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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
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High Schools

Attorney general’s investigation faults Danvers officials in hockey scandal

Danvers school officials failed in many ways to properly respond to racist, homophobic, antisemitic, and sexually abusive behavior in the high school boys’ ice hockey program, creating “a toxic team culture,” according to an investigation by the state attorney general’s office. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Fault in door control system cited in Red Line accident that killed man, NTSB report says

Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that a fault in a door control system on a Red Line train contributed to the death of Robinson Lalin, who was killed April 10 after he got stuck in the doorway of a train. Continue reading →

Politics

Elizabeth Warren’s advice for Democrats: More, not less, talk of inflation

Republicans have moved the issue to the very center of their floor speeches, political ads, and social media posts, as they seek to pin the rising prices of gas and other goods on President Joe Biden and his party. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Supreme Court rules Boston violated First Amendment rights by refusing to fly Christian flag at City Hall Plaza

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the City of Boston in the First Amendment rights case. Continue reading →

Social Justice

DA Hayden to offer alternate route for those arrested at Mass. and Cass

Amid increasing incidents of violence and vagrancy in the area of Mass. and Cass, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden is taking a new approach to address crimes there that are related to substance abuse and mental illness: Help, instead of prosecution. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Former NYPD officer guilty in first Jan. 6 police assault trial

The first person tried on charges of assaulting a police officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob was convicted Monday, after a federal jury deliberated about three hours and found retired New York Police Department officer Thomas Webster guilty of six counts. Continue reading →

Nation

Why the debate over Russian uranium worries US tribal nations

American dependence on Russian uranium, which the United States uses to fuel more than 90 nuclear reactors in the US, is breathing life into ambitions to resurrect the uranium industry around the American West. The seeds of conflict are being sown between mining companies and energy security hawks on one side and tribal nations and environmentalists on the other. Continue reading →

Politics

Want to contact CIA from Russia? Agency points to darknet

The CIA says Russians disaffected by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine may be trying to get in touch with US intelligence — and it wants them to go to the darknet. Continue reading →

The World

World

Israel holding more than 600 without charge, most since 2016

Israel is holding some 600 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial, the highest number since 2016, an Israeli rights group said Monday. Continue reading →

World

Despite UK clampdown bid, 100s cross Channel in small boats

Hundreds of people have crossed the English Channel in small boats in the last 24 hours, British officials said Monday, after more than a week in which none of the hazardous journeys were reported. Continue reading →

World

Israel lashes out at Russia over Lavrov’s Nazism remarks

Israel on Monday lashed out at Russia over “unforgivable” comments by its foreign minister about Nazism and antisemitism — including claims that Adolf Hitler was Jewish. Israel, which summoned the Russian ambassador in response, said the remarks blamed Jews for their own murder in the Holocaust. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Memo to Dems: Don’t play chicken with aid for Kyiv

The stakes are too high for congressional logrolling and needless delay. Continue reading →

OPINION

Innovation doesn’t mean what you think it does

For me, put simply, innovation is about solving problems. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Take that, gift card scammers!

The IRS never calls, your grandchild isn’t in trouble, the police don’t call to say they are coming to arrest you, Amazon is not holding a package you need to pay for, no one needs to verify your Social Security number. Anything else? Continue reading →

Metro

Religion

For local Muslims, this year’s Eid festivities signal return to normalcy

Liban Ali swiped through photos of locals celebrating Eid al-Fitr Monday morning at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and his voice swelled with joy. He hadn’t seen a crowd like this since COVID-19 first wrecked the Boston community. Continue reading →

Politics

Suffolk DA probe of events leading to Juston Root’s death complicated by conflict of interest, e-mail shows

A leadership change in the Suffolk district attorney’s office has led to a delay into the investigation of the death of Juston Root, who was fatally shot by police in 2020 after brandishing a fake gun. Continue reading →

Metro

The droogs of Boston

A group of young teens and pre-teens have repeatedly engaged in what can be politely described as antisocial behavior in some very public settings in Boston; they appear unafraid of the cops or their parents. Continue reading →

Sports

Kevin Paul Dupont | Commentary

Nick Foligno joined the Bruins for exactly this moment — the playoffs

Foligno, 34, has not won a Cup, but he is a gamer, and that is crucial this time of year. Continue reading →

On Football

The Patriots’ draft was universally panned by NFL analysts

The experts said the Patriots reached on several of their 10 draft picks. Continue reading →

ON HOCKEY

List of Bruins fixes is short and simple after Game 1 rout: Scoring, scoring, scoring

Through four games this season, the Canes have outscored the Bruins, 21-2. Once again, they were faster, more opportunistic, and much better at figuring out ways to put the puck in the net. Continue reading →

Business

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Baker pushes unfinished business with economic development bill

Before he bids goodbye to Beacon Hill, the governor has turned to the bill — a measure lawmakers are expected to pass in every two-year session — into the opportunity to accomplish unfinished priorities. Continue reading →

Business

CEO of Boston cybersecurity firm Snyk plans to add several hundred jobs this year

Bold Types is a weekly roundup of the movers and shakers of Boston's business scene. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Ink Block is finished, and the South End has never been the same

The last building in the seven-building complex that transformed the “New York Streets” — and ushered in a wave of mixed-use mega-developments — is complete. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Philip J. Hilts, 74, dies; reporter exposed a big-tobacco coverup

As a science reporter for The New York Times, Philip Hilts in 1994 exposed a tobacco company’s decadeslong coverup of its own research showing that tobacco was harmful and nicotine was addictive. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Kathy Boudin, radical imprisoned in a fatal robbery, dies at 78

Kathy Boudin, who as a member of the radical Weather Underground of the 1960s and ’70s took part in the murderous 1981 holdup of a Brink’s armored truck and then, in prison and after being freed two decades later, helped inmates struggling to get their lives on track, died Sunday in New York. She was 78. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

In ‘Ridley Road,’ a neo spy infiltrates neo-Nazis in 1960s London

The new PBS drama is a flawed but compelling entry in the “Masterpiece” lineup. Continue reading →

MUSIC REVIEW

Conductor Tianhui Ng clears a path with the New England Philharmonic

Ng, one of four finalists for the currently vacant music director position, made a strong bid for the job at Sunday’s concert. Continue reading →

ASK MATTHEW

Too much of a good on thing on TV right now? There’s a reason for it.

If you're noting a glut of prestige shows right now, there's an explanation: TV outlets are hoping to get their shows and actors into the mix for the Emmys while they're still eligible. Continue reading →