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Pope Francis is remembered as a reformer who stressed humility

Pope Francis praised for simplicity, openness, advocacy for the vulnerable

The death of Pope Francis, 88, after a long illness prompted an outpouring of condolences from church and civic leaders across the region.

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Pope Francis waves to faithful upon his arrival on St. Peter's square at the Vatican to lead his weekly general audience on September 16, 2015. AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTOVINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images

KEVIN CULLEN
Pope Francis kept the faith for the poorest among us
Pope Francis met with JD Vance shortly before he died, but the pontiff and Vance's boss did not see eye to eye.

Pope Francis’ conservative critics had a unique way to oppose him: a retired pontiff

History is celebrated, and history is made, at a picture-perfect running of the Boston Marathon

An estimated half-million people cheered the 30,000 runners on a day that was near perfect.

Relive the excitement of the 2025 Boston Marathon

Des Linden embraces her husband, Ryan, after crossing the finish line in Monday's Boston Marathon.

Des Linden’s professional apex came in the Boston Marathon. It’s only fitting she ended her career here on Monday.

Bachelor Matt James says hello to a fan during the race.

From Celtics voice Drew Carter to ‘Bachelor’ Matt James, here’s how celebrities fared in the 2025 Boston Marathon

A marathon spectator holds a sign reading, “Hill? More like speed bump,” on Heartbreak Hill during the Boston Marathon on Monday.

‘Someone date my friend Emma so she can stop running these races.’ See the best signs from the 2025 Boston Marathon.

President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Trump has so far been unwilling to fire any of his top officials, a marked change from his first administration.

Trump calls concern over Hegseth’s second Signal chat episode ‘waste of time’

President Trump threw his support behind Pete Hegseth on Monday and said any concern over his defense secretary’s decision to share military attack plans in a Signal group chat was a “waste of time.”

ACLU says Trump officials not complying with Supreme Court in deportation caseBaby bonuses, fertility planning: Trump aides assess ideas to boost birthrateFollow live updates on the Trump administration

Primary care doctors picket outside of Brigham and Women's Hospital on Dec. 13, 2024. The National Labor Relations Board sided with Mass General Brigham primary care physicians on a dispute regarding the size of the proposed bargaining unit, setting the stage for a union election next month.

Primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham score victory on path to unionization

The National Labor Relations Board sided with the physicians on a dispute regarding the size of the proposed bargaining unit, setting the stage for a union election next month.

Harvard sues Trump administration over funding freeze

The legal challenge comes a week after Harvard's leaders rejected an extraordinary set of demands from the Trump administration.

Read Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration

Woman dead, man arrested after fleeing Allston apartment and trying to steal a car, police say

Investigators are trying to determine the relationship between the dead woman and the arrested man

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Trump covets control of the Federal Reserve. The market wants him to back off.

The president’s fight with Fed chair Jerome Powell is about more than interest rates. It’s a grab for power over a central bank long prized for its independence.

Forecast | Dave Epstein
New England welcomes summerlike, sunny weather for Tuesday
The sunshine continues Wednesday and Thursday for nearly ideal April conditions.

Walgreens to pay up to $350 million in US opioid settlement

The nationwide drugstore chain must pay the government at least $300 million and will owe another $50 million if the company is sold, merged, or transferred before 2032, according to the settlement reached last Friday.

Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says

Kennedy plans to phase out 8 commonly used food dyes

Supreme Court hears case concerning LGBTQ books in public schools

Detroit played host to 2024's NFL Draft, and offered a far more urban setting than will be in place near Green Bay's Lambeau Field this week.

Everything you need to know about the 2025 NFL Draft

From dates and times to draft order to the multitude of options the Patriots have before them, there's a lot surrounding the NFL's 90th annual Player Selection Meeting.

Perspective

We asked for better plus-size women’s clothing. All we got is more cold shoulders.

I've been plus-size for most of my adult life, and the shopping experience has always been the same.

