With violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories, divisions between the leadership of the Democratic Party and the activist wing have burst into public view. While the Biden administration is handling the growing conflict as a highly sensitive diplomatic challenge involving a long-standing ally, the ascendant left views it as a searing racial justice issue that is deeply intertwined with the politics of the United States.

A fading coronavirus crisis and an astounding windfall of tax dollars have reshuffled California’s emerging recall election, allowing Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom to talk about an end to most COVID-19 restrictions and propose billions in new spending as he looks to fend off Republicans who depict him as a foppish failure.

Any day now, millions of cicadas will commence their every-17-year trek from the earth’s innards to Washington’s lawns, trees, and the slurping tongues of hungry dogs.

Republican lawmakers in Texas, following in the footsteps of their counterparts across the country, are pressing forward with a voting bill that could impose harsh penalties on election officials or poll workers who are thought to have committed errors or violations. And the nationwide effort may be pushing people to reconsider serving their communities.

An unusual study that had thousands of heart disease patients enroll themselves and track their health online as they took low- or regular-strength aspirin concludes that both doses seem equally safe and effective for preventing additional heart problems and strokes.

The Colonial Pipeline, which delivers nearly half the transportation fuel to the Southeast and New York area, resumed full operations Saturday, eight days after it was shut down by a ransomware attack.

The Bureau of Land Management created the $1,000-a-head Adoption Incentive Program in 2019 because it wanted to move a huge surplus of mustangs and burros out of government corrals and find them “good homes.” But records show that instead of going to good homes, truckloads of horses were dumped at slaughter auctions as soon as their adopters got the federal money. A program intended to protect wild horses was instead subsidizing their path to destruction.

Representative Ayanna Pressley on Thursday joined the ranks of US politicians denouncing Israel for attacks against Palestinians, and criticizing the US for sending the country billions of dollars in aid.

The Republican who now leads the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming former president Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run.

Ethiopia has again delayed its national election after some opposition parties said they wouldn’t take part and as conflict in the country’s Tigray region means no vote is being held there, further complicating Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s efforts to centralize power.

Twenty-seven days before the first rocket was fired from Gaza this past week, a squad of Israeli police officers entered the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, strode across its courtyard and cut the cables to the loudspeakers that broadcast prayers to the faithful. It was the night of April 13, the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In hindsight, the police raid on the mosque was one of several provocations that led, less than a month later, to the sudden resumption of war between Israel and Hamas, and the outbreak of civil unrest between Arabs and Jews across Israel itself.

An unlikely solar revolution of sorts has taken off in an embattled, rebel-controlled pocket of northwestern Syria, where large numbers of people whose lives have been upended by the country’s 10-year-old civil war have embraced the sun’s energy simply because it is the cheapest source of electricity around.

COVID-19 is ravaging Brazil, and, in a disturbing new wrinkle that experts are working to understand, it appears to be killing babies and small children at an unusually high rate.

On Saturday, Israel slammed the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, in a dramatic escalation that included bombing the home of a senior Hamas leader, killing a family of 10 in a refugee camp — most of them children — and pulverizing a high-rise that housed The Associated Press and other media.

Why continue at all to give Jew-haters a name that has, as its originator intended, a 'ring of sophistication'?

Jon Levy generated a range of reader reaction with his argument that the hybrid workplace probably won't last.

There is no analogous index for how working people fare from day to day or year to year — no Dick and Jane Average to compare with the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Customers are angry about their inability to get their money back for travel plans they cancelled because of the pandemic. And who can blame them?

Renouncing Trump’s Big Lie isn’t enough. She should condemn the voter fraud falsehoods it has spawned.

An expiration date should be included in every law and regulation.

The 647-271 vote gave the Nahant Board of Selectmen the power to initiate legal proceedings to take 12.5 acres of undeveloped land on East Point, a step that could potentially block the construction project, which was unveiled in 2018.

While outdoor mask wearing has become noticeably more mixed, putting on a face covering while going inside still seems ingrained, according to businesses and shoppers.

After former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia was found guilty on a litany of corruption charges in federal court, city officials expressed disdain for his actions but confidence that the community will rebound from the embarrassment of his crimes.

A resident and a firefighter suffered minor injuries in a two-alarm house fire Saturday that also displaced four elderly residents of a home in Mattapan, according to the fire department.

Throngs of demonstrators rallied over Middle East violence Saturday from Copley Square to the offices of the Israeli consulate, demanding an end to US aid to Israel amid a growing armed conflict in the Middle East.

Dozens of Newton residents weighed in Monday night on proposed rules to regulate gun stores and other firearms businesses, some making passionate cases to officials about the role gun ownership and the Second Amendment should play in the city.

I am so busy taking care of things, that sometimes I forget to look at him. Doctor’s appointments. Medications. Physical therapists, occupational therapists.

