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Boston police were deployed to clear the pro-Palestinian protest camp at Emerson College on April 25.

As campus protests linger, parents anxiously watch from afar

For many parents, whether their students have been protesting or not, the friction between police, local lawmakers, administrators, faculty, and counterprotesters has triggered mixed emotions.

At the University of Vermont, protest ends abruptly but peacefully

Pro-Palestinian MIT protesters held a rally on campus before they then marched to the house of the president on Memorial Drive.

Pro-Palestinian protesters march to MIT president’s home

After nearly three weeks, MIT’s encampment ends with arrests

Harvard University Police walked past a pro-Palestinian tent encampment in Harvard Yard Friday morning.

Harvard’s encampment is the last one standing in Greater Boston

Students gathered around tents at a protest in support of Palestinians at Cambridge University in England on Tuesday.

British colleges are handling protests differently. Will it pay off?

Tara Sullivan | Game 3 | Panthers 6, Bruins 2

The burning question after Game 3’s debacle: Where did the Bruins’ best players go?
David Pastrnak isn’t shooting enough. Turnover-prone Charlie McAvoy hasn’t established a consistent presence, and top-line center Charlie Coyle has one goal in these playoffs.

Photos: Northern Lights illuminate night skies in New England, and across Northern Hemisphere
An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere early Saturday, with no immediate reports of disruptions to power and communications.

The science behind the Northern Lights Solar storm intensifies, filling skies with northern lights

The 19th-century mansion at 130 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston's Back Bay is listed on the market for $29.9 million.

Check out Boston’s most expensive single-family home: Back Bay mansion on market for $29.9 million

What else makes this property at 130 Commonwealth Ave. stand out? Skulls. Lots of skulls.

Guster performing in 2015.

‘This has gotta be a scam.’ How a Somerville resident found out Guster wanted to perform on his porch at Porchfest.

Local indie icons Guster have toured the world. On Saturday, they just announced, they'll play from a smaller stage, er, porch.

Harvard scientists unveil the most detailed map of the brain ever: ‘It’s an alien world inside your own head’

The researchers, with Google and other partners, spent a decade deciphering 1 cubic millimeter of tissue.

‘It feels pointless sometimes’: As hospitals grow more corporate, fed-up doctors are pushing back
Burned out and frustrated with bottom-line-oriented hospital management, doctors are starting to unionize, including at Salem Hospital.

Karen Read and John O’Keefe ‘never entered my house,’ Canton homeowners testify

As the second week of the murder trial of Karen Read concluded, Brian and Nicole Albert testified that O’Keefe and Read did not step foot in their home, contradicting a central claim by Read’s defense team.

How Friday's testimony unfolded

Will you accept the election results? Republicans dodge the question.

Leading Republicans, including several of Donald Trump’s potential running mates, have refused to commit to accepting the results of the November election.

Former Patriots coach Bill Belichick buys (another) home on Nantucket

The former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick recently closed on a $4.8 million home on Fair Street, according to the Nantucket Current.

Israel orders new evacuations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah as it prepares to expand operations

At 11, she’s a TikTok sensation, raising awareness about her rare bone disorder. But this Marlborough tween has bigger plans.
Vitoria Bueno is a TikTok star — dancing her way into the hearts of 1.4 million followers and educating them about her battle with osteogenesis imperfecta.

The houseplant therapist will see you now
Houseplants are supposed to be calming, but they can trigger lovers’ quarrels, anxiety, even grief.

Joost Klein of Netherlands arrives on stage for the introducing of the artists at the dress rehearsal for the final at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on May 10.

Dutch contestant kicked out of Eurovision hours before tension-plagued song contest final

At the NFL Combine in February, Eliot Wolf said the Patriots were switching to the grading system Wolf learned in Green Bay in part because “it accounts value better.”

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Beyond Drake Maye, what should we make of the Patriots’ first draft post-Bill Belichick?

Bill Belichick became infamous for reaching for players. Eliot Wolf’s first draft wasn’t too different from those of his predecessor.

Luis Arraez is showered by teammates Manny Machado (left) and Fernando Tatis Jr. after hitting a walk-off single on Friday night against the Dodgers.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Do early deals mean teams will be more active in the weeks before the MLB trade deadline?

The Red Sox are among the large group of teams that could be either buyers or sellers come the deadline.

Glen Davis, a key member of the Celtics’ title team in 2008, last played in the NBA in 2015.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Glen Davis’s Big Baby act has been over for a long time. He’s the only one who doesn’t realize it.

