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Mass. reports 7,424 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 46 new deaths over two days

The state also said 78,086 people were estimated to have active cases of the potentially deadly virus, releasing combined data from Friday and Saturday.
The latest COVID-19 numbers from Massachusetts

Long the House?s consummate insider, Ronald Mariano poised to finally lead it
The Quincy Democrat, 74, says he has votes to succeed Speaker Robert A. DeLeo.

FBI at home of possible person of interest in Nashville bomb
Federal agents converged Saturday on the home of a possible person of interest in the explosion that rocked downtown Nashville as investigators scoured hundreds of tips and leads in the blast that pulverized city blocks on Christmas morning and damaged dozens of buildings.

See photos from the scene of the explosion in Nashville

?They just sort of showed up?: The Amish find a home in Vermont?s Northeast Kingdom
The Brownington Amish ? Vermont?s sole Amish church district or settlement ? have become a colorful fixture, their revived farms giving a boost to the region?s flagging agriculture even as their energies and skills give sharp competition to local building contractors.

Shirley Leung

The Massachusetts Miracle is alive and well. ?There are a lot of potential Modernas?

The spotlight may be on Moderna ? the Cambridge biotechnology company that is harnessing messenger RNA to inoculate millions ? but it is far from the only local company that will likely become famous fighting the pandemic.

Greater Boston is no longer one of the country?s 10 largest metro areas. How did that happen?

So much for the Hub of the Universe.
Spotlight Team Follow-Up

Hospital staff revived a man?s stopped heart ? and he sued

A successful ?wrongful prolongation of life? lawsuit in Montana, among other things, reflects the extent to which many ordinary Americans will go to gain ? and enforce ? their rights to control their final days.
A three-part Globe Spotlight Team series exposes the inequities that follow people in Massachusetts to their very last breaths.

The commute. The endless hustle. The heels. Some people are dreading the return to a post-pandemic world
With Dr. Anthony Fauci predicting a potential return to somewhat normal-ish life sometime in 2021, some people who used to be worried this period would never end are now worried that it will.

THE LATEST COVID-19 NEWS

Attitudes are changing about coronavirus vaccines after recent good news

New coronavirus restrictions take effect Saturday in Massachusetts

The restrictions, announced last week by Governor Charlie Baker following a post-Thanksgiving surge in cases, will remain in effect for at least two weeks.

As jobless benefit ends, Massachusetts recipients worry about their next steps

Capacity limits, taking effect just after Christmas, scramble shoppers? plans

Tom Brady leads Buccaneers to first playoff berth since 2007
Brady threw for four touchdowns and 348 yards in the first half as the Bucs ended 13-year playoff drought.

How much competition will the Patriots have for quarterbacks this offseason?

Bob Ryan
K.C. Jones was exactly what the mid-?80s Celtics needed
If ever anyone was the polar opposite of Bill Fitch in temperament and coaching style, it was K.C. Jones.

Gary Washburn: K.C. Jones avoided the spotlight, which may have cost him greater acclaim The Celtics and the basketball world react to the death of Jones

Opinion

LETTERS

9 months of coronavirus coping strategies, one postcard at a time

As we approach the New Year and the promise of the vaccine rollout, we look back at an edited sampling of readers? Postcards from the Pandemic.
EDITORIAL

Business needs a break on unemployment taxes
Jimmy Tingle

The other pandemic
Joan Wickersham

Why ?War and Peace? is my book of the year
Alex Beam

The White House has a gift shop?
A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE | Jeneé Osterheldt

Claiming land and water on Martha?s Vineyard

If you?re willing to see, the walls have something to say

In protest, there is community and joy rising

Black queer lives are Black lives that matter, too

To be Black, Bostonian, and proud

With every sip, a labor of love

COLD COMFORTS
Tranquil trails for winter hiking
We?re bundling up and eschewing the crowded mega ski areas in favor of more natural, less-visited destinations.

Globe Magazine
The Globe photographers? best photos of 2020
Discover the stories behind some of the most memorable images from a long year.

See more from our 2020 Year in Review

How the ?living room of West Roxbury? deals with the COVID-19 pandemic
A single positive COVID-19 test could thwart the painstaking effort Miriam and Hector Morales are taking to keep Recreo Coffee and Roasterie open in West Roxbury. But they keep roasting, grinding, and serving the neighborhood.

SEMLEC remembers Taunton police officer who died of COVID-19 on Christmas Eve
A Taunton police officer who died on Christmas Eve after battling COVID-19 was remembered Saturday as a ?search and rescue hero? by the Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council.

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought
Looking back on a most unusual year for On Second Thought
When first presented in late 2009, the regular column was loosely defined by one editor here at the Globe end as ?stuff that normally wouldn?t make its way into the sports section.?

Replay | December 24, 1967
It?s 1967, and Boston needs to replace Fenway Park
Even more than 50 years ago, America's Most Beloved Ballpark was seen as inadequate in its capacity, parking facilities, and dimensions.

