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A disgraced Holyoke city councilor fled the country before his trial. A new video reportedly shows him joining the Russian army.

A video posted Wednesday to a Russian social media channel reportedly shows the 28-year-old signing a contract to officially join the country’s armed services as it enters its 25th month of war against Ukraine.

Progress at Back Bay Station? Builder of long-dormant development signs lease deal with the state.
The long-term lease deal with Boston Properties would enable the developer to build a long-planned 27-story office tower at 171 Dartmouth St.

Senator Bernie Sanders’s office in Vermont caught fire. Arson is suspected, but the motive is unclear.

Authorities are seeking a suspect who allegedly started a fire outside the Vermont office of Sanders.

Trump’s lawyers told the court that no one would give him a bond. Then he got a lifeline, but they didn’t tell the judges.

A billionaire lender approached Donald Trump about providing a bond for the full $464 million judgment in his civil fraud case. The lawyers never filed paperwork alerting the appeals court, a failure that may have violated ethics rules, legal experts say.

Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White House

 Judge says Trump’s lawyers can’t force NBC to turn over materials related to ‘Stormy’ documentary

Academic workers at Harvard unionize after six-year effort

women's college basketball | iowa 71, uconn 69
In a Final Four classic that lived up to the hype, Caitlin Clark’s Iowa bests Paige Bueckers’s UConn
The Hawkeyes, trailing by 6 at halftime, got a game-high 23 points from sophomore forward Hannah Stuelke. Clark finished with 21 points as Iowa faces South Carolina for the championship Sunday.

Family continues to search for US Marine from Mass. who disappeared in waters off Puerto Rico
Samuel Muturi Wanjiru was on vacation in Puerto Rico when he went into the water at Costa Azul Beach last Wednesday.

Biden urges Egypt, Qatar leaders to press Hamas to come to agreement for Israeli hostages in Gaza

 Israel dismisses two officers over deadly drone strikes on aid workers in Gaza

Three officers injured trying to arrest man at Boston City Hall

Meet the Globe’s all-time All-Scholastic hockey teams

The Bay State has produced some greats on the ice. Here, we honor those players — men and women — who were named All-Scholastics in their youth and went on to big things as professionals.
Tell us: What do you think about our all-time All-Scholastics hockey team?

This nonprofit started an after-school program to teach woodworking. Then a new mission arrived.
A Gloucester woodworking shop provides mentorship through craftsmanship.

East Coast earthquake rattles millions, but dense region escapes sweeping damage
The US Geological Survey indicated that the earthquake might have been felt by more than 42 million people. People from Baltimore to Boston and beyond reported feeling the ground shake.

‘The whole building moved.’ Locals react to ‘once in 20 years’ East Coast earthquake.

Map: Did you feel the earthquake in Mass.? Data show you weren’t alone.

How common are earthquakes on the East Coast? Your questions, answered.
Beth Teitell | Commentary

An earthquake in Boston? Really? We can’t catch a break.
ADRIAN WALKER

Will the Edgar Benjamin nursing home survive?

Though the home has generally received high marks for care from state regulators, it has been plagued in recent months by catastrophic cash woes.
Court-appointed manager aims to save a historic Boston nursing home
2024 Total Solar Eclipse

Your complete guide to the total solar eclipse in New England

Here's everything you need to know about the April 8 eclipse in order to see the spectacle safely no matter where you will be viewing it from.
Eclipse Forecast | Ken Mahan

Historical cloud cover along the path of totality does not bode well for New England

Will clear weather prevail or will cloud cover block out this once-in-a-lifetime event come showtime?
What to know about the different types of eclipses
dan shaughnessy

Boston baseball was well served by Larry Lucchino, and other thoughts

He was a Pittsburgh guy who made his baseball bones in Baltimore and San Diego, but he instantly understood the Boston Baseball Experience.
On baseball: Reese McGuire emerges from behind the plate to fight for more playing time with Red Sox
LOVE LETTERS

My husband isn’t brushing his teeth

He’s in his 40s.
Blind date: ‘We shared roommate stories — a classic Boston experience’
CELTICS 101, KINGS 100

Celtics’ reserves play Kings for a day, finish out narrow victory

Xavier Tillman's floater with seven seconds left put the Celtics ahead after the Kings mounted a comeback from down 18 to take the lead in the fourth quarter.
Opinion
MARCELA GARCÍA

Here’s how Biden can help Haitians who have fled a nation near collapse

Biden should redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status, which grants citizens from certain countries that are facing hardships a provisional permit to live and work in the United States.
EDITORIAL

FDA needs more oversight of dietary supplements
William McNulty and Drew Lewis

To save US lives, Congress should provide aid to Ukraine
Michael R. Bloomberg and Gina McCarthy

The end of the coal era, the beginning of a cleaner era
IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

The powerful aura of throwback places that defy the algorithms

More recent News

Police investigating after human remains found on Nantucket
The remains were discovered by two men who were searching for deer antlers, police said.

