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  36. <title>Droppa: Support the National WWII memorial</title>
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  39. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Droppa]]></dc:creator>
  40. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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  46. <description><![CDATA[The Greatest Generation was the last to fight in a world war. With less than 120,000 of these treasured heroes still with us, let’s take a moment to remember and honor those who fought across Europe and all who served.]]></description>
  47. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In times of war and peace, the role of our Allies has proven essential in preserving the basis for a stable, free and prosperous world. During World War II, cooperation between the Allied nations was critical in defeating the forces of tyranny and ending the deadliest military conflict in human history.</p>
  48. <p>As we draw near the 79th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, it’s a poignant moment to reflect on the immense sacrifices our Allies made alongside us in the defeat of Nazi Germany and the jubilant worldwide celebrations that followed with the triumph of liberty. In today’s turbulent global landscape, I remain optimistic that Americans and our global counterparts will remember the remarkable achievements born of unity in our pursuit of peace and freedom.</p>
  49. <p>As the child of a World War II veteran, I hold a profound gratitude for my father’s selfless service, a sentiment shared by countless others whose families were touched by that era. Like the 16 million who served, my father embodied the resilience and values of the Greatest Generation. Another figure who left an indelible mark on that time was F. Haydn Williams, a lifelong friend of my parents. His honorable service throughout WWII is a testament to his dedication.</p>
  50. <p>In 1993, Williams took the helm of the American Battle Monuments Commission’s National World War II Memorial Site and Design Committee, leading with unwavering commitment. His pivotal role in shaping the memorial’s vision and execution earned him the well-deserved title of the “Father of the World War II Memorial.”</p>
  51. <p>The National World War II Memorial in Washington honors the 16 million who served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II, the more than 400,000 who died, and the millions who supported the war effort from home.</p>
  52. <p>Symbolic of the defining event of the 20th century, the memorial is a monument to the spirit, sacrifice and commitment of the American people to the common defense of the nation and the broader causes of peace and freedom from tyranny throughout the world. It inspires future generations, deepening their appreciation of what the World War II generation accomplished in securing freedom and democracy.</p>
  53. <p>As with any public structure, the memorial needs continual repair and maintenance. It is only one of many memorials for which the National Park Service is responsible. It is the mission of Friends of the National World War II Memorial to focus solely on this memorial, its needs and the educational programming opportunities associated with it.</p>
  54. <p>As such, Congress passed a law authorizing the U.S. Treasury to mint coins commemorating the memorial. Proceeds from the sale of the commemorative coins will go to the Friends of the National World War II Memorial to be used to maintain and repair the memorial and for educational and commemorative programming.</p>
  55. <p>The Greatest Generation was the last to fight in a world war. With less than 120,000 of these treasured heroes still with us, let’s take a moment to honor those who fought across Europe and all who served.</p>
  56. <p><em>Jane Droppa is the chair of the Friends of the National World War II Memorial in Washington/InsideSources</em></p>
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  66. <title>Editorial: Automatic braking on US cars will save lives</title>
  67. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/06/editorial-automatic-braking-on-us-cars-will-save-lives/</link>
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  70. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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  76. <description><![CDATA[This is an important milestone. But why did it take so long? This technology has been available for years, though often sold as a luxury feature.]]></description>
  77. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the end of the decade, new cars and trucks in the United States will be required to have automatic emergency braking systems that can save hundreds of lives each year.</p>
  78. <p>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which announced the requirement last week, called it the most significant safety rule in two decades. This is an important milestone. But why did it take so long? This technology has been available for years, though often sold as a luxury feature.</p>
  79. <p>Most automakers voluntarily include some form of automatic braking in new models, but the capabilities can vary. The regulation makes the technology mandatory by 2029 and sets a minimum standard that all cars must be able stop and avoid contact with the vehicle in front of them when traveling up to 62 miles per hour.</p>
  80. <p>Carmakers have been slower to install automatic braking designed specifically to detect and avoid pedestrians, a problem because pedestrian fatalities have been increasing in recent years. The regulation will require that vehicles be able to avoid hitting pedestrians when traveling up to 40 mph and detect pedestrians in the dark, which is when more than three-quarters of such fatalities occur.</p>
  81. <p>Since the 1980s, the number of people killed each year in car crashes in the U.S. has declined, thanks in part to safety requirements such as seat belts and airbags. That decline in fatalities stalled a decade ago, and traffic death spiked in 2020 and 2021. Experts attribute the rise to an increase in speeding and reckless and distracted driving.</p>
  82. <p>Automatic braking is projected to save about 360 deaths a year, a small but necessary drop. There were 41,000 vehicle fatalities in 2023.<br />
  83. While humans deserve the blame for dangerous driving, there is growing recognition that engineering and technology, from cars to roads, can prevent crashes and reduce the likelihood of serious injury and death when they occur.</p>
  84. <p>Automatic braking is great, but it’s just one safety feature. The federal government should be far more aggressive in promoting and requiring others; limiting heavier, taller trucks and SUVs that take longer to stop and strike with more force; and reducing reliance on dashboard touch screens that require drivers to take their eyes off the road.</p>
  85. <p>Last year, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended — it doesn’t have the power to require — that all new cars have systems to alert drivers when they are speeding. Such systems are required for new cars sold in the European Union starting in July.</p>
  86. <p>There is no reason for Americans to tolerate 41,000 traffic deaths a year. Most are preventable, and there are tools and design features available to make vehicles safer for everyone on the road. We just have to demand them.</p>
  87. <p><em>Los Angeles Times/Tribune News Service</em></p>
  88. <p>&nbsp;</p>
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  99. <title>Dickstein: Don&#8217;t regulate independent physicians off map</title>
  100. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/06/dickstein-dont-regulate-independent-physicians-off-map/</link>
  102. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. George Dickstein]]></dc:creator>
  103. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
  104. <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
  105. <category><![CDATA[Opinion Columnists]]></category>
  106. <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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  109. <description><![CDATA[Patients benefit when they can choose where to receive care -- whether at a hospital or at an independent practice. Such choice and competition lead to better-quality, more accessible care at lower cost.]]></description>
  110. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hospitals have been on a shopping spree. In the last two years, they&#8217;ve acquired nearly 3,000 physician practices, according to new research from the Physicians Advocacy Institute.</p>
  111. <p>Some physicians &#8212; myself included &#8212; prefer to remain independent. We have found that only in an independent setting can we deliver the kind of patient-centered care that drew us into medicine.</p>
  112. <p>To stay independent, some physician groups are partnering with &#8220;management services organizations.&#8221; These entities offer physicians access to the medical resources and capital they need to compete against hospital systems, resist acquisition, and most importantly, provide top-notch care.</p>
  113. <p>Unfortunately, the MSO model is under attack. Some lawmakers do not like the fact that private equity firms typically provide financial support to MSOs. So these lawmakers are trying to ban independent physician groups from teaming up with them.</p>
  114. <p>That would be disastrous for the patients we serve.</p>
  115. <p>Consider what my practice has been able to do for our patients since partnering with Gastro Health, an MSO with affiliated gastroenterology practices in seven states, just two years ago.</p>
  116. <p>We have gained access to data analytics and artificial intelligence tools we never could have deployed on our own, as a 10-physician practice in Framingham. These capabilities allow us to improve our polyp detection rates &#8212; and reduce the incidence of colon cancer.</p>
  117. <p>In addition, these new tech tools can analyze patient medical records to ensure immune-suppressed patients are up to date on their vaccines &#8212; and thus protected from preventable disease.</p>
  118. <p>We are using data analytics to screen the records of patients with ulcerative colitis to make sure they&#8217;re receiving colonoscopies every two years, in line with the standard of care. Previously, my colleagues and I had to rely on patients remembering to book those biannual procedures &#8212; or cross-reference charts for thousands of patients manually.</p>
  119. <p>Our MSO partner has also opened up the world of clinical trials to our patients. Researchers are willing to work with us because we are part of a network of some 400 gastroenterologists across the country. That scale makes high-level medical research possible.</p>
  120. <p>The upshot is that our patients can now receive access to cutting-edge procedures and medications at our offices, just minutes from their homes. Previously, they would have had to travel to an academic medical center in Boston or Worcester &#8212; if they were fortunate enough to be admitted to the trial.</p>
  121. <p>For example, our patients have gained access to experimental therapies for fatty liver disease, a leading cause of cirrhosis that is reaching epidemic levels. The first treatment for one form of the disease was just approved by regulators this year. Our patients helped provide the evidence base for other novel therapies that are now awaiting approval.</p>
  122. <p>Teaming up with an MSO has also allowed us to offer our patients more innovative models of care.</p>
  123. <p>Some patients with irritable bowel syndrome can respond as well to a treatment regimen of diet and cognitive behavioral therapy as to medication. Our practice does not have the mental health providers to deliver such therapy, and waits for in-person care are often long.</p>
  124. <p>Through other gastroenterologists in our MSO’s network, we recently learned about a digital cognitive behavioral therapy platform called Mahana geared exclusively toward patients with IBS.</p>
  125. <p>Pre-MSO, we might not have known about this platform &#8212; much less have been able to provide our patients seamless access to it.</p>
  126. <p>I understand lawmakers&#8217; concerns about the impact of private equity on health care, especially given some of the recent controversy about the closure of Steward Health Care facilities here in Massachusetts.</p>
  127. <p>But the physicians in our practice &#8212; and our patients &#8212; have only seen care improve since we teamed up with a private equity-backed MSO.</p>
  128. <p>In fact, we have been able to expand access to care thanks to the financial backing of private equity. We&#8217;ve brought on new physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners throughout Middlesex County at our practices in Framingham, Acton, and Chelmsford.</p>
  129. <p>All of our practices accept MassHealth, and we also provide care to patients from some of the most underserved parts of the state, including patients from Lowell and Lawrence.</p>
  130. <p>When we were recruiting doctors on our own, it took us nearly two years to hire one. Our MSO has helped us cut that timeframe to just a few months.</p>
  131. <p>Patients benefit when they can choose where to receive care &#8212; whether at a hospital or at an independent practice. Such choice and competition lead to better-quality, more accessible care at lower cost.</p>
  132. <p>MSO partnerships enable independent practices to stay that way. Our leaders must not regulate them out of existence.</p>
  133. <p><em>Dr. George Dickstein is a gastroenterologist with Gastro Health in Framingham.</em></p>
  134. <p>&nbsp;</p>
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  144. <title>Sunday&#8217;s high school scores and highlights</title>
  145. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/06/sundays-high-school-scores-and-highlights-17/</link>
  147. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Danny Ventura]]></dc:creator>
  148. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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  153. <description><![CDATA[BASEBALL Danny Snyder pitched a three-hit shutout as Central Catholic (6-4) defeated Methuen 6-0 in the Merrimack Valley Conference. GIRLS LACROSSE Bailey Lower had six goals and nine draw controls, while Emerson Pekarcik and Cydney Mosscrop each tallied four goals as Nantucket defeated Ashland, 14-7. … Jane Hilsabeck scored five goals as Notre Dame (Hingham) [&#8230;]]]></description>
  154. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BASEBALL</p>
  155. <p>Danny Snyder pitched a three-hit shutout as Central Catholic (6-4) defeated Methuen 6-0 in the Merrimack Valley Conference.</p>
  156. <p>GIRLS LACROSSE</p>
  157. <p>Bailey Lower had six goals and nine draw controls, while Emerson Pekarcik and Cydney Mosscrop each tallied four goals as Nantucket defeated Ashland, 14-7. … Jane Hilsabeck scored five goals as Notre Dame (Hingham) defeated Central Catholic, 11-8.</p>
  158. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  159. <p>SCORES</p>
  160. <p>BASEBALL</p>
  161. <p>Bishop Hendricken 8, Xaverian 7</p>
  162. <p>Central Catholic 6, Methuen 0</p>
  163. <p>Dartmouth 6, Apponequet 5</p>
  164. <p>Hamilton-Wenham 4, Danvers 2</p>
  165. <p>Lexington 5, Reading 4</p>
  166. <p>Lynnfield 3, Triton 2</p>
  167. <p>Middlesex 4, Thayer Academy 0</p>
  168. <p>BOYS LACROSSE</p>
  169. <p>Nantucket 7, King Philip 6</p>
  170. <p>Thayer Academy 13, Middlesex 11</p>
  171. <p>GIRLS LACROSSE</p>
  172. <p>Manchester-Essex 13, Hamilton-Wenham 7</p>
  173. <p>Nantucket 14, Ashland 7</p>
  174. <p>Notre Dame (Hingham) 11, Central Catholic 8</p>
  175. <p>Thayer Academy 9, Rivers 8</p>
  176. <p>SOFTBALL</p>
  177. <p>Nantucket 22, Martha’s Vineyard 9</p>
  178. <p>Thayer Academy 9, Lawrence Academy 5</p>
  179. <p>BOYS TENNIS</p>
  180. <p>Lawrence Academy 4, Thayer Academy 3</p>
  181. <p>GIRLS TENNIS</p>
  182. <p>Thayer Academy 8, Lawrence Academy 1</p>
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  192. <title>Beware spring fever disrupting the workplace</title>
  193. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/06/beware-spring-fever-disrupting-the-workplace/</link>
  195. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marco Buscaglia]]></dc:creator>
  196. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
  197. <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
  198. <category><![CDATA[career advice]]></category>
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  201. <description><![CDATA[Here are a few ways the warmer weather can have a negative impact on employees.]]></description>
  202. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A welcome dose of sunshine is often enough to bring a smile to the face of even the most hardened employee, but springtime isn’t always the anecdote for the workplace blahs.</p>
  203. <p>Here are a few ways the warmer weather can have a negative impact on employees:</p>
  204. <p>Mood swings: As the weather warms up and sunny days increase, employees may experience shifts in mood and energy levels. Many may feel more optimistic and motivated; others may struggle with mood swings and irritability, especially if they feel like they’re being cooped up indoors or overwhelmed by work responsibilities.</p>
  205. <p>Seasonal allergies: Springtime allergies caused by pollen, dust and other environmental allergens can affect our physical health and comfort. Allergy symptoms such as sneezing, congestion and itchy eyes can be distracting and debilitating, making it challenging for employees to focus and function effectively at work.</p>
  206. <p>Decreased productivity: Are your coworkers staring out the window when you’re making a presentation? Get used to it. Employees often find it challenging to stay focused and productive at work when distracted by thoughts of enjoying the weather outside. Spring fever can lead to daydreaming, procrastination and difficulty concentrating on tasks, which may decrease productivity and performance.</p>
  207. <p>Increased absenteeism: Some employees may be more inclined to call in sick or take unplanned time off from work during the spring months. They may cite allergies, seasonal illnesses or personal reasons for their absences, but spring fever-related distractions and a desire to enjoy the outdoors can also increase absenteeism rates. We’re not saying employees are dishonest, but a couple of tickets to an afternoon Sox game are often the cause of some springtime aches and pains.</p>
  208. <p>Sleeping issues: Changes in daylight patterns and circadian rhythms during the spring can disrupt sleep patterns, leading to difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep at night. And of course, a lack of sleep can have a negative impact on employees’ cognitive function, energy levels and mood throughout the day.</p>
  209. <p>Increased stress: Spring fever-related distractions and the usual work responsibilities and deadlines can contribute to higher stress levels. The pressure to balance work commitments with personal desires to enjoy the spring season – and getting the kids to baseball on time after work – can lead to feelings of overwhelm, anxiety and burnout.</p>
  210. <p>So how do employers combat the springtime maladies? Sheila Hansford, a social worker in Miami, Florida, who specializes in corporate work strategies, says the first thing managers need to do is acknowledge the potential changes in their employees’ state of mind.</p>
  211. <p>“Bosses should consider outdoor team-building, some flexibility with work schedules and if possible, more remote work options,” Hansford says. “Even suggesting short breaks so your people can enjoy the sunshine can be a great way to build some positive vibes at work, which can lead to a much more productive work environment.”</p>
  212. <p><em>Tribune News Service</em></p>
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  222. <title>Dear Abby: Rich son who never pays calls dad cheap</title>
  223. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/06/dear-abby-rich-son-who-never-pays-calls-dad-cheap/</link>
  225. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Abigail Van Buren]]></dc:creator>
  226. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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  234. <description><![CDATA[When we are out as a family, my 30-year-old, millionaire son never pays for anything. He eats more than any of us and never reaches for his wallet, not even to help with the tip.]]></description>
  235. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Dear Abby:</strong> When we are out as a family, my 30-year-old, millionaire son never pays for anything. He eats more than any of us and never reaches for his wallet, not even to help with the tip. This has been going on for years, and my wife always defends him. I have given up trying to fix it.</p>
  236. <p>I&#8217;m writing because my son never fails to criticize the amount of the tip I do leave. I generally leave something in the 15% to 18% range, which he finds offensive. He works in the hospitality industry and insists that 20% is minimum. When I invite him to supplement the tip, he says, &#8220;If you don&#8217;t want to tip appropriately, you shouldn&#8217;t go out to eat.&#8221;</p>
  237. <p>I am a retired teacher. The idea of tipping a waiter $45 for carrying plates for 10 minutes seems ludicrous to me. He says the tips are shared by the whole staff, and they are how they feed their families.<br />
  238. I would love to hear your thoughts, because I&#8217;ve reached the point where I no longer want to go out with the family again. Last time, the bill was $150, to which I added a $28 tip, only to be humiliated and told I was a cheapskate who should be ashamed of myself. &#8212; Fair Dad in Texas</p>
  239. <p><strong>Dear Dad:</strong> The rules of tipping have changed in recent years. What used to be considered adequate in the 15% to 18% range is no longer the norm. Twenty percent or more is standard now. However, for your millionaire son to criticize you about the size of the tip you are leaving (while refusing to supplement it) is beyond rude. He&#8217;s biting the hand that just fed him, and you AND your wife should point it out.</p>
  240. <p><strong>Dear Abby:</strong> I am a single woman who has been dating the same guy for 13 years. Before that, I was married for 35 years. I have NEVER cheated on anyone I have been with. Many of my friends&#8217; male friends (married and single) have hit on me. Maybe it&#8217;s because most people don&#8217;t see my boyfriend and me out and about. When they hit on me, I tell them I&#8217;ll tell their wife or girlfriend. I have a straightforward personality, so most of the guys won&#8217;t go further than that.</p>
  241. <p>The husband in a couple I know builds decks. I hired him to build one for me. I always held him in high regard for his relationship with his wife and how he treated me as a woman and a friend. He was a rare true gentleman. Then, one day while he was here building my deck, he hit on me. I flat-out told him no way, and that I respected his wife and marriage more than he did. Needless to say, I was heartbroken and disappointed.</p>
  242. <p>Abby, he hasn&#8217;t completed work I have paid for, and I really want to defend myself to his wife. Shouldn&#8217;t she be thanking me instead of hating me? How do I handle this? &#8212; Crying Over It in Illinois</p>
  243. <p><strong>Dear Crying:</strong> Handle this by finding someone else to complete your deck project. Take him to small-claims court to have your money refunded &#8212; or go to Judge Judy and let her eviscerate the presumptuous scoundrel.</p>
  244. <p>Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com</p>
  245. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  246. ]]></content:encoded>
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  254. <item>
  255. <title>Protesters leave USC, Northeastern graduation smooth</title>
  256. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/protesters-leave-usc-northeastern-graduation-smooth/</link>
  258. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  259. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 00:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
  260. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
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  263. <category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
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  268.  
