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Iran’s state-run news agency says Iran has fired ballistic missiles at targets inside Israel

Iran's decision is part of an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Middle East ever closer to a regionwide war.
Alfonso Chardy, journalist who helped expose Iran-Contra affair, dies at 72

West Bank sees biggest settler rampage since war in Gaza began as Israeli teen’s body is found

Philadelphia transit authority terminates contract with CRRC MA
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority terminated its $185 million contract for new railcars from CRRC MA “for cause,” SEPTA spokesperson John Golden said in a statement.

With soaring ridership levels, Worcester considers another year of fare-free transit

Even middle-income families in Massachusetts struggle to pay for college
While college tuition is broadly affordable for the rich, and many poor students qualify for significant financial aid, it’s a calamity for those in the middle.

Perspective | My kid can’t go to college until the FAFSA debacle is fixed

Man with explosives, ammunition arrested in Chinatown, according to police

The man, whose name Boston police redacted, was held on a mental-health commitment and will be summonsed to court on charges of illegal possession of explosives, a large capacity ammunition feeding device, and a knife, police said Saturday.

Study at Tufts is taking a close look at test subjects and what they eat to unlock the mysteries of food

Hong Kong cardinal to speak at BC commencement; Boston schools superintendent and ex-Celtic will also be honored

‘The Hotline hype is real’: Why a tough-to-score pizza is all the rage in R.I.
ADDRESS | Spring House Hunt

Out with the South End, in with Dorchester apparently. The battle to be Boston’s ‘gayborhood’ star.

“It used to be, when everyone lived in the South End, you’d meet the occasional person who lived in Dorchester, and it was met with embarrassment.”
The changing landscape of Boston’s three-deckers: Rising prices and diminishing dreams

live updates
Frozen Four live updates: Boston College is facing Denver for a national title. Follow along.
The Eagles are in the title game for the first time since 2012, when they last won a national championship.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Fear not, women of America: The GOP loves you!

Republicans are seeking the votes of the women — especially the suburban white ones — whose bodies they're simultaneously trying to control. There's no way this could go wrong.
128th Boston Marathon

Zdeno Chara can’t be stopped: How the Bruins great is trying to conquer the marathon world

The former Bruins captain has run six marathons since retiring in September 2022 and has no plans to slow down. And better yet? He's running fast.
Ethiopia’s Fotyen Tesfay sets course record en route to BAA 5K win

Marathoners are ‘obsessed’ with weather. These doctors have advice on how to cope with race-day conditions.

Dehydration, heat stroke, even hypothermia. The Boston Marathon has seen it all. So have doctors.
How to prepare and what to wear while running when it’s warm
THE FINE PRINT

Here’s how the state’s Lemon Law does — and does not — protect buyers of new and used cars

The law, designed to protect consumers who purchase a vehicle that turns out to be defective, has its limitations.
Chad Finn | Sports Media

‘I’m not sure how I’ll handle it’: Mike Gorman prepares to call his final regular-season Celtics game

 Mayor Wu designates Sunday as ‘Mike Gorman Day’ in Boston
peter abraham | on baseball

Using a hodgepodge of utility players to replace Trevor Story at shortstop isn’t working, so what are the Red Sox other options?

 Is it the pitch clock, or is it velocity? MLB pitchers ponder why injuries are so prevalent this season.
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Looking at the biggest wastes of salary-cap space for the 2024 NFL season

Whenever a team or general manager says it doesn’t have the cap space to make a move, what they are really saying is they don’t want to pay the cash.
Opinion
RENÉE GRAHAM

A diss track, then a rapper’s unexpected apology, shake up hip-hop

The rapper J. Cole apologized to Kendrick Lamar for a diss track on his recent album. What happened next shook hip-hop — and was a good thing.
Heather Hopp-Bruce

I (barely) survived the eclipse drive from Vermont to Boston
Carine Hajjar

What Biden should be doing better to get Ukraine aid
Shira Schoenberg

Is former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett seeking a comeback?
Bernie Sanders

No more US complicity with Netanyahu’s war machine in Gaza

More recent News

In a sure sign of spring, Swan Boats glide again in Boston Public Garden
As has been the case for almost 150 years, the fleet was ready for service on Saturday morning.

Lowell man arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting child in Vermont

Daniel Reilly, 66, is due to be arraigned Monday on charges of sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault of a child, lewd and lascivious conduct with a child in Newport Center, police said.

Biden shrinks Trump’s edge in new poll
President Biden has nearly erased Donald Trump’s polling advantage, amid signs that the Democratic base is coalescing behind the president, according to a survey by The New York Times and Siena College.