Some stocks skyrocketed in 2020, despite the pandemic. What about 2021?
Already notable for its mostly unstoppable rise this year ? despite a pandemic that has killed more than 300,000 people, put millions out of work and shuttered businesses around the country ? the market is now tipping into outright euphoria.

LOVE LETTERS
Left my husband and fell in love with a woman at work
Help a reader who's falling in love with a woman after leaving her husband.

Recommended Reads

Twin brothers struggle to adjust to college in a time of pandemic

Janiel and Jael Rosario are at different schools, but the first semester has fallen far short of what they?d imagined. The twins? experiences are common among first-year students who have seen their college dreams stalled by COVID-19.

Anxiety, relief ? and confusion ? as vaccines head to Massachusetts? hard-hit senior care sites
Inoculating the tens of thousands of frail elders who live in long-term-care facilities and the small army of caregivers who look after them may be the single most challenging phase of the state?s ambitious vaccine program.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
5 destinations to satisfy your wanderlust post-pandemic
By late 2021, most of us will hopefully have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Here's where to go then.

metro

SEMLEC remembers Taunton police officer who died of COVID-19 on Christmas Eve
A Taunton police officer who died on Christmas Eve after battling COVID-19 was remembered Saturday as a ?search and rescue hero? by the Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council.

Capacity limits, taking effect just after Christmas, scramble shoppers? plans

How the ?living room of West Roxbury? deals with the COVID-19 pandemic

Sports

Chad Finn | Sports media
NBA broadcast partners face new challenges in a season without a bubble
ESPN and ABC are scheduled to air 49 games during the first half of the season.

Pro Bowl snub doesn?t worry Patriots? J.C. Jackson
Replay | December 24, 1967

It?s 1967, and Boston needs to replace Fenway Park

business

The Massachusetts Miracle is alive and well. ?There are a lot of potential Modernas?
The spotlight may be on Moderna ? the Cambridge biotechnology company that is harnessing messenger RNA to inoculate millions ? but it is far from the only local company that will likely become famous fighting the pandemic.

Benefits are set to lapse for millions of people as Trump fails to sign stimulus bill

Some stocks skyrocketed in 2020, despite the pandemic. What about 2021?

politics

Unemployment aid set to lapse Saturday as Trump?s plans for relief bill remain unclear
Lawmakers in Congress and White House officials have indicated that they remain uncertain if President Trump will relent and sign the legislation, issue a formal veto, or just leave it unsigned.

Answering Trump, Democrats try and fail to jam $2,000 payments through House

House Republicans block Democratic bid to pass Trump demand for $2,000 checks

lifestyle

LOVE LETTERS
Left my husband and fell in love with a woman at work
Help a reader who's falling in love with a woman after leaving her husband.

Wrapping up Boxing Day

How to get kids cross-country skiing this winter

arts

Wampanoag voices on Harvard?s Peabody Museum collection
A virtual exhibit lends contemporary Wampanoag perspectives to historic objects.

TELEVISION

Page one: Getting a head start on the books slated to be TV series in 2021

What?s happening in the arts world

rhode island

RI NEWS
Community rallies for family after 7-year-old girl dies in Providence fire
Thousands are raising money and offering support to the families displaced by the 3-alarm fire Tuesday.

RI BUSINESS

Top R.I. lawmakers have concerns about possible Lifespan-Care New England merger

Girl, 7, dies after being rescued from Providence house fire; toddler sister in critical condition

Newton

Special Projects

A beautiful resistance | JENEÉ OSTERHELDT

To be Black, Bostonian, and proud

Boston's Black history is often hidden, but a quarter of the city's population is Black. That's nearly double the percentage of the Black population of the US.
See more from 'A Beautiful Resistance' Follow on Instagram

On the Street

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation

This time, Quincy Center?s revival looks legit

Revere was going through a revival before COVID-19. Can it stay on track?

See more from our business series ?On the Street?: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

More

2020 Bostonians of the Year: The Front Line
They stood up to fight the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice. Meet the people leading us through a harrowing year.

Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored ? one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

I knew getting prostate cancer at 48 would change me. I had no idea how much
For the past year, Mark Shanahan has been working on Mr. 80 Percent, a six-episode podcast miniseries about his experience with prostate cancer. It?s a deeply personal, sometimes harrowing, often funny story about a disease that affects millions of men. The heroes are his doctors and family, who put up with some appalling behavior. You?ll hear from both.

Comfort Zone

Cooking | Magazine

Recipes: Spanish-inspired pork, sauteed vegetables, and almond cake

A few key ingredients pack outsized flavor into these dishes.

Min Jin Lee on the ?deep moral conscience? of ?The Great Gatsby?

The "Pachinko" author has a new introduction to Fitzgerald's classic, which enters the public domain on Jan. 1.
HOLIDAYS

9 light displays for oohs and aahs by automobile

These festive drive-through destinations serve up holiday magic the safe way.

