Nation

House GOP, defending Trump, targets New York DA ahead of expected indictment

House Republicans on Monday rallied around former president Donald Trump ahead of his expected indictment by a Manhattan grand jury, using their investigative power to scrutinize active criminal inquiries targeting him as at least one other GOP lawmaker endorsed his 2024 presidential campaign. Continue reading →

Nation

Trump’s Georgia lawyers seek to quash special grand jury report

As former president Donald Trump awaits a possible indictment in New York, his lawyers pushed back on Monday at another criminal investigation swirling around him in Georgia, filing a motion to quash the final report of a special grand jury that considered whether Trump and some of his allies interfered in the 2020 election results in the state. Continue reading →

Nation

A different kind of pipeline project scrambles Midwest politics

For more than a decade, the Midwest was the site of bitter clashes over plans for thousand-mile pipelines meant to carry crude oil beneath cornfields and cattle ranches. Continue reading →

World

Putin and Xi celebrate ties unbroken by Russia’s war in Ukraine

Standing side by side in a show of partnership unshaken by Russia’s yearlong war in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin and China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, began talks in Moscow on Monday with boasts of their close ties and only understated mention of the conflict itself. Continue reading →

World

Macron’s retirement overhaul becomes law of the land

The French National Assembly rejected a no-confidence motion against the government of President Emmanuel Macron, ensuring that a fiercely contested bill raising the retirement age to 64 from 62 becomes the law of the land. Continue reading →

World

Top Israeli minister: ‘No such thing’ as Palestinian people

A firebrand Israeli minister claimed there’s “no such thing” as a Palestinian people as Israel’s new coalition government, its most hard-line ever, plowed ahead on Monday with a part of its plan to overhaul the judiciary. Continue reading →

OPINION

Protesters won’t let Cambridge sweep fatal police shooting ‘under the rug’

A coalition of college students is helping to keep the cause for more transparency alive. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Putin now a pariah on the world stage

International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for making children pawns of war has value beyond a courtroom. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Conflating diversity with civility

Well-designed DEI policies enrich and uplift all voices. Continue reading →

Metro

US prosecutors ask judge to hold Stash’s Pizza owner, charged with exploiting workers, pending trial

US Magistrate Judge Judith Dein took the question of whether to release Stavros Papantoniadis on bail under advisement Monday after a three-hour hearing in federal court in Boston. Continue reading →

Health

Hospitals plead for flexibility on spending amid soaring costs of temporary nurses

Massachusetts hospitals spent $1.5 billion on temporary labor in 2022, up 610 percent over 2019. Continue reading →

Higher Education

Bay State College to lose accreditation after appeal fails

After Aug. 31, students will not be able to access federal financial aid and credits may not transfer to other institutions. Continue reading →

on football

Diving deep on six moves the Patriots made in the first week of free agency

Not only is JuJu Smith-Schuster an upgrade over Jakobi Meyers at receiver, he also signed a team-friendlier contract. Continue reading →

On Basketball

The Celtics have been wobbly since the All-Star break, and it all starts in the fourth quarter

Struggles in the clutch have made the Celtics a middling team since they returned from the break. Continue reading →

on baseball

Sox Showcase: Japan’s Masataka Yoshida, Mexico’s Alex Verdugo come through in clutch during epic World Baseball Classic semifinal

A third Red Sox player, Jarren Duran, pinch ran for Verdugo and scored an insurance run. Continue reading →

Trendlines

Roger Berkowitz’s next act

The former CEO of Legal Sea Foods is taking the wraps off Roger's Fish Co., an online purveyor of flash-frozen fish, live and cooked lobsters, and ready-to-heat meals for the let’s-eat-out-at-home set. Continue reading →

Business

Fate of First Republic uncertain as shares plummet again

First Republic Bank remained imperiled Monday as last week’s $30 billion cash infusion by some of the nation’s biggest banks and a frantic effort to sell a stake in the bank to raise additional cash did little to calm investors and depositors. Continue reading →

Business

Mass. General Hospital grant enables West End Museum to hire its first salaried executive director

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

Obituaries

Carol Sloane, graceful jazz singer for decades, dies at 85

In a 60-year recording career, Ms. Sloane said she would only sing “the most beautiful songs.” Continue reading →

Obituaries

Former US representative John Jenrette, jailed in Abscam scandal, dies

Mr. Jenrette served three terms as a Democrat in the U.S. House, and while his crime and escapades received the most attention, he also was known for securing federal help for his mostly rural district. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra, ‌face of Puerto Rican culinary history, dies at 67

Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra, a food historian who as Puerto Rico’s leading gastronomy expert sought to define the island’s cuisine and educate the world about it, died March 8 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was 67. Continue reading →

LOVE LETTERS

I’m waiting on his divorce

“He can’t move out of the house until the divorce is final.” Continue reading →

MUSIC REVIEW

With Dropkick Murphys at full roar, it must be that time of year again

Night three of the band's annual hometown St. Patrick's Day extravaganza — this year, a run of four sold-out shows — featured their big-hearted songs played with customary ferocity. Continue reading →

Music

James McMurtry lets the characters in his songs do the talking

The singer-songwriter, in Massachusetts this week for four shows, calls himself a “fiction writer” whose least interesting subject is himself. Continue reading →