"Godzilla vs. America: Boston" cover B art by Jesse Lonergan.

From ‘Moby-Dick’ to a molasses flood, ‘Godzilla vs. Boston’ is a monster-sized love letter to New England

Move over Fenway Park: a different green monster is coming back to Boston this summer.

Opinion

The start of the women's wheelchair division in the 128th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2024.

Cheri Blauwet

Boston Marathon: Celebrating 50 years of wheelchair racing

The inclusion of wheelchair racing in marathons challenges the often patronizing narratives surrounding disability and replaces them with images of autonomy, self-determination, and strength.

JOAN VENNOCHI

By taking up the migrant cause, Francis took on Trump and Vance

James M. Egan Weiss

‘Here comes everybody’: Pope Francis’s broad embrace reshaped the papacy

EDITORIAL

Keeping the spirit of the Marathon alive every day — one step at a time

John J. Miller

With abortion stance, Pope Francis disrupted easy narratives of both left and right

Spotlight

Explore the project: Snitch City

In a nation addicted to drugs, local police are addicted to informants.

Listen to the Snitch City podcast

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Dominick Ruggerio’s political evolution was personal
There was a noticeable change in Rhode Island's Senate president as he rose in power.

Dominick J. Ruggerio, R.I. Senate president, has died

Red Sox 4, White Sox 2
Walker Buehler goes seven solid innings as the Red Sox take three of four from the White Sox at Fenway Park
The Red Sox open a three-game series against the visiting Mariners on Tuesday night.

Wife of former US senator Bob Menendez convicted in bribery scheme

The jury returned its verdict in the same federal courthouse in Manhattan where a different jury convicted Bob Menendez of many of the same charges last year.

Supreme Court appears likely to uphold Obamacare’s preventive care coverage mandate

The case could have big ramifications for the law’s preventive care coverage requirements for an estimated 150 million Americans.

N.H. skier dies in crash at Black Mountain ski area, police say

A 39-year-old skier died after he went off a trail and crashed at Black Mountain in Jackson, N.H.

Mass. lawyer and his wife say they were handcuffed, detained for hours at Canada border: ‘It was a shock’

Bachir Atallah, who is a US citizen and lives in Methuen, said Customs and Border Protection officers would not say why he and his wife were being held.

How Harvard president Alan Garber came to lead the higher ed resistance against Trump
After Columbia University’s capitulation, Garber said he knew Harvard was going to have to fight.

Steward paid them a fraction of what it owed. Now it’s suing them to get the money back.
The bankrupt health system has filed lawsuits against roughly 170 vendors, seeking to claw back millions of dollars it paid in the weeks and months before it filed for Chapter 11 protection last year.

Boston Marathon bomber’s appeal of death sentence marked by delays and secrecy
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is on federal death row, but his fate remains uncertain after a decade of legal wrangling as his lawyers continue to challenge his death sentence.

Culture & Lifestyle

Cardinals attend the "Pro Eligendo Papa" mass in Saint Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican, March, 12, 2013.

‘Conclave’ author Robert Harris on what he learned about electing a new pope

This Marathon Monday, runners can claim a free cookie at Levain Bakery with a flash of their medal.

Free things to do this week: Marathon treats, soft rock tribute bands, and Intro to Twerk lessons

Volunteers at the Charles River fill and dispose of a significant number of bags with litter every Earth Day.

How to celebrate Earth Day in Greater Boston

Damon Herriman as Lucky in "The Bondsman."

‘The Bondsman’: Boston meets small-town Georgia in Prime Video’s new horror comedy

Special Projects

Seventh-graders at the Curley School on the first day of school in 1975. (Ulrike Welsch/Globe staff)

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

An Ambulance passes Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, LA on August 28, 2024.

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

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Our ultimate guide to more than 200 winners for Boston's best food, drinks, and fun things to do.

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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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrived at a news conference about autism in Washington, D.C., on April 16.

