AFC Championship: Steelers at Patriots

KANSAS CITY, MP - JANUARY 15: Kicker Chris Boswell #9 of the Pittsburgh Steelers scores the first points of the game against the Kansas City Chiefs kicking a field goal from the hold of teammate punter Jordan Berry #4 in the first quater of the AFC Divisional Playoff game at Arrowhead Stadium on January 15, 2017 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images)

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STEELERS 18, CHIEFS 16

Steelers edge Chiefs, get Patriots in AFC title game

Chris Boswell?s record six field goals sent Pittsburgh past KC and on to Foxborough next Sunday.

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A closer look at the team the Patriots will face in the AFC Championship on Sunday.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

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With the Giants, Seahawks, and Cowboys out of the playoffs, we can still look forward to a Tom Brady-Aaron Rodgers showdown.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/01/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/beaconhilldome.jpg Many state boards plagued by vacancies

One woman on the African-American Advisory Commission died last spring, but is still listed as a member.

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These cheeky pink hats will appear by the thousands at the Women?s March on Washington, D.C.

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Sunday marks the 98th anniversary of the flood, one of history?s most bizarre disasters that has remained a topic of grim fascination ever since.

Special Report

As Obama departs, black youth question place in Trump?s America

Black youth in Ferguson, Baltimore, and Boston are confronting the paradox of President Obama?s historic ascension and the start of the Donald Trump era.

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A growing number of companies are now using online auctions sites to help unload all those returns.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/king.jpg A look at what?s open, closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

How will the holiday affect your routine?

A new initiative targets children of opioid addicts

A program is launching in Massachusetts specifically aimed at newborns, infants, and toddlers with opioid-addicted parents.

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Much of the medication prescribed to animals is the same medication prescribed to humans.

The transition: Obama to Trump

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Donald Trump said in a weekend interview that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Obama?s signature health-care law.

People participated in rally to denounce plans to revoke the Affordable Care Act.

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Thousands protest health care repeal at Faneuil Hall

A crowd estimated at more than 6,000 denounced plans to revoke President Obama?s signature health care law.

Opinion | Elizabeth Warren

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Bedford_20170115_DEMOCRAT_RALLY_006.jpg The GOP?s strategy for Obamacare? Repeal and run.

There?s no magic wand we can wave to simply snap back to our old system if Republicans decide to rip up the Affordable Care Act and run away.

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The outgoing president acknowledged it?s been an ??unusual?? transition, adding, ??I suspect the president-elect would agree with that.??

Adrian Walker

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/walker-11812.jpg Donald Trump picked the wrong foil in civil rights hero John Lewis

A tweetstorm is not likely to make Lewis go away. He?s faced much worse.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/15/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/92a3de951c01421fa6450e2a1c762839-92a3de951c01421fa6450e2a1c762839-0.jpg Trump asks if outgoing CIA chief was leaker of ?fake news?

Donald Trump appeared to suggest that John Brennan may have been behind the publication last week of unverified and salacious intelligence.

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An afternoon recap of the day?s most important business news, delivered Monday through Friday.

Opinion & Ideas

Renée Graham

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The Democrats can?t melt while opposing Trump.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/04/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/Burkowitz-hero-1932[1].jpg She loved him, and he died in the Holocaust. Now her son is bringing his music back to life.

A tale of young love drove a son on an eye-opening journey. And in the process, a musical legacy that was all but lost has been found, and a life revealed.

Life sciences

STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.

Investigations

The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

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One Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?

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.