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State approves reopening of road races, amusement parks starting Monday — and singing is back

Massachusetts residents will wake up Monday morning one step closer to normal life, as the state moves forward with the latest stage of its economic reopening.

Here are the COVID-19 restrictions being lifted in Massachusetts starting Monday

Fauci says there’s ‘no doubt’ that US has undercounted its deaths from COVID-19

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is officially at 581,000 in the United States, but Dr. Anthony Fauci said it could be closer to 900,000.

Indoor mask guidance can ‘start being more liberal,' Fauci says

State reports 6 new COVID-19 deaths, 655 cases, 71,663 vaccinations in Mass. Sunday

Pop-up sites, door-knocking are new tactics in quest to reach the unvaccinated

‘Hi Ma, how are ya?’ Mary Walsh gets Mother’s Day message from her son, Marty — and President Biden
“Say hi to your mom,” the president told the US secretary of labor.

Gary Washburn | HEAT 130, CELTICS 124

Celtics lack of motivation and defensive execution falls on Brad Stevens

Churchill Downs suspends Bob Baffert after Medina Spirit fails drug test

“I still firmly believe we did the right thing. But 20 years later, now is the time to bring them home,” said Marc Silvestri, a decorated Afghan combat veteran who is now director of the city of Revere Department of Veterans Services. “If we have not given the Afghans the base to stand on their own two feet by now, when will that happen and at what cost?”

As US withdraws from Afghanistan, veterans of 20-year war carry conflicting emotions

Some are relieved, some are angry, and some are unsure how to judge what constitutes success in a place where victory and defeat are not easily defined.

Warren ‘fighting as hard as I can’ to nudge Joe Biden left; wants to help president succeed
“Joe Biden is running for re-election in 2024. My job right now is to help him succeed,” Elizabeth Warren, 71, said when asked if she would consider running for president again to ensure her policy vision is enacted.

Man fatally shot by Leicester police after he allegedly rammed station, aimed rifle
The Worcester district attorney is investing a police-involved shooting that took place at the Leicester Police Department building Sunday morning.

Family and friends of the victims who died in a shooting, comfort each down the street from the scene in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Sunday, May 9, 2021.

Man kills 6, then self, at Colorado birthday party shooting

The shooting happened just after midnight in a mobile home park on the east side of Colorado Springs, police said.

Melinda and Bill Gates in February 2019.

Gates divorce talks started in 2019 partly due to Jeffrey Epstein, report says

Melinda Gates began working with divorce lawyers well over a year before her split with Bill Gates was announced last week, partly over concerns about her husband’s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the Wall Street Journal.

A long-proposed connector would extend the Blue Line from Bowdoin station to the Charles/MGH Red Line Station.

Maybe this time? MGH, MBTA have held detailed discussions about connecting Red and Blue lines

Now, as Massachusetts General Hospital prepares a massive expansion of its nearby campus, the Red-Blue connector is getting another turn in the spotlight.

Activists rally for incarcerated women on Mother’s Day
A small group of activists drove around the state’s only women’s prison in Framingham and a Boston jail in honor of Mother’s Day on Sunday, calling for the release of the women incarcerated in the facilities.

Malden ducklings reunited with mom on Mother’s Day
A group of ducklings was rescued from a Malden storm drain on Mother’s Day morning and reunited with their mother, according to police.

Times Square shooting victim from R.I. screamed ‘I don’t want to die’

“I was literally screaming on the floor, ‘I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die, I have a 2-year-old,’” Wendy Magrinat, a 23-year-old Rhode Island resident, told the Daily News. “When I got shot, I told my husband to run because he had my baby girl.”

Bruins get a clearer look at their possible playoff path
The Bruins will be either the third or fourth seed.

‘Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?’ Watch Elon Musk’s ‘SNL’ monologue, sketches
The casting of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO marked a controversial choice for the sketch comedy show, which not only received waves of pushback from viewers but also a number of the cast and crew as well.

Can Elon Musk close the digital divide?

love letters
I wish sex didn’t feel like a duty
Help a letter writer who'd rather skip the sex (and candles, mood lighting, music, etc.).

Opinion

Widener Library at Harvard University. Harvard reported that, in 2021, the number of tenured women faculty from underrepresented minority communities was 33 and the number of white male tenured faculty was 620.

Academic tenure is in desperate need of reform

In order to promote diversity and better protect academic freedom, universities should begin introducing term limits for tenured faculty.

