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City councilors weigh Wu’s proposal to temporarily increase commercial property tax rates

Wu filed the home rule petition in order to avoid homeowners seeing a significant increase in their property taxes should commercial real estate values continue to fall.

Bob Graham, ex-US senator and Florida governor, has died
Former US senator. and two-term Florida governor Bob Graham, who gained national prominence as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks and as an early critic of the Iraq war, has died.

Man arrested for tossing a flammable object on Mattapan porch, police say

Ladarrell Murchison will be charged with arson of a dwelling house, breaking and entering, and will be charged for launching an explosive, police said Tuesday night.

Irish firefighter allegedly raped woman in downtown hotel while she was sleeping, police say

Terence Crosbie, 37, was charged with rape while visiting Boston for St. Patrick’s Day weekend, and after police pulled him off an airplane bound for Ireland.

SENATORS 3, BRUINS 1

Bruins fumble Atlantic Division title in regular season finale and will face Maple Leafs in first round of playoffs
A second straight loss to the Senators was not the kind of effort the Bruins wanted to roll out as their final tune-up.

Jack Edwards will retire as the voice of the Bruins

First 7 jurors are chosen for Trump’s hush money criminal trial. 11 more still needed.

The methodical process unfolding in the Manhattan courtroom highlights the challenge of finding people who can fairly judge the former president.

Supreme Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump

Beloved school bus at Salem’s Greenhouse School vandalized while kids were outside gardening

Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, at her apartment in Boston on March 29, where she wrote her new book, "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s."

PODCAST | SAY MORE

Five takeaways from our interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin

On this week’s episode of “Say More with Shirley Leung,” the famed historian discusses her new book about her late husband and her experiences in the '60s.

Four of 16 jurors needed for Karen Read trial are seated after first day of jury selection
The judge also ruled Tuesday that Read’s lawyers can move ahead with their defense that someone other than Read killed her boyfriend, but they cannot make that argument in their openings — it must be presented alongside evidence.

Who is Karen Read? A look at the woman at the center of a media firestorm.

A DraftKings employee in the lobby of the company's Back Bay office.

innovation beat

DraftKings employees say rival tried to entice them with multimillion-dollar jobs

DraftKings’ escalating battle with billionaire Michael Rubin, who started a rival sports-betting effort last year, spilled into a public court hearing on Tuesday.

Perspective: The NBA playoffs are here, and online gambling is ruining everything

Single-family homes in Arlington.

Greater Boston typical home price reaches $900,000, a new March record

It's an eye-popping number that does not bode well for housing affordability this year.

98.5 The Sports Hub continued its dominance of its competition with the recent release of the winter radio ratings.

Mercy! 98.5 The Sports Hub dominates its competition in the winter radio ratings

The Sports Hub routed its competition in the winter Nielsen Audio ratings period from January 4 to March 27, finishing first overall and across its three daytime programs and second in the evenings in its main targeted demographic, men 25-54.

Steven Kwan snuck around Connor Wong's tag attempt in the 11th inning Tuesday, eventually touching the plate with what proved the winning run of a second straight Cleveland victory at Fenway Park.

GUARDIANS 10, RED SOX 7 (11 INNINGS)

Injury departures of Garrett Whitlock, Rafael Devers compound Red Sox loss to Guardians

Kenley Jansen — who converted his first four save chances despite four walks, a hit batter, and a single — finally squandered one, after the Red Sox had earlier erased a four-run deficit with their biggest inning of the season.

Holy Family Hospital is among Steward's Massachusetts properties.

Warren, Markey call on Steward hospital landlords to cut or terminate lease payments

In a letter, the US senators from Massachusetts pressed for concessions on the hospitals' multimillion-dollar leases to “make it financially feasible for new operators” to run them.

“Rooted” by artist Cicely Carew arrives at Northeastern next week as part of the university’s Public Art Initiative.

15-foot-tall flower statues to bloom on Northeastern’s campus

A new exhibit by Bay State artist Cicely Carew will plant its roots at the university next week.

