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Charges dropped, then a backlash, in courthouse drama before SJC
In Osman Bilal?s case, the effort to remove the stigma of his criminal past has sparked a swirling courthouse drama, from accusations of prosecutorial deception and judge-shopping to a hushed sidebar and an abrupt departure from the bench ? that has risen to the state?s highest court.

How Bernie Sanders edged out Elizabeth Warren on the left
Sanders has secured the support of many progressive groups and activists in recent weeks, suggesting he has the upper hand in his clash with Warren to the progressive standard-bearer in the race.

Warren gets endorsement from Des Moines Register Union Leader newspaper in N.H. endorses Klobuchar

?Our phone rings from 7 in the morning until 10 at night.? Life in Iowa?s political bombardment zone
Phone calls, billboards, nonstop TV ads and social media campaigns. Under assault by presidential candidates desperate for a win in the Hawkeye state, the famous politeness and hospitality of Iowans is being tested.

Trump tied Ukraine aid to inquiries he sought, Bolton book says

President Trump told his national security adviser in August 2019 that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens, according to an unpublished manuscript by the former adviser, John Bolton.
Markey blasts GOP for Senate impeachment ?coverup?

China extends holiday to contain virus as death toll rises to 80

China on Monday expanded sweeping efforts to contain a viral disease by extending the Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home and avoid spreading infection as the death toll rose to 80. an hour ago
US reports five people with virus from China These maps are tracking the spread and risk of the Wuhan coronavirus in real time

Opinion

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

OPINION | JEFF JACOBY

?Never Again,? again and again
OPINION | Joseph Polak

A tale of two guards wavering on the precipice of the Holocaust
OPINION | Michael Gruenbaum

When the Nazis came to Prague
OPINION | Sara J. Bloomfield

Anti-Semitism preceded Auschwitz ? and outlived it
ALEX SPEIER

The Mookie dilemma: Red Sox face franchise-changing decision

Dealing a superstar just entering his prime years seems shortsighted but the history of long-term megadeals offer plenty of risk as well.
Mookie Betts trade talks evolving with Dodgers, Padres

Survivors return to Auschwitz 75 years after liberation

Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered Monday for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, using the testimony of survivors to warn about the signs of rising anti-Semitism and hatred in the world today. 56 minutes ago

What comes first in Charlestown: the bus lane or the bus?
Officials are being pressed to design space for buses on Rutherford Avenue ? a road that currently has no bus service at all.

Northeastern expected to launch graduate program in Maine
At a time when many of Maine?s colleges and universities are struggling to attract students, Boston?s Northeastern University is expected to announce Monday that it is opening a satellite campus in Portland.

More recent headlines

Teen fatally stabbed on Blue Hill Ave. Saturday identified; younger brother is among those injured

Four people hospitalized after being rescued from Dorchester fire

Winchester, N.H., crash kills 47-year-old man, injures four others

Don?t miss the Globe?s coverage and analysis of the Democratic primaries

The Globe?s politics team will help you sort through the noise with timely, in-depth news coverage, and sharp analysis of the state of the race. Here?s how to stay in the know.

?Monet and Boston? will celebrate a strong connection, collection at the MFA
Several Impressionist paintings are coming home for the occasion.

Comedian Pete Holmes told Malia Obama to ?please shut the (expletive) up? while performing in Somerville
Holmes performed at the Comedy Studio in Somerville, and Malia Obama was in the front row in the audience. And Holmes didn't recognize her.

How Lexington?s Pete Holmes got Judd Apatow?s attention and became a comedy star

Looking for diversity in the presidential race? It?s with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other surrogates for the all-white top Democratic candidates
As the Iowa caucuses approach, Black and Latino politicians are among the most sought-after endorsers and surrogates on the campaign trail.

Harry and Meghan?s big funding source is private. Sort of
In trying to prove that they would renounce taxpayer money, Harry and Meghan gave Britons a peek at the shadowy world of ostensibly private finance that bankrolls the family and its mansions, gardens, and considerable staff.

Recommended Reads

Spotlight Investigative Journalism Fellowship

The danger in our salad bowls

Leafy green vegetables have become the leading cause of E. coli poisoning. And the federal government still lacks the means, and maybe the will, to take it on.

PATRIOTS
A blueprint to remaking the Patriots
We put it to each of the Globe?s NFL writers to determine a course of action for the Patriots this offseason, including a plan for Tom Brady, and what to do in free agency and in the NFL Draft.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY
How can the Red Sox be so confident MLB?s investigation will end well for them?
The reporters who broke the news on the Houston Astros? cheating scandal are the same reporters that had three sources accusing the 108-win Red Sox of cheating in 2018.

