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LPN Elinor Riberio (left), CNA Uvalyn Davis (center), and Rabbi Devorah Jacobson are ambassadors at the Leavitt Family Jewish Home, trying to persuade unvaccinated staff to get their shots.
Nursing homes struggle to reduce a serious COVID risk: many employees resist vaccination
The failure of many nursing home staff members to get vaccinated has emerged as one of the most serious gaps in the United States’ defenses against COVID.

78 confirmed cases, 4 deaths, and 16,636 vaccinations: See today’s new COVID-19 data from Mass. New study suggests many were infected last year but never diagnosed with COVID-19 There are still people dying of COVID-19 nearly every day. For their loved ones, the world is far from normal

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi announces select committee to investigate Jan. 6 attack
Nearly seven months after insurrectionists, white supremacists, and rioters mobbed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday announced she would create a select committee to investigate the attack.

New York court suspends Rudy Giuliani’s law license

A New York appellate court suspended Giuliani’s law license Thursday after a disciplinary panel found that he made “demonstrably false and misleading” statements about the 2020 election as Donald Trump’s personal attorney.

Probe begins after off-duty R.I. officer shoots a teen driver

Parkland parents tricked ex-NRA president into a ‘graduation speech’ to empty chairs representing gun victims

President Biden in the Oval Office on St. Patrick's Day this year, surrounded by Irish shamrocks.
KEVIN CULLEN

Joe Biden to Ireland: We’re back in the game

Claire Cronin’s selection as ambassador to Ireland suggests the Biden administration is going to re-engage with the kind of diplomacy that brought peace to Northern Ireland more than 20 years ago.
The home where an apparent murder-suicide took place in Oxford.

Oxford couple killed in apparent murder-suicide identified

The Worcester district attorney’s office on Thursday formally identified the Oxford couple killed in an apparent murder-suicide Tuesday, a harrowing episode that forced two young children to flee to safety at a neighbor’s house.
Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius, fresh off a glowing evaluation from the School Committee, is facing a wave of low morale among school leaders and central office workers.

Disengaged workers at Boston Public Schools are ‘busy acting out their unhappiness’ and undermining colleagues, survey finds

Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius, fresh off a glowing evaluation from the School Committee, is facing a wave of low morale among school leaders and central office workers, according to an internal Gallup poll obtained by the Globe.
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Dustin Pedroia spent his entire pro baseball career in the Red Sox organization.
‘Everybody has their Pedroia stories.’ Here are some of the best tales from the Red Sox star’s rise to the majors
Dustin Pedroia, who will be honored at Fenway Park Friday, showed an intense competitive fire and left a lasting impression at every stage of his development.

Al Horford's first stint with the Celtics was from 2016-19.
‘I can help the team.’ Al Horford discusses his return to Boston, playing for new coach Ime Udoka, and more
Horford believes there's unfinished business, although plenty has changed in the two years since he left the Celtics as a free agent.

Lenny Bautista, 10, Karelyn Zuniga, 9, and Yarimar Lorenzo, 10, from Boston cooled off in frog pond during the reopening celebration on Thursday.
Children rejoice as Boston Common’s Frog Pond opens for summer, after last year’s closure
The frog pond, which remained closed through the COVID-19 pandemic last summer, re-opened to the public for the summer on Thursday morning.

MATTHEW GILBERT
Thuso Mbedu in "The Underground Railroad."
The 10 best TV shows of 2021 (so far)
From "Beartown" to "Easttown," it’s been a heckuva half-year.

Belza Betancur, an intensive care nurse at at Massachusetts General Hospital, receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine from Ellen O'Connor in December.
State’s largest health care providers to require all employees get COVID-19 vaccines; one labor union balks
Leaders of Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel Lahey Health, and Wellforce told their workers that requiring vaccination for employees is critical for protecting vulnerable patients.

A bird sitting on a branch of a tree in front of a full moon with a slight reddish tint in Jacobsdorf near Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, 20 June 2016.
Strawberry moon set to rise in the night sky Thursday
The strawberry moon is the fourth and final supermoon of 2021 — which occurs when “a full moon coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit,” according to NASA.