  269. <description><![CDATA[Students protesting the war in Gaza abandoned their camp at the University of Southern California early Sunday after being surrounded by police and threatened with arrest, while Northeastern University's commencement ended peacefully at Boston's Fenway Park.]]></description>
  270. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Students protesting the war in Gaza abandoned their camp at the University of Southern California early Sunday after being surrounded by police and threatened with arrest, while Northeastern University&#8217;s commencement ended peacefully at Boston&#8217;s Fenway Park.</p>
  271. <p>Developments in both places were being watched closely following scores of arrests last month — 94 people at USC in Los Angeles and about 100 at Northeastern in Boston.</p>
  272. <p>Dozens of Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived about 4 a.m. at USC to assist campus safety officers. The university had warned of arrests on social media and in person.</p>
  273. <p>Video showed some protesters packing up and leaving, while officers formed lines to push others away from the camp as it emptied out. The university said there were no reports of any arrests.</p>
  274. <p>USC President Carol Folt said it was time to draw a line because &#8220;the occupation was spiraling in a dangerous direction&#8221; with areas of campus blocked and people being harassed.</p>
  275. <p>&#8220;The operation was peaceful,&#8221; Folt wrote in an update. &#8220;Campus is opening, students are returning to prepare for finals, and commencement set-up is in full swing.&#8221;</p>
  276. <p>USC earlier canceled its main graduation ceremony while allowing other commencement activities to continue.</p>
  277. <p>At the Northeastern commencement Sunday, some students waved small Palestinian and Israeli flags, but were outnumbered by those waving the flags of India and the U.S., among others.</p>
  278. <p>Undergraduate student speaker Rebecca Bamidele drew brief cheers when she called for peace in Gaza.</p>
  279. <p>The Associated Press has tallied about 2,500 people arrested at about 50 campuses since April 18, based on its reporting and statements from universities and law enforcement.</p>
  280. <p>Arrests continued apace over the weekend. At the University of Virginia, there were 25 arrests Saturday for trespassing after police clashed with protesters who refused to remove tents. At the Art Institute of Chicago campus, police cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment hours after it was set up Saturday and arrested 68 people, saying they would be charged with criminal trespass.</p>
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  290. <title>Boston Teachers Union president elected to take over statewide AFT-MA teachers union</title>
  291. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/boston-teachers-union-president-elected-to-take-over-statewide-aft-ma-teachers-union/</link>
  293. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Grace Zokovitch]]></dc:creator>
  294. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 00:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
  295. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  296. <category><![CDATA[Local News]]></category>
  297. <category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
  298. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  299. <category><![CDATA[Boston Teachers Union]]></category>
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  304.  
  305. <description><![CDATA[Boston Teachers Union President Jessica Tang was unanimously elected to take over as president of Massachusetts's American Federation of Teachers chapter over the weekend, the statewide union announced in a release, making her the first person of color to hold the role.]]></description>
  306. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boston Teachers Union President Jessica Tang was unanimously elected to take over as president of Massachusetts&#8217;s American Federation of Teachers chapter over the weekend, the statewide union announced in a release, making her the first person of color to hold the role.</p>
  307. <p>&#8220;It’s an honor to represent the 25,000 educators, librarians, health and public service workers from across the commonwealth who make up AFT Massachusetts,&#8221; Tang said. &#8230; &#8220;I look forward to working together with the members of AFT Massachusetts to build our power, not just as AFTMA members, but as a labor movement and in partnership with community allies.&#8221;</p>
  308. <p>The AFT Massachusetts&#8217;s 200 delegates met and elected Tang at the union&#8217;s <a href="https://ma.aft.org/aft-massachusetts-convention/2024-aft-massachusetts-convention">annual convention over the weekend</a>. She will take over for Salem educator Beth Kontos, who served as the AFT-MA president since 2018.</p>
  309. <p>The AFT- MA is the smaller of two statewide teachers union &#8212; behind the 117,000 member Massachusetts Teachers Association &#8212; and has members in districts in Boston, Chelsea, Lowell, Salem and more. Delegates also re-elected Brant Duncan as the union’s Secretary-Treasurer.</p>
  310. <p>Tang, who started out as a middle school social studies teacher in Boston Public Schools, will be the first person of color to hold the AFT-MA presidential position. She has served as the BTU president since 2017 and was also the first person of color, first openly queer person and first woman in over thirty years to serve in the top BTU position.</p>
  311. <p>In her <a href="https://jtang4aftma.com/">campaign for the position</a>, Tang cited priorities including a &#8220;strong presence&#8221; at the State House and in local communities, a &#8220;strong member-driven voice for change&#8221; in partnership with organizations like the MA Education Alliance, and helping locals &#8220;build power internally and externally.&#8221;</p>
  312. <p>The incoming president is a Harvard graduate, a current Vice President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, and co-founded Teacher Activist Group-Boston, Boston Education Justice Alliance and MA Education Justice Alliance.</p>
  313. <p>Tang also serves within many boards and councils, including the United States Commission on Civil Rights Massachusetts State Advisory Council, Citizens for Public Schools, Private Industry Council and the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance.</p>
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  363. <p>Outgoing president Kontos cited &#8220;incredible victories&#8221; in recent years, including passage of the Student Opportunity Act and the Fair Share Amendment, protections throughout the pandemic, and strengthening local contracts.</p>
  364. <p>&#8220;Jessica has been a strong partner to me over the past six years, and her deep commitment to organizing and member voice will help move our growing union forward,&#8221; Kontos said.</p>
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  369. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4865427</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/schoolnl16.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="186048" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ BOSTON MA. OCTOBER 1:Boston Teachers Union president Jessica Tang speaks to the media as she, Mayor Marty Walsh and Superintendent Brenda Cassellius visit the Ellis Elementary School to greet students returning to school for in-person learning. on October 1, 2020 in Boston, MA.  (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  374. <title>Driver dies crashing into White House gates</title>
  375. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/driver-dies-crashing-into-white-house-gates/</link>
  377. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Wilkinson]]></dc:creator>
  378. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 00:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
  379. <category><![CDATA[Crime & Public Safety]]></category>
  380. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  381. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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  383.  
  384. <description><![CDATA[ A driver crashed into the White House gates and died late Saturday night, authorities said.]]></description>
  385. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A driver crashed into the White House gates and died late Saturday night, authorities said.</p>
  386. <p>Police did not release any information about the man behind the wheel, but the Secret Service said there was “no threat to the White House.”</p>
  387. <p>President Joe Biden was not home at the time, according to the Secret Service. He was spending the weekend in Delaware.</p>
  388. <p>Officers responded to 15th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. NW around 10:30 p.m. after a vehicle struck the White House security perimeter gates at a high rate of speed, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a tweet.</p>
  389. <p>“At this time, the incident is being investigated only as a traffic crash by MPD’s Major Crash Investigations Unit,” the department wrote.</p>
  390. <p>Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said security personnel attempted to save the man’s life while implementing standard protocols.</p>
  391. <p>It was the second time in five months that someone drove into the White House gates. In January, a man struck an exterior gate and was arrested by Secret Service agents. Authorities said they were unsure at the time if the man was trying to intentionally attack the building or if the crash was an accident.</p>
  392. <p>About a month before that, a Delaware man crashed into Biden’s motorcade in Wilmington, Del. The driver, identified as 46-year-old James Cooper, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence. Authorities said there was no threat to the president in either incident.</p>
  393. <p>And in May 2023, a man driving a U-Haul slammed into the barriers around Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. The man, 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula, had a Nazi flag in his vehicle and was arrested.<br />
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  395. ©2024 New York Daily News. Visit at nydailynews.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.</p>
  396. <p>&nbsp;</p>
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  406. <title>Keep the umbrellas handy &#8211; you may want one every day this week, NWS says</title>
  407. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/keep-the-umbrellas-handy-you-may-want-one-every-day-this-week-nws-says/</link>
  409. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Medsger]]></dc:creator>
  410. <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 00:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
  411. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  412. <category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
  413. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  414. <category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>
  415. <category><![CDATA[Boston weather]]></category>
  416. <category><![CDATA[national weather service]]></category>
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  418. <category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>
  419. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4865399</guid>
  420.  
  421. <description><![CDATA[The good news is that there won’t be much in the way of gusting wind to bring down power lines or knock your trash cans over, NWS Meteorologist Bryce Williams told the Herald, the bad is that the forecast for each of the next seven days in the Greater Boston region includes some chance of rain and wide swings in the daily temperature.]]></description>
  422. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It would be smart to keep a raincoat or umbrella at hand through much of the week ahead, with rain in the forecast for most of the approaching work days and “roller coaster&#8221; temperatures expected, according to the <a href="https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-71.06092921412409&amp;lat=42.35512949963294">National Weather Service</a>.</p>
  423. <p>The good news is that there won’t be much in the way of gusting wind to bring down power lines or knock your trash cans over, NWS Meteorologist Bryce Williams told the Herald, the bad is that the forecast for each of the next seven days in the Greater Boston region includes some chance of rain and wide swings in the daily temperature.</p>
  424. <p>“This is a temperature roller coaster. We’ve been a bit cool this weekend, and we’re going to see temperatures bumping up into the 70s for many locations tomorrow and Tuesday. Those first two days are going to be the warmest by far and then we’ll start a cooling trend,” Williams said.</p>
  425. <p>Monday will be the driest of the coming days this week, according to the NWS, with just a 30% chance of some precipitation and less than a tenth-of-an-inch expected. Williams said the chance for a few scattered showers will increase through the afternoon and fall again going into the night, when the temperature is expected to drop toward the middle-50s.</p>
  426. <p>“It will be drier than we saw (Sunday), at least,” he said.</p>
  427. <p>Tuesday may feature dry commutes, with most of the 30% chance of rain currently forecast to come in after 5 p.m. The day will be sunny otherwise, according to the NWS, with highs in the mid-70s and overnight lows again in the middle 50s.</p>
  428. <p>It will be cooler Wednesday and “continue to cool a bit each day into the week,” Williams said.</p>
  429. <p>Showers are also more likely on Wednesday, when the weather service is predicting a 70% chance of rain, mainly after 9 a.m. That weather system brings cooler air and leaves temperatures in the mid-to-upper 60s.</p>
  430. <p>The rain should slow after 10 p.m. on Wednesday, NWS forecasts, with overnight lows in the upper-40s.</p>
  431. <p>Rain is expected to return again on Thursday, with a 40% chance of precipitation predicted mostly after noon, according to the NWS. Cloudy skies leave the temperature in the upper-50s or just creeping into the 60s, according to Williams, and overnight lows could fall as low as the middle 40s.</p>
  432. <p>Friday looks about the same as of this point, with another 40% chance of rain called and high temperatures in the upper-50s.</p>
  433. <p>Another weather system heading toward New England could leave both Saturday and Sunday soggy, Williams said.</p>
  434. <p>“Unfortunately, we’ve got periodic chances of rain throughout the week,” Williams said.</p>
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  444. <title>Thousands join Walk for Hunger to fight food insecurity in Massachusetts</title>
  445. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/thousands-join-walk-for-hunger-to-fight-food-insecurity-in-massachusetts/</link>
  447. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Grace Zokovitch]]></dc:creator>
  448. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 23:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
  449. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  450. <category><![CDATA[Local News]]></category>
  451. <category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
  452. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  453. <category><![CDATA[Boston Common]]></category>
  454. <category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>
  455. <category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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  458.  
