around the Bruins captain roar

The 37-year-old No. 37 again didn’t practice on Sunday, and has not been seen since exiting the Bell Centre Thursday night with an unspecified injury after logging only 5:36 in the final game of the regular season.

Boston Marathon

Your guide to the 2023 Boston Marathon

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Runners take off from the start line in Hopkinton in 2022.

See the street closures, parking restrictions, and T changes

The Boston Marathon will be a star-studded affair as always, with (clockwise from top left) Brock Holt, Monica Puig, Zdeno Chara, and Ryan Dempster set to be part of the 2023 field.

Several celebrities are running the 2023 Boston Marathon. Here’s a list.

Tuscan Kitchen in Seaport will be serving unlimited servings of bolognese to runners, free of charge, all weekend.

A restaurant guide to Marathon Monday for runners and spectators alike

Opinion

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, left, talked to Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7.

EDITORIAL

Clarence Thomas scandal points to need for ethics reform

It’s up to Chief Justice John Roberts to lead the way and help restore public trust.

IDEAS | MEGAN NIX

Three letters every pregnant woman should know

EDITORIAL

FEMA’s focus on climate resiliency is right. Now it must take action before it’s too late.

MARCELA GARCÍA

In his anti-immigrant push, how extreme can Ron DeSantis get?

RENÉE GRAHAM

When ‘law and order’ means neither

State Rep. Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) waves to his supporters in the gallery as he delivers his final remarks on the floor of the House chamber as he is expelled from the legislature Thursday, April 6, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Emancipator

The Tennessee GOP has a problem with democracy

From expelling Black members to sabotaging health care, Republicans’ zero-sum politics assault Black, Brown, and poor Tennesseans, but the people are fighting back.

Boston Globe Today

A Globe photographer's eyewitness account of the Boston Marathon bombing

Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki remembers the events of the Boston Marathon bombing a decade ago, and how he captured the devastation with his camera.

A Globe photographer's eyewitness account of the Boston Marathon bombing

Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki remembers the events of the Boston Marathon bombing a decade ago, and how he captured the devastation with his camera.

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Paul Funk, longtime educator and coach at Dennis-Yarmouth High, dies at 51
Paul Funk, the principal and former longtime football and baseball coach at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School who was expected to take over soon as principal of Duxbury High School, died suddenly on Saturday, officials said.

New exhibits at Pao Arts Center create spaces for community reflection
“Call and Response: Illustration in Uncertain Times” and “Workers Statues in Chinatown by Wen-ti Tsen” both run through June 30.

PERSPECTIVE

There’s an easy way to retrain the nasty internal voice telling you you’re not good enough
Negative self-talk can color how we and our kids interact with the world.

Arson reported at Kingston residence Saturday night, no injuries

The fire started on an outside wall, causing significant exterior damage, but was put out before fully burning the inside, so no one was displaced, officials said. There have been no arrests as of Sunday afternoon, and the motive of the fire is under investigation, officials said.

Dance Review

Paul Taylor Dance Company shines in its Boston return
Founded in 1954, the New York-based company performed in Boston as part of the Celebrity Series for the first time since 2013.

LOVE LETTERS

My husband had an emotional affair at work
“I feel an incredible lack of closure.”

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Send The Boston Globe a confidential news tip
Do you have a tip about something that needs to be investigated? Do you have documents or data we should dig into? We want to hear from you.

Court documents hold clues about how 21-year-old guardsman allegedly gained access to sensitive intelligence

A massive leak of classified military intelligence documents, allegedly carried out by a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman stationed on Cape Cod, is casting a harsh light on the military’s internal security protocols, prompting calls for the Defense Department to strengthen protections against unauthorized disclosures.

Can Maura Healey fix the Chelsea Veterans’ Home?
Providing care for the state's needy veterans was one of the more conspicuous failures of the Baker administration, and is now a complex puzzle that falls to Governor Maura Healey to solve.

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What makes ‘a good TV death’? These 15 demises are creative, complex, even brilliant.
When done well — as “Succession” just proved — the passing of a television character can inspire powerful material involving shock and grief, or perhaps guilt and relief.

Democrats sound alarm after Tennessee Three expulsion drama: This ‘can happen anywhere in the country’
Democrats who watched members of their caucus expelled from the Tennessee House said unchecked power was the reason things in their state had deteriorated so rapidly.

