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YVONNE ABRAHAM

At a Pittsfield prep school, an alleged abuser had impunity for decades

Over three decades, students at Miss Hall’s School told adults that history teacher Matt Rutledge was preying on students. They were ignored and silenced.

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, the Martha’s Vineyard man charged in multiple stabbings Attacker ‘had a smile on his face’ and ‘laughed like the Joker,’ victim told police after movie theater stabbings

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 and his presidential bid

Chairs of Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Memorial Committee resign

Two Harvard University professors overseeing the creation of a public memorial dedicated to the enslaved people who helped shape the Ivy League institution resigned as co-chairs of the committee.

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.
Forecast | Ken Mahan

Cooler, rainy weather in store, peppered with thunderstorms

The storm system will exit during the afternoon, leaving New England with a beautiful stretch of sunny weather over the weekend.

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

Israel says it’s taken control of key area of Gaza’s border with Egypt awash in smuggling tunnels
Beth Teitell

A hysterectomy, an abandoned grocery cart, a secret Facebook identity. Karen Read obsession in three chapters.

It’s dictating people’s lives. One person scheduled surgery to maximize trial-watching time. Another sweats through boot camp with his phone in front of his mat. The case has become “my entire personality,” said another.

SUMMER READING PREVIEW
75 books we’re most excited to read this summer
The Globe’s annual summer reading preview features 75 books — fiction, nonfiction, romance, and mystery — we think you’ll want to slip into that beach bag, backpack, or picnic basket.

SURVEY SAYS | CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

From thrifty N.H. residents to Connecticut’s big spenders, here’s how much New Englanders spend on vacation

Vacation budgets ranged from about $1,900 to $2,600, with one glaring exception.

‘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.

Meet coordinator Alex Van Pelt, the man charged with reviving the Patriots offense
A veteran player and coach in the NFL, he is adept at building relationships, gaining trust, and developing confidence.

Bailey Zappe’s attitude is that he is competing for the Patriots’ starting quarterback job 98.5 The Sports Hub reaches 10-year extension to continue carrying Patriots games on radio
Money, Power, Inequality

Local council champions the AAPI business community, while dispelling model minority myth

The Asian Business Empowerment Council works with business owners, entrepreneurs, service providers, and advocates to amplify the voices of Massachusetts’ AAPI business community.
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.
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.”
Why the Celtics have to wait for the NBA Finals to begin
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, the photograph as reliquary

Wendel A. White’s "Manifest" shows the past emerging into a shared present.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Getting a grip on health care costs

Changes would affect hospital reimbursements and health care benchmarks.
IDEAS | MICHAEL COTTER

Factory farms vs. the Commonwealth

Ashley Groffenberger

Boston needs a temporary tax hike on commercial properties
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

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

Unkindest cuts of all at GBH
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

Alex Speier | On baseball
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.

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.

Here’s a partial list of June events in Massachusetts

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.”

PODCAST
Groundbreaking Judge DuBose talks about the turning point in her career
On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Judge Melissa R. DuBose discusses the decade she spent teaching in Providence schools and her decision to go to law school and become a prosecutor.

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

Ryan McDowell, 32, worked as an assistant golf professional for a golf management company that contracted with the city of Springfield to run its two municipal courses, acting US Attorney Joshua S. Levy’s office said in a statement issued Wednesday.

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.

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

JOAN VENNOCHI

The humbling of Harvard
SCOT LEHIGH

How I learned to get over my anxiety of flying
IDEAS | ROB HENDERSON

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

The law that ruined America’s immigration system
EDITORIAL

Booze, Boston, and Beacon Hill need to be shaken and stirred
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Money, Power, Inequality

Local council champions the AAPI business community, while dispelling model minority myth

The Asian Business Empowerment Council works with business owners, entrepreneurs, service providers, and advocates to amplify the voices of Massachusetts’ AAPI business community.
SURVEY SAYS | CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

From thrifty N.H. residents to Connecticut’s big spenders, here’s how much New Englanders spend on vacation

Vacation budgets ranged from about $1,900 to $2,600, with one glaring exception.
PODCAST

Groundbreaking Judge DuBose talks about the turning point in her career

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Judge Melissa R. DuBose discusses the decade she spent teaching in Providence schools and her decision to go to law school and become a prosecutor.
Forecast | Ken Mahan

Cooler, rainy weather in store, peppered with thunderstorms

The storm system will exit during the afternoon, leaving New England with a beautiful stretch of sunny weather over the weekend.

Sports

patriots

Meet coordinator Alex Van Pelt, the man charged with reviving the Patriots offense

A veteran player and coach in the NFL, he is adept at building relationships, gaining trust, and developing confidence.
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.
Alex Speier | On baseball

In the heavyweight AL East, the middling Red Sox cannot afford to be a middleweight puncher
Tara Sullivan

On a night when PWHL Boston lost Game 5, women’s hockey as a whole was the biggest winner

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

A hysterectomy, an abandoned grocery cart, a secret Facebook identity. Karen Read obsession in three chapters.

Three Massachusetts spellers eliminated during Scripps National Spelling Bee quarterfinals

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

sports

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

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

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

The US-built pier in Gaza broke apart. Here’s how we got here and what might be next.

Alito refuses calls for recusal over display of provocative flags

Biden and Harris reach out to Black voters in Philadelphia

Nation

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

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

World

Papua New Guinea landslide survivors slow to move to safer ground after hundreds buried

14 pro-democracy activists convicted, 2 acquitted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case

Iran opens registration for the June presidential election after Raisi died in a helicopter crash

opinion

The law that ruined America’s immigration system

We should be asking primary care doctors, ‘How was your day?’

Why study philosophy? Well, for one, because we’re humans.

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

From thrifty N.H. residents to Connecticut’s big spenders, here’s how much New Englanders spend on vacation

50 years later, I’m still falling for Taipei

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

Arts

At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, the photograph as reliquary

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

Books

75 books we’re most excited to read this summer

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

Author readings around Boston through June 1

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