Maya Vinokour

The rise of RFK Jr. is a wake-up call for out-of-touch liberals

The House of Representatives did not include Governor Maura Healey's proposal to impose the sales tax on candy.

EDITORIAL

Washington’s chaos puts Mass. budget in the crosshairs

A campaign mailer that was distributed during Chris Flanagan’s 2022 campaign for state representative.

EDITORIAL

Why have a House Committee on Ethics at all?

Willy C. Shih

Can Trump’s tariffs really bring back US manufacturing?

An artist’s conception of an exoplanet like K2-18b orbiting a red dwarf star.

IDEAS | ALAN WIRZBICKI

Cosmic relief

The photos on these banners in a Beirut suburb say a lot about the governance of Lebanon. On the left is the speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri. On the right is Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli strike on Sept. 27. Lebanon hasn’t had a president for two years because Hezbollah keeps blocking candidates.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

East Boston parishioners: ‘We lost the best Pope. The most important for me.’

Latino parishioners at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church mourn first Pope from Latin America

Harvard sues Trump administration over funding freeze

The legal challenge comes a week after Harvard's leaders rejected an extraordinary set of demands from the Trump administration.

See photos from the 2025 Boston Marathon

The 129th running kicked off in Hopkinton, to finish in Boston on Monday, April 21.

History is celebrated, and history is made, at a picture-perfect running of the Boston Marathon

An estimated half-million people cheered the 30,000 runners on a day that was near perfect.

Sports

Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard reacts as time runs out in the second half of Game 2 of a first-round NBA playoff series against the Denver Nuggets Monday, April 21, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

CLIPPERS 105, NUGGETS 102

Kawhi Leonard’s 39 points leads Clippers past Nuggets to even series

Denver's Nikola Jokic recorded his 19th career triple-double but it was not enough to overcome Leonard's 15-for-19 performance.

Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck makes one of his 21 saves during Monday's 2-1 win over the Blues to give Winnipeg a 2-0 series lead as the series shifts to St. Louis.

JETS 2, BLUES 1

Kyle Connor nets another game-winner as Jets take 2-0 series lead over Blues

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 21 shots to help the Jets take a 2-0 playoff series lead for the first time in three seasons.

Pistons guard Cade Cunningham had 33 points and 12 rebounds to help Detroit to its first postseason win in 17 years.

PISTONS 100, KNICKS 94

At last! Pistons snap NBA-record, 15-game postseason losing streak, beating Knicks in Game 2 to even series.

The Pistons earned their first playoff victory since Game 4 of the 2008 Eastern Conference finals against the Celtics.

Boston Marathon finish line feats and tired feet

CAPITALS 3, CANADIENS 2 (OT)

Alex Ovechkin scores his first playoff overtime goal as the Capitals beat the Canadiens in Game 1

'Why I run': Boston Marathon finishers on their purpose, motivation

Business

Walgreens to pay up to $350 million in US opioid settlement

bold types

New HBR editor in chief Amy Bernstein looks to grow the publication in AI age

Boston school and business leaders team up for shadowing day; Krafts ink big IT contract with NWN; P&G Gillette kicks off manufacturing expansion in Andover.

TALKING POINTS

Kennedy plans to phase out 8 commonly used food dyes

Drones pose increasing risk to airliners near major US airports

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Perspective

We asked for better plus-size women’s clothing. All we got is more cold shoulders.

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The 36 Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2025

marathon24- Boston, MA - 4/15/24- A runner crosses the finish line during the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2024. (Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff)

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, April 21-27

Later that summer, the writer and her grandfather harvest honey in full beekeeper suits.

CONNECTIONS

Bees terrified me. Then my beekeeper grandfather asked for my help.

metro

Rhode Island Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio, left, and House Speaker. K. Joseph Shekarchi respond to questions from Boston Globe reporter Edward Fitzpatrick and Jim Ludes host of “The Story in the Public Square” in Providence, Rhode Island on May 31, 2023.

