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‘Rats and bedbugs and roaches and mold’: Dismal conditions found at some hotels sheltering homeless families and migrants

State inspectors have yet to set foot in most of the hotels rented at taxpayer expense, failing to ensure that the hastily arranged accommodations meet basic health and safety standards. When they do, the results are often dismal.

Jennifer Lopez cancels summer tour: ‘I am completely heartsick and devastated’
“Jennifer is taking time off to be with her children, family and close friends,” they said in a statement.

Five women ordained as deacons by the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

Four of the new deacons plan to continue their formation and be ordained as priests as the church nears the 50th anniversary of the ordination of its first female priests.

34 in police custody after pro-Palestinian protest at Brooklyn Museum, damage to artwork reported

Hundreds of protesters marched to the museum on Friday afternoon, set up tents in the lobby and unfurled a “Free Palestine” banner from the building’s roof before police moved in to make arrests.

Israel describes a permanent cease-fire in Gaza as a ‘nonstarter,’ undermining Biden’s proposal

FILE - In this March 30, 1981 file photo, Secret Service agents and police officers swarm a gunman, obscured from view, after he attempted an assassination on President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton hotel. A federal judge in Washington is holding what is expected to be the final hearing for would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley before he is released from restrictive conditions he has lived under since he shot the president in 1981. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

AP photographer Ron Edmonds, who took Pulitzer-winning photos of Reagan shooting, has died

Money, Power, Inequality

The wage gap for Latinas persists in Boston and beyond

The findings trouble Latina advocacy groups, who attribute the inequities to cultural and gender-specific obstacles that have slowed the economic growth of Latinas in Massachusetts and across the country.

A pilot was injured after he crashed into the woods near a Danbury, N.H., home on Saturday, New Hampshire State Police said.

Pilot injured in helicopter crash in N.H.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, wearing Boeing spacesuits, prepared to board the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Boeing’s first astronaut flight halted at the last minute

Chad Daybell sentenced to death for killing wife and girlfriend’s 2 children in jury decision

Maine sheriff denies that officers who responded to mass shooting had been drinking

Thousands took part in the 2023 Pride parade which started in Copley Square.

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.

Drag storytime kicks off Pride Month at Cambridge Public Library Happy Pride! Here’s a partial list of events to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community all June in Massachusetts.

Dounia Antoine, from Haiti, sings on stage during the Commission on Immigrant Rights and Citizenship (CIRC) celebration to welcome and appreciate immigrant communities in Cambridge Friday evening.

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‘We’re safe here’: In Cambridge, a welcome celebration for immigrants

“It’s important to live our values,” said Cambridge City Councilor Sumbul Siddiqui, who moved to the US as a small child from Pakistan.

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.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Kendrick Perkins already enjoying the Kristaps Porzingis story line in the NBA Finals
The NBA analyst wondered how it would look if Porzingis and the Celtics beat Doncic and the Mavericks to win a championship.

Dan Shaughnessy: It’s the Celtics’ time to end our championship drought

All systems go for Kristaps Porzingis at Celtics practice
Coach Joe Mazzulla said Porzingis looked good in drills, but noted that the intensity level at practice wasn’t as high as it will be in the coming days.

gary washburn | on basketball

The Celtics’ path to victory may lie in managing expectations, treating NBA Finals like any other games

Bob Freedy, 77, of Chippewa Falls, Wis, sat in Sid Harvey's Family Diner in the city. He said the felony conviction of former president Donald Trump won't dissuade him from voting for him again in November.

‘It won’t make any difference.’ In this Wisconsin community, Trump’s conviction isn’t a game-changer

Wisconsin's narrowly divided electorate is being heavily targeted by both the Trump and Biden campaigns.

Time to ‘fight back’: GOP out for revenge after Trump conviction Trump has few ways to overturn his conviction as a New York felon

Three dates with a Trump supporter

They were good dates. But ... can it work?

More from love letters: Is my daughter’s boyfriend gay?

Former second baseman Dustin Pedroia (left) was inducted into the Red sox Hall of Fame last week.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Ever the gamer, Dustin Pedroia may fall short of Baseball Hall of Fame for one key reason

What Pedroia has in his favor is that he’s the only second baseman to win all the awards he did and he was a two-time World Series champion.