At Boston’s new Google store, a play to reach more consumers
The Newbury Street storefront, which opened Friday, has the tech giant's latest phones, tablets, watches, and earbuds displayed on tables and shelves of beige wood.

Somerville’s Greentown Labs announces big layoffs
The climate-tech incubator, which was an early symbol of the region’s promise as a hub for addressing the climate crisis, is laying off 30 percent of its staff, the company announced Friday.

Hundreds of thousands remain without power in northern New England two days after the storm began

Eversource calls the restoration effort in N.H. the “the company’s largest public safety effort to date.”
Forecast: Overcast skies with slivers of sun will end the week in Boston

Almost 100 new great white sharks — including 36 in Cape Cod waters — added to conservancy catalog
With its latest additions, the White Shark Catalog has over 700 individual sharks, one of the largest photo ID catalogs of great white sharks in their global range.

An appeals court blocks a debt relief plan for students who say they were misled by colleges
A federal appeals court says a Biden administration plan to provide student debt relief for people who say they were victims of misleading information by trade schools or colleges is “almost certainly unlawful.”

How to save $25 by recycling liquor and wine bottles at N.H. outlets

New Hampshire bar and restaurant owners can save up to $1,000 through the six-week “Bring Back Jack” promotion.

Woman suffers life-threatening injuries after being struck by car in alleged road rage incident in Hopkinton
The 26-year-old woman, who has not been identified, was hit around 6:20 p.m. on Route 85 in Hopkinton, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan’s office.

Senator Elizabeth Warren calls on GOP opponents to release tax returns

The challenge marked perhaps the most direct engagement Warren has had with the two GOP challengers who have emerged to her candidacy in recent months.

Recommended reads

At Rodent Academy in Cambridge, you have one assignment: Kill the rats

To beat the pests, we have to be smarter than them. And sometimes, participants at the academy learn, we have to unleash the rat-killing dogs. Really.

Flutist Elizabeth Rowe landed the dream job of a lifetime at 29. At 49, she’s walking away.
Rowe, the BSO’s principal flutist for the past two decades, will leave the orchestra in August to pursue a full-time career as a leadership coach.

Beth Teitell
As the t-shirt says: ‘If it’s Boeing, I’m not going’
As Boeing’s troubles mount, fliers are willingly paying hundreds of dollars in change fees, buying more expensive tickets, or traveling at inconvenient times to avoid flying on a 737 Max or other Boeing aircraft.

Boston’s defenses against rising seas lean on private development. What happens when the money dries up?
Several flood-protection projects like sea walls, berms, and elevated land are tangled up in large developments that now face slowdowns.

Culture & Lifestyle

On the 50th anniversary of ‘Carrie’, Stephen King talks about how his first horror novel came to be

Esther Perel hits Boston for one night to talk love, sex, and relationships

At the Opera House, the pleasure of Sondheim’s ‘Company’

There’s something in the way other artists cover Beatles songs

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

SCOT LEHIGH

It’s time for serious study of climate engineering
Renée Graham

Lauryn Hill deserves to be more than a social media punchline
EDITORIAL

Governor seeks role for convention centers that goes beyond putting ‘heads on beds’
IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Biden’s border bungle is souring America on immigration
James Rosen

Why polling is so often wrong
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Court-appointed manager aims to save a historic Boston nursing home

Staff at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center in Mission Hill were ebullient Friday at the arrival of the facility's new leader.

Michael Singer, sculptor who used nature as his medium, dies at 78

Michael Singer was often characterized as a landscape architect, and an accomplished one at that, with public commissions at sites as varied as a recycling center in Phoenix, the Denver International Airport, and a Whole Foods supermarket in Jacksonville, Fla.

Celebration of the life and photos of Charles Daniels

A small selection of 90,000 of Mr. Daniels's images, developed due to money raised in a GoFundMe campaign, will be shared at Sunday's gathering in a memorial slideshow.

A disgraced Holyoke city councilor fled the country before his trial. A new video reportedly shows him joining the Russian army.

A video posted Wednesday to a Russian social media channel reportedly shows the 28-year-old signing a contract to officially join the country’s armed services as it enters its 25th month of war against Ukraine.

Sports

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

Joe Mazzulla has kept the Celtics reserves involved, which could prove to be a playoff factor

The road to victory was treacherous as the bench wasted a big fourth-quarter lead, but the experience could serve as invaluable.
women's college basketball | iowa 71, uconn 69

In a Final Four classic that lived up to the hype, Caitlin Clark’s Iowa bests Paige Bueckers’s UConn

The Hawkeyes, trailing by 6 at halftime, got a game-high 23 points from sophomore forward Hannah Stuelke. Clark finished with 21 points as Iowa faces South Carolina for the championship Sunday.
RED SOX

Trevor Story departs Red Sox’ series opener vs. Angels with shoulder injury

Story was injured making a backhanded stop on a Mike Trout ground ball and walked off the field with the affected left arm pinned to his side.
women's hockey

Laila Edwards makes history, becoming first Black player to score for USA women’s hockey
baseball

Juan Soto disappoints himself and his new legion of Yankees fans in home debut
PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Challenged by the Red Sox, Reese McGuire’s grinding is paying dividends all around the plate

Business

Progress at Back Bay Station? Builder of long-dormant development signs lease deal with the state.

