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The Celtics are down 3-1 in their series against the New York Knicks in the NBA’s second-round finals. The team has its must-win Game 5 tonight. To get ready for the game, we’re looking back with a piece of C’s history: an interview with Chuck Cooper III, the son of legendary Celtics player Chuck Cooper, who integrated the NBA in 1950. “My father came in and immediately established himself as the Celtics’ best rebounder, their best defender,” Cooper told GBH News Rooted host Paris Alston. “It led to the Celtics first winning record; it was the Celtics’ first winning season.” Watch the whole thing here. 

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Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft, the son of Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft, vowed to recuse himself from discussions around his family’s businesses if elected mayor — but did not say how that would work. “What does that mean? Who makes the decision for the city?” GBH’s Jim Braude asked Kraft on Boston Public Radio. “Chief financial officer, chief legal people,” Kraft said. “They’re constitutionally empowered?” Braude asked. “That I could not answer, Jim,” replied Kraft.

Kraft also said that his father likely asked his friends to donate money to Kraft’s campaign: “he’s a dad, right?” Kraft said. “I mean, I’d do that for my kid.” You can watch the full interview here. 

What do older adults in Massachusetts want to see lawmakers working on? At Older Adult Lobby Day in Beacon Hill, people spoke up for home care programs, the high cost of housing and making shelters more accessible for people with disabilities.

“As the first of the baby boomers turn 80, like me, we know the need for long-term care will continue to grow. We are clear that we want to age in our communities,” said Rosa Bentley, president of the grassroots Massachusetts Senior Action Council.

GILTI taxes on megacorporations: A majority of Massachusetts lawmakers are ready to support an increased tax on large corporations’ foreign profits from intangible assets like copyrights and trademarks. The move would bring Massachusetts in line with other New England states: Massachusetts and Connecticut have a 5% tax on such income, while Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island tax it at 50%.

This is likely not something most businesses in the state will have to worry about: the calculation is based on a federal formula called Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income, or GILTI. MassBudget Policy Director Phineas Baxandall told the State House News Service that only 0.5% of all corporations paying taxes in the U.S. reported such income in 2021, and that 93% of that income went to corporations with assets of more than $2.5 billion.

The Michelin Guide is coming to Boston and will start ranking restaurants that meet its fine dining standards. That means the guide has reached an agreement with local tourism boards, under which MeetBoston will pay an as-of-yet undisclosed amount in exchange for featuring the city’s restaurants.

“It’s not a well-kept secret, and I think that’s because tourism boards do have to release what they’re spending money on,” food writer Korsha Wilson told GBH late last year. “It’s definitely not some organic thing. It’s very, very calculated when Michelin Guide comes to a new city.”

US colleges need international students. Trump’s policies may drive them away.

From her home in Beijing, a woman GBH News is identifying only as Clare keeps an eye on the news and worries about her son at his American college. Her younger daughter is in high school, and considering colleges abroad — but anti-immigrant sentiments, along with the federal government suddenly revoking and then sometimes reinstating thousands of student visas, have Clare’s daughter considering schools in other countries.

“I think the government is really hostile right now,” Clare said. “We have to consider all the possibilities,” she said. “Next year, when my child has to go to college, [Donald] Trump is still the president.”

There were more than 82,000 international students studying in Massachusetts in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors project. They made up more than 40% of students in both undergraduate and graduate programs at Northeastern University and about 26% of all students at both Boston University and Harvard.

Between their work and their spending, these students contributed about $4 billion to the Massachusetts economy that year, according to the NAFSA Association of International Educators. Most international students are not eligible for federal financial aid and typically pay full tuition.

New international student enrollments fell 12% during Trump’s first term.

“Historically, we’ve had the ability to attract the greatest talent in any field from around the world,“ said Gerardo Blanco, who heads Boston College’s Center for International Higher Education. “But this is just making it like 'The Hunger Games,' and it’s really putting international students in a very precarious situation.”

Blanco said he worries that fewer international students means fewer people with college or graduate degrees will stay in the U.S. to work in fields that require them.

“The clock is ticking, and nobody really knows what’s happening,” Blanco said.

Read Kirk Carapezza’s full reporting here, and hear more on the College Uncovered podcast.