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R&B singer Chlöe Bailey performs April 17 at the House of Blues.

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An installation view of the exhibition "American Perspectives" at the Portland Museum of Art. In the foreground is the painting "American Heritage," 1974, by Robert Fasanella.

‘American Perspectives’ at the Portland Museum of Art begs the question: What is folk art?

Jennifer Coolidge at the Vanity Fair 95th Oscars Party on March 12, 2023.

Mass. natives Jennifer Coolidge and Karen Lynch make Time’s 100 most influential people list

In ‘Just for Us,’ comic Alex Edelman tells the one about the Jew who crashes a meeting of antisemites

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Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

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Bright sun cast the shadow of a tree on the historic Buckman Tavern in Lexington Center.

EDITORIAL

Lexington seizes opportunity to pass inclusive zoning reforms

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida spoke during a book signing event in Garden City, N.Y., on April 1.

MARCELA GARCÍA

In his anti-immigrant push, how extreme can Ron DeSantis get?

RENÉE GRAHAM

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Students walk down the hall at Lawrence High School in Lawrence.

Charlie Titus and Brandy Brooks

Student homelessness can be reduced. Here’s how.

Brian Cox (left ) and Matthew Macfadyen in Sunday night's episode of "Succession."

NEWSLETTERS

Stop spoiling the spoilers

The author's blood sugar at mile 7 of the 2022 Boston Marathon was at a 137 mg/dl, right in his performance zone.

IDEAS | HILMAR SCHMUNDT

Techno-doping my way through the Boston Marathon

Metro

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Expect a sweet spot for runners with cool temperatures and limited rain on Marathon Monday

The lack of sunshine means temperatures will be in a fairly steady state all day and won’t vary much beyond 52 to 55 degrees no matter what time you are on the course and where you are.

People, not planes, will speed down Northampton Airport runway for a 5K charity race this month

A small, privately-owned airport in Northampton will close its runway for an hour and open to 5K participants April 23 to raise money for a foundation "re-envisioning foster care in America."

Paul Funk, longtime educator and coach at Dennis-Yarmouth High, dies at 51

Paul Funk, the principal and former longtime football and baseball coach at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School who was expected to take over soon as principal of Duxbury High School, died suddenly on Saturday, officials said.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

A Maine mother’s lawsuit over her child’s gender transition highlights tension between student protections and parental rights

Amber Lavigne’s suit is the latest legal challenge in New England over schools’ ability to protect the privacy and safety of transgender and gender-nonconforming students and their parents’ right to know.

Sports

Pavel Zacha, the winner of NESN's 7th Player Award for exceeding expectations this season, appears in line to move up to the top line should Patrice Bergeron be out on Monday.

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Pavel Zacha in position to take Patrice Bergeron’s place should the captain be absent Monday

The 26-year-old assumed the pivot spot between Brad Marchand and Jake DeBrusk during Sunday’s workout, with man-for-all-occasions Tyler Bertuzzi in Zacha’s vacated spot on the David Krejci line.

People walk past the Boston Marathon medical tent set up in Copley Square for Monday’s 127th Boston Marathon.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Expect a sweet spot for runners with cool temperatures and limited rain on Marathon Monday

The lack of sunshine means temperatures will be in a fairly steady state all day and won’t vary much beyond 52 to 55 degrees no matter what time you are on the course and where you are.

Meb Keflezighi was at Copley Plaza when the bombs went off. Inspired, he returned a year later and rode a wave of support down Commonwealth Ave. to the become the first American male winner in three decades.

BOSTON MARATHON

Ten years ago, the Boston Marathon ended in tragedy. Nine years ago, it rose again.

Race day in 2014 was about both reflection and rebirth as American winner Meb Keflezighi brought triumph back to Boylston Street.

MLB NOTEBOOK

Gerrit Cole goes the distance with a two-hitter for Yankees in a shutout of the Twins

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Hockey

Relative silence around Patrice Bergeron’s availability only makes questions around the Bruins captain roar

MLB | RAYS 8, BLUE JAYS 1

Shane McClanahan improves to 4-0 after helping Rays return to the win column in Toronto

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THE FINE PRINT

Still writing checks? You might want to reconsider as check fraud skyrockets

Last year, banks reported 460,000 cases of check fraud, including "check-washing," almost double the number the year before, according to the Treasury Department.