Ethiopia's Sisay Lemma (left) and Kenya's Hellen Obiri earned their laurels Monday, but they have more in their sights this summer.

john powers | on marathoning

Marathon champs Hellen Obiri and Sisay Lemma will always have Boston — now they want Paris

Monday's winners made strong cases to their national federations for spots in the Summer Olympics.

What was in runners’ headphones during the Marathon? Coldplay, Carrie Underwood, and more

Opinion

Flowers with a ribbon reading "RIP" were seen at an entrance to Westfield Bondi Junction on April 14, in Bondi Junction, Australia. Six victims, plus the offender, who was shot by police at the scene, are dead following a stabbing attack at Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, Sydney.

No man is entitled to a woman’s companionship

Women’s lives are too high a price to pay for a man’s ego.

Happy about your IRS refund? Don’t be.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

JFK, Dick Goodwin, and a speech that would be remembered in history

Taming the country’s highest child care costs

Nate Tinner-Williams

Bessie Stringfield’s life is a tale for the ages

More recent News

‘I murdered a woman,’ Chicopee firefighter accused of stabbing girlfriend allegedly tells police

Jason C. Chapdelaine pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing Eileen B. Monaghan and was ordered held without bail, court records show.

Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson pushes ahead on US aid for Ukraine and Israel

House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back against mounting Republican anger over his proposed US aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and other allies and rejected a call to step aside or risk a vote to oust him from office.

House Republicans send Mayorkas impeachment articles to the Senate, forcing a trial

Body of missing Mass. woman found off remote trail in New York, officials say

Fae Morgana Barbone, 40, was from the Abington/Hanson area, was found on the Taconic Crest Trail, just over the NY border, Williamstown police said Tuesday.

A former N.H. youth detention center resident testifies about ‘hit squad’ attack
Jurors heard from a former resident who says his house leader and another staffer restrained him while two others sexually assaulted him in a stairwell decades ago.

N.H. attorney accused of embezzling pandemic relief funds surrenders yacht he bought with COVID money
The US Marshal’s Service is preparing to auction off the 65-foot vessel bought by Robert M. Waters in 2022.

Man serving life sentence for 1979 kidnapping, rape of two teens in Springfield granted parole
A 68-year-old man serving a life term for kidnapping and raping two juvenile girls in Springfield was granted parole this month, according to legal filings.

Recommended reads

A view of the last tenement left in the West End section of Boston.

As Wu moves BPDA power to Boston City Hall, distrust over agency’s history bubbles up

Some residents fear that the new planning department could be repeating history.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

This Braintree teen hasn’t been to school a single day this year. Is a broken special education system to blame?
What’s happened to Samantha Frechon represents an acute failure of the state’s public education system — especially given the toll pandemic isolation put on teens’ academics and mental health.

Third-party electricity suppliers promise big savings. AG’s report tells another story.
A recent report from Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office is adding momentum to the push to ban competitive electric suppliers from selling directly to residential customers.

Misinformation roiled the 2016 and 2020 elections. Here’s what to expect as 2024 races heat up.
From deepfake robocalls to false claims from candidates, here's what you should be aware of as Nov. 5 draws closer.

Culture & Lifestyle

The cast of Praxis Stage's "The Birthday Party" (clockwise, from rear left): Sharon Mason, Paul Valley, Darya Denisova, Kevin Paquette, Zair Silva, and Daniel Boudreau.

With ‘The Birthday Party,’ Praxis Stage makes a welcome return

“Rooted” by artist Cicely Carew arrives at Northeastern next week as part of the university’s Public Art Initiative.

15-foot-tall flower statues to bloom on Northeastern’s campus

Ethan de Aguiar speaks at a showing of "Love Letters for New Bedford" at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

New film festival aims to put New Bedford on the global artistic stage

Brockton native Léa the Leox will be performing on the “Portraits & Memoirs” tour that begins in Somerville and continues on to New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, and Nashville.

For a trio of emerging artists, a showcase that starts in Somerville

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.

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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

Then-president Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden during the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, 2020, in Cleveland.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Have presidential debates outlived their usefulness?

Richard Issa Bockari, center, along with friends, cheered on runners as they reached the top of Heartbreak Hill during the 126th running of the Boston Marathon on April 18, 2022.

