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Hayley Kalukin, 22, is a Web designer for Boston Medical Center who primarily works from home.

From college to the working world, a ‘hybrid’ life has become the norm for many 20-somethings

Graduates this spring are stepping into a working world that may be just as remote as their college experience was.

Boston Marathon legend Rick Hoyt dies at 61
Rick Hoyt, who for years completed the Boston Marathon in a wheelchair famously pushed by his father, died Monday morning, a little more than two years after his dad’s death, the family said.

CHAD FINN

Joe Mazzulla has shown he is out of his league. He’s got to go.
Mazzulla was a good story, but he is not ready for prime time. He doesn’t belong in this arena, and he never should have been asked to.

The level of competition has improved in the conference finals, said Malcolm Brogdon, and the Celtics are having trouble dealing with that.

Malcolm Brogdon says Celtics’ problems go back to the start of the playoffs

"I think in the Atlanta series, I think in the Philly series, I think we got away with things that now are biting us," he said. "So that’s definitely troubling.”

Charlie Handt, age 5, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is seen at home in Darien, Conn. Charlie is participating in a clinical trial of a gene therapy developed by Cambridge-based Sarepta therapeutics.

Under pressure from patients, FDA faces tough choices on experimental gene therapy

The prospect of “accelerated approval” for a single-dose treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy has drawn criticism from some scientists and health research experts who say the FDA is loosening its standards.

For months, Stephen and Laurie Morris have been battling Pacific Life; the insurance and financial services company is demanding the return of $3,453, even though that demand is premised on an erroneous date of death for Laurie's mother.

THE FINE PRINT

Couple says insurance company’s clawback letters overlook mother’s date of death

Pacific Life has failed to acknowledge that it wrongly demanded thousands of dollars in payments after a South Easton woman’s death.

OPINION

Blue sky Boston: Where inspiration meets aspiration for the city’s future

Sustainable living. Gondolas. A science expo. Evaluation of student humanity. Here’s what a Boston of the future could be.

Tell us: What is your blue sky vision for Boston?

Judge finds ‘overwhelming evidence to support’ award of damages to Watertown’s first female detective

Former Detective Kathleen E. Donohue, the Watertown Police Department’s first female detective, filed a lawsuit in 2019 claiming she faced a sexist work environment stretching back over two decades, and was targeted after she spoke up about the conduct.

Danvers police officer accidentally fires gun while investigating hoax threat at St. John’s Prep
A Danvers police officer fired their gun inside a bathroom in a middle school building, Chief James Lovell said. No one was inside the bathroom and no injuries were reported, he said.

It started as a promise over Celtics tickets. But for Rachael Rollins, it got a lot more complicated.

A Boston Celtics staffer later sent two free tickets to Rachael Rollins’s personal e-mail with a face value of $350 each, according to the report.

More: The rise and fall of Rachael Rollins

Who is Joshua Levy, the acting US attorney for Massachusetts?

The T slow zones, explained.

Around a fifth of the subway system still has speed restrictions in place. We wanted to know: how slow are these slow zones and what's being done to fix them? ( Olivia Yarvis/Globe Staff, Elizabeth Koh, Taylor Dolven, Ryan Huddle )

Watch: The T slow zones explained

We wanted to know: just how slow are the MBTA's slow zones and what’s being done to fix them?

Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan holds rally at Hyannis gun shop as small group protests

Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, a Republican who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, held a rally Sunday at a Hyannis gun shop where the conservative lawmaker was met by a small group of protesters.

Biden and McCarthy to hold pivotal meeting on debt ceiling as time to resolve standoff grows short

Millions of years of life lost due to COVID-19, WHO says

Person suffers life-threatening injuries in Dorchester shooting

Taylor Swift performs at Gillette Stadium on Friday night.

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Patriots players among the audience at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour

Thousands of Swifties danced in their best dress at Gillette Stadium last weekend for the tour — including New England Patriots players Mac Jones and Mike Gesicki.