R.I. Senate president’s death marks ‘the end of an era at the State House’

New England welcomes summerlike, sunny weather for Tuesday

Pope Francis kept the faith for the poorest among us

sports

Dan Bylsma was fired as coach of the Kraken after one season on Monday.

Kraken fire coach Dan Bylsma after one season. AP source says Jason Botterill to replace Ron Francis as GM

Guards Derrick White and Jrue Holiday, in different ways, were the driving forces in the Celtics’ Game 1 win

Is the Jrue Holiday-Derrick White tandem the best defensive backcourt in Celtics’ history? Cedric Maxwell says yes.

business

The US Department of Education building is seen in Washington on Dec. 3, 2024.

Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says

Markets slide as Trump renews attacks on Fed chair

How secure is Signal, anyway?

politics

Follow live updates on the Trump administration

Some GOP states are targeting driver’s licenses issued to immigrants illegally in the US

Trump adds a second endorsement in the race to be next Arizona governor

Nation

Former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada, center, gets into a car as he leaves the Federal Courthouse Aug. 23, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn.

Who’s who in the criminal trial of a former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime top aide

Colorado fights Trump administration bid to help imprisoned loyalist Tina Peters

ACLU says Trump officials not complying with Supreme Court in deportation case

World

An Irish-born American cardinal is entrusted as the ‘camerlengo,’ running the Holy See between popes

Pope Francis’ conservative critics had a unique way to oppose him: a retired pontiff

Pope Francis is remembered as a reformer for the Catholic Church who stressed humility

opinion

President Trump signed an executive order related to tariffs on March 6.

No tariffs without representation

Public health’s reckoning started with COVID. It was too late.

Trump has an immigration problem — his own unconstitutional policies

lifestyle

The best of 50-plus dates

My friends expect me to work around their schedules

What do successful people have in common? Meaningful sibling relationships.

food & dining

Where to eat along the Boston Marathon route

At Somerville’s Café Saint Germain, the chef talks to his French onion soup

Where to eat outside in Boston

travel

Volunteer Anne Herbst at the City of Boston's Annual Citizenship day at the Reggie Lewis Center. She was helping people go through the citizenship application process at the event.

Want to leave the US for good? How to get dual citizenship.

Play pickleball, eat a torta, and sleep in a former saloon. Here’s the latest from Newport.

A guide to Rhode Island’s 7 best breweries

Arts

From Ohan Breiding's "Belly of a Glacier," now on view at Mass MoCA.

Ohan Breiding’s ‘Belly of a Glacier’ at Mass MoCA is a personal lament about loss

BPL receives major donation of Yousuf Karsh photographs

MFA announces longtime curator Pierre Terjanian as new leader

Books

‘Conclave’ author Robert Harris on what he learned about electing a new pope

From ‘Moby-Dick’ to a molasses flood, ‘Godzilla vs. Boston’ is a monster-sized love letter to New England

A novel for kids tells the true story of a newspaper for dogs

Movies

Daisy Ridley on November 01, 2024 in London, England. In "Cleaner," she spends the first half of the movie dangling from a skyscraper. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Four action movies to stream right now

From ‘Moby-Dick’ to a molasses flood, ‘Godzilla vs. Boston’ is a monster-sized love letter to New England

‘Star Wars’ fans wave lightsabers as an upcoming film gets announced in Japan

Television

Four action movies to stream right now

This week’s TV: Where to watch the Marathon, ‘Andor’ returns, plus Brett Goldstein brings the laughs

‘The Bondsman’: Boston meets small-town Georgia in Prime Video’s new horror comedy

music

Pianist Mitsuko Uchida performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Boston Symphony on April 17, 2025.

An old favorite and an oddity from the BSO

The Linda Lindas grow beyond viral fame to headline their own tour

Fyre Festival 2 issues refund for Mexico event, stops ticket sales

Theater/Dance

‘It’s just that stand-up is the thing I love’: Paul Reiser on returning to his roots

Hats off to Moonbox’s stirring ‘Crowns’

Merry mayhem in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Health

Primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham score victory on path to unionization

Steward paid them a fraction of what it owed. Now it’s suing them to get the money back.

