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'We made history': Massachusetts low-income transit riders could soon see lower fares, similar to other states -- The MBTA board of directors voted in favor of offering a reduced fare for adults with low incomes across its entire system.

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MBTA to pay Chinese company another $148 million to get new Red and Orange Line cars by end of 2027

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Forecast | Ken Mahan - Coastal rainstorm lets up this morning, leaving a strong breeze in its wake - The good news is the clouds will break apart. The bad news? It's going to be windy.

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Officials investigating after photo surfaces of Nantucket High students holding sign with 'inappropriate racial slur' -- "While this particular incident did take place outside of school hours, we are looking into the details, as it is having a large impact on our student body," school officials said in a letter to families.

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Harvard's acceptance rate is 3.6 percent, a slight year-over-year uptick -- Thursday was a big day for prospective students at the nation's most prestigious universities, as thousands received offers and rejections from Ivy League campuses.

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Milton fires back on state lawsuit over MBTA housing law -- Town officials filed a response to Attorney General Andrea Campbell's lawsuit that challenges the validity of the ambitious housing law itself, and the attorney general's ability to enforce it.

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Cranes arriving to start removing wreckage from deadly Baltimore bridge collapse

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Biden OKs $60M in aid after Baltimore bridge collapse as governor warns of 'very long road ahead'

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Coyote that found its way to Beacon Hill is captured and released

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The oldest argument on the North Shore: What is the North Shore? -- Does it have to touch salt water? Is it simply everything north of Boston? Maybe it's just a state of mind.

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In 2005, this downtown office tower sold for $121.7 million. It just resold for $78 million.

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After beam falls, construction resumes less than one week later at South Station Tower

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SOUND CHECK -- From 'Cowboy Carter' to summer concert season, country is king again -- This ain't Texas — but it's about to sound like it.

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Patriots get an up-close look at quarterback Drake Maye at North Carolina's Pro Day - Maye, who elected not to throw at the scouting combine, followed a 60-play script featuring a wide variety of throws — on the run, off platform, in the pocket, short, intermediate, long.

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March Madness brings legions of fans, and big business, to bars around TD Garden

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IDEAS | OLIVER EGGER & ANABEL DEMARTINO - The surprising history of an iconic American candy - For anyone who has ever delighted in tilting back the head of a PEZ dispenser to release a sugar pellet that tastes vaguely of fruit but mostly of sugar, this story is for you.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- No, DEI didn't cause the Baltimore bridge collapse

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Joan Wickersham -- The tortoise, the hare, and the relentless polling

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Steven C. Wofsy -- Your laptop will soon fight climate change

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EDITORIAL -- Stopping Boston's 'doom loop' means it must face its tax woes

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Hawks 123, Celtics 122 (OT) -- The Celtics arrived in Atlanta seeking two easy wins, but leave with a pair of bitter losses -- Atlanta star Dejounte Murray dropped 44 points, including the game-winner, on a career scoring night on which Boston had no answers for him.

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BLOTTER TALES -- Cat gets stranded on a seawall, but help arrives just in time -- A cat is rescued from a seawall, thieves steal used cooking oil, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.

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Revs stadium plan will finally get public airing on Beacon Hill Tuesday -- Revolution fans will get their chance to speak up now that a bill that would pave the way for a new soccer stadium in Everett has a public hearing date on Beacon Hill.

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Its beach nearly gone, waterfront home on Nantucket sells for just $600k. What does the sale say about the island's future? The property was first listed in September for nearly $2.3 million. But after the shoreline lost a stunning 70 feet to erosion in just a matter of weeks, putting the home at imminent risk, the price plunged to $600,000 by year's end.

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Warren, Markey seek information on Citigroup's role in Steward transactions -- The senators are focusing on a financial adviser that helped facilitate sale-leaseback deals involving hospital buildings.

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH - Real women are still missing from the movies — the Bechdel Test proves it - "I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements," one woman tells another in Alison Bechdel's 1985 comic strip. In the wake of "Barbie," the Bechdel Test has hit the mainstream.

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Harvard University removes human skin used in binding of 19th-century book -- The original owner, who died in 1933, took the skin from a deceased female psychiatric patient at a hospital where he worked, Harvard officials said.

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Boston Ballet announces its 2024-2025 season

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A family driven apart in the shattering Holocaust drama 'We Were the Lucky Ones'

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Ronny Chieng finds the funny in being fed-up

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Lost in a World of Words -- Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

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Beyond the Gilded Gate -- People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill -- The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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Boston doesn't work if the T doesn't work -- With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

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IDEAS | Shira Schoenberg -- Cut loose at 18 and struggling into adulthood

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SCOT LEHIGH -- Paul Grogan looks back at an estimable career — and forward to the nonprofit future

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ALEX BEAM -- The Ukraine-Russia war needs to end now, at the conference table

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Alex Green -- Governor Healey's budget proposal threatens 50 years of disability rights

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IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

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Peter Abraham | On Baseball -- For Openers, Tyler O'Neill sets a record in Red Sox debut -- "He's been putting good at-bats the whole spring," manager Alex Cora said after O'Neill's solid performance in his first official game with the Red Sox.

