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‘It’s going to be pretty packed’: COVID restrictions give way to full reopening at businesses this weekend

Starting Saturday, businesses including stores, bars, restaurants, casinos, and gyms are able to operate at full-capacity, and high contact establishments like nightclubs can open for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The lifting of the rules marks a major step in the battle against COVID-19, which for more than a year has pummeled the economy.
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Baker wrongly claimed he never met Holyoke Soldiers’ Home leader before swearing him in. ‘I forgot,’ he says

Governor Charlie Baker acknowledged that he interviewed Bennett Walsh for a half-hour before he appointed Walsh to lead the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, publicly reversing himself after saying last year he had never met the now-disgraced superintendent before swearing him in.
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Teachers union head criticizes decision to drop coronavirus protocols in Mass. schools, but other educators praise move

Merrie Najimy called it “premature” for the state to end all COVID-19-related protocols in schools this fall, and said local communities should decide how to safely operate their districts, following the announcement that pandemic precautions will be dropped for the 2021-22 academic year.
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Kyrie Irving lit the fuse, and he was booed at the Garden, but that was about it

A COVID-limited “crowd” of under 5,000 booed Irving with gusto every time he touched the ball, but nothing particularly remarkable happened, other than the Celtics roaring back to take a lead and win Game 3.
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Senate Republicans block bill creating commission to investigate Jan. 6 attack

The Senate vote was 54-35 — short of the 60 votes needed to consider a House-passed bill that would have formed a 10-member commission evenly split between the two parties.
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Bill Cosby refuses sex offender program, so is denied parole

The 83-year-old Cosby has long said he would resist the treatment programs and refuse to acknowledge wrongdoing even if it means serving the full 10-year sentence. This is the first year he was eligible for parole under the three- to 10-year sentence handed down after his 2018 conviction.
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Biden’s tax hike push will depend on this ‘insider’s insider’

Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal, who chairs the House committee responsible for writing the legislation, is tasked with figuring out what tax increases he can shepherd through a Democratic caucus that has razor-thin control of the House and Senate.
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Party of 4? Your trail is ready. Busy parks try reservations

The free reservation system went online recently to handle the fast-growing number of visitors to the privately owned Adirondack Mountain Reserve. Similar management systems are in place this summer season for outdoor attractions from Maui to Maine, typically in response to the pandemic or to crowds that were surging even before lockdowns inspired more wilderness visits.
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Russia appears to carry out hack through system used by US aid agency

Hackers linked to Russia’s main intelligence agency surreptitiously seized an email system used by the State Department’s international aid agency to burrow into the computer networks of human rights groups and other organizations of the sort that have been critical of President Vladimir Putin, Microsoft Corp. disclosed Thursday.
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Frenchman killed after stabbing, shooting 3 police officers

A man with severe schizophrenia who had been on a watch list for Islamic radicalism stabbed a police officer at her station Friday in western France and shot two other officers before police killed him, authorities said.
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Germany recognizes colonial killings in Namibia as genocide

The move announced Friday is the result of more than five years of talks about killings between 1904 and 1908, when Germany was the southern African country’s colonial ruler.
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Why the rich should pay more in taxes

If the wealthy few contributed more, it would create more opportunities for the many.
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New hope for the city’s homeless on Shattuck site

In the face of mythical alternative proposals, the state’s plan offers a real solution.
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She feels an increasing sense of doom as coronavirus restrictions are eased

Have we learned nothing from the past 15 months of death, illness, and loss? Are we not paying attention to the tragic example of India?
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It wasn’t much of a problem last year. But this year’s Memorial Day weekend traffic could be a pain

The state Department of Transportation is opening an HOV lane for carpoolers this weekend on Interstate 93, as traffic figures to be heavy with Memorial Day revelers en route to barbecues and ballgames.
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Abortion rights are secure in Massachusetts despite challenge at Supreme Court

No matter the outcome of a blockbuster Supreme Court case expected to be decided next year, abortion will remain legal in Massachusetts.
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Hospitals overuse medical tests and procedures that don’t help patients, analysis finds

Experts who study overuse attribute the problem to myriad factors, including a health care payment system that rewards doctors for doing more tests and procedures, and a culture that supports the notion that “it can’t hurt to take a look.” In fact, sometimes, it can.
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Alex Verdugo strokes three-run homer to send Red Sox past Marlins in six-inning rain-soaked game

Verdugo stayed back on a curveball from Miami righthander Cody Poteet and launched a rocket over the visiting bullpen and into the right field bleachers for a 5-2 advantage.
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BC women’s lacrosse heading to fourth straight national championship game after knocking off No. 1 North Carolina

After handing the Tar Heels their first loss of the season, the Eagles will face Syracuse on Sunday, both teams looking for their first-ever national title.
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GAME 3: CELTICS 125, NETS 119


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Jayson Tatum’s 50 points lead Celtics back into series with Game 3 victory over Nets

Boston overcame a 19-4 deficit in the opening minutes, and now trails Brooklyn 2-1 in the best-of-seven heading into Sunday's Game 4 at home.
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‘It’s going to be pretty packed’: COVID restrictions give way to full reopening at businesses this weekend

Starting Saturday, businesses including stores, bars, restaurants, casinos, and gyms are able to operate at full-capacity, and high contact establishments like nightclubs can open for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The lifting of the rules marks a major step in the battle against COVID-19, which for more than a year has pummeled the economy.
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German executive picked to take over as CEO of Boston Consulting Group

The future CEO will be stationed even further from the firm’s Boston headquarters: Munich instead of New York.
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Robinhood judge won’t block Massachusetts fiduciary rule

Robinhood lost a bid to immediately stop Massachusetts securities regulators from enforcing a new rule that holds brokers accountable to a fiduciary standard of care.
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Rusty Warren, brash comic in a straight-laced time, dies at 91

Rusty Warren started out in the early 1950s performing harmless fare in bars and clubs in the Boston area and the Catskills.
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Poul Schlueter, longtime Danish prime minister, dies at 92

Denmark’s prime minister for over a decade, Poul Schlueter negotiated exemptions for his country to a key European Union treaty after Danes rejected the initial text in a referendum.
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Photojournalist, gay rights pioneer Kay Lahusen dies at 91

Together with her partner, the late activist Barbara Gittings, Kay Lahusen advocated for gay civil rights years before the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York helped launch the modern LGBTQ era. She captured widely published images of some of the nation’s first protests.
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OUTDOORS


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Pop-up sculpture garden provides ‘momentary jump’ on the Riverway

The 2021 iteration of Studios Without Walls features 17 site-specific works, most of them very hopeful.
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The Jewish book group that lifted me through the pandemic

Virtual meetings didn't diminish the conversation for these avid readers.
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Boston museums to let the vaccinated roam mask-free

The city's three biggest museums have updated policies on face coverings.
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