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Crime & Courts

Jack Teixeira spent years honing his online warrior skills. Then an armored car rolled up his driveway.

The alleged crimes that Jack Teixeira is said to have committed have put his quiet, hard-to-place hometown on the map with a treason case as bizarre as it is troubling. Continue reading →

Investigations

A distant crisis: Top MBTA managers live hundreds — or thousands — of miles from the troubled system they’re trying to fix

Los Angeles, Chicago, and South Florida are among the places T executives call home. Continue reading →

Politics

Massachusetts Legislature, hostile to rent control, includes more landlords than renters

As the Legislature mulls a slate of proposals aimed at addressing the housing crisis, the body includes more lawmakers who could lose income from the return of rent control than lawmakers who would benefit from its protections, a Globe investigation found. Continue reading →

Higher Education

With Supreme Court poised to eliminate use of race in college admissions, states with existing bans offer a sobering view

Colleges with the lowest acceptance rates, like the top public and elite private colleges, have the most to lose from a ban on the use of affirmative action in admissions because they receive tens of thousands of applications for limited seats and aspire to reflect the broader society, experts said. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Oklahoma county worried about fallout from racist recording

The growing optimism about the county's future took a gut punch last week when the local newspaper identified several county officials, including Sheriff Kevin Clardy and a county commissioner, who were caught on tape discussing killing journalists and lynching Black people. Continue reading →

Nation

Tennessee GOP cuts session short with no action on gun control

Within two hours of the legislature’s hasty departure, the state’s Republican governor, Bill Lee, announced that he would summon lawmakers back for a special session to revisit the debate, with details expected in the coming weeks. Continue reading →

Nation

EPA to propose first controls on greenhouse gases from power plants

President Biden’s administration is poised to announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that could compel them to capture the pollution from their smokestacks. Continue reading →

The World

World

Sudan says US, others to start evacuations amid fighting in Khartoum

Sudan's military on Saturday said countries such as the United States, Britain, France and China would evacuate their diplomatic staff "within the coming hours," as fighting between rival forces there entered a second week, raising fears of a wider conflict in the Horn of Africa. Continue reading →

World

‘A quick death or a slow death’: Prisoners choose war to get lifesaving drugs

In Russian prisons, they said they were deprived of effective treatments for their HIV. On the battlefield in Ukraine, they were offered hope, with the promise of antiviral medications if they agreed to fight. Continue reading →

World

Mexico migrant camp tents torched across border from Texas

About two dozen makeshift tents were set ablaze and destroyed at a migrant camp across the border from Texas this week, witnesses said Friday, a sign of the extreme risk that comes with being stuck in Mexico as the Biden administration increasingly relies on that country to host people fleeing poverty and violence. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Abolish the debt ceiling

The fight between Republicans and the White House over raising the debt limit is enormously risky. It’s also entirely unnecessary. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Pregnancy-affecting virus cries out for awareness, prevention

I had never heard about those three little letters CMV until it was too late. My baby passed away after just four months in the neonatal intensive care unit. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Politicians cynically perverting the merciful power of the pardon

Blanket pardons and pardons that are essentially contemporaneous with the acts they forgive deprive the public of full knowledge of exactly what crimes have been committed and who else may have been involved. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Lobster for sale. So is the Lobster Pot, the restaurant

‘We’re kind of a staple in Provincetown.’ Continue reading →

YVONNE ABRAHAM

The cold comfort of a reprieve

The wrong-headed, error-filled April 7 decision by a Texas judge has implications beyond further restricting abortion access. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Twenty men to face charges after uprising at Bristol County jail

Bristol Sheriff Paul Heroux said the hours-long standoff between pretrial detainees and staff was the byproduct of surprising culprits given the correctional setting — cells without locks or toilets. Continue reading →

Sports

boston marathon

Where the legal battle over Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence stands a decade after the Marathon bombings

The 29-year-old is on death row at a federal supermax prison in Colorado while waiting for a ruling by an appeals court on his request for a new trial on whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison. Continue reading →

Tara Sullivan

Injured Patrice Bergeron, not one to sit around during playoffs, is helping the Bruins — from his couch

Bergeron was texting suggestions to assistant coach Chris Kelly during the Bruins' 4-2 win Friday night. Continue reading →

dan shaughnessy

No excuses for Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown this time, and other thoughts

Everything is in place for the Celtics, and it's time for the two lottery picks to deliver an NBA championship. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

IDEAS

Making too little to get affordable housing — and other problems with trying to stay in Boston

As the cost of living drives friends out of the city, I’m eyeing apartment applications with a creeping sense of hopelessness. Continue reading →

IDEAS

What Elena Ferrante knows about the lingering pain of inequality

I spent eight years chronicling the ways poverty bred violence in post-Industrial New Haven neighborhood. Then I read the Neapolitan Quartet and recognized the same struggles in Naples. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Valda Setterfield, a star in the postmodern dance world, dies at 88

Valda Setterfield was a leading figure in the New York dance world for 60 years and had a singularly theatrical presence onstage as well as off. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Music

60 years ago, Bob Dylan’s Boston debut was a freewheelin’ good time

Weeks before the release of his seismic “The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan,” the singer performed stunning new originals at a tiny Kenmore Square cafe, joined friends for a Hootenanny in Cambridge, and cast a spell on Joan Baez. All in the course of one weekend in April 1963. Continue reading →

Movies

Phoenix still rising

Joaquin, that is. He stars in the title role of "Beau Is Afraid." Continue reading →

Movies

Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig discusses adapting Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’

It was an important trip. Kelly Fremon Craig had flown to Key West, Fla., to meet Judy Blume for a discussion. A sales pitch. Fremon Craig wanted to adapt Blume’s middle-grade novel from 1970. Continue reading →

Travel

TRAVEL

Soaking up history and sun on this girlfriends’ getaway to Pensacola, Fla.

This Florida Panhandle city has plenty of historic spots that trace its history since Europeans first put down roots in 1559. Continue reading →

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Can Norman Rockwell and fly fishing revive tourism in this tiny Vermont town?

A small, dedicated group of volunteers is trying to change the fortunes of Arlington — and it seems to be working. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Real Estate

Guilty as charged? Lithium-ion batteries pose increasing fire threat. Should multifamily buildings ban e-bikes and e-scooters?

‘When they burn, they burn extremely hot, release toxic gases, and can reignite even after the fire has been extinguished.’ Continue reading →

Real Estate

Area colleges are knee-deep in composting — and they like it

Schools educate students on the importance of a green lifestyle, set up bins in dining and residence halls. Continue reading →