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Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes -- The Celtics enter the postseason set up for one of their more impressive runs in team history

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Providence lawmakers, looking to cash in on the World Cup, consider letting bars stay open all night

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Iran fires on ships in Strait of Hormuz as Tehran imposes restrictions again. Follow live updates.

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Leo says it's 'not in my interest at all' to debate Trump

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Trump's Iran remarks stir debate in schools. 'Is it OK for the president to be doing stuff like that?'

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BRUINS NOTEBOOK -- One year without playoff hockey felt like a drought in Boston, and that served as 'a big motivation' for the Bruins

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Lexington reenactment draws thousands in honoring the 251st anniversary of the American Revolution

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Head Start looks for help from Mass. in its mission to help young children

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Kennedy changes his tone on vaccines, but maybe not his plans

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NFL is not investigating Patriots coach Mike Vrabel over photos with reporter

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Attleboro man sentenced to prison for possession of child pornography

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Lawrence student charged after 'senior assassin' ambush leaves two injured, officials say

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PERSPECTIVE - Think Earth feels darker? You're right – and NASA data proves it.

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After D4vd's arrest, many still mourn the girl who never came home

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R.I. judge acquits former Providence teacher accused of raping student

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Dave Epstein answers your gardening questions on tackling critters and choosing spring plants

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Ben Volin | Sunday football notes -- Everything you need to know about a sleepy 2026 NFL Draft that is light on top prospects

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ODIE HENDERSON | ★★★1/2 -- A never-better Ian McKellen matches wits with an equally stellar Michaela Coel in 'The Christophers'

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Bob Hall has died. The father of wheelchair racing made Boston Marathon history.

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26.TRUE Marathon offers community, comebacks, and culture beyond Boston's main route

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American marathon runners are on the rise, but can they actually win Boston?

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Weather stations along marathon route to send crucial data in real time to medical, emergency staff

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James A. Peyser - Massachusetts promised high standards without MCAS. The results are in. After the end of MCAS, many school districts in Massachusetts now define graduation competency at the lowest passing grade.

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IDEAS | Leanne ten Brinke -- Your fellow Americans are better than you think

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William M. Hill -- Investing in nature: Why outdoor spaces in Mass. deserve your vote

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EDITORIAL -- Low-balling the Boston police overtime budget is not a strategy

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LETTERS -- If the first word is 'artificial,' can we still call it 'intelligence'?

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Power Play - What if the problem with Faneuil Hall is the company that runs it?

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'I think the time has come.' After 50 years, Clarke's at Faneuil Hall closing next week, an owner says.

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BOLD TYPES - Business leaders discuss how to tackle health care costs. It won't be easy.

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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey

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Trump signs order to speed review of psychedelics, including controversial drug ibogaine

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Ukrainian police shoot dead gunman who killed at least 6 and took hostages in a supermarket

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Descendants say the theft of body parts from Pennsylvania grave sites is not a victimless crime

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Dan Shaughnessy - Younger fans may not know, but there's real history in a Celtics-Sixers playoff series, and other thoughts - Would you believe it if I told you that the last time the Sixers won one of these Atlantic corridor jousts came amid "Beat LA!" chants at the Old Garden in 1982?

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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER - How 2026 has sucked the remaining joy out of air travel - Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse, it did, and it's only April.

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Building 19 used cheap jokes to sell cheap crap. These two guys think it was art. -- Building 19? Well, it was a store that sold things. There's a word to describe those things, but we can't print it here. Let's just say it rhymes with wit, which is how they sold it.

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'Pass the torch.' Dark-money group, led by a Moulton donor, targets Markey's 50-year tenure in Washington -- MA Progress Action, a self-described 501(c)(4) organization, on Wednesday unveiled an ad invoking a fictional ailment: "Chronic Reelection Disorder."

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

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At local museums, the countdown continues to July 4 and the 250th

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'Margo's Got Money Troubles,' and an OnlyFans following, in David E. Kelley's new series

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Boston Theater Critics Association reveals list of Elliot Norton nominees

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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IDEAS | JOHN HALPIN AND RUY TEIXEIRA -- We built a publication that urged Democrats to change their ways. They wouldn't listen.

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IDEAS | MIRANDA FEATHERSTONE -- I work in a school that isn't what it seemed

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EDITORIAL -- House budget proposal reflects austere times

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Why is Mike Vrabel skirting the fallout of those Page Six photos?