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DAN SHAUGHNESSY -- FSG's message to Red Sox fans seems to be 'you walk alone,' and other thoughts

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Red Sox 6, Mariners 4 -- Red Sox show plenty of spark and have some fun in Opening Day win over Mariners

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ncaa tournament | Illinois 72, Iowa State 69 -- Illinois rides defense to take down Iowa State at TD Garden en route to first Elite Eight since 2005

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It's a bittersweet Easter for chocolate lovers and African cocoa farmers but big brands see profits

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Sports betting won't be legal in Georgia after lawmakers couldn't agree on how to spend taxes

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Globe Magazine -- 'God, I wish I hadn't seen that': On the trail of Bigfoot in the Berkshires

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Spring Arts -- 30 top plays, concerts, book and arts events around New England this spring

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- The NBA's hottest prospect is a 17-year-old from Maine. Meet Cooper Flagg.

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PERSPECTIVE -- Time to embrace the sump pump. Flooded basements are the future of New England's winters.

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Swansea police seek public's help identifying a man who allegedly tried to lure two girls into his car

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Sutton magician sentenced to prison for child pornography distribution

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Man arrested for allegedly setting Hawthorne Country Club in Dartmouth on fire in 2023, officials say

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UConn and Illinois will face off in the Elite Eight at TD Garden on Saturday. See how they got there.

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If possible, defending national champion UConn looks even hungrier to repeat

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Flying start for Snakes: Diamondbacks post 14-run inning on Opening Day

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As office market struggles, Wu seeks commercial tax rate hike to bolster city budget

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Home Depot buying supplier to professional contractors in a deal valued at about $18.25 billion

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4 takeaways about Boeing's quality problems

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How Justice Thomas's 'nearly adopted daughter' became his law clerk

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Clinton, Obama join Biden for massive fund-raiser

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Biden administration finalizes rule curbing use of short-term health plans

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What to know about Day of Visibility, designed to show the world 'trans joy'

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Georgia lawmakers approve new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest

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Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman and VP candidate to be remembered at hometown funeral service

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US journalist Evan Gershkovich marks year in Russian prison as courts keep extending his time behind bars

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A growing number of Americans end up in Russian jails. The prospects for their release are unclear.

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A bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. 8-year-old child is only survivor.

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The conservative war on 'agencies that protect us'

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Child sexual abuse and the complicity of silence at Nickelodeon

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Governor Healey should disclose her out-of-state trips in advance

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Is a robot writing your kids' essays? We asked educators to weigh in on the growing role of AI in classrooms.

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The irony of Steve Martin's life isn't lost on him

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King Charles stresses importance of kindness as he skips pre-Easter service amid cancer treatment

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'Country Roads' lead to trouble for Woburn bar as ASCAP files copyright suit

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Fish Taco brings squid ink tortillas to Hanover Street; Boston Calling announces food lineup

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At jam-packed June Bug, wood-fired pizza and more

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At long last, a cruise ship designed for people who hate cruises

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Spring broke: Once there was a train in Spain — and I got booted off of it because of $7

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Introducing the Shoreside Rooms in Maine and an e-pedal fishing boat

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At the Gardner, the riotous maximalism of Raqib Shaw

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Nasturtiums make their brilliant annual debut at the Gardner Museum

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'Hew Locke: The Procession' featured in ICA Watershed's 2024 season

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Local bestsellers for the week ended March 24

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AGNI Magazine offers 'Dispatches from Palestine' online; Exeter LitFest takes place first weekend in April; and more

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Author readings around Boston through April 6

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Marlon Brando at 100

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'Godzilla x Kong' = monster-movie mediocrity

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Hoping to see more of '3 Body Problem'

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Martin Scorsese teams with Fox Nation to examine the lives of saints

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For Boston String Academy students, practice makes progress — all the way to Carnegie Hall

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Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras fetes new home base

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At 'Mrs. Krishnan's Party,' the hostess is at her most-est

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In Anthony Rapp's 'Without You,' there's joy inside his tears

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How Bobby became Bobbie in the gender-reversed revival of 'Company'

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Centurion Foundation was the 'only viable' buyer for Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals, CEO says

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Agent Orange exposure damages the brain in ways similar to Alzheimer's disease, new study says

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R.I.'s largest hospital system may no longer take Cigna health insurance

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Kate Banks, children's author who wrote about grief, dies at 64

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Daniel P. Jordan, transformative leader of Monticello, dies at 85

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Ramona Edelin, who advocated for using the term 'African American,' dies at 78

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