  459. <description><![CDATA[Project Bread, a food security organization that supports children, families and others experiencing hunger in Massachusetts, aimed to raise $1.3 million through the walk Sunday. The event raised about $900,000 towards the goal as of Sunday evening, a spokesperson said.]]></description>
  460. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over 3,500 people banded together in the Boston Common to raise funds fighting food insecurity in Massachusetts in the 56th annual Walk for Hunger sponsored by Project Bread on Sunday.</p>
  461. <p>&#8220;Every dollar raised and every Walker who participates today makes a huge difference in our year-round work,&#8221; Project Bread CEO Erin McAleer said Sunday. &#8220;It’s a tangible impact.&#8221;</p>
  462. <p>Project Bread, a food security organization that supports children, families and others experiencing hunger in Massachusetts, aimed to raise $1.3 million through the walk Sunday. The event raised about $900,000 towards the goal as of Sunday evening, a spokesperson said.</p>
  463. <p>The walk began in 1969 as the first pledge walk in the nation, the organization said. Walkers wind a three mile route through the Boston Common and the day includes family friendly activities, lawn games, live music from bands What She Said and Bad Bat, and a recipe demonstration from Chef Sherry Hughes.</p>
  464. <p>The Common was packed with families and walkers moving through the route and enjoying the park Sunday.</p>
  465. <p><a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/07/project-breads-walk-for-hunger-returns-to-boston-common/">Last year, the organization</a> aimed to raise $1 million and had over 3,000 people participate in the annual Walk for Hunger.</p>
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  491. <p>Fundraising will continue through the summer on <a href="https://projectbread.org/walk-for-hunger/about">projectbread.org/walk</a>, the organization said.</p>
  492. <p>&#8220;We need the public’s support to help us make a difference for the 1 in 5 families with kids who are worrying about putting food on the table,&#8221; said McAleer.</p>
  493. <figure id="attachment_4865303"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="440px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Thousands walk around the Boston Common in support of Project Bread's 56th annual Walk for Hunger fundraiser. (Libby O'Neill/Boston Herald)" width="6240" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4865303" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hungerlo01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Thousands walk around the Boston Common in support of Project Bread&#8217;s 56th annual Walk for Hunger fundraiser. (Libby O&#8217;Neill/Boston Herald)</figcaption></figure>
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  504. <title>Cease fire talks crash</title>
  505. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/cease-fire-talks-crash/</link>
  507. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  508. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 23:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
  509. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  510. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  511. <category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
  512. <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
  513. <category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
  514. <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
  515. <category><![CDATA[Israel-Hamas war]]></category>
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  518. <description><![CDATA[The latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks ended in Cairo after "in-depth and serious discussions," the Hamas militant group said Sunday, reiterating key demands that Israel again rejected. ]]></description>
  519. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JERUSALEM — The latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks ended in Cairo after &#8220;in-depth and serious discussions,&#8221; the Hamas militant group said Sunday, reiterating key demands that Israel again rejected.</p>
  520. <p>After earlier signs of progress, the outlook appeared to dim as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to resist international pressure to halt the war.</p>
  521. <p>Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed Hamas wasn&#8217;t serious about a deal and warned of &#8220;a powerful operation in the very near future in Rafah and other places across all of Gaza &#8221; after Hamas attacked Israel&#8217;s main crossing point for delivering badly needed humanitarian aid, killing three soldiers.</p>
  522. <p>Israel&#8217;s military said it believed Hamas was targeting soldiers massed on the Gaza border in preparation for a possible Rafah invasion. Hamas said it targeted soldiers in the area.</p>
  523. <p>But Israeli media reported that CIA chief William Burns, a main mediator in the talks, would meet with Netanyahu on Monday. An official familiar with the matter said  that Burns was traveling to meet the prime minister of Qatar, which along with Egypt has been an intermediary dealing with Hamas.</p>
  524. <p>It was not clear whether a subsequent trip to Israel that had been planned would happen. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door negotiations.</p>
  525. <p>Israel didn&#8217;t send a delegation to the latest talks. Egyptian state media reported that the Hamas delegation went for discussions in Qatar, where the group has a political office, and will return to Cairo for further negotiations on Tuesday.</p>
  526. <p>Another threat to talks came as Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar&#8217;s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close, accusing it of broadcasting anti-Israel incitement. The ban did not appear to affect the channel&#8217;s operations in Gaza or the West Bank.</p>
  527. <p>Netanyahu, under pressure from hard-liners in his government, continued to lower expectations for a cease-fire deal, calling the key Hamas demands &#8220;extreme&#8221; — including the withdrawal of Israel forces from Gaza and an end to the war. That would equal surrender after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that triggered the fighting, he said.</p>
  528. <p>Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a statement earlier said the militant group was serious and positive about the negotiations and that stopping Israeli aggression in Gaza is the main priority.</p>
  529. <p>But Israel&#8217;s government again vowed to press on with a military operation in Rafah, the southernmost Gaza city on the border with Egypt where more than half of Gaza&#8217;s 2.3 million residents now seek shelter from Israeli attacks. Rafah is a key entry point for aid.</p>
  530. <p>Kerem Shalom, now closed, is another. The Israeli military reported 10 projectiles were launched at the crossing in southern Israel and said its fighter jets later struck the source. Israel&#8217;s Channel 12 TV channel said 10 soldiers remained hospitalized. It was unclear how long the crossing would be closed.</p>
  531. <p>The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, called for an independent investigation and &#8220;accountability for the blatant disregard of humanitarian workers.&#8221;</p>
  532. <p>He also said Israel this week denied him entry to Gaza for a second time.</p>
  533. <p>The closing of Kerem Shalom came shortly after the head of the U.N. World Food Program asserted &#8220;full-blown famine&#8221; in devastated northern Gaza, one of the most prominent warnings yet of the toll of restrictions on aid entering the territory. It was not a formal famine declaration.</p>
  534. <p>In the full NBC interview, WFP chief Cindy McCain said famine was &#8220;moving its way south&#8221; in Gaza and that Israel&#8217;s efforts to allow in more aid were not enough. &#8220;We have right now a mass on the outside border, about enough trucks and enough food for 1.1 million people for about three months. We need to get that in,&#8221; she said.</p>
  535. <p>Gaza&#8217;s vast humanitarian needs put pressure on cease-fire talks. The proposal that Egyptian mediators put to Hamas sets out a three-stage process that would bring an immediate, six-week cease-fire and partial release of Israeli hostages taken on Oct. 7, and would include some sort of Israeli pullout. The initial stage would last for 40 days. Hamas would start by releasing female civilian hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.</p>
  536. <p>Netanyahu claimed that Israel has shown willingness to make concessions but &#8220;will continue fighting until all of its objectives are achieved.&#8221; That includes the stated aim of crushing Hamas. Israel says it must target Rafah to strike remaining fighters there despite warnings from the U.S. and others about the danger to civilians.</p>
  537. <p>In a fiery speech for Israel&#8217;s annual Holocaust memorial day, Netanyahu added: &#8220;I say to the leaders of the world, no amount of pressure, no decision by any international forum will stop Israel from defending itself.&#8221;</p>
  538. <p>An Israeli strike Sunday on a house in an urban refugee camp near Rafah killed four children, including a baby, and two adults, all from the same family, according to Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital.</p>
  539. <p>Another Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least five people, according to Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies. Israel&#8217;s military said it struck a Hamas command center in central Gaza. It didn&#8217;t mention casualties.</p>
  540. <figure id="attachment_4865457"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="440px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2024. (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)" width="3661" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4865457" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1906249905.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads a cabinet meeting at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv in January. (Photo by Ronen Zvulun/AFP via Getty Images, File)</figcaption></figure>
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  550. <title>The bats awaken: Red Sox score 9 to avoid sweep, snap Twins&#8217; 12-game win streak</title>
  551. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/red-sox-beat-twins-9-runs-devers-rafaela-duran-grissom-cora/</link>
  553. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabrielle Starr]]></dc:creator>
  554. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 23:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
  555. <category><![CDATA[Boston Red Sox]]></category>
  556. <category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>
  557. <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
  558. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4865374</guid>
  559.  
  560. <description><![CDATA[After losing three in a row, the Red Sox put up nine runs on 11 hits, including homers by Ceddanne Rafaela and Rafael Devers, to avoid being swept by the Minnesota Twins and ending their 12-game win streak. ]]></description>
  561. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MINNEAPOLIS – The last time the Red Sox faced Twins starting pitcher Joe Ryan in Minnesota, he tossed a complete-game shutout.</p>
  562. <p>As such, the laws of cosmic balance in the universe dictated a much-needed big day for the Boston bats. After a three-game losing streak in which they scored no more than two runs in any contest and a six-game stretch without a home run, the Red Sox erupted for nine runs on 11 hits. The 9-2 victory was their 19th win of the season, and snapped the Twins&#8217; win streak at 12 games, their longest since 1980.</p>
  563. <p>“I’m very happy for this one,” a thrilled Alex Cora said postgame. “We did a good job, man. This one, that was a cool win, let’s put it that way.”</p>
  564. <p>Ryan was perfect through the first three innings in Sunday’s series finale.</p>
  565. <p>And then, he wasn’t. Trailing 1-0 in the fourth, Jarren Duran got the hit parade started with a leadoff double and advanced to third on Rafael Devers’ first-pitch groundout. Rob Refsnyder brought an end to 11 consecutive scoreless innings with a line drive, which deflected off Carlos Correa’s glove and into the left-field corner. Duran scored the tying run easily, and Refsnyder slid into second with a double.</p>
  566. <p>(Refsnyder exited the game after the fifth with hamstring tightness, but both he and Alex Cora described the situation as &#8220;precautionary.&#8221;)</p>
  567. <p>In the following frame, Reese McGuire singled and advanced to second on an error by the third baseman. He was caught stealing third, but the Red Sox successfully challenged, so when Ceddanne Rafaela stepped up to the plate and hit the team’s first home run since their 17-0 victory on April 27, they took a 3-1 lead.</p>
  568. <p>“Reese, he almost gave me a heart attack when he took it to third, but he was safe. I don’t know how,&#8221; Cora said.</p>
  569. <p>Ryan&#8217;s start lasted six innings. He exited charged with three runs on six hits, one walk, and five strikeouts, but his replacement, Kody Funderburk, would fare worse. After getting the Red Sox to strand McGuire, who&#8217;d singled again in the top of the seventh, Funderburk faced eight Boston batters in the eighth. The Twins reliever got Duran to ground out sharply, then gave up a single to Devers, a pinch-hit double to Tyler O’Neill to put both men in scoring position, and walked Wilyer Abreu to load the bases.</p>
  570. <p>Sunday was only Vaughn Grissom&#8217;s second game in a Red Sox uniform after a groin strain cost him the entire slate of spring training games and the entire first month of the regular season. The already-lean infielder was slated to debut against the San Francisco Giants earlier in the week, then got the flu and lost 14 pounds. He&#8217;s been trying to regain the weight by eating more and drinking shakes, but after a big breakfast on Sunday morning, he threw up on the field before the game.</p>
  571. <p>&#8220;Yeah, first time for that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Stuck through it and just fought it out.&#8221;</p>
  572. <p>Grissom&#8217;s perseverance was rewarded in the eighth. He doubled high off the centerfield wall for his first career Red Sox hit, driving in a pair and giving Boston some much-needed insurance.</p>
  573. <p>Unsure if he had a grand slam or just extra bases, he gently flipped his bat before taking off down the first-base line.</p>
  574. <p>&#8220;It was like, a hopeful pimp,&#8221; he explained, referring to the style of reacting to a home run. &#8220;It was like an &#8216;About time something&#8217;s gotten down&#8217; pimp, you know? There&#8217;s two types of pimps, in my opinion. One where you know it and you stay in the box and you&#8217;re like, heck yeah, and then the other one where you hit it and you&#8217;re like, &#8216;yeah finally&#8217; and then you run really fast. That was the one I chose.&#8221;</p>
  575. <p>The 23-year-old infielder would&#8217;ve had a grand slam in Cincinnati, Detroit, Houston, the Bronx, Philadelphia, or Toronto, but the Sox got those additional two runs in anyway when Dom Smith skied one to left and Manuel Margot wasn’t able to make the catch in the afternoon sunlight. It was oddly fitting for the date: On May 5, 2018, then-Sox closer Craig Kimbrel became the youngest and fastest pitcher to join MLB&#8217;s 300 Saves Club. Margot had been one of the Red Sox prospects sent to the Padres in the November 2015 trade.</p>
  576. <p>The Sox offense&#8217;s big day was complemented by another strong pitching performance by Cooper Criswell, who dominated in his fourth start. Though he wasn’t able to extend his streak of starts of five shutout innings to three, he held the Twins to one earned run over 4 ⅓ innings, giving up five hits, one walk, and striking out five. The lone blemish on his outing was a solo homer by Ryan Jeffers, which gave the Twins a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third.</p>
  577. <p>The right-hander showed impressive mettle in the bottom of the second, when he began the frame by giving up three consecutive singles to load the bases, then got back to back strikeouts and a dribbling force-out to strand everyone.</p>
  578. <p>&#8220;In the moment (I) was trying to get a ground-ball double-play, and then once you get to two strikes, try go get a swing-and miss pitch,&#8221; Criswell said. The usually soft-spoken, mellow right-hander walked off the mound considerably more animated than usual, leading to some lighthearted teasing in the dugout.</p>
  579. <p>“I was pretty pumped,&#8221; he said, smiling. “Some of the guys were joking around, saying that I looked like one of those car dealership, the inflatable things, running around.”</p>
  580. <p>If not for the lengthy second inning, which pushed the Sox starter&#8217;s pitch count to 35, he might have gone a full five. But after the righty gave up a leadoff double to Carlos Santana and got the first out, Alex Cora called upon Saturday&#8217;s opener, Brennan Bernardino, and he quickly got the last two outs. Zack Kelly, Cam Booser, Josh Winckowski, and Kenley Jansen pitched the rest of the way.</p>
  581. <p>“Tough weekend with basically three bullpen games in four games,&#8221; Cora said. &#8220;Some guys became big-leaguers this weekend&#8230; Coop did an outstanding job. Berny opened yesterday, came in today in a big spot, did an outstanding job. (Booser) did the same thing.”</p>
  582. <p>Before Jansen took the mound for the bottom of the ninth, the lineup gave him one last boost. Duran lined a one-out triple to the right-field corner, becoming the first player with at least five triples in the team&#8217;s first 35 games of a season since Ellis Burks in 1989. Boston&#8217;s leadoff man was able to stroll home seconds later when Devers torched his fourth home run of the season, a 407-footer that blazed off the bat at a cool 108.7 mph.</p>
  583. <p>&#8220;I was joking with the guys – we got a bunch of new coaches – I’m like, Raffy never leaves Minnesota without hitting a homer,&#8221; Cora said.</p>
  584. <p>“These are the cool ones. I know we lost two out of three, but we played good baseball throughout,&#8221; the Sox skipper added. &#8220;As a manager, these are very gratifying because you use everybody. You start planning Sunday on Saturday midway through the game, and how are we gonna accomplish this? Losing two out of three sucks here, but winning this one is very gratifying. It took a total team effort.&#8221;</p>
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  594. <title>&#8216;The Fall Guy&#8217; stumbles to lukewarm open</title>
  595. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/the-fall-guy-stumbles-to-lukewarm-open/</link>
  597. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  598. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 22:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
  599. <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
  600. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  601. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  602. <category><![CDATA[Box Office]]></category>
  603. <category><![CDATA[Emily Blunt]]></category>
  604. <category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
  605. <category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
  606. <category><![CDATA[Ryan Gosling]]></category>
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  608.  
  609. <description><![CDATA["The Fall Guy," the Ryan Gosling-led, action-comedy ode to stunt performers, opened below expectations with $28.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, providing a lukewarm start to a summer movie season that's very much to be determined for Hollywood.]]></description>
  610. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NEW YORK  — &#8220;The Fall Guy,&#8221; the Ryan Gosling-led, action-comedy ode to stunt performers, opened below expectations with $28.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, providing a lukewarm start to a summer movie season that&#8217;s very much to be determined for Hollywood.</p>
  611. <p>The Universal Pictures release opened on a weekend that Marvel has regularly dominated with $100 million-plus launches. (In 2023, that was &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3&#8221; with a $118 million debut. ) But last year&#8217;s strikes jumbled this year&#8217;s movie calendar; &#8220;Deadpool &amp; Wolverine,&#8221; originally slated to open this weekend, is instead debuting in July.</p>
  612. <p>So in place of a superhero kickoff, the summer launch went to a movie about the stunt performers who anonymously sacrifice their bodies for the kind of action sequences blockbusters are built on. Going into the weekend, forecasts had the film opening $30 million to $40 million.</p>
  613. <p>&#8220;The Fall Guy,&#8221; directed by former stuntman and &#8220;Deadpool 2&#8221; helmer David Leitch, rode into the weekend with the momentum of glowing reviews and the buzz of a SXSW premiere. But it will need sustained interest to merit its $130 million production budget. It added $25.4 million in overseas markets.</p>
  614. <p>Working in its favor for a long run: strong audience scores (an &#8220;A-&#8221; CinemaScore) and good reviews (83% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). Jim Orr, distribution chief for Universal, believes things line up well for &#8220;The Fall Guy&#8221; in the coming weeks.</p>
  615. <p>&#8220;We had a very solid opening,&#8221; said Orr. &#8220;We&#8217;re looking forward to a very long, very robust, very successful run throughout the domestic box office for literally weeks if not months to come.&#8221;</p>
  616. <p>But the modest start for &#8220;The Fall Guy&#8221; hints at larger concerns for the film industry. Superhero films haven&#8217;t been quite the box-office behemoth they once were, leading studios to search for fresher alternative. &#8220;The Fall Guy&#8221; seemed to check all the boxes, with extravagant action sequences, one of the hottest stars in the business, a director with a track-record for crowd pleasers and very good reviews.</p>
  617. <p>But instead, the opening for &#8220;The Fall Guy,&#8221; loosely based on the 1980s TV series, only emphasized that the movie business is likely to struggle to rekindle the fervor of last year&#8217;s &#8220;Barbenheimer&#8221; summer. &#8220;The Fall Guy&#8221; stars one from each: Gosling, in his first post-Ken role, and Emily Blunt, of &#8220;Oppenheimer.&#8221; Both were Oscar nominated.</p>
  618. <p>&#8220;The summer season is just getting started, so let&#8217;s give &#8216;The Fall Guy&#8217; a chance to build that momentum over time. It&#8217;s a different type of summer kickoff film,&#8221; said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore. &#8220;There&#8217;s always huge expectations placed on any film that kicks off the summer movie season, but this isn&#8217;t your typical summer movie season.&#8221;</p>
  619. ]]></content:encoded>
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  627. <item>
  628. <title>Israel shutters local Al Jazeera</title>
  629. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/israel-shutters-local-al-jazeera/</link>
  631. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  632. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 22:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
  633. <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
  634. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  635. <category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
  636. <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
  637. <category><![CDATA[Israel-Hamas war]]></category>
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  640. <description><![CDATA[Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance.]]></description>
  641. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar&#8217;s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance.</p>
  642. <p>The extraordinary order, which includes confiscating broadcast equipment, preventing the broadcast of the channel&#8217;s reports and blocking its websites, is believed to be the first time Israel has ever shuttered a foreign news outlet operating in the country.</p>
  643. <p>Al Jazeera went off Israel&#8217;s main cable and satellite providers in the hours after the order. However, its website and multiple online streaming links still operated Sunday.</p>
  644. <p>The network has reported the Israeli-Hamas war nonstop since the militants&#8217; initial cross-border attack Oct. 7 and has maintained 24-hour coverage in the Gaza Strip amid Israel&#8217;s grinding ground offensive that has killed and wounded members of its staff. While including on-the-ground reporting of the war&#8217;s casualties, its Arabic arm often publishes verbatim video statements from Hamas and other regional militant groups.</p>
  645. <p>&#8220;Al Jazeera reporters harmed Israel&#8217;s security and incited against soldiers,&#8221; Netanyahu said in a statement. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to remove the Hamas mouthpiece from our country.&#8221;</p>
  646. <p>Al Jazeera issued a statement vowing it will &#8220;pursue all available legal channels through international legal institutions in its quest to protect both its rights and journalists, as well as the public&#8217;s right to information.&#8221;</p>
  647. <p>&#8220;Israel&#8217;s ongoing suppression of the free press, seen as an effort to conceal its actions in the Gaza Strip, stands in contravention of international and humanitarian law,&#8221; the network said. &#8220;Israel&#8217;s direct targeting and killing of journalists, arrests, intimidation and threats will not deter Al Jazeera.&#8221;</p>
  648. <p>The Israeli government has taken action against individual reporters over the decades since its founding in 1948, but broadly allows for a rambunctious media scene that includes foreign bureaus from around the world, even from Arab nations. It also blocked the foreign broadcasts of the Hezbollah-affiliated, Beirut-based Al Mayadeen news channel at the start of the war.</p>
  649. <p>A law passed last month allows the government to take action against Al Jazeera, Netanyahu&#8217;s office said.</p>
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  654. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4865403</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24126583663060.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="221105" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Al Jazeera broadcast engineer Mohammad Salameh works at the Master Control Room unit inside the network&#039;s office in the West Bank city of Ramallah Sunday, May 5, 2024. Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar&#039;s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#039;s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance. ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  659. <title>Ticker: Warren Buffett warns on AI scams; Feds loosen some EV rules</title>
  660. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/ticker-warren-buffett-warns-on-ai-scams-feds-loosen-some-ev-rules/</link>
  662. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Boston Herald Wire Services]]></dc:creator>
  663. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 21:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
  664. <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
  665. <category><![CDATA[Local News]]></category>
  666. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  667. <category><![CDATA[electric vehicles]]></category>
  668. <category><![CDATA[Income taxes]]></category>
  669. <category><![CDATA[Warren Buffett]]></category>
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  671.  
