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The class of 2025 faces a difficult job search amid federal hiring shutdowns, funding cuts
Such sudden and widespread uncertainty weeks before commencement is leaving many soon-to-be graduates struggling to make decisions about their futures.

We’re looking at a cloudy Sunday with scattered showers

Sunday also brings a somewhat cooler air mass as a frontal system slips south. Temperatures will be in the upper 60s to 70.

See where power is out in Mass., Rhode Island, and New Hampshire

Wayfair software engineer fired during COVID getting his day in court for age discrimination lawsuit
Richard DiBona said the company discriminated against him. Wayfair denies any wrongdoing.

Quinta Brunson hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Benson Boone performs
Quinta Brunson hosted "SNL" this weekend, with Benson Boone serving as the evening’s musical guest.

‘It’s really killing our industry’: For the Massachusetts marijuana market, the money tree has dried up
The state’s cannabis industry has come up against hard times because of oversupply and federal restrictions.

78-year-old man dead after being struck by an MBTA commuter train

Berklee ousts star trumpeter after antisemitic comments surface

Police investigating sudden death of Holliston man on his front lawn

Thousands gather for 47th Wake Up the Earth Festival

Stitchers working at Merrow Manufacturing, a Fall River company that exports to China. The company has concerns their business in the world's second largest economy is now frozen as a result of a trade war between US and China.

‘An embargo on American goods:’ Mass. manufacturers fret as tariffs thwart exports to China

While China is best known as the largest supplier of products imported into the US, it's also an important two-way goods highway for US manufacturers.

A tidal wave of change is headed for the US economy

‘Silent and hiding’: ICE actions at courthouses creating climate of fear for immigrants, advocates say
Under the Trump administration, ICE has ended Biden-era restrictions on courthouse immigration enforcement that were initially meant to serve as a buffer between the local criminal justice system and federal immigration policies.

Sydney Towle, a TikTok influencer who posts about her Stage 4 cancer, undergoes chemotherapy in a room at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

‘I have cancer,’ the TikTok star said. Then came the torrent of hate.

Sydney Towle's online base has cheered her on since she was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. But an army of angry critics has grown online in another corner of the internet.

After struggling early in the season, Rafael Devers has gotten into a groove as the designated hitter.

Alex Speier | On Baseball

Is requesting Rafael Devers make another move — to first base — too much for Red Sox to ask?

With Triston Casas out for the season with a ruptured left patellar tendon, the Red Sox are deciding how to proceed at first base.

Triston Casas has a ruptured patellar tendon and needs season-ending surgeryRed Sox lose Kody Clemens homers at Fenway

Rohan Shukla suffered a catastrophic brain injury playing football for Sharon High School. His mother, Deepika Talukdar, was there when he got back from physical therapy to his room at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.

High school football

A Mass. football player’s catastrophic brain injury shattered his life — and perhaps could have been prevented

As Rohan Shukla adjusts to his new normal, his family’s grief gives rise to concerns about what might have been done to prevent or mitigate such a tragedy.

John Havlicek was honored in 2015 on the 50th anniversary of his unforgettable steal.

Bob Ryan

There there was nobody like John Havlicek, then or now

Havlicek’s name was back in the news since Payton Pritchard picked up the Sixth Man Award, but the Celtic great was so much more than that.

Knicks guard Jalen Brunson is one of the best finishers at the rim in the NBA without necessarily being near it.

Will the Knicks sink or swim against the Celtics? It could depend on Jalen Brunson’s floater.

In four regular-season meetings against the Celtics — all Knicks losses — Brunson took only 15 floaters. He made as many Thursday against the Pistons as he did all season against Boston.

Aerin Frankel allowed three goals in the first period before being pulled.

FROST 8, FLEET 1

With loss in regular-season finale, Boston Fleet miss out on PWHL playoffs

The Fleet needed just one point to secure a postseason berth, or they needed Ottawa to lose to Toronto, but their regulation loss and the Charge’s 2-1 victory meant Boston finished fifth in the standings.

Opinion

JEFF JACOBY

Baby bonuses won’t solve the birthrate problem

Only culture, not cash, can spark a new baby boom.