The former Celtic has never taken his post-basketball career seriously, and now he's headed to prison for his participation in a scheme to defraud the NBA Players’ Health and Benefit Welfare Plan.

Matthew Gilbert | 'SNL' Showdown

Belushi vs. Wiig. Murphy vs. Murray. Vote in Round 3 of our best ‘SNL’ cast member bracket.

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

Bill Murray over Mike Myers? Voters again show that they prefer ‘SNL’ cast members of a certain vintage.

Round 2's biggest surprise was Bill Murray's lopsided win over Mike Myers. And its toughest call may have been Cecily Strong vs. Maya Rudolph.

AAPI Heritage Month

Anne Nishimura Morse, the William and Helen Pounds Senior Curator of Japanese Art, sits for a portrait in one of the newly renovated galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

MFA reopens its Arts of Japan galleries after six years of closure

Amy Tan, pictured here in a park near Harvard Square, was recently in Cambridge on a book tour for her latest work, "The Backyard Bird Chronicles."

Amy Tan reflects on her new nonfiction book. ‘Birds were fun ... fiction writing is torment.’

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

Eight restaurants to eat at for AAPI Heritage Month

Jeannie Salomon speaking at the Cultural Society for Entrepreneurship, Bilingualism, Resources and Inspirations' May 4 AAPI Heritage Month Celebration.

COMMENTARY | JEANNIE SALOMON

This AAPI Heritage Month, it’s time to get serious about teaching AAPI history in Rhode Island

Opinion

Shoppers visited the grand opening of the Dorchester Food Co-op, Oct. 14, 2023.

Joan Fitzgerald and Gregory King

How to bring solar energy to low-income communities

Low- and moderate-income households are only a small percentage of those benefiting from community solar. A couple of projects in Boston are seeking to change that.

Legislature should pass health equity bill

Mass. should focus on long-term solutions for homeless families

IDEAS | LARISSA KOSMOS

Mother of dragons

The politicization of climate change

More recent News

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and activist Denella Clark join forces to help women giving care to terminally ill loved ones

This Mother’s Day Weekend they are launching the Pressley-James Lovin’ Gestures Fund, which will provide financial help to people providing care to terminally ill close relatives.

Fake Irish heiress arrested in Maine should be extradited to UK, judge rules
Marianne Smyth, who accusers say has also fashioned herself as a witch, a psychic and a friend to Hollywood stars, has been in a Maine jail waiting to learn if she will be extradited. She faces allegations that she stole more than $170,000 from the victims from 2008 to 2010 in Northern Ireland.

Trump heading to Jersey Shore to rally ‘mega crowd’ in weekend break from hush money trial
Donald Trump is heading to the Jersey Shore after a long week in court.

Judge directs Michael Cohen to keep quiet about Trump ahead of his hush money trial testimony

Union dispute bubbles up at Harvard Book Store
The labor dispute comes just two months after management canceled the planned second location in the Prudential Center.

There’s a good reason she didn’t respond …
They met on an app, but maybe they already knew each other. Maybe they knew each other very well.

Blind date: ‘I really wish I asked him what his skin care regimen was’

Oklahoma man indicted by federal grand jury for allegedly throwing pipe bomb at Satanic Temple in Salem

Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston and will be brought to Massachusetts to face charges.

Judge finds Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson needs conservatorship because of mental decline
A judge says Beach Boys co-founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should be in a court conservatorship to handle his personal and medical decisions.

WWII soldiers posthumously receive Purple Heart medals 79 years after fatal plane crash
The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II have received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final days of the conflict.

Ginkgo Bioworks to slash labor costs, jobs
After lackluster first-quarter earnings, Ginkgo Bioworks said it will slash labor expenses by at least 25 percent, which will include an unspecified number of job cuts.

Recommended reads

The MBTA is paying consultants from Ernst & Young as much as $610 per hour to do research for Governor Maura Healey's transportation funding task force. MassDOT says it will reimburse MBTA for the $450,000 contract.

The T is paying consultants up to $610 per hour — to figure out how to save money

The MBTA entered into a $450,000 contract with a consulting firm last month, with consultants charging between $244 and $610 per hour.

The 20 best albums of 2024 (so far)
We’re not even at the midway point of the year, but a lot of great albums have already arrived in 2024, and Globe music writers have been listening closely. Here are 20 of their favorites.

no stupid questions

Introducing No Stupid Questions, how-to guides for navigating adult life in Boston
The first installment of this series will cover five topics: Traffic, taxes, networking, finding a neighborhood to call home, and locating trustworthy services. It launches on May 13.

