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Jack Schlossberg spoke at the Solomon Islands in 2023.

‘Using the tools at my disposal’: JFK’s grandson explains anti-RFK Jr. Instagram posts

If nothing else, Jack Schlossberg hopes his unconventional social media posts will help reelect Joe Biden.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. told The New York Times a worm died in his brain and caused neurological symptoms.

Brain worms are more common than you think. Here’s what doctors who’ve treated them say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said doctors had found a dead worm in his brain.

RFK Jr. has faced health issues, including worm in his brain

From left, David Banks, chancellor of New York Public schools, spoke next to Karla Silvestre, President of the Montgomery Count (Md.) Board of Education, Emerson Sykes, Staff Attorney with the ACLU, and Enikia Ford Morthel, Superintendent of the Berkeley United School District, during a hearing on antisemitism in K-12 public schools on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

K-12 school leaders reject allegations that they let antisemitism run rampant

Pro-Palestinian protesters march through MIT building, block parking garage Boston City Council passes resolution honoring Jewish American Heritage Month

Police took students away in plastic handcuffs on the UMass Amherst campus Tuesday night after protesters set up an encampment outside the student union.

About 130 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at UMass Amherst after establishing encampment on campus, university says

33 arrested at George Washington University as D.C. mayor’s congressional hearing is canceled

For commencement speakers, a choice whether to address war and protests

A lesson is emerging as Harvard and MIT face continuing protests: Negotiating can help

Severe thunderstorms march through southern Worcester county and northern Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Hail and powerful wind gusts reported as line of severe thunderstorms moves through the region

Warnings were issued earlier for other parts of Southern New England as intense storm cells brought another round of heavy rain to the area.

Can the Bruins do it again in Game 2?

After stealing Game 1, can the Bruins go up 2-0 in Florida? Follow Game 2 live updates.

Jeremy Swayman seems likely to take the net after another standout performance in Game 1.

Game 2 preview: Bruins at Panthers Tara Sullivan: However far the Bruins go in the playoffs, Charlie McAvoy will be the engine that gets them there

Vote in the Globe's "SNL" Showdown bracket to help pick the best "Saturday Night Live" cast member of all time.

Matthew Gilbert | 'SNL' Showdown

Who’s the best ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member of all time? You decide.

Vote in the Globe’s "SNL" Showdown bracket to help pick the best cast member from the past five decades.

House quickly rejects Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to remove Speaker Johnson from office

Greene, who is one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, stood on the House floor and read a long list of “transgressions” she said Johnson had committed as speaker.

‘She was just like frantically screaming.’ Wife of John O’Keefe’s friend testified at Karen Read trial. Here’s what happened.
Prosecutors played video footage of Karen Read and John O'Keefe at McCarthy’s, a Canton bar, the night before O'Keefe's body was found in January 2022.

Tracker: Who has testified in the trial so far?

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy testifies at hearing on his request to resume driving in N.H.
The hearing officer has the authority to decide whether Volodymyr Zhukovskyy can resume driving in New Hampshire, but cannot address restrictions he faces from drivers licensing agencies in other states, including Massachusetts.

Marblehead Town Meeting votes down new zoning to comply with MBTA Communities law

Map: Has your town complied with the law?

Inside the courtroom where Trump was forced to listen to Stormy Daniels

Stormy Daniels testified at the former president’s hush-money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor says they had in 2006 that resulted in her being paid to keep silent during the presidential race 10 years later.

Here is what Stormy Daniels testified happened between her and Donald Trump

Larry Edelman

Even before Steward went bust, its landlord and financial lifeline paid a steep price
The hospital system owes Medical Properties Trust nearly $1 billion. A bankruptcy judge will determine how much of that MPT gets back.

Bankrupt Steward hopes to sell Massachusetts hospitals by end of June

Tripadvisor stock plunges 28 percent after board scuttles sale

Biden says US won’t supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally

A view of Nantucket Harbor, including The Hungry Minnow restaurant at right, which overlooks Children’s Beach on Nantucket.

After vote Tuesday failed, Nantucket’s short-term rental debate will grind on

A measure to broadly legalize short-term rentals on the island was voted down at Town Meeting. Now what?

Conductor Keith Lockhart is in his 29th year leading the Pops, whose spring season begins Friday.

A new season’s afoot as Keith Lockhart and the Pops spring into action

The spring season that opens Friday with Harry Connick Jr. will also include guests Sutton Foster and Branford Marsalis, a Pride celebration with drag performer Thorgy Thor, Gospel Night, and live-scored presentations of “Encanto” and “Jurassic Park.”

A temporary cottage community in the parking lot of Jamaica Plain's Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, meant to house people struggling with addiction and homelessness, is slated to close in July.