  672. <description><![CDATA[Warren Buffett has come face to face with the downside of AI. And it looks just like him. ]]></description>
  673. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Warren Buffett has come face to face with the downside of AI. And it looks just like him.</p>
  674. <p>The billionaire investing guru told tens of thousands of shareholders at his annual conference in Omaha that he recently saw an AI video of himself, complete with a perfect voiceover, giving fake advice. It was so convincing, he says, he can see how people would fall for the scam.</p>
  675. <p>“As someone who doesn&#8217;t understand a damn thing about it, it has enormous potential for good and enormous potential for harm and I just don’t know how that plays out,” he said.</p>
  676. <p>Buffett spent all day Saturday answering shareholder questions at his first annual meeting since Vice Chairman Charlie Munger died. The absence offered shareholders the chance to hear more from the next generation of leaders who will take over after Buffett is gone.</p>
  677. <h4>Feds loosen some EV rules</h4>
  678. <p>West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says new rules governing electric vehicle tax credits are a giveaway to China.</p>
  679. <p>Manchin, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said that exemptions in the new rules effectively endorse the idea that EVs will be &#8220;made in China.”</p>
  680. <p>The comments came as the Treasury Department loosened some rules governing EV tax credits a bit, potentially making more EVs eligible for credits of up to $7,500.</p>
  681. <p>The rules are aimed at juicing demand for EVs in an effort to reach a Biden administration goal that half of all new vehicle sales be electric by 2030.</p>
  682. <p>This year the credits are available at the time a vehicle is purchased from an authorized dealer rather than waiting for an income tax refund.</p>
  683. ]]></content:encoded>
  687. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4865393</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124695184782.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="398547" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Berkshire Hathaway shareholders pose with a cutout poster of CEO Warren Buffett Friday, May 3, 2024, in Omaha, Neb.,  inside the exhibit hall in Omaha where Berkshire companies sell their products. Buffett will spend hours answering questions at the meeting Saturday. (AP Photo/Josh Funk) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  692. <title>Karen Read murder trial so far: Opposing recollections presented in testimony</title>
  693. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/karen-read-murder-trial-so-far-opposing-recollections-presented-in-testimony/</link>
  695. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Flint McColgan]]></dc:creator>
  696. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 20:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
  697. <category><![CDATA[Crime & Public Safety]]></category>
  698. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  699. <category><![CDATA[Local News]]></category>
  700. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  701. <category><![CDATA[Karen Read]]></category>
  702. <category><![CDATA[Keywee]]></category>
  703. <category><![CDATA[Murder]]></category>
  704. <category><![CDATA[Norfolk County]]></category>
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  706.  
  707. <description><![CDATA[The first week of the murder trial of Karen Read was dominated by first responders to the scene where Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe lay dead or dying on the front lawn of a Canton home.]]></description>
  708. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first week of the <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/20/karen-read-case-the-theories-of-a-canton-murder/">murder trial of Karen Read</a> was dominated by first responders to the scene where Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe lay dead or dying on the front lawn of a Canton home.</p>
  709. <p>“She kept saying, ‘This is all my fault. This is my fault. I did this,’” Canton Police Officer Steven Saraf <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/29/karen-read-murder-case-opening-arguments-underway/">said during his testimony</a>.</p>
  710. <p>Saraf was the first authority at the scene at around 6 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2022, when he said he saw three women — Read among them — surrounding a still body toward the flagpole on the left-hand side of the front yard of 34 Fairview Road in Canton.</p>
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  772. <p>In all, 12 people testified in the first four days of the <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/29/karen-read-murder-case-opening-arguments-underway/">trial that began April 29</a> in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham. Testimony began with O’Keefe’s younger brother Paul O’Keefe and his wife Erin O’Keefe before then running through the testimonies of the first two Canton cops at the scene and eight Canton Fire Department paramedics.</p>
  773. <p>First on the stand was Paul O’Keefe, whose voice broke as he described the injuries to his brother’s face when he saw him at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton that morning.</p>
  774. <p>John O’Keefe was “pretty banged up,” Paul O’Keefe said. “What really stood out to me were his eyes. It looked like there were ping pong balls under his lids, they were that swollen.”</p>
  775. <p>Erin O’Keefe took the stand next. Both of them testified that they had a fine relationship with Read and Erin O’Keefe even said that Read had expressed an interest in remaining friends if she and O&#8217;Keefe were ever to break up.</p>
  776. <h4>Openings</h4>
  777. <p>Read, 44, of Mansfield, was indicted June 9, 2022, on charges of second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter and leaving the scene of a collision causing death.</p>
  778. <p>In <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/29/karen-read-murder-case-opening-arguments-underway/">opening arguments</a>, prosecutor Adam Lally and defense attorney David Yannetti laid out differing accounts of what happened.</p>
  779. <p>Lally said that Read struck O’Keefe with her Lexus SUV in front of the Canton home following a drunken argument and a night out together — with others who were waiting for the couple in the home — at two Canton bars. He said the couple’s relationship had been mired in fighting and jealousy for at least a month before O’Keefe died.</p>
  780. <p>Lally closed his opening with a description of the hard evidence he intends to introduce: pieces of Read’s Lexus’ broken tail light, which he said broke when Read smashed into O’Keefe in reverse at more than 20 mph; as well as shards of a cocktail glass, much like the one O’Keefe was seen walking out of the bar with, embedded in her vehicle’s bumper.</p>
  781. <p>Jurors <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/03/karen-read-murder-trial-day-4-will-include-canton-crime-scene-visit/">viewed the house and the Lexus</a> on Friday.</p>
  782. <p>Yannetti countered in his own opening that evidence was planted there and that jurors will learn it wasn’t there at the initial walk-through of the scene. He promised that jurors would quickly come to question the “shoddy and biased investigation.”</p>
  783. <p>“Karen Read was framed. Her car never struck John O’Keefe. She did not cause his death, and that means that somebody else did,” Yannetti said at the start.</p>
  784. <h4>Utterances at the scene</h4>
  785. <p>All the first responders who have testified so far described Read that night in the same way: hysterical and, as Canton Fire Lt. Gregory <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/03/karen-read-murder-trial-day-4-will-include-canton-crime-scene-visit/">Woodbury described her on Friday</a>, “obviously experiencing a lot of emotions.”</p>
  786. <p>But it was her utterances at the scene where testimonies differed.</p>
  787. <p>Several witnesses shared Saraf’s recollection that Read made incriminating, responsibility-taking statements as she paced around O’Keefe’s body that morning.</p>
  788. <p>Paramedic Timothy Nuttall on Tuesday said that <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/30/karen-read-murder-trial-day-two/">he heard Read repeatedly state, “I hit him.”</a> Lead paramedic at the scene Anthony <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/02/karen-read-murder-trial-day-3-set-to-begin/">Flematti testified on Thursday</a> that he heard the same thing.</p>
  789. <p>So, too, did paramedic Katie McLaughlin, <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/02/karen-read-murder-trial-day-3-set-to-begin/">who testified of her encounter with Read: “She said ‘I hit him.’”</a></p>
  790. <p>But others recalled Read making less-incriminating statements. Canton Fire Lt. Francis Walsh testified Thursday that <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/02/karen-read-murder-trial-day-3-set-to-begin/">Read was “screaming and crying” and repeatedly asking, “Is he alive?”</a></p>
  791. <p>Similarly, paramedic Matthew Kelly testified that <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/02/karen-read-murder-trial-day-3-set-to-begin/">he heard Read screaming, “He’s dead. He’s (expletive) dead!”</a></p>
  792. <p>Woodbury was one of the paramedics who also responded to<a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/03/karen-read-murder-trial-day-4-will-include-canton-crime-scene-visit/"> a call later that morning to “Section 12” Read</a>, which meant that police identified her as being in a condition where she could be a danger to herself or others.</p>
  793. <p>“She kept repeating ‘Is he dead? Is he dead?’” <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/03/karen-read-murder-trial-day-4-will-include-canton-crime-scene-visit/">he testified</a>, adding that she kept referring to O’Keefe as her “husband.”</p>
  794. <p>Paramedic Daniel Whitley, also on the Section 12 call, <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/03/karen-read-murder-trial-day-4-will-include-canton-crime-scene-visit/">testified that “She said, ‘I don’t want to live anymore if my husband dies.&#8217;”</a></p>
  795. <p>Defense attorneys Yannetti and Alan Jackson questioned the accuracy of the memories of several of the first responders and presented evidence that their stories had either changed or that they had misremembered something else about the night — like the clothes O’Keefe was wearing — that would undermine the witness’ recollection of the utterances.</p>
  796. <p>But the most fraught cross-examination so far in the trial was Jackson’s cross of McLaughlin.</p>
  797. <p>Jackson presented photos that indicate McLaughlin was friends with Caitlin Albert, the daughter of Brian Albert, then-owner of the 34 Fairview Road, and the principal figure in the defense’s theory of someone else killing O’Keefe and framing Read.</p>
  798. <p>Judge Beverly Cannone did not allow the photos or social media friends list to be presented to the jury, but Jackson was still able to question McLaughlin about it. McLaughlin said she was merely an “acquaintance” of Caitlin Albert’s and that they weren’t actual “friends.”</p>
  799. <p>The trial is set to resume on Monday.</p>
  800. <figure id="attachment_4865358"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="440px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Karen Read whispers to attorney Alan Jackson in court after recess at Norfolk County Superior Court in Dedham, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Read is charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. (David McGlynn/New York Post via AP, Pool)" width="6048" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4865358" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AP24124022958437.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Karen Read whispers to attorney Alan Jackson in court after recess at Norfolk County Superior Court in Dedham, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Read is charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. (David McGlynn/New York Post via AP, Pool)</figcaption></figure>
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  812. <title>Bruins move on to round two against the Florida Panthers</title>
  813. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/bruins-move-on-to-round-two-against-the-florida-panthers/</link>
  815. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rich Thompson]]></dc:creator>
  816. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 20:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
  817. <category><![CDATA[Boston Bruins]]></category>
  818. <category><![CDATA[NHL]]></category>
  819. <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
  820. <category><![CDATA[Florida Panthers]]></category>
  821. <category><![CDATA[Stanley Cup Playoffs]]></category>
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  824. <description><![CDATA[The Bruins will begin their payback campaign against the Panthers on Monday night (8) at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla.]]></description>
  825. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BEDFORD – The Boston Bruins experienced sensations of gratification and relief following Saturday night’s 2-1 overtime victory against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 7 at the TD Garden.</p>
  826. <p>The Bruins are happy to be advancing to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with the opportunity to right an old wrong against the Florida Panthers.</p>
  827. <p>The Bruins set NHL regular season records for wins (65) and points (135) last year but were eliminated by the Panthers in the opening round of the playoffs. The Bruins built a 3-1 series lead but were beaten 4-3 in overtime in Game 7 on April 30 at the Garden. The Bruins will begin their payback campaign against the Panthers on Monday night (8) at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla.</p>
  828. <p>The Bruins were in a similar situation after building a 3-1 series lead against the Maple Leafs before dropping the next two games. The Bruins narrowly avoided becoming the only team of the four major American sports leagues to build a 3-1 lead and lose a playoff series in consecutive years.</p>
  829. <p>Goaltender Jeremy Swayman recorded 30 saves and sniper David Pastrnak scored the game-winner at 1:54 of overtime.</p>
  830. <p>“I am very proud of the group overall,” said Bruins general manager Don Sweeney, prior to the team’s departure from Hanscom Field on Sunday. “Our series certainly tightened up from a goal-scoring standpoint in all situations. We knew it was going to be about trying to persevere and find that one more play with this group and fortunately we were able to do that.</p>
  831. <p>“To a man, each guy went out and did their job and I thought our start was so much better than in (Games) 5 and 6 which didn’t translate into a lead. We were playing from behind but we found a way. Congratulations to our group, they earned it.”</p>
  832. <p>Sweeney said the turnover of leadership in the locker room and the addition of so many new players to the roster makes last year’s loss to the Panthers marginally a non-issue. The Bruins were 4-0 against the Panthers this season that included two overtime thrillers.</p>
  833. <p>“We know the opponent and we will be prepared for it and we get the opportunity to fly south today,” said Sweeney.</p>
  834. <p>The major decision facing Bruins’ coach Jim Montgomery will be to stay with Swayman in Game 1 or platoon the position with Linus Ullmark, the 2023 Vezina Trophy winner. Swayman made six starts against the Leafs with four wins and leads all remaining goaltenders in save percentage (9.50) and goals against average (1.49). Ullmark has a history of success against the Panthers but he did not fare well against them in last year’s playoffs.</p>
  835. <p>“It’s been a strength of our team,” said Sweeney. “Jeremy got momentum on his side and ran with it. We had spoken about that and we had a plan in place. We will put both players in the best possible situation that we can to help our team win and move forward.”</p>
  836. <h4>Selke sensation</h4>
  837. <p>The Florida Panthers have a Patrice Bergeron impersonator on their roster and his name in Aleksander Barkov.</p>
  838. <p>The NHL announced on Sunday that Barkov, Toronto’s Auston Matthews and Carolina’s Jordan Staal were the three finalists of the Selke Trophy, an award given annually to league’s best all-around player. Like Bergeron, all three play the center position.</p>
  839. <p>Barkov won the Selke in 2021 and has been a finalist in three of the last four seasons. Bergeron captured the Selke a record six times including the last two seasons before his retirement from the league in 2023.</p>
  840. <p>Barkov posted some very Bergeron type Selke numbers this season. The Panthers captain took 1,100 face offs with a win rate of 57.3% and was fifth among NHL forwards with a plus 33. He scored 23 goals with 57 assists in 73 regular season games with two goals and three assists in the playoffs.</p>
  841. <p>“He is a hell of a player and perhaps had Patrice not been playing he would have won (more),” said Sweeney. “It is a credit to him as a hockey player and he is leader of their hockey club and we have to respect the opponent.”</p>
