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‘Let’s annex Boston’: Cambridge city councilor floats plan to create ‘MegaCambridge’
In ads appearing across Boston Monday, Burhan Azeem, who is now in his second term as a Cambridge city councilor, is making the case that Cantabrigians should seize their larger neighbor.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

3,000 days of lost learning: Advocacy groups seek to ban suspensions for state’s youngest students
Advocates of legislation to ban early elementary school suspensions say even one instance of removing a young student from class is too much.

Activists are spreading misinformation about whale deaths to obstruct clean energy policies, researchers find
A web of anti-offshore wind organizations are spreading misinformation about whale deaths, researchers say.

From left: musical guest Travis Scott, host Ramy Youssef, and Marcello Hernández during a "Saturday Night Live" promo in Studio 8H on Thursday.

Ramy Youssef shares his prayers in ‘Saturday Night Live’ monologue, Travis Scott performs

Aid is slow to enter Gaza, despite top UN court ruling demanding ‘unhindered’ access

The amount of aid reaching Gaza has fallen sharply since the start of Israel’s war with Hamas, and experts warn of looming famine.

Israeli airstrike hits hospital tent camp in central Gaza and kills 2 Palestinians

The company said that “information varied by customer and account,” but that it may have included a person’s full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, Social Security number, date of birth, AT&T account number, and passcode.

AT&T resets millions of passcodes after customer records are leaked

Pope overcomes health concerns, presides over blustery Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square

Two-time Olympian Aly Raisman’s new children’s book aims to help families explore the subject of consent

The boss is calling late. Should the law let you ignore it?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined antivaccination activists at a rally in Albany, N.Y., in May 2019.

For RFK Jr., measles outbreak was key moment for career as vaccine skeptic. Now he’s downplaying his activism.

Kennedy and others in his orbit played major roles, promoting misinformation that public health officials agree fueled the spread of the disease, and opposing government policies aimed at stemming transmission.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Look beyond the $90,000 price tag for private New England universities
Sticker prices at private universities are reaching new levels of ridiculousness. But most families won’t have to pay them.

The cost to attend these New England universities will top $90,000 a year this fall

Laughter, bells, bagpipes ring at Easter services throughout Greater Boston
O’Malley said the medieval formula for an Easter sermon required a joke or witticism.

This favorite Easter candy was born in Boston (but is delicious all year round)

Quinnipiac goaltender Vinny Duplessis makes a save against BC's Gabe Perreault in the first period on Sunday.

Boston College is playing for a spot in the Frozen Four. Follow NCAA hockey scores here.

The Frozen Four will be held April 11 and 13 in Minnesota, and Boston University has already punched its ticket.

Larry David is 76.

NCAA East Regional

Larry David had a few issues with UConn coach Dan Hurley at TD Garden on Saturday

The comedian, actor, and writer was in Boston for a live show and attended the UConn-Illinois NCAA Tournament game on Saturday.

UConn locks up second straight Final Four berth after demolishing Illinois Zach Edey, Purdue outlast Tennessee to reach another Final Four at last

May Takayanagi, a longtime peace and justice activist in Newton, was imprisoned in an internment camp with her family during World War II. "It actually happened,” she reminded subsequent generations. “It could happen again."

May Takayanagi, peace activist whose family was interned in World War II camps, dies at 99

"I just don’t want to see it happen to anyone else," Mrs. Takayangi said of her family's experience being imprisoned in a US internment camp during World War II.

He messaged a woman while we were broken up

Now I can’t trust him.

"Godzilla x Kong."

Odie Henderson review | ★½

‘Godzilla x Kong’ = monster-movie mediocrity

The fifth installment in the MonsterVerse brings Godzilla and King Kong back together again — to save the Earth.

Overstuffed garbage cans in Lawrence, Mass. An Israeli startup company, UBQ Materials, wants to use household waste to create a new type of thermoplastic and plans to build a recycling facility in the United States within the next three years.

Israeli company transforming trash into new type of plastic eyes Massachusetts for recycling plant

UBQ uses a mix of food scraps and plastic to create a material that it sells to companies as a greener plastic.

Opinion

Migrants from Peru and Venezuela walked down a trail on the US side of the Rio Grande on Tuesday in El Paso, Texas.

The border needs fixing, but not because migrants are dangerous

Most immigrants, authorized and unauthorized alike, are more law-abiding than native-born Americans.

String of near-disasters should be wake-up call for aviation industry

IDEAS | Craig Fehrman

How Nashville and the Pentagon fell into harmony

Michael Thomas and Dan Eramian

White Stadium should be available to BPS football all season long

TikTok and the ticking clock: To ban or not?