TRAVEL

Welcome to the most Vermont-ish village in the Green Mountain State
Like many small New England communities, Putney has experienced the push-pull of progress. What doesn’t seem to change: Putney’s long-standing embrace of artists and craftspeople. Here's what we love about Putney.

Culture & Lifestyle

Boston Ballet in Ken Ossola's "The Space Between."

Boston Ballet is in shape for Paris with ‘Spring Experience’

Psychotherapist and Gay Sons & Mothers founder Rick Miller (right) used to pose for photos like his mother, Suzanne (left), with a bent knee.

A Boston therapist assumed gay sons and their mothers had strong bonds. Then he heard more of their stories.

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

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’

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.

stuart landing page illustration

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

Police line tape covered part of a campus map after police officers cleared a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at George Washington University on May 8, in Washington, D.C.

I’m a conservative student. Freedom of speech protects pro-Palestinian protesters too.

Renderings for the White Stadium renovation proposal

Despite shaky rollout, Wu’s White Stadium plan is good for student athletes

Former vice president Mike Pence, left, and former national security adviser John Bolton, right, shown with then-president Donald Trump at the White House in 2018, are on the long list of former Trump administration alums who have made it clear that they won’t support Trump again.

Readers respond: There are ways to talk to family and friends who support Trump

When you smell a flower (or anything at all), your experience is being filtered through things that may be far older than the concept of smell itself.

IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

A sensory twist in the story of human evolution

IDEAS | MAURA KELLY

How to hang out better

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Harvard’s encampment is the last one standing in Greater Boston

Members of the pro-Palestinian encampment, Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, rejected an offer from Harvard University’s president to end their protest on early Friday morning.

Photos: Northern Lights illuminate night skies in New England, and across Northern Hemisphere

An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere early Saturday, with no immediate reports of disruptions to power and communications.

At 11, she’s a TikTok sensation, raising awareness about her rare bone disorder. But this Marlborough tween has bigger plans.

Vitoria Bueno is a TikTok star — dancing her way into the hearts of 1.4 million followers and educating them about her battle with osteogenesis imperfecta.

Check out Boston’s most expensive single-family home: Back Bay mansion on market for $29.9 million

What else makes this property at 130 Commonwealth Ave. stand out? Skulls. Lots of skulls.

Sports

Charles Barkley is a one-of-one commentator on TNT's "Inside the NBA."

Chad Finn | Sports Media

If Warner Brothers Discovery loses broadcast rights to the NBA, the greatest studio program in the history of sports may cease to exist

“Inside the NBA” is the lone current studio program for any sport that qualifies as high-level, satisfying entertainment in its own right.

Jim Montgomery gives a last-second pep talk.

Garden Party: Hello? Offense? Are you there?

Plus: Can the Celtics regain their composure?

Sam Bennett checks Brandon Carlo into the boards during the third period.

Sam Bennett can fly under the radar on the stacked Panthers. His return spells bad news for the Bruins.

Much like last postseason, the Bruins have struggled to counter Florida’s relentless forechecking pressure. Bennett’s insertion into the lineup is akin to adding a heat-seeking missile in front of a pack of hungry wolves.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Beyond Drake Maye, what should we make of the Patriots’ first draft post-Bill Belichick?

It’s Bruins vs. Panthers in the second round of the NHL playoffs. See the schedule and results here.

Business

Check out Boston’s most expensive single-family home: Back Bay mansion on market for $29.9 million

What else makes this property at 130 Commonwealth Ave. stand out? Skulls. Lots of skulls.

America’s debt tops $34 trillion, but a commission to address it appears dead in Congress

A promising start has given way to challenging political realities for supporters of a bipartisan commission to tackle the federal government’s growing debt challenges.

Federal judge temporarily halts Biden plan to lower credit card late fees to $8

Union dispute bubbles up at Harvard Book Store

magazine

Tech Power Players 2024

Meet the CEOs, founders, and investors on the Globe’s third annual list of New England tech leaders

This week's daters: Ben and Gabe

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I really wish I asked him what his skin care regimen was’

After more than a half century in business, the Christmas Tree Shops closed its remaining stores last summer to the dismay of devoted customers.

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

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

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

metro

Boston police were deployed to clear the pro-Palestinian protest camp at Emerson College on April 25.

As campus protests linger, parents anxiously watch from afar

The houseplant therapist will see you now

Here’s where and when the Northern Lights will be visible over New England tonight

sports

Luis Arraez is showered by teammates Manny Machado (left) and Fernando Tatis Jr. after hitting a walk-off single on Friday night against the Dodgers.