A person gets trapped inside a tennis court, a woman calls 911 because she can't find her keys, and other odd tales from local police blotters.

Plymouth Center for the Arts is holding its annual juried Fine Art of Photography Exhibition on the walls of the updated building.

Gloucester residents seeking child care, an affordable apartment, or a ride to the doctor’s office have a convenient new place to look for those and other services regardless of what language they speak.

Today is Sunday, May 16, the 136th day of 2021. There are 229 days left in the year.

Those who have known the rookie point guard say they've never seen anything like the competitiveness that drives him.

The president of basketball operations acknowledges "a lot of disappointment" with this season, but doesn't sound ready to make major changes.

The Bruins were on the wrong side in the extra period, but as the action moves towards Game 2 on Monday, opportunity still awaits.

Jake DeBrusk and Nick Ritchie scored for Boston, which will look to even the best-of-seven series Monday night.

The game marked the first time Verdugo’s family got a chance to see him play at Fenway following a 2020 season without any fans in the stands.

They are Boston’s best hope for returning another crown to Titletown.

Fifteen teams have more prime-time games than the Patriots this year.

Richard Bland became the oldest first-time winner in European Tour history at 48 when he parred the first extra hole at The Belfry after Migliozzi three-putted from long range.

The Revolution came within a game of their sixth MLS Cup appearance last year, losing 1-0, at Columbus in the East final.

There needs to be adjustments in the Celtics' front office, coaching staff, and roster.

Stevens’s first memory of Garnett came when both were in high school and playing in the same AAU tournament.

Jayson Tatum led Boston with 26 points and 11 rebounds.

Pierce remains the Celtics' second all-time leading scorer and is 16th on the NBA's list. He helped lead Boston to the title in 2008, and came within one win of another in 2010.

Stevens is a five-time Division 2 coach of the year and led the Falcons to the 2014 national championship.

Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash in January 2020, was the final of the nine inductees, and his widow gracefully told the world of his accomplishments and his passion.

The No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 NHL draft, the Bruins winger has 680 regular-season games under his belt, but only 14 games of playoff experience.

The Bruins made the offseason decision to move on from their 14-year captain and defensive stalwart, who signed a one-year contract with the Capitals.

Well, opportunity came knock, knock, knockin’ on the Bruins door Saturday night and … no one was home.

“Chara: Made For This,’’ is now available on Peacock. The first three episodes aired previously on NBC Sports Network, with the series premiering in September 2020.

The 24-year-old Eichel, who has been hurt much of this season, carries a $10 million hit for the next six years.

With a mix-and-match roster that requires a new batting order or defensive lineup almost every day, the Sox are 25-16.

Barnes has retired 23 of the last 24 batter he's faced

Pujols, 41, was in the final season of a 10-year, $240 million contract with the Angels, who didn’t win a playoff game during his tenure.

As the season hit the quarter mark, the Dodgers were in third place in the National League West, having lost 15 of 20 at one point.

Soares excelled at junior college in Texas and parlayed his success into an offer to play at Oregon.

Jacksonville rookie quarterback and no.1 overall draft pick Trevor Lawrence is being held between 30 and 40 passes, not including warmups, during each of the team’s two practices that include 18 rookies and first-year players.

Yes, the filibuster stands in the way of climate action and gun control and everything else you hold dear. But there may be another way.

Adrien de Gerlache showed that exploration and exploitation don’t have to go hand in hand.

The world’s biggest law enforcement agency wants the public’s help in identifying and preventing the sale of illicitly trafficked cultural goods.

Surprising insights from the social sciences.

Activists would be wise to accept substantive changes in law enforcement that are possible now — before rising crime could close the window of opportunity.

A growing number of activists say there’s no place for technology that guesses whether a face is male or female.

Am I selfish to fear losing the sliver of light I’ve found in the darkest year?

His Addison Gallery retrospective finds an artist reveling in wood, steel, and age-old methods.

Over the past month, Joe Taveras lent a lot of color to dining partitions around Boston.

For the Dorchester comedian about to host her own series on HBO, it’s all about being genuine, even if that makes you a little uncomfortable.

Restaurant news you can use.

Culinary specialties from the crossroads of Europe and Asia are on the menu.

These up-and-coming artists are united by themes of identity and subjectivity.

Local singer-songwriter Kevin Connolly is hitting the road this spring and summer, playing private outdoor shows from his van.

Tom Cruise has spent a quarter century in charge of both a blockbuster franchise and the IMF — and, no, we don’t mean the International Monetary Fund.

Spotlighting “In the Same Breath” and “The Return: Life After ISIS.”

James Buddy Day’s four-episode “Fall River” joins “This Is a Robbery” as another recent documentary series about an infamous local crime.

