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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
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Politics
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Judge denies Boston Police Commissioner White’s motion for injunction that would block his firing
A Suffolk Superior Court judge rejected Boston Police Commissioner Dennis White’s attempt to block his firing, a decision that clears the way for Acting Mayor Kim Janey to resume her effort to dismiss White following decades-old domestic violence allegations.
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Nation
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Grand jury convened in Trump criminal probe in New York
Manhattan’s district attorney has convened the grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict former president Donald Trump, other executives at his company or the business itself should prosecutors present the panel with criminal charges, according to people familiar with the development.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE
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They called the police on a 6-year-old. Now, Somerville school leaders are suspending school police programs
The moratorium, approved nearly unanimously by the Somerville School Committee last week, affects two programs that bring police officers into schools.
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Politics
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For years, investigators have sent Maura Healey evidence of illegal campaign finance activity. She’s never prosecuted any
State officials have disclosed little about at least 13 cases the Office of Campaign and Political Finance sent to Attorney General Maura Healey, four of which remain under review, her office said.
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Biotech
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How a New York private equity giant became Boston’s biggest commercial landlord — and biotech investor
Blackstone has invested billions in the Boston-area economy in recent years, through real estate and life sciences deals. This huge bet underscores how Boston and Cambridge represent the industry’s most important global hub.
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Political Notebook
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Justice Department appeals judge’s order on Russia probe memo
The Biden administration is appealing a judge’s order directing it to release in its entirety a legal memo on whether former president Donald Trump had obstructed justice during the Russia investigation. But it also made public a brief portion of the document.
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Nation
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Biden administration reins in street-level enforcement by ICE as officials try to refocus agency mission
President Biden has placed ICE deportation officers on a leash so tight that some say their work is being functionally abolished.
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Nation
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Top US health official calls for follow-up investigation into pandemic’s origins
The United States’ top health official called Tuesday for a swift follow-up investigation into the coronavirus’s origins amid renewed questions about whether the virus jumped from an animal host into humans in a naturally occurring event or escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.
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The World
World
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Blinken seeks to fix Palestinian ties on maiden Mideast trip
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday announced plans to reopen a key diplomatic outreach office to the Palestinians and pledged nearly $40 million in new aid — reversing key policies of the Trump administration as he moved to bolster the embattled Palestinian government in the West Bank.
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World
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Pentagon accelerates withdrawal from Afghanistan
United States troops and their NATO allies intend to be out of Afghanistan by early to mid-July, well ahead of President Biden’s Sept. 11 withdrawal deadline, military officials said, in what has turned into an accelerated ending to America’s longest war.
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Belarus’s isolation grows after journalist’s dramatic arrest
Belarus’s isolation deepened Tuesday as commercial jets avoided its airspace, the European Union worked up new sanctions, and officials expressed concern for the welfare of an opposition journalist who was arrested after being pulled off a plane that was diverted to Minsk in what the West called a state-sponsored hijacking.
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Editorial & Opinion
OPINION
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When Jews are attacked in America’s streets, who speaks out?
Antisemitism appeals to unhinged political fanatics across the spectrum — from alt-right trolls to anti-Zionist zealots.
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EDITORIAL
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Boston mayors, including acting mayors, should have the power to fire police commissioners
Kim Janey should be able to decide that Dennis White is unfit to lead the BPD.
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LETTERS
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Lawmaker seeks to rein in runaway CEO pay, even if just by a fraction
The dramatic rise in CEO pay along with the anemic growth in worker pay over the past several decades is a major contributor to the destabilizing income and wealth inequality that plagues our Commonwealth and the country.
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Metro
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People in Boston area rally for justice, police reform on anniversary of George Floyd’s death
Crowds gathered at Franklin Park in Dorchester and marched from a Milton church to a playground in Mattapan Tuesday evening.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE
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After a difficult academic year, majority of Mass. parents want in-person school this fall
Sixty-nine percent of Massachusetts parents want their children to return full time to brick and mortar classrooms, according to a statewide survey of 1,619 parents released Wednesday by MassINC Polling Group.
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Southwick store owners give discarded $1 million winning lottery scratch ticket back to Springfield woman
Abhi Shah began dancing around his family’s convenience store in Southwick, ecstatic that he had just scratched a Lottery ticket with a $1 million prize. His life had changed in an instant, and suddenly a Tesla had roared within reach.
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Sports
RED SOX NOTEBOOK
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Kiké Hernández has found his form from the top
Leadoff was a lagging producer in the Red Sox lineup early in the season, but it's been turning around.
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Dan Shaughnessy
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Celtics season can’t end soon enough, and now Kyrie Irving has Boston on notice
“Hopefully we can just keep it strictly basketball, no belligerence or subtle racism,” Irving said about his return to Boston for Game 3 on Friday.
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What are the chances that Tuukka Rask and David Krejci are in their final weeks as Bruins?
Leaving key roster assets unsigned is a significant departure from the way the Bruins routinely have done business for years.
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Business
Business
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Lawrence General Hospital cuts staff, citing COVID-19 losses
The 56 layoffs include employees working in administration as well as patient care and amount to about 2.5 percent of the hospital’s workforce.
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Business
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Local workers’ groups, investors push back against Amazon
As Amazon prepares to hold its annual shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday, following a year of record profits during a global health crisis and a time of racial-justice reckoning, the company is facing a major pushback from investors and workers’ advocacy groups, especially in Massachusetts.
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TALKING POINTS
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Warren criticizes Fed for oversight of Credit Suisse before Archegos downfall
Stories you may have missed from the world of business.
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Obituaries
Obituaries
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Christopher Stone, environmental scholar who championed fundamental rights of nature, dies at 83
Christopher Stone, a legal scholar who argued in a seminal 1972 paper that trees, rivers, oceans, and nature itself possess fundamental legal rights, an argument that won notice at the US Supreme Court and entered the bedrock of the modern environmental movement, died May 14 at an assisted-living center in Los Angeles. He was 83.
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Obituaries
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Christopher Stone, environmental scholar who championed fundamental rights of nature, dies at 83
Christopher Stone, a legal scholar who argued in a seminal 1972 paper that trees, rivers, oceans, and nature itself possess fundamental legal rights, an argument that won notice at the US Supreme Court and entered the bedrock of the modern environmental movement, died May 14 at an assisted-living center in Los Angeles. He was 83.
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Arts & Lifestyle
STATES OF FARMING
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Forty years after coming to the United States as a refugee from Cambodia, her produce business thrives
Phalla Nol’s success is rooted in early lessons that hard work and smarts pay off.
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GETTING SALTY
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Chris Viaud brings Northern hospitality to the newest season of ‘Top Chef’
The former Deuxave cook now owns Culture and Greenleaf in Milford, N.H.
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DEVRA FIRST
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A dining guide to Boston Little Saigon
Dorchester’s newly designated cultural district recognizes the local Vietnamese-American community. Here’s where to eat.
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