Bold Types
Mayor Wu disappoints development industry by shelving tax break talks
Michelle Wu was strongly considering tax incentives to jump-start stalled housing projects

Death Valley is alive this year. A super bloom is the latest sign.
Sometimes the desert holds its secrets close, whispering them only to those who carefully listen. But this year, the hottest and driest place in America might as well be shouting.

Boston College’s first spring game under coach Bill O’Brien produces plenty of points and takeaways
The game featured more physicality than years prior, with legitimate hits in spurts and an uptick in intensity throughout. “I thought we got everybody reps, which was important,” O’Brien said.

‘Run, run, run’: Chaos at a Sydney mall as 6 people stabbed to death, and the suspect fatally shot
A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene.

Biden’s student loan repayment plan is being challenged. Here’s what to know.
When President Joe Biden announced his plan to provide student debt relief for 43 million borrowers nearly two years ago, there was a piece to his program that attracted less attention: a new student loan repayment program that would cut monthly payments in half for millions.

A new version of Scrabble aims to make the word-building game more accessible
Scrabble is getting a bit of a makeover, at least in Europe.

Recommended reads

KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA

Thinking of leaving the country if Trump wins? There’s a market for that.

Former president Donald Trump’s strength in the polls has prompted wealthy, left-leaning Americans to start thinking about escape hatches.

Harris blames Trump for Arizona’s strict abortion law, calling him the ‘architect of this health care crisis’
During a campaign event, the vice president called the law “one of the biggest aftershocks yet” of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Former Harvard morgue manager’s wife pleads guilty in scheme to sell human body parts
Denise Lodge, of Goffstown, N.H., agreed to plead guilty to a charge of interstate transportation of stolen goods as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, according to court records.

Black-led running group sues BAA, Newton police chief, charging it was racially profiled at Boston Marathon
Members of TrailblazHers running group who said they were racially profiled during last year’s Boston Marathon filed suit Thursday in what their lawyers described as an effort to “forestall a repeat” of the alleged discrimination.

Culture & Lifestyle

‘Max Roach 100′ at the ICA does the great jazz drummer proud

Remember the boy who said ‘wow’ at Symphony Hall? Now he’s 14, and there’s a picture book about him.

Diving deep with Wu Tsang’s ‘Of Whales’ at the ICA

In ‘Franklin,’ a Founding Father’s flirtations with the French

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

Readers, I need your help on two big questions
IDEAS | ANJANA SANKAR

A daughter of a refugee repays kindness by hosting migrants
Brandy Brooks and Shavonne Harrington

A blueprint for how Boston should best use its school buildings
EDITORIAL

Massachusetts isn’t using a tool that could help tackle its shortage of primary care doctors
EDITORIAL

Congress needs to step up for Ukraine. Then it’ll be Biden’s turn.
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Alfonso Chardy, journalist who helped expose Iran-Contra affair, dies at 72

A Miami Herald journalist, Alfonso Chardy anchored Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting that helped expose the Iran-contra affair, a covert and illegal Reagan administration network to aid rebels in Nicaragua that later led to riveting hearings in Congress.
Boston Marathon

Here are the celebrities and other notable people participating in the 2024 Boston Marathon

From Bruins legend Zdeno Chara to those impacted by the Marathon bombing, there are plenty of notable names in the field.

Man with explosives, ammunition arrested in Chinatown, according to police

The man, whose name Boston police redacted, was held on a mental-health commitment and will be summonsed to court on charges of illegal possession of explosives, a large capacity ammunition feeding device, and a knife, police said Saturday.

Philadelphia transit authority terminates contract with CRRC MA

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority terminated its $185 million contract for new railcars from CRRC MA “for cause,” SEPTA spokesperson John Golden said in a statement.

Sports

live updates

Frozen Four live updates: Boston College is facing Denver for a national title. Follow along.

The Eagles are in the title game for the first time since 2012, when they last won a national championship.
peter abraham | on baseball

Using a hodgepodge of utility players to replace Trevor Story at shortstop isn’t working, so what are the Red Sox other options?

David Hamilton, Romy Gonzalez, and Pablo Reyes have started at shortstop in Story’s absence. Through Friday, they were 4 of 19 (.211) with more errors (two) than RBIs (one).
bruins notebook

Milton’s Ryan Shea is part of an all-Hockey East pairing that has energized the resurgent Penguins

The former BC High and Northeastern defenseman plays alongside Jack St. Ivany, who played two years at Boston College.
NCAA MEN'S HOCKEY FINAL NOTEBOOK

Goals hard to come by when top teams like finalists Boston College and Denver compete
Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

What goes into being elected into the Naismith Hall of Fame?
red sox notebook

Red Sox leadoff hitter Jarren Duran finds success going with what opposing pitchers give him

Business

A new version of Scrabble aims to make the word-building game more accessible

Scrabble is getting a bit of a makeover, at least in Europe.

