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Despite the state’s efforts, Logan Airport continues to be a front line in the migrant crisis
On a recent night, it was deja vu at Terminal E, as people sprawled out to grab some shut-eye while travelers whisked by with their luggage, en route to Dublin or Doha, Istanbul or Zurich.

Migrant and other families may start losing emergency shelter coverage on Sept. 1, causing alarm among providers For Haitians who built a community in Rhode Island, dreams of returning home fade

Witness describes flirtatious text exchanges with Karen Read during testimony

Brian Higgins and Read exchanged flirty text messages and kissed once in the weeks before John O’Keefe was found fatally injured and covered in snow.
How Friday's testimony unfolded

Read the texts between Karen Read and ATF agent Brian Higgins: ‘You think you can handle me?’

ADRIAN WALKER

Dropping Harvard ‘assault’ case would be justice

Though the incident attracted little local notice at the time, it immediately became a cause celebre in right-wing circles.

Justice Sotomayor describes frustration with being a liberal on the Supreme Court during Harvard speech
Sotomayor spoke to a crowd Friday at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, where she was being honored.

Three injured in vehicle fires in Ted Williams Tunnel; ramps reopened, MassDOT says

Drug giant Takeda plans more than 640 layoffs in Massachusetts

The state's largest drug maker by headcount confirmed Friday that it plans to lay off hundreds of local employees between early July and next March.

BU to change the name of dorm named for English colonist who massacred Native Americans

Trump will address the Libertarian Party convention as he goes after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

 Prosecutors seek to bar Trump in classified files case from statements endangering law enforcement

Body of man in wetsuit found in Dublin Pond in New Hampshire

Roslindale man charged in two antisemitic acts in Newton

It’s been four years since the pandemic shutdowns. Riders in Boston are still waiting extra long for the train.

The lag represents a so-far unfulfilled promise by T General Manager Phillip Eng, who on his first day a little over a year ago vowed to “restore service for people.”

The YIMBYs are coming, to the suburbs
There's a fast-growing network of new advocacy groups that have sprung up in suburbs across Greater Boston, whose members go to public meetings to say yes to more housing development, instead of no.

Wayfair goes brick-and-mortar with first big-box store. Take a look inside.
A giant new store in suburban Chicago is part of the Boston-based online retailer’s foray into the physical world.

ANALYSIS | James Pindell

The now-controversial flag flown at Justice Alito’s beach house? It’s rooted in Massachusetts.

A version of the Pine Tree Flag is still in use in Massachusetts today.
Democratic senators request meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over flags flown at Alito’s homes

Healey attended last night’s White House state dinner. It wasn’t on her list of public events.
The White House publicized the guest list, while wire photos and video showed Governor Maura Healey and her partner, Joanna Lydgate, walking past American and Kenyan flags and into the dinner.

In Rome, Healey and Wu partner on tackling climate change. At home, not as much. Healey names former City Councilor O’Malley to BPDA board
THE FINE PRINT

Senate votes to prohibit seizing home equity in municipal tax-taking cases

Critics of a practice they call “home equity theft” hailed the vote as a major step forward in a years-long effort to protect the equity homeowners have in property taken from them due to delinquent property taxes.

From oil to electricity: New England’s biggest battery facility could soon rise in Everett

Jupiter Power’s proposal to build grid-scale batteries across 20 acres would be among the largest such project in New England.
Massachusetts moves to add more EV charging on highways, but not from Tesla
BREWERS 7, RED SOX 2

Red Sox hit with series-opening loss in return home after Brewers tag Kutter Crawford for six runs

Crawford gave up three runs in each of the third and fifth innings in the Sox starter’s shortest outing of the season.
After early struggles, David Hamilton regroups and starts to contribute for Red Sox on regular basis
LOVE LETTERS

I have a boyfriend — and a crush on my friend, who’s a woman

Do I stay with him — or discover more about my sexuality?
WNBA

Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever win first game of season in road victory over LA Sparks

Clark had 11 points and 10 rebounds for her first WNBA double-double as the Fever beat the Sparks, 78-73, to snap a season-opening five-game skid.
Opinion
IDEAS | WHITNEY ELLENBY

My son is profoundly autistic. Please don’t say he’s merely ‘neurodiverse.’

It's dangerous to eliminate terminology that accurately describes thousands of people with severe disabilities.
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

The Supreme Court is a potential threat to our democracy
SCOT LEHIGH

Here’s how blue state voters can help the Democrats’ swing-state efforts
LETTERS

MBTA Communities law has people talking about housing. That’s progress.
Christopher Weyant

We’re going to need a bigger boat
AAPI Heritage Month
SHIRLEY LEUNG

In Malden, the booming Asian community could soon have a place of their own

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

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

Eight restaurants to eat at for AAPI Heritage Month

More recent News

‘I was always one of the boys,’ 102-year-old Zecil Gravitz of Canton recalls her Navy service during WWII
A Navy veteran of World War II, Zecil Gravitz served at a time when there were no warm uniforms or antibiotics. Female and Jewish soldiers were even more sparse. She was both.