Shattuck’s cottage community, a relief to the unsheltered at Mass. and Cass, to close this summer

Residents in the shelter program are being offered alternative housing, officials said.

AAPI Heritage Month

The oxtail pho with bone marrow at Le Madeline in Quincy.

Eight restaurants to eat at for AAPI Heritage Month

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8 things to buy at Providence’s new Japanese grocery store Maruichi

Yvonne Hao, secretary of economic development in Governor Maura Healey's administration.

‘This is the moment’: Yvonne Hao stepped up just in time for Mass. tech

President Biden speaks before a screening of the series "American Born Chinese" in the East Room of the White House in Washington, in celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, May 8, 2023.

Nearly 50 years later, Asian American and Pacific Islander month features revelry and racial justice

Opinion

Tom Brady listened as Bill Belichick roasted him during the Netflix special, “The Greatest Roast of All Time,” on May 5 in Inglewood, Calif.

The very unfunny roast of Tom Brady

Gisele Bündchen, Bridget Moynahan, and Aaron Hernandez were fair game, but Robert Kraft’s prostitution charges were off-limits. What a bad joke.

Why is Healey pretending everything at Steward will be OK?

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Stormy Daniels is an imperfect witness. I still believe her.

The Massachusetts GOP seems to be getting its act together. Is it?

Emerson College tarnished by police raid on protest

More recent News

Georgia appeals court agrees to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump election case
Once the court rules, the losing side could ask the Georgia Supreme Court to consider an appeal.

Boston Archdiocese announces new superintendent of Catholic schools
Eileen M. McLaughlin, a Brighton resident who currently serves as a leadership coach with the Lynch Leadership Academy at Boston College, will officially take the role of superintendent on June 1, the archdiocese said in a statement.

LOVE LETTERS

My husband prefers photos of me where I don’t look like myself
“I just get the feeling that my regular brunette self — with no makeup and sometimes glasses — doesn’t do it for him.”

chad finn

Of all the good things in Game 1 vs. the Cavaliers, Derrick White may have been the best
There isn’t a more satisfying layer of the Celtics offense than the one revealed when the ball is moving and White is cooking.

Steve Albini, influential producer of ’90s rock and beyond, has died
Steve Albini recorded acclaimed albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Pixies, and hundreds of other while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry.

SOUND CHECK

Deep Cuts in Medford Square has carved out a space for bands and their fans
The music venue — which also serves as a brewery and sandwich shop — opened on Main Street a year ago, drawing visitors to Medford with a much-needed 240-capacity performance space.

Biden lauds new Microsoft center in Wisconsin on the same site where Trump’s Foxconn project failed

Biden was in Sturtevant, in Racine County, to promote the $3.3 billion Microsoft data center, which the Democratic president said will employ about 2,300 union construction workers to build it and then 2,000 permanent employees to staff it.

3 tornadoes confirmed in Michigan, 1 man killed in Tennessee as severe storms cross central US

Tornadoes were first reported after dark Tuesday in parts of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, while portions of Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri were also under a tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service.

Tornadoes are coming in bunches. Scientists are trying to figure out why.

My mom and I butted heads. But never at the Christmas Tree Shops.

Something magical happened: We were no longer adversaries, but two giggly pals examining the bargains in each other’s carts.

Recommended reads

Members of the Know Nothing Party burned down the Charlestown Nunnery in 1834.

Riots, arson, and executions: Immigrants have long faced a hostile reception in Mass.

Xenophobia. Racism. Riots. Murder. In Boston’s immigration story, it’s all there. Also courage, resilience, privation, and pluck — and the gradual acceptance of some newcomers and their rise to to social and political influence.

Meet the CEOs, founders, and investors on the Globe’s third annual list of New England tech leaders
Our 2024 ranking highlights leaders who make New England’s technology scene vibrant and vital.

Gloucester woman identified 40 years after slaying had married into Boston’s infamous Angiulo family
Lori Jane Kearsey’s husband said he thought she left him; her family believed she joined the federal witness protection program; and others thought she moved to Florida, according to police and several people who were close to Kearsey.

The harrowing tale of Patriots player Calvin Anderson’s near-fatal bout with malaria
“If I were to win Comeback Player of the Year,” said Anderson, “it wouldn’t be about me, but about how God brought me back from this.”

Culture & Lifestyle

At the Citizens Bank Opera House, Boston Ballet music director Mischa Santora conducts the orchestral rehearsal of “Toccata,” for the ballet “The Space Between.”

Boston Ballet orchestra adds live electronics to the mix for ‘The Space Between’

Northampton -04/30/2024 -Friendly’s in Northampton has a nostalgia feel and family atmosphere with traditional food favorites and their famous ice cream. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff (metro)

At our busy little neighborhood Friendly’s, SuperMelts with a side of nostalgia

Buddy Guy is shown at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2022. The 87-year-old blues great is on a farewell tour that arrived at the Wilbur in Boston on Monday and moves on to the Chevalier Theatre in Medford on Wednesday.