Rhode Island

Bill would let R.I. lawmakers hide behind tinted windows

State legislator from Providence wants to allow tinted windshields on private vehicles of lawmakers, police, firefighters, and judges

Tampa-area educator tapped to lead Providence schools

Bill would let R.I. lawmakers hide behind tinted windows
Newton

After opposition to Albemarle, Newton continues search for proposed senior center?s home

The search for a new home for the city?s senior center ? launched shortly after Fuller took office in 2018 ? has grown into something of a game of musical chairs.

Newton City Council sets March 3 special election to decide Northland mixed-use development

Newton gets grant to study potential affordable housing at armory

Special Projects

Back to the battleground

What we learned from each of the battleground states we visited ahead of the 2020 election
Who will win in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin next year? The Globe?s D.C. bureau spent time reporting in these crucial battleground states. This is what they found.

Trump?s evangelical support mystifies his critics, but in Wisconsin, it looks stronger than ever
The president?s personal behavior and some of his core political beliefs, including his hostility toward refugees, seem at odds with the major tenets of Christianity. But Trump?s bond with evangelicals has proven to be remarkably resilient.

More from the Battleground project

Trump promised Wisconsin?s farmers his trade wars would pay off. They?re still waiting

A Pennsylvania roofer loved Bill Clinton and voted for Obama. Here?s how Trump lured him from the Democrats
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Seeing Red: A Globe Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling traffic

We endure some of the nation?s worst rush hour traffic. Our aging transit system is maddeningly unreliable. It is a crisis ? a very slow moving crisis ? that puts our region?s economic prosperity at risk. Who is to blame? Can anything be done? The Globe Spotlight Team investigates.
Education

The Great Divide

A new Globe initiative exploring the deep inequalities in our public education system, examining both the challenges and possible solutions to creating equal opportunity for all students.
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spotlight fellow report

The federal government has one main law to prevent child abuse. No state follows all of it

Hundreds of thousands of children face abuse every year, but there is only one federal law that directly addresses this national tragedy.
At the edge of a warming world

On Cape Cod, climate change is already terrifyingly real

Come with us as we explore the Cape to better understand what climate change is doing here, what it means for the future of this beloved place, and what the cost of inaction might be.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

Baker?s State Police reforms must pass
EDITORIAL

Time to get creative on Uber and Lyft fees
OPINION | Diane Hessan

About those ?Women for Trump?
OPINION | Susan Church, Kerry Doyle, and Heather Yountz

Customs and Border Protection goes rogue
EDITORIAL

The Trump administration owes the public answers on Iranian deportations
IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

It?s a right-handed world. What if we looked at it from the left?

VISUAL STORIES

The danger in our salad bowls

Warnings of ?volcanic tsunami? after eruption in the Philippines

Ground Zero?s deadly dust claims another victim

Photos: Patriots vs. Titans in AFC wild-card playoffs

metro

Winchester, N.H., crash kills 47-year-old man, injures four others
A Keene, NH man died after his car crossed the center line along Route 10 and struck a dump truck, police said. All four occupants of the truck sustained serious injuries.

What comes first in Charlestown: the bus lane or the bus?

Officials are being pressed to design space for buses on Rutherford Avenue ? a road that currently has no bus service at all.

Charges dropped, then a backlash, in courthouse drama before SJC

In Osman Bilal?s case, the effort to remove the stigma of his criminal past has sparked a swirling courthouse drama, from accusations of prosecutorial deception and judge-shopping to a hushed sidebar and an abrupt departure from the bench ? that has risen to the state?s highest court.

?Our phone rings from 7 in the morning until 10 at night.? Life in Iowa?s political bombardment zone

Teen fatally stabbed on Blue Hill Ave. Saturday identified; younger brother is among those injured

STAT

New heart transplant method being tested for the first time in the U.S.

Opinion: Why Black doctors like me are leaving academic medicine

?How long do I have?? A website on cancer survival rates seeks to help

Watch: Consumer genetic testing: What do you get for your money?

sports

Gianna Bryant wanted to carry on her father?s legacy as a basketball star

When fans would see Kobe Bryant with his daughter, Gianna, they would often mention that he and his wife, Vanessa who are parents to four girls, should have a boy, someone to carry on the Lakers star?s basketball legacy. But the 13-year-old, an avid player with professional basketball aspirations of her own, didn?t think her parents needed to have a boy to do that.

