Boston Globe Today | April 27, 2023

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Can Gen Z build a future in Boston?

Boston Globe business reporter Diti Kohli spoke to residents under the age of 25 about how long they think they can stay in Boston. Watch →

A new plan for Nubian Square in Roxbury

Boston Globe development fellow Julian Sorapuru joins us to talk about redevelopment plans for Nubian Square in Roxbury. Watch →

Nation

Appeals court rejects Trump effort to block Pence testimony

Former vice president Mike Pence testified Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating efforts by then-president Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to a person familiar with the matter. Continue reading →

Nation

Trump lawyer cross-examines accuser at rape lawsuit trial

Carroll, who is suing Trump over the alleged assault, claims he raped her in a dressing room at the posh Manhattan store in the 1990s. Continue reading →

Political Notebook

West Va. governor to seek Manchin’s seat

Republican Governor Jim Justice, a former Democrat who switched parties during the Trump administration, filed official paperwork Thursday to run for the West Virginia seat after months of speculation from onlookers and teasing from Justice. Continue reading →

World

Russia needs more troops but is wary of public anger, leaked documents say

The need for additional troops risks alienating the Russian public and further destabilizing the country’s economy, which is already under pressure from Western sanctions, export controls, and other punitive measures. Continue reading →

World

As they repel Russian attacks, Ukrainian soldiers hope Western arms turn the tide

Two Russian jets screamed up to the Ukrainian lines near the town of Vuhledar on Thursday, dropped their explosives and banked sharply, hurtling back from where they came. They left in their wake two large black plumes rising from the detonations. Continue reading →

World

King’s coronation part of long evolution for Queen Camilla

Many in Britain have grown to accept Camilla, though some experts and observers say she will always walk in the shadow of her past. Continue reading →

OPINION

A better understanding of hospice

The word had scared us, but the concept and the services turned out to be just what she needed. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

A jail without locks in need of a quick fix

Bristol County sheriff pleads for help to make his facility safer, more humane. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Dad was a model of persistence, just like Calvin Coolidge

Coolidge’s legacy of following one’s dreams no matter what is something to uphold. Continue reading →

Metro

SJC reinstates criminal charges against managers of Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, where 76 died early in pandemic

The SJC decided that while the deaths may not constitute a crime, the state attorney general’s office should have the opportunity to present its criminal case against the two men in Hampden Superior Court. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Boston police officers acquitted in overtime fraud case

Lawyers for the officers had previously told jurors that there’s no dispute they were paid for overtime hours they didn’t work, but said they were merely following longstanding practices accepted by department leadership. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

EPA opposes plan to build machine gun range on Cape Cod, says it would endanger drinking water

The EPA released a draft determination saying the proposed 138-acre range at Camp Edwards could cause “a significant public health hazard for more than 220,000 year-round ... Cape Cod residents.” Continue reading →

on hockey

The Bruins need to talk out their problems if they want to close out series in Game 6

Communication was a strong point all season, but lapses in these playoffs are leading to Florida goals. Continue reading →

Dan Shaughnessy

The Celtics finished the job and beat the Hawks, so now everybody can relax — until Monday

It wasn't easy in the first round, but now the focus shifts to Joel Embiid and the Sixers. Continue reading →

CELTICS NOTEBOOK

The Celtics watched the No. 1 Bucks get bounced by the No. 8 Heat. They weren’t surprised.

The Heat benefited from Milwaukee missing Giannis Antetokounmpo for close to three full games, but they also retain the core of the team that lost to the Celtics in last year's conference finals. “Miami is a really good team,” Jayson Tatum said. Continue reading →

THE FINE PRINT

Vantage cruise ship temporarily diverted

The Ocean Explorer was supposed to take aboard as many as 160 passengers in Boston on Thursday for an 11-day cruise to Montreal, according to a temporary website set up by Vantage after a “data systems incident” last week took down its regular website and call center. Continue reading →

commentary

Why killing the Chevy Bolt was the right move for GM — but it still hurts

The shift at GM and other automakers continues the move away from smaller and more efficient vehicles to larger cars and trucks, and that raises other concerns. Continue reading →

Commercial

Hope springs anew that Postal Service could move to make way for South Station expansion

Lawmakers are pushing Postal Service to move on the long-discussed land swap that could enable South Station to grow. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Roy Saltman, election expert who warned of hanging chads, dies at 90

The federal government’s top expert on voting technology, he wrote a prescient but little-read report warning about hanging chads on punch-card ballots more than a decade before the issue paralyzed the nation during the 2000 presidential election recount in Florida. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jerry Springer, onetime Cincinnati mayor whose namesake TV show unleashed chaos, dies at 79

The onetime Cincinnati mayor's TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities, and blurred images of nudity. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman at the center of the 1955 lynching of Black teen Emmett Till, has died

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner’s report shows. Continue reading →

STAGE REVIEW

‘And So We Walked’ is a powerful, and long overdue, history lesson

DeLanna Studi’s one-woman play at the Emerson Paramount Center revisits the Trail of Tears. Continue reading →

Music

In Lucinda Williams’s memoir, lessons of compassion

The singer-songwriter’s "Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You" delves into everything from her childhood struggles to the stories behind the songs. Continue reading →

MOVIE REVIEW | ★★★1/2

‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.’ A classic novel becomes a must-see film.

Kelly Fremon Craig’s superb adaptation of Judy Blume’s book speaks with the same honesty and frankness. Continue reading →