More recent News

Baltimore ship accident has East Coast ports scrambling to absorb cargo
The economic fallout from last week’s deadly bridge collapse is expected to be largely contained as neighboring facilities with spare capacity tweak their schedules.

Man injured after fiery crash near Hampton Toll Plaza on I-95 in New Hampshire
The man suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, and a child who was a passenger in the vehicle was not hurt, New Hampshire State Police said.

MLB doles out suspensions to two pitchers, plus the Mets’ manager, following Saturday incidents
Pitchers Génesis Cabrera of the Blue Jays and Yohan Ramírez of the Mets were suspended for three games each, and also fined. They both appealed.

Two men accused of stealing moped in South Boston, dragging officer while fleeing, police say
Billy Huynh, 20, and Christopher Jolliemore, 40, both of Boston, were arrested at about 12:30 a.m. after police received a report that three people seen cutting a lock on a moped and walking away with it near Gavin Way and Msgr. O’Callaghan Way, police said.

Man, 27, fatally shot inside Brockton home, officials say
The victim, 27-year-old Sederick Abreau, was shot in the chest in a home on Hoover Avenue, authorities said.

Dorchester man accused of placing person in headlock, chasing two with knife, police say
Omar Stephenson, 37, allegedly approached two people playing basketball in a park and asked if he could join their game, but then became overly aggressive and was asked to leave, police said.

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Ralph de la Torre in 2011.

Inside the rise and fall of Steward Health Care’s Ralph de la Torre

De la Torre entered medicine with high ideals and unstoppable ambition. His talent and drive bowled over just about everyone he worked with, and his rise to power and eminence seemed inexorable.

In Canton, Tuesday’s town election overshadowed by Karen Read controversy
Four candidates for local office who have said Read did not kill her boyfriend in 2022 will appear on town ballot.

Boston officials discuss changes to Seaport intersection where 4-year-old fatally struck
City officials pledged change in the area where a 4-year-old girl was struck and killed: poles, signage, possibly speed humps in the near term on Sleeper Street, followed by an already planned $9 million project to calm the streets in the area.

THE FINE PRINT

A commuter rail rider was owed a refund after a faulty bill. Getting it was another issue.
Keolis wrongly charged at least one commuter a late fee for parking due to a recent failure in one of its billing processes. It won’t say how many others were affected.

Culture & Lifestyle

Patti LuPone

Patti LuPone’s ‘A Life in Notes’ sheds the show tunes

Claire Danes in "Homeland." The actress has starred in a number of miniseries since her eight seasons on "Homeland."

Claire Danes’s miniseries streak continues with ‘The Beast in Me’

Boston Ballet's John Lam in Sabrina Matthews' "Ein Von Viel."

Boston Ballet announces its 2024-2025 season

From center to left: Lior Ashkenazi, Sam Woolf, Eva Feiler, and Amit Rahav as the Kurc family in "We Were the Lucky Ones."

A family driven apart in the shattering Holocaust drama ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’

Special Projects

Ashfield, MA 06/13//2023, At Sanderson Academy, books in a fourth-grade classroom.

Suzanne Kreiter\Globe staff

Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

stuart landing page illustration

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Assuming House Speaker Mike Johnson rejects stoning, slavery, and silencing women, what does he mean by “Bible-believing”?

Speaker Mike Johnson is better at thumping his Bible than believing it

In the latest sign of how far commercial real estate values have dropped, real estate firm Synergy closed on 101 Arch St. in Downtown Crossing for $78 million this week. The 21-story tower last sold in 2005 for $121.7 million.

Stopping Boston’s ‘doom loop’ means it must face its tax woes

Last May, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation banning state funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at Florida's public universities.

No, DEI didn’t cause the Baltimore bridge collapse

Kevin "Prince" Works posed for a portrait in his Brighton apartment. Works struggled to live independently after aging out of the foster care system.

IDEAS | Shira Schoenberg

Cut loose at 18 and struggling into adulthood

Dan Schneider, then Nickelodeon’s star producer, accepts a lifetime achievement award at the network’s Kids’ Choice Awards in 2014.

Child sexual abuse and the complicity of silence at Nickelodeon

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Laughter, bells, bagpipes ring at Easter services throughout Greater Boston

O’Malley said the medieval formula for an Easter sermon required a joke or witticism.

May Takayanagi, peace activist whose family was interned in World War II camps, dies at 99

"I just don’t want to see it happen to anyone else," Mrs. Takayangi said of her family's experience being imprisoned in a US internment camp during World War II.