Louisiana governor signs bill making abortion drugs controlled dangerous substances
Opponents of the measure included many physicians who said the drugs have other critical reproductive health care uses, and that changing the classification could make it harder to prescribe the drugs.

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53
Mr. Spurlock was an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet.

Involuntary manslaughter allegation against Alec Baldwin advances toward trial with new court ruling
A New Mexico judge has rejected a request by Alec Baldwin to dismiss the sole criminal charge against him in a fatal shooting on the set of ‘Rust.'

pwhl minnesota 4, pwhl boston 1
PWHL Boston’s season is on the brink after losing Game 3 to Minnesota in Walter Cup finals
Boston has to win Sunday to force a deciding fifth game. On Friday, it got as close as 2-1 on a Alina Müller goal in the final minute of the second period.

If at first you don’t succeed, try another commission? State Senate seeks new panel to change controversial Mass. flag.
Months after a commission failed to agree on a substitute for Massachusetts’s controversial state seal, the state Senate voted late Thursday to create another panel to propose a new seal, flag, and motto for the state, this time by next year.

The US defense secretary will visit Cambodia, one of China’s closest allies, after regional talks

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is scheduled to make an official visit to Cambodia, one of China’s closest allies in Southeast Asia, after holding talks with his Chinese counterpart at an annual security conference in Singapore

The bodies of three more hostages are recovered from Gaza by the Israeli army

Israel is also expecting a ruling Friday afternoon by the International Court of Justice to decide on an urgent plea by South Africa to order Israel to cease operations.
Top UN court orders Israel to halt military operation in Rafah; Israel unlikely to comply

Independent commission probes law enforcement communication amid reports of ‘chaotic’ police response to Maine mass shooting

The state commission investigating law enforcement's response to the Oct. 25 mass shooting that killed 18 in Lewiston focused Friday on communication among multiple agencies.

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Retracing the deep Celtics roots of Pacers coach Rick Carlisle, and other thoughts

Carlisle was here for three seasons in the 1980s — he was on the legendary 1986 champions — and has seen a lot of changes in the NBA game.

Could Martha’s Vineyard run out of weed?
Two cannabis businesses on the Vineyard and Nantucket warn that strict shipping rules could crimp supply on the islands. They’re suing to change them.

So you want to be a working musician in Greater Boston? Here’s what it takes.
The region’s cost-of-living crunch has not spared performers like Trama and his craft. Real estate prices are squeezing small performance venues and performers alike.

‘Part of the further fracturing of American society’: GBH’s suspension of ‘Basic Black’ seen as troubling media trend
GBH suspended the TV program on Wednesday as part of cost-cutting measures. Longtime viewers and contributors worry that its audience won’t be able to find the type of programming anywhere else.

Culture & Lifestyle

A fans’ guide to Boston Calling: Performance times, food lineup, and everything you need to know

In the Huntington’s ‘Toni Stone,’ a player in a league of her own

As the Rolling Stones prepare to hit Gillette, here’s a tour through their recent live releases

So many ways to savor Memorial Day weekend in and around Boston

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

IDEAS | ALEXANDRA STYRON

The problem with campus protests is not cruelty but ignorance
EDITORIAL

Why a contested mayor’s race in 2025 would be a good thing

IDEAS | Mattia Ferraresi

Banning TikTok won’t fix the deeper problems posed by Big Tech
Renée Graham

In praise of Jacob’s big gay life on ‘Abbott Elementary’
IDEAS | BART TOCCI

I got dumped by the Unemployment office. Would they take me back?
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Weekend Forecast | Ken Mahan

It’s a great start but soggy finish for Memorial Day weekend

Saturday and Sunday are looking like the best bets for cook-outs and other gatherings, minus a few spot showers.

Three injured in vehicle fires in Ted Williams Tunnel; ramps reopened, MassDOT says

The three people were taken to local hospitals as a result of the e fires that broke out early Friday evening on Interstate 93 north, officials said.

Roslindale man charged in two antisemitic acts in Newton

Alexei Rodriguez allegedly drove an SUV with a Palestinian flag toward two Jewish children wearing yarmulkes in April, and also allegedly tore down blue ribbons honoring Israeli hostages from near a Jewish community center on Tuesday.

Witness describes flirtatious text exchanges with Karen Read during testimony

Brian Higgins and Read exchanged flirty text messages and kissed once in the weeks before John O’Keefe was found fatally injured and covered in snow.

Sports

WNBA

Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever win first game of season in road victory over LA Sparks

Clark had 11 points and 10 rebounds for her first WNBA double-double as the Fever beat the Sparks, 78-73, to snap a season-opening five-game skid.
Bob Ryan

Thoughts on some great golf, the NFL schedule, and other topics in the sports world

Nelly Korda’s feat of winning six tournaments in her last seven tries is astonishing, and reminds us of Tiger Woods in his prime.
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Goodrow’s overtime snipe for the Rangers evens Eastern Conference finals against the Panthers

Vincent Trocheck scored early and Igor Shesterkin made 26 saves for New York, which seemed buoyed by the return of tough guy Matt Rempe in the lineup.
BREWERS 7, RED SOX 2

Red Sox hit with series-opening loss in return home after Brewers tag Kutter Crawford for six runs
High schools

Boys’ volleyball roundup: Lincoln-Sudbury battles back to beat Brookline in 4 sets

Business

Wayfair goes brick-and-mortar with first big-box store. Take a look inside.

