Nation

For a second time, Menendez faces a corruption trial. This time, it involves gold bars.

The 70-year-old New Jersey Democrat and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from three wealthy businessmen in his home state and performing a variety of favors in return, including meddling in criminal investigations and taking actions benefitting the governments of Egypt and Qatar. Continue reading →

Nation

Cohen is a challenging star witness in Trump’s hush money trial

Michael Cohen, who is expected to take the stand Monday, can address the jury as someone who has reckoned frankly with his misdeeds and paid for them with his liberty. Continue reading →

Nation

Local governments struggle to distribute their share of billions from opioid settlements

Settlement money to help stem the decadeslong opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the country, but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that don’t make a dent in the crisis. Continue reading →

World

Russian forces push deeper into northern Ukraine

In the past three days, Russian troops, backed by fighter jets, artillery, and lethal drones, have poured across Ukraine’s northeastern border and seized at least nine villages and settlements, and more square miles per day than at almost any other point in the war, save the very beginning. Continue reading →

World

Ukraine’s seaborne grain exports bounce back to near prewar levels

In the past six months, Ukraine has exported 27.6 million metric tons of grain and oilseed through the Black Sea, the country’s main export route, according to figures from the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. Continue reading →

World

Rise in UK knife attacks leads to a crackdown and stokes public anxiety

Although the number of fatal stabbings has mostly held steady in England and Wales over the past 10 years, headline-grabbing attacks and an overall rise in knife crime have stoked anxieties and led to calls for the government to do more. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Welcome to Boston — not

International arrivals at Logan continue to be unwelcoming for foreigners and flat-out embarrassing for residents. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Protect the separation of church and state

For a few hours in 2022, a flag with a cross flew over Boston. But the forces that put it there did not stop at the flagpole. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Pot emerges from the legal shadows

But only part way. A new DEA recommendation won’t solve the cannabis industry’s banking problems. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

A community on Mother’s Day for parents whose children have been killed

Thousands of people filled the streets of Dorchester early Sunday morning, honoring mothers whose children have been killed while also commemorating their childrens’ lives, in the 28th Mother’s Day Walk 4 Peace. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Two weeks into Karen Read trial, questions of investigation, memory, and connections

These opening weeks have included crucial testimony, with local police officers and paramedics talking about responding to the scene and collecting evidence in plastic cups and friends of Read and O’Keefe talking about the night before his death. Continue reading →

Transportation

After decrying ‘disinvestment’ in the MBTA, proposals by Healey and the Legislature fail to fully fund the agency

Their spending plans leave the T hundreds of millions of dollars short on its operating budget in the upcoming fiscal year. Continue reading →

Chad Finn

Jrue Holiday was at his best in Game 3 against Cleveland, and that’s exactly what the Celtics need

Holiday put together arguably his finest performance as a Celtic on Saturday night. Continue reading →

ON HOCKEY

Hey Siri, if that’s not goaltender interference, what is? Facing elimination, the Bruins have a problem with the refs — and their offense.

If the Bruins are saddled with ludicrous calls like the one that allowed Sam Bennett’s tying goal and fail to mount more of an attack, the fait accompli of a Panthers victory will turn into hard reality. Continue reading →

Game 4: Panthers 3, Bruins 2

Bruins allow three unanswered to lose Game 4 to Panthers

Florida has a chance to close out this best-of-seven second-round Stanley Cup playoff series Tuesday in Sunrise. Continue reading →

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Obituaries

Jasper White, inventive chef who helped put Boston on the culinary map, has died

“I was part of a group of chefs that, in the early ‘80s, nationwide, started the American cuisine movement,” Mr. White told the Globe. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Sean Burroughs, Little League hero and former MLB player, dies at 43

Sean Burroughs, a former Little League World Series hero and first-round MLB draft pick who played seven big league seasons, died Thursday at 43. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, pioneer of supergraphics, dies at 95

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, an audacious graphic designer, landscape architect and artist who first made a splash in the 1960s with the supersize, geometric architectural painting movement known as supergraphics, died Tuesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 95. Continue reading →

MUSIC REVIEW

The Boston Pops swings into spring with a rousing opening-night performance

On Friday night, the Pops filled Symphony Hall with the music of George Gershwin before turning things over to Harry Connick Jr. Continue reading →

Visual Arts

MFA appoints Anastasia Christophilopoulou as new chair of ancient Greek and Roman art

Christophilopoulou currently serves as senior curator of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. She will begin at the MFA in the early fall and said she’s excited about the move to Boston. Continue reading →

Dance Review

Boston Dance Theater reaches for the ‘Pinnacle’

This weekend’s bill “Pinnacle Works: Galili, Goecke & Pereira,” offers a half dozen works, including two world premieres. Continue reading →