Events like the Marathon are vanishing. Enjoy them while you can.

Losing a loved one or watching someone suffer is always difficult, a process the hospice care and palliative care communities are dedicated to mitigating.

Seán P. O’Malley

Physician-assisted suicide is a slippery slope

His symptoms began in 2019, when he could no longer lift his foot to shift gears on his motorcycle.

Medical aid in dying: Prolonging the inevitable is no way to live

With US college-age population falling, luring more international students could help schools survive

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Bob Graham, ex-US senator and Florida governor, has died

Former US senator. and two-term Florida governor Bob Graham, who gained national prominence as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks and as an early critic of the Iraq war, has died.

Beloved school bus at Salem’s Greenhouse School vandalized while kids were outside gardening

Security cameras at the small, private school on Route 1A caught four youths, who appear to be high school age, allegedly breaking into the bus, a fixture at the grade school since its founding in 1983.

Girl, 9, injured in East Boston fire has died, officials say

The child was the second casualty of the April 2 fire on Meridian Street.

‘I murdered a woman,’ Chicopee firefighter accused of stabbing girlfriend allegedly tells police

Jason C. Chapdelaine pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing Eileen B. Monaghan and was ordered held without bail, court records show.

Sports

The United States is projected to win 123 medals overall, including 39 golds.

The United States and China are expected to win the most medals at the Paris Olympics

The Paris Olympics open in 100 days and the United States and China are expected to finish 1-2 in the overall and gold-medal count.

The Bruins spent much of the night trying to figure out solutions.

SENATORS 3, BRUINS 1

Bruins fumble Atlantic Division title in regular season finale and will face Maple Leafs in first round of playoffs

A second straight loss to the Senators was not the kind of effort the Bruins wanted to roll out as their final tune-up.

The next goalie that Maple Leafs right wing Mitch Marner will try to score against will be a Bruin after the two teams will be pitted against each other in a first-round series.

Maple Leafs captain John Tavares on playing the Bruins in the playoffs: ‘It will obviously be a real challenge.’

The Globe's Kevin Paul Dupont said Game 1 could be Saturday night. The series schedule has yet to be announced.

capitals 2, flyers 1

Capitals take advantage of a gifted empty net, defeat Flyers to nab last playoff spot in the East

GUARDIANS 10, RED SOX 7 (11 INNINGS)

Injury departures of Garrett Whitlock, Rafael Devers compound Red Sox loss to Guardians

panthers 5, maple leafs 2

Surging Panthers overtake the Bruins to win the Atlantic Division, will meet Lightning in playoffs

Business

City councilors weigh Wu’s proposal to temporarily increase commercial property tax rates

Wu filed the home rule petition in order to avoid homeowners seeing a significant increase in their property taxes should commercial real estate values continue to fall.

Warren, Markey call on Steward hospital landlords to cut or terminate lease payments

In a letter, the US senators from Massachusetts pressed for concessions on the hospitals' multimillion-dollar leases to “make it financially feasible for new operators” to run them.

Campbell says state laws will apply to AI

IMF sees steady growth but warns of rising protectionism

magazine

The NBA playoffs are here, and online gambling is ruining everything

Chocolate-Dipped Tahini and Browned Butter Cookies

Tahini transforms everything from fish to cookies

Officer Rachel McGuire of the Boston Police Department crosses the finish line during last year’s Marathon.

College & Careers

Five things to do around Boston, April 15-21

College & Careers

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

metro

The view of downtown Boston from new offices in the Seaport District.

City councilors weigh Wu’s proposal to temporarily increase commercial property tax rates

RIPTA approves separation agreement for former CEO

First Literacy of Boston’s 34th annual spelling bee raises $265,000 for adult education

sports

D'Angelo Russell of the Lakers was in the mood to celebrate after Los Angeles won Tuesday to clinch the seventh seed in the Western Conference.

Lakers win their play-in game to set up a rematch against defending champion Nuggets

Boys’ lacrosse roundup: Vacation week offered Reading a stern test against BC High in the Players Cup as Nate Mulvey (5 goals) converted the OT winner

Garrett Whitlock leaves his start vs. Guardians prematurely with left oblique tightness

business

“The recent data have clearly not given us greater confidence and instead indicate that it’s likely to take longer than expected to achieve that confidence,” Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said on Tuesday.