Here?s what we know about the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and 7 others

Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, 41, who led the team to five NBA championships in his 20-year career with the franchise, and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among nine people who were killed Sunday morning when the helicopter they were in crashed amid foggy conditions and burst into flames in the hilly terrain of Calabasas, Calif.
GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

In retirement, Kobe Bryant became so much more

Demi Lovato gives tearful Grammy comeback performance

Politics

How Bernie Sanders edged out Elizabeth Warren on the left

Business

Stories you may have missed from the world of business

Marijuana

State-run marijuana stores? Proponents ? including Rhode Island?s governor ? say it?s an idea worth exploring
magazine
Cover story

The 29 best new restaurants in Boston and the suburbs
Perspective

Has Louis C.K. earned a comeback?
Cooking

Recipes: Turn this stew into 2 different weeknight meals
Miss Conduct

Advice: A co-worker took a gift I left for someone else

sports

Chen wins his fourth straight US Figure Skating Championships gold medal

Tearful Doc Rivers, Tom Brady among those mourning Kobe Bryant

In a rare feat of fleet feet, Lawrence?s Jerimil German and Medford?s Tristen Howard finish tied in the 55-meter race

metro

Winchester, N.H., crash kills 47-year-old man, injures four others

What comes first in Charlestown: the bus lane or the bus?

Charges dropped, then a backlash, in courthouse drama before SJC

Nation

4 Missouri River states unite to try to limit flooding

How Bernie Sanders edged out Elizabeth Warren on the left

Ex-Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson to visit Mass. State House Monday to highlight NDAs

World

Turkish teams hunt for quake survivors as death toll hits 38

North Korean leader?s aunt reemerges after husband?s execution

Zelensky marks Auschwitz anniversary honoring survivors

politics

With Trump impeachment trial set to resume, a key question remains: Will senators hear witnesses?

Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire endorses Amy Klobuchar

Trump?s legal team argues president did nothing wrong in Ukraine dealings

business

Bolton says Trump tied Ukraine funds to Biden probe, according to report

Dollar Shave vs. Gillette: a lesson for a new era

US Embassy in Baghdad hit in Katyusha rocket attack

lifestyle

A riot of color on a subdued Grammys red carpet

Comedian Pete Holmes told Malia Obama to ?please shut the (expletive) up? while performing in Somerville

As ?flight shame? movement grows, more airlines and travelers seek to offset carbon footprint

marijuana

State-run marijuana stores? Proponents ? including Rhode Island?s governor ? say it?s an idea worth exploring

Colorado State University gets gift to open research center on cannabis compounds

Greek police find 1.25 tons of cannabis hidden in date paste

opinion

A tale of two guards wavering on the precipice of the Holocaust

When the Nazis came to Prague

?Never Again,? again and again

food & dining

At Parsnip, a Filipino pop-up is a chef?s passion project

At Good Thymes in Lowell, an emphasis on what really matters

How Eastern Standard?s Vanessa Rea-Marcel went from ice-cream scooper to award-winning sommelier

travel

As ?flight shame? movement grows, more airlines and travelers seek to offset carbon footprint

Tourism industry is (finally) shining a light on the women of the world

Learning how to ski (and have fun) from a real pro

Books

Local bestsellers for the week ending Jan. 19

Author Donna Jackson Nakazawa searches for answers, cell by cell

Swiss novelist Peter Stamm not always in it for the long haul

Movies

Report from the Sundance Film Festival: from Taylor Swift to a ?dying? dad

Some ?Gentlemen? are more gentlemanly than others

Hiding in plain, and not-so-plain, sight: Gene Hackman turns 90

Television

This week?s TV: Goodbye ?Good Place,? hello Super Bowl and Taylor Swift

On ?SNL,? Adam Driver as Jeffrey Epstein and Jon Lovitz as Alan Dershowitz reunite in hell

Musical stars to sing for Oscar at awards show

music

Lizzo?s high-powered Grammys opener was just what everyone needed. Watch a video of it here

Aerosmith performs at the Grammys without drummer Joey Kramer

Billie Eilish the big winner on a night of celebration and mourning

Theater/Dance

Rubberband gets sociopolitical in ?Ever So Slightly?

In ?Shadow? at ArtsEmerson, revelations from a struggle to be understood

Boston stand-up Don Gavin is ready for the secret to get out

globe local

Get crafty with your holiday shopping at local fairs

Hardiest hikers, campers don?t come in from the cold

Should Massachusetts exempt police body camera footage from state public records law?

Obituaries

Michael I. Sovern, who led Columbia in eventful era

?Dark Shadows,? ?Cagney & Lacey? actor John Karlen dies

James J. McCarthy, Harvard oceanographer who focused attention on climate change, dies 75