AFC Championship: Broncos 20, Patriots 18

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Patriots unable to master the road game

The team that started 10-0 didn?t reach the Super Bowl because it had to win a road game in a tough venue.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

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If Tom Brady and Bill Belichick were a cellphone carrier, then the Mile High City would be a dead zone.

Ben Volin | On football

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Tom Brady was hit 20 times, the most hits taken by any quarterback in any game this season.

Demaris Villanueva reviewed forms to enroll her son, 3-year-old Israel, in one of Denver?s public schools.

Bob Pearson for The Boston Globe

Learning Curve

Denver?s unified school enrollments may offer Boston a lesson

One-stop shopping for public, magnet, charter, and innovations schools has proved popular in Colorado.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/01/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/200_kasich_sanders.jpg Some N.H. voters are flexible when it comes to ideology

A fickle and potentially pivotal slice of the electorate finds itself flirting with seemingly contradictory possibilities.

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To win the state, Bernie Sanders must ensure that he does not lose ground with female voters.

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A host of new flights starting in the spring will further crowd often-packed Terminal E, which last year handled a record number of travelers.

Adrian Walker

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/01/24/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/walker-10277.jpg SEIU head rose from low-wage worker to labor boss

Tyrék Lee initially refused to sign his union card when he was hired as a telephone operator.

A man pushed a wheelbarrow full of stones he was clearing from a flooded street after high tide.

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

For many in Mass., day after snowfall was easy sledding

The storm left a foot of snow across much of the Cape and 3 to 6 inches across much of eastern Mass. ? but some got just a dusting.

Stat

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/01/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/drinks.jpg Probiotics come with health claims, but science is shaky

Probiotics are said to improve digestive and immune health. Scientific evidence, however, does not necessarily support those claims.

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The time it takes to resolve the cases has frustrated citizens and the officers who live in the shadow of possible action.

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The state, already with the lowest rate of uninsured people in the country, is making a fresh push to lower that rate.

photograph by john goodman

alex beam

On John Updike and eternity

Faith is hard to come by. How did Updike ? an intellectual and an ironist, and a prodigious, visible sinner ? maintain his?

The best reason to support Hillary Clinton isn?t the weaknesses of her opponents; it?s her demonstrated strengths and experience.

Editorial | N.H. Primary Endorsement

Hillary Clinton deserves Democratic nomination

The best reason to support Clinton isn?t the weaknesses of her opponents; it?s her demonstrated strengths and experience.

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The group expects to spend more than $200,000 this year supporting those working on alternatives to animal testing.

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Large amounts of money poured into an obscure match, days after reports claimed tennis officials ignored signs of a scandal.

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The company is several years into an effort to become one of the world?s biggest software suppliers.

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Ground Game

Ground Game

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Geographically, Sanders is bolstered by independent voters and clusters of support along the state?s border with Vermont.

Globe investigations

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A look at high-impact investigations from The Boston Globe, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning report on abuse in the Catholic Church.

The Big Picture

Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP

Water crisis in Flint, Mich.

Thousands of residents in Michigan have been exposed to toxic amounts of lead, including about 9,000 children.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

BetaBoston

BetaBoston

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Harvard neuroscientists are teaming up with coders on a massive project to understand and mimic how the human brain learns.

Crux

John L. Allen Jr. | All Things Catholic

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A pope?s impact is measured not just by what he says or does, but also by which impulses in Catholicism rise or fall on his watch.

Globe Insiders

Design New England

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Interior designer Holly Joe cooks up the love in her sophisticated yet cozy family house in Westwood.