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Man kills 8 children and shoots his wife and another woman in Shreveport, Louisiana

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US Navy seizure of Iranian ship cats doubt on fresh cease-fire talks in Pakistan. Follow live updates.

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'One of the best sports days in Boston': Fans take over the city ahead of Marathon Monday

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Change comes in waves: New start procedures are a sign of the times

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Here's the latest Boston Marathon forecast breakdown

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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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DAN SHAUGHNESSY -- We know better than to look ahead, but after Game 1 against the Sixers, bring on the Knicks in Round 2

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Despite wire-to-wire Game 1 demolition of the 76ers, Celtics preach they're taking nothing for granted

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GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL -- Celtics will show their championship mettle by denying the urge to be complacent after their Game 1 laugher

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Joe Mazzulla finalist for NBA Coach of the Year, but Jaylen Brown, Neemias Queta denied by voters

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ON HOCKEY | KEVIN PAUL DUPONT -- Bruins let a winnable game slip away in Buffalo, doomed again by their inability to create on offense

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Bruins unable to finish off Sabres in third period, surrender two-goal lead in Game 1 loss

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Healey signs sweeping overhaul of Massachusetts cannabis law

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Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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Massachusetts has spent $4.8 million on eminent domain for Sagamore Bridge. That number will grow.

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The state is finally renovating the Hynes Convention Center. Take a look inside.

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Forecast | Dave Epstein - Brief sprinkle possible on Monday, one of the cooler Patriots Days across New England. Dips below freezing at night.

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Police fatally shoot man armed with knife in Lexington following medical call

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Beacon Hill's effort to restrict social media use by teens is clumsy and invasive, critics say

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Father wants R.I. Supreme Court to see if state law allowing grandparent visitation is unconstitutional

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IDEAS | Stacie Nicole Smith - Trump's obsession with winning is a losing strategy - Raw power can only get a strongman leader so far.

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IDEAS | VANESSA WILLIAMSON -- Everything you know about the Boston Tea Party is wrong

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EDITORIAL -- Healey has made progress on housing. But the state still lags its goals.

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James A. Peyser -- Massachusetts promised high standards without MCAS. The results are in.

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

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

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Canada's prime minister says economic ties with US were a strength but now are a weakness

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Man shot in hotel parking lot in Braintree, police say

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

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US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in Caribbean Sea

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Man killed in Holyoke shooting, police say

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Eddie Murphy receives life achievement award by AFI, drawing standing ovation at star-filled tribute

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GLOBE MAGAZINE - The 47 Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2026 - Yes, it's still a challenging real estate market. But experts – and data – say there are reasons for hope.

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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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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey -- The government and Öztürk's legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

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The rise of a college influencer, from side hustle to six-figure career -- This Amherst College student is part of a new generation of online creators turning campuses into content factories.

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

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

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

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

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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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BRUINS NOTEBOOK -- Five Bruins get their introduction to playoff hockey in series opener against Sabres -- James Hagens, Fraser Minten, Marat Khusnutdinov, Mark Kastelic, and Jonathan Aspirot were in the middle of the circle during Sunday's morning skate at KeyBank Center.

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KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON HOCKEY -- Coaches Lindy Ruff, Marco Sturm recall the physicality of their NHL, and how the intimidation factor remains -- "The game's in a lot better place," said Lindy Ruff, who suited up on the Sabres backline for the first time in the 1980 playoffs.

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GOLF -- She loves LA: Hannah Green rallies to win LPGA JM Eagle Championship for third time in four years

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NBA NOTEBOOK -- Magic open NBA playoffs with upset of East top seed Pistons

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Trump says US negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for talks with Iran

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

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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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More cowbell! Wellesley students to pump up the volume at Marathon 'Scream Tunnel'

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Vermont man accused of shooting three Palestinian college students in 2023 fit for trial

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Most good teams establish an identity on offense. Do the Red Sox have one?

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Juraj Slafkovsky's hat trick powers Canadiens in overtime past Lightning in series opener

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Trump administration warms to IMF and World Bank, in rare nod to global bodies

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Business groups resist anti-immigrant bills cheered by the White House

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Pakistan and Iran aren't confirming Round 2 of US-Iran talks. See how the day unfolded.

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Resignations and firings have depleted the FBI and Justice Department. They're scrambling to rebuild.

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Man kills 7 of his children plus another child in shooting in Louisiana neighborhood

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French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over allegations of child abuse images and deepfakes on X

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British Prime Minister Starmer faces angry lawmakers over Mandelson's appointment as ambassador

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Four candidates for UN secretary-general audition this week. That's far fewer than in 2016.

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

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

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On the same side, until we weren't

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Love Letters Classics: My mom doesn't want this boyfriend around

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Why you should take a break from audio and be comfortable with silence

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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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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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I spent 21 hours traveling by train to avoid flights. Was it worth it?

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What consumers can do as the Iran war impacts the cost and availability of flights

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American Airlines says it won't merge with United

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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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This week's TV: An animated sitcom about a cat, Richard Gadd's follow-up to 'Baby Reindeer,' and more

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

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Chris Smither: 'The first time I stick my toe in the movies, I'm an Oscar winner'

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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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Boston Theater Critics Association reveals list of Elliot Norton nominees

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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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Four Boston-area researchers honored with 2026 Breakthrough Prize, the 'Oscars of Science'

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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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Elaine Ingham, who taught that soil is alive, dies at 73

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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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