Here are the setlists for Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ shows at Gillette Stadium (plus surprise songs) More coverage of Taylor Swift's three sold-out Gillette Stadium concerts

Halle Bailey as Ariel in Disney's live-action "The Little Mermaid."

Odie Henderson Review | ★★★

Halle Bailey makes ‘The Little Mermaid’ her own

Disney’s live-action remake of its 1989 animated classic is completely unnecessary. It’s also better than expected.

A black bear wandered through a fire zone in Shining Bank, Alberta, Canada on May 19, 2023.

Why are skies hazy in Mass.? Blame smoke from Canadian wildfires, experts say.

Hazy skies and a reddish sunrise can be traced back to heavy smoke from wildfires sweeping through parts of Alberta, said Kyle Pederson, a meteorologist with National Weather Service in Norton.

Forecast | Dave Epstein: Sun, haze, and warmth in New England this week

Opinion

Caribbean flamingo's necks appear intertwined in their exhibit at the Stone Zoo, in Stoneham.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Does Greater Boston really need two zoos?

It would be better for the animals — and the humans who gawk at them — if all available resources were poured into the 72-acre zoo in Boston, rather than shared with the 26-acre zoo in Stoneham.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Henry Kissinger at 100: A contradictory legacy of peace and terror

MARCELA GARCÍA

Barking up the right tree: Regulate doggy day cares in Massachusetts

RENÉE GRAHAM

Coffee runs, car chases, and the insatiable celebrity-industrial complex

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Perimenopausal Margaret.

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Wandering black bear has made its way to Dartmouth, police say
The bear was seen around 9:45 a.m. Monday, according to the state Environmental Police.

First great white shark sighting of the season caught on video off Cape Cod
The sight of the 12-foot-long great white shark encountering a juvenile seal was captured by the Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch crew and passengers on Saturday.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: Spoiler-free thoughts on the end of ‘Succession,’ and memories of Mary Tyler Moore
The “Succession” finale on Sunday is called “With Open Eyes,” which is taken from poet John Berryman’s “The Dream Songs.” Theories online connect the dark poem and the show.

E. Jean Carroll adds Trump’s post-verdict comments to pending defamation case

Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll, who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against former president Trump, filed an amended lawsuit against him on Monday seeking to hold him liable for remarks he made after the verdict.

RI BUSINESS

With customers pinched by inflation, Hasbro CEO regards competitors as ‘more Unilever and General Mills’ than toy makers

Almost a year and a half after he took over the company, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks also said he is doubling down on his focus on gaming products and collectables geared toward older audiences.

Republican Senator Tim Scott launches 2024 presidential campaign

During the announcement in his hometown of North Charleston, Scott offered an optimistic message he hopes can contrast former president Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Tell us: How have things changed in Boston since you were in your early 20s?

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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.

YouTubers film, insult public workers in towns across Mass. for self-declared ‘First Amendment audits’

For municipal workers, the stunts add to the rash of hostile behavior many face these days.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

As Everett power plant shutters, some worry LNG terminal will be next to go
The LNG terminal’s fate could become the latest flashpoint in New England’s seemingly endless debate about shifting away from fossil fuels.

Jean Durkee, ‘Miss Jean’ for Boston’s ‘Romper Room’ children’s TV show, dies at 90
"Who wouldn’t enjoy being adored by thousands of preschoolers," Mrs. Durkee said of her time hosting "Romper Room."

THE GREAT DIVIDE

While student chronic absenteeism numbers remain high, Boston and Mass. show signs of recovery
Through March of this year, those who were chronically absent in BPS fell five percentage points to 37.2 percent, meaning about 2,300 more students regularly showed up for school.

Culture & Lifestyle

Janet Jackson performs at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla., at an earlier date in her Together Again tour.

All hits, no misses from Janet Jackson at Xfinity Center

From left: Nick Mohammed, Anthony Head, and Jason Sudeikis in "Ted Lasso."

