Nation

Panic buttons, classroom locks: How schools have boosted security

New federal data released Thursday offers insight into the many growing ways that schools have amped up security over the past five years as the country has recorded three of the deadliest school shootings on record and as other, more routine gun incidents on school grounds have also become more frequent. Continue reading →

Nation

Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in US

A survey released Thursday shows how widely held such beliefs are in the United States today, including among younger Americans. The research by the Anti-Defamation League includes rare detail about the particular nature of antisemitism, and how it centers on tropes of Jews as clannish, conspiratorial, and holders of power. Continue reading →

Nation

Prosecutor: Proud Boys attacked ‘heart’ of democracy on 1/6

Jurors began hearing attorneys’ opening statements for the trial more than two years after members of the far-right extremist group joined a pro-Trump mob in storming the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Continue reading →

World

With FBI search, US escalates global fight over Chinese police outposts

The searches represent an escalation in a global dispute over China’s efforts to police its diaspora far beyond its borders. Continue reading →

World

Netanyahu surges ahead with judicial overhaul, prompting fury in Israel

The leader of the opposition, Yair Lapid, said he feared the government’s plan could lead to the collapse of Israel’s democracy. Continue reading →

World

Rights group: Litany of crises in 2022 but also good signs

Widespread opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine demonstrates the strength of a unified response against human rights abuses, and there are signs that power is shifting as people take to the streets to demonstrate their dissatisfaction in Iran, China, and elsewhere, a leading rights group said Thursday. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Ah, the Everett waterfront. Think of the possibilities.

Why can’t this Massachusetts city take a page from its West Coast namesake? Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Biden owes the public some answers on classified documents

After finding a small set of classified documents in the president’s former office and private home, Biden and his legal team have diligently cooperated with law enforcement. But that’s the bare minimum. Continue reading →

OPINION

The deplorable conditions in the emergency department

Even as a massive effort is needed to fix the health care challenges facing hospitals today, intermediate measures can ease some of the severe conditions facing front-line workers. A first step is to start at the top. Continue reading →

Investigations

Ana Walshe told police in 2014 that Brian Walshe had threatened to kill her, report says

Ana Walshe told Metropolitan Police in Washington, D.C., that a man threatened her during a telephone call and said “he was going to kill (her) and her friend,” according to a police report. Continue reading →

Metro

COVID’s not exactly back, because it never went away

It’s wrong to say COVID’s back, because it never went away. But, psychologically, in our house, we thought we had escaped the pandemic unscathed. Continue reading →

Politics

Mass. GOP chairman may have violated campaign finance law, party treasurer alleges, in escalating woes for state Republican Party

Treasurer Pat Crowley told fellow Republicans Thursday that he believes Lyons improperly coordinated with an outside spending group, the Mass Freedom Independent Expenditure Political Action Committee, in engaging an opposition research firm to dig up dirt on Governor Maura Healey during last year’s governor’s race. Continue reading →

bruins notebook

Bruins may think about picking spots to rest veterans in season’s second half

The schedule will compress a bit, with back-to-backs and three-in-fours, and the team has enough depth to spell older players. Continue reading →

red sox

Why Rafael Devers got the deal from the Red Sox that Xander Bogaerts and Mookie Betts did not

The answer relates largely to how the team approaches risk — specifically, the risks associated with how players age. Continue reading →

CELTICS NOTEBOOK

Joe Mazzulla: Celtics to go without Jaylen Brown for ‘a week or so’ due to an adductor strain

Brown scored 41 points on Wednesday but said afterward that he tweaked his groin, then was ruled out Thursday before the Celtics played the Nets. Continue reading →

Healthcare

‘We become millionaires and we retire babe’: Former Takeda worker and boyfriend accused of $2.3 million scam of drug firm

The FBI alleges they ran a fake consulting firm to swindle the company, whose US headquarters is in Massachusetts. Continue reading →

Healthcare

Key Mass. lawmakers demand answers from J&J on children’s Tylenol and Motrin shortages

Representative Ayanna Pressley, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and others are calling on the drug company to detail why it’s so hard right now to find their children’s cold medicines on drugstore shelves. Continue reading →

innovation beat

Harvard’s ‘RoboBee’ project lifts off as a surgical-tech company

Technology developed for tiny, flying robots is being used in a new medical startup. The project says a lot about how universities like Harvard are encouraging entrepreneurship. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Adolfo Kaminsky dies at 97; his forgeries saved thousands of Jews

Before he joined the anti-Nazi resistance at 18, he had learned how to alter documents by working with chemicals as a clothes dyer and dry cleaner in his Normandy town. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Adolfo Kaminsky dies at 97; his forgeries saved thousands of Jews

Before he joined the anti-Nazi resistance at 18, he had learned how to alter documents by working with chemicals as a clothes dyer and dry cleaner in his Normandy town. Continue reading →

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Music

Mayor Wu announces interim plan for displaced tenants at Brighton’s Sound Museum

In partnership with the Art Stays Here coalition, the city announced a two-year deal on a temporary location at 55 Morrissey Blvd. in Dorchester — the former Beasley Media Group building. Continue reading →

MOVIE REVIEW | ★★★1/2

Bill Nighy breathes life into ‘Living’

The actor plays a bureaucrat who receives a terminal diagnosis in this British remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic ‘Ikiru.’ Continue reading →

TELEVISION REVIEW

In ‘The Last of Us,’ horror and humanity at the end of the Earth

Like the best post-apocalyptic stories on TV, the extraordinary new HBO drama finds moments of deep feeling in the midst of ugliness and disaster. Continue reading →