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Lost and/or found -- Ten weird but totally true Boston stories

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Red Sox notebook -- Red Sox' catcher playing time tilting toward Connor Wong, away from Carlos Narváez -- Alex Cora is leaning towards using hot hitting Connor Wong as starting catcher over Carlos Narváez, who is struggling at the plate.

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AUTO RACING -- Kyle Larson returns to Kansas hoping to end a 32-race NASCAR Cup drought on track he's won on three times -- He hasn't won since last May, but Larson is trending in right direction, coming off a third place last weekend at Bristol.

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HIGH SCHOOLS | SUNDAY SITDOWN -- Sunday sitdown: After more than five decades at Hamilton-Wenham, Steve Sawyer makes new track a reality -- Sawyer, who began working at the school in 1969 and has been track coach since 1979, discussed the changes he's witnessed over five decades and his excitement over the new track.

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Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes -- Mike Trout appears to be back to his best, and that is good news for baseball

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CELTICS -- Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum have been teammates for nine years, and the Celtics' duo think they are still getting better

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Pilot says Hawaii tour helicopter vibrated and spun before crash killed 3

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- The 47 Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2026

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The College Issue -- Blind date: 'We're both in accounting, which made it easy to relate to each other'

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THE BIG DAY -- Their goal: The nicest, lowest-cost wedding possible in Newport

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When thinking about ideal running conditions, one marathon year in particular stands out

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Trump and Vance say God is on their side. Pope Leo would like a word.

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The Lexington Minute Men are on the march for new Colonial drummers and fifers

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Sports media: Mike Breen speaks up for regional networks, who don't air first-round NBA playoff games under new deal

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It took 15 years, but the Sabres' fortunes finally turned around and NHL playoffs-starved Buffalo awaits the Bruins

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Federal court temporarily freezes Nexstar's merger with Tegna

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US extends waiver on Russian oil sanctions to ease Iran war shortages despite Bessent denial

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American Airlines says it won't merge with United

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Powerful winds and reported tornadoes rip through the Midwest, leaving heavy damage but no deaths

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The doctor will seek your vote now

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Iran fully closes Strait of Hormuz over US blockade and fires on ships

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More displaced Lebanese head home as cease-fire is tested

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Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado draws a huge Madrid rally and rebuffs meeting with Spain's Sánchez

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Are mainstream news media finally ready to examine Trump's mental fitness?

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The Trump administration doesn't want these refugees. But they have nowhere else to go.

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Who was the 'Codfather,' and what makes fishermen so hard to regulate?

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'The Real Housewives of Rhode Island' stars bring the party to Boston for Bravo Night at Fenway

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That eyeliner makes you look so ... millennial

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Disappointed in my friend's role in infidelity

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Newbury Street gets a splashy new Peruvian restaurant and a Greek seafood temple

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Raspberries for $18 a pound? $10 for strawberries? Here's why produce is so expensive in Mass. right now.

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It's time to cheer on the fish. Here's a guide to a New England spring spectacle, the herring run.

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Where to find old-school fun in Providence

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The Eric Carle Museum takes a look at an overlooked genre: Picture books with actual photographs

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Zoo animals eat famous flowers from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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The best local book events this week

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Doris Kearns Goodwin's memoir set for film adaptation by Oscar-nominated writer of 'The Holdovers'

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The novelist Jayne Anne Phillips took to nonfiction to remember her roots in 'Small Town Girls'

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'The Insider' is a killer journalism thriller (and more relevant than ever)

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Boots Riley's next movie, a documentary about selling Girl Scout Cookies, and more at IFFBoston

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The brilliant, brutally honest 'Freaks and Geeks' was too good to last

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A new Mark Wahlberg comedy, 'The Pitt' season finale, plus more movies and TV to stream this weekend

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At TD Garden, Romeo Santos and Prince Royce host a cross-generational toast to bachata

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The Stage at Suffolk Downs, a music venue that debuted in 2023, has no shows scheduled this season

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Singer D4vd is arrested in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Tony-winning 'Purpose' will launch the new season at the Huntington

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ART announces new season, with a rock opera from Dispatch's Chadwick Stokes

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Obesity drugmaker Kailera soars 63% after $625 million IPO

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Woburn biotech to lay off more than 200 after second FDA rejection of skin cancer treatment

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In hopeful sign for biotech, obesity treatment firm Kailera raises $625 million in upsized IPO

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Carol Greitzer, tireless defender of Greenwich Village, dies at 101

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Barbara Gordon, who wrote memoir of pill addiction, dies at 90

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Boston Marathon wheelchair racing legend Bob Hall remembered as a visionary who shaped the sport

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