A giant new store in suburban Chicago is part of the Boston-based online retailer’s foray into the physical world.

The YIMBYs are coming, to the suburbs

There's a fast-growing network of new advocacy groups that have sprung up in suburbs across Greater Boston, whose members go to public meetings to say yes to more housing development, instead of no.

Drug giant Takeda plans more than 640 layoffs in Massachusetts
THE FINE PRINT

Senate votes to prohibit seizing home equity in municipal tax-taking cases
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Summer Travel

30 ways to have the perfect Cape Cod vacation

GLOBE MAGAZINE

We set out to kayak the entire Charles River. It was that or pickleball.
Things to do

40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

metro

Independent commission probes law enforcement communication amid reports of ‘chaotic’ police response to Maine mass shooting

‘I was always one of the boys,’ 102-year-old Zecil Gravitz of Canton recalls her Navy service during WWII

Catch up on the Karen Read trial, in 60 seconds

sports

Norwell’s Liliana MacDonald heats up the track in Day 1 of Division 5 state meet

Eli Merritt propels Wellesley boys’ track to first place after Day 1 of Division 2 state meet

After early struggles, David Hamilton regroups and starts to contribute for Red Sox on regular basis

business

From oil to electricity: New England’s biggest battery facility could soon rise in Everett

Healey names former city councilor O’Malley to BPDA board

In CVS’s home state, pharmacists in 2 retail stores vote to unionize

politics

Vice president announces commitment to increase internet access in Africa

Trump will address the Libertarian Party convention as he goes after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Prosecutors seek to bar Trump in classified files case from statements endangering law enforcement

Nation

Involuntary manslaughter allegation against Alec Baldwin advances toward trial with new court ruling

Kamala Harris is gaining swing-state voters’ trust to step in for Biden

Louisiana governor signs bill making abortion drugs controlled dangerous substances

World

The US defense secretary will visit Cambodia, one of China’s closest allies, after regional talks

Millions vote in India’s grueling election with Prime Minister Modi’s party likely to win a 3rd term

Emergency convoy takes provisions to survivors of devastating landslide in Papua New Guinea

opinion

Social Studies: A fast-growing American moneymaking scheme; another reason to hate rats; fertile ground for Republicans

Taiwan’s thriving democracy struts its stuff as Beijing fumes

To be on the right side of history

lifestyle

The siblings who changed how we party

I have a boyfriend — and a crush on my friend, who’s a woman

Ed Sheeran and Reneé Rapp attend Boston Celtics game at TD Garden

food & dining

It’s patio weather! Here are some of the best ones around.

What’s open and closed on Memorial Day in Massachusetts

A new Citrus & Salt comes to Fort Point

travel

Memorial Day travelers withstand higher prices in the hurry to kick off summer fun

Forget the beach: This is the most kid-friendly spot in Hyannis

They’re sweet on the Cape: Who needs Wonka when you’ve got caramels with local sea salt and freeze-dried Skittles?

Arts

At ICA’s Watershed, Hew Locke’s rough pageant of humanity

A portrait of Princess Kate is drawing backlash. Is it really that bad?

The West End Museum reopens after two-year closure because of flooding

Books

New wisdom from 826 Boston, a memoir of circus life, and a bookstore springs up in Springfield

Author readings around Boston through June 1

Local bestsellers for the week ended May 19

Movies

It’s no wonder I love the flicks I do. Like so many filmmakers and fans, I got my movie education from Roger Corman.

Jennifer Lopez says ‘you know better than that’ when asked about Ben Affleck rumors

‘Hit Man’: Richard Linklater’s comic neo-noir is right on target

Television

‘Dexter: Original Sin’ will present serial killer’s origin story

TV shows that are tapped out after one season don’t know when to stop

‘Interview With the Vampire’ remains compelling in season 2

music

Ed Sheeran and Reneé Rapp attend Boston Celtics game at TD Garden

As the Rolling Stones prepare to hit Gillette, here’s a tour through their recent live releases

Cape Cod mansion owned by Harry Connick Jr. hits market for $12.5 million

Theater/Dance

‘Gatsby’ arrives at the ART, driven by a powerhouse creative team

In the Huntington’s ‘Toni Stone,’ a player in a league of her own

ArtsEmerson’s 2024-25 season includes a musical inspired by a viral video of inmates dancing to ‘Thriller’

Health

In CVS’s home state, pharmacists in 2 retail stores vote to unionize

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

Obituaries

Shirley Conran, author best known for the steamy ‘Lace,’ dies at 91

Joe Zucker, prolific painter of innumerable styles, dies at 82

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53