Cleanup begins after freight train derailment and fire in Maine

Three locomotive engines and six train cars carrying lumber and electrical wiring went off the track Saturday in Somerset County, Maine. Three rail workers were treated and released from a hospital.

Fox News is on trial, and so are falsehoods about 2020

Google is devising radical search changes to beat back AI rivals

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Clockwise from left: The Hoyts during one of their races; Spencer the dog; ultramarathoner Verna Volker; and Micah Herndon.

The Marathon Issue

26.2 tales of personal triumph from the Boston Marathon

US President Barack Obama speaks during the "Healing Our City: An Interfaith Service" dedicated to those who were gravely wounded or killed in the Boston Marathon bombing, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 18, 2013. Obama is in Boston to mourn victims of the deadly marathon attacks, as investigators study images of a suspect who may have planted the bombs. No arrests have been made in connection with Monday's twin bombings near the finish line of the race, which sent metal fragments and nails into a crowd of thousands of runners and spectators, killing three people and wounding 180. AFP PHOTO/Jewel SamadJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images

The Marathon Issue

How President Obama wrote his 'love letter to Boston' after the bombing

Britain’s Geoff Smith limps through the tape to win the 1985 Marathon.

The Marathon Issue

The forgotten story of how the Boston Marathon almost collapsed

Dinner with Cupid

A primer on home buying and selling in this soft market

Ten years ago, the Boston Marathon ended in tragedy. Nine years ago, it rose again. Race day in 2014 was about both reflection and rebirth as American winner Meb Keflezighi brought triumph back to Boylston Street.

GLOBE MAGAZINE How President Obama wrote his ‘love letter to Boston’ after the Marathon bombing In his address at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the president sought to put words to the city’s resilience.

Garrett Whitlock responds to the Red Sox needing a big start with seven strong innings in another win over the Angels

Missing Medford men found stabbed to death in Brighton storage unit; one man arrested

Colleges scramble to prepare for possible end of affirmative action

Clarence Thomas has for years claimed income from a defunct real estate firm This is among a series of errors and omissions that Thomas has made on required annual financial disclosure forms over the past several decades, a review of those records shows.

High school star among 4 slain in Alabama party shooting Four people have been killed and multiple people injured during a shooting Saturday night in Dadeville, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said.

Man taken into custody after 12-hour standoff with Worcester police

School officials identify N.H. teenager shot and killed in Providence, police say

‘SNL’ gets serious with message for trans youth as Ana de Armas hosts

Still writing checks? You might want to reconsider as check fraud skyrockets

Eli Wolff, leading advocate for athletes with disabilities, dies at 45

Relative silence around Patrice Bergeron’s availability only makes questions around the Bruins captain roar

Your guide to the 2023 Boston Marathon

See the street closures, parking restrictions, and T changes

Several celebrities are running the 2023 Boston Marathon. Here’s a list.

A restaurant guide to Marathon Monday for runners and spectators alike

Clarence Thomas scandal points to need for ethics reform

Three letters every pregnant woman should know

FEMA’s focus on climate resiliency is right. Now it must take action before it’s too late.

In his anti-immigrant push, how extreme can Ron DeSantis get?

When ‘law and order’ means neither

The Tennessee GOP has a problem with democracy

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New exhibits at Pao Arts Center create spaces for community reflection “Call and Response: Illustration in Uncertain Times” and “Workers Statues in Chinatown by Wen-ti Tsen” both run through June 30.

PERSPECTIVE There’s an easy way to retrain the nasty internal voice telling you you’re not good enough Negative self-talk can color how we and our kids interact with the world.

Arson reported at Kingston residence Saturday night, no injuries

Dance Review Paul Taylor Dance Company shines in its Boston return Founded in 1954, the New York-based company performed in Boston as part of the Celebrity Series for the first time since 2013.

LOVE LETTERS My husband had an emotional affair at work “I feel an incredible lack of closure.”

Send The Boston Globe a confidential news tip Do you have a tip about something that needs to be investigated? Do you have documents or data we should dig into? We want to hear from you.

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MATTHEW GILBERT What makes ‘a good TV death’? These 15 demises are creative, complex, even brilliant. When done well — as “Succession” just proved — the passing of a television character can inspire powerful material involving shock and grief, or perhaps guilt and relief.

