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‘Let’s annex Boston’: Cambridge city councilor floats plan to create ‘MegaCambridge’
In ads appearing across Boston on April 1, 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.

AT&T says a data breach leaked millions of customers’ information online. Were you affected?
The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online.

Crews at Baltimore bridge collapse continue meticulous work of removing twisted steel and concrete
Dive teams were in the river Sunday surveying parts of the bridge underwater and checking on the ship to ensure it can be safely floated away once the wreckage is lifted.

Three arrested after alleged assaults on police breaking up Dorchester party, officials say

Israelis stage largest protest since war began to increase pressure on Netanyahu

Toddler bitten by dog in Wellfleet, flown to Boston hospital

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.

Peter Abraham | RED SOX 5, MARINERS 1

After an encouraging opening series, the Red Sox’ starting rotation has expectations spinning higher
Four starting pitchers faced the Mariners and allowed four earned runs on 14 hits over 22 innings with one walk and 27 strikeouts for a 1.64 earned run average.

Red Sox beat Mariners to split series in Seattle

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.

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.

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

Boston College slips past Quinnipiac in OT to get to the Frozen Four. See NCAA hockey scores here.

The Frozen Four will be held April 11 and 13 in Minnesota.

Boston College beats Quinnipiac in overtime

Kristaps Porzingis (right) helped make life miserable for the Pelicans' Zion Williamson on Saturday.

Gary Washburn | On basketball

With renewed focus, the Celtics showed why they have the third-best defense in the league

Saturday’s win in New Orleans was an indication the Celtics are capable of being an elite defensive team.

Ailine Rodrigues posed for a portrait inside a classroom at Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter School. FAFSA delays are impacting Rodrigues’s college decision.

FAFSA delays and end of affirmative action are colliding for a chaotic college admissions season

After the US Supreme Court's ruling on college admissions, schools in New England worked to preserve campus diversity. Now, delays and errors in the federal financial aid process threatens those efforts.

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

Two-time Olympian Aly Raisman’s new children’s book aims to help families explore the subject of consent
With “From My Head to My Toes,” the Needham native hopes to provide an outlet for difficult and complex conversations.

LOVE LETTERS

He messaged a woman while we were broken up
Now I can’t trust him.

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.

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.

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.

Dorchester man arrested following alleged robbery at knifepoint at Roxbury park

Officers responded to a report of a man with a knife near 150 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., the address of Malcolm X Park, at about 11:49 a.m. Saturday, police said.

Recommended reads

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.

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.

Pursuit of the Lewiston shooter proved to be a case study in how not to prevent a mass shooting
176 days, 25 officers: Police were repeatedly warned about Robert Card's erratic behavior, his weapons, and his threats. This is an account of those warnings.

These energy suppliers say they can save you money. Regulators say it’s a scam.
Political forces in Massachusetts are aligning around a Senate bill that would enact a first-in-the-nation ban on the industry’s ability to sign up new residential consumers, effectively phasing it out.

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 on April 1, 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

Denny Hamlin takes the checkered flag over teammate Martin Truex Jr.

Late caution gives Denny Hamlin a second chance in overtime at Richmond Raceway

Hamlin's victory was his second this season, the fifth of his career at what he considers his home track, and the 53rd of his career.

Quinnipiac goaltender Vinny Duplessis let the puck get away from him in overtime, which Jack Malone capitalized on to eliminate the defending national champions and get BC into its first Frozen Four since 2016.

COLLEGE HOCKEY | BOSTON COLLEGE 5, QUINNIPIAC 4 (OT)

Boston College survives late deficit, beats Quinnipiac in overtime to reach Frozen Four

Trailing with five minutes to go against the defending national champions, the Hockey East champions and No. 1 team in the country found their way to St. Paul, Minn., alongside rival BU.

Texas players defend as North Carolina State players pass the ball during the second half of an Elite Eight college basketball game in the women's NCAA Tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2024, in Portland, Ore. North Carolina State won 76-66.

Court for women’s NCAA Tournament in Portland has 3-point lines with different distances

The 3-point line for the women’s NCAA Tournament at Moda Center had a discrepancy in distance at each end of the court that went unnoticed through four games.

kevin paul dupont | on hockey

The Bruins have a playoff berth in hand, but Brad Marchand says the stretch run is no time to rest

Boston College slips past Quinnipiac in OT to get to the Frozen Four. See NCAA hockey scores here.

peter abraham | on baseball

After an encouraging opening series, the Red Sox’ starting rotation has expectations spinning higher

Business

AT&T says a data breach leaked millions of customers’ information online. Were you affected?

The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online.

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

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

Nelly Korda entered the final day two strokes back and ended up winning by two shots.

Nelly Korda becomes first LPGA Tour player in eight years to win three straight starts

Yankees trade for righty reliever Jake Cousins, who is Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins’s, well, cousin

North Carolina State continues another Cinderella run, ousts Duke to reach Final Four

business

The ship and collapsed bridge were seen on Saturday as a small boat maneuvered nearby.

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

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

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

Alex Murdaugh cries as he addresses the court during his sentencing for stealing from 18 clients, Nov. 28, 2023, at the Beaufort County Courthouse in Beaufort, S.C.

Alex Murdaugh faces a South Carolina judge for punishment a final time

Idaho man Chad Daybell to be tried for 3 deaths including children who were called ‘zombies’

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

World

Police push a way members of Brothers and Sisters in Arms during a protest against Israel's exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory military service, in Mea Shearim ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, on March 31.

Israelis stage largest protest since war began to increase pressure on Netanyahu

Russia launches attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure

Pope delivers strong Easter message calling for Gaza cease-fire

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