EDITORIAL

Three-year medical schools show promise

IDEAS | KELLY HORAN

Swan song: My mother-in-law, her myth, and me

OPINION | Renée Graham

Yes, Trump voters signed up for ‘this’

LETTERS

Criminalizing clients would harm sex workers, not help them

Spotlight

Explore the project: Snitch City

In a nation addicted to drugs, local police are addicted to informants.

Listen to the Snitch City podcast

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For much of the country, Trump’s first 100 days were ‘exciting’
Forty-two percent of Americans in a recent New York Times/Siena poll said they are excited for what President Trump is doing in the White House.

The 20-year-old man who fell to the warning track at a Pirates game is awake
The organizer of a GoFundMe page for Kavan Markwood said that he is improving after he slipped off a railing during a Pirates-Cubs game.

Nuggets 120, Clippers 101
Nikola Jokic, Nuggets build lead too big to fail, romp over Clippers in Game 7 to set up meeting with Thunder
The Clippers’ season came to a screeching halt after they’d entered the playoffs as the hottest team in the league, having won 18 of 21.

Warren Buffett shocks shareholders by announcing his intention to retire at the end of the year
Buffett said he has "no intention — zero — of selling one share of Berkshire Hathaway.

The frightening precedents for Trump’s ‘legal abyss’
The Trump administration’s resistant attitude to court orders, including to ones related to his enactment of the Alien Enemies Act, have raised alarms that the US is hurtling into a new era of lawlessness.

Aborted landings due to Army helicopter near Reagan airport ‘unacceptable,’ top official says
Two commercial aircraft had to abort landings at a Washington airport this week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon.

Malden’s Asian-American population celebrates site of first community center

The Greater Malden Asian American Community Coalition closed Friday on a building they plan on turning into the city’s first Asian-American community center.

Chad Finn | Sports Media
NBC Sports Boston signed off — perhaps for the last time in the postseason — after Celtics’ last playoff game
Starting next season, all first-round NBA playoff games will be national broadcasts.

ANALYSIS
This weekend Elon Musk is poised to get his own town in Texas. Here’s what that means.
Voters in a 1.5-square-mile area in South Texas — near the border with Mexico — are widely expected to vote in favor of incorporating a new town called Starbase. The company behind it is SpaceX.

Big Mass. Pike project faces another setback with potential loss of federal funds
The overall $2 billion Allston Multimodal Project would free up space along the Charles River for new development, and new bike and pedestrian connections, and for construction of a new transit hub.

Culture & Lifestyle

Lauren Cohan and Mahina Anne Marie in "The Walking Dead: Dead City."

‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’: Lauren Cohan talks turning the Bay State into a zombified Big Apple

Dancers prepare to perform in the concourse during an AAPI celebration before a game between the San Francisco Giants and the Red Sox on May 1, 2024 at Fenway Park.

Boston celebrates AAPI Heritage Month with events citywide

Michelle Zauner is ready to take some big swings

In ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ a teen with some unusual angst

Special Projects

Seventh-graders at the Curley School on the first day of school in 1975. (Ulrike Welsch/Globe staff)

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

An Ambulance passes Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, LA on August 28, 2024.

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

The Boston Globe’s Best of the Best

Our ultimate guide to more than 200 winners for Boston's best food, drinks, and fun things to do.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Pulitzer Prize winning writer Junot Diaz was photographed at his MIT office on Sept. 12, 2013.

Josh Axelrod

Junot Díaz on Trump’s ‘terror tactics’

As physicians who have spent much of our careers as medical journal editors, we urge leading journals to take on the administration.

Jerome P. Kassirer and Robert Steinbrook

Medical journals need to fight back against Trump attacks

Screenshots of three videos posted by luxury fashion content creator Becca Bloom on TikTok.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Is the influencer backlash real or just the next trend?

FREE PRESS

Hong Kong publisher tops ‘10 Most Urgent’ list of imprisoned journalists

Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Republican of Maine, addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington on April 18, 1964.

IDEAS | CLAY RISEN

The Republican senator who dared to call out a dangerous colleague

The photos on these banners in a Beirut suburb say a lot about the governance of Lebanon. On the left is the speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri. On the right is Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli strike on Sept. 27. Lebanon hasn’t had a president for two years because Hezbollah keeps blocking candidates.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

Malden’s Asian-American population celebrates site of first community center

The Greater Malden Asian American Community Coalition closed Friday on a building they plan on turning into the city’s first Asian-American community center.

