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After a hunger strike at Dartmouth, an external investigation clears a professor of wrongdoing

Outside attorneys cleared a Dartmouth computer science professor of wrongdoing after a graduate student said he had sexually harassed her.

FDA authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents 12 to 15 years old
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday cleared Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for adolescents 12 to 15 years old, enabling millions of more Americans to get the two-shot regimen.

Mass. reports 446 coronavirus cases, 14 deaths, and 54,137 vaccinationsBaker to meet with President Biden, other governors on vaccination effortSurvey: Mothers more hesitant than fathers about coronavirus vaccines for their children

Asked in a poll to name a prominent Asian American, the top answer was ‘don’t know,’ followed by Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. Wake up, America

There’s only one response to the fact that an aging martial arts movie star (who is not even American) and martial arts legend who’s been dead nearly 50 years make the biggest impression: My fellow Americans, crawl out of your closet of ignorance.

ORIOLES 4, RED SOX 1
Offense goes absent as Red Sox drop finale in Baltimore
Martín Pérez submitted another strong start, but the bats were quiet and the Orioles finally held off the visitors in the final meeting between the clubs until August.

Alex Speier: Short nights are the norm for starting pitchers in 2021

Fernanda Cunha got some help from sons Benjamin, 4 (left), and Alex, 9, as she made bath products for her business.

‘I want to do the things that matter to me’: Pandemic spurs search for jobs with purpose

Career experts say they are seeing stirrings from people of all ages, from twentysomethings rethinking their career paths to baby boomers starting their own consulting firms. Driving it all is a nightmarish pandemic that has made people realize life is short.

‘Joe Kennedy was the best thing that ever happened to him.’ Reelected and reenergized, Ed Markey is suddenly everywhere
Markey has established himself as a voluble voice in the party’s growing liberal wing, advancing him beyond the image of the “other” senator from Massachusetts toiling dutifully in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s shadow.

Mass Audubon promised to preserve wildlife. Then it made millions claiming it could cut down trees
The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change.

Jaylen Brown had missed the last three games with a sprained ankle, but there was no indication of a potential wrist issue, too.

Celtics’ Jaylen Brown out for season with torn wrist ligament

Brown is expected to have the torn ligament surgically repaired later this week.

The Bruins' Brad Marchand beats Islanders goalie Semyon Varlamov for a second-period goal, his 29th of the season.

Bruins 3, Islanders 2

Bruins beat Islanders in OT to clinch third — and a playoff matchup with Capitals

The first-round series will open at Washington on Saturday.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck at Fenway back in 2003.

Former flames Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez reportedly retreat to Montana — alone

It's been 17 years since they famously split. Could Ben and JLo really be a thing again?

Officers who killed Breonna Taylor should not have fired their weapons, internal investigator finds

Two Louisville police officers whose shots struck and killed Breonna Taylor never should have fired their weapons, a department investigator found — a conclusion that the force's upper brass partly rejected.

Closing arguments in federal corruption case of former Fall River mayor

Former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia II faces 24 charges, which include extortion conspiracy, extortion aiding and abetting, bribery, tax evasion, and lying to investigators.

Boston police say there is no way to guarantee overtime savings sought by Janey

The department chronically exceeds its annual overtime budget.

Brenda Tindal named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

She brings an impressive resume in museum curation and research, plus experience helping institutions grapple with historic ties to slavery.

FBI names pipeline cyberattackers as company promises return

The operator of a major US fuel pipeline said Monday it hopes to have services mostly restored by the end of the week as the FBI and administration officials identified the culprits as a gang of criminal hackers.

Impact of Colonial pipeline shutdown could be felt in New England, but questions remain

Melinda Gates began meeting with divorce lawyers in 2019, when reports of Bill’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein surfaced, according to report

The breakup of billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates has been brewing since late 2019, around when reports began to surface about the Microsoft co-founder’s connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Opinion

A rendering of the outpatient surgery center that Mass General Brigham is planning to build in Westborough.

Will a new name and game plan satisfy the old Partners appetite for growth?