‘Let’s annex Boston’: Cambridge city councilor floats plan to create ‘MegaCambridge’

In ads appearing across Boston Monday, Burhan Azeem, who is now in his second term as a Cambridge city councilor, is making the case that Cantabrigians should seize their larger neighbor.

Paula Weinstein, Hollywood veteran and political activist, dies at 78

In the boy’s club of Hollywood, Ms. Weinstein was the rare female top executive, serving as, among other positions, president of United Artists and a vice president of Warner Bros.

Sports

Quinnipiac goaltender Vinny Duplessis makes a save against BC's Gabe Perreault in the first period on Sunday.

Boston College is playing for a spot in the Frozen Four. Follow NCAA hockey scores here.

The Frozen Four will be held April 11 and 13 in Minnesota, and Boston University has already punched its ticket.

Emma Hayes, manager of Chelsea, walks away from Jonas Eidevall, manager of Arsenal, following an altercation at the final whistle of the FA Women's Continental Tyres League Cup Final match.

Incoming US women’s national team coach Emma Hayes slams ‘male aggression’ after clash with Arsenal coach

Hayes appeared to push Arsenal coach Jonas Eidevall and say something to him as he went to shake her hand after the final whistle.

Red Sox starter Garrett Whitlock (second from left) talks with pitching coach Andrew Bailey (blue shirt) in a huddle on the mound during the second inning of Sunday's series finale in Seattle.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Tanner Houck excited to take ball for first start Monday in Oakland

The right-hander, who have seen the Sox get solid starts through the first four games, wants to make it five in a row when he takes the hill Monday agains the A's.

NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL | NC STATE 76, TEXAS 66

Aziaha James (27 points) leads NC State to first women’s Final Four since 1998

YANKEES 4, ASTROS 3

Juan Soto’s RBI single in the ninth inning hands Yankees a season-opening sweep of the Astros

NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

All eyes will be on JuJu Watkins and Paige Bueckers as USC and UConn clash in the Elite Eight on Monday

Business

Baltimore ship accident has East Coast ports scrambling to absorb cargo

The economic fallout from last week’s deadly bridge collapse is expected to be largely contained as neighboring facilities with spare capacity tweak their schedules.

AT&T resets millions of passcodes after customer records are leaked

The company said that “information varied by customer and account,” but that it may have included a person’s full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, Social Security number, date of birth, AT&T account number, and passcode.

The boss is calling late. Should the law let you ignore it?

Crews at Baltimore bridge collapse continue meticulous work of removing twisted steel and concrete

magazine

The Parenting Issue

My sons have different skin colors. Will the world treat them differently?

Cooper Flagg, a 6-foot-9 basketball player from Maine, turned 17 in December and will not play his first minute of college basketball for months. But he's already captured attention from the basketball world, including NBA stars Jayson Tatum and LeBron James.

The NBA’s hottest prospect is a 17-year-old from Maine. Meet Cooper Flagg.

Clockwise from top left: Flutist Nathalie Joachim; a scene from "Mrs. Krishnan's Party"; The Peony Dress, 2020, by Miss Sohee, from “Hallyu! The Korean Wave”; Attacca Quartet; Council; and Florence Welch.

30 top plays, concerts, book and arts events around New England this spring

‘God, I wish I hadn’t seen that’: On the trail of Bigfoot in the Berkshires

metro

A classroom at an elementary school Massachusetts.

3,000 days of lost learning: Advocacy groups seek to ban suspensions for state’s youngest students

Boston officials discuss changes to Seaport intersection where 4-year-old fatally struck

In Canton, Tuesday’s town election overshadowed by Karen Read controversy

sports

Zach Edey blocked his star counterpart, Dalton Knecht, during crunch time on Sunday, Edey's Boilermakers reaching the Final Four by beating Kneckt's Tennessee Volunteers.

Zach Edey, Purdue outlast Tennessee to reach another Final Four at last

For second straight season, South Carolina women reach Final Four undefeated

Caitlin Clark and Iowa get a rematch with Angel Reese and LSU, this time for a spot in the Final Four

business

An AT&T sign is seen at a store in Pittsburgh in 2023.

AT&T notifies users of data breach and resets millions of passcodes

Third employee of weekly newspaper in Kansas sues over police raid that sparked a firestorm

‘Robot scabs?’ BU dean suggests faculty could use AI for student ‘feedback’ amid grad student worker strike

politics

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined antivaccination activists at a rally in Albany, N.Y., in May 2019.

For RFK Jr., measles outbreak was key moment for career as vaccine skeptic. Now he’s downplaying his activism.