‘Silent and hiding’: ICE actions at courthouses creating climate of fear for immigrants, advocates say

Under the Trump administration, ICE has ended Biden-era restrictions on courthouse immigration enforcement that were initially meant to serve as a buffer between the local criminal justice system and federal immigration policies.

‘An embargo on American goods:’ Mass. manufacturers fret as tariffs thwart exports to China

While China is best known as the largest supplier of products imported into the US, it's also an important two-way goods highway for US manufacturers.

Garrett is energetic and engaging

Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

Sports

Caroline Peper took over starting point guard duties for NYU this season, leading the Violets to a second straight Division 3 national championship.

SUNDAY SITDOWN

Sunday Sitdown: From Oliver Ames to NYU, Caroline Peper is still netting championships

We chatted with Peper to discuss NYU’s historic back-to-back title runs, her expanded role, and how she uses her math skills to identify mismatches during games.

Celtics

Will the Knicks sink or swim against the Celtics? It could depend on Jalen Brunson’s floater.

In four regular-season meetings against the Celtics — all Knicks losses — Brunson took only 15 floaters. He made as many Thursday against the Pistons as he did all season against Boston.

Mikko Rantanen has come a long way since he was traded twice in a six-week period.

Stars 4, Avalanche 2

Mikko Rantanen tears through his former team with third-period hat trick; Stars oust Avalanche in Game 7

Rantanen, who was in the playoffs with Colorado the past seven seasons and part of their 2022 Stanley Cup title, had his second four-point period in the series.

Nuggets 120, Clippers 101

Nikola Jokic, Nuggets build lead too big to fail, romp over Clippers in Game 7 to set up meeting with Thunder

RHODE ISLAND FC 0, SAN ANTONIO 0

Pawtucket’s Centreville Bank Stadium opens with a party, and a scoreless draw for USL’s Rhode Island FC

Red Sox Notebook

Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas has a ruptured patellar tendon and needs season-ending surgery

Business

Wayfair software engineer fired during COVID getting his day in court for age discrimination lawsuit

Richard DiBona said the company discriminated against him. Wayfair denies any wrongdoing.

‘An embargo on American goods:’ Mass. manufacturers fret as tariffs thwart exports to China

While China is best known as the largest supplier of products imported into the US, it's also an important two-way goods highway for US manufacturers.

The class of 2025 faces a difficult job search amid federal hiring shutdowns, funding cuts

Elon Musk’s Starbase on its way to becoming a Texas city after lopsided early voting results

magazine

After more than a decade working for ExxonMobil, Lindsey Gulden, a climate and data scientist who lives in Newton, was fired. She has been fighting her dismissal for years.

GLOBE MAGAZINE

How a Newton woman became an enemy of ExxonMobil, the nation’s largest oil company

The New England Breakers at halftime of a match during the 2025 Grannies International Football Tournament in South Africa.

GLOBE MAGAZINE

Meet the team of soccer ‘grannies’ from Mass. who took a world tournament by storm

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He said he was taking a break from his faith’

Perspective

They’re thought of as Korean ‘Karens.’ But ajummas are misunderstood.

metro

A lineman from National Grid repairs a damaged main line damaged in Lenox, Mass., in 2021.

Severe thunderstorm knocks out power to thousands across Massachusetts

Thousands gather for 47th Wake Up the Earth Festival

At MIT, leaders discussed a strategy for navigating Trump administration funding cuts in private meeting

sports

The Twins' Kody Clemens, son of seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, reacts after hitting a two-run home run in the sixth inning to give Minnesota the lead.

In first Fenway Park appearance, Kody Clemens homers to lift Twins past his father’s former club

NBC confirms ‘Roundball Rock’ will be part of its return to NBA game broadcasts in the fall

Baseball roundup: English High dominates No. 9 Lincoln-Sudbury in nonleague rout

business

‘I have cancer,’ the TikTok star said. Then came the torrent of hate.

Warren Buffett shocks shareholders by announcing his intention to retire at the end of the year

A tidal wave of change is headed for the US economy

politics

A statue of SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Saturday is seen near the town of Boca Chica, Texas, that would become Starbase if local residents approve a measure to make the area surrounding the rocket launch site its own city.