Powell suggests interest rates could stay high for a longer period

DraftKings employees say rival tried to entice them with multimillion-dollar jobs

Greater Boston typical home price reaches $900,000, a new March record

politics

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is sworn-in before the House Committee on Homeland Security during a hearing on "A Review of the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security" on Capitol Hill in Washington, on April 16.

Senate to convene Mayorkas impeachment trial as Democrats plot quick dismissal

Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson pushes ahead on US aid for Ukraine and Israel

Bob Graham, ex-US senator and Florida governor, has died

Nation

A general view shows the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug. 17, 2023.

Maui Fire Department report on deadly wildfire details need for more equipment and mutual aid plans

Columbia University president to testify in Congress on college conflicts over Israel-Hamas war

Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear arguments in Democratic governor’s suit against GOP-led Legislature

World

Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from a Myanmar prison to house arrest due to heat wave

UN appeals for $2.8 billion to help 3 million Palestinians in desperate need of food and other aid

Israel weighs response to Iran attack, with each choice a risk

opinion

Then-president Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden during the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, 2020, in Cleveland.

Have presidential debates outlived their usefulness?

The US needs a bipartisan, open-minded gender medicine commission

Should evidence that someone other than Karen Read committed murder be allowed at her trial?

lifestyle

West Virginia University students El Didden, Bri Caison, and Lia Farrell materials in support of transgender individuals.

Federal appeals court overturns West Virginia transgender sports ban

I’m like a bird. Wait, am I like a bird?

Maura Tierney and her family help field Boston Marathon team raising funds for a Southie community center

food & dining

Lamb Tagine with Apricots, Peas, and Lemon

Recipe: Apricot and peas garnish this slow-cooked lamb tagine for the Passover Seder or any spring occasion

Recipe: Serve this almond fig torte, chewy like a macaroon, on the Passover table

Recipe: Make breakfast pancakes during Passover with matzo meal and cottage cheese

travel

Several stretches of British Columbia's Sunshine Coast Trail are known for being dry, including the long grind up Tin Hat Mountain (3,914 feet). Signs warn hikers to load up on water in advance of the climb.

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

“Rooted” by artist Cicely Carew arrives at Northeastern next week as part of the university’s Public Art Initiative.

15-foot-tall flower statues to bloom on Northeastern’s campus

Nick Morse paints outside the lines — creating signature pieces

Faith Ringgold, who wove Black life into quilts and children’s books, dies at 93

Books

Runners line up at the starting line of the Half Half Half Half Half Marathon.

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

Ethan de Aguiar speaks at a showing of "Love Letters for New Bedford" at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

New film festival aims to put New Bedford on the global artistic stage

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

Television

Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw in "Tracker."

On CBS’s ‘Tracker,’ this is him

This week’s TV: ‘The Jinx’ is back, Conan has left the country, and a shocking divorce

Ryan Gosling just can’t let Ken go in his ‘Saturday Night Live’ monologue, Chris Stapleton performs

music

Hana Nah, of New York, listened to a podcast through headphones on Boston Common as she waited to board a bus to the Boston Marathon starting line.

What was in runners’ headphones during the Marathon? Coldplay, Carrie Underwood, and more

For a trio of emerging artists, a showcase that starts in Somerville

An exuberant ‘Turangalîla’ from the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Theater/Dance

The cast of Praxis Stage's "The Birthday Party" (clockwise, from rear left): Sharon Mason, Paul Valley, Darya Denisova, Kevin Paquette, Zair Silva, and Daniel Boudreau.

With ‘The Birthday Party,’ Praxis Stage makes a welcome return

The Jar aims to double its reach this season

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

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

Senator Bob Graham, who served three terms in the Senate, made an unsuccessful bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, emphasizing his opposition to the Iraq invasion.

Bob Graham, ex-US senator and Florida governor, has died

Maurice El Médioni, Jewish Algerian pianist, dies at 95

Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog dies at 92