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Jurors in Trump’s hush money trial zero in on testimony of key witnesses as deliberations resume

The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is to resume deliberations after asking to rehear potentially crucial testimony about the alleged hush money scheme at the heart of the history-making case.
What happens now that the jury is deliberating?

Here’s what former Trump Cabinet officials and aides have said about him

Cambridge School Committee votes in favor of superintendent’s resignation
Victoria Greer joined Cambridge as interim superintendent in July 2021 and was named permanent superintendent in 2022.

Vineyard police reports detail erratic behavior of man accused in stabbing rampage

Police sought to have Jared Ravizza held over his mental-health issues, but an evaluator declined to do so.
What to know about Jared Ravizza Attacker ‘had a smile on his face’ and ‘laughed like the Joker,’ victim told police after Braintree movie theater stabbings

Acting US attorney says office has rebounded in wake of Rachael Rollins ethics scandal

A year after US Attorney Rachael Rollins resigned on the heels of two government watchdog investigations that found she repeatedly committed ethical violations and misused the power of her office, her successor, Joshua Levy, said Wednesday that the office has rebounded from the scandal.

Warren, Markey speak to threats facing national abortion access at Boston hearing

Boeing reaches deadline for reporting how it will fix aircraft safety and quality problems

Former Springfield golf pro sentenced for skimming more than $100k from city-owned golf courses

Gaza offensive to last at least to year’s end, Israeli official says

Chairs of Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Memorial Committee resign

‘He’s an adopted son’: The three-decade love affair between Gloucester and Sebastian Junger

When "The Perfect Storm" came out in 1997, it forever changed the story of Sebastian Junger, and the city of Gloucester.

Tara Sullivan | PWHL Walter Cup Finals: Minnesota 3, Boston 0
On a night when PWHL Boston lost Game 5, women’s hockey as a whole was the biggest winner
That Wednesday night’s game was such a hot ticket is a testament to what the PWHL has built in such a relatively short time.

Boston denied PWHL championship by Minnesota in Game 5 of Walter Cup Finals

Alex Speier | ORIOLES 6, RED SOX 1
In the heavyweight AL East, the middling Red Sox cannot afford to be a middleweight puncher
The Sox have played 21 games spanning seven series against teams that are at least five games over .500 this year. They are now 5-16 in those contests, and 0-7 in those series.

Red Sox lose series to Orioles on Gunnar Henderson’s grand slam Dustin Pedroia and Jonathan Papelbon were obvious for Red Sox Hall of Fame but Trot Nixon was stunned to be in Class of 2024
TABLES

Sally’s Apizza to open in Dorchester and Concord

Another shop is already underway in the Seaport. Plus, Bow Market gets bigger.
patriots

Bailey Zappe’s attitude is that he is competing for the Patriots’ starting quarterback job

The team invested significant resources in the quarterback position this offseason, but Zappe doesn't plan to alter his approach.
98.5 The Sports Hub reaches 10-year extension to continue carrying Patriots games on radio

Stop & Shop to close underperforming stores, but company won’t release locations

Top managers have recently completed a review of its business operations, leading to the conclusion that some stores have to go.
beat writer's notebook

Bill Walton memories, Wyc Grousbeck’s title optimism, Jaylen Brown’s MVP run, and other Celtics musings

"I think this team is different from teams that have gone before,” said Grousbeck. “They’ve got a warrior mentality and they’re a unified force."

More than a dozen ways to celebrate Pride Month in the Greater Boston area

In addition to the celebrations highlighted here, many towns and businesses in the Greater Boston area are hosting local Pride festivals, block parties, and bar crawls.
Happy Pride! Here’s a partial list of events to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community all June in Massachusetts.
Opinion
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

No matter who becomes Trump’s running mate, Americans lose

Trump’s veepstakes is proving the corruptible lure of proximity to his despotic power, even for those who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution.
JOAN VENNOCHI

The humbling of Harvard
SCOT LEHIGH

Do you panic when your flight hits turbulence?
IDEAS | ROB HENDERSON

Don’t be a stranger: The power of renewing old friendships
JEFF JACOBY

The law that ruined America’s immigration system
AAPI Heritage Month

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

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

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

Car slams into historic Norwell home causing ‘significant damage,’ officials say
“There was significant damage done to the historic home,” wrote Chief David Kean of the Norwell Fire Department in an email Wednesday. “The building commissioner deemed it limited access until it was stabilized and evaluated by an engineer.”

