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Biden starts to get personal with Trump, hitting him with barbs about his legal troubles and his weight

Political analysts said the new strategy is an attempt to energize Democrats’ base and try to provoke a volatile response from Donald Trump, but it risks alienating swing voters.

Israeli troops withdraw from Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, after two-week raid

The Israeli military withdrew from Gaza’s largest hospital early Monday after a two-week raid, leaving behind several bodies and a vast swath of destruction, according to Palestinian residents.

Forecast | Dave Epstein
Calm Monday as an ‘intense’ storm gears up, bringing rain and maybe snow our way midweek
Flooding of rivers and streams will again be a concern with these next rounds of heavy precipitation — the first major weather event of April.

‘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.

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.

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

While keeping the ship operable, crew members are answering a deluge of questions from officials investigating the nighttime catastrophe, as the evidence of what occurred lays around them.

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.
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.
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.
Opinion
Ed Augustus

Housing is the high-stakes struggle Mass. can’t lose

Every designated community must do its part to comply with the MBTA Communities law because the housing shortage affects all of us.
Tara D. Sonenshine

The tricky business of cease-fires
Micho Spring

In Cuba, hunger and open desperation
EDITORIAL

Not so fast on Steward-Optum deal
LETTERS

The switch to EVs is proceeding. Buckle up and buy in.

More recent News

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.

Laughter, bells, bagpipes ring at Easter services throughout Greater Boston
Cardinal Seán P. 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
“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.

Two men accused of stealing moped in South Boston, dragging officer while fleeing, police say
Two men suspected of stealing a moped in South Boston were arrested early Sunday after they allegedly dragged an officer as they attempted to flee the crime scene on another moped, police said.

Three arrested after alleged assaults on police breaking up Dorchester party, officials say
Three people were arrested after police were allegedly assaulted as officers tried to disburse a party of about 70 people that had become unruly and loud early Sunday morning in Dorchester, Boston police said.

Toddler bitten by dog in Wellfleet, flown to Boston hospital

The 2-year-old child was bitten by a pit bull mix at a home on East Hill Road around 2:15 p.m. Sunday, suffering injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, officials said.

Recommended reads

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.

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.

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.

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.

Culture & Lifestyle

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

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

Boston Ballet announces its 2024-2025 season

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

Special Projects

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.

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 doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

JEFF JACOBY

The border needs fixing, but not because migrants are dangerous
EDITORIAL

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
Rich Barlow

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

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

INNOVATOR Q&A

‘We need to build up’: Leader of Roger Williams real estate school says R.I. could build smarter to balance environmental and housing needs

Richard Godfrey is the executive director of the Roger Williams University Cummings Institute for Real Estate.

Photos: A look back at solar eclipses in the 20th century

Some of the best Boston Globe staff photos from eclipses in the region over the years, as sites from New Hampshire to Nantucket spent a few minutes in the path of totality.
Forecast | Dave Epstein

Calm Monday as an ‘intense’ storm gears up, bringing rain and maybe snow our way midweek

Flooding of rivers and streams will again be a concern with these next rounds of heavy precipitation — the first major weather event of April.

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

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

Sports

NASCAR

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.
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.

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
college hockey

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

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Is the future of downtown housing or offices? The fate of one corner of Bromfield Street could hold the answer.

In a post-pandemic era in which fewer office workers come and go five days a week and vacant storefronts abound, a proposed 417,000-square-foot project hangs in the balance.

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.

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

Baltimore ship accident has East Coast ports scrambling to absorb cargo
magazine
The Parenting Issue

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

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

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

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

metro

Man injured after fiery crash near Hampton Toll Plaza on I-95 in New Hampshire

Lily, 14, has a great sense of humor

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

sports

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

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

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

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

politics

Biden starts to get personal with Trump, hitting him with barbs about his legal troubles and his weight

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

Nation

Afternoon shooting in Nashville restaurant kills 1 man and injures 5 others

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

Shooting outside downtown Indianapolis mall wounds 7 youths, police say

World

Israeli troops withdraw from Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, after two-week raid

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

Protests against Netanyahu intensify as cease-fire talks resume

opinion

The border needs fixing, but not because migrants are dangerous

Larry Summers — former Harvard president, current gadfly

When Trump says ‘bloodbath,’ is it a metaphor or a call to arms?

lifestyle

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

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

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

Fareed Zakaria, in ‘Age of Revolutions,’ seeks context for our unsettled age in the upheavals of the past

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

Movies

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

This week’s TV: A new take on ‘Ripley,’ Julianne Moore’s costume drama, and ‘Take My Tumor’ (yuck!)

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

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

music

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

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

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, peace activist whose family was interned in World War II camps, dies

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