  842. <p>In a related Panthers’ item, coach Paul Maurice has ruled out center Sam Bennett for Game 1 against the Bruins. Bennett sustained a hand/wrist injury in Game 2 of the Panthers opening round series with Tampa Bay.</p>
  843. <h4>Cup runneth over</h4>
  844. <p>Veteran right-wing Pat Maroon, 35, was one of Sweeney’s roster additions and he came to Boston with a wealth of Stanley Cup experience. Maroon was with the St. Louis Blues when they knocked off the Bruins in Game 7 of the 2019 Stanley Cup final. He moved on to Tampa Bay where he won consecutive championships in 2020 and 2021.</p>
  845. <p>“It is the hardest trophy to win,” said Maroon. “You can’t be too high and you can’t be too low, you have to be even and keep finding ways and keep battling through momentum shifts.”</p>
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  850. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4865311</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/0505-NWS-BHR-L-BRUINSsc028.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="248348" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Boston Bruins right wing David Pastrnak (88) shoots his game winning overtime goal on Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Ilya Samsonov (35) as the Bruins take on the Maple Leafs in game 7 of the first round of NHL playoffs at the Garden on May 4. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  855. <title>Red Sox lineup: Devers at DH, Short at third base in Twins finale</title>
  856. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/red-sox-lineup-twins-target-field-devers-ryan-criswell-minnesota-how-to-watch-streaming/</link>
  858. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabrielle Starr]]></dc:creator>
  859. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 17:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
  860. <category><![CDATA[Boston Red Sox]]></category>
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  862. <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
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  865. <description><![CDATA[Rafael Devers is the designated hitter for Sunday's series finale between the Red Sox and Twins in Minnesota. Tyler O'Neill has the day off, and Vaughn Grissom is back in the lineup and playing second.]]></description>
  866. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MINNEAPOLIS – After dropping the first two games of the series 5-2 on Friday night and 3-1 on Saturday, the Red Sox will try to salvage the weekend and avoid getting swept by the Twins on Saturday afternoon in Minnesota.</p>
  867. <p>The Twins come into the series finale on a 12-game winning streak, the club&#8217;s longest since 1980, and are starting Joe Ryan, who threw a complete-game shutout against the Red Sox at Target Field last June 22.</p>
  868. <p>Cooper Criswell (1.29 ERA, three starts) will start for Boston. He&#8217;s thrown five scoreless innings in each of his last two starts. The Red Sox rotation continues to lead the Majors with a 2.12 ERA, and rank third in WHIP (1.02) and opponent average (.209).</p>
  869. <p>It&#8217;s a scheduled day off for Tyler O&#8217;Neill. Vaughn Grissom, who had Saturday off, is back in the lineup and playing second base. Zack Short will cover third while Rafael Devers spends the afternoon as the designated hitter.</p>
  870. <p>The Red Sox entered Sunday with MLB&#8217;s eighth-best run differential (+34), but have been out-scored 11-4 over their last three games. They&#8217;re also on a six-game homer-less streak, their longest since April 2022.</p>
  871. <h4>Red Sox lineup (May 5)</h4>
  872. <p>Jarren Duran CF</p>
  873. <p>Rafael Devers DH</p>
  874. <p>Rob Refsnyder LF</p>
  875. <p>Wilyer Abreu RF</p>
  876. <p>Vaughn Grissom 2B</p>
  877. <p>Dom Smith 1B</p>
  878. <p>Reese McGuire C</p>
  879. <p>Ceddanne Rafaela SS</p>
  880. <p>Zack Short 3B</p>
  881. <h4>Twins lineup (May 5)</h4>
  882. <p>Alex Kirilloff LF</p>
  883. <p>Edouard Julien 2B</p>
  884. <p>Ryan Jeffers C</p>
  885. <p>Max Kepler RF</p>
  886. <p>Carlos Correa SS</p>
  887. <p>Trevor Larnach DH</p>
  888. <p>Willi Castro CF</p>
  889. <p>Carlos Santana 1B</p>
  890. <p>Jose Miranda 3B</p>
  891. <h4>Red Sox vs. Twins probable starting pitchers</h4>
  892. <p>RHP Cooper Criswell vs. RHP Joe Ryan</p>
  893. <h4>How to watch Red Sox vs. Twins (May 5)</h4>
  894. <p>When: 2:10 p.m. ET</p>
  895. <p>Where: Target Field, Minneapolis MN</p>
  896. <p>TV: NESN, Bally Sports North, MLB Network (Blackout restrictions may apply)</p>
  897. <p>Red Sox radio: WEEI 93.7 FM, WCCM 1490 AM (Spanish)</p>
  898. <p>Twins radio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM, Audacy</p>
  899. <h4>May 5 in baseball history</h4>
  900. <p>1904: Boston Americans (now Red Sox) pitcher Cy Young throws the first perfect game in American League history and the first in a Major League game since 1893. He&#8217;d extend his hitless innings streak to 24, a record that still stands. Altogether, the perfect game was the beginning of a then-record 45 consecutive scoreless inning.</p>
  901. <p>1929: The Boston Braves play their first Sunday home game in franchise history.</p>
  902. <p>1938: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Hal Kelleher sets a pair of unfortunate National League records when he faces 16 Chicago Cubs batters and gives up 12 runs in the sixth inning.</p>
  903. <p>1946: On Opening Day, Newark Eagles pitcher Leon Day throws what will ultimately be the last nine-inning no-hitter in the Negro Leagues.</p>
  904. <p>1955: In his first career start, Brooklyn Dodgers rookie (and future manager) Tommy Lasorda ties the MLB record with three wild pitches in a single inning. 45 years later to the day, he&#8217;ll be named manager of the U.S. Olympic baseball team.</p>
  905. <p>2004: Mike Piazza&#8217;s 352nd home run breaks Johnny Bench&#8217;s record for home runs by a catcher, and Roger Clemens passes Steve Carlton to take second on the all-time strikeout list.</p>
  906. <p>2010: Nomar Garciaparra is honored at Fenway Park after signing a one-day contract to retire as a Red Sock.</p>
  907. <p>2018: Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel becomes the youngest pitcher to join the 300 Saves Club, and does so in fewer games than any of the other 28 members.</p>
  908. <p><em>(Sources: Baseball-Reference, Nationalpastime.com)</em></p>
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  913. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4865249</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AP23173708583781.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="148294" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Joe Ryan (41) celebrates after pitching a complete-game shutout to defeat the Boston Red Sox 6-0 in a baseball game Thursday, June 22, 2023, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  918. <title>Israel’s main cable provider halts Al Jazeera broadcasts, citing government ban</title>
  919. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/israels-main-cable-provider-halts-al-jazeera-broadcasts-citing-government-ban/</link>
  921. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  922. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 13:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
  923. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
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  929. <description><![CDATA[TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance.]]></description>
  930. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar&#8217;s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance.</p>
  931. <p>The extraordinary order, which includes confiscating broadcast equipment, preventing the broadcast of the channel&#8217;s reports and blocking its websites, is believed to be the first time Israel has ever shuttered a foreign news outlet.<br />
  932. Al Jazeera went off Israel&#8217;s main cable and satellite providers in the hours after the order. However, its website and multiple online streaming links still operated Sunday.</p>
  933. <p>The network has reported the Israeli-Hamas war nonstop since the militants&#8217; initial cross-border attack Oct. 7 and has maintained 24-hour coverage in the Gaza Strip amid Israel&#8217;s grinding ground offensive that has killed and wounded members of its own staff. While including on-the-ground reporting of the war&#8217;s casualties, its Arabic arm often publishes verbatim video statements from Hamas and other militant groups in the region.</p>
  934. <p>&#8220;Al Jazeera reporters harmed Israel&#8217;s security and incited against soldiers,&#8221; Netanyahu said in a statement. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to remove the Hamas mouthpiece from our country.&#8221;</p>
  935. <p>Al Jazeera issued a statement vowing it will &#8220;pursue all available legal channels through international legal institutions in its quest to protect both its rights and journalists, as well as the public&#8217;s right to information.&#8221;</p>
  936. <p>&#8220;Israel&#8217;s ongoing suppression of the free press, seen as an effort to conceal its actions in the Gaza Strip, stands in contravention of international and humanitarian law,&#8221; the network said. &#8220;Israel&#8217;s direct targeting and killing of journalists, arrests, intimidation and threats will not deter Al Jazeera.&#8221;</p>
  937. <p>Israeli media said the order allows Israel to block the channel from operating in the country for 45 days.</p>
  938. <p>The Israeli government has taken action against individual reporters over the decades since its founding in 1948, but broadly allows for a rambunctious media scene that includes foreign bureaus from around the world, even from Arab nations.<br />
  939. That changed with a law passed last month, which Netanyahu&#8217;s office says allows the government to take action against a foreign channel seen as &#8220;harming the country.&#8221;</p>
  940. <p>Israeli Communication Minister Shlomo Karhi later published footage online of authorities raiding a hotel room Al Jazeera had been broadcasting from in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians hope to one day have for their future state. He said officials seized some of the channel&#8217;s equipment there.</p>
  941. <p>&#8220;We finally are able to stop Al Jazeera&#8217;s well-oiled incitement machine that harms the security of the country,&#8221; Karhi said.</p>
  942. <p>The ban did not appear to affect the channel&#8217;s operations in the occupied West Bank or Gaza Strip, where Israel wields control but which are not sovereign Israeli territory.</p>
  943. <p>The decision threatens to heighten tensions with Qatar at a time when the Doha government is playing a key role in mediation efforts to halt the war in Gaza, along with Egypt and the United States.</p>
  944. <p>Qatar has had strained ties with Netanyahu in particular since he made comments suggesting that Qatar is not exerting enough pressure on Hamas to prompt it to relent in its terms for a truce deal. Qatar hosts Hamas leaders in exile at a political office in Doha.</p>
  945. <p>The sides appear to be close to striking a deal, but multiple previous rounds of talks have ended with no agreement.</p>
  946. <p>In a statement Sunday, Hamas condemned the Israeli government order, calling on international organizations to take measures against Israel.</p>
  947. <p>The Foreign Press Association in Israel criticized the order.</p>
  948. <p>&#8220;With this decision, Israel joins a dubious club of authoritarian governments to ban the station,&#8221; it said. &#8220;This is a dark day for the media.&#8221;</p>
  949. <p>Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch&#8217;s Israel and Palestine director, criticized the Israeli order as &#8220;an assault on freedom of the press.&#8221;</p>
  950. <p>&#8220;Rather than trying to silence reporting on its atrocities in Gaza, the Israeli government should stop committing them,&#8221; he added.</p>
  951. <p>Shortly after the government&#8217;s decision, Cabinet members from the National Unity party criticized the timing, saying it &#8220;may sabotage the efforts to finalize the negotiations and stems from political considerations.&#8221; The party said that in general, it supported the decision.</p>
  952. <p>Israel has long had a rocky relationship with Al Jazeera, accusing it of bias. Relations took a major downturn nearly two years ago when Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank.</p>
  953. <p>Those relations further deteriorated following the outbreak of Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas on Oct. 7, when the militant group carried out a cross-border attack in southern Israel that killed 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage. Since then, the Israeli military campaign in Gaza has killed over 34,000 people, according to local health officials there, who don&#8217;t break figures down into civilians and combatants.</p>
  954. <p>Israeli media largely has avoided the plight of those in the Gaza Strip, instead focusing on the Oct. 7 attack, the hostages held there and tales of Israeli military heroism.</p>
  955. <p>Meanwhile in December, an Israeli strike killed an Al Jazeera cameraman as he reported on the war in southern Gaza. The channel&#8217;s bureau chief in Gaza, Wael Dahdouh, was wounded in the same attack. Dahdouh, a correspondent well-known to Palestinians during many wars, later evacuated Gaza but only after Israeli strikes killed his wife, three of his children and a grandson.</p>
  956. <p>Al Jazeera is one of the few international media outlets to remain in Gaza throughout the war, broadcasting bloody scenes of airstrikes and overcrowded hospitals and accusing Israel of massacres.</p>
  957. <p>Criticism of the channel is not new, however. The U.S. government singled out the broadcaster during America&#8217;s occupation of Iraq after its 2003 invasion toppled dictator Saddam Hussein and for airing videos of the late al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.</p>
  958. <p>Al Jazeera has been closed or blocked by other Mideast governments.<br />
  959. Most notably in 2013, Egyptian authorities raided a luxury hotel used by Al Jazeera as an operating base after the military takeover that followed mass protests against President Mohammed Morsi. Three Al Jazeera staff members received 10-year prison sentences, but were released in 2015 following widespread international criticism.<br />
  960. ___<br />
  961. Gambrell reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writer Jack Jeffrey in Jerusalem contributed.</p>
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  971. <title>Tomas Chancalay&#8217;s second half tally leads Revolution to a 1-0 victory at Chicago</title>
  972. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/tomas-chancalays-second-half-tally-leads-revolution-to-a-1-0-victory-at-chicago/</link>
  974. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rich Thompson]]></dc:creator>
  975. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
  976. <category><![CDATA[New England Revolution]]></category>
  977. <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
  978. <category><![CDATA[MLS]]></category>
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  981. <description><![CDATA[The elusive shadow in the Revolution’s offense scored the lone goal in Saturday’s much needed 1-0 victory over the Chicago Fire at Soldier’s Field. The Revolution will close out the two- game road swing at New York Red Bulls on May 11. ]]></description>
  982. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Revolution forward Tomas Chancalay has found his groove as an attacking left side forward in head coach Caleb Porter’s 4-2-3-1 scheme.</p>
  983. <p>The elusive shadow in the Revolution’s offense scored the lone goal in Saturday’s much needed 1-0 victory over the Chicago Fire at Soldier’s Field. The Revolution will close out the two- game road swing at New York Red Bulls on May 11.</p>
  984. <p>The Revolution improved to 2-7-1 with their first road victory and are 1-0-1 against the Fire this season. The Revolution extended their unbeaten streak against the Fire to 12 matches.</p>
  985. <p>Chancalay has scored in back-to-back MLS games and he netted four tallies in six Concacaf Champions Cup matches this season to lead the team in goals against all competitions. Striker Giacomo Vrioni set up Chancalay on a break in that he finished with an arching strike off the left foot.</p>
  986. <p>Goalkeeper Aljaz Ivacic recorded a clean sheet with two saves in his Revolution debut. Ivacic secured the victory with a spectacular save on a penalty kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 73rd minute.</p>
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  996. <title>Saturday&#8217;s high school scores and highlights</title>
  997. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/saturdays-high-school-scores-and-highlights-37/</link>
  999. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcello Rossetti, Brian Roach, Kevin Barrucci]]></dc:creator>
  1000. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 12:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
  1001. <category><![CDATA[High School Sports]]></category>
  1002. <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
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  1004.  