Buddy Guy’s mojo was working just fine at the Wilbur

Parker Jennings as Sarah and Kody Grassett as Simon in "Touching the Void" at Apollinaire Theatre Company.

From the highest high to the horrific in Apollinaire’s ‘Touching the Void’

Special Projects

Ashfield, MA 06/13//2023, At Sanderson Academy, books in a fourth-grade classroom.

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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

Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota falsely claims in her new book that she met Kim Jong Un, the ruler of North Korea.

Deep in a hole, Kristi Noem keeps digging

Popular chain restaurants have long relied on family-style menus, but independent fine-dining operations are starting to see the wisdom behind the approach as well.

A mountain of food at the restaurant? No thanks.

IDEAS | CHRISTOF KOCH

I almost died. Here’s what I learned from the experience.

Governor Maura Healey and Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh (left) held a news conference at the Massachusetts State House in Boston on the Steward Health Care bankruptcy, May 6.

A bankruptcy shield won’t hide Steward Health’s moral failings

Colleges should keep prices down

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Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Rally draws 250 people at UMass Amherst, day after about 130 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested on campus

About 130 people protesting the war in Gaza were arrested at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Tuesday night, the university said in a statement on Wednesday, after demonstrators established an encampment on campus and police in riot gear moved in.

Hail and powerful wind gusts reported as line of severe thunderstorms moves through the region

Warnings were issued earlier for other parts of Southern New England as intense storm cells brought another round of heavy rain to the area.

Fostering family

Any child who walked through their door was their kid, period. Everybody got all the couple could give.

Steve Albini, legendary producer for Nirvana and the Pixies and an alternative rock pioneer, dies at 61

He also worked with PJ Harvey and Low, among others.

Sports

Can the Bruins do it again in Game 2?

After stealing Game 1, can the Bruins go up 2-0 in Florida? Follow Game 2 live updates.

Jeremy Swayman seems likely to take the net after another standout performance in Game 1.

“I have to be better, and I will be better. That should have never happened," Patrick Beverley said on his podcast after the incident. "Regardless of what was said, that should have never happened. Simple as that.”

Indianapolis police open investigation into Bucks’ Patrick Beverley throwing basketball at fan

Cameras showed Beverley, whose team was eliminated by the Pacers, sitting on the bench and tossing a ball into the stands, hitting a fan in the head with about 2½ minutes left in the game on May 2.

A four-year starter at Nantucket, Colton Chambers (left) delivered the winning goal in an 8-7 victory at King Philip on Sunday.

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' LACROSSE NOTEBOOK

Have stick, will travel: Nantucket boys’ lacrosse going the distance for wins

Ranked No. 1 in the Division 4 power rankings, the Whalers are no longer the underdog. And will the tournament feature another clash with rival Sandwich?

Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter agrees to plead guilty to bank fraud, false tax return in connection to massive sports betting case

However far the Bruins go in the playoffs, Charlie McAvoy will be the engine that gets them there

Business

Steward can’t even get bankruptcy right, state says

“As with all things Steward, this too was horribly mismanaged,” Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office wrote.

Billions in chips grants are expected to fuel industry growth, report finds

The United States will triple its domestic chip manufacturing capacity by 2032, the largest increase in the world, according to a report released Wednesday by the Semiconductor Industry Association and the Boston Consulting Group.

FTX customers poised to recover all funds lost in collapse

Amid growing worry about city tax base, chamber pushes back on Wu’s proposed budget hike

magazine

Kristi Noem’s Cricket, Mitt Romney’s Seamus, and the GOP dog problem

Photos of Shelby Hewitt, including her 2023 booking photo (center).

The secret lives of Shelby Hewitt, 32-year-old high school imposter

Ginger-Lime Grilled Snapper With Herb Sauce

Take your grilling to the next level with these bold sauces

Celebrate steampunk at the Watch City Steampunk Festival on Saturday.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, May 6-12

metro

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu pictured with Boston Chamber of Commerce President and CEO James E. Rooney in September 2022.

Amid growing worry about city tax base, chamber pushes back on Wu’s proposed budget hike

‘She was just like frantically screaming.’ Wife of John O’Keefe’s friend testified at Karen Read trial. Here’s what happened.

Man, 19, arrested on gun charge after disturbance and pursuit in Mattapan, police say

sports

EMass boys’ lacrosse: Dynamic on D for Needham, Jack Curran headlines Players of the Week

EMass boys’ lacrosse: St. John’s Prep shows its mettle to stay No. 1 in Globe Top 20

Garden Party: Who are we to complain?

business

Huawei has been on a US trade restrictions list since 2019.