President Biden will win the North Dakota Democratic primary, the AP projects

10 Senate races to watch in 2024

Nation

The container ship Dali cannot move until debris is cleared from its deck and the Baltimore Harbor channel.

Tangled in steel with no way out: how the crew stuck in Baltimore is faring

Shooting outside downtown Indianapolis mall wounds 7 youths, police say

The White House expects about 40,000 participants at its ‘egg-ucation’-themed annual Easter egg roll

World

A boy clambered on the barrel of a tank, part of a display of destroyed Russian military equipment, in Kyiv Sunday.

Russia launches attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure

Pope delivers strong Easter message calling for Gaza cease-fire

Angry farmers are reshaping Europe

opinion

An image made with an infrared camera shows an emissions leak at MDC Texas Energy in Texas, 2019. The United States has some 3.7 million derelict oil and gas wells, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates, many leaking huge volumes of methane.

Your laptop will soon fight climate change

The surprising history of an iconic American candy

The tortoise, the hare, and the relentless polling

lifestyle

The cover of Aly Raisman's new picture book, "From My Head to My Toes," featuring illustrations by Bea Jackson.

Two-time Olympian Aly Raisman’s new children’s book aims to help families explore the subject of consent

Midway Cafe’s longstanding Queeraoke night is still pitch-perfect

He messaged a woman while we were broken up

food & dining

This favorite Easter candy was born in Boston (but is delicious all year round)

Bill Burr plays JFK in star-studded trailer for Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart movie ‘Unfrosted’

A Woburn bar could be going to court over playing ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads.’ Here’s why.

travel

Can you enjoy "big glory views," as the park rangers call them, even if you have a disability? In most cases, yes. The National Park Service has made a push to make parks more accessible for travelers with sensory and mobility issues.

Accessible beauty: A guide to national parks for travelers with sensory and mobility needs

Meanwhile, here in New England

At long last, a cruise ship designed for people who hate cruises

Arts

Raqib Shaw, Seeking Simurgh, 2018–19. © Raqib Shaw. Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles. (Raqib Shaw/White Cube/Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.)

At the Gardner, the riotous maximalism of Raqib Shaw

Nasturtiums make their brilliant annual debut at the Gardner Museum

‘Hew Locke: The Procession’ featured in ICA Watershed’s 2024 season

Books

From left: "James" by Percival Everett and "Happy Place" by Emily Henry.

Local bestsellers for the week ended March 24

AGNI Magazine offers ‘Dispatches from Palestine’ online; Exeter LitFest takes place first weekend in April; and more

Author readings around Boston through April 6

Movies

Ms. Weinstein, attending "The Price of Freedom" premiere during the 20th Tribeca Festival at Hudson Yards in 2021, in New York.

Paula Weinstein, Hollywood veteran and political activist, dies at 78

Chance Perdomo, star of ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ and ‘Gen V,’ dies in motorcycle crash at 27

Tye Sheridan talks Sean Penn, Kali Reis, and how pandemic impacted paramedic drama ‘Asphalt City’

Television

From left: musical guest Travis Scott, host Ramy Youssef, and Marcello Hernández during a "Saturday Night Live" promo in Studio 8H on Thursday.

Ramy Youssef shares his prayers in ‘Saturday Night Live’ monologue, Travis Scott performs

Claire Danes’s miniseries streak continues with ‘The Beast in Me’

‘Apples Never Fall’ star Jake Lacy’s acting journey began in a rural Vermont town

music

The cover of Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter," released Friday.

Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ ranges far and wide

Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ reinforces her dedication to Black reclamation — and country music

A Woburn bar could be going to court over playing ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads.’ Here’s why.

Theater/Dance

Kalyani Nagarajan (right) and Justin Rogers in "Mrs. Krishnan's Party."

At ‘Mrs. Krishnan’s Party,’ the hostess is at her most-est

In Anthony Rapp’s ‘Without You,’ there’s joy inside his tears

How Bobby became Bobbie in the gender-reversed revival of ‘Company’

Health

Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, R.I.

Centurion Foundation was the ‘only viable’ buyer for Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals, CEO says

Agent Orange exposure damages the brain in ways similar to Alzheimer’s disease, new study says

R.I.’s largest hospital system may no longer take Cigna health insurance

Obituaries

May Takayanagi, a longtime peace and justice activist in Newton, was imprisoned in an internment camp with her family during World War II. "It actually happened,” she reminded subsequent generations. “It could happen again."

May Takayanagi, peace activist whose family was interned in World War II camps, dies at 99

Paula Weinstein, Hollywood veteran and political activist, dies at 78

Chance Perdomo, star of ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ and ‘Gen V,’ dies in motorcycle crash at 27