Three Massachusetts spellers eliminated during Scripps National Spelling Bee quarterfinals
Each competitor was eliminated Wednesday morning, leaving just 45 qualifiers to tackle multiple-choice vocabulary questions and spelling assignments later that night, according to the bee’s website.

Justice Department objects to Steward’s timetable for selling its doctors network
The move could affect Steward’s ability to raise new money from a lender as it unwinds its assets.

A whole bunch of New Englanders battle it out on this season of NBC’s ‘American Ninja Warrior’
The field includes big talents from a Fall River gym.

Weekend Forecast | Dave Epstein
We’re looking at a beauty of a weekend with plenty of sunshine
Saturday and Sunday will be comfortable in the 70s, a little cooler at the beach but not by much.

FEMA disaster recovery centers open in Leominster and Attleboro for those hit by catastrophic flooding last fall
Leominster officials are urging people affected by the flooding to contact the Federal Emergency Management Agency, even if they already did so in September.

Recommended reads

2024 summer olympics

Wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and threat of terrorism, loom over Paris Olympics this summer

Paris elevated its terror threat to maximum two months ago, and the opening ceremony will be conducted amid the heaviest security in Olympic history.

Gas interests helped take down climate regulations in Berkeley, Calif. Massachusetts could be next.
A coalition of groups is considering a lawsuit to try and halt the state's ambitious plans to combat climate change, according to recordings from recent industry meetings.

Globe Magazine
Gifted and talented programs are vanishing from schools. That’s a bigger problem than you think.
Public schools in other states offer more support for gifted children than Massachusetts does. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Levels of COVID in Mass. waste water tick up with arrival of new ‘FLiRT’ variants
Here’s what experts say you need to know about KP.2 and KP.3.

Culture & Lifestyle

‘Bodkin’ can’t get beyond only murders

Boston Calling says it was ‘several thousand below’ capacity despite some complaints about crowd size

A Boston filmmaker looks to slay dragons, and Hollywood, with help from Dane Cook

From P!nk to Kenny Chesney, here’s your guide to summer concert season at Gillette

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

EDITORIAL

Booze, Boston, and Beacon Hill need to be shaken and stirred
JOAN VENNOCHI

Let’s talk about Donald Trump and American flags
Mark Borrelli

A solution for coastal erosion: managed retreat
Heather Hopp-Bruce

My father’s tools
Drew Gilpin Faust

US higher education is endangered
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Three Massachusetts spellers eliminated during Scripps National Spelling Bee quarterfinals

Each competitor was eliminated Wednesday morning, leaving just 45 qualifiers to tackle multiple-choice vocabulary questions and spelling assignments later that night, according to the bee’s website.

Happy Pride! Here’s a partial list of events to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community all June in Massachusetts.

Parades, performances, and celebrations will be spread across Boston and surrounding communities during Pride Month in June. Here’s a list of upcoming events.

Chairs of Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Memorial Committee resign

Tracy K. Smith, an English professor, and Dan I. Byers, director of the university’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, reportedly stepped down over frustrations with senior Harvard administrators who were trying to rush their process, according to The Harvard Crimson, which was first to report the resignations Wednesday.

Vineyard police reports detail erratic behavior of man accused in stabbing rampage

Police sought to have Jared Ravizza held over his mental-health issues, but an evaluator declined to do so.

Sports

Wednesday's schools roundup

Monomoy boys’ tennis advances to next round of MIAA Division 4 tournament with win over Rockport

Ryan Casey (1-6, 6-3, 6-1) and Roman Pavluchenko (6-2, 7-6) won their singles matches to power the 13th-seeded Sharks.
OILERS 5, STARS 2 | WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS

Oilers roar back, even Western Conference finals with five-goal outburst to beat Stars

Wyatt Johnson and Esa Lindell scored as Dallas raced to a 2-0 lead in the first 5½ minutes, only for Mattias Janmark and Leon Draisaitl to answer in a 51-second span of the second period.
MIAA girls' tennis

No. 14 Brookline rolls into next round of MIAA Division 1 girls’ tennis tournament after a dominant win over No. 19 Methuen

Persistence was a key ingredient for the Warriors.
Tara Sullivan

On a night when PWHL Boston lost Game 5, women’s hockey as a whole was the biggest winner
PWHL Walter Cup Finals: Minnesota 3, Boston 0

Boston denied PWHL championship by Minnesota in Game 5 of Walter Cup Finals

Business

Boeing reaches deadline for reporting how it will fix aircraft safety and quality problems

Boeing is due to tell federal regulators how it plans to fix the safety and quality problems that have plagued its aircraft-manufacturing work in recent years.

