Nation

Biden names diverse nominees for the federal bench

President Biden began a drive to reshape the federal courts Tuesday with a burst of judicial nominations that put an emphasis on diversity. Continue reading →

Nation

Jury declines to convict 3 white St. Louis police officers in severe beating of a Black colleague

The Black officer, who was working undercover, was beaten so severely during a protest over another officer’s acquittal that he had to undergo multiple surgeries. Continue reading →

Nation

Garland launches internal Justice Dept. review to improve hate-crime tracking, prosecutions

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday announced that the Justice Department will conduct a 30-day internal review to determine how the agency can bolster the tracking and prosecutions of hate crimes and bias incidents motivated around race, gender, and other factors. Continue reading →

World

Three women working to vaccinate children shot dead in Afghanistan

Three health workers, all women, working for the government’s polio vaccine campaign were shot dead in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, local officials said, only weeks after three women working in television were killed in the same city. Continue reading →

World

For years, a Mafia fugitive hid from police. Then they spotted his Italian cooking videos on YouTube

Marc Feren Claude Biart was always careful to hide his face in his Italian cooking tutorials, filming the YouTube videos while laying low from police on a sandy beach in the Caribbean. But Biart, an alleged member of southern Italy’s powerful ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate, had failed to obscure his tattoos on tape — a clue authorities now say they used to track down the mobster in the Dominican Republic. Continue reading →

World

Police response at Sarah Everard vigil was appropriate, investigators say

The official body investigating police conduct at a London vigil for Sarah Everard, who was killed while walking home this month, has determined that the city’s police “acted appropriately” at the event, according to a report released Tuesday. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Cutting low-level offenders a break really works

A study shows DA Rollins’s policy on dealing with misdemeanors makes the community safer. Continue reading →

OPINION

Marijuana edibles and the risk to children

How was it possible that I survived a year-long pandemic, and this was how I was going to die? Continue reading →

LETTERS

Romney’s courage is given its due

I shall never forget seeing him step forward to make that difficult speech at the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Continue reading →

K-12

To reopen high schools faster, vaccinate teens, says BPS superintendent

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius made her appeal during roundtable on school reopening with US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona at the Joseph P. Tynan Elementary School in South Boston. Continue reading →

Globe Local

A woman, surrounded by friends and family, issues a heartbreaking, life-or-death plea to a big drug firm

Diagnosed with an aggressive form of ALS, Lisa Stockman Mauriello and her family are fighting to get Biogen to allow her early access to a drug that might allow her to live longer. Continue reading →

Metro

Former Boston police captain who oversaw evidence warehouse arrested for alleged overtime fraud

The former Boston police captain pocketed more than $12,395 in fraudulent overtime payments for hours he didn’t work between 2015 and early 2019, authorities said. Continue reading →

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A safe call at Fenway: Red Sox do some remodeling to welcome fans back

As the season begins this week, the ballpark will be allowed to operate at 12 percent capacity, with all kinds of COVID protocols in place. Continue reading →

Bruins 5, Devils 4

The Bruins gave the puck away, were sloppy, lacked focus, and somehow finally beat the Devils

Charlie Coyle and David Pastrnak scored nifty goals in the shootout for the Bruins, who beat New Jersey for the first time in five tries. Continue reading →

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Brandon Carlo, Brad Marchand return to Bruins lineup vs. Devils Tuesday

Carlo has been out since March 5, when an aggressive hit by the Capitals' Tom Wilson sent him to the hospital. Marchand said he returned a false-positive COVID-19 test. Continue reading →

Business

How eight fancy Boston condos figure into a fight over the Saudi throne

A collection of condominiums at some of Boston’s swankiest addresses are part of a clash between warring factions of the Saudi regime, a power struggle with global political implications that also highlights Boston’s standing as a haven for international real estate investors. Continue reading →

Business

McGovern Foundation merges with Silicon Valley nonprofit to bring tech to philanthropy sector

The combined organization will work to speed the response to issues such as climate change and hunger with artificial intelligence and data science. Continue reading →

Business

DraftKings acquires the sports-betting media firm VSiN

Vegas Sports Information Network says it airs more than 18 hours of live sports betting content daily. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jack Bradley, photographer of Louis Armstrong and jazz luminaries, dies at 87

Thousands of Mr. Armstrong's photos make up much of the collection at the Louis Armstrong House Museum. Continue reading →

Obituaries

G. Gordon Liddy, undercover operative convicted in Watergate scandal, dies at 90

G. Gordon Liddy, the undercover operative whose bungling of the Watergate break-in triggered the gravest constitutional crisis in American history and led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, died March 30 at his daughter’s home in Mount Vernon, Va. He was 90. Continue reading →

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TELEVISION

Ken Burns on getting beyond the ‘toxic masculine’ myth of Ernest Hemingway

The new Ken Burns-Lynn Novick documentary about the writer premieres next week. Continue reading →

MUSEUMS

Hope blooms again as nasturtiums return to the Gardner Museum

The spring tradition is especially sweet after a cancellation in 2020. Continue reading →

THE NEXT COURSE

Barking Crab could have gone belly up, save for an ingenious plan

The decades-old seafood restaurant turned into a hole in the wall. Literally. Continue reading →