Empty offices in Frankfurt, Germany.

IDEAS | JON LEVY

The hybrid workplace probably won’t last

"THE GERRY-MANDER," published in the Boston Gazette, March 26, 1812.

IDEAS | RALPH KEYES

Face it, America: Boston has a way with words

Maria Mossaides, director of the Office of the Child Advocate, speaking about the agency's investigation report into the death of teen David Almond during the continuing coronavirus pandemic, March 31.

Lessons from the Almond case — and beyond

A demonstrator holds a sign that reads "A fascist will not erase our memory" during a protest on May 2 against the latest measures taken by the Legislative Assembly in El Salvador.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Nayib Bukele’s creeping authoritarianism in El Salvador

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The AAPI History I carry with me: Sam Hyun

A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and AAPI joy as told to Jeneé Osterheldt. Sam Hyun is chairperson of the Asian American Commission of Massachusetts advocating for AAPI people across the state.

In Rachael Rollins, a potential reformist for US. But a loss for Suffolk?

A potential promotion to US attorney could provide a larger stage to push her reforms and broaden the footprint of the progressive movement. But some worry that joining the federal office would necessarily limit her freedom of action and mute her activism.

Amid restaurant closures in Boston, there is an opportunity to reshape the city’s dining scene for years to come

Statewide, 3,400 establishments — 23 percent of the total — closed permanently during the pandemic, according to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association. But alongside all of this loss, the vacancies in Boston now present an opportunity.

Testimony ends in federal corruption case against former Fall River mayor

Jasiel Correia’s lawyers called only three witnesses and the judge instructed jurors that they should not be influenced by Correia’s decision not to take the stand in his own defense.

metro

Fans in the stands at Fenway Park celebrated during a Red Sox game.

Here are the COVID-19 restrictions being lifted in Massachusetts starting Monday

Massachusetts moves forward with the latest phase of its economic reopening on Monday, easing coronavirus restrictions on businesses and gatherings and reopening shuttered venues.

Trucks bring fresh food to the people who need it

State approves reopening of road races, amusement parks starting Monday — and singing is back

Sports

A throw-in when the Sox traded Heath Hembree and Brandon Workman to the Phillies last season, Pivetta has continued to deal in Boston.

Peter Abraham | On baseball

Once undervalued, Nick Pivetta is thriving in his new surroundings

Pivetta is 7-0 with a 2.89 ERA in nine starts since joining the Red Sox in a mid-season trade last year.

NASCAR | Darlington (S.C.) Raceway

Martin Truex dominates Goodyear 400 for third win of NASCAR season

With Wizards fighting to get into postseason, Bradley Beal (hamstring) won’t play Monday

business

Starlink is a project of Elon Musk's SpaceX company.

Can Elon Musk close the digital divide?

Major US pipeline halts operations after ransomware attack

At New England’s biggest companies, CEO paychecks surged in 2020 as revenues fell

politics

A contractor working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, yawned as Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election were examined and recounted on May 6, 2021 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.

Inside Arizona’s election audit, GOP fraud fantasies live on

‘Hi Ma, how are ya?’ Mary Walsh gets Mother’s Day message from her son, Marty — and President Biden

House GOP leader backs ousting Liz Cheney from number three job

Living Arts

A Free Blockbuster stand in Provincetown houses an honor-system video borrowing program inspired by the Blockbuster chain.

Free Blockbuster box gives Provincetown a one-stop-shop for nostalgic VHS and DVD needs

May 23 declared Marvin Hagler Day: Bernard Hopkins, Stephen A. Smith to join Brockton celebration

Vermont’s Robert Frost Interpretive Trail now more accessible

education

Last fall, protesters demanding to keep the admission test in place for exam schools rallied at Boston Latin School.

The Great Divide

Changes in admission rules for Boston exam schools boosted diversity of accepted students

Watch live: Baker holds press conference with Rob Gronkowski to announce renovation of Charles River playground

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map

rhode island

A peregrine falcon with eggs and chicks atop the Superman building in Providence. The 2021 brood started hatching on Saturday, May 8.

Peregrine falcons on R.I.’s tallest building are hatching. Take a look

Man dies after encounter with police in Providence, investigation underway

First-ever Providence Public Housing murals pay homage to immigrants

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Special Projects

A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE

The AAPI History I Carry with Me

A Beautiful Resistance is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and AAPI joy, as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

See the full projectFollow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

On the Street

A bicyclist made his way across Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner.

