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Community members in Uvalde, Texas, embrace each other at a vigil on Wednesday for the 21 victims of the mass shooting at Rob Elementary School.

Gun violence is a disease. Health care can help.

Members of Gays Against Guns in New York City held pictures of individuals murdered in anti-gay violence.

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The floating pools in Paris's Bassin de la Villette waterway have provided an in-lake swimming spot, but some locals are reluctant to take the plunge.

Doubts dog a Paris-prompted vision for swimming in Boston

A family grieves outside of the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas.

We live with the carnage of gun violence because that’s what America wants

Republicans return to their roots as the antiwar party

Registered traveling nurse Patricia Carrete, of El Paso, Texas, walked down the hallway during a night shift at a field hospital set up to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients in Cranston, R.I., on Feb. 10, 2021.

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Massachusetts General Hospital this week began vaccinating a small group of workers who came into close contact with a man hospitalized for monkeypox earlier this month.

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Business

Rhode Island’s ‘Conjuring’ house sold, with one stipulation: No one can live there year-round

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Massachusetts General Hospital this week began vaccinating a small group of workers who came into close contact with a man hospitalized for monkeypox earlier this month.

Delta is cutting flights to ‘relieve pressure’ on operations

Britain announces tax on oil and gas profits to fund cost-of-living payments

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The 4 fastest growing jobs for college graduates in 2022

Anania Williams just finished his bachelor’s degree at Emerson College, and is planning to move to New York City to look for work on the stage. But he’s already making a decent living as a social media influencer.

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The Solid Sound festival at Mass MoCA features dozens of musical acts, including Wilco, in addition to comedy performances, food, and more.

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metro

A May rally in front of the State House urged lawmakers to support driver's licenses for undocumented residents.

Massachusetts lawmakers send Baker a bill allowing driver’s licenses for undocumented people

Public’s help sought to identify man who vandalized Melrose home

After years of silence, a survivor finds her voice

sports

Michael Wacha is 1-0 with a 6.00 ERA in three career starts against the White Sox.

Game 44: Red Sox at White Sox lineups and notes

Memories of missed opportunities are still there for the Celtics

It should no longer be a surprise when Derrick White comes up big in a Celtics playoff win

business

The combination with VMware would make Broadcom a significant player in data-center technology and cloud computing.

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Fewer Americans apply for jobless benefits last week

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politics

Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, and Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco prayed during a vigil in Uvalde on Wednesday.

Republicans face heat for ideas to stop mass shootings that avoid gun restrictions

Republicans block domestic terrorism bill after shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde

Biden to console families in Uvalde, press for action

Nation

Irma Garcia, victim of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Husband of teacher killed in school shooting dies of heart attack, family says

New York attorney general can question Trump under oath, appeals court rules

Popular school security strategies have not stopped mass shootings

World

Axel Newton, a research fellow at the University of Melbourne and a founding member of the Thylacine Integrated Genomic Restoration Research (TIGRR) lab, lifted cryogenically frozen human, mouse, and marsupial cell lines from their liquid nitrogen storage. The Australian lab has begun an endeavor to clone an extinct animal that was known as the Tasmanian tiger.

Scientists try to bring Australian ‘tiger’ back from extinction

US aims to constrain China by shaping environment around it, Blinken says

CDC monkeypox warning urges ‘enhanced precautions’ for travel

opinion

Republicans return to their roots as the antiwar party

Doubts dog a Paris-prompted vision for swimming in Boston

There is nothing left to say

lifestyle

Maggie Rogers.

‘I want to be in school forever’: Maggie Rogers graduates from Harvard Divinity

Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular to return to the Esplanade this July 4

329 years later, last Salem ‘witch’ who wasn’t is pardoned

food & dining

The Seafood Platter at Salt + Stone restaurant on Assembly Row.

At Assembly Row’s Salt + Stone, something for everyone, with a smile

Faccia Brutta opens on Newbury Street; Telegraph Hill returns to Southie

It’s National Wine Day 2022. Visit one of these Rhode Island vineyards

travel

Formerly the Providence Biltmore, the redesigned landmark in the heart of downtown is now part of the Graduate Hotels’ hand-crafted collection of accommodations located in university towns in the US and U.K.

A Beaux-Arts bash in Providence, a stylish base camp in N.H., and a Grand Canyon getaway

Her travel advice? Keep your papers safe, ‘mind your manners,’ and eat like vacation calories don’t count

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Arts

Installation view of "Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms," currently at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston's Watershed in East Boston. Left, Ebony G. Patterson, "...and the dew cracks the earth, in five acts of lamentation ... between the cuts ... beneath the leaves ... below the soil...," 2020; center, Madeline Hollander, "Heads/Tails: Walker & Broadway 2," 2020; right, El Anatsui, "Area B," 2007.

Gorgeous trash and radical recycling at ICA’s Watershed

At the MFA, a camera-ready country

You can judge an album by its cover

Books

A deadly silence

Three books on Stalin that shed light on Russian history

Toni Bentley: reading everything by Edith Wharton

Movies

Jimmy Pesto Jr. (left, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) and Tina Belcher (voiced by Dan Mintz) in "The Bob's Burgers Movie."

‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’ has heart — and (mostly) hits the spot

‘Goodfellas’ actor Ray Liotta dies at 67, reports say

World Cinema Film Festival offers passport to intriguing stories

Television

Ben Whishaw in "This Is Going to Hurt."

In most TV medical dramas, doctors are heroes. This isn’t one of them

Kristen Wiig says hi, hi (to) ‘Mrs. American Pie’

Kevin Spacey charged in UK with 4 counts of sexual assault

music

Mr. Fletcher, performing with Depeche Mode in Washington, D.C., in 2017.

Depeche Mode founding keyboardist Andy Fletcher dies at 60

Alan White, longtime drummer for prog rock’s Yes, dead at 72

‘I want to be in school forever’: Maggie Rogers graduates from Harvard Divinity

Theater/Dance

Dorrance Dance will appear at the Emerson Cutler Majestic on June 2.

A high-profile dance fest rises again

Out of the past and onto the stage

In Concord, ‘The Colored Museum’ puts racial stereotypes on exhibit

globe local

Kate Darling posed for a portrait in Cambridge.

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Newton city councilors call on mayor to use more federal aid money to avoid school job cuts

Obituaries

Mr. Fletcher, performing with Depeche Mode in Washington, D.C., in 2017.

Depeche Mode founding keyboardist Andy Fletcher dies at 60

Alan White, longtime drummer for prog rock’s Yes, dead at 72

‘Goodfellas’ actor Ray Liotta dies at 67, reports say