Elon Musk’s Starbase on its way to becoming a Texas city after lopsided early voting results

No country for old politicians? Some California Democrats want an age cap.

Mexico’s president says she rejected Trump’s plan to send US troops across the border

Nation

‘I have cancer,’ the TikTok star said. Then came the torrent of hate.

For much of the country, Trump’s first 100 days were ‘exciting’

AmeriCorps cuts leave people who serve and community organizations scrambling for alternatives

World

A fan waits for the start of Lady Gaga's free concert on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on May 3.

Lady Gaga rocks Copacabana Beach with a free concert for more than 2 million fans

Witnesses and aid groups report a surge in looting in desperate Gaza

Russia and Ukraine clash over cease-fire proposals as fighting rages

opinion

A demonstrator holds a sign with a photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia as people take part in an April 19 protest in New York City.

Trump’s prime-time defiance of the Supreme Court

Hong Kong publisher tops ‘10 Most Urgent’ list of imprisoned journalists

Is this the last waltz for GOP foreign policy hawks?

lifestyle

People flocked to the Arnold Arboretum to enjoy Lilac Sunday on Mother’s Day last year.

Free spring events: Lilac Sunday, yoga, and a queer classical music showcase

Banksy’s ‘Broken Heart’ painting defaced on a Brooklyn wall is up for sale

He said ‘I love you’ … once

food & dining

Donuts are displayed for sale inside a Dunkin' location.

Capitol Hill Dunkin’ set to be replaced by a Starbucks — and New England lawmakers have thoughts

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Milk’s Street’s menu of authentic Mexican dishes

My Mother’s Cutlets opens in the North End; Indian food comes to the Boston Public Library

travel

The simple, two-story clapboard farmhouse where the Frost family lived from 1900 to 1911, and where Frost raised chickens and wrote poems and taught at Pinkerton Academy.

New Hampshire is lit!

Provincetown hosts inaugural Outsiders Festival

Nantucket film and book festivals, and new flights and adventures for Scotland

Arts

John Singer Sargent, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit," 1882, at "Sargent & Paris," through August at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting is the centerpiece of the Museum of Fine Arts' Sargent galleries.

John Singer Sargent in Paris

At MIT, something to spout about

Chuck Connelly, combative neo-expressionist artist, dies at 70

Books

YA author Julie Soto on her new thriller, ‘The Thrashers,’ and the fanfiction-to-published pipeline

Dogs die, but the love we feel for them lives on

Is it possible to make great art under fascism?

Movies

Jean Simmons dances with Marlon Brando during the filming of "Guys and Dolls" on May 13, 1955.

Let’s keep this party polite: ‘Guys and Dolls’ turns 70

Conan O’Brien at the Kennedy Center, ‘Black Bag,’ plus more movies and TV shows to stream

Ben Affleck recounts playing catch with Tom Brady in podcast interview: ‘I lived a full life of dreams in that hour’

Television

From left: musical guest Benson Boone and host Quinta Brunson during "Saturday Night Live" promos in Studio 8H on Thursday.

Quinta Brunson hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Benson Boone performs

A farewell to the unsung heroine of ‘Laugh-in’

‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’: Lauren Cohan talks turning the Bay State into a zombified Big Apple

music

Michelle Zauner is ready to take some big swings

This weekend, ‘Noah’s Flood’ rises on a massive tide of youth performers

Lupe Fiasco on his MIT course and rap’s stature in academia

Theater/Dance

"Utopian Hotline" runs through May 18 at the Museum of Science.

Hopeful messages about humanity abound in ‘Utopian Hotline’ at the planetarium

In ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ a teen with some unusual angst

In ‘Mean Girls,’ an enduring portrait of adolescence

Health

Tracking COVID, RSV, and the flu in Massachusetts

Moderna shares fall on vaccine sales miss, delay in FDA review

What’s that rash? Put some thought into asking Google for medical help.

Obituaries

Then-Governor George Ryan discussed his address to an education summit in Springfield, Ill., in 2002.

The class of 2025 faces a difficult job search amid federal hiring shutdowns, funding cutsSuch sudden and widespread uncertainty weeks before commencement is leaving many soon-to-be graduates struggling to make decisions about their futures.