Mass General Brigham wants to build suburban outpatient surgery centers. Will its latest expansion wish be granted?

Public dialogue about loud noise at Franklin Park has not included the people enjoying themselves on their bikes.

MARCELA GARCÍA

The Black and brown Bostonians behind the noise at Franklin Park

Fifty four Bowdoin-Geneva residents, ages 19 to 27, previously deemed "least likely to succeed," celebrated their successful completion of a certification program and their subsequent enrollment in a community college or four-year university in this 2015 file photo.

Maria Flynn and Jane M. Swift

Massachusetts is already a global education superpower. What if that’s not enough?

The Southeast Expressway in Boston.

Frederick Salvucci and James Aloisi

A new vision for transportation

Empty offices in Frankfurt, Germany.

IDEAS | JON LEVY

The hybrid workplace probably won’t last

Recommended reads

Apartments for homeless to be built in Jamaica Plain after lawsuit over parking settled with Pine Street Inn
Plans for the building called for just 38 parking spaces, and that drew the opposition of Jamaica Plain landlord Montgomery Gold, who owns a building across the street that houses Turtle Swamp Brewing.

A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE | Jeneé Osterheldt

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.

Rival doughnut shops fight over ‘Ma’s Donuts’ name

The bitter battle continues as both the Middletown, R.I., and New Bedford, Mass. stores lay claim to the name.

A potential Red Line-Blue Line connector is back in the spotlight

As MGH prepares a massive expansion of its nearby campus, the Red-Blue connector is getting another turn in the spotlight.

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.

metro

Earlier this year, the city purchased the armory for $1 from the state.

Newton seeks input before soliciting plans for armory

As Newton moves forward on a proposal to transform the West Newton armory into affordable housing, the city is seeking public comment on the latest step in the process.

Rare video shows two endangered whales hugging off Cape Cod shore

After a hunger strike at Dartmouth, an external investigation clears a professor of wrongdoing

Sports

Russell Westbrook (center) is congratulated by members of the Atlanta Hawks after his 182nd triple-double, a new NBA record.

Russell Westbrook breaks Oscar Robertson’s record as Wizards fall to Hawks

Russell Westbrook set a new NBA record for triple-doubles on Monday night.

ALEX SPEIER | ON BASEBALL

Five’s fine: Short nights are the norm for starting pitchers in 2021

Xaverian’s Marc Cedrone throws no-hitter against BC High

business

Despite Vice President Kamala Harris's Asian ancestry, many poll respondents omitted her name when asked to name a prominent Asian American.

Asked in a poll to name a prominent Asian American, the top answer was ‘don’t know,’ followed by Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. Wake up, America

FDA authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents 12 to 15 years old

Chase CEO Jamie Dimon wants face-to-face contact, from branch expansions to office reopenings

politics

Stickers are displayed at a Democratic Party event in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 30, 2020.

GOP readies blitz against Democrats’ voting rights bill

McCarthy sets Wednesday vote on Liz Cheney leadership ouster

All Republican headlines around the country have the same origin: Trump’s Big Lie

Living Arts

Former Red Sox GM Theo Epstein (right) embraces Red Sox president Sam Kennedy at the 2020 Hot Stove Cool Music show at the Paradise Rock Club.

Hot Stove Cool Music steps up to the plate for charity once again

Former flames Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez reportedly retreat to Montana — alone

Brenda Tindal named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

education

At the Eliot K-8 Innovation School in January 2020, soprano Bianna Robinson, in the foreground, and other artists from the Boston Lyric Opera visited to perform excerpts from Hansel and Gretel as part of an interactive program introducing opera to area students.

New research finds evidence arts education increases school engagement, attendance among Boston students

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

rhode island

Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera.

Central Falls Mayor Rivera delivers first budget address

2 R.I. doctors are trying to fill a plane with supplies for India. Here’s how you can help

Should people be compensated if they were wrongly imprisoned? R.I. Senate is considering it.

Newton

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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.

video

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

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

Empty offices in Frankfurt, Germany.

