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Thursday, April 18, 2024


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🏠 Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2024 The glaring mismatch between supply and demand has meant soaring real estate prices for several years. Now, interest rates are nudging us to an expensive impasse.
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She was surprised Concord Academy removed her as commencement speaker. She thinks it had to do with her ‘politics.’

“I didn’t have any proof as to why they removed me, but I had an educated guess, which is my politics,” said Porsha Olayiwola, Boston’s poet laureate.
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Politics


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‘It’s complete political theater’: Congress spins its wheels — again — while crucial legislation languishes

Wednesday was an unusually chaotic day in Congress. And that’s saying something.
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Climate


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With the clean energy transition, low-income communities fear they’ll be saddled with big infrastructure projects, again

Advocates worry environmental justice neighborhoods are being saddled with this infrastructure, taking away open space and exposing residents to risks such as fire, while wealthier communities that are more able to push back are spared.
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Crime & Courts


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Suffolk County youths three times more likely to be held after arraignment

The Suffolk district attorney’s office said it is responding to a rising number of firearm cases among young people while trying to balance how best to help children involved in crimes.
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Columbia president tells Congress action needed against antisemitism

The president of Columbia said the university had suspended 15 students. She promised that one visiting professor “will never work at Columbia again.”
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Boston Globe Today | April 17, 2024

WATCH: Wednesday's show with guest host James Pindell. Stories include: Who killed Watertown's first Black police officer?
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Middle-income families struggle to pay for college

WATCH: They face stratospheric prices and aren’t likely to get much help. Reporter Hilary Burns shares the dollars and cents of higher education.
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A musical visit with Leslie Odom, Jr.

WATCH: The singer, actor and producer is bringing personal new songs to Boston. He discusses his upcoming concert with host Segun Oduolowu.
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Politics


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Johnson pushes ahead on foreign aid bill, teeing up a weekend vote

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday told Republicans that the House would vote Saturday evening on his foreign aid package for Israel and Ukraine, pushing through resistance in his own party to advance a long-stalled national security spending package for US allies.
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Senate dismisses impeachment charges against Mayorkas without a trial

The Senate on Wednesday dismissed the impeachment case against Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, voting along party lines before his trial got underway to sweep aside two charges accusing him of failing to enforce immigration laws and breaching the public trust.
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Nation


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What we know so far about the jurors in Trump’s New York hush money trial

There will be 12 jurors total, plus about six alternates, according to the New York judge overseeing the case.
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Israeli response to Iran attack seems inevitable, despite allies’ pleas

European diplomats traveled to Israel on Wednesday to make one more plea for restraint in response to the aerial attack that Iran launched this weekend, but Britain’s foreign secretary acknowledged that an Israeli reprisal seemed inevitable.
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World


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Attack by Hezbollah injures 14 Israeli soldiers in border village

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a cross-border drone and missile attack in northern Israel on Wednesday that the Israeli military said had injured 14 soldiers, six of them severely.
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Russian missile strikes north of Kyiv kill at least 17, Ukraine says

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the death toll, reported by the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general, might rise and blamed Ukraine’s lack of air defenses for the loss of life. The prosecutor general said 61 people had been reported injured.
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OPINION


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State hits the jackpot on sports gambling revenue, but what’s the social cost?

"The dilemma is: Can government benefit [from] and regulate an industry at the same time?"
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EDITORIAL


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Al fresco, ma non troppo

Outdoor dining on the streets of the North End should return — but with common-sense protections for the neighborhood.
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LETTERS


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MTA webinar wades into, gets mired in, Israel-Palestinian debate

Despite what the MTA might hope, teachers do not enjoy free speech in their classrooms. On the contrary, what they say in front of their students — a captive audience — is a form of government speech.
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Health


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On the verge of a breakup, Lawrence and Methuen make amends to keep public health partnership alive

The rift between Lawrence and Methuen highlights the difficulties municipalities can face amid the effort to regionalize public health in Massachusetts.
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Crime & Courts


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Here’s how jury members are being chosen for the Karen Read murder trial

Out of roughly 90 potential jurors in the courtroom, nearly 60 said that they’d heard about the case. Two dozen said they had an opinion, and 12 said they had a bias against one side or the other.
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Lithium-ion battery fires on the rise in Mass.; officials identify 50 blazes over past six months

The state Department of Fire Services has identified 50 lithium-ion battery fires in Massachusetts over the last six months, more than double the annual average documented by a national fire data reporting system, the agency said Wednesday.
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If only for one night, Tanner Houck’s complete-game gem offers hope that all is not lost for Red Sox

Houck's last professional shoutout was a six-inning game ended by rain when he was with Double A Portland in 2019.
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Tanner Houck throws rare complete game, a ‘Maddux’ in fact, as Red Sox blank Guardians

Houck yielded just three hits and fanned nine, needing only 94 pitches.
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Here’s what to know about the Maple Leafs, the Bruins’ opponent in the first round of the playoffs

Toronto has not won a playoff series against Boston since 1959, with the Bruins triumphing in seven games in 2013, 2018, and 2019.
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Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ dancing robot, will finally be for sale

The Waltham company said its new robot is electric powered and able to lift heavy items, twist its body, and eventually work in factories.
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A years-long quest to get a $50 gift card redeemed has a happy ending

Joe D’Avena got an apology and an extra $200 after a pursuit to redeem his gift card to the now-closed Flutie’s Sport Pub in Plainville’s Plainridge Park Casino.
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State panel approves request to add nearly 100 new beds at Massachusetts General Hospital

State regulators on Wednesday approved a request from Massachusetts General Hospital to add nearly 100 new beds to its massive downtown construction project.
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Obituaries






BASEBALL


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Ken Holtzman, MLB’s winningest Jewish pitcher and a four-time World Series champion, dies at 78

The lefthander posted a 174-150 record and 3.49 ERA from 1965 to 1979 with the Athletics, Cubs, Yankees, and Orioles, throwing a pair of no-hitters with the Cubs.
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Fritz Peterson, who traded his wife and children with a Yankees teammate, has died

Peterson swapped families with Mike Kekich, a fellow pitcher, in 1973 and married Kekich's ex-wife the following year.
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Obituaries


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Bob Graham, former Florida governor and senator, dies at 87

The Democrat took upon himself to, for a day, do hundreds of unglamorous jobs in order to get closer to constituents and win their support.
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Arts & Lifestyle






Books


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Al Roker cooks up a murder mystery

The “Today” personality talks writing, cooking, his dream job, and favorite Massachusetts grocery store ahead of “Murder on Demand.”
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Visual Arts


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Mass MoCA to open Jeffrey Gibson installation this fall

The Native American artist will open a new installation at the museum’s massive Building 5.
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Ten places to shop for pre-loved clothing in the Boston area

Area secondhand stores where you can try on items before buying, and consign what you’re ready to part with — some offer online shopping, too.
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