‘Ted Lasso’ stays positive to the (likely) end

Kristine Giarrusso and her daughter, Quinn, who is turning 13 soon, are heading to Gillette Stadium this weekend to see Taylor Swift. It'll be Quinn's first concert ever.

For many mothers and daughters, instead of a rift, there’s Taylor Swift

Clockwise, from left: Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Han (Sung Kang), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), Dom (Vin Diesel), Little Brian (Leo Abelo Perry), Abuelita (Rita Moreno), Mia (Jordana Brewster), Tej (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, back to camera) and Roman (Tyrese Gibson, back to camera) in "Fast X," directed by Louis Leterrier.

‘Fast X’ reunites the family

Special Projects

Their lives were rerouted after the Marathon bombing. Here’s where they are now.

Five lives were lost; many more, changed.

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

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

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

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

JOAN VENNOCHI

Does Greater Boston really need two zoos?

Henry Kissinger, then the national security advisor, briefed the press on May 14, 1969.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Henry Kissinger at 100: A contradictory legacy of peace and terror

Melissa Ekvall of the MSPCA watched over Jellybean during a press conference at the Massachusetts State House in 2022 in support of Ollie's law.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Barking up the right tree: Regulate doggy day cares in Massachusetts

A scrum of photographers at the 76th annual Cannes film festival last week.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Coffee runs, car chases, and the insatiable celebrity-industrial complex

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Perimenopausal Margaret.

"I want to sound an alarm," the author writes, "that our health care system is set up in a way that makes emergency rooms doomed to fail to meet patients’ expectations."

IDEAS | BRIAN MCGUIRE

America broke George Clooney’s ER

Metro

Danvers police officer accidentally fires gun while investigating hoax threat at St. John’s Prep

A Danvers police officer fired their gun inside a bathroom in a middle school building, Chief James Lovell said. No one was inside the bathroom and no injuries were reported, he said.

From college to the working world, a ‘hybrid’ life has become the norm for many 20-somethings

Graduates this spring are stepping into a working world that may be just as remote as their college experience was.

Wu announces new street safety program to improve pedestrian safety and reduce traffic crashes

Following a study that found an increase in pedestrian deaths statewide last year, the city is launching a new program aimed at keeping neighborhoods and streets safer for both pedestrians and drivers.

C. Boyden Gray, White House counsel to President George H.W. Bush, dies at 80

Mr. Gray was influential in shepherding Republican judicial and Justice Department nominees as a strategist and fund-raiser.

Sports

Former Knick Carmelo Anthony was cheered at Madison Square Garden May 2 as the Knicks played the Heat in Game 2 of the playoffs.

NBA

Carmelo Anthony retires from NBA after 19-year career, NCAA title, three Olympic gold medals

Anthony, who was not in the NBA this season, retires as the No. 9 scorer in league history.

Tanner Houck will make his ninth start of the season Monday night against the Angels.

Red Sox at Angels | 9:38 p.m. (NESN)

Game 48: Red Sox at Angels lineups and notes

Tanner Houck will be on the mound as the Red Sox open a three-game series with the Angels in Anaheim.

Miami Heat too hot to handle for Celtics

Chris Gasper breaks down the Celtics’ game 3 performance against the Miami Heat and what the loss could mean for the rest of the series.

EMASS GIRLS' LACROSSE: PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

EMass girls’ lacrosse: With back-to-back 10-goal games, Plymouth North’s Annika Pyy headlines Players of the Week

celtics

Malcolm Brogdon says Celtics’ problems go back to the start of the playoffs

Patriots

Princeton’s Maya Ana Callender makes a little history as Patriots’ first full-time female scout

Business

From college to the working world, a ‘hybrid’ life has become the norm for many 20-somethings

Graduates this spring are stepping into a working world that may be just as remote as their college experience was.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals to buy Swiss biotech for $1 billion

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals plans to buy a Swiss biotech for $1 billion as the Boston drug firm seeks to strengthen its focus on treatments for gastrointestinal diseases.

