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Two men are fatally shot Saturday night in Hyde Park

Officers responded at 9:37 p.m. to 36 Dedham St., where two men in their 20s had been shot, officials said. One man was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was transported to a hospital, where he died.

Jack D. Teixeira spent years honing his online warrior skills. Then an armored car rolled up to his Dighton driveway.

Jack Teixeira spent years honing his online warrior skills. Then an armored car rolled up his driveway.

The alleged crimes that Jack Teixeira is said to have committed have put his quiet, hard-to-place hometown on the map with a treason case as bizarre as it is troubling.

Mass. Guardsman shared sensitive intelligence more widely and for longer than previously known

US evacuates diplomats, shuts embassy in violence-torn Sudan
US special operations forces carried out a precarious evacuation of the American embassy in warring Sudan on Sunday, sweeping in and out of the capital, Khartoum, with helicopters on the ground for less than an hour.

Governments race to rescue diplomats, citizens from Sudan

Mass. woman sheltering in Sudan with her baby as violence rages for control of country

A Bed Bath & Beyond store in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Feb. 6.

Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy as turnaround fails

Kevin McCarthy says House will pass GOP debt-limit bill this week

Commuters waited for a Red Line train at the MBTA Park Street station. While many T employees work in Boston every day, some top managers do not.

A distant crisis: Top MBTA managers live hundreds — or thousands — of miles from the troubled system they’re trying to fix

Los Angeles, Chicago, and South Florida are among the places T executives call home.

‘It’s now on their plate’: With Healey’s new hires comes new responsibility for the MBTA’s problems

With Supreme Court poised to eliminate use of race in college admissions, states with existing bans offer a sobering view
After California and Michigan ended affirmative action in college admissions, colleges there tried a range of race-neutral strategies to recruit underrepresented students, but numbers lag.

TOM FARRAGHER

Lobster for sale. So is the Lobster Pot, the restaurant
‘We’re kind of a staple in Provincetown.’

Alabama quarterback Bryce Young is the consensus No. 1 pick.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

The top story lines and latest news and nuggets about this year’s NFL Draft

The quarterback market always drives the conversation, and this year is no exception.

Misoprostol tablets.

The cold comfort of a reprieve

The wrong-headed, error-filled April 7 decision by a Texas judge has implications beyond further restricting abortion access.

Supreme Court blocks enactment of abortion pill restrictions Analysis: Abortion emerging as single most important issue of 2024

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Attendance for the Athletics has been on a downswing.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Cellar-dweller Athletics want to move from Oakland to Las Vegas, and it is a money grab

Owner John Fisher purchased 49 acres in Vegas — for the development rights. His franchise will be moving, if it goes to the desert, from the sixth-largest media market in the country to the 40th.

Dmitry Orlov is the highest-caliber, best-performing Russian ever to pull on the Black-and-Gold sweater.

Kevin Paul Dupont | Sunday hockey notes

For Bruins defenseman Dmitry Orlov, the Russian Five opened his eyes, and his path to the NHL

Whe Orlov was growing up, watching hockey on TV was limited to the World Championship and Olympics, but that changed in the mid-1990s.

Injured Patrice Bergeron, not one to sit around during playoffs, is helping the Bruins — from his couch

Marcus Smart, who went down hard late in the fourth quarter, had 24 points, 8 assists and just 1 turnover in Game 3.

Celtics’ Marcus Smart questionable for Game 4 after he took a hard fall on his tailbone late in Game 3

If Smart is unable to play, coach Joe Mazzulla likely would turn to Robert Williams or Grant Williams.

Opinion

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks during an event at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, on April 17.

Abolish the debt ceiling

The fight between Republicans and the White House over raising the debt limit is enormously risky. It’s also entirely unnecessary.

An ideal muse for Healey’s mantel

Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut

Five takeaways from the Supreme Court’s abortion pill ruling

Hari Srinivasan

Is it better to describe someone as ‘autistic’ or as a ‘person with autism’?

Kathleen Hirsch

The car fire that helped save the planet

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State Police investigating body found in Newton park near Charles River
State Police and the Middlesex district attorney’s office are investigating the death and are working to identify the victim, officials said.

Twenty men to face charges after uprising at Bristol County jail

Bristol Sheriff Paul Heroux said the hours-long standoff between pretrial detainees and staff was the byproduct of surprising culprits given the correctional setting — cells without locks or toilets.

Here are the 2023 college commencement speakers in Massachusetts
Actor Tom Hanks, soccer legend Briana Scurry, fashion designer Ken Cole and Representative Ayanna Pressley are among the figures from arts, sports, business and politics tapped to deliver commencement addresses at colleges and universities in Massachusetts.

