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COVID-19 Vaccines

Phase 2 vaccinations are set to begin Monday. But many cities and towns say they have no way to make that happen

As the state urges residents to head online to make appointments, local health officials warn that they do not have the doses necessary to open up clinics for the next round of residents who will be eligible. The contradictory message has many officials feeling as though they are in an impossible situation. Continue reading →

Business

Mass. will set up hot line to help people struggling to get vaccination appointments

Governor Charlie Baker said that Massachusetts will soon unveil a telephone hot line to help people struggling to book COVID-19 vaccination appointments, responding to widespread complaints that the online system has proved maddening for eligible residents, seniors especially. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts’ hope of vaccinating almost everyone by the end of summer depends on a lot going right

Not only will the federal government have to find a way to crank up supply, but the Baker administration will have to dramatically step up its game in getting shots into arms. Continue reading →

Metro

William Gross, Boston’s first Black police commissioner, abruptly announces retirement

Boston Police Superintendent Dennis White, who’s been serving as Gross’s chief of staff, will assume the duties and responsibilities of the position, Mayor Martin J. Walsh said. Continue reading →

Investigations

Families of truck crash victims make plea to Biden, cite his past family tragedy in calling for reforms

A group who collectively lost 28 people to roadway collisions has sent a letter to President Biden, whose wife and daughter died in a horrific 1972 crash, asking him to take up their cause and do more to prevent truck crashes. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

With latest executive orders, Biden opens Obamacare enrollment in bid to expand access to health care

The president also ordered a reexamination of Trump administration policies that undermined protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. Continue reading →

Nation

Pelosi denounces GOP leaders over Georgia lawmaker’s posts

Republican leaders are confronting a conundrum of their own making. The party largely embraced Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia after she won her primary, making it harder for them to distance themselves from her now, especially when many of her views were already well known. Continue reading →

Nation

House Democrats revive bill to ban colleagues from carrying guns on Capitol grounds

Representative Jared Huffman, Democrat of California, filed the No Congressional Gun Loophole Act on Thursday, seeking to nullify regulations that exempt members of Congress from a federal law banning guns on Capitol grounds. Continue reading →

The World

World

‘Declaration of war’: Protesters in Poland vow to fight abortion ban

Women’s rights advocates and allies in Poland vowed Thursday to continue to fight a near-total ban on abortions, calling it a breach of human rights and a sign that the country is regressing. Continue reading →

World

Top Pakistani court upholds reversal of conviction in Daniel Pearl killing

Pakistan’s highest court on Thursday ordered the release of the man who had been convicted of being the mastermind behind the 2002 kidnapping and death of American journalist Daniel Pearl, in a ruling that experts say shows the weakness of terrorism prosecutions in the country. Continue reading →

World

Tanzania’s leader denies COVID. Now countrymen push back

Tanzania’s president says God has eliminated COVID-19 in his country. His own church now begs to differ. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Biden must not miss the urgency of the moment on criminal justice reform

The president must act quickly to overhaul a system rife with systemic racism, over-incarceration, arbitrary and disparate sentencing practices, and profiteering. Continue reading →

OPINION

Federal executions — cruel and too usual

The death penalty is a cruel, systemically racist ideology of state power that is an affront to human dignity. Continue reading →

OPINION

Arm yourself against conspiracy theories

There are basic ways to distinguish the plausible from the far-fetched. Continue reading →

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Metro

Metro

Massachusetts’ hope of vaccinating almost everyone by the end of summer depends on a lot going right

Not only will the federal government have to find a way to crank up supply, but the Baker administration will have to dramatically step up its game in getting shots into arms. Continue reading →

Metro

William Gross, Boston’s first Black police commissioner, abruptly announces retirement

Boston Police Superintendent Dennis White, who’s been serving as Gross’s chief of staff, will assume the duties and responsibilities of the position, Mayor Martin J. Walsh said. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts’ hope of vaccinating almost everyone by the end of summer depends on a lot going right

Not only will the federal government have to find a way to crank up supply, but the Baker administration will have to dramatically step up its game in getting shots into arms. Continue reading →

Sports

High Schools

Injured Bishop Feehan hockey player A.J. Quetta undergoes surgery at Mass General Hospital

Quetta, a senior forward from North Providence, R.I., was seriously injured Tuesday when he crashed headfirst into the boards in a hockey game at the Olympia Ice Center in West Springfield. He remains hospitalized in critical condition. Continue reading →

ben volin | on football

This Buccaneers run looks a lot like what Tom Brady did with the 2018 Patriots

The teams' paths to and through the playoffs are strikingly similar, and two years ago, it all ended with a championship for Brady. Continue reading →

Patriots

Boston College tight end Hunter Long wants to set himself apart at the Senior Bowl

Long, projected as a third-round pick, said he wants "to get my name out there." Continue reading →

Business

Business

Mass. will set up hot line to help people struggling to get vaccination appointments

Governor Charlie Baker said that Massachusetts will soon unveil a telephone hot line to help people struggling to book COVID-19 vaccination appointments, responding to widespread complaints that the online system has proved maddening for eligible residents, seniors especially. Continue reading →

Business

Mass. will set up hot line to help people struggling to get vaccination appointments

Governor Charlie Baker said that Massachusetts will soon unveil a telephone hot line to help people struggling to book COVID-19 vaccination appointments, responding to widespread complaints that the online system has proved maddening for eligible residents, seniors especially. Continue reading →

Business

One of Boston’s largest landlords launches program to sharply cut evictions

WinnCompanies said Thursday that it wants to cut evictions in its portfolio by 25 percent this year. Continue reading →

Obituaries
Arts & Lifestyle

GETTING OUT

Three walks with poets through their favorite landscapes

They are worth visiting now, and worth revisiting later to watch the change of seasons. Continue reading →

MUSIC

Boston Lyric Opera drops a fully animated ‘Fall of the House of Usher’ production

The company brought plenty of creativity to its staging of Philip Glass’s 1988 opera. Continue reading →

TELEVISION REVIEW

In ‘The Long Song,’ an unflinching eye on slavery

The "Masterpiece" three-parter looks straight at the violence, sadism, and moral depravity of British plantation owners in 1830s Jamaica. Continue reading →