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‘You may be the first someday’: Ocasio-Cortez joins Pressley, Wu in Roxbury to champion more funding in early education

Massachusetts GOP to focus on state issues, not Trump, at weekend convention

Appeals court says Trump’s asylum ban at the border is illegal, agreeing with lower court

US imposes sanctions on a China-based oil refinery and 40 shippers over Iranian oil. Follow live updates.

Power Play
The end of Boston’s big ad-agency era

Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoes bill that would have paused new data centers

City of Boston studying how to build a market around selling demolition debris

Forecast | Ken Mahan

April chill persists as high pressure diverts storms from New England. Here’s how your weekend forecast plays out.

FBI is investigating cases of 10 scientists ‘who have died or mysteriously vanished,’ including two in Mass.

Two men plead guilty to causing explosion at Harvard Medical School last fall

Justice Department to allow firing squads for executions in move to ramp up capital punishment

Bruins’ Marco Sturm could be looking to tinker with the lineup heading into Game 4 against Buffalo

DINNER WITH CUPID

Blind date: ‘He traveled an hour to get to the date! I felt so bad because I just walked down the street.’

TABLES

The splurgy new Seaport steakhouse offering a 40-ounce porterhouse

Opinion
IDEAS | JOHN MAC GHLIONN

Peter Thiel has a new tool for intimidating reporters

The Silicon Valley billionaire has long disdained the media.
Joan Wickersham

Can this headline save journalism?

Ideas | Miles Howard

Nature is good medicine — now doctors are prescribing it

Alex Beam

The royals are coming. Hide the tea — and the topics.

EDITORIAL

When teachers are sexual predators, ‘consent’ is a cruel joke

R.I. petting zoo animals quarantined after confirmed cases of cryptosporidiosis

Only 13 percent of young people say US on right track: Harvard poll

N.H. woman dies after being struck by logging truck, police say

‘Gratitude for the countless memories.’ Popular Chinese restaurant along Route 1 in Attleboro to close after 55 years.

Head-on bus crash near a Pentagon stop injures 23 people, including Defense Department workers

Class action lawsuits filed after Citizens Bank data breach affects a ‘few thousand’ customers

Recommended reads

Starting Point

Young people are leaving Boston. Where are they going?

Boston is still a top draw for young professionals, but some of those already here are looking elsewhere.

Photos: Spring blooms in Boston
Here’s a look at the best images from Globe photographers from around the city.

Your next roommate might be over 50. Here’s why older people are increasingly sharing homes.
Communal arrangements among older residents have sharply increased nationwide in recent years, and are rising faster in Boston than elsewhere.

Anti-Chromebook movement sweeping schools
The movement comes more than a decade into a nationwide achievement decline — one which predates the pandemic, but not school-issued laptops.

Culture & Lifestyle

It’s now easier than ever to search the Globe recipe archive

‘Marty Supreme,’ a ‘Stranger Things’ spinoff, plus more movies and TV shows to stream this weekend

Noah Kahan talks new album, recreating ‘Fever Pitch’ scene at Fenway on Fallon

‘The O.C.’ star Ben McKenzie wants you to know: ‘Everyone Is Lying to You for Money’

Special Projects

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Nearly 250 patients at top Mass. hospitals say they were abused by a renowned doctor. Why wasn’t he stopped sooner?

A Globe Spotlight investigation found the state’s medical establishment missed key warning signs.

Why Trump and the MAGA movement turned against Harvard

Over a decade of political and cultural upheaval, America’s most powerful university grew vulnerable to attack. There were warning signs.

Why the middle class is disappearing in Massachusetts

The middle class in Massachusetts is being hollowed out. Driving the squeeze is a stratospheric rise in inequality.

Water is coming for the Seaport; the whole city will be poorer for it.