  1005. <description><![CDATA[&#160; ROUNDUP BASEBALL Patrick Higgins scored a run and two RBI while Colin McCarthy added a two-run homer as Norwell topped Cardinal Spellman, 9-3, in a nonleague game. … Sophomore Devon Blair went the distance with 14 Ks as East Bridgewater defeated Millis 5-1. … Chris Mondesir had two hits, three RBI and two runs [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1006. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;</p>
  1007. <p>ROUNDUP</p>
  1008. <p>BASEBALL</p>
  1009. <p>Patrick Higgins scored a run and two RBI while Colin McCarthy added a two-run homer as Norwell topped Cardinal Spellman, 9-3, in a nonleague game. … Sophomore Devon Blair went the distance with 14 Ks as East Bridgewater defeated Millis 5-1. … Chris Mondesir had two hits, three RBI and two runs scored as BC High (10-2) doubled up Bridgewater-Raynham 10-5.</p>
  1010. <p>In the Cape Ann League, Tyler Adamo had the game-winning RBI single in the eighth as Lynnfield took down Triton 3-2.</p>
  1011. <p>Nick Sturdevant earned the win striking out eight in 6.2 innings as Southeastern took down Mayflower Athletic Conference opponent Tri-County, 6-1.</p>
  1012. <p>Hayden Ruth threw his second no-hitter of the season with 13 strikeouts and went 4-for-4 at the plate as Georgetown (12-0) blanked Rockport 9-0 in the Cape Ann League. Jake Gilbo and Jason Gioia both homered and Ethan Lee added three RBI.</p>
  1013. <p>Jaylon Richardson’s sacrifice fly plated Calvin Zimmerman with the winning run as Pingree (9-2) rallied with two runs in the last of the seventh to defeat Cushing, 7-6.</p>
  1014. <p>BOYS LACROSSE</p>
  1015. <p>Ben Lane scored a hat trick including the game winner in overtime as Hudson topped Bay Path, 5-4, in a nonleague game.</p>
  1016. <p>In the South Shore League, Hunter Grafton collected a hat trick with three assists as Abington edged Middleboro 10-9.</p>
  1017. <p>Ben Tordoff finished with five tallies, including his 100th career, and Todd Egan added four goals and two assist as South Shore Voke defeated Upper Cape 14-6.</p>
  1018. <p>GIRLS LACROSSE</p>
  1019. <p>Holly Panttila had three goals and three assists as Norwell defeated Hull 16-3 in the South Shore League.</p>
  1020. <p>Iin a nonleague game, Sophia Jannoni collected five goals and an assist while Sara MacLeod added four tallies and an assist as Billerica (4-8) doubled up Woburn 16-8. … Bailey Kelly scored five times as Whitman-Hanson (7-5) outlasted Bridgewater-Raynham 8-6.</p>
  1021. <p>In the Mayflower Athletic Conference, Sofia Grasso scored three times as South Shore Voke (11-0) edged Upper Cape 9-8.</p>
  1022. <p>SOFTBALL</p>
  1023. <p>Brooke Moloney went 2-2 with three runs while Aliza Crean-Oviedo added twelve strikeouts on the mound as St. Mary’s defeated Bishop Fenwick, 8-2, in a Catholic Central League game.</p>
  1024. <p>In a nonleague game, Carly Smith struck out seven and added a pair of hits with an RBI to lead Tyngsboro past Burlington, 14-6. … Shannon Macleod went the distance, striking out 12, while Erin Kral singled in two runs as Notre Dame (Hingham) handed Abington its first loss, 6-2.</p>
  1025. <p>In the Tri-Valley League, Addy Walls threw a no-hitter with 16 strikeouts as Hopkinton rolled to a 13-2 win over Holliston.</p>
  1026. <p>Alyssa Collins earned her eighth win, while adding three hits and six RBI as Minuteman defeated Shawsheen 9-6 in the Commonwealth Athletic Conference.</p>
  1027. <p>Cloe Koccloski and Sophia Crowley homered, while Nia Phillips struck out 12 as Milton Academy (5-3) defeated Governor’s Academy 7-2 in the Independent School League.</p>
  1028. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  1029. <p>SCORES</p>
  1030. <p>BASEBALL</p>
  1031. <p>Austin Prep 10, Putnam Science 0 (1st)</p>
  1032. <p>Austin Prep 11, Putnam Science 2 (2nd)</p>
  1033. <p>Billerica 4, Arlington 0</p>
  1034. <p>Bishop Fenwick 12, Northeast 6</p>
  1035. <p>BC High 10, Bridgewater-Raynham 5</p>
  1036. <p>Brighton 9, New Mission 8</p>
  1037. <p>Burlington 3, Reading 2</p>
  1038. <p>Cambridge 5, Waltham 3</p>
  1039. <p>East Bridgewater 5, Millis 1</p>
  1040. <p>Georgetown 9, Rockport 0</p>
  1041. <p>Hamilton-Wenham 9, Manchester Essex 6</p>
  1042. <p>Hull 7, Minuteman Regional 0</p>
  1043. <p>Lynnfield 3, Triton 2 (8i)</p>
  1044. <p>Milton 11, North Quincy 5</p>
  1045. <p>New Bedford 5, Oliver Ames 0</p>
  1046. <p>Newburyport 3, Pentucket 1</p>
  1047. <p>North Reading 7, Essex Tech 3</p>
  1048. <p>Norwell 9, Cardinal Spellman 3</p>
  1049. <p>Pingree 7, Cushing 6</p>
  1050. <p>St. Mark’s 3, Brooks 1</p>
  1051. <p>St. Sebastian’s 2, Belmont Hill 1</p>
  1052. <p>Southeastern 6, Tri-County 1</p>
  1053. <p>Stoneham 4, Wilmington 1</p>
  1054. <p>Tabor 2, Noble &amp; Greenough 1</p>
  1055. <p>Tantasqua 3, Leicester 0</p>
  1056. <p>Winthrop 7, Sharon 5</p>
  1057. <p>BOYS LACROSSE</p>
  1058. <p>Abington 10, Middleboro 9</p>
  1059. <p>Bishop Stang 13, St. John Paul II 2</p>
  1060. <p>Cohasset 9, Hanover 5</p>
  1061. <p>Hudson 5, Bay Path 4 (ot)</p>
  1062. <p>Needham 7, Hingham 6 (2ot)</p>
  1063. <p>South Shore Voke 14, Upper Cape 6</p>
  1064. <p>Staples (CT) 8, St. John’s Prep 3</p>
  1065. <p>Weston 8, Manchester-Essex 7</p>
  1066. <p>Winchester 13, Minnechaug 4</p>
  1067. <p>Xaverian 14, Bishop Feehan 6</p>
  1068. <p>GIRLS LACROSSE</p>
  1069. <p>Beverly 15, Methuen 9</p>
  1070. <p>Billerica 16, Woburn 8</p>
  1071. <p>Brookline 17, Framingham 7</p>
  1072. <p>Cohasset 17, Hanover 7</p>
  1073. <p>Concord-Carlisle 15, Chelmsford 9</p>
  1074. <p>Dighton-Rehoboth 16, Greater New Bedford 8</p>
  1075. <p>Melrose 11, Arlington 10</p>
  1076. <p>Needham 11, Weston 10</p>
  1077. <p>Newburyport 16, North Reading 1</p>
  1078. <p>North Quincy 16, Archbishop Williams 11</p>
  1079. <p>Norwell 16, Hull 3</p>
  1080. <p>Reading 14, Marblehead 4</p>
  1081. <p>St. Mark’s 18, Winsor 8</p>
  1082. <p>South Shore Voke 9, Upper Cape 8</p>
  1083. <p>Weymouth 11, King Philip 5</p>
  1084. <p>Whitman-Hanson 8, Bridgewater-Raynham 6</p>
  1085. <p>SOFTBALL</p>
  1086. <p>Austin Prep 16, Greens Farms 4</p>
  1087. <p>Brooks 8, Exeter 1 (1st)</p>
  1088. <p>Brooks 6, Exeter 3 (2nd)</p>
  1089. <p>Hingham 6, East Bridgewater 3</p>
  1090. <p>Hopkinton 13, Holliston 2</p>
  1091. <p>Milton Academy 7, Governor’s Academy 2</p>
  1092. <p>Minuteman 9, Shawsheen 6</p>
  1093. <p>Notre Dame (H) 3, Abington 1</p>
  1094. <p>St. Mary’s (L) 8, Bishop Fenwick 2</p>
  1095. <p>South Shore 11, Blue Hills 10</p>
  1096. <p>Tyngsboro 14, Burlington 6</p>
  1097. <p>Wareham 17, Holbrook 2 (1st)</p>
  1098. <p>Wareham 4, Holbrook 0 (2nd)</p>
  1099. <p>Wellesley 12, Cohasset 2</p>
  1100. <p>Whittier 3, Medford 2</p>
  1101. <p>BOYS TENNIS</p>
  1102. <p>Apponequet 3, Martha’s Vineyard 2</p>
  1103. <p>Hingham 3, Cohasset 2</p>
  1104. <p>Sharon 5, Bishop Feehan 0</p>
  1105. <p>Tyngsboro 3, Lowell Catholic 2</p>
  1106. <p>GIRLS TENNIS</p>
  1107. <p>Apponequet 3, Martha’s Vineyard 2</p>
  1108. <p>Newburyport 5, Triton 0</p>
  1109. <p>VOLLEYBALL</p>
  1110. <p>Dracut 3, St. John Paul II 0</p>
  1111. <p>Woburn 3, Wakefield 0</p>
  1112. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  1113. <p>Coaches are encouraged to report their scores and highlights to hssports@bostonherald.com</p>
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  1123. <title>Hamas says latest cease-fire talks have ended. Israel vows military operation in ‘very near future’</title>
  1124. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/hamas-says-latest-cease-fire-talks-have-ended-israel-vows-military-operation-in-very-near-future/</link>
  1126. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  1127. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 12:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
  1128. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  1129. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  1130. <category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
  1131. <category><![CDATA[Israel-Hamas war]]></category>
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  1133.  
  1134. <description><![CDATA[Hamas says the latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks has ended in Cairo. After recent signs of progress, the outlook appears to dim as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to resist international pressure to halt the war. But Israeli media reports that CIA chief William Burns, a main mediator in the talks, will meet with Netanyahu on Monday. Israel has closed its main crossing point for delivering badly needed humanitarian aid for Gaza after Hamas militants attacked it and killed three soldiers. The defense minister warns of &#8220;a powerful operation in the very near future in Rafah and other places across all of Gaza.&#8221;]]></description>
  1135. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By JOSEF FEDERMAN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB (Associated Press)</p>
  1136. <p>JERUSALEM (AP) &#8212; The latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks ended in Cairo after &#8220;in-depth and serious discussions,&#8221; the Hamas militant group said Sunday, reiterating key demands that Israel again rejected. After earlier signs of progress, the outlook appeared to dim as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-holocaust-gaza-war-hamas-netanyahu-117f2ac858fb40ba46df40650e2d2e3a">vowed to resist international pressure</a> to halt the war.</p>
  1137. <p>Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed Hamas wasn&#8217;t serious about a deal and warned of &#8220;a powerful operation in the very near future in Rafah and other places across all of <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war">Gaza</a> &#8221; after Hamas attacked Israel&#8217;s main crossing point for <a href="https://apnews.com/video/israel-hamas-war-israel-gaza-strip-israel-government-war-and-unrest-de0c9d0d47984b7c887f2a04d676f1bf">delivering badly needed humanitarian aid</a>, killing three soldiers. Israel&#8217;s military said it believed Hamas was targeting soldiers massed on the Gaza border in preparation for a possible Rafah invasion. Hamas said it targeted soldiers in the area.</p>
  1138. <p>But Israeli media reported that CIA chief William Burns, a main mediator in the talks, would meet with Netanyahu on Monday. An official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press that Burns was traveling to meet the prime minister of Qatar, which along with Egypt has been an intermediary dealing with Hamas. It was not clear whether a subsequent trip to Israel that had been planned would happen. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door negotiations.</p>
  1139. <p>Israel didn&#8217;t send a delegation to the latest talks. Egyptian state media reported that the Hamas delegation went for discussions in Qatar, where the group has a political office, and will return to Cairo for further negotiations on Tuesday.</p>
  1140. <p>Another threat to talks came as Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar&#8217;s <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-aljazeera-hamas-gaza-war-eba9416aea82f505ab908ee60d1de5e4">Al Jazeera satellite news network</a> to close, accusing it of broadcasting anti-Israel incitement. The ban did not appear to affect the channel&#8217;s operations in Gaza or the West Bank.</p>
  1141. <p>Netanyahu, under pressure from hard-liners in his government, continued to lower expectations for a cease-fire deal, calling the key Hamas demands &#8220;extreme&#8221; &#8212; including the withdrawal of Israel forces from Gaza and an end to the war. That would equal surrender after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that triggered the fighting, he said.</p>
  1142. <p>Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a statement earlier said the militant group was serious and positive about the negotiations and that stopping Israeli aggression in Gaza is the main priority.</p>
  1143. <p>But Israel&#8217;s government again vowed to press on with a military operation in Rafah, the southernmost Gaza city on the border with Egypt where more than half of Gaza&#8217;s 2.3 million residents now seek shelter from Israeli attacks. Rafah is a key entry point for aid.</p>
  1144. <p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-war-hamas-aid-trucks-unrwa-30173642b5c298c829f1457db357071e">Kerem Shalom</a>, now closed, is another. The Israeli military reported 10 projectiles were launched at the crossing in southern Israel and said its fighter jets later struck the source. Israel&#8217;s Channel 12 TV channel said 10 soldiers remained hospitalized. It was unclear how long the crossing would be closed.</p>
  1145. <p>The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, called for an independent investigation and &#8220;accountability for the blatant disregard of humanitarian workers.&#8221; He also said Israel this week denied him entry to Gaza for a second time.</p>
  1146. <p>The closing of Kerem Shalom came shortly after the head of the U.N. World Food Program asserted <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-famine-humanitarian-aid-children-8a4cb5736c42caf50b6e204f40d83a91">&#8220;full-blown famine&#8221;</a> in devastated northern Gaza, one of the most prominent warnings yet of the toll of restrictions on aid entering the territory. It was not a formal famine declaration.</p>
  1147. <p>In the full NBC interview, WFP chief Cindy McCain said famine was &#8220;moving its way south&#8221; in Gaza and that Israel&#8217;s efforts to allow in more aid were not enough. &#8220;We have right now a mass on the outside border, about enough trucks and enough food for 1.1 million people for about three months. We need to get that in,&#8221; she said.</p>
  1148. <p>Gaza&#8217;s vast humanitarian needs put pressure on <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-ceasefire-negotiations-7cec005ccd59dbd817ef9614a8611ca4">cease-fire</a> talks. The proposal that Egyptian mediators put to Hamas sets out a three-stage process that would bring an immediate, six-week cease-fire and partial release of Israeli hostages taken on Oct. 7, and would include some sort of Israeli pullout. The initial stage would last for 40 days. Hamas would start by releasing female civilian hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.</p>
  1149. <p>Netanyahu claimed that Israel has shown willingness to make concessions but &#8220;will continue fighting until all of its objectives are achieved.&#8221; That includes the stated aim of crushing Hamas. Israel says it must target Rafah to strike remaining fighters there despite <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-rafah-palestinians-evacuation-plan-eba21ef4b7c61fb2f1de77c14ca90cee">warnings from the U.S.</a> and others about the danger to civilians.</p>
  1150. <p>In a fiery speech for Israel&#8217;s annual <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-poland-holocaust-gaza-march-auschwitz-492eab9a3b95de64602ccdec863f1b37">Holocaust memorial day</a>, Netanyahu added: &#8220;I say to the leaders of the world, no amount of pressure, no decision by any international forum will stop Israel from defending itself.&#8221;</p>
  1151. <p>An Israeli strike Sunday on a house in an urban refugee camp near Rafah killed four children, including a baby, and two adults, all from the same family, according to Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital. Another Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least five people, according to Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies. Israel&#8217;s military said it struck a Hamas command center in central Gaza. It didn&#8217;t mention casualties.</p>
  1152. <p>The Hamas cross-border attack on Oct. 7 killed some 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage. Israel says militants <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-hostage-families-ceasefire-ramadan-d1b0da2f7bd2e9882f79ebae874561be">still hold around 100 hostages</a> and the remains of more than 30 others. Netanyahu is under pressure from some hostages&#8217; families to make a deal to end the war and get hostages freed.</p>
  1153. <p>Israeli&#8217;s air and ground offensive has killed over 34,500 people, according to Palestinian health officials, who don&#8217;t differentiate between civilians and combatants but say women and children make up a majority of those killed.</p>
  1154. <p>Israel blames Hamas for civilian deaths, accusing it of embedding in residential and public areas. The Israeli military says it has killed 13,000 militants, without providing evidence to back up the claim.</p>
  1155. <p>___</p>
  1156. <p>Chehayeb reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington, Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Jack Jeffery and Melanie Lidman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.</p>
  1157. <p>___</p>
  1158. <p>Follow AP&#8217;s coverage of the war at <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war">https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war</a></p>
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  1168. <title>MLB notes: How are big offseason acquisitions faring so far?</title>
  1169. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/mlb-notes-how-are-big-offseason-acquisitions-faring-so-far/</link>
  1171. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mac Cerullo]]></dc:creator>
  1172. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
  1173. <category><![CDATA[Boston Red Sox]]></category>
  1174. <category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>
  1175. <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
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  1177.  