The long-term lease deal with Boston Properties would enable the developer to build a long-planned 27-story office tower at 171 Dartmouth St.

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector

Dozens of companies have reduced their workforces, ranging from the regional offices of the tech giants to startups that have only been in a business a few years.

Academic workers at Harvard unionize after six-year effort

Somerville’s Greentown Labs announces big layoffs
magazine
PERSPECTIVE

When you’re lost, remember your red helicopter — what you once knew as a child
MISS CONDUCT

I’m not sure if we should invite an angry relative to my son’s wedding
Cooking

Fuel up for the Marathon with hearty, healthy meals

CONNECTIONS

Hear me out: Humans should have tails

metro

N.H. Senate approves bills flagged as ‘harmful’ by state child advocate’s office

Hundreds of couples will tie the knot in the path of darkness on eclipse day

What to know about the different types of eclipses

sports

Celtics’ reserves play Kings for a day, finish out narrow victory

Reese McGuire emerges from behind the plate to fight for more playing time with Red Sox

Boys’ volleyball roundup: Central Catholic rallies to top Haverhill in five

business

At Boston’s new Google store, a play to reach more consumers

How a cyber attack disrupted health care in New Hampshire

Campaign contributions from controversial landlord now center of Cranston, R.I., mayoral race

politics

An appeals court blocks a debt relief plan for students who say they were misled by colleges

Biden tours collapsed Baltimore bridge as clearing proceeds and declares ‘your nation has your back’

Biden gets a look at bridge devastation

Nation

Senator Bernie Sanders’s office in Vermont caught fire. Arson is suspected, but the motive is unclear.

Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White House

P&G recalls 8.2 million bags of Tide, Gain and other laundry detergents over packaging defect

World

More than 600 people still stranded in Taiwan, 3 days after earthquake that killed at least 12

New mass graves in Rwanda reveal cracks in reconciliation efforts, 30 years after the genocide

Israel dismisses 2 officers over deadly drone strikes on aid workers in Gaza

opinion

Lauryn Hill deserves to be more than a social media punchline

From PBS to YouTube, ‘Frontline’ keeps breaking ground

Governor seeks role for convention centers that goes beyond putting ‘heads on beds’

lifestyle

My husband isn’t brushing his teeth

Where to celebrate graduation season in Boston and beyond

Esther Perel hits Boston for one night to talk love, sex, and relationships

food & dining

Ziggy Bombs opens in Brookline; Nightshade Clam Shack prepares for summertime in Lynn

Lawson’s Finest Liquids in Vermont made a special eclipse beer. (You have to make a special trip to get it.)

No more bright lights, big ziti: Stella, once a South End staple, is all grown up and living in Newton

travel

So much beauty, so many sieges in Girona, Spain

Keep a fresh eye: Six strategies for visiting some of New England’s art museums

Britney Coleman on Oprah, energy bars, travel agents, and getting back to Boston

Arts

At the ICA, the powerful, personal histories of Firelei Báez

The National Black Doll Museum celebrates 20 years and a new home, in North Attleborough

At the Gardner, the riotous maximalism of Raqib Shaw

Books

‘He was without a doubt one of the most fascinating people I’ve interviewed’: Readers share their Stephen King memories

Maggie Nelson contemplates freedom through words and art in ‘Like Love’

Amanda Montell lays bare your ‘mental magic tricks’ in ‘The Age of Magical Overthinking’

Movies

‘Coup de Chance’: Woody Allen revisits one of his go-to themes: men getting away with murder

Don’t mess with Dev Patel in ‘Monkey Man’

A love letter to the local cinema scene: Globe readers share their movie-theater memories

Television

‘Sons of Anarchy’ showrunner heads to Wild West with ‘The Abandons’

The fine whine of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ was vintage Larry David

Propping up ‘The Regime’ required more than Kate Winslet

music

BSO’s Scriabin cloaked in multi-hued spectacle of light

Five things to do around Boston, April 8-14

Flutist Elizabeth Rowe landed the dream job of a lifetime at 29. At 49, she’s walking away.

Theater/Dance

At the Opera House, the pleasure of Sondheim’s ‘Company’

Playwright Christopher Durang mastered the art of misbehaving

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s ‘Driving in Circles’ proves to be an engrossing journey

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

Michael Singer, sculptor who used nature as his medium, dies at 78

Celebration of the life and photos of Charles Daniels

John Barth, who expanded the boundaries of postmodern writing, dies at 93