Red Sox 6, Tigers 3: Enmanuel Valdez powers undermanned Red Sox lineup past Tigers

With the NFL's new kickoff rules, there’s only one line of defense to beat, which could result in a lot of big returns.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

NFL teams are starting to practice the new kickoff rules, and no one knows how it’s all going to work

The new rules are perhaps the most drastic change to the sport since the forward pass was legalized in 1933.

Dave Goucher (left), who calls Las Vegas Knights games with Shane Hnidy, seems to be the ideal choice to call the Bruins on NESN next season.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

NESN calling on candidates to follow Jack Edwards for Bruins games

According a potential candidate, NESN is putting together a group of prospective play-by-play voices to audition at its Watertown studios.

The Bruins will have money available when NHL free agency opens July 1, but how should they spend it?

Opinion

Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump left Trump Tower in New York City on May 31.

The view from the right on Trump’s conviction

Even conservatives critical of the former president balked at a trial that many of them saw as an abuse of the justice system.

IDEAS | JOSHUA PEDERSON

Our health care workers are suffering from more than burnout

For climate change deniers, a strategy of distraction, deception, and delay

Will Trump’s convictions matter?

We have a verdict

More recent News

The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority
The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.

Mass. man killed by tractor-trailer on Maine Turnpike in Kittery after crashing car into entrance of weigh station
Chhoeunly Phoeung, 36, was struck by a tractor-trailer in Kittery, Maine State Police said in a statement Saturday.

Acetylene tank explodes in car, seriously injures Holden man
Neighbors rushed to pull the man out from under the vehicle that sustained “catastrophic damage,” the state fire marshal’s office said in a statement Saturday.

Mexico set to elect first female president

The milestone is a reflection of the country’s complex relationship to women, who face rampant violence and rank sexism, yet are also revered as matriarchs and trusted in positions of authority.

Woman killed in late night shooting in Dorchester
The shooting occurred in the area of 36 Edson St., where police responded about 11:15 p.m. to a report of gunshots, police said in a statement Saturday.

Driver dead, two children seriously injured, after car crashes into Eel River off Route 3 in Plymouth

Daniel Zilinski, 50, of Plymouth, was identified Saturday as the driver killed when his 2015 Nissan Rogue went off the road on Route 3 south, State Police said.

Recommended reads

One of the cabanas that guests can rent at the Freebird Motor Lodge in West Yarmouth.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Can a 1970s Cape Cod hotel with a slick makeover balance Instagram-ready style with substance?

I'll admit, I was a little worried when the amicable desk clerk at the Freebird Motor Lodge in West Yarmouth told me that “most of the people who come here find us through Instagram." Here's what happened next.

Man accused of killing his stepdaughter in Acton had been awaiting trial on rape charges for close to three years
Juliano F. Santana had been free on bail since 2021. He was slated to stand trial in July.

GLOBE MAGAZINE

Smiles, tears, and a spitting llama: Untold tales from the Stone Zoo
Zookeeper Sandra Elliott shares some of her favorite stories from four decades in Stoneham.

Public funds covered $30k in transit, hotels for Mass. governor’s trip to Italy
The Massachusetts Tourism Trust Fund, which is funded in part by casino revenue, picked up the tab for Governor Maura Healey’s May trip to Italy.

Culture & Lifestyle

Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell in “The Americans,” which gave us six tense seasons then ended just before it could start to feel padded.

When shows are exactly the right size, that’s perfection

Exterior of MIT's Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing.

MIT adds another architectural standout to its collection

Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones perform at Gillette Stadium Thursday night.

At Gillette, the Rolling Stones come out rocking with songs and a spirit that never get old

Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson leading the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra at Teatr Wiekli in Warsaw.

Beethoven’s utopian Ninth in a world riven by violence

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.

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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

A supporter of former president Donald Trump waved an inverted American flag during a demonstration outside Trump Tower, May 31, in New York.

Americans must reject Trump’s assault on rationality

People checked their phones as the guilty verdict of former president Donald Trump was reported, at Trump Tower on May 30.

