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Saturday, May 11, 2024
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Higher Education

After nearly three weeks on campus, MIT’s pro-Palestinian student encampment ends with arrests

Ten students were arrested Friday morning and transported to Cambridge District Court, where they were charged with trespassing and released. They were told that if they abide by any orders they receive from MIT about their on-campus behavior, the charges will be dismissed by July 10. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Harvard’s encampment is the last one standing in Greater Boston

Members of the pro-Palestinian encampment, Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, rejected an offer from Harvard University’s president to end their protest on early Friday morning. Continue reading →

Transportation

The T is paying consultants up to $610 per hour — to figure out how to save money

The MBTA entered into a $450,000 contract with a consulting firm last month, with consultants charging between $244 and $610 per hour. Continue reading →

Health

Harvard scientists unveil the most detailed map of the brain ever: ‘It’s an alien world inside your own head’

The researchers, with Google and other partners, spent a decade deciphering 1 cubic millimeter of tissue. Continue reading →

Climate

Lights, camera ... climate? Report finds Hollywood is depicting a world without climate change.

“To learn that only 10 percent of the films over the last decade — over this critical period — are even including climate change in their story worlds ... it’s disappointing.” Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Boston Globe Today: Sports | May 10, 2024

WATCH: Friday's sports show. Stories include: Drake Maye set to bloom in Foxborough. And, rethinking David Pastrnak’s cat fight. Continue reading →

Rethinking David Pastrnak’s cat fight

WATCH: Host Chris Gasper prefers the Bruins sniper beat up the Panthers on the scoresheet rather than with his fists. Continue reading →

Bruins send vintage message ahead of Game 3

WATCH: Columnist Dan Shaughnessy on the B’s fighting mad message to Panthers, plus what the Celtics need to do differently on Saturday vs the Cavs. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Virginia school board restores Confederate leaders’ names to two schools

The Shenandoah County School Board voted 5-1 to call the schools Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School. Continue reading →

Politics

Senate approves bill to reauthorize FAA and improve air travel

The Senate on Thursday passed legislation to reauthorize federal aviation programs for the next five years and put in place new safety measures and consumer protections for passengers, at a moment of intense uncertainty and disruption in the air travel system. Continue reading →

Nation

Judge directs Michael Cohen to keep quiet about Trump ahead of his hush money trial testimony

Judge Juan M. Merchan’s comments came as a dramatic and consequential week in the first criminal trial of a former American president drew to a close Friday. Continue reading →

The World

World

UN General Assembly adopts resolution supporting Palestinian statehood

The resolution was approved by a vote of 143-9, with 25 nations abstaining. The assembly broke into a big applause after the vote. The United States voted no. Continue reading →

World

Battles rage around Rafah’s edge as more than 100,000 flee the city

The closure this week of two main entry points for aid has accelerated the humanitarian crisis in southern Gaza. Continue reading →

World

Russia mounting new border assaults in north, Ukraine says

The Russian assaults began around 5 a.m. Friday, with massive shelling and aerial bombardments of Ukrainian positions followed by armored columns trying to punch through at several points along the border, according to a statement from Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

I’m a conservative student. Freedom of speech protects pro-Palestinian protesters too.

Those who curtail objectionable speech often naively believe that by doing so, they’re stopping the spread of harmful ideas. But in practice, censorship often fans the flames it’s meant to extinguish. Continue reading →

OPINION

How to bring solar energy to low-income communities

Low- and moderate-income households are only a small percentage of those benefiting from community solar. A couple of projects in Boston are seeking to change that. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Climate change: What could possibly go wrong?

Climate change is truly the ultimate 'all of us' issue. Continue reading →

Metro

Somerville

‘This has gotta be a scam.’ How a Somerville resident found out Guster wanted to perform on his porch at Porchfest.

Local indie icons Guster have toured the world. On Saturday, they just announced, they'll play from a smaller stage, er, porch. Continue reading →

ADRIAN WALKER

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and activist Denella Clark join forces to help women giving care to terminally ill loved ones

This Mother’s Day Weekend they are launching the Pressley-James Lovin’ Gestures Fund, which will provide financial help to people providing care to terminally ill close relatives. Continue reading →

Around New England

At the University of Vermont, protest ends abruptly but peacefully

While some pro-Palestinian protests at other universities in New England ended with police action and arrests, the protest at UVM in Burlington ended without rancor after protesters claimed victory and the administration avoided the kind of confrontation that has roiled other campuses nationwide. Continue reading →

Sports

beat writer's notebook

Jayson Tatum’s sub patterns, Jaylen Brown’s voice, a super-team debate, and other Celtics thoughts

Joe Mazzulla has altered the way he uses Tatum since Kristaps Porzingis was hurt, but he may want to go back to a more familiar routine. Continue reading →

KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON HOCKEY

These Bruins again can’t seem to handle the Florida heat

After being outplayed by the Panthers for most of Game 3 on Garden ice, the Bruins are really up against it now. Continue reading →

bruins notebook

Bruins defenseman Andrew Peeke returns to lineup for Game 3 against Panthers

Peeke returned to the blue line corps for the first time since suffering an undisclosed injury in Game 2 against the Maple Leafs. Continue reading →

Business

Jobs

Union dispute bubbles up at Harvard Book Store

The labor dispute comes just two months after management canceled the planned second location in the Prudential Center. Continue reading →

Biotech

Ginkgo Bioworks to slash labor costs, jobs

After lackluster first-quarter earnings, Ginkgo Bioworks said it will slash labor expenses by at least 25 percent, which will include an unspecified number of job cuts. Continue reading →

Business

Representative Katherine Clark unveils child care push at business event in Cambridge

After failing to move a GOP-led Congress last year to reup federal assistance for childcare centers, Clark is turning to the business community for help in making her case. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr., envoy, captive in Iran hostage crisis, dies at 93

A Princeton- and Harvard-educated diplomat with a specialty in economics, Mr. Kennedy was halfway through a three-month assignment in Tehran when a Marine came charging down the embassy hallway, shouting about a “break-in” at the compound. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Hall of Fame defensive back Jimmy Johnson dead at age 86

Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back Jimmy Johnson, a three-time All-Pro and member of the All-Decade Team of the 1970s, has died. He was 86. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Dennis Thompson, drummer and last remaining member of MC5, dies at 75

Dennis Thompson, the drummer whose thunderous, hard-hitting style powered the proto-punk sound of the loud, outspoken and highly influential Detroit rock band MC5, died Thursday in Taylor, Michigan. He was 75. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

DANCE REVIEW

Boston Ballet is in shape for Paris with ‘Spring Experience’

The final program of Boston Ballet’s 2023-24 season is a warm-up for the company’s tour to Paris, where it’ll perform at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées May 27-30. Continue reading →

BOOKS

Juli Min’s ‘Shanghailanders’ transports readers to the root of one family’s fractured relationships

The Globe spoke with Min ahead of her appearance at Harvard Book Store on Monday, where she’ll be talking about her new book with author Abue Rey Lescure. Continue reading →

MATTHEW GILBERT | SNL' SHOWDOWN

Bill Murray over Mike Myers? Voters again show that they prefer ‘SNL’ cast members of a certain vintage.

Round 2's biggest surprise was Bill Murray's lopsided win over Mike Myers. And its toughest call may have been Cecily Strong vs. Maya Rudolph. Continue reading →