Authorities arrest man allegedly running ‘likely world’s largest ever’ cybercrime botnet

Justice said in a news release that Yunhe Wang, 35, was arrested May 24. It did not say where and department officials did not immediately respond to a query on that.

After layoffs, Akili Interactive acquired by Seattle-area firm Virtual Therapeutics

TALKING POINTS

Clean Energy Ventures closes second funding round
magazine
Summer Travel

Gifted and talented programs are vanishing from schools. That’s a bigger problem than you think.
LOVE LETTERS

My fiancé and I aren’t sure we should go through with the wedding
PERSPECTIVE

I’m a normal mom, I swear. So how did my kids turn out so bougie?
Cooking

Sweet treats for strawberry season

metro

Acting US attorney says office has rebounded in wake of Rachael Rollins ethics scandal

Cambridge School Committee votes in favor of superintendent’s resignation

Warren, Markey speak to threats facing national abortion access at Boston hearing

sports

Red Sox lose series to Orioles on Gunnar Henderson’s grand slam

Mets will cut reliever Jorge López after he heaved his glove into the crowd during blowout by Dodgers

Dustin Pedroia and Jonathan Papelbon were obvious for Red Sox Hall of Fame but Trot Nixon was stunned to be in Class of 2024

business

ConocoPhillips to acquire Marathon Oil in $22.5 billion deal

How to tell if your older vehicle has a potentially dangerous Takata air bag under recall

Brown University to launch new School of International and Public Affairs

politics

Alito refuses calls for recusal over display of provocative flags

Biden and Harris reach out to Black voters in Philadelphia

‘Are you with me?’ Biden and Harris launch Black voter outreach and warn of a second Trump term.

Nation

VP Harris to address US Air Force Academy graduates

Jurors in Trump’s hush money trial zero in on testimony of key witnesses as deliberations resume

Power outages could linger for days after storms batter Texas again, leaving 1 dead

World

Israel used US-made bombs in strike that killed dozens in Rafah

Hong Kong court convicts 14 pro-democracy activists in the city’s biggest national security case

Gaza offensive to last at least to year’s end, Israeli official says

opinion

Palestinian lives and Netanyahu’s latest ‘tragic accident’ in Gaza

May I have a word: A breacher of aisle etiquette

Project labor agreements are bad policy

lifestyle

More than a dozen ways to celebrate Pride Month in the Greater Boston area

TikTok rediscovers an old rural beauty secret

My partner’s mother is breaking the law

food & dining

Sally’s Apizza to open in Dorchester and Concord

More than one-third of adults in Mass. experienced limited access to adequate food last year, new report says

In Boston, omakase is having a moment

travel

50 years later, I’m still falling for Taipei

US airports set a new record: The most passengers screened in one day

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

Arts

How do you sit still and get paid at the same time? Try becoming a nude, figure-drawing model.

The many selves of Gearóid Dolan, MIT instructor, activist, and costumed artist

Free events happening across Boston on Memorial Day and beyond

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

Cabot director addresses Richard Dreyfuss rant that sparked ‘wave of walkouts’

Albert Ruddy, Oscar-winning producer of ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ dies at 94

A Boston filmmaker looks to slay dragons, and Hollywood, with help from Dane Cook

Television

A whole bunch of New Englanders battle it out on this season of NBC’s ‘American Ninja Warrior’

In ‘Eric,’ a distraught puppeteer turns to his right-hand man

We haven’t seen the last of ‘The Last of Us’

music

Boston Calling says it was ‘several thousand below’ capacity despite some complaints about crowd size

From P!nk to Kenny Chesney, here’s your guide to summer concert season at Gillette

Variety is the spice of Boston Calling, and Megan Thee Stallion is the spiciest of all

Theater/Dance

At Vilna Shul synagogue, the souls of the dead are stirring

‘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

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

Sue Johnson, psychologist who took a scientific view of love, dies at 76

Stanley Goldstein, who helped start and build the CVS drugstore empire, dies at 89

Joseph Slavet, ‘fearless’ and thoughtful watchdog of Boston government, dies at 104