Under pressure from patients, FDA faces tough choices on experimental gene therapy

Urban League of Eastern Mass. names a new CEO, to take over for Keith Motley

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Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We follow the same meme accounts’

The Public Radio Exchange and Cambridge Community Television will offer a class in podcasting.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, May 22-June 4

The French King Bridge, opened in 1932, spans the Connecticut River between Erving and Gill.

Globe Magazine

This bridge needed lifesaving barriers. It took a grieving mother to get them.

The author with his older sister and grandfather, who are wearing hanbok, traditional Korean clothing, on New Year’s Day in 1984.

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Watch the latest episode and clips from Boston Globe Today

From college to the working world, a ‘hybrid’ life has become the norm for many 20-somethings

Boston Marathon legend Rick Hoyt dies at 61 Rick Hoyt, who for years completed the Boston Marathon in a wheelchair famously pushed by his father, died Monday morning, a little more than two years after his dad’s death, the family said.

CHAD FINN Joe Mazzulla has shown he is out of his league. He’s got to go. Mazzulla was a good story, but he is not ready for prime time. He doesn’t belong in this arena, and he never should have been asked to.

Malcolm Brogdon says Celtics’ problems go back to the start of the playoffs

Under pressure from patients, FDA faces tough choices on experimental gene therapy

Couple says insurance company’s clawback letters overlook mother’s date of death

Blue sky Boston: Where inspiration meets aspiration for the city’s future

Judge finds ‘overwhelming evidence to support’ award of damages to Watertown’s first female detective

Danvers police officer accidentally fires gun while investigating hoax threat at St. John’s Prep A Danvers police officer fired their gun inside a bathroom in a middle school building, Chief James Lovell said. No one was inside the bathroom and no injuries were reported, he said.

It started as a promise over Celtics tickets. But for Rachael Rollins, it got a lot more complicated.

Who is Joshua Levy, the acting US attorney for Massachusetts?

Watch: The T slow zones explained

Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan holds rally at Hyannis gun shop as small group protests

Biden and McCarthy to hold pivotal meeting on debt ceiling as time to resolve standoff grows short

Millions of years of life lost due to COVID-19, WHO says

Person suffers life-threatening injuries in Dorchester shooting

Patriots players among the audience at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour

Halle Bailey makes ‘The Little Mermaid’ her own

Why are skies hazy in Mass.? Blame smoke from Canadian wildfires, experts say.

Does Greater Boston really need two zoos?

Henry Kissinger at 100: A contradictory legacy of peace and terror

Barking up the right tree: Regulate doggy day cares in Massachusetts

Coffee runs, car chases, and the insatiable celebrity-industrial complex

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Perimenopausal Margaret.

More recent News

Wandering black bear has made its way to Dartmouth, police say The bear was seen around 9:45 a.m. Monday, according to the state Environmental Police.

First great white shark sighting of the season caught on video off Cape Cod The sight of the 12-foot-long great white shark encountering a juvenile seal was captured by the Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch crew and passengers on Saturday.

E. Jean Carroll adds Trump’s post-verdict comments to pending defamation case

With customers pinched by inflation, Hasbro CEO regards competitors as ‘more Unilever and General Mills’ than toy makers

Republican Senator Tim Scott launches 2024 presidential campaign

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

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YouTubers film, insult public workers in towns across Mass. for self-declared ‘First Amendment audits’

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS As Everett power plant shutters, some worry LNG terminal will be next to go The LNG terminal’s fate could become the latest flashpoint in New England’s seemingly endless debate about shifting away from fossil fuels.

Jean Durkee, ‘Miss Jean’ for Boston’s ‘Romper Room’ children’s TV show, dies at 90 "Who wouldn’t enjoy being adored by thousands of preschoolers," Mrs. Durkee said of her time hosting "Romper Room."