  1178. <description><![CDATA[So much gets made in the offseason about who is signing where and which teams are making a splash, but a month into the new season how are this winter's biggest moves actually working out?]]></description>
  1179. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the course of baseball&#8217;s offseason so much gets made about who&#8217;s signing where, which teams are making the biggest splashes and how the biggest acquisitions could impact their new teams.</p>
  1180. <p>But winning the offseason doesn&#8217;t always translate into winning actual games. So a month into the new season, how are those moves actually working out?</p>
  1181. <p>With the caveat that a month isn&#8217;t much of a sample size to work with, we&#8217;ve seen enough to begin drawing some conclusions. So who has lived up to the hype, and who has landed with more of a thud? Here&#8217;s a look around the league. All statistics, numbers and records are current entering Saturday.</p>
  1182. <h4>Dodgers billion-dollar haul</h4>
  1183. <h4>Shohei Ohtani, DH</h4>
  1184. <p>Ohtani isn&#8217;t pitching this season after undergoing elbow surgery last fall, but even as a pure DH the two-time MVP has lived up to his sky high standards. Ohtani has been among the best hitters in baseball, batting .336 with seven home runs and a 1.017 OPS. Considering all of the drama surrounding his former translator, Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani&#8217;s performance has been remarkable. He&#8217;s been worth every penny of his historic 10-year, $700 million contract.</p>
  1185. <h4>Yoshinobu Yamamoto, RHP</h4>
  1186. <p>After becoming the highest paid free agent pitcher in baseball history, Yamamoto got off to a bit of a rocky start. The 25-year-old Japanese sensation allowed five runs in one inning in his MLB debut, but since then he&#8217;s been fantastic, posting a 1.64 ERA over his next six starts. Yamamoto has  posted 15 consecutive shutout innings and boasts a 2.91 ERA with 42 strikeouts over 34 innings.</p>
  1187. <h4>Tyler Glasnow, RHP</h4>
  1188. <p>Acquired in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays and signed to a five-year, $136.5 million extension, Glasnow has been outstanding for the Dodgers. The 30-year-old right-hander is 5-1 with a 2.72 ERA, and his 53 strikeouts and 43 innings both rank among the best in MLB. Obviously with Glasnow the question is whether or not he can stay healthy, but so far he&#8217;s been everything the Dodgers could have hoped for and more.</p>
  1189. <h4>Teoscar Hernandez, OF</h4>
  1190. <p>One of the top right-handed bats on the free agent market, Hernandez has given the Dodgers&#8217; lineup a modest boost without necessarily distinguishing himself as a dominant force. The 31-year-old outfielder has clubbed seven home runs through the first month while batting .252 with a .777 OPS. Los Angeles certainly doesn&#8217;t have any complaints, but compared to some of the club&#8217;s other heavy hitters, Hernandez has been more of a complimentary piece.</p>
  1191. <h4>Big trade acquisitions</h4>
  1192. <h4>Juan Soto, OF, Yankees</h4>
  1193. <p>Soto is just different, man. Long regarded as one of baseball&#8217;s premier talents, Soto is on pace to put together one of the best contract years in baseball history. He&#8217;s batting .320 with eight home runs and 25 RBI, and his eye-popping 1.000 OPS is bolstered by an AL-leading .429 on-base percentage. At this rate Soto will be a top AL MVP candidate and should be well positioned to join Ohtani in baseball&#8217;s $500 million club when he hits free agency this offseason.</p>
  1194. <figure id="attachment_4864797"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="754px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="New York Yankees' Juan Soto points before a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)" width="5150" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4864797" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Soto.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">New York Yankees&#8217; Juan Soto points before a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)</figcaption></figure>
  1195. <h4>Corbin Burnes, RHP, Orioles</h4>
  1196. <p>The Orioles acquired Burnes from the Milwaukee Brewers to be their ace, and he&#8217;s delivered. Burnes is 3-1 with a 2.61 ERA and 41 strikeouts through 41 innings. He struck out 11 in his Orioles debut on Opening Day and has consistently pitched well enough to win every time he&#8217;s taken the mound. Burnes should play a starring role in Baltimore&#8217;s quest for a second straight AL East title this summer.</p>
  1197. <h4>Dylan Cease, RHP, Padres</h4>
  1198. <p>Considered one of the big prizes of the trade market for much of the last year, Cease was finally dealt to San Diego this past offseason and has been worth the hefty price the Padres paid. The 28-year-old has posted a 2.55 ERA with 48 strikeouts over 42.1 innings, and his 4.3 hits allowed per nine innings is the lowest in baseball.</p>
  1199. <h4>The Boras Four</h4>
  1200. <h4>Jordan Montgomery, LHP, Diamondbacks</h4>
  1201. <p>Probably the player most coveted by Red Sox fans throughout the offseason, Montgomery didn&#8217;t sign with his new team until days before the season began. He wound up needing some extra time to ramp up and didn&#8217;t debut until April 19, and though his first two starts were solid, his last one on Wednesday was rough. Montgomery allowed six runs over three innings with only one strikeout in Arizona&#8217;s 8-0 loss to the Dodgers, bumping his ERA for the season to 5.63 through 16 innings.</p>
  1202. <h4>Blake Snell, LHP, Giants</h4>
  1203. <p>The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner has been a disaster since joining the Giants. The 31-year-old, who also signed late in the offseason and didn&#8217;t debut until April 8 as a result, allowed 15 earned runs over 11 innings (11.57 ERA) through his first three starts before going on the injured list with a strained adductor muscle.</p>
  1204. <h4>Cody Bellinger, OF, Cubs</h4>
  1205. <p>Bellinger is on the injured list with two fractured ribs suffered after crashing into the outfield wall, and before going down he&#8217;d gotten off to a slow start. The 28-year-old outfielder is batting .226 with five home runs and a .760 OPS through his first 22 games.</p>
  1206. <h4>Matt Chapman, 3B, Giants</h4>
  1207. <p>Chapman has flashed some outstanding leather for the Giants, turning in a particularly sensational play on Wednesday night against the Red Sox at Fenway Park, but like Bellinger, the Gold Glove third baseman hasn&#8217;t done his best at the plate. Chapman is batting .220 with four home runs and a .642 OPS since joining San Francisco.</p>
  1208. <h4>Former Red Sox</h4>
  1209. <h4>Chris Sale, LHP, Braves</h4>
  1210. <p>Sale has stayed healthy, which for him is the most important thing, and the big lefty has delivered on the mound for the Braves. Through six starts Sale is 4-1 with a 3.44 ERA and 42 strikeouts over 36.2 innings, and his 0.955 walks and hits per innings pitched mark ranks among the best in the National League. He&#8217;s also thrown seven innings in three straight starts, something he hadn&#8217;t done since June 2018.</p>
  1211. <figure id="attachment_4864799"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="754px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Atlanta Braves pitcher Chris Sale delivers against the Cleveland Guardians during the first inning of a game, Friday, April 26 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)" width="2141" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4864799" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sale.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Atlanta Braves pitcher Chris Sale delivers against the Cleveland Guardians during the first inning of a game, Friday, April 26 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)</figcaption></figure>
  1212. <h4>Justin Turner, DH, Blue Jays</h4>
  1213. <p>Even at 39 years old, Turner is still doing his thing at the plate. The former Red Sox standout is batting .296 with four home runs, 15 RBI and an .872 OPS for the Blue Jays. Much like with Boston last year, you could make a case that Turner has been among Toronto&#8217;s most impactful hitters.</p>
  1214. <h4>Alex Verdugo, OF, Yankees</h4>
  1215. <p>The numbers aren&#8217;t as gaudy as Soto&#8217;s, but Verdugo has done his part in stabilizing the Yankees outfield and providing quality production at the plate and on defense. Verdugo is batting .271 with four home runs and an .806 OPS. He hasn&#8217;t been as impactful as his replacement in Boston, Tyler O&#8217;Neill, but the Yankees surely don&#8217;t have any complaints.</p>
  1216. <h4>Adam Duvall, OF, Braves</h4>
  1217. <p>One of the top power hitters in last year&#8217;s Red Sox lineup, Duvall has settled into more of a bench role with the Braves. The 35-year-old has only appeared in 17 games and has batted .213 with two home runs and a .679 OPS in those limited opportunities.</p>
  1218. <h4>Eduardo Rodriguez, LHP, Diamondbacks</h4>
  1219. <p>The former Red Sox left-hander has yet to pitch for the Diamondbacks since signing a four-year, $80 million deal this past offseason. Rodriguez went down with a lat strain late in spring training and was later transferred to the 60-day injured list after suffering a setback. He&#8217;s now not expected to pitch until midseason at the earliest, and Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo acknowledged the club had tried to ramp Rodriguez back up too quickly.</p>
  1220. <h4>Michael Wacha, RHP, Royals</h4>
  1221. <p>Wacha was one of Boston&#8217;s best pitchers his lone season with the team in 2022, and after another successful year in San Diego last year he&#8217;s now landed in Kansas City, who have emerged as one of the season&#8217;s early surprises. Wacha has been solid for the Royals, posting a 4.24 ERA over 34 innings in his first six starts.</p>
  1222. <h4>James Paxton, LHP, Dodgers</h4>
  1223. <p>The 35-year-old lefty has allowed a lot of traffic on the base paths since joining the Dodgers, but he&#8217;s stayed healthy and largely gotten the job done. Paxton boasts a 3.51 ERA over 25.2 innings through his first five starts with Los Angeles.</p>
  1224. <h4>Craig Kimbrel, RHP, Orioles</h4>
  1225. <p>Kimbrel has gotten off to a solid start after signing a one-year, $13 million deal to join the Orioles. The longtime closer has recorded eight saves and posted a 2.92 ERA through his first 14 appearances, and while he had a rocky stretch last weekend — blowing two straight games and leaving last Sunday&#8217;s loss with an upper back injury — he bounced back with a dominant return in Friday&#8217;s win over Cincinnati.</p>
  1226. <figure id="attachment_4864800"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="754px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman, left, and pitcher Craig Kimbrel celebrate on the mound after winning a game against the Cincinnati Reds on Friday, May 3 in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)" width="3835" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4864800" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kimbrel.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman, left, and pitcher Craig Kimbrel celebrate on the mound after winning a game against the Cincinnati Reds on Friday, May 3 in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</figcaption></figure>
  1227. <h4>Best (and worst) of the rest</h4>
  1228. <h4>Sonny Gray, RHP, Cardinals</h4>
  1229. <p>Last year&#8217;s AL Cy Young Award runner-up, Gray has been lights out since joining the Cardinals. After opening the season on the IL with a hamstring strain, Gray debuted on April 9 and has posted a 0.89 ERA and 38 strikeouts over 30.1 innings through his first five starts.</p>
  1230. <h4>Shota Imanaga, LHP, Cubs</h4>
  1231. <p>Of all the free agents who slipped through the Red Sox grasp this offseason, Imanaga might be the most painful so far. The Japanese lefty has been outstanding through his first month in the majors, going 5-0 with a 0.78 ERA in 34.2 innings through his first six starts. He pitched a gem at Fenway Park last Friday, holding the Red Sox to one run over 6.1 innings.</p>
  1232. <h4>Marcus Stroman, RHP, Yankees</h4>
  1233. <p>Brought in to bolster the Yankees rotation, Stroman has done his part and helped keep the staff afloat after Gerrit Cole went down with an elbow injury. Stroman has posted a 3.41 ERA over 37 innings through his first seven starts, though he&#8217;s struggled with his command recently, walking five batters in each of his last two outings.</p>
  1234. <h4>Seth Lugo, RHP, Royals</h4>
  1235. <p>Another rumored Red Sox target, Lugo has been a revelation for the Royals. The 34-year-old is off to a career start with a 5-1 record, 1.60 ERA and 45 innings pitched. Signed for three years, $45 million this past offseason, Lugo might be the biggest bargain any club got this winter.</p>
  1236. <h4>Josh Hader, LHP, Astros</h4>
  1237. <p>Long one of baseball&#8217;s most dominant closers, Hader signed a historic five-year, $95 million deal with the Astros this past offseason, the largest in MLB history for a relief pitcher. Since then Hader has been a mess, allowing nine earned runs through his first 13.2 innings while recording only three saves. In a season where almost everything has gone wrong — the Astros shockingly stand last in the AL West at 12-20 — Hader has been among the club&#8217;s biggest disappointments.</p>
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  1247. <title>Pols &#038; Politics: Monica Tibbits-Nutt looks to ‘move forward’ after controversial remarks</title>
  1248. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/pols-politics-monica-tibbits-nutt-looks-to-move-forward-after-controversial-remarks/</link>
  1250. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Van Buskirk]]></dc:creator>
  1251. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 08:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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  1265. <description><![CDATA[Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt just wants to “move forward” after remarks she made last month at an advocacy event generated bipartisan backlash and even a rare rebuke from her boss, Gov. Maura Healey.]]></description>
  1266. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt just wants to “move forward” after remarks she made last month at an advocacy event generated bipartisan backlash and even <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/23/gov-healey-says-no-plan-to-fire-transportation-secretary-after-border-toll-scandal/">a rare rebuke from her boss</a>, Gov. Maura Healey.</p>
  1267. <p>Tibbits-Nutt held onto her job after the speech, though she largely operated under the radar in the days after the comments became public. She fully reemerged into public view at an event in Melrose Friday with Healey, where the pair touted the annual roads and bridges funding bill.</p>
  1268. <p><img decoding="async" class="lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="483px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="" width="176" height="200" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4508722" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHR-L-PolsAndPolitics1col.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" />Tibbits-Nutt said the <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/04/19/massachusetts-border-tolls-idea-another-way-to-unnecessarily-take-money-new-hampshire-gov-chris-sununu-says/">controversy surrounding her comments</a>, which included floating tolls at the border to pay for transportation projects, “just shows how passionate people are about the topic.”</p>
  1269. <p>“That event also showed how passionate I am as well. I think we&#8217;re just very excited to move forward with this,” Tibbits-Nutt said of a task force she leads that is developing recommendations for a long-term transportation finance plan.</p>
  1270. <p>At the WalkMassachusetts event, Tibbits-Nutt pitched a range of initiatives that she argued could generate dollars for cash-strapped transportation efforts in Massachusetts. That included charging companies like Uber and Lyft more, upping the cost of package deliveries, and even taking New York’s “entire playbook” on bulking up coffers for projects.</p>
  1271. <p>The former executive director of the 128 Business Council also said she was “100% passing judgment” on drivers of pickup trucks, telling a crowd that “we can’t price them high enough or put enough fees on them that’s going to stop” people from buying them.</p>
  1272. <p>But it was tolling at the border that really sent people into a tizzy.</p>
  1273. <p>“When I’m talking tolling, I’m talking at the borders. I’m not talking like within Massachusetts,” she said last month. “But we’re going after all the people who should be giving us money to make our transportation better and our communities better.”</p>
  1274. <p>That idea earned Tibbits-Nutt a slap on the wrist from Healey, who said the comments did “not represent the view of this administration.” Healey did express confidence in the secretary and later told the Herald there were “no” plans to fire her.</p>
  1275. <p>Tibbits-Nutt said Friday that the pushback from the governor will not change what the transportation funding task force plans to focus on.</p>
  1276. <p>“No, the task force is going to continue their work over the next several months. We have 31 members, they all have different perspectives, and we&#8217;re looking forward to the dialogue,” she said.</p>
  1277. <p>Many, however, are still reluctant to sweep the whole episode away and are wondering what strategy the secretary will ultimately advocate for when the group completes its work.</p>
  1278. <p>MassGOP spokesperson Logan Trupiano said Tibbits-Nutt “cannot put this controversy behind her” until she clarifies her policy initiatives.</p>
  1279. <p>“Does the secretary truly believe she can forge ahead with these widely unpopular policies, making the commonwealth less affordable for everyone?” Trupiano said. “Does she uphold her assertion of targeting everyone with money? Imposing fees on residents for package deliveries, rideshares, and raising payroll taxes?”</p>
  1280. <p>Tibbits-Nutt did not directly say if she regretted anything she said during the WalkMassachusetts event.</p>
  1281. <p>“Like I said, I just really want to move forward from here,” Tibbits-Nutt said.</p>
  1282. <h4>Shelter time limit rules come into focus…</h4>
  1283. <p>Top Democrats in the Legislature are not taking issue with the Healey administration’s decision to retroactively apply a recently approved nine-month time limit on families’ time in the state-run shelter system.</p>
  1284. <p>Some in and around the State House felt caught off guard when Massachusetts’ housing department made clear that families who have been in shelters for longer than nine months will start receiving notices starting June 1 that their benefits could end on Sept. 1.</p>
  1285. <p>House Speaker Ron Mariano and his budget chief, Aaron Michlewitz, said the supplemental spending bill that included the time limit provision was written to give Healey the “flexibility” to address the crisis.</p>
  1286. <p>“The intention behind the legislation was to provide the administration with the flexibility necessary to manage the crisis appropriately, while also ensuring that folks in the shelter system have access to the resources that they need in order to eventually exit the system, and to successfully enter the workforce,” the pair said in a statement to the Herald.</p>
  1287. <p>A spokesperson for Senate President Karen Spilka said it was the branch’s “understanding that the administration is implementing the provisions of the supplemental budget as they were intended when they were approved by the Legislature.”</p>
  1288. <p>“As we have said from the beginning, this is a federal problem that demands comprehensive federal immigration legislation. We need to help the families who are here, but we need help so that we can continue to respond in a way that is both humane and fiscally responsible,” the spokesperson said in a statement.</p>
  1289. <p>Both branches agreed to hand Healey broad authority to craft the regulations or guidance that will determine how families are eventually booted from state-funded facilities. The measure Healey signed off on earlier this month does grant families a chance at two 90-day extensions.</p>
  1290. <p>But where people go after their time in shelter comes to an end is still an unanswered question on Beacon Hill that has had many scratching their heads, though some have pointed to the ability for families to reapply for services.</p>
  1291. <p>Kelly Turley, associate director of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, said thousands of families in the shelter system could find themselves scrambling to figure out housing plans just as the school year starts.</p>
  1292. <p>“That&#8217;s right as school is beginning. It will be a very disruptive time for families with children,” Turley told the Herald. “We want to make sure that all the resources and supports are in place so that families can successfully exit shelter into housing and not simply be terminated from shelter prematurely without having another option lined up.”</p>
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  1297. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4863869</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/09-15_Tibbits-Nutt_1.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="144686" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Acting Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt stands at a press conference inside the State House on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  1302. <title>A driver dies after crashing into a security barrier around the White House complex, authorities say</title>
  1303. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/a-driver-dies-after-crashing-into-a-security-barrier-around-the-white-house-complex-authorities-say/</link>
  1305. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
  1306. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 06:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
  1307. <category><![CDATA[Latest Headlines]]></category>
  1308. <category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category>
  1309. <category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
  1310. <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
  1311. <category><![CDATA[Secret Service]]></category>
  1312. <category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
  1313. <category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
  1314. <category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
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  1316.  