US revokes Intel, Qualcomm licenses to sell chips to Huawei

Sanitation company fined $649,000 for hiring children in slaughterhouses

Tripadvisor stock plunges 28 percent after board scuttles sale

politics

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks during a news conference.

House quickly rejects Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to remove Speaker Johnson from office

Biden says US won’t supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally

Biden lauds Microsoft center on same site where Trump’s Foxconn project failed

Nation

A tornado ripped through Kalamazoo, Mich., on Tuesday.

Tornadoes are coming in bunches. Scientists are trying to figure out why.

Georgia court will hear appeal of ruling that kept prosecutor on Trump case

Balloons harm wildlife. Florida is set to ban their release.

World

“The bosses always tell us to run” before inspectors arrived at work sites, said Daouda Tounkara, a 33-year-old worker from Mali who is among 10 men who are suing construction companies for exploiting them as undocumented workers on Olympic sites.

France says it built the Olympics safely. Migrant workers don’t count.

With a Gaza cease-fire in the balance, Netanyahu maneuvers to keep power

How 360,000 Haitians wound up living in empty lots and crowded schools

opinion

Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered by a poster taped to a column in the Los Angeles Police Department Van Nuys Station as they waited for the release of protesters who were arrested May 6 at the University of California Los Angeles.

Protesters’ motivations are an issue for some

Boston area gains from helix-like entwining of AI, biotech talent

Social Studies: What made farming appeal; eliminating college uncertainty; sheriffs put their feet up

lifestyle

Harris Reed, left, and Demi Moore attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" exhibition on May 6, in New York.

Inside the Met Gala: A fairytale forest, woodland creatures, and some starstuck first-timers

Photos: See Zendaya, Matt Damon, Ayo Edebiri, and more stars hit the Met Gala red carpet

Watch live: Celebrities arrive at the 2024 Met Gala red carpet

food & dining

Emeril Lagasse, a Fall River native, recently took a tour of some local Portuguese restaurants as he prepares to open one in New Orleans. Here, he’s pictured with Natalia Paiva-Neves of O Dinis in East Providence.

Emeril Lagasse — ‘hard-core Fall River’ — talks new Portuguese restaurant

Eight restaurants to eat at for AAPI Heritage Month

At Satellite Bottle Shop, a cozy spot to explore natural wines

travel

With a certified home watcher, you’re sitting pretty on vacation

Laconia, N.H., is a city on the lakes — and on the rise

Exeter, N.H.: Come for the history, stay for the food

Arts

Visitors at "Harry Potter: The Exhibition."

Ready your wands: ‘Harry Potter: The Exhibition’ makes its New England debut this fall

Something old, something new: Meet bridal stylist and BU artist Linda Obobaifo

Everything you need to know about the 2024 Met Gala

Books

Kaliane Bradley, author of "The Ministry of Time."

‘The Ministry of Time’ relocates immigrants from history to the present day. The future will never be the same.

Lesley Hazleton, writer who tackled religion and fast cars, dies at 78

A.J. Jacobs, in ‘The Year of Living Constitutionally,’ read by candlelight to channel the mind-set of Founding Fathers

Movies

Mr. Gelder attended the Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2022.

Ian Gelder, ‘Game of Thrones’ actor, dies at 74

Coolidge to honor ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ director Jane Schoenbrun as second annual Breakthrough Artist

‘Evil Does Not Exist’: A battle for the soul of a Japanese mountain village

Television

Eve Best and Suranne Jones in "MaryLand."

Remarkable British actresses pair up in ‘MaryLand’

Who’s the best ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member of all time? You decide.

‘Sugar’ shocks with late-season surprise

music

Mr. Albini, in the control room of his studio, Electrical Audio, in Chicago in 2005.

Steve Albini, legendary producer for Nirvana and the Pixies and an alternative rock pioneer, dies at 61

Boston Ballet orchestra adds live electronics to the mix for ‘The Space Between’

A new season’s afoot as Keith Lockhart and the Pops spring into action

Theater/Dance

Parker Jennings as Sarah and Kody Grassett as Simon in "Touching the Void" at Apollinaire Theatre Company.

From the highest high to the horrific in Apollinaire’s ‘Touching the Void’

Who’s the region’s funniest firefighter? Six hopefuls are warming up their acts.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 65th is cause for celebration

Health

What we’re starting to learn about H5N1 in cows, and the risk to people

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

Obituaries

Mr. Albini, in the control room of his studio, Electrical Audio, in Chicago in 2005.

Steve Albini, legendary producer for Nirvana and the Pixies and an alternative rock pioneer, dies at 61

Ian Gelder, ‘Game of Thrones’ actor, dies at 74

Barry Romo, Vietnam veteran who then fought against the war, dies at 76