Nation

Treasury targets tax cheating in proposal it hopes will bring in $700 billion

The Treasury Department on Thursday announced a plan to raise $700 billion through new tax-compliance measures, a potentially key source of revenue for the Biden administration’s multitrillion-dollar spending proposals. Continue reading →

Nation

House narrowly passes $1.9 billion bill to beef up Capitol security; GOP vows to kill it in the Senate

The legislation was barely approved along party lines as a group of Democratic progressives, including Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, registered objections. Continue reading →

Nation

North Korea strategy tops agenda at Biden-Moon summit on Friday

South Korean President Moon Jae-in is set to make a last-ditch attempt to bring the United States and North Korea together under his watch when he meets President Biden at the White House on Friday, trying to revive dormant nuclear talks in his final year in office. Continue reading →

World

Kremlin escalates fight with US-funded journalists, officials say

When Jamie Fly, the chief executive of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, visited Moscow in January 2020 to promote his news outlet’s popularity in Russia, he said he received an ominous message from the Kremlin’s top spokesman. Continue reading →

World

Even amid a pandemic, more than 40 million people fled their homes

Storms, floods, wildfires — and to a lesser degree, conflict — uprooted 40.5 million people around the world in 2020. It was the largest number in more than a decade, according to figures published Thursday by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a nonprofit group based in Geneva that tracks displacement data annually. Continue reading →

World

In South Korea, a wave of bullying claims

The accusations are anonymous and surface on social media: alleging that a range of South Korean celebrities — sports heroes, K-pop stars and actors — engaged in bullying as teenagers or younger. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Tax foes’ argument against Fair Share Amendment is a tired retreat to business as usual

Taxes have been steadily reduced during the last half century, and we have witnessed obscene new forms of inequality in the last pandemic year. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Tenure, as anchor of academic freedom, is in need of more protection than ever in medical schools

Biomedical research is not just about the money; it is about contributions to society and human health. Continue reading →

LETTERS

‘Jokes’ about gender identity are as hurtful now as they were 16 years ago

Sixteen years ago, when I was coming out as transsexual to my patients, family, colleagues, and friends, I was informed by others about less-than-gracious comments made about me on the air. Continue reading →

Metro

‘It’s mind-boggling’: On Cape Cod, soaring home prices create an unprecedented seller’s market

With so few homes on the market, house hunters are going to extremes: forking over full-cash payments, skipping inspections, and waiving appraisal contingencies. Some are putting together offers after a FaceTime viewing — or without seeing a property in person at all. Continue reading →

Health

Lawsuit targets Salvation Army for barring use of anti-addiction medication in rehab programs

The suit was filed Friday in the US District Court in Boston on behalf of Mark Tassinari, who was ejected from the Boston Adult Rehabilitation Center in Saugus in 2018 after he started taking doctor-prescribed buprenorphine to manage his long-standing addiction to opioids. Continue reading →

Metro

Rules are easing around masks, but the pollen season has other ideas

For many, ditching the masks when outside won’t be happening quite yet. Another airborne foe, one with an unfortunate sense of timing, has arrived: buckets of powdery pollen, blanketing the Boston area in a yellow haze. And it’s bad. Continue reading →

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

‘Take three strikes if we have the lead’: Little expected when Red Sox pitchers grab the bats this weekend

Pitchers across baseball this season are barely hitting .100, striking out in nearly half their plate appearances. Despite some Eduardo Rodriguez bluster, little more is expected from Boston's crew in Philadelphia. Continue reading →

RED SOX 8, BLUE JAYS 7

J.D. Martinez’s last-ups blast highlights rally of the Red Sox season, beating Jays

The Red Sox scored in just two innings, but five runs in the second and three in the ninth kept them in sole possession of the AL East lead, and won a series with formidable Toronto. Continue reading →

Boston Celtics

Celtics assistant Jerome Allen discusses Kyrie Irving’s awkward Boston departure and lasting impact on him

The Celtics will face Kyrie Irving and the Nets in an opening-round playoff series beginning Saturday in Brooklyn. In Boston, the sour grapes from Irving’s departure two years ago remain. Continue reading →

Business

NYC-based Blue Ribbon Group to replace Eastern Standard, other restaurants that left Kenmore Square

The announcement comes after a four-year battle between UrbanMeritage and restaurateur Garrett Harker and his business partners over renegotiating their lease, which had been set to expire in 2022. Continue reading →

Business

Tufts and Harvard Pilgrim name new CEO

Cain Hayes, the CEO of Gateway Health in Pittsburgh who has also held leadership roles with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and Aetna, will assume the post on July 5, replacing Tom Croswell. Continue reading →

Business

Delta’s Iceland flight is the first new international route at Logan since the pandemic began

After a year of playing defense at Logan, Delta is going on the offense again. Continue reading →

Obituaries

David Wake, expert on salamanders and evolution, dies at 84

David Wake, an evolutionary biologist and a preeminent authority on salamanders who raised an alarm in the 1980s about the loss of amphibians to climate change and other causes, died April 29 at his home in Oakland, Calif. He was 84. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Pioneering comic Paul Mooney, a writer for Richard Pryor, dies at 79

The head writer on “In Living Color,” Paul Mooney was a boundary-pushing comedian who was Richard Pryor’s longtime writing partner and whose sage, incisive musings on racism and American life made him a revered figure in stand-up. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Mary Ahern, who produced early TV and then preserved it, dies at 98

Mary V. Ahern, who was an important behind-the-scenes figure on the cultural magazine show “Omnibus” and other early television programs, then helped preserve those and similar touchstones of television history as the Paley Center for Media’s first curator, died May 1 at a care center in Peabody. She was 98. Continue reading →

Music

The Jonas Brothers are coming to Fenway

The concert is the ninth scheduled at the ballpark this summer. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

BBC reporter used deceit to get 1995 Diana interview, report says

A BBC journalist used “deceitful behavior” to secure an explosive interview with Princess Diana in 1995, in a “serious breach” of the broadcaster’s guidelines, an investigation found Thursday. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

Rent.com has compiled a ‘Best Cities for Hipsters’ list. Here’s why we’re grateful Boston missed the top 10

For those of you who embrace the label and likely drink exclusively from Mason jars, the survey could be a useful tool for finding a place to live. Continue reading →