Do early deals mean teams will be more active in the weeks before the MLB trade deadline?

Glen Davis’s Big Baby act has been over for a long time. He’s the only one who doesn’t realize it.

Celtics at Cavaliers, Game 3 preview: Time to make those three-pointers

business

Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick faced reporters during an NFL football news conference on Jan. 11, 2024 in Foxborough. The Nantucket Current reports that Belichick recently purchased another home on the island.

Former Patriots coach Bill Belichick buys (another) home on Nantucket

Ginkgo Bioworks to slash labor costs, jobs

Home prices in New Hampshire set yet another record in April

politics

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Freeland, Mich., on May 1.

Trump heading to Jersey Shore to rally ‘mega crowd’ in weekend break from hush money trial

Barron Trump, 18, won’t be serving as a Florida delegate to the Republican convention after all

US says Israel’s use of US arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete

Nation

House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Will you accept the election results? Republicans dodge the question.

Solar storm intensifies, filling skies with northern lights

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asks judge to dismiss ‘false’ claim that he, others raped 17-year-old girl

World

Students gathered around tents at a protest in support of Palestinians at Cambridge University in England on Tuesday.

British colleges are handling protests differently. Will it pay off?

Dutch contestant kicked out of Eurovision hours before tension-plagued song contest final

A renewed Russian offensive on Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine forces some 1,700 civilians to flee

opinion

I’m boring. So are you.

A sensory twist in the story of human evolution

Does focus on youth mental health do no harm? It’s debatable.

lifestyle

From left: the cover of "Shanghailanders," and its author, Juli Min.

Juli Min’s ‘Shanghailanders’ transports readers to the root of one family’s fractured relationships

There’s a good reason she didn’t respond …

What Mother’s Day cards should really say

food & dining

A rendering of CanalSide Food + Drink, opening this fall.

There’s a new food hall coming to Cambridge (and it will appeal to ‘90s ‘mall babies’)

For Providence Brewing Company, the American Dream is within reach

What is ‘queer food’? A conference at BU explores that question and others.

travel

Michael’s on the Hill, an elegant restaurant located in an 1820 farmhouse, serves classic, well-composed European fare, emphasizing local ingredients, like the crab cake shown here.

Waterbury, Vt.: The best little foodie town in New England

A trip to The Vermont Country Store is a trip back in time

Welcome to the most Vermont-ish village in the Green Mountain State

Arts

This fall at the Museum of Fine Arts, Anastasia Christophilopolou will begin as George D. and Margo Behrakis Chair, Art of Ancient Greece and Rome.

MFA appoints Anastasia Christophilopoulou as new chair of ancient Greek and Roman art

Two shows in Maine highlight Louise Nevelson, a giant of American Modernism

At Worcester Art Museum, photo show gives a different lay of the land

Books

From left: the cover of "Shanghailanders," and its author, Juli Min.

Juli Min’s ‘Shanghailanders’ transports readers to the root of one family’s fractured relationships

Jamaica Kincaid’s primer on colonialism’s flora resonates with history behind Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s honeyed memories

An homage to eros in new poetry collection; Roxbury book festival returns for a second year; and more

Movies

A scene from "Evil Does Not Exist," directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi on letting real life frame his new film, ‘Evil Does Not Exist’

Never see R-rated films with Mom — and other life lessons I learned movie-watching with my mother

‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ is a simian snore

Television

In Round 2, only one half of the "Wayne's World" tandem survived.

Bill Murray over Mike Myers? Voters again show that they prefer ‘SNL’ cast members of a certain vintage.

Belushi vs. Wiig. Murphy vs. Murray. Vote in Round 3 of our best ‘SNL’ cast member bracket.

TV’s Holocaust dramas are part remembrance, part warning

music

The 20 best albums of 2024 (so far)

Sarah Shook and the Disarmers: attitude with a twang

Crazy Horse’s Billy Talbot on Neil Young, the ragged glory of their live shows, and the road ahead

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet in Ken Ossola's "The Space Between."

Boston Ballet is in shape for Paris with ‘Spring Experience’

A Boston therapist assumed gay sons and their mothers had strong bonds. Then he heard more of their stories.

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

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

San Francisco 49ers Jimmy Johnson is shown in 1973.

Hall of Fame defensive back Jimmy Johnson dead at age 86

Pete McCloskey, GOP congressman who called for Nixon’s resignation, dies at 96

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