Known for its diversity, Fields Corner now must make room for development

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength

A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

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PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

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Comfort Zone

IN THE FAMILY WAY
Mom jeans make a comeback — to the chagrin of actual moms
Call it the sisterhood of the unflattering pants. This Mother’s Day, wear whatever makes you comfortable.

BOOKS
‘What Kind of Girl’ author shares her story — and her book
Caroline Kautsire came to the Boston area from Malawi when she was 17, and now she’s donating her memoir to libraries across Massachusetts.

FILM FESTIVALS
See the complete lineups for the 2021 Provincetown and Nantucket film festivals
In-person events are making a comeback this summer. Here’s what else to expect.

Watch: Boston Pops and Dropkick Murphys dedicate this sea shanty ‘To Our Darlin’ Mothers’
An online music video also features Pops personalities with their own families.

Arnold Arboretum brings the blooms online for Lilac Sunday
With no formal in-person program this year, alternatives include a digital photo exhibition and virtual lilac tour.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The hard-working hands of Gloria Caballero, a single mother with a 9-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son who lost her job at the Milk Street Cafe in Boston at the start of the pandemic.

Katherine Clark

A blueprint to fix the nation’s failing care sector

Vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France, on December 4, 2019.

Canceling ‘anti-Semitism’

Peter Youngbaer exploring the New River Cave in Virginia.

IDEAS | Peter Youngbaer

Notes from underground

Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan (left) a Florida-based consultancy, and Ken Bennett, former Arizona secretary of state, talk about overseeing a 2020 election ballot audit at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, during a news conference, April 22, in Phoenix. The equipment used in the November election won by President Joe Biden and the 2.1 million Maricopa County ballots were moved to the site so Republicans in the state Senate who have expressed uncertainty that Biden's victory was legitimate can recount them and audit the results.

Scott Harshbarger and Lauren Stiller Rikleen

Only ‘Big Truth’ can defeat Trump and the GOP’s ‘Big Lie’

Friends Susannah Davis (left) and Madeline Gardner in Griggs Park. Masks are still required in outdoor spots in Brookline.

I’m fully vaccinated. I’m still wearing a mask outdoors.

The radical hope of Black motherhood

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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.

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.

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.

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.

“As a law enforcement officer, you go into a variety of situations, all the way from homicide to minor disturbances. When you go in there with education, you go in there with solutions available to you,” says Anthony Roberson, the new chief in Central Falls and former Providence police officer.

Remaking Policy

A teacher said he was destined for failure. Now he’s a police chief with a PhD

Ervin Staub, a professor emeritus at UMass Amherst, is an expert on the science of intervention

Remaking Policy

Can police be taught to stop their own violence?

Senator Elizabeth Warren visits a California day care and preschool in December 2019, not long before the start of the pandemic.

Senator Elizabeth Warren on why we need universal child care

Zucchini and Goat Cheese Omelet

Recipes: Goat cheese gives a tangy boost to omelets and more

sports

Trainer Bob Baffert holds up the winner's trophy after his horse, Medina Spirit, won the Kentucky Derby this month. The victory is now being investigated because the horse failed a drug test.

Medina Spirit could lose Kentucky Derby win after failed drug test; track bans trainer Bob Baffert

Rory McIlroy ends 18-month drought with victory in Wells Fargo Championship

Celtics lack of motivation and defensive execution falls on Brad Stevens

metro

A group of ducklings was rescued from a Malden storm drain on Mother’s Day morning and reunited with their mother, according to police.

Malden ducklings reunited with mom on Mother’s Day

Activists rally for incarcerated women on Mother’s Day

Black bear sighted in Plainville nibbling birdseed

Nation

A contractor working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, yawned as Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election were examined and recounted on May 6, 2021 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.

Inside Arizona’s election audit, GOP fraud fantasies live on

An obscure Texas security company helped persuade Americans that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump

‘Hi Ma, how are ya?’ Mary Walsh gets Mother’s Day message from her son, Marty — and President Biden

World

Visitors received a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Central Mosque of Brent in the Willesden Green district of London.

Vaccinations are rising in the EU after a long, slow start

As hopes for herd immunity fade, world may need to learn to live with virus

How a Jerusalem neighborhood reignited the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

politics

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy formally backs Stefanik over Liz Cheney

Obama dog Bo, once a White House celebrity, dies from cancer

Liz Cheney is trying to turn Republicans away from Trump. She says she won’t let up

business

Employee Nazia Perry at Studs, which opened at The Current in the Seaport District this week.

