Amazon drops NYC as one of its new HQ2 locations

Amazon has dropped New York City as one of its new locations for a second headquarters, and will not search for another.

Nestor Ramos

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/14/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/nestor-9817.jpg A single comment made Mayor Walsh rethink supervised injection sites

AA meetings changed Marty Walsh?s life. Maybe it?s not so surprising that one could change his mind on supervised injection sites, too.

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Officials in 2017 discussed launching an effort to remove President Trump from office using the 25th Amendment, according to a report citing former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/01/17/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/wiggs_Harvard_02.jpg In Harvard affirmative action case, judge appears skeptical

The judge said the lack of Asian-American witnesses was a ?problem? in the lawsuit claiming Harvard College intentionally discriminated against Asian-American applicants.

Boston Police Department

At least five suspects sought in violent South End assault

Boston police are looking to identify at least five people who are thought to be connected to a violent assault on a man in the South End before dawn on Saturday.

A florist sorts roses in a flower shop in Vienna February 13, 2013. On occasion of the Saint Valentine's Day on February 14 Austrians will spend some 21 million euros, and for the flower business it will be the top-selling day of the year, according to the Austrian Economic Chamber of Trade. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY)

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NESTOR RAMOS

This column was supposed to destroy Valentine?s Day. Sorry: I love it

The truth ? and this may be the most subversive thing I?ve ever written ? is that I happily celebrate it every year.

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Globe Magazine

A behind-the-scenes look at Dinner with Cupid on its 10th anniversary

Fearless Cupid daters spilled some surprising revelations about the (sometimes cringeworthy) experience.

This photo made on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Zelienople, Pa., shows mulitiple forms printed from the Internal Revenue Service web page that are used for 2018 U.S. federal tax returns. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

An unwanted surprise for some taxpayers: smaller refunds under President Trump?s tax bill

Less withholding and other changes are resulting in lower overpayments on federal returns.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/14bizVideo.jpg In rap video, Insys opioid salesmen boasted of their prowess

?Insys Therapeutics, that is our name,? the associates sang. ?We?re raising the bar and we?re changing the game. To be great it takes a decision, to be better than the competition.?

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Vanessa Tyson, who said Virginia?s lieutenant governor sexually assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, will provide details to the Suffolk district attorney?s office, her attorney said.

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UMass Boston will lease Bayside Expo site to developer

In a $235 million deal that could reshape UMass Boston?s campus and the Columbia Point section of Dorchester, officials will turn over the old Bayside Expo Center site to Accordia Partners.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tlumackireadingmanshot035.jpg An agonizing year of waiting for answers follows Reading police shooting

Speaking publicly for the first time since the 2018 fatal shooting, family members of Alan Greenough said the wait for autopsy results and the identity of the officer involved has been agonizing.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abraham-26249.jpg To fix Greater Boston?s traffic woes, go big or stay home

Another day, another study telling us what is already blindingly obvious: Boston?s rush-hour is soul-crushing misery. If we don?t make massive changes, it?s going to get worse.

Ideas | Michael Rezendes

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/31/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/1025491448.jpg With so much of its leadership compromised, is the Catholic Church irredeemable?

The sexual abuse crisis has become the scandal that never ends. If the church can?t address it, a revolt of the laity ? or even a schism in the church itself ? could be coming.

HELP DESK

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/AdobeStock_25238039.jpeg Some words of caution before you Marie Kondo your wardrobe

Donating everything to Goodwill might feel good initially, but it could leave you with a dysfunctional closet and probably won?t address the clutter?s root cause.

Church officials placed 17 chairs outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Sherborn to mark the one year anniversary of the Parkland school shooting:

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Sherborn church puts out empty school chairs to remember Parkland victims

The somber display marks the first anniversary of the deadly massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year.

Opinion | Igor Volsky

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Presidential candidates want bold ideas they can own. Building a future with fewer guns should be first on their list

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/02/26/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/AFP_10R7U9.jpg A year after Parkland shooting, a sign of hope

House tackles broader background check bill after first hearing on gun violence prevention in more than a decade.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/15/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_boshous11_spts.jpg Entercom, WEEI officially announce details on Red Sox broadcasts for 2019

A number of broadcasters will join Joe Castiglione in the WEEI booth on a rotating basis, as reported earlier in the week by the Globe.

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/14/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Advance/Images/Clipboard-0273.jpg Full Mueller report must be made public

Bipartisan Grassley-Blumenthal bill to assure release of this and all future special counsel probes should be the Senate?s next order of business.

Opinion | Rachelle G. Cohen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/d18fc220fb434068b3210b3b42667502-d18fc220fb434068b3210b3b42667502-0.jpg Seth Moulton goes where fellow Democrats fear to tread

The Massachusetts congressman wants a foreign policy debate in a presidential race where President Trump has lowered the experience bar.

Olin Schumacher, co-owner of Vermont Pure CBD in Shoreham, Vt. held the hemp that they grown on their farm and extract CBD oil from them.

Beyond indica and sativa: Here?s what?s coming to a pot shop near you

Whether you?re going to a party, having trouble sleeping, or suffering pain, there?s a pot product for you. And it might be a tea, a powder, or a dissolving strip.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Season Two: How do you meet someone?

Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.

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Special reports

They were the top of their class at Boston public schools. Then life happened

Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Smartphone society

In a world where the smartphone is now ubiquitous, photographers capture daily life in which the personal device is part of the moment.

Cars

Search This Week's Specials

40 countries agree cars must have automatic braking

A U.N. agency says 40 countries led by Japan and the European Union _ but not the U.S. or China _ have agreed to require new cars and light commercial vehicles to be equipped with automated braking systems starting next year

Real Estate

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/10-beechwood-road-halifax-exterior-side-1024x576$medium-9070.jpg Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix?

Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Duck-8-1-1024x576.jpg What happened to bird flu? How a threat to human health faded from view

Although the number of cases have subsided dramatically, ?we don?t know how the story?s going to end,? says one influenza expert.

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