We’re looking at a cloudy Sunday with scattered showers

Wayfair software engineer fired during COVID getting his day in court for age discrimination lawsuitRichard DiBona said the company discriminated against him. Wayfair denies any wrongdoing.

Quinta Brunson hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Benson Boone performsQuinta Brunson hosted "SNL" this weekend, with Benson Boone serving as the evening’s musical guest.

‘It’s really killing our industry’: For the Massachusetts marijuana market, the money tree has dried upThe state’s cannabis industry has come up against hard times because of oversupply and federal restrictions.

78-year-old man dead after being struck by an MBTA commuter train

Berklee ousts star trumpeter after antisemitic comments surface

Police investigating sudden death of Holliston man on his front lawn

Thousands gather for 47th Wake Up the Earth Festival

‘An embargo on American goods:’ Mass. manufacturers fret as tariffs thwart exports to China

‘I have cancer,’ the TikTok star said. Then came the torrent of hate.

Is requesting Rafael Devers make another move — to first base — too much for Red Sox to ask?

A Mass. football player’s catastrophic brain injury shattered his life — and perhaps could have been prevented

There there was nobody like John Havlicek, then or now

Will the Knicks sink or swim against the Celtics? It could depend on Jalen Brunson’s floater.

With loss in regular-season finale, Boston Fleet miss out on PWHL playoffs

Baby bonuses won’t solve the birthrate problem

Three-year medical schools show promise

Swan song: My mother-in-law, her myth, and me

Yes, Trump voters signed up for ‘this’

Criminalizing clients would harm sex workers, not help them

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For much of the country, Trump’s first 100 days were ‘exciting’Forty-two percent of Americans in a recent New York Times/Siena poll said they are excited for what President Trump is doing in the White House.

The 20-year-old man who fell to the warning track at a Pirates game is awakeThe organizer of a GoFundMe page for Kavan Markwood said that he is improving after he slipped off a railing during a Pirates-Cubs game.

Nuggets 120, Clippers 101Nikola Jokic, Nuggets build lead too big to fail, romp over Clippers in Game 7 to set up meeting with ThunderThe Clippers’ season came to a screeching halt after they’d entered the playoffs as the hottest team in the league, having won 18 of 21.

Warren Buffett shocks shareholders by announcing his intention to retire at the end of the yearBuffett said he has "no intention — zero — of selling one share of Berkshire Hathaway.

The frightening precedents for Trump’s ‘legal abyss’The Trump administration’s resistant attitude to court orders, including to ones related to his enactment of the Alien Enemies Act, have raised alarms that the US is hurtling into a new era of lawlessness.

Aborted landings due to Army helicopter near Reagan airport ‘unacceptable,’ top official saysTwo commercial aircraft had to abort landings at a Washington airport this week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon.

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Chad Finn | Sports MediaNBC Sports Boston signed off — perhaps for the last time in the postseason — after Celtics’ last playoff game Starting next season, all first-round NBA playoff games will be national broadcasts.

ANALYSISThis weekend Elon Musk is poised to get his own town in Texas. Here’s what that means.Voters in a 1.5-square-mile area in South Texas — near the border with Mexico — are widely expected to vote in favor of incorporating a new town called Starbase. The company behind it is SpaceX.

Big Mass. Pike project faces another setback with potential loss of federal fundsThe overall $2 billion Allston Multimodal Project would free up space along the Charles River for new development, and new bike and pedestrian connections, and for construction of a new transit hub.

Culture & Lifestyle

‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’: Lauren Cohan talks turning the Bay State into a zombified Big Apple

Boston celebrates AAPI Heritage Month with events citywide

Michelle Zauner is ready to take some big swings

In ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ a teen with some unusual angst

Special Projects

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

The Boston Globe’s Best of the Best

Nightmare in Mission Hill

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Junot Díaz on Trump’s ‘terror tactics’

Medical journals need to fight back against Trump attacks

Is the influencer backlash real or just the next trend?

Hong Kong publisher tops ‘10 Most Urgent’ list of imprisoned journalists

The Republican senator who dared to call out a dangerous colleague

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

Malden’s Asian-American population celebrates site of first community center

‘Silent and hiding’: ICE actions at courthouses creating climate of fear for immigrants, advocates say

‘An embargo on American goods:’ Mass. manufacturers fret as tariffs thwart exports to China

Garrett is energetic and engaging

Sports

Sunday Sitdown: From Oliver Ames to NYU, Caroline Peper is still netting championships

Will the Knicks sink or swim against the Celtics? It could depend on Jalen Brunson’s floater.

