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Wins, stats, and records don't tell the entire success story for the Bruins, it’s their chemistry
As the Bruins skate closer to the Cup, Globe living arts reporter Mark Shanahan tells us the secret sauce for success is the team’s chemistry.
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How a local gamer allegedly shared classified files

New medication aims to change narrative about obesity

Somerville start-up looks to help hearing impaired people
ANALYSIS | JAMES PINDELL

Tucker Carlson and other stars don’t make Fox News. Fox News makes the stars.

The Fox News formula is so successful that it continues to dominate after the departure of major stars. Tucker Carlson's exit won't be any different.
Tucker Carlson, Fox News’s most popular host, is out at network

Carlson’s departure from Fox is ‘earth-shaking,’ comes at critical time for the network, media experts say

The abrupt departure of Tucker Carlson, the polarizing but popular host, from Fox News marks a dramatic shakeup of the cable news landscape, media observers said Monday.
Tell us: What do you think is next for Tucker Carlson?

Don Lemon, longtime CNN host, out at cable news network

Lemon said he was terminated by the network after 17 years. CNN issued a rebuttal to that claim on its PR account, writing Lemon "was offered an opportunity to meet with management but instead released a statement on Twitter.”

Rockets reportedly hiring former Celtics coach Ime Udoka
Houston parted way with Stephen Silas in April after his third season at the helm, and will turn to the former Celtics coach to lead a young roster.

Atlanta’s Dejounte Murray suspended for Game 5 after postgame incident with referee
Billy Baker

How a tiny Massachusetts river has become a star in the fly-fishing world

The story goes -- and there's always a story when casting about in these parts -- that the native brook trout of the Swift are the biggest and smartest in the state.

As most of Maine’s newspapers go up for sale, a new nonprofit enters the mix to buy them

The owner of Masthead Maine, which encompasses 30 news outlets in the state, is looking to sell the modest empire, casting uncertainty on the future of the bulk of Maine’s local news ecosystem.

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL
With Aaron Rodgers joining the Jets, the Patriots are looking like the doormats of the AFC East
The Jets were the Patriots’ one salve in the AFC East, with New England winning all six matchups since 2020. That may change with this trade.

Driver pushed gas pedal to floor, did not hit brake during Apple Store crash in Hingham, prosecutors say
Bradley Rein, 53, accused of driving his SUV through the front of an Apple Store in Hingham last fall, killing one man and injuring nearly two dozen people, pleaded not guilty to all charges and was released on $100,000 cash bail.

Forecast | Dave Epstein
Greater Boston can expect a cooler-than-average spring week
High temperatures are expected to be in the 50s and 60s in many places in Eastern Massachusetts in the coming days.

Biden plans an election bid that will be more complicated the 2nd time around
President Biden is set to ask for another four years in office as soon as Tuesday, and he'll be forced to defend his record in another run for the White House.

Speaker McCarthy faces big test as debt bill heads for vote

Website posing as fake Massachusetts university draws attention of authorities

A convincing website listing student testimonials and degree offerings is posing as a legitimate online university based in Boston.

Healey names Patrick Lavin, transit consultant who worked on MBTA safety report, new MassDOT safety chief

At old Boston State Hospital, a community grows

Work will start this week on the last phase of the redo of the old Boston State Hospital campus in Mattapan.
kara miller | the big idea

Could helicopter parenting jeopardize kids’ success — and fuel inequality?

In countries with higher income inequality, parents tend to push their kids harder. In countries where people are more equal, parents are a lot more relaxed.

Peak cringe? Critics take aim at ‘This car climbed Mount Washington’ bumper stickers.

On TikTok and Instagram, the ubiquitous stickers have become the subject of skits and jokes.
Opinion
JOAN VENNOCHI

What’s the truth about the war in Ukraine?

I asked Representatives Seth Moulton and Jake Auchincloss, two Massachusetts Democrats who both back Biden on Ukraine — but as veterans also know something about the fog of war and how it can be used to manipulate public opinion.
MARCELA GARCÍA

The implications of Biden’s lackluster record on immigration for his 2024 reelection
Andrea Silbert

Women are prepared to lead as CEOs. Why won’t boards hire them?
Mary Ziegler

Abortion pill ruling offers a breather, but new threats are already on the way
EDITORIAL

Gateway Cities want to help solve the state’s housing crisis. We need to let them.

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Special Reports

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

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

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

Pressley, Markey renew push for fare-free transit federal grant program
Cities and transit authorities in Massachusetts are experimenting with fare-free bus service.

Ashland woman stranded in Sudan with toddler as violence rages
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 Clifford is a teacher, according to her family.

By month’s end, India population to be world’s largest, according to United Nations
The news comes at a moment when India is promoting itself as a rising international player as the host of this year’s G20 Summit.

Detention hearing for Teixeira set for Thursday in Worcester
Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman man charged with violating the Espionage Act for allegedly sharing classified information on the Internet, is set to appear in a Worcester courtroom on Thursday.

R.I.’s first major offshore wind power project is up for a big vote Tuesday
The scheduled vote is a crucial step toward making the project a reality, though it is not the last one.

The Latino Policy Institute will leave Roger Williams University
The institute, which has helped to shape public policy by researching and communicating the Latino experience in Rhode Island for the past 17 years, is going to become an independent research and advocacy organization.

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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.

A year after SCOTUS decision, Mass. towns and cities are wrestling with flaps over flags
A year after the Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional for the City of Boston to deny a Christian group’s flag-raising request, selectboards and city councils across Massachusetts are navigating the legal and political thicket left in the decision’s wake.

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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.