Erwin Chemerinsky

Trump verdict: No one is above the law

After some grousing about too much walking a day earlier, my nieces seemed to enjoy our stroll around Jamaica Pond.

My Gen Z weekend

President Calvin Coolidge on May 9, 1924.

The law that ruined America’s immigration system

A customer has his glass of wine filled while spending the evening at Rebel, Rebel in Somerville

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

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Pilot injured in helicopter crash in N.H.

Investigators say the pilot lost control of the helicopter near a landing site in Danbury, N.H., and crashed into the wood line that surrounds the property early Saturday afternoon, according to New Hampshire State Police.

Drag storytime kicks off Pride Month at Cambridge Public Library

For the sixth year in a row, the library turned its typical Saturday-morning read-along activity into a drag-themed story event to celebrate Pride Month.

Five women ordained as deacons by the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

Four of the new deacons plan to continue their formation and be ordained as priests as the church nears the 50th anniversary of the ordination of its first female priests.

Maine sheriff denies that officers who responded to mass shooting had been drinking

Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce said in a statement Wednesday that all of those officers were on duty or had just attended training before Lewiston police requested their assistance.

Sports

Vladimir Tarasenko (right) celebrates his third-period goal for the Panthers against the Rangers during the third period in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference final Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla.

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Panthers vanquish Rangers to return to the Stanley Cup Final for a second straight year

For the 11th consecutive year, the team that finished with the NHL's best regular-season record won't win the Cup.

Michigan sophomore Fred Richard, a native of Stoughton, celebrates after competing on the rings Saturday during the 2024 US gymnastics championships in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Stoughton’s Frederick Richard finishes second at the US gymnastics championships

Brody Malone completed his comeback from major reconstructive right knee surgery by winning his third national title.

idfielder Carles Gil (10) got the Revolution off on the right foot Saturday against host Nashville with a first-half goal.

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Carles Gil, Esmir Bajraktarevic score to propel the Revolution to their third victory of the MLS season

Gil registered an assist, while goalkeeper Aljaz Ivacic saved a penalty before conceding a goal on one.

MIAA MEET OF CHAMPIONS

Westford’s Paul Bergeron ends career with golden mile at Meet of Champions

Robert MacIntyre, aiming for his first PGA Tour win, owns a lead over the Canadian Open’s local favorite

MIAA BASEBALL ROUNDUP

Senior Brett Mulligan finishes the job again for No. 10 Catholic Memorial baseball

Business

Boeing’s first astronaut flight halted at the last minute

The aborted launch was the latest in a string of delays over the years.

Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels

The Gunas have tried to reinforce the island’s edge with rocks, pilings, and coral, but seawater keeps coming.

Moderna’s vaccine for RSV gets FDA approval for people 60 and older

Report: Boston Beer could be bought by Japanese company

magazine

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

Sandra Elliott has worked at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham for the past 40 years. She is a lead zookeeper.

Smiles, tears, and a spitting llama: Untold tales from the Stone Zoo

Advice needed: My 40-year-old son visits us too much

This week's daters: Tiffany and Jay.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘There seemed to be some chemistry’

metro

A representative from the One Fair Wage group handed out literature and collected signatures near Park Street Station next to Boston Common in May. A recent series of reports by the Pew Research Center found that Latinas still make far less money than men and women of all racial backgrounds.

The wage gap for Latinas persists in Boston and beyond

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

‘We’re safe here’: In Cambridge, a welcome celebration for immigrants

sports

Vaughn Grissom has had plenty of reasons to hang his head this season, the latest a hamstring injury Saturday.

In midst of disappointing season, Red Sox’ Vaughn Grissom frustrated by latest hamstring injury

Behind a shutout from freshman Maddie Delano, No. 13 Bridgewater-Raynham softball KOs No. 20 New Bedford

Emma Hayes victorious in her managerial debut of the US women’s national soccer team

business

The house former owner Stephen Woodbridge forfeited to the city of Greenfield in a tax-taking case in which the city seized all of Woodbridge's equity.