Buildings in the Seaport fund one-tenth of Boston’s property-tax base. Flood waters and sea level rise will soon put that at risk.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | Mary Ziegler

Republicans were once afraid to touch birth control — not anymore

EDITORIAL

It’s time to fire Kash Patel

RENÉE GRAHAM

The most deadly place for women and children: a family home

Lawrence K. Altman

Why the 25th Amendment won’t remove Trump

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mayor Wu says she texts and talks to developers all the time. Is that enough to spur growth?

Lost and/or found

Ten weird but totally true Boston stories

Metro

Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoes bill that would have paused new data centers

Governor Janet Mills said she rejected what would have been the nation’s first moratorium on data centers because it failed to exempt a project in a distressed mill town.
RI HEALTH

Six wild animals positive for rabies in Providence County, according to health officials

The R.I. Department of Health alerted the public after rabies was found in three raccoons in Burrillville, one bat and one coyote in Lincoln, and a raccoon in Providence.
Forecast | Ken Mahan

April chill persists as high pressure diverts storms from New England. Here’s how your weekend forecast plays out.

The area will see temperatures slip back to the 50s on Friday and through the weekend.

‘You may be the first someday’: Ocasio-Cortez joins Pressley and Wu in Roxbury to champion more funding in early education

They described early education and child care as an “essential investment,” and called on the federal government to prioritize them over the war in the Middle East

Sports

live updates

The Patriots enter Night 2 of the NFL Draft with two picks. Follow live updates.

Rounds 2 and 3 of the NFL Draft will begin at 7 p.m. on ABC, ESPN, and the NFL Network. Like Thursday, the Patriots won't be making their selections until late in the rounds.
Red Sox

Saturday’s Red Sox-Orioles game rescheduled to earlier start time because of rain in the forecast

Showers are expected in Baltimore on Saturday afternoon.
Bruins

Now trailing the Sabres, 2-1, will the Bruins shake up their lineup for Sunday afternoon’s critical Game 4?

Any change likely starts with James Hagens. The rookie has just five games under his belt and suffered a couple of tough breaks in Game 3.
red sox at orioles | 7:05 p.m. (NESN)

Game 26: Lineups and notes as Red Sox begin road trip in Baltimore

WALPOLE 9, DUXBURY 8

Walpole’s senior trio rises to the occasion in Top-10 girls’ lacrosse clash with Duxbury

PWHL

Fleet to open PWHL Walter Cup playoffs Thursday at Tsongas Center

Business

Justice Dept. drops criminal probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell

The Justice Department has dropped a criminal investigation into the Federal Reserve after months of probing the independent central bank’s $2.5 billion building renovations and failing to turn up evidence of a crime.

AI smart glasses will help visually impaired runners take on the London Marathon

The number of visually impaired runners using AI enabled smart glasses is growing.
FOOD & DINING IN RI

Restaurant guide: Where to eat to celebrate your college graduate in Rhode Island

City of Boston studying how to build a market around selling demolition debris

magazine
Mass. and Cass

‘You are always just a kiss away from me my beautiful boy.’ Their family members vanished near Mass. Ave. They won’t stop searching.

GLOBE MAGAZINE

How much can we really control who we become?

PERSPECTIVE

Charlie Baker has opinions on Gronk, ‘Princess Bride,’ and more. And loves to share them on X.

DINNER WITH CUPID

Blind date: ‘He traveled an hour to get to the date! I felt so bad because I just walked down the street.’

metro

K-thunk! Spilled your coffee when you hit a pothole? Officials in one Mass. city are giving drivers a free cup.

Restaurant guide: Where to eat to celebrate your college graduate in Rhode Island

N.J. man sues R.I. police departments, alleging he was detained for weeks over crimes he did not commit

sports

His mom wanted him to finish college while his dad eyed the NBA Draft. AJ Dybantsa chose both.

