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Saturday, April 6, 2024
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Massachusetts

A disgraced Holyoke city councilor fled the country before his trial. A new video reportedly shows him joining the Russian army.

A video posted Wednesday to a Russian social media channel reportedly shows the 28-year-old signing a contract to officially join the country’s armed services as it enters its 25th month of war against Ukraine. Continue reading →

Retail

‘Doesn’t scare us’: From tattoo studios to porta-potty vendors, New England businesses go all-in on eclipse

Though there are looming anxieties about traffic, safety, or — god forbid — cloudy skies, businesses feel a pressure to cash in on off-season crowds, especially following a year of weather-related setbacks. Continue reading →

North Shore

This nonprofit started an after-school program to teach woodworking. Then a new mission arrived.

A Gloucester woodworking shop provides mentorship through craftsmanship. Continue reading →

Cambridge

At Rodent Academy in Cambridge, you have one assignment: Kill the rats

To beat the pests, we have to be smarter than them. And sometimes, participants at the academy learn, we have to unleash the rat-killing dogs. Really. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Boston Globe Today: Sports | April 5, 2024

WATCH: Friday's sport show at Fenway Park. Stories include: Larry Lucchino’s legacy, and which Bruins goalie will start in the playoffs. Continue reading →

Red Sox start the season off hot

WATCH: Guest host George Balekji, Boston.com’s Conor Ryan and reporter Michael Silverman analyze the team’s west coast trip on a special show at Fenway Park. Continue reading →

Larry Lucchino’s legacy

WATCH: The former Red Sox president and Jimmy Fund chairman has died. Reporter Michael Silverman highlights what he meant to the team and the city. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again

The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces. Continue reading →

Politics

Biden gets a look at bridge devastation

On the ground, he received a briefing from local officials, the US Coast Guard, and Army Corps of Engineers on the situation in the water and its impacts on the region. Continue reading →

Nation

Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White House

Formerr vice president Mike Pence is among those who have declined to endorse him. Continue reading →

The World

World

Ukraine claims it destroyed Russian warplanes in one of its biggest drone attacks of the war

The assault appeared to be one of Kyiv’s biggest air attacks in the war, coming as its forces step up their assaults on Russian soil. Continue reading →

World

Israel dismisses 2 officers over deadly drone strikes on aid workers in Gaza

The findings of a retired general’s investigation into the Monday killings marked an embarrassing admission by Israel of not doing enough to protect Gaza’s civilians from its war with the militant Hamas group. Continue reading →

World

Russian officials again try to link the Moscow concert attack with Ukraine despite Kyiv’s denials

Authorities, including President Vladimir Putin, have provided no evidence for the link as they sought to shift the narrative from the failure by security services to prevent the attack. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Here’s how Biden can help Haitians who have fled a nation near collapse

Biden should redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status, which grants citizens from certain countries that are facing hardships a provisional permit to live and work in the United States. Continue reading →

OPINION

How to prevent another Steward-like health care crisis

The need for more stringent oversight does not apply to private equity-owned facilities alone. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Report raises questions on public retirees’ work

"Officials already struggle to fill many public sector positions," writes one reader. Another writes, "Some retired computer engineers, or a high school computer class, could come up with a program to track the public employee pension system." Continue reading →

Metro

Animals

How will pets, other animals react to the solar eclipse? Here’s what scientists say to expect.

“Really, what a solar eclipse mimics is a really fast-moving storm,” said Nate Bickford of the Oregon Institute of Technology. Continue reading →

Metro

Will the Edgar Benjamin nursing home survive?

Though the home has generally received high marks for care from state regulators, it has been plagued in recent months by catastrophic cash woes. Continue reading →

Health

Court-appointed manager aims to save a historic Boston nursing home

Staff at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center in Mission Hill were ebullient Friday at the arrival of the facility's new leader. Continue reading →

Sports

CELTICS NOTEBOOK

Kings coach Mike Brown draws on time in Golden State to offer Celtics advice on how to wrap up regular season

In six seasons as an assistant at Golden State, a period that included three NBA championships, Brown experienced similar situations to what the Celtics are going through now. Continue reading →

ON BASEBALL

Challenged by the Red Sox, Reese McGuire’s grinding is paying dividends all around the plate

McGuire was told at the end of last season that if he wanted to play more, he had to get stronger and become more of a consistent threat at the plate. He took the advice, and the opportunity to heart. Continue reading →

CELTICS 101, KINGS 100

Celtics’ reserves play Kings for a day, finish out narrow victory

Xavier Tillman's floater with seven seconds left put the Celtics ahead after the Kings mounted a comeback from down 18 to take the lead in the fourth quarter. Continue reading →

Business

Real Estate

Progress at Back Bay Station? Builder of long-dormant development signs lease deal with the state.

The long-term lease deal with Boston Properties would enable the developer to build a long-planned 27-story office tower at 171 Dartmouth St. Continue reading →

Consumer

At Boston’s new Google store, a play to reach more consumers

The Newbury Street storefront, which opened Friday, has the tech giant's latest phones, tablets, watches, and earbuds displayed on tables and shelves of beige wood. Continue reading →

Future of Work

Academic workers at Harvard unionize after six-year effort

More than 3,000 non-tenured faculty and researchers are now affiliated with the UAW. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Celebration of the life and photos of Charles Daniels

A small selection of 90,000 of Mr. Daniels's images, developed due to money raised in a GoFundMe campaign, will be shared at Sunday's gathering in a memorial slideshow. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Barbara Rush, prolific actress known for ’50s melodramas, dies at 97

An elegant, hazel-eyed actress, Barbara Rush worked with Rock Hudson, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Paul Newman, appearing in mid-century melodramas like “Magnificent Obsession” as well as the prime time soap opera “Peyton Place." Continue reading →

Obituaries

John Sinclair, a marijuana activist who was immortalized in a John Lennon song and concert, dies at 82

“I’m trying to get home. I want to be with you,” a sobbing Mr. Sinclair told the concert crowd from prison. And by Monday, he was. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

MUSIC REVIEW

BSO’s Scriabin cloaked in multi-hued spectacle of light

On Thursday night as part of a Music for the Senses festival, Andris Nelsons led works inspired by Mark Rothko and by an early-20th-century vision of color matched with sound. Continue reading →

Love Letters

Esther Perel hits Boston for one night to talk love, sex, and relationships

Before her stop at the Wang Theatre, the popular psychotherapist and podcaster chatted about touring, post-pandemic intimacy, and polyamory bylaws in Somerville. Continue reading →

LOVE LETTERS

My husband isn’t brushing his teeth

He’s in his 40s. Continue reading →