Chinese censorship is quietly rewriting the COVID-19 story

Under pressure from their government, Chinese scientists have withheld data, withdrawn genetic sequences from public databases and altered crucial details in journal submissions.

Salem police warn of coyote sightings

Police have received several recent reports of coyotes approaching people who were walking their dogs.

Firefighters battle two-alarm blaze at Burlington apartment complex

Burlington firefighters had responded to 1 Baron Park Lane and were battling the flames by 9:20 p.m., officials said.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | MILES HOWARD

Making too little to get affordable housing — and other problems with trying to stay in Boston

"Again and again as I read Ferrante, I had the experience of encountering passages that sparked my uneasy recognition."

IDEAS | NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF

What Elena Ferrante knows about the lingering pain of inequality

Migrants from Ukraine waited to be allowed to enter the United States at the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 4, 2022.

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Senator Tim Scott, Republican from South Carolina, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

Tim Scott’s folly

A man walks past the "missing child" poster for Harmony Montgomery on Thursday, May 5, 2022, in Manchester, N.H.

Let Harmony Montgomery be an example: Children’s needs must be prioritized in court cases

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

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Metro

Mass. woman sheltering in Sudan with her baby as violence rages for control of country

Trillian Clifford, of Ashland, and her daughter, Alma, have been hiding for more than a week in their apartment in the Soba region of the capital city of Khartoum, where Trillian is a teacher, according to her family.

Driver rescued as SUV teeters over embankment in Falmouth

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Cannon blasts and fighter jets celebrate 386th anniversary of Mass. National Guard

The ceremony honors the origins of the United States National Guard in Salem in 1637.

Valda Setterfield, a star in the postmodern dance world, dies at 88

Valda Setterfield was a leading figure in the New York dance world for 60 years and had a singularly theatrical presence onstage as well as off.

Sports

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The Red Sox will have to best former Cy Young winner Corbin Burnes to take the series in Milwaukee.

Lakers forward LeBron James was dominating his matchup with Dillon Brooks until Brooks's ejection.

Game 3 : Lakers 111, Grizzlies 101

Grizzlies’ Dillon Brooks tossed for blow to LeBron James as Lakers win Game 3

Brooks committed the flagrant foul while guarding James near midcourt just 17 seconds into the second half.

Jesper Bratt of the Devils carries the puck against the Rangers'Jacob Trouba during the third period of Game 3 iof their first-round series at Madison Square Garden .

Game 3: Devils 2, Rangers 1, OT

Dougie Hamilton boosts Devils over Rangers in overtime

New Jersey trails in the first-round series, 2-1.

Game 3: Heat 121, Bucks 99

Injuries to Jimmy Butler, Victor Oladipo take joy out of Heat after beating up Bucks in Game 3

rays 4, white sox 3

Randy Arozarena gives Rays home-run record in first inning, walkoff win over White Sox in 10th

Rockland’s Megan Khang one back at LPGA major

Business

Kevin McCarthy says House will pass GOP debt-limit bill this week

McCarthy’s proposal would increase the nation’s debt ceiling in order to stave off a US payments default and it would trim $4.5 trillion in spending over a decade.

Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy as turnaround fails

US housewares retailer Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. filed for Chapter 11 in New Jersey, according to a court filing.

Twitter blue checks for dead celebrities add to verification confusion

Some N.H. community power programs facing delay

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Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston 2023

Will real estate prices on Cape Cod and the Islands ever come back to earth?

A billboard from Stop Handgun Violence, a Massachusetts based organization, in 2018.

The brutal calculus of life expectancy and where you can afford to live

This week's daters: Merrick and Mary

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We both go to the same university’

metro

Commuters waited for a Red Line train at the MBTA Park Street station. While many T employees work in Boston every day, some top managers do not.

A distant crisis: Top MBTA managers live hundreds — or thousands — of miles from the troubled system they’re trying to fix

The cold comfort of a reprieve

As other states charge ahead with e-bike incentives, no such program for Mass. yet

sports

Brett Howden, Ivan Barbashev. and Michael Amadio (left) of the Golden Knights celebrate Amadio's double overtime goal for a victory over the Jets in Game 3.

Michael Amadio scores in double overtime as Knights take 2-1 series lead over Jets

Giacomo Vrioni scores twice in Revolution’s victory over Sporting Kansas City

Garrett Whitlock didn’t help his bid to stay in starting rotation, getting roughed up in Red Sox’ loss to Brewers

business

The Lions drafted Quintez Cephus in 2020.

NFL suspends five players for violating gambling policy

It took 3 years, but the state now has more jobs than before the pandemic

Confusion as Musk’s Twitter yanks blue checks from agencies

politics

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.