THE GREAT DIVIDE While student chronic absenteeism numbers remain high, Boston and Mass. show signs of recovery Through March of this year, those who were chronically absent in BPS fell five percentage points to 37.2 percent, meaning about 2,300 more students regularly showed up for school.

Culture & Lifestyle

All hits, no misses from Janet Jackson at Xfinity Center

‘Ted Lasso’ stays positive to the (likely) end

For many mothers and daughters, instead of a rift, there’s Taylor Swift

‘Fast X’ reunites the family

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Their lives were rerouted after the Marathon bombing. Here’s where they are now.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Does Greater Boston really need two zoos?

Henry Kissinger at 100: A contradictory legacy of peace and terror

Barking up the right tree: Regulate doggy day cares in Massachusetts

Coffee runs, car chases, and the insatiable celebrity-industrial complex

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Perimenopausal Margaret.

America broke George Clooney’s ER

Metro

Danvers police officer accidentally fires gun while investigating hoax threat at St. John’s Prep

From college to the working world, a ‘hybrid’ life has become the norm for many 20-somethings

Wu announces new street safety program to improve pedestrian safety and reduce traffic crashes

C. Boyden Gray, White House counsel to President George H.W. Bush, dies at 80

Sports

Carmelo Anthony retires from NBA after 19-year career, NCAA title, three Olympic gold medals

Game 48: Red Sox at Angels lineups and notes

Miami Heat too hot to handle for Celtics

EMass girls’ lacrosse: With back-to-back 10-goal games, Plymouth North’s Annika Pyy headlines Players of the Week

Malcolm Brogdon says Celtics’ problems go back to the start of the playoffs

Princeton’s Maya Ana Callender makes a little history as Patriots’ first full-time female scout

Business

From college to the working world, a ‘hybrid’ life has become the norm for many 20-somethings

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals to buy Swiss biotech for $1 billion

Under pressure from patients, FDA faces tough choices on experimental gene therapy

Urban League of Eastern Mass. names a new CEO, to take over for Keith Motley

Blind date: ‘We follow the same meme accounts’

Five things to do around Boston, May 22-June 4

This bridge needed lifesaving barriers. It took a grieving mother to get them.

Boston Marathon legend Rick Hoyt dies at 61
Rick Hoyt, who for years completed the Boston Marathon in a wheelchair famously pushed by his father, died Monday morning, a little more than two years after his dad’s death, the family said.

CHAD FINN

Joe Mazzulla has shown he is out of his league. He’s got to go.
Mazzulla was a good story, but he is not ready for prime time. He doesn’t belong in this arena, and he never should have been asked to.

Danvers police officer accidentally fires gun while investigating hoax threat at St. John’s Prep
A Danvers police officer fired their gun inside a bathroom in a middle school building, Chief James Lovell said. No one was inside the bathroom and no injuries were reported, he said.

Wandering black bear has made its way to Dartmouth, police say
The bear was seen around 9:45 a.m. Monday, according to the state Environmental Police.

First great white shark sighting of the season caught on video off Cape Cod
The sight of the 12-foot-long great white shark encountering a juvenile seal was captured by the Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch crew and passengers on Saturday.

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.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

As Everett power plant shutters, some worry LNG terminal will be next to go
The LNG terminal’s fate could become the latest flashpoint in New England’s seemingly endless debate about shifting away from fossil fuels.

Jean Durkee, ‘Miss Jean’ for Boston’s ‘Romper Room’ children’s TV show, dies at 90
"Who wouldn’t enjoy being adored by thousands of preschoolers," Mrs. Durkee said of her time hosting "Romper Room."

THE GREAT DIVIDE

While student chronic absenteeism numbers remain high, Boston and Mass. show signs of recovery
Through March of this year, those who were chronically absent in BPS fell five percentage points to 37.2 percent, meaning about 2,300 more students regularly showed up for school.