Catch these online classical concerts before year?s end

Highlights include multicultural takes on "Messiah" and creatively staged vocal concerts.
MUSIC REVIEW

With sleigh bells jingling, the Pops puts on a holiday show in your home instead of theirs

Though the virtual concert can?t compare to experiencing a Holiday Pops show live in Symphony Hall, its mere existence is something to applaud in a season when so many traditions have been disrupted.
COMFORT ZONE

These thoughtful, last-minute gifts arrive in an instant, no mailing required

And many benefit local businesses, to boot.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Abdallah Fayyad

DeLeo is poised to work at Northeastern. So far, he?s let students down

IDEAS | JULIA HOTZ

When money is running short, print your own
Diane Hessan

?Twas the night before Christmas, 2020

Scot Lehigh

Beware of authoritarianism and conspiratorialism, twin threats to our democracy
EDITORIAL

The system worked ? this time
IDEAS | JOSH BERNOFF

Social media broke America. Here?s how to fix it

STAT

The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months ? and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients? need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

Covid-19?s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus ? and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
Cover Story

Diagnosed with leukemia at age 8, he?d need two bone marrow transplants. Help came from unexpected places.
Perspective

My COVID anxiety has evolved into a persistent funk. Now what?
Miss Conduct

Miss Conduct: What the pandemic taught me
Cooking

Recipes: Spanish-inspired pork, sauteed vegetables, and almond cake

sports

Who are the Patriots? building blocks for the future?

Changing up: Taking an early look at the one-of-a-kind 2021 NHL season

K.C. Jones was exactly what the mid-?80s Celtics needed

metro

Nancy Harrington, who achieved a trio of firsts as Salem State?s president, dies at 81

SEMLEC remembers Taunton police officer who died of COVID-19 on Christmas Eve

Capacity limits, taking effect just after Christmas, scramble shoppers? plans

Nation

Trump?s fraud claims died in court, but the myth of stolen elections lives on

Dad got the vaccine, but no one else did ? yet

It?s a contagious attitude ? good news about the coronavirus vaccine is changing perceptions

World

A pandemic Christmas: Services move online, people stay home

Pope Francis makes Christmas Day plea for vaccines for all

A pandemic Christmas: Churches shut, borders complicated

politics

Answering Trump, Democrats try and fail to jam $2,000 payments through House

House Republicans block Democratic bid to pass Trump demand for $2,000 checks

A look at pardons, clemency in waning weeks of Trump tenure

business

The Massachusetts Miracle is alive and well. ?There are a lot of potential Modernas?

Benefits are set to lapse for millions of people as Trump fails to sign stimulus bill

Some stocks skyrocketed in 2020, despite the pandemic. What about 2021?

lifestyle

Left my husband and fell in love with a woman at work

Wrapping up Boxing Day

How to get kids cross-country skiing this winter

marijuana

COVID can?t cancel canna-Christmas

Rockland gives green light to a fourth marijuana business

This high-end furniture is designed to secure your cannabis

opinion

Business needs a break on unemployment taxes

The other pandemic

9 months of coronavirus coping strategies, one postcard at a time

food & dining

Legal Oysteria closes in Charlestown; Pammy?s offers Sunday supper; and more restaurants head into hibernation

Recipe: This single-layer chocolate cake topped with chocolate cream is an elegant ending to a holiday dinner

This year I will dine with the many ghosts of Christmas Eves past

travel

Tranquil trails for winter hiking

5 destinations to satisfy your wanderlust post-pandemic

Seen the back of your junk drawer lately? 6 mundane ?trips? to take before you?re vaccinated

Books

Min Jin Lee on the ?deep moral conscience? of ?The Great Gatsby?

The 55 best books of 2020

Caught between Boston and Quincy in ?The Last American Aristocrat?

Movies

?Promising Young Woman? pushes buttons as it turns the tables

Doc Talk: Accursed Mountain State, Belgium abandoned

Tom Hanks, Texas, 1870: ?News of the World? -- as usual, he?s the right man for the job

Television

Page one: Getting a head start on the books slated to be TV series in 2021

GBH?s Julia Child marathon will keep you entertained all day long on Dec. 26

Reaction to John Mulaney underscores double standard for female and Black celebs who go into rehab

music

Top 10 jazz albums of 2020

Top 12 best pop albums of 2020

Top 10 hip-hop albums of 2020

Theater/Dance

Boston record label Dead & Mellow marks a first year in which nothing went according to plan

Williamstown Theatre Festival re-creates its lost summer season on Audible

This virtual ?Christmas Revels? is a virtual triumph

globe local

Day or night, a winter wonderland awaits

Should Massachusetts lift its ban on flavored tobacco products?

Beverly Beckham: What we will remember about a year we?d just as soon forget

Obituaries

Nancy Harrington, who achieved a trio of firsts as Salem State?s president, dies at 81

Hank Adams, prolific Native American rights advocate, dies

K.C. Jones, a Celtics legend and 12-time NBA champion, dies at 88