Kevin McCarthy says House will pass GOP debt-limit bill this week

US evacuates diplomats, shuts embassy in violence-torn Sudan

New wave of GOP candidates to challenge Trump, DeSantis

Nation

Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage in "Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance!" at the Music Box Theater in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 2004.

Barry Humphries, who performed as the iconic Dame Edna, is dead at 89

Eureka! After California’s heavy rains, gold seekers are giddy.

A widow said her husband was left in a drinks cooler after dying on a cruise

World

Chinese authorities have greatly controlled information about the COVID-19 outbreak since its beginning.

Chinese censorship is quietly rewriting the COVID-19 story

Governments race to rescue diplomats, citizens from Sudan

Sudan says US, others to start evacuations amid fighting in Khartoum

opinion

Reporters surrounded attorneys for Dominion Voting Systems during a news conference outside the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington, Del., after the defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News was settled just as the jury trial was set to begin on April 18.

Fox News ponies up. So why do some feel let down?

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Feinstein resignation holds key to Biden’s judicial nominees

lifestyle

I was rude and I want to apologize

He won’t introduce me to family and friends

The Silver Unicorn Bookstore hosts its first children’s graphic novel festival

food & dining

Charcoal grilled street corn at Loco Taqueria in Boston.

Mahaniyom team plans a new restaurant; Soleil comes to Boston Public Market

At Central Square’s Shōjō, Chinatown favorites and bold new flavors

At Barbara Lynch’s restaurants, growing concern over a toxic culture

travel

Fly fishermen fill the Battenkill River near the Arlington Green Covered Bridge in Arlington, Vt.

Can Norman Rockwell and fly fishing revive tourism in this tiny Vermont town?

David Rubenstein is thinking about Fenway Park (but not the fun snacks you find there). And he’s always working.

A Guthrie exhibit and tour, West Coast music fest, and a powerful charging tool for travelers

Arts

Gioacchino Altobelli, "The Piazza of Santa Maria Maggiore With a Photographer," 1860s.

When in Rome . . .

Galleries: Making magic at Fountain Street Gallery

After decades in the dark, Paul Goesch’s architectural fancies are finally seeing the light of day

Books

Author Stephen King said on Twitter Thursday that he had not paid for the app's Twitter Blue service, despite a blue check next to his name that indicated he had. Elon Musk has claimed he is paying for the Maine horror writer's subscription himself.

Stephen King’s blue check on Twitter was apparently an unwelcome gift from Elon Musk

With ‘Small Mercies,’ Dennis Lehane is telling the Boston story he’s always wanted to tell

In Dennis Lehane’s latest novel, ‘Small Mercies,’ a Southie woman searches for her missing daughter in a Boston on the brink of change

Movies

“BlackBerry” will be shown May 2 at the Somerville Theatre during Independent Film Festival Boston.

The Independent Film Festival Boston marks 20 years

In ‘Ghosted,’ starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, rom-com becomes bomb-com

Phoenix still rising

Television

Gaten Matarazzo, left, as Toby in the Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd.”

From ‘Stranger Things’ to ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Matarazzo has what it takes

The Nicholas Alahverdian story gets the ‘Dateline’ treatment tonight

The unvarnished villainy of Logan Roy

music

South African soprano Golda Schultz performing Sibelius's tone poem "Luonnotar" in Symphony Hall on Thursday night.

At BSO, a high-flying homage to Sibelius

‘Iphigenié en Tauride’ is mythological melodrama at its finest

Despite his name, Louis Prima Jr. wasn’t always a hep cat, and that’s no jive

Theater/Dance

From left: Sara Burd, Luis Negron, and Jaime Jose Hernandez in "The House of Ramón Iglesia" at Moonbox Productions.

An immigrant family’s tensions boil over in ‘The House of Ramón Iglesia’

Ultimately, this ‘My Fair Lady’ is quite ‘loverly’

Taylor Mac on ‘Joy and Pandemic,’ the play he’s been thinking about his whole life

globe local

Brothers Brian Worrell (left), District 4 Councilor, and state Representative Chris Worrell just opened a district office on Erie Street.

Worrell brothers, one a councilor and one a state representative, open joint Dorchester office for ‘top-notch constituent services’

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

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

Obituaries

Valda Setterfield in a revival of David Gordon's "The Matter" at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan on Oct. 18, 2018.

Valda Setterfield, a star in the postmodern dance world, dies at 88

Bud Shuster, unabashed ‘asphalt king’ of Congress, dies at 91

Jessica Burstein, whose camera captured New York, dies at 76