Opinion

Brandi Levy, outside of Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pa., had expressed her dismay on Snapchat over not making the varsity cheerleading squad. The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a Pennsylvania school district had violated the First Amendment by punishing a student for a vulgar social media message sent off school grounds.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Cheers and swears: How a cheerleader’s F-bombs strengthened the First Amendment

The best part of Justice Breyer’s opinion was the reminder from the nation’s highest court about the importance of teaching and practicing constitutional principles in our schools.
Servicemen of the Russian national guard gather in Moscow on Fe. 2, after a Moscow court granted a prosecutors' request for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to serve prison time for violating the terms of his parole.
Bill Keating

It doesn’t take a summit to force change with Russia

A child holds a Chinese flag near the museum of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party during a media tour organized by the local government in Shanghai on June 22, 2021, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the party's founding on July 1.
H.D.S. Greenway

How Woodrow Wilson betrayed China and helped give rise to the Chinese Communist Party

Boston Latin School
EDITORIAL

Yes, Boston can have excellence and equity at its exam schools

A person receives Holy Communion on Easter.
Joan Vennochi

In Communion debate, will Cardinal O’Malley find middle ground?

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NEWTON ⟶

See the Globe’s expanded Newton coverage in partnership with Boston University.

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Tim Herwath, 27, and Haley Greene, 21, a Vermont couple, were married at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston, where Herwath is recovering from a spinal cord injury, on Tuesday.

‘It’s a little unreal’: Vermont couple married at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital after a paralyzing accident

Tim Herwath, 27, and Haley Greene, 21, were married on the third floor of the Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown on Tuesday night with family and friends watching via Zoom.

celtics
Ime Udoka (left) is part of the Gregg Popovich coaching tree.
Ime Udoka to become coach of Celtics. Here’s how and why the deal came together
Udoka, 43, played parts of seven seasons in the NBA, and also worked on the coaching staffs of the 76ers and Spurs.

YVONNE ABRAHAM
Governor Charlie Baker's broad appeal makes him a formidable opponent.
A tough Beacon Hill to climb
For the Democrats who hope to be Massachusetts governor, the biggest challenge is the man they hope to replace.

stan grossfeld
Patriots linebacker Dont'a Hightower (with son Grayson, 11 months old) has found fatherhood to be an uplifting experience.
Back with Patriots, Dont’a Hightower has no regrets about opting out of 2020 season
“My primary goal at that time was to take care of my family, and I felt like I did the right thing,” he says. “If I had to do it again, I’d definitely do it the same way.”

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EDITORIAL

Editorial: Future-proofing the presidency

Donald Trump brought our democracy to the brink and exposed its weak spots. Here’s how to thwart the next American tyrant.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance: Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting

Blind Spot

An 11-month Globe investigation found that people nationwide are dying in crashes caused by drivers who should have had their licenses suspended. One in 10 US drivers has at least one offense — from speeding to vehicular homicide — that isn’t reflected on their driving record.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A child holds a Chinese flag near the museum of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party during a media tour organized by the local government in Shanghai on June 22, 2021, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the party's founding on July 1.
H.D.S. Greenway

How Woodrow Wilson betrayed China and helped give rise to the Chinese Communist Party

Boston Latin School
EDITORIAL

Yes, Boston can have excellence and equity at its exam schools

A person receives Holy Communion on Easter.
Joan Vennochi

In Communion debate, will Cardinal O’Malley find middle ground?

Billy "Gunner" McGunnigle when he played for the Buffalo Bisons.
IDEAS | RONALD G. SHAFER

Before baseball had cheating scandals, there was Brockton’s ‘Gunner’ McGunnigle

A doctor at Howard University in Washington examines a participant in the Novavax vaccine trial on Jan. 15.
Suzanne Koven

Longing for the day when sexism in medicine is DOA

Roca educator Sutton Bradbury-Koster (right) pauses with program participant Alexis Feliciano outside the organization’s office in Lynn. Roca is using a version of cognitive behavioral therapy to teach young people how to recognize and stop self-destructive behavior.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

A cure for violence

Metro

Nursing homes struggle to reduce a serious COVID risk: many employees resist vaccination

The failure of many nursing home staff members to get vaccinated has emerged as one of the most serious gaps in the United States’ defenses against COVID.
RI EDUCATION

Central Falls, R.I. officials say it’s high time for a new high school

General Assembly is considering legislation that would authorize $144 million in borrowing, including $120 million for new Central Falls high school.