IDEAS | JON LEVY

The hybrid workplace probably won’t last

The Southeast Expressway in Boston.

Frederick Salvucci and James Aloisi

A new vision for transportation

President Biden speaks about infrastructure and jobs along the banks of the Calcasieu River in Westlake, La., on May 6.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Biden’s holistic approach to infrastructure

In this 2015 file photo, an Amtrak Acela Express train approaches the train station in Old Saybrook, Conn.

Marc J. Dunkelman

Why it’s hard to get good projects going

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

This week's Cupid pairing: Olivia and Nick.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I went into it thinking I would have a nice conversation with someone’

sports

Rafael Devers and the Red Sox found a four-game sweep of the Orioles at Camden Yards on Monday just out of reach.

Offense goes absent as Red Sox drop finale in Baltimore

Bruins beat Islanders in OT to clinch third — and a playoff matchup with Capitals

Red Sox will double their pleasure with increased capacity starting Tuesday

metro

In March, a new Orange Line train derailed just outside Wellington Station.

New subway cars will remain out of service as officials discover another problem

Video shows two endangered whales hugging off Cape Cod shore

Closing arguments in federal corruption case of former Fall River mayor

Nation

Family members reacted during the funeral for Andrew Brown Jr. on May 3, 2021, at Fountain of Life Church in Elizabeth City, N.C.

Family to see more footage of North Carolina deputy shooting

Men who chased, killed Ahmaud Arbery due in federal court

GOP readies blitz against Democrats’ voting rights bill

World

Commuters waited at a pedestrian crossing during the morning rush hour in Beijing on Tuesday.

China’s ‘long-term time bomb’: Falling births drive slow population growth

Hamas and Israel exchange rocket fire following contentious ‘Jerusalem Day’ clashes

China targets Muslim women in push to suppress births in Xinjiang

politics

Francisco Chávez Raymundo (izquierda) y Gaspar Cobo Corio estaban en El Paso, Texas, el 15 de abril. Esperaron 17 meses en México para conseguir asilo en dicha ciudad.

Escapando de la muerte en Guatemala, dos activistas mayas del pueblo Ixil esperan continuar con su defensa de los derechos de los indígenas desde los Estados Unidos (si obtienen asilo)

Biden approval buoyed by his COVID-19 pandemic response, poll finds

Reversing Trump, Biden administration restores protections for transgender people in health care

business

Fernanda Cunha got some help from sons Benjamin, 4 (left), and Alex, 9, as she made bath products for her business.

‘I want to do the things that matter to me’: Pandemic spurs search for jobs with purpose

Encore trimmed its losses and increased its gambling revenue to start 2021

Chipotle latest to raise workers’ pay

lifestyle

Zac Brown Band performs at Fenway Park September 1, 2019.

Zac Brown Band announces date for summer concert at Fenway Park

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

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

Some people wore masks in the Public Garden and some did not on April 30 in Boston.

With mandates eased, it’s masks up, masks down, masks askew all over town

Will a new name and game plan satisfy the old Partners appetite for growth?

The Black and brown Bostonians behind the noise at Franklin Park

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

Vincent Brown, author of "Tacky's Revolt"

What Vincent Brown’s award-winning ‘Tacky’s Revolt’ can teach us about slavery, war, and enduring racism

Mining the magical and marvelous in ‘The Rock Eaters’

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

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

Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey (left to right) are teaming up for a series that will delve into mental health issues and feature segments from athletes and stars like Lady Gaga and Glenn Close.

Oprah, Prince Harry reunite for Apple TV+ mental health show

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

music

Former Red Sox GM Theo Epstein (right) embraces Red Sox president Sam Kennedy at the 2020 Hot Stove Cool Music show at the Paradise Rock Club.

Hot Stove Cool Music steps up to the plate for charity once again

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

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

Earlier this year, the city purchased the armory for $1 from the state.

Newton seeks input before soliciting plans for armory

Nomination papers for Newton’s city election in November now available

Malden ducklings reunited with mom on Mother’s Day

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