Mikko Rantanen tears through his former team with third-period hat trick; Stars oust Avalanche in Game 7

Nikola Jokic, Nuggets build lead too big to fail, romp over Clippers in Game 7 to set up meeting with Thunder

Pawtucket’s Centreville Bank Stadium opens with a party, and a scoreless draw for USL’s Rhode Island FC

Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas has a ruptured patellar tendon and needs season-ending surgery

Business

Wayfair software engineer fired during COVID getting his day in court for age discrimination lawsuit

‘An embargo on American goods:’ Mass. manufacturers fret as tariffs thwart exports to China

The class of 2025 faces a difficult job search amid federal hiring shutdowns, funding cuts

Elon Musk’s Starbase on its way to becoming a Texas city after lopsided early voting results

How a Newton woman became an enemy of ExxonMobil, the nation’s largest oil company

Meet the team of soccer ‘grannies’ from Mass. who took a world tournament by storm

Blind date: ‘He said he was taking a break from his faith’

They’re thought of as Korean ‘Karens.’ But ajummas are misunderstood.

metro

Severe thunderstorm knocks out power to thousands across Massachusetts

Thousands gather for 47th Wake Up the Earth Festival

At MIT, leaders discussed a strategy for navigating Trump administration funding cuts in private meeting

sports

In first Fenway Park appearance, Kody Clemens homers to lift Twins past his father’s former club

NBC confirms ‘Roundball Rock’ will be part of its return to NBA game broadcasts in the fall

The class of 2025 faces a difficult job search amid federal hiring shutdowns, funding cuts
Such sudden and widespread uncertainty weeks before commencement is leaving many soon-to-be graduates struggling to make decisions about their futures.

Wayfair software engineer fired during COVID getting his day in court for age discrimination lawsuit
Richard DiBona said the company discriminated against him. Wayfair denies any wrongdoing.

Quinta Brunson hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Benson Boone performs
Quinta Brunson hosted "SNL" this weekend, with Benson Boone serving as the evening’s musical guest.

‘It’s really killing our industry’: For the Massachusetts marijuana market, the money tree has dried up
The state’s cannabis industry has come up against hard times because of oversupply and federal restrictions.

For much of the country, Trump’s first 100 days were ‘exciting’
Forty-two percent of Americans in a recent New York Times/Siena poll said they are excited for what President Trump is doing in the White House.

The 20-year-old man who fell to the warning track at a Pirates game is awake
The organizer of a GoFundMe page for Kavan Markwood said that he is improving after he slipped off a railing during a Pirates-Cubs game.

Nuggets 120, Clippers 101
Nikola Jokic, Nuggets build lead too big to fail, romp over Clippers in Game 7 to set up meeting with Thunder
The Clippers’ season came to a screeching halt after they’d entered the playoffs as the hottest team in the league, having won 18 of 21.

Warren Buffett shocks shareholders by announcing his intention to retire at the end of the year
Buffett said he has "no intention — zero — of selling one share of Berkshire Hathaway.

The frightening precedents for Trump’s ‘legal abyss’
The Trump administration’s resistant attitude to court orders, including to ones related to his enactment of the Alien Enemies Act, have raised alarms that the US is hurtling into a new era of lawlessness.

Aborted landings due to Army helicopter near Reagan airport ‘unacceptable,’ top official says
Two commercial aircraft had to abort landings at a Washington airport this week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon.

Chad Finn | Sports Media
NBC Sports Boston signed off — perhaps for the last time in the postseason — after Celtics’ last playoff game
Starting next season, all first-round NBA playoff games will be national broadcasts.

ANALYSIS
This weekend Elon Musk is poised to get his own town in Texas. Here’s what that means.
Voters in a 1.5-square-mile area in South Texas — near the border with Mexico — are widely expected to vote in favor of incorporating a new town called Starbase. The company behind it is SpaceX.

Big Mass. Pike project faces another setback with potential loss of federal funds
The overall $2 billion Allston Multimodal Project would free up space along the Charles River for new development, and new bike and pedestrian connections, and for construction of a new transit hub.