Five things to know about Patriots first-round draft pick Caleb Lomu

Heading to any World Cup matches at Gillette Stadium from Rhode Island this summer? Good luck.

business

How Kevin Warsh could shrink the Fed’s footprint in financial markets

Justice Department drops criminal probe of Fed chair Powell, likely clearing way for Warsh

US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K on Maduro raid is being released on bail

politics

Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoes bill that would have paused new data centers

US imposes sanctions on a China-based oil refinery and 40 shippers over Iranian oil. Follow live updates.

Justice Department to allow firing squads for executions in move to ramp up capital punishment

Nation

Appeals court clears way for US to reopen border for asylum seekers

Prosecutors used rap lyrics to help send a man to death row in Texas. It’s not an uncommon tactic

Head-on bus crash near a Pentagon stop injures 23 people, including Defense Department workers

World

Netanyahu reveals he had successful prostate cancer treatment

Analysis: The US protected ships from Iran in the Strait of Hormuz in the ’80s. Could it again?

India condemns Trump social media post calling nation ‘hellhole’

opinion

Red states are putting the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Will the Supreme Court say thou shalt not?

How a surge of faith in young men could reshape America

‘Family is family’: Joe Kennedy III on energy, politics, and the public eye on his relatives

lifestyle

Love Letters Classics: John vs. Rafael

Love Letters Classics: Should I be paying his child support?

Logging on at a cafe? Here are some privacy and security guidelines for remote workers.

food & dining

Restaurant guide: Where to eat to celebrate your college graduate in Rhode Island

‘Gratitude for the countless memories.’ Popular Chinese restaurant along Route 1 in Attleboro to close after 55 years.

The splurgy new Seaport steakhouse offering a 40-ounce porterhouse

travel

How Montreal’s churches are being reborn as libraries, gyms, concert halls, and more

Rhode Island’s TF Green airport to add flights to Cabo Verde in May

Christopher Lowrey on ‘incredibly granular flight searches,’ Phuket, and savoring airplane food

Arts

‘Raining cats and dogs’ and other artwork in this exhibit show weather through a different lens

At Yale: looking at faces of the 20th century, the body in decline, and a great architect’s career

Peabody Essex Museum head tapped to lead Smithsonian museum

Books

Jenny Bartoy on her new anthology, ‘No Contact,’ and the complexities of family estrangement

Boston’s Megan Kate Nelson peels back the layers of western frontier myths

The enslavement of Native Americans is a lesser-known part of our national history. Linford D. Fisher wants to change that.

Movies

‘Adam’s Apple’ spotlights a trans New Hampshire teen and a family that leads with love

‘Psycho’ actor Anthony Perkins got married at this beachy $3.35m Wellfleet house in 1973

‘Pretty in Pink’ is 40 years old. Its soundtrack remains a mixtape masterpiece.

Television

Elizabeth Warren says it’s time to ‘put an end to this war right now’ during ‘Late Show’ appearance

Noah Kahan talks new album, recreating ‘Fever Pitch’ scene at Fenway on Fallon

‘Marty Supreme,’ a ‘Stranger Things’ spinoff, plus more movies and TV shows to stream this weekend

music

Noah Kahan talks new album, recreating ‘Fever Pitch’ scene at Fenway on Fallon

After his cheating scandal, can Dave Grohl reclaim his ‘nice guy’ image with the new Foo Fighters album?

‘Pretty in Pink’ is 40 years old. Its soundtrack remains a mixtape masterpiece.

Theater/Dance

John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany to star in ART’s revival of Ionesco’s ‘Rhinoceros’

In ‘Gem of the Ocean,’ a second chapter in the fight for freedom

Boston Theater Critics Association reveals list of Elliot Norton nominees

Health

Is your ‘power nap’ a warning sign? New research connects daily snoozing to health issues.

Logging on at a cafe? Here are some privacy and security guidelines for remote workers.

Are MAHA snacks really better for you? Nutrition experts parse a grocery aisle gold rush.

Obituaries

Michael Tilson Thomas, eminent orchestra leader, dies at 81

Representative David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

Dave Mason, songwriter who co-founded Traffic, dies at 79