  1317. <description><![CDATA[A driver died after a vehicle crashed into an outer perimeter gate of the White House complex, and the incident late Saturday was being investigated as a traffic crash, police said. President Joe Biden was spending the weekend in Delaware, and the Secret Service said there was no threat to the White House.]]></description>
  1318. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — A driver died after a vehicle crashed into an outer perimeter gate of the White House complex, and the incident late Saturday was being investigated as a traffic crash, police said. President Joe Biden was spending the weekend in Delaware, and the Secret Service said there was no threat to the White House.</p>
  1319. <p>The male driver, who was not immediately identified, was found dead in the vehicle following the crash shortly before 10:30 p.m., according to a Secret Service statement.</p>
  1320. <p>The Metropolitan Police Department said the vehicle crashed into a security barrier at the intersection of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Police were called to the scene at 10:46 p.m. and said one adult male was pronounced dead from the crash into a security barrier around the complex.</p>
  1321. <p>The Secret Service said security protocols were put in place and that there was no threat to the White House. The Secret Service and police will continue to investigate.</p>
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  1326. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4865259</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/White_House_Gate_Crash_01577.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="131452" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ FILE &#8211; The White House is visible through the fence at the North Lawn in Washington, on June 16, 2016. A driver died Saturday night, May 4, 2024 after crashing a vehicle into a gate at the White House, authorities said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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  1332. <title>Seinfeld&#8217;s &#8216;Unfrosted&#8217; is &#8217;60s nostalgia for 8-year-olds</title>
  1333. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/seinfelds-unfrosted-is-60s-nostalgia-for-8-year-olds/</link>
  1335. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Graham/The Detroit News]]></dc:creator>
  1336. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 04:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
  1337. <category><![CDATA[Things To Do]]></category>
  1338. <category><![CDATA[TV and Streaming]]></category>
  1339. <category><![CDATA[Streaming TV]]></category>
  1340. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bostonherald.com/?p=4864651</guid>
  1341.  
  1342. <description><![CDATA[Depending on one's tolerance for cereal humor, "Unfrosted" quickly wears out its welcome, and the jokes become soggier the longer it carries on.]]></description>
  1343. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jerry Seinfeld has long marveled at the invention of the Pop-Tart, the kitschy breakfast pastry that revolutionized the American breakfast in the 1960s. He funnels his awe for the product into the scattershot &#8217;60s nostalgia comedy &#8220;Unfrosted,&#8221; a movie made for 8-year-olds who are also somehow 65. If Kellogg&#8217;s can go ahead and invent those, too, then we&#8217;d really have something on our hands.</p>
  1344. <p>Seinfeld writes and directs this manic joke-a-thon, which takes on not only the Pop-Tart but all manner of &#8217;60s culture and ephemera: JFK, Walter Cronkite, the moon landing, Andy Warhol, Jack LaLanne, X-ray specs, Sea-Monkeys, Silly Putty. (The script, credited to Seinfeld and three others, is like an early draft of &#8220;We Didn&#8217;t Start the Fire.&#8221;)</p>
  1345. <p>It&#8217;s not so much concerned with the actual launch of the Pop-Tart as it is as the fantasy version of events in Seinfeld&#8217;s childhood brain. He treats Battle Creek like the playground paradise of his dreams, and stops just short of having canals of milk running through the city streets. But depending on one&#8217;s tolerance for cereal humor, &#8220;Unfrosted&#8221; quickly wears out its welcome, and the jokes become soggier the longer it carries on.</p>
  1346. <p>Seinfeld plays Bob Cabana, an exec at Kellogg&#8217;s who discovers rival cereal company Post&#8217;s plans to manufacture a handheld toaster pastry in the early 1960s. Thus begins a war to make it to stores first, a space race to grocery aisle shelves, with market share and mouths on the line.<br />
  1347. Jim Gaffigan plays the head of Kellogg&#8217;s, Amy Schumer plays the evil queen of Post, and Melissa McCarthy is a NASA scientist enlisted to help with the creation of the Pop-Tart. Meanwhile, a roll call of comedians and comedic actors — Sebastian Maniscalco, James Marsden, Max Greenfield, Fred Armisen, Cedric the Entertainer, Mikey Day, Kyle Mooney, Bill Burr, Bobby Moynihan, Thomas Lennon, Jack McBrayer, Sarah Cooper, Tony Hale — show up in bit roles, and Hugh Grant plays a put-upon thespian who lowers himself to play Tony the Tiger.</p>
  1348. <p>&#8220;Unfrosted&#8221; is as light as a feather: Characters are barely characters, scenes are barely scenes, everything is just an excuse for a joke or to get to the next joke. It&#8217;s a low-stakes affair, not meant to be overanalyzed, kind of like a Pop-Tart. Think about it too much and you&#8217;re doing it all wrong.</p>
  1349. <p>But the humor is all surface level with nothing underneath, and there&#8217;s little in &#8220;Unfrosted&#8221; to hang onto past its inherent silliness. After an initial sugar rush it&#8217;s a hard crash, and all you end up left with is crumbs.</p>
  1350. <h3>&#8216;UNFROSTED&#8217;</h3>
  1351. <p>Rated PG-13, Streaming on Netflix</p>
  1352. <p>Grade: C</p>
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  1357. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4864651</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-UNFROSTED-01.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="166639" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ This image released by Netflix shows Hugh Grant in a scene from &quot;Unfrosted.&quot; (John P. Johnson/Netflix via AP) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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  1362. <title>Editorial: Greens float ban on weekend driving in Germany</title>
  1363. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/editorial-greens-float-ban-on-weekend-driving-in-germany/</link>
  1365. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Editorial]]></dc:creator>
  1366. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 04:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
  1367. <category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
  1368. <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
  1369. <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
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  1371.  
  1372. <description><![CDATA[Warnings about the agenda of global warming alarmists can seem far-fetched. But consider what’s happening in Germany.]]></description>
  1373. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Warnings about the agenda of global warming alarmists can seem far-fetched. But consider what’s happening in Germany.</p>
  1374. <p>A recent German governing coalition set a national goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. Massachusetts has a goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. To many, that sounds worthwhile — at least until you learn the details.</p>
  1375. <p>Germany divided its economy into various sectors, such as energy, transportation and industry. Each was supposed to reduce its share of carbon emissions proportionally. If an area misses its goal, a minister may unilaterally take steps to lower future carbon emissions to the required levels.</p>
  1376. <p>While some sectors met their targets, transportation consistently failed to do so. That put Transport Minister Volker Wissing in a difficult position. One way to lower transportation emissions is for people to drive less. But people like their cars and their mobility. Wissing warned that without changes, he would be required to do something drastic, such as imposing “comprehensive and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays.”</p>
  1377. <p>One might think that climate doomsayers would celebrate, given that achieving carbon neutrality will mean a de facto ban on gasoline-powered transport by car or airplane. Remember that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s original Green New Deal implied it sought the end of air travel as we currently know it. Instead, they were furious that details of their drastic economic overhaul were made public.</p>
  1378. <p>Likewise, Greenpeace mobility expert Clara Thompson accused Wissing of “coming up with horror scenarios.”</p>
  1379. <p>Note the duplicity. In advocating for net-zero, Greenpeace and other scaremongers essentially seek the end of gasoline-powered travel. But they would prefer members of the public not learn of this until it’s too late to do anything to stop it. It’s why U.S. environmentalists prefer to stealthily work through regulations, executive orders and platitudes. If they were honest about what their agenda actually entailed — total economic disruption and heavy-handed mandates governing individual behaviors such as driving — the public would soundly reject it. But they hope to avoid that level of accountability by working in the background.</p>
  1380. <p>In Germany, weekend driving appears safe for the moment. German officials have agreed on a more flexible law that would consider if the economy as a whole is meeting its emissions reduction targets. That would allow transportation emissions to remain stable if emissions in other parts of the economy declined more rapidly.</p>
  1381. <p>“With the agreement, driving bans are finally off the table,” Wissing said recently.</p>
  1382. <p>Maybe. Maybe not. German officials still insist they will be carbon neutral by 2045. That means the specter of driving bans — including in the United States — have only been delayed, not eliminated.</p>
  1383. <p><em>Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service</em></p>
  1384. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  1385. <figure id="attachment_4864739"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="542px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Editorial cartoon by Gary Varvel (Creators Syndicate)" width="4200" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4864739" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-CARTOON-01_37f933.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Editorial cartoon by Gary Varvel (Creators Syndicate)</figcaption></figure>
  1386. ]]></content:encoded>
  1390. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4863092</post-id><media:content url="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-EDITORIAL-01_3efd2d.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="225337" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ Cars and traffic fill the A100 ring highway at dusk on Nov. 3, 2014, in Berlin. A recent German governing coalition set a national goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images/TNS) ]]></media:description></media:content>
  1391. <dcterms:created>2024-05-05T00:57:29+00:00</dcterms:created>
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  1395. <title>Beyond the Olympics: Intriguing events abound around France</title>
  1396. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/beyond-the-olympics-intriguing-events-abound-around-france/</link>
  1398. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Hartbeck/TravelPulse]]></dc:creator>
  1399. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 04:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
  1400. <category><![CDATA[Things To Do]]></category>
  1401. <category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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  1403.  
  1404. <description><![CDATA[These events could be perfect bookends to a trip to see the Olympic Games in Paris or serve as inspiration for a completely different adventure.]]></description>
  1405. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>France is hot, and we&#8217;re not just talking about the catwalks in Paris or the yacht clubs on the Riviera.</p>
  1406. <p>There is no denying that 2024 will be a huge year for travel in The Hexagon, with so much going on across the country. Plenty has been said and written about the Paris Summer Olympics (and will be in the coming months), but here I will set that massive event to the side and focus instead on other reasons to visit France this year.</p>
  1407. <p>Some of the events could be perfect bookends to a trip to see the Games or serve as inspiration for a completely different adventure.</p>
  1408. <p>Making an impression: After the Olympic Games, the second most talked about celebration in France will be the events surrounding the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, with Normandy being the best place outside of Paris to celebrate. The fifth edition of the Normandy Impressionist Festival (March 22- Sept. 22) will take place across the region, and some parts will have an unexpected American influence. In Rouen, look for an exhibit showcasing the works of renowned American artist Whistler, as well as the 12th edition of the sensational summer light and sound show at Rouen Cathedral.</p>
  1409. <p>In Paris, the Normandy region will sponsor a spectacular exhibit titled “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment” at the Musée d&#8217;Orsay (March 16 &#8211; July 14). The event will feature over 100 masterpieces, including paintings, sculptures, photographs and much more.</p>
  1410. <p>Saluting the heroes of summer &#8217;44: The 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the ensuing Battle of Normandy will take place on June 6, and the military operation that forever changed history will be honored with pomp and circumstance all over the region. In addition to official observations that will require invitations, there will be fireworks displays over the five landing beaches on June 1, art installations and dozens more events (think parades, parachuting, historical re-enactments and concerts) during the D-Day Festival Normandy (June 1-16).</p>
  1411. <p>There will also be events surrounding the 80th anniversary of Operation Dragoon, which was a significant French-American landing that took place in Southern France on Aug. 15, 1944. Expect commemorative events to take place in the region.</p>
  1412. <p>The Tour cycles south: No discussion of sports in France would be complete without a mention of the Tour De France (June 29 &#8211; July 21), the most iconic bicycle race on the planet. This year, the race will traverse a 2,000-mile-plus loop through some of the most breathtaking landscapes in France. The route changes for each edition of the race, but the mountain stages in the Pyrenees and Alps are a constant, and these regions make for exciting fan experiences. The 2024 race will start in Florence, Italy, before finishing somewhere other than Paris for the first time in a century. Due to the Olympics, the Tour will finish up in the jewel of the Riviera: Nice.</p>
  1413. <p>Setting sail: The Vendée Globe, which is another one of the biggest French sporting events this year, will actually start in New York City. On May 24, sailors will gather at the Statue of Liberty for a host of pre-race celebrations before embarking on a grueling 3,200-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean to France. Then, on Nov. 10, the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe will set sail from the coastal town of Sables d’Olonne in the Vendée region of France. Known as the Everest of Seas, this nonstop solo race will see about 40 skippers navigating the globe, and while you&#8217;re not allowed to tag along with them, it will be the perfect excuse to discover the beautiful coastal region of Vendée, which is home to long sweeps of beach and a breathtaking bay.</p>
  1414. <p>Summer festivals galore: Bordeaux has been bubbling up on travel lists for a while now, and the 2024 edition of the famed Bordeaux Fête le Vin (June 27-30), the premier wine tourism festival in the city, will be the perfect excuse to get to know it better. Set against the backdrop of the Garonne River, the event will offer a delightful experience for wine lovers and curious travelers alike. The party will start early, as from June 20, a host of events will take place in the lead-up to the festival at the city&#8217;s renowned wine cellars, restaurants and cultural venues.</p>
  1415. <p>You&#8217;ll be surrounded by tunes all over the country on June 21 as the Fête de la Musique will see musicians of all levels (both amateur and professional) take to the streets across France to show off their skills. You&#8217;ll be able to experience a wide range of musical genres (and talent) as everything from rock groups to choirs and orchestras strut their stuff.</p>
  1416. <p><em>Tribune News Service</em></p>
  1417. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  1418. <figure id="attachment_4864581"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="542px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="A sensational summer light and sound show happens at Rouen Cathedral in Rouen, France. (Dreamstime/TNS)" width="3000" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4864581" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">A sensational summer light and sound show happens at Rouen Cathedral in Rouen, France. (Dreamstime/TNS)</figcaption></figure>
  1419. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  1420. <figure id="attachment_4864583"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="542px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Boats in the channel in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, as part of the Vendee Globe race. (Dreamstime/TNS)" width="3000" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="4864583" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BHR-Z-TRAVEL_a6a994.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Boats in the channel in Les Sables d&#8217;Olonne, France, as part of the Vendee Globe race. (Dreamstime/TNS)</figcaption></figure>
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  1431. <title>When house buyout meets high interest rates</title>
  1432. <link>https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/05/05/when-house-buyout-meets-high-interest-rates/</link>
  1434. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Hickey]]></dc:creator>
  1435. <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 04:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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  1441. <description><![CDATA[We agreed on a buyout price which gives me a significant down payment. The problem is, he has a 30-year fixed mortgage at 3% interest and my rate is going to be 6%. ]]></description>
  1442. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Q.</strong> My husband and I are working on the terms of our divorce bringing a bullet point outline to an attorney to draft for us.  We bought the house when I was in grad school so the house and mortgage are in his name.  He says he should have the first right to buy me out.</p>
  1443. <p>We agreed on a buyout price which gives me a significant down payment. The problem is, he has a 30-year fixed mortgage at 3% interest and my rate is going to be 6%.  If I’m going to live in the same town in a comparable house for our kids, I will need to take on a $750,000 mortgage. This means annual interest of $45,000 where his is only $22,500. This hardly seems fair, but I don’t know how to think about it or how to express it to my husband.</p>
  1444. <p><strong>A.</strong> This is a relatively new problem we are starting to see and one which there is not yet any caselaw to guide us.  Most people are stuck trying to get one party’s name off a mortgage so consider yourself lucky that you and your husband don’t both have to take on significantly larger interest rates. That being said, because he is not stuck in the same boat as you, it only seems fair that you get a break somewhere.</p>
  1445. <p>I don’t think asset division is the way to resolve this.  It really amounts to a cash flow problem that should be sorted out in child support or alimony.  I don’t know what your respective incomes are in terms of who is paying child support and/or alimony to the other.  One way to level the playing field would be to reduce your obligation for child support/alimony by the $22,500 in interest you are paying for the privilege of living in a similar home so that the children do not feel a disparity when they are with you.  But a judge may reject that deviation from the child support guidelines.</p>
  1446. <p>Also, that doesn’t work if you are the support recipient as he probably does not want to pay additional support. Suggest that your husband be responsible for the first $22,500 of annual extra-curricular expenses for your children and/or uninsured medical expenses. If that still doesn’t get you there or he doesn’t like the idea, suggest he put aside $22,500 per year into college savings account which would then be considered contributions from both of you at the time the children go to college.</p>
  1447. <p>Hire the lawyer now to act as a mediator and help the two of you brainstorm through this issue.</p>
  1448. <p><em>Email questions to whickey@brickjones.com</em></p>
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