Six cases of benign brain tumors among nurses at one Newton-Wellesley Hospital unit spark uneasiness among workers

Obituaries

Mr. Gatti, right, Ernesto Mastrangelo, center, and Daniel Pavon celebrated after a penalty shootout in the Copa Libertadores final soccer match in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sept. 14, 1977.

Pope Francis is remembered as a reformer who stressed humility

Pope Francis praised for simplicity, openness, advocacy for the vulnerable

KEVIN CULLENPope Francis kept the faith for the poorest among usPope Francis met with JD Vance shortly before he died, but the pontiff and Vance's boss did not see eye to eye.

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Primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham score victory on path to unionization

Harvard sues Trump administration over funding freeze

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Kennedy plans to phase out 8 commonly used food dyes

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From ‘Moby-Dick’ to a molasses flood, ‘Godzilla vs. Boston’ is a monster-sized love letter to New England

Boston Marathon: Celebrating 50 years of wheelchair racing

By taking up the migrant cause, Francis took on Trump and Vance

‘Here comes everybody’: Pope Francis’s broad embrace reshaped the papacy

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With abortion stance, Pope Francis disrupted easy narratives of both left and right

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How Harvard president Alan Garber came to lead the higher ed resistance against TrumpAfter Columbia University’s capitulation, Garber said he knew Harvard was going to have to fight.

Steward paid them a fraction of what it owed. Now it’s suing them to get the money back.The bankrupt health system has filed lawsuits against roughly 170 vendors, seeking to claw back millions of dollars it paid in the weeks and months before it filed for Chapter 11 protection last year.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

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Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

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East Boston parishioners: ‘We lost the best Pope. The most important for me.’

Harvard sues Trump administration over funding freeze

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History is celebrated, and history is made, at a picture-perfect running of the Boston Marathon

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Walgreens to pay up to $350 million in US opioid settlement

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Kennedy plans to phase out 8 commonly used food dyes

Drones pose increasing risk to airliners near major US airports

We asked for better plus-size women’s clothing. All we got is more cold shoulders.

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Bees terrified me. Then my beekeeper grandfather asked for my help.

metro

R.I. Senate president’s death marks ‘the end of an era at the State House’

New England welcomes summerlike, sunny weather for Tuesday

KEVIN CULLEN
Pope Francis kept the faith for the poorest among us
Pope Francis met with JD Vance shortly before he died, but the pontiff and Vance's boss did not see eye to eye.

Forecast | Dave Epstein
New England welcomes summerlike, sunny weather for Tuesday
The sunshine continues Wednesday and Thursday for nearly ideal April conditions.

After surviving brain tumor, Abington baseball coach Steve Perakslis breaks school mark for victories
Three months after successful surgery, the 22-year Green Wave dugout denizen recorded his 339th career win with a 7-0 shutout of nonleague foe Cardinal Spellman.

COLUMN | DAN MCGOWAN
Dominick Ruggerio’s political evolution was personal
There was a noticeable change in Rhode Island's Senate president as he rose in power.

Red Sox 4, White Sox 2
Walker Buehler goes seven solid innings as the Red Sox take three of four from the White Sox at Fenway Park
The Red Sox open a three-game series against the visiting Mariners on Tuesday night.

How Harvard president Alan Garber came to lead the higher ed resistance against Trump
After Columbia University’s capitulation, Garber said he knew Harvard was going to have to fight.

Steward paid them a fraction of what it owed. Now it’s suing them to get the money back.
The bankrupt health system has filed lawsuits against roughly 170 vendors, seeking to claw back millions of dollars it paid in the weeks and months before it filed for Chapter 11 protection last year.

Boston Marathon bomber’s appeal of death sentence marked by delays and secrecy
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is on federal death row, but his fate remains uncertain after a decade of legal wrangling as his lawyers continue to challenge his death sentence.