Federal judge rules against the city of Greenfield in lawsuit in home equity tax-taking case

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector

The Asian-American singer changing the world of opera

politics

FILE - In this March 30, 1981 file photo, Secret Service agents and police officers swarm a gunman, obscured from view, after he attempted an assassination on President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton hotel. A federal judge in Washington is holding what is expected to be the final hearing for would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley before he is released from restrictive conditions he has lived under since he shot the president in 1981. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

AP photographer Ron Edmonds, who took Pulitzer-winning photos of Reagan shooting, has died

‘It won’t make any difference.’ In this Wisconsin community, Trump’s conviction isn’t a game-changer

Time to ‘fight back’: GOP out for revenge after Trump conviction

Nation

Anti-Trump protesters gathered outside Trump Tower before the former president spoke in New York on Friday.

Trump verdict confirms how far former master of New York City has fallen

Chad Daybell sentenced to death for killing wife and girlfriend’s 2 children in jury decision

Trump has few ways to overturn his conviction as a New York felon

World

China's Defense Minister Dong Jun speaks during the 21st Shangri-La Dialogue summit at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, on June 2.

Chinese defense minister accuses US of causing friction with its support for Taiwan and Philippines

After Biden’s push for truce, Netanyahu calls Israel’s war plans unchanged

Israel describes a permanent cease-fire in Gaza as a ‘nonstarter,’ undermining Biden’s proposal

opinion

Over the past decade, climate change science has gotten stronger, and global warming’s effects, once merely a predicted threat, have unmistakably arrived.

For climate change deniers, a strategy of distraction, deception, and delay

My Gen Z weekend

Former State Dept. officials: Israel has crossed the red line

lifestyle

Three dates with a Trump supporter

Is my daughter’s boyfriend gay?

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so let’s talk. (I’ll start.)

food & dining

Bartender Kendra Calloway served patrons at Wally’s Jazz Club on Mass. Ave.

House votes to approve bill adding 205 liquor licenses in Boston

Verveine, from Monica Glass and Ken Oringer, is the bakery that Cambridge needs

New shows at the whaling museum, a Seattle hotel with a robotic butler, and TripIt kicks it up a notch

travel

Buttons at the Earth House.

‘People need cool stuff.’ Inside three unique stores on the Cape.

Oh, the things you’ll see in Springfield! Exploring the Bay State’s own Smithsonian

Can a 1970s Cape Cod hotel with a slick makeover balance Instagram-ready style with substance?

Arts

Wendel A. White, Baby dolls, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., 2016.

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

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau from her conversation with Boston Globe Media CEO Linda Henry on Trudeau's book, "Closer Together Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other."

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau passionately advocates for physical and mental health

Two comics events, and a summer of literary conversations in Provincetown

Author readings around Boston through June 8

Movies

Jack Black in the 2003 Richard Linklater film "School of Rock."

The real hit man? Richard Linklater.

Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, and Diane Keaton go to ‘Summer Camp’

‘Young Woman and the Sea’ swims into murky waters

Television

Hero Fiennes Tiffin, pictured in Guy Ritchie's film "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare," is set to play 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes in Amazon Prime's “Young Sherlock,” which will be directed and executive produced by Ritchie.

Guy Ritchie to revisit Sherlock Holmes in Amazon Prime series

When shows are exactly the right size, that’s perfection

FX’s ‘The Bear’ marathon a boon to non-streamers

music

It’s Sunday morning. What music are you playing?

On the most mellow day of the week, we need music that’s easy like a ...

10 Sunday morning favorites, courtesy of some music savants

Theater/Dance

Joe Spaulding was a singer-songwriter before shifting over to the business side of the music industry.

Joe Spaulding, the folkie who became Boch Center CEO, reflects on a transformed arts district as he prepares to exit

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

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

Health

A sign outside of a CVS pharmacy store on Feb. 7, 2024.

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

Army Spc. Clarence Sasser, who was presented the Medal of Honor in 1969.

Clarence Sasser, 76, Vietnam medic honored for lifesaving valor, dies

Nora Cortiñas, a founder of Argentina’s mothers of the ‘disappeared,’ dies at 94

AP photographer Ron Edmonds, who took Pulitzer-winning photos of Reagan shooting, has died