After 16 months behind bars, we’re finally getting to live again

Now I push open doors with my hand, not my elbow and I am aware of this not just as a kind of freedom, but as freedom from fear.
BLOTTER TALES

Homes get hit by honey mustard sauce and a pink liquid

A house gets splashed by pink liquid, another home gets hit by honey mustard sauce, and other odd tales from local police blotters.

Sports

Rick Carlisle resigned as Mavericks coach last week, one day after general manager Donnie Nelson left the club.

Rick Carlisle to coach Pacers for second time after leaving Mavericks

Carlisle is the third Pacers coach in less than 12 months.
New Seattle coach Dave Hakstol coached the Flyers from 2015-19.

Expansion Seattle Kraken hire Dave Hakstol as first coach

Hakstol was a surprise choice by GM Ron Francis.
Hingham, which won MIAA Division 2 titles in 1992 and 1997, has appeared competed in 14 of the last 19 Super 8 tournaments after moving up to Division 1 in 2001. The Harbormen won the Super 8 in 2010.

TMC sticks with decision: Super 8 tournaments on ice for at least two years

TMC voted 16-0 to consider revisiting the need for Super 8 tournaments in two years.
chad finn

There are many reasons to like the Celtics’ choice of Ime Udoka as coach

Revolution

Revolution midfielder Carles Gil named Major League Soccer’s player of the week

Red Sox place Christian Arroyo on injured list with knee contusion

Business

Judge blocks $4b US debt relief program for minority farmers

The judge agreed with critics, who had argued that the program discriminated against white farmers and ranchers because of their race.

Microsoft debuts Windows 11, first major update in 6 years

In a challenge to rival Apple, the company also announced that it won’t force app developers to pay fees to Microsoft for using its app store; and that Google’s popular Android apps will run on its new system.

Massport revs Logan Express back up in bid to reduce car trips to the airport

Boston Scientific buys out California medical manufacturer for $295 million

Comfort Zone

From left: Steve Carell, John Krasinski, and Rainn Wilson in "The Office."
ASK MATTHEW

Why we’re still in a relationship with some classic sitcoms

Larry Pierce, left, and Paul Goodnight kicked off the project with a temporary mural called "No Strings Detached."

‘Mentoring Murals’ shows off generations of Black artistic talent

Boston duo Damon & Naomi recently recorded a show at Peabody Essex's Plummer Hall.
MUSIC

Peabody Essex puts performance in stunning historic venue

Ethan Murrow's 75-foot panoramic mural at the Cahoon Museum of American Art honors the region's natural history.

An artist evokes the oaks of Cape Cod’s past

STAT

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (UK B.1.1.7 variant), isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID
We know a lot about Covid-19. Experts have many more questions
More than two dozen virologists, epidemiologists, and others responded to STAT's question about what they still most wanted to know.

Boston, MA -- 03/16/21 -- The cover of the summary report of the review hearing for Jospeh Messere, is seen on March 16, 2021, provided by his attorney David Apfel.(Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Cement Head’s last fight: He was denied parole six times — until he was about to become a Covid-19 statistic
In lawyers' view, the Department of Correction was trying to make it seem like it had fewer Covid-19 deaths on its hands than it really did.

JAMA illo
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
Critics say editors have asked authors to scrub the term racism from their articles even as they publish others that include racist notions.

SCT illo
Despite resistance, researchers investigate the possibility of a new mental health disorder
Many researchers say the study of sluggish cognitive tempo, which is still in its early stages, can’t yet support a formal diagnosis.

magazine
A child runs across a field at Bug Light Park in South Portland, Maine.
On the cover

Is there something wrong with the air in this Maine town?

Lucio Perez in Springfield, after his years in sanctuary.
Immigration

Lucio Perez found sanctuary in a Mass. church. He'd live there for over 3 years

Allison and Ben on their Zoom blind date.
Dinner with Cupid

"I went through the classic Zoom routine of trying to unmute myself"

Panzanella with fresh mozzarella.
Connections

Recipes: 3 salads that give new life to leftover bread

metro

Homes get hit by honey mustard sauce and a pink liquid

‘We had people with tears in their eyes’: West Newton bicycle shop closes after 70 years

Newton election season heats up as two candidates launch challenges to Mayor Ruthanne Fuller

sports

Not only does Ime Udoka have experience playing with and coaching stars, he’s already familiar with the Celtics’ stars.