TOM FARRAGHER
Lobster for sale. So is the Lobster Pot, the restaurant
The original Lobster Pot restaurant, locally famous for its neon sign and to-die-for vistas of Provincetown Harbor, is up for sale for $14 million — the end of an era for Tim McNulty, whose family members have poured their hearts and souls into the venerable, old place since the 1970s.

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Culture & Lifestyle

The Independent Film Festival Boston marks 20 years

Students, organizers protest Sackler name at Harvard Art Museums

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

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

Special Projects

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.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

JOAN VENNOCHI

What’s the truth about the war in Ukraine?
Andrea Silbert

Women are prepared to lead as CEOs. Why won’t boards hire them?
Mary Ziegler

Abortion pill ruling offers a breather, but new threats are already on the way
EDITORIAL

Gateway Cities want to help solve the state’s housing crisis. We need to let them.
IDEAS | SALLY GAO

I left the States to renew my visa. Now I’m stuck in bureaucratic limbo.
IDEAS | MILES HOWARD

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

Metro

BMC and Point32Health partner to improve maternal care

The initiative will double the number of women who will be offered doula services.

R.I.’s first major offshore wind power project is up for a big vote Tuesday

The scheduled vote is a crucial step toward making the project a reality, though it is not the last one.

Warren, Markey, Pressley push for tighter Supreme Court ethics standards

US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey and Representative Ayanna Pressley were in Boston on Monday to help kick off a 20-city tour to push for tighter ethical standards for Supreme Court justices amid recent scrutiny of Justice Clarence Thomas’s close relationship with a billionaire GOP donor and the court’s rulings on abortion.

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.

Sports

BRUINS

Patrice Bergeron expected to practice with Bruins on Tuesday

“We’ll gauge his progression and go from there,” GM Don Sweeney said. “As everybody knows, he’s day to day, and we’ll see how he is when he integrates into other guys on the ice.”
BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Don Sweeney’s deadline haul more than delivering against Panthers

Dmitry Orlov, Garnet Hathaway, and Tyler Bertuzzi have all made their presence felt on the ice as the Bruins have reached the cusp of bouncing Florida.
BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

With Aaron Rodgers joining the Jets, the Patriots find themselves the doormats of the AFC East

The Jets were the Patriots’ one salve in the AFC East, with New England winning all six games since 2020. Now with Rodgers, the Jets are the sharks and the Patriots are the chum.
Celtics

Rockets reportedly hiring former Celtics coach Ime Udoka
Christopher L. Gasper

The Celtics have some margin for error against the Hawks entering Game 5. They shouldn’t need it.
GIRLS' LACROSSE NOTEBOOK

For the Nantucket girls’ lacrosse team, 12-hour travel days are ordinary. Now they’re adding impressive wins to the routine.

Business

TALKING POINTS

Private equity company to get majority stake in Andover firm

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.
Bold Types

From Boston to Newfoundland to Germany, Gebolys sees potential for green hydrogen

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

At old Boston State Hospital, a community grows

Bluebird reaches FDA’s doorstep with sickle cell therapy as application filed
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Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston 2023
Globe Magazine

New Hampshire real estate: How people from Mass. drive up prices
Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live 2023: West of Boston
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, April 24-30

metro

Pressley, Markey renew push for fare-free transit federal grant program

Food hall at Providence’s Union Station will open in spring 2024, developer says

How a tiny Massachusetts river has become a star in the fly-fishing world

sports

Atlanta’s Dejounte Murray suspended for Game 5 after postgame incident with referee

Commissioner Rob Manfred asserts an A’s move to Las Vegas is all about Oakland’s failure to act

Report: Aaron Rodgers trade is complete, sending him to Jets from Packers

business

Tucker Carlson and other stars don’t make Fox News. Fox News makes the stars.

Don Lemon, longtime CNN host, out at cable news network

A Somerville start-up looks to enhance conversations for hearing impaired people through a new lens

politics

Prosecutor: Proud Boys viewed themselves as ‘Trump’s army’

Warren, Markey, Pressley push for tighter Supreme Court ethics standards

Biden plans an election bid that will be more complicated the 2nd time around

Nation

Don Lemon, longtime CNN host, out at cable news network

Trial to begin in 2018 killing of 11 Jewish worshippers at Pittsburgh synagogue

Former police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor hired as a deputy in Kentucky

World

By month’s end, India population to be world’s largest, according to United Nations

Foreigners airlifted out; Sudanese seek refuge from fighting

Drones attack Sevastopol, crashed drone found near Moscow

opinion

Abolish the debt ceiling

An ideal muse for Healey’s mantel

Pregnancy-affecting virus cries out for awareness, prevention

lifestyle

A new picture book explores the creators behind the most beloved ducklings in Boston

My husband has always been critical of my physical appearance

I was rude and I want to apologize

food & dining

Food hall at Providence’s Union Station will open in spring 2024, developer says

Lobster for sale. So is the Lobster Pot, the restaurant

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

travel

Peak cringe? Critics take aim at ‘This car climbed Mount Washington’ bumper stickers.

Lobster for sale. So is the Lobster Pot, the restaurant

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

Arts

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

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

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

Tucker Carlson and other stars don’t make Fox News. Fox News makes the stars.

Don Lemon, longtime CNN host, out at cable news network

Carlson’s departure from Fox is ‘earth-shaking,’ comes at critical time for the network, media experts say

music

Kissin makes grand return to Symphony Hall

From North Shore rapper M-Dot, the toils of a working man

Did Ed Sheeran hit pilfer Marvin Gaye classic? A trial in the case begins this week.

Theater/Dance

Reid Scott’s journey from ‘Veep’ to ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’

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

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

globe local

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

Portland’s Valentine’s Day bandit revealed in death

1948 Olympic bronze medalist Herb Douglas dies at 101

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