At Studs in the Seaport District, a holistic approach to ear bling

EU agrees potential 1.8 billion-dose purchase of Pfizer jab

COVID-19 relief efforts for India gather steam; tech executive Jonathan Bush commits up to $500,000

lifestyle

Love Letters

I wish sex didn’t feel like a duty

Amid restaurant closures in Boston, there is an opportunity to reshape the city’s dining scene for years to come

Another Boston restaurant company is suing its insurer over losses incurred during the pandemic

marijuana

Bags of marijuana products lined the shelves of a Massachusetts dispensary in 2019.

Massachusetts sets marijuana sales records around 4/20 holiday

At federal corruption trial, marijuana vendor details alleged bribe to former Fall River mayor

‘We feel like the ugly stepchildren of cannabis’: Mass. hemp farmers wait in a regulatory purgatory

opinion

In this July 29, 2010 photo, Technical Sergeant Jeff Hedglin (right), an Air Force pararescueman, drapes an American flag over the remains of the first of two US soldiers killed minutes earlier in an IED attack, assisted by fellow PJs, Senior Airman Robert Dieguez (center) and First Lieutenant Matthew Carlisle, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan.

It’s not too late to save the United States from another lost war

A matter of race — and credit where it’s due

Academic tenure is in desperate need of reform

food & dining

Newbury Street has been a mix of outdoor dining oases among several permanently shuttered Back Bay restaurants.

Amid restaurant closures in Boston, there is an opportunity to reshape the city’s dining scene for years to come

Another Boston restaurant company is suing its insurer over losses incurred during the pandemic

Venice Pizza returns to Dorchester, Comfort Kitchen pops up in Jamaica Plain, and Brasserie says bonjour to Harrison Avenue

travel

T Lawrence-Simon in Krka National Park in Croatia with friends Zoe Backwell (left) and Nicola Moran (right).

From circus performer to TV baker, his life is a juggling act

A historic hotel reopens, ‘Golden Girls’ fans set sail, and a cooler cooler

A Maine for all seasons

Books

Illustration for review of "The Rock Eaters: Stories" by Brenda Paynado. 09RockEaters; BOOKS; 5-9-21

Mining the magical and marvelous in ‘The Rock Eaters’

Joan Silber explores family secrets in new novel-in-stories

Alison Bechdel on reading biographies and self-help books

Movies

Kelvin Harrison Jr. in "Monster."

In ‘Monster,’ on Netflix: when matters of innocence and guilt get complicated

In ‘Wrath of Man,’ Jason Statham works for an armored car company. Now there’s trouble.

See the complete lineups for the 2021 Provincetown and Nantucket film festivals

Television

Milo Ventimiglia in "This Is Us."

A plea to ‘This Is Us’: Turn down the music

‘Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?’ Watch Elon Musk’s ‘SNL’ monologue, sketches

‘A Little Late with Lilly Singh’ is drawing to a close

music

Miranda Lambert with Jon Randall (left) and Jack Ingram, her collaborators on "The Marfa Tapes."

Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe are two Pistol Annies whose aim is true

For mother-daughter violinists, Boston Pops concert is a pandemic high note

Dionne Warwick knows the way to San Jose, and she’s quite familiar with Twitter, too

Theater/Dance

Acclaimed Shakespearean actor John Douglas Thompson will portray Prospero in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's production of "The Tempest" on Boston Common.

A Will and a way: Free Shakespeare is returning to the Common

Student dancers and choreographers are in the spotlight during Dance Complex’s May series

At Merrimack Rep, a spring awakening followed by an upbeat fall forecast

globe local

A group of ducklings was rescued from a Malden storm drain on Mother’s Day morning and reunited with their mother, according to police.

Malden ducklings reunited with mom on Mother’s Day

‘No bolt fell on our audacious heads.’ Concord Museum features women who blazed a path to today

Should the state automatically expunge past marijuana misdemeanor and felony convictions from people’s records?

Obituaries

Dr. Lynne M. Reid.

Dr. Lynne M. Reid, 97, a groundbreaking pathologist who ‘wanted to make the playing field more even for women’

‘We all have to protect our environment,’ said Jack Coughlin, who died at 78

Holocaust survivor Yitzhak Arad, who led Yad Vashem memorial, dies at 94