In her award-winning, best-selling novel, “Hamnet,” O’Farrell imagines life in 16th-century England when the Black Plague claims the life of an 11-year-old boy who happens to be the only son of a budding playwright. The Irish-born author grew up in Wales and Scotland, where she now lives in Edinburgh with her family. What does she read for fun?

“The Window Seat” opens with its exhilarating eponymous piece, encompassing her heady childhood experiences of flying internationally as an unaccompanied minor as well as the giddy experience of executing a loop de loop in a light aircraft. Both perceptive and informative, that essay sets the tone for the rest of this collection.

Nearly a decade after "The Martian," Andy Weir has stranded another science guy in space and escalated the stakes from rescuing one man to saving an entire planet. But is the new novel too didactic?

Louis Menand’s intellectual history of the Cold War offers an explanation of the period’s rapidly-shifting, transatlantic, artistic and intellectual styles by “examining the conditions of their production and reception.” Elizabeth Hinton examines African American rebellions during eras of violence and transformation. But both books are about Freedom.

News of a bookish bent from around the region.

Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

“Chasing the Thrill” gets inside a community of searchers in the Rocky Mountains.

All events take place online; visit the venue website for more information.

A journey to a small, remote Caribbean island offered an ideal reintroduction to travel. It was so nice to feel the sun on my face — my whole face.

A statue of William Blackstone was close to being erected when concerns were raised about who and what it celebrates. Now residents have a chance to reflect on the region’s history and what should happen next.

Travel forces the brain to do things that can bolster creativity and focus, and it disrupts routine and exposes people to new things, activating the naturally occurring “feel-good” neurochemical dopamine, which boosts mood and motivation.

Travel news you can use.

Erin Parisi’s tour operator postponed her yoga retreat after the outbreak. Does she have to accept the rescheduled trip? And if she doesn’t, will she lose most of her money?

Captain Fred Freeman is looking forward to receiving the honor at the end of the month (and to an upcoming European vacation).

The hospitality company continues its New England expansion with the Kennebunkport Captains Collection of boutique inns.

Janine Brookner was not the kind of person, people often said, you would expect to be a spy, but she was among the few women to ascend the ranks of the CIA, until her career was derailed in the 1990s over what turned out to be false accusations of professional misconduct.

It was the early 1960s, still the era of twin sets and pearls, of white gloves and white faces on the covers of magazines like Seventeen, Glamour and Vogue, when Barbara Stone was hired by Stewart Cowley, a former theatrical agent, to run his company, Stewart Models. She went on to work with the likes of Cheryl Tiegs, Cybill Shepherd, and a young Martha Stewart.

A revered Hawaiian seafarer, Chad Kalepa Baybayan was a torchbearer for the art of “wayfinding,” which ancestral Polynesian sailors used to navigate the Pacific Ocean by studying the stars, trade winds, and flight patterns of birds.

A journey to a small, remote Caribbean island offered an ideal reintroduction to travel. It was so nice to feel the sun on my face — my whole face.

A statue of William Blackstone was close to being erected when concerns were raised about who and what it celebrates. Now residents have a chance to reflect on the region’s history and what should happen next.

Travel forces the brain to do things that can bolster creativity and focus, and it disrupts routine and exposes people to new things, activating the naturally occurring “feel-good” neurochemical dopamine, which boosts mood and motivation.

Travel news you can use.

Erin Parisi’s tour operator postponed her yoga retreat after the outbreak. Does she have to accept the rescheduled trip? And if she doesn’t, will she lose most of her money?

Captain Fred Freeman is looking forward to receiving the honor at the end of the month (and to an upcoming European vacation).

The hospitality company continues its New England expansion with the Kennebunkport Captains Collection of boutique inns.

By the end of 2020, Latino workers in Massachusetts were still twice as likely as white workers to be unemployed. It’s time for a bold economic recovery plan.

By day, Sapir Englard is a music student in Boston. By night, she’s the wildly successful writer behind a romance series that’s burning up phones around the world.

Steaming, sauce, and spices prevent fish from being overcooked and rubbery.

She says she’ll “be expensive when we get married.” But should he change the subject?

Dawn Riley shares tales of her sailing adventures, the Hot Stove Cool Music concert features Eddie Vedder and raises funds, and more.

No need for a long drive — these waterfront homes, in Westford and Braintree, are within an hour of the city.

A Charlestown family needed a space where they could entertain, watch TV, and hang out together.

Fill your summer weekends with fun, check out these events around the region.

Postcards, train tickets, receipts — we wrote our clandestine love notes on memorable bits of paper.

Readers share their thoughts on the invisible tax on teachers of color, Boston’s exam schools, and a frazzled mom’s quest to get her son to pick up his laundry.

She’s upset with the way they treat him, down to the lackluster thank-you notes for a wedding gift.