Biden’s student loan repayment plan is being challenged. Here’s what to know.

When President Joe Biden announced his plan to provide student debt relief for 43 million borrowers nearly two years ago, there was a piece to his program that attracted less attention: a new student loan repayment program that would cut monthly payments in half for millions.
Bold Types

Mayor Wu disappoints development industry by shelving tax break talks

Norwood lawmaker presses Governor Healey to facilitate a deal to reopen local Steward hospital
magazine
College & Careers

We asked 6,000 New Englanders: Is a college degree still worth the cost?

College & Careers

Why conservatives are turning against college, even in New England
CONNECTIONS

As a college student, I’d never written an actual letter. They seemed so old-fashioned.

MISS CONDUCT

A couple we were friends with is suddenly avoiding us

metro

Lowell man arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting child in Vermont

Fear not, women of America: The GOP loves you!

Your Boston Marathon forecast: Morning clouds to clear in time for warm and sunny conditions

sports

Tiger Woods shoots worst round in a major with 82 in the third round of the Masters

Maine Celtics hope to provide a blueprint with their G League title bid

Here are the celebrities and other notable people participating in the 2024 Boston Marathon

business

BU resident assistants start four-day strike on campus already disrupted by striking grad students

Thinking of leaving the country if Trump wins? There’s a market for that.

From a scrapyard to a mini-city: BPDA approves huge project in Andrew Square

politics

Biden shrinks Trump’s edge in new poll

Far fewer young Americans now want to study in China. Both countries are trying to fix that

Judge rejects Hunter Biden’s bid to dismiss gun case, rejects claim it’s politically motivated

Nation

Biden’s student loan repayment plan is being challenged. Here’s what to know.

Tracing Charleston’s history of slavery, from a burial ground to a DNA swab

How a hush money scandal tied to a porn star led to Trump’s first criminal trial

World

Iran’s state-run news agency says Iran has fired ballistic missiles at targets inside Israel

West Bank sees biggest settler rampage since war in Gaza began as Israeli teen’s body is found

In Ukraine’s west, draft dodgers run, and swim, to avoid the war

opinion

That ticking sound? It’s the nuclear threat that never went away.

Ensuring DCF youth make a successful transition to adulthood

Who wants to be an election worker in 2024? After 2020, too few people.

lifestyle

You know about the Boston Marathon. But have you heard of the Half Half Half Half Half Marathon?

I wish my sister and I were closer

On preserving the magic of childhood, however we can

food & dining

Emily Ratajkowski, Melissa Gorga, and more hit the red carpet at Encore Boston Harbor

10 experiential bars and restaurants around Boston to grab a bite and get your game on

Hey, runners: Here’s where to carb load for Marathon Monday. (And some spots for spectators, too.)

travel

If you go: Tips and resources for the Sunshine Coast Trail

Trailing Detective Gamache in the Eastern Townships

There are many bright spots along the Sunshine Coast Trail. Watching my kids conquer its 112 miles is one of them.

Arts

Diving deep with Wu Tsang’s ‘Of Whales’ at the ICA

Roxbury-based artist Napoleon Jones-Henderson awarded fellowship to pursue archival project

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike tries to ‘let the wood do the talking’

Books

You know about the Boston Marathon. But have you heard of the Half Half Half Half Half Marathon?

Two-day event to celebrate the glory of Grolier Bookshop; All She Wrote Books turns five; and more

Claire Dederer on Maggie Nelson and other politically earnest writers

Movies

O.J. Simpson, former NFL star acquitted of double murder in ‘trial of the century,’ has died

Revisit the O.J. Simpson trial with these documentaries and TV shows

‘Remembering Gene Wilder’ and his one-of-a-kind screen career

Television

Lifetime may move up release of Nicole Brown Simpson documentary following death of O.J.

In ‘Franklin,’ a Founding Father’s flirtations with the French

‘Melrose Place’ — and a certain character — will live again in latest reboot

music

An exuberant ‘Turangalîla’ from the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Rhode Island’s robust old-time music scene comes alive at local jams

Five things to do around Boston, April 15-21

Theater/Dance

‘Max Roach 100′ at the ICA does the great jazz drummer proud

‘A Wrinkle in Time’ at Wheelock invites families to another dimension

The Huntington leads the field of nominees for the Elliot Norton Awards

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

Alfonso Chardy, journalist who helped expose Iran-Contra affair, dies at 72

Eleanor Coppola, matriarch of a filmmaking family, dies at 87

Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has died, his company says