Democrats sound alarm after Tennessee Three expulsion drama: This ‘can happen anywhere in the country’ Democrats who watched members of their caucus expelled from the Tennessee House said unchecked power was the reason things in their state had deteriorated so rapidly.

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Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

‘American Perspectives’ at the Portland Museum of Art begs the question: What is folk art?

Mass. natives Jennifer Coolidge and Karen Lynch make Time’s 100 most influential people list

In ‘Just for Us,’ comic Alex Edelman tells the one about the Jew who crashes a meeting of antisemites

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Lexington seizes opportunity to pass inclusive zoning reforms

In his anti-immigrant push, how extreme can Ron DeSantis get?

When ‘law and order’ means neither

Student homelessness can be reduced. Here’s how.

Stop spoiling the spoilers

Techno-doping my way through the Boston Marathon

Metro

Expect a sweet spot for runners with cool temperatures and limited rain on Marathon Monday

People, not planes, will speed down Northampton Airport runway for a 5K charity race this month

Paul Funk, longtime educator and coach at Dennis-Yarmouth High, dies at 51

A Maine mother’s lawsuit over her child’s gender transition highlights tension between student protections and parental rights

Sports

Pavel Zacha in position to take Patrice Bergeron’s place should the captain be absent Monday

Expect a sweet spot for runners with cool temperatures and limited rain on Marathon Monday

Ten years ago, the Boston Marathon ended in tragedy. Nine years ago, it rose again.

Gerrit Cole goes the distance with a two-hitter for Yankees in a shutout of the Twins

Relative silence around Patrice Bergeron’s availability only makes questions around the Bruins captain roar

Shane McClanahan improves to 4-0 after helping Rays return to the win column in Toronto

Business

Still writing checks? You might want to reconsider as check fraud skyrockets

Cleanup begins after freight train derailment and fire in Maine

Fox News is on trial, and so are falsehoods about 2020

Google is devising radical search changes to beat back AI rivals

26.2 tales of personal triumph from the Boston Marathon

How President Obama wrote his 'love letter to Boston' after the bombing

The forgotten story of how the Boston Marathon almost collapsed

Blind date: ‘We discovered we have the same birthday’

Ten years ago, the Boston Marathon ended in tragedy. Nine years ago, it rose again.
Race day in 2014 was about both reflection and rebirth as American winner Meb Keflezighi brought triumph back to Boylston Street.

GLOBE MAGAZINE

How President Obama wrote his ‘love letter to Boston’ after the Marathon bombing
In his address at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the president sought to put words to the city’s resilience.

Clarence Thomas has for years claimed income from a defunct real estate firm
This is among a series of errors and omissions that Thomas has made on required annual financial disclosure forms over the past several decades, a review of those records shows.

High school star among 4 slain in Alabama party shooting
Four people have been killed and multiple people injured during a shooting Saturday night in Dadeville, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said.

New exhibits at Pao Arts Center create spaces for community reflection
“Call and Response: Illustration in Uncertain Times” and “Workers Statues in Chinatown by Wen-ti Tsen” both run through June 30.

PERSPECTIVE

There’s an easy way to retrain the nasty internal voice telling you you’re not good enough
Negative self-talk can color how we and our kids interact with the world.

Dance Review

Paul Taylor Dance Company shines in its Boston return
Founded in 1954, the New York-based company performed in Boston as part of the Celebrity Series for the first time since 2013.

LOVE LETTERS

My husband had an emotional affair at work
“I feel an incredible lack of closure.”

Send The Boston Globe a confidential news tip
Do you have a tip about something that needs to be investigated? Do you have documents or data we should dig into? We want to hear from you.

Can Maura Healey fix the Chelsea Veterans’ Home?
Providing care for the state's needy veterans was one of the more conspicuous failures of the Baker administration, and is now a complex puzzle that falls to Governor Maura Healey to solve.

MATTHEW GILBERT

What makes ‘a good TV death’? These 15 demises are creative, complex, even brilliant.
When done well — as “Succession” just proved — the passing of a television character can inspire powerful material involving shock and grief, or perhaps guilt and relief.

Democrats sound alarm after Tennessee Three expulsion drama: This ‘can happen anywhere in the country’
Democrats who watched members of their caucus expelled from the Tennessee House said unchecked power was the reason things in their state had deteriorated so rapidly.