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COVID-19 Vaccines


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Encouraging signs are beginning to emerge in Mass. and R.I. coronavirus data. Still, experts urge caution

More than 2.1 million people in Massachusetts are now fully immunized, and so is one-third of Rhode Island’s population. Specialists said the broad distribution of vaccines appears to have arrived just in time to stem the variant-fueled surge that was gathering strength last month.
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Jobs


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After a year of WFH, many workers will soon face a new challenge: learning to be around colleagues again

As employees trickle back to long-dormant offices, they — and their employers — will return to spaces that look and feel different. But the most substantial changes may have to do with how people interact.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE


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While most Boston schools remained closed, McKinley opened its doors. Yet almost no one came

The low attendance rates speak to the difficulty of compelling students who already disliked school to attend when it’s optional. Even before the pandemic, the neglected schools struggled to entice high school students to attend class.
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Healthcare


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MGH pushes ahead with nearly $2 billion expansion

Two new buildings on Cambridge Street would have hundreds of private rooms for patients, and the project would improve a busy commuter corridor in downtown Boston while potentially serving as a key cog in the linking of the MBTA's Red and Blue lines.
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Climate Change


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Biden, calling for action, commits US to halving its climate emissions

President Biden moved to put four years of official climate denial behind the United States, declaring that America would cut its global warming emissions at least in half by the end of the decade.
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Nation


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Sheriff’s deputy kills a Black man in N.C.; few details released about circumstances

The county sheriff declined to release body camera footage or give many details of the case, including the nature of the warrant, how many shots were fired, or whether the man was armed, citing a state investigation.
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Nation


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Investigation suppressed by Trump administration reveals obstacles to hurricane aid for Puerto Rico

The Trump administration put up bureaucratic obstacles that stalled approximately $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico and then obstructed an investigation into the holdup, according to an inspector general report.
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Nation


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Biden’s USPS nominees face confirmation hearing as Democrats consider paths to oust DeJoy

President Biden’s three nominees to the US Postal Service’s governing board faced their first big test Thursday on Capitol Hill, where a Senate panel pressed them to maintain service levels and rein in parts of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan for the agency.
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The World






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Russian minister orders partial pullback from Ukraine border region

The order signals a possible deescalation in a military standoff that had raised alarm that a new war in Europe could be looming.
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World


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Fallen British Empire soldiers overlooked because of racism, inquiry finds

Tens of thousands of soldiers from Africa and Asia who died during World War I in the service of what was then the British Empire were not properly commemorated, partly because of prejudice and racism, according to the findings of an inquiry issued Thursday.
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For extra days off, couple had 4 weddings and 3 divorces, officials say

In Taiwan, one of the few places in the world to offer marriage leave to couples heading to the altar, a bank employee married his partner four times, all in a plot to take advantage of the self-governing island’s time-off policy for newlyweds.
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OPINION


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Bringing Boston into the wild

Cities are restoring overdeveloped, human-engineered land to a more natural state.
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EDITORIAL


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Policing the police makes a comeback

Merrick Garland is putting the Justice Department back in the watchdog game.
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OPINION


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Free bus is tempting, but low-income fares better address affordability

A low-income fare program would provide lower cost, perhaps free, access to all MBTA services, a greater benefit to people for whom fares are a barrier.
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Politics


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Former Mass. commissioner of the deaf sues Baker, charging he was fired to give governor ‘political cover’

In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday against Governor Charlie Baker, Steven Florio charges that he was fired as the state's chief advocate for the deaf to give Baker “political cover” after controversy erupted around Florio's time in Kappa Gamma Fraternity.
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A supreme lesson

Ordinary English soccer fans dispatched the Super League with a populist putsch even before it had scheduled its first game.
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Opposition grows over proposed gun shop in Newton: ‘A gun store will make us all less safe’

In a vacant storefront in Newtonville, close to an ice cream shop, wine store, supermarket, and marijuana shop, a local businessman hopes to open Newton’s only gun store.
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Celtics 99, Suns 86


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Kemba Walker too hot for Suns and other observations on Celtics’ win

His 32-points sank Phoenix.
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Bruins Notebook


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Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy holds fast on successful forward lines

For the second of three games in Buffalo, Steven Kampfer was swapped in for Jakub Zboril on defense, the only roster change.
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Super League


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How soccer’s Super League fell apart

It is a story of egos and intrigue, avarice and ambition, secret meetings, and internecine strife.
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Business


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Warren joins push for more housing help from DC, seeking nearly $500 billion for 3 million new homes

The plan, dubbed the American Housing and Mobility Act, is supported by an array of housing groups and the mayors of most of Massachusetts’ larger cities.
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Rockland Trust inks billion-dollar deal to buy East Boston Savings Bank

The deal, announced after the markets closed on Thursday, is the latest among a scramble of regional bank mergers announced in recent months.
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Owners of Bay Windows, South End News put the papers up for sale

Potential new ownership models could include a nonprofit conversion, government support, a media merger, or community ownership.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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Nicole Hynes, who said ‘I love you’ until the end, dies at 77

Through charitable work, Mrs. Hynes was a constant presence in arts, education, and health care circles.
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Obituaries


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Shock G, off-kilter Digital Underground leader, dead at 57

Shock G, who blended whimsical wordplay with reverence for ’70s funk as leader of the off-kilter hip-hop group Digital Underground, has died. He was 57.
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Arts & Lifestyle






SPRING THINGS


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10 Boston-area breweries with beer gardens open now

Several Boston-area breweries have reopened their outdoor patios for the season, welcoming visitors to sip on cold, frothy beers in the spring sunshine.
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Music


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Boston Pops announces a virtual spring season with six concert streams

The season will feature four new concerts and two performances from the Pops archives, including a 1976 "Evening at Pops" show with Ella Fitzgerald.
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REEL NEWS


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More than a year after shutting down, the Coolidge will reopen on May 13

‘We are relieved and happy to once again be able to share movies together,’ the moviehouse’s director said.
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