There are many reasons to like the Celtics’ choice of Ime Udoka as coach

Revolution midfielder Carles Gil named Major League Soccer’s player of the week

Red Sox place Christian Arroyo on injured list with knee contusion

business

Boston Scientific's Marlborough headquarters in 2020.

Boston Scientific buys out California medical manufacturer for $295 million

JPMorgan buys stake in Robert Kraft’s sports data analytics company

US unemployment claims fall slightly to 411,000 as job market heals

politics

President Biden.

Biden vows to evacuate thousands of Afghans who helped US

Three reasons why Biden’s infrastructure deal is a long way from done

Biden says he has infrastructure deal with bipartisan group of senators

Nation

A reminder to use hand sanitizer upon entry to a North End gift shop.

Massachusetts no longer has any towns at high risk for COVID-19 spread: See how we got here

For the fourth week in a row, zero Mass. communities are considered high risk for COVID-19

‘It was like a scene from a World War II movie,’ Cambridge woman recounts Miami-area building collapse

World

A memorial was held in British Columbia, Canada, for the 215 children whose bodies were discovered near the Kamloops Indian Residential School, in Kamloops.

751 unmarked graves found at Indigenous school in Canada, report says

Dozens killed in market airstrike in Ethiopia, officials say

5 years after Brexit vote, divided UK still feels shockwaves

opinion

A person receives Holy Communion on Easter.

In Communion debate, will Cardinal O’Malley find middle ground?

Longing for the day when sexism in medicine is DOA

Focus should be on many years of education that precede exam-school moment

lifestyle

Kathy Penny, manager of collection services at the Cambridge Public Library.

Books (and libraries) were our great escape when we couldn’t go anywhere

The secret is out about Blind Tiger in Portland

It always leads to sex

food & dining

Spaghetti at Cloud & Spirits.

Cloud & Spirits opens in Cambridge; Contessa rises in Back Bay

At The Pearl, South Bay comes out of its shell

It’s about the food. It’s about his story

travel

A guest room at Blind Tiger.

The secret is out about Blind Tiger in Portland

The guiding light of poetry and place

The new Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine opens

Arts

Sharon Berke is one of the 44 tenants at Humphreys Street Studios, which has provided affordable workspace to artists since its founding in 2002. The current owners have an agreement to sell the building.

In Uphams Corner, artists push back against the sale of their workspace

Artists keep pushing beyond the gender binary

Rediscovering the ‘pent fury’ of Jean-François Millet and his rural laborers

Books

For Adam Gustavson, bedtime stories mean belly laughs

Local bestsellers for the week ending June 20

Local histories, rewritten

Movies

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson attended a special screening of "Summer of Soul" in New York's Marcus Garvey Park on June 19, 2021.

Questlove’s quest to make ‘Summer of Soul’

Doc Talk: literary lions, terrifying television, a change of habit

‘F9’: Some cars are faster than others

Television

Thuso Mbedu in "The Underground Railroad."

The 10 best TV shows of 2021 (so far)

There’s plenty to like about the Peabody Awards

Steve Martin turns sleuth in ‘Only Murders in the Building’

music

Panos A. Panay, a Berklee alum and vice president, was tapped Tuesday to helm the Recording Academy alongside Valeisha Butterfield Jones.

Berklee vice president Panos Panay tapped as Recording Academy co-president

Amplifying refugees and their musical talents

Elton John to bring farewell tour to Gillette Stadium in 2022

Theater/Dance

Reed Birney (left) and Ephraim Birney in "Chester Bailey" at Barrington Stage Company.

Barrington Stage’s ‘Chester Bailey’ glows in the dark

Dispatches from a pandemic in SpeakEasy’s ‘Project Resilience’

Black women playwrights claim a leading role

globe local

Regular customers are being welcomed back to restaurants all over the nation, including this one in Los Angeles.

After 16 months behind bars, we’re finally getting to live again

Homes get hit by honey mustard sauce and a pink liquid

‘We had people with tears in their eyes’: West Newton bicycle shop closes after 70 years

Obituaries

Ms. Spence stood outside the site of her third Spence Center for Women’s Health, in Wellesley, which allowed acupuncturists and herb therapists to practice in the same facility as primary care physicians and gynecologists.

Rina Spence, pioneering woman in health care’s executive ranks, dies at 72

Mark Peel, who helped forge a new culinary path, dies at 66

Marianne Harkless Diabate, who fused dance forms into works of ‘limitless range,’ dies at 63