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In this image from video made available by SpaceX, a Starship test vehicle sits on the ground after returning from a flight test in Boca Chica, Texas on Wednesday, May 5, 2021.

Watch: SpaceX launches, lands Starship in 1st successful flight

Massachusetts collects about $3.86 billion in taxes in April

President Joe Biden takes questions from reporters as he speaks about the American Rescue Plan, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

U.S. backs waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines

Randy Willis, left, and other truck drivers with Shaw's supermarkets walk a picket line as a truck, behind, leaves the Shaw's distribution facility, Monday, May 3, 2021, in Wells, Maine. Truck drivers for Shaw's supermarkets represented by the Teamsters went on strike Monday, May 3, stopping shipments to Shaw's and Star Market grocery stores in New England. (Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via AP)

Truck drivers for Shaw's supermarkets return to work May 5, 2021 | 6:00 PM

Mass. shoe company executive pleads guilty to embezzling $30 million May 5, 2021 | 4:36 PM

BOSTON, MA - 4/11/2019: Outside the state house demonstrators held a jazz fest for Fair Share Massachusetts about the Millionaire's Amendment is back . Lawmakers are proposing a similar measure, which would tax earners over $1M, after the court tossed out the ballot initiative because it combined multiple topics. They would need 101 votes in two successive sessions to get on the 2022 ballot. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO TOPIC 12taxes

The millionaire's tax is back — and it's a little different this time May 5, 2021 | 3:25 PM

A Peloton Interactive Inc. treadmill sits on display at the company's showroom on Madison Avenue in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. The stakes are high for Peloton as it heads into its first holiday season as a publicly traded company. Peloton projected sales of $410 million to $420 million for the quarter ending Dec. 31, up about 60% from the same quarter a year earlier. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg

Peloton recalls treadmills after a child dies May 5, 2021 | 11:02 AM

Lady Gaga, here performing during The 59th Grammy Awards in 2017, is one of the acts Boston.com readers are looking forward to when concerts come back.

Here's who Boston.com readers want to see when concerts start up again May 5, 2021 | 10:32 AM

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks to crowd before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., in this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, file photo. Former President Donald Trump will find out this week whether he gets to return to Facebook. The social network’s quasi-independent Oversight Board says it will announce its decision Wednesday, May 5 on a case concerning the former president. Trump's account was suspended for inciting violence that led to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riots. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

Facebook board upholds Trump's suspension May 5, 2021 | 9:20 AM

President Biden signing a law in March to extend the Paycheck Protection Program through May 31, with Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Isabel Guzman, the administrator of the Small Business Administration.

Paycheck Protection Program runs out of funding May 4, 2021 | 8:41 PM

The Pfizer Inc. French headquarters in Paris, France.

Here's how much Pfizer made off the COVID-19 vaccine May 4, 2021 | 6:30 PM

A health care worker injects a patient with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Los Angeles County COVID-19 vaccination super site at The Forum in Los Angeles on March 17, 2021.

Vaccinating teens

FDA expected to OK Pfizer vaccine for teens within week May 3, 2021 | 7:13 PM

Dave Portnoy on the cover of Nantucket magazine.

Nantucket Magazine apologizes for cover story featuring Barstool's Dave Portnoy May 3, 2021 | 6:27 PM

Ascend's storefront on Friend Street in Boston.

Boston's first downtown recreational marijuana dispensary opens May 3, 2021 | 5:30 PM

Bill and Melinda Gates in 2015.

Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are ending marriage May 3, 2021 | 5:21 PM

Providence man charged with trying to hire hitman to kill 2 May 3, 2021 | 4:56 PM

Chestnut Hill, MA 080613 Shaw's Star Market at Chestnut Hill photographed on August 6, 2013 for a story ont eh store chain by allegedly dropping prices, cleaning up stores adding employees and so on. (Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff)/ BIZ

Shaw's & Star Market

Truckers for Shaw's, Star Market go on strike in New England May 3, 2021 | 4:50 PM

Central Maine Power's controversial hydropower transmission corridor would be in the vicinity of Attean Pond near Jackman, Maine.

CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE

Environmentalists surprisingly divided over clean energy projects in Mass., Maine and elsewhere May 3, 2021 | 12:05 PM

Internet trailblazers Yahoo and AOL sold, again, for $5 billion May 3, 2021 | 9:30 AM

Becker College laying off 329 as it prepares to close May 2, 2021 | 10:27 AM

In this April 27, 2021, photo Brad Hudson poses as a Los Angeles Metro train goes by in South Pasadena, Calif. As President Joe Biden urges more federal spending for public transportation, transit agencies decimated by COVID-19 are struggling with a new uncertainty: how to win passengers back. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Public transit hopes to win back riders after crushing year May 2, 2021 | 9:52 AM

Medical director of Doctor on Demand Dr. Vibin Roy prepares to conduct an online visit with a patient from his work station at home, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Keller, Texas. Some U.S. employers and insurers want you to make telemedicine your first choice for most doctor visits. Retail giant Amazon and several insurers have started or expanded virtual-first care plans to get people thinking telemedicine routinely, even for annual checkups. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Employers, insurers push to make virtual visits regular care May 2, 2021 | 9:08 AM

In this image made from NASA TV video, the SpaceX Dragon capsule floats after landing in the Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Panhandle early Sunday, May 2, 2021. SpaceX returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot.

SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth; rare night splashdown May 2, 2021 | 7:37 AM

A family member performs the last rites of a COVID-19 victim at a crematorium in Jammu, in Jammu, India, Friday, April 30, 2021. Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

India launches effort to inoculate all adults against COVID May 1, 2021 | 1:36 PM

Part of what is referred to as The Great Marsh, this portion of which is in Ipswich on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017.

$1M federal grant to help salt marsh restoration project north of Boston May 1, 2021 | 10:39 AM

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2018, file photo Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., gives an interview with the Fox network before speaking at a campaign rally for Republican Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis at AJ's Oyster Shanty on Okaloosa Island in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. (Nick Tomecek/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP, File)

Rep. Matt Gaetz

How the Gaetz probe grew from sex trafficking to medical pot May 1, 2021 | 9:30 AM

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey waves to a constituent during a visit to La Parada Dominican Kitchen in Egleston Square April 20.

Boston officials defend delayed reopening plan, amid criticism from some mayoral candidates April 30, 2021 | 4:00 PM

Packs of Newport cigarettes are seen on a shelf in a grocery store in Brooklyn.

U.S. vows again to ban menthol flavor in cigarettes, cigars April 29, 2021 | 4:43 PM

Disaster Girl

'DISASTER GIRL'

The world knows her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She sold an NFT of her meme for $500,000. April 29, 2021 | 2:16 PM

BOSTON, MA. APRIL 27, 2021: Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker provides an update to the state's reopening process during a press conference at the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts. (Nicolaus Czarnecki/Pool)

Want Massachusetts to lift COVID-19 restrictions sooner? Charlie Baker says 'get vaccinated' April 29, 2021 | 1:58 PM

General Mills, the maker of Cheerios, is facing increased costs, its chief executive told analysts.

Diapers, cereal, and, yes, toilet paper are going to get more expensive. Here's why. April 29, 2021 | 12:58 PM

President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., look on.

Biden to the nation and world: 'America is rising anew' April 28, 2021 | 9:09 PM

Boston,MA - 9/25/2020: (Left to right) Sarah Richardson, her sister, Julia DePillo, and husband, Justin Richardson, have a beer with the sisters parents, Stephen and Patricia DePillo at Trillium Garden on The Greenway on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, MA on September 24, 2020. The Trillium Brewing Company beer garden has set up shop on the Rose Kennedy Greenway for the fourth year in a row, starting Friday at noon. Under pandemic-era guidelines, Trillium Garden on The Greenway will require advance online reservations, contactless ordering, and strict social distancing protocols. Customers must also purchase food from nearby trucks — like Zaaki, Pennypacker, and Bon Me — alongside their drink order in accordance with state guidelines. (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) coronavirus Covid-19

Here's the timeline for the phaseout of COVID-19 restrictions in Massachusetts April 28, 2021 | 1:16 PM