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Residents over 65 and those with two health conditions will become eligible for COVID-19 vaccines Thursday
Nearly doubling the number of Massachusetts residents eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, state officials said residents over 65 and those with two underlying health conditions can book appointments starting Thursday. 2 hours ago

Vaccine resources: What you need to know

What you need to know about qualifying medical conditions for the COVID vaccine

Here’s who is eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine

Charts: Who has been vaccinated in Massachusetts, and how many doses has the state received?

Mass. Legislature to probe Baker’s COVID vaccine rollout

The Massachusetts Legislature will call Governor Charlie Baker’s administration to a series of oversight hearings to answer for a vaccine rollout that some have criticized as sluggish and inequitable. 21 minutes ago
Officials at every level of government in Mass. are criticizing Baker over vaccine rollout

Whitman fire chief unhappy over town’s COVID vaccine cutoff by state

Whitman officials said Wednesday that the state has indicated their community won’t receive anymore doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, so residents should book appointments at one of the mass vaccination sites once they’re eligible. 2 hours ago

What we know about the South African coronavirus variant found in Mass.
Massachusetts officials on Tuesday confirmed the state’s first case of the coronavirus variant that originated in South Africa. Here’s what we know about the variant, officially dubbed B.1.351. 1 hour ago

Rhode Island finally unveils a portal for appointments at its mass vaccination sites
The state is also setting up a website where everybody can sign up to be notified when they are eligible. 35 minutes ago

How R.I. went from best in COVID-19 testing to worst in vaccine distribution

Rush Limbaugh, bombastic talk radio host who became voice of American conservatism, dies
Rush Limbaugh, the bombastic talk radio host who became a voice of American conservatism, has died, his website says.

These maps show how much snow to expect from Thursday’s storm
Potential snow totals could reach between 4 and 8 inches across the state by Friday night. Forecasters are warning travel could be difficult and hazardous conditions could impact the morning and evening commutes.

Former FBI agent convicted of helping James 'Whitey' Bulger orchestrate 1982 slaying granted medical release

The Florida’s Commission on Offender Review voted 2-1 to release John Connolly Jr. after doctors who have been treating him reported that he is terminally ill and is likely to die within a year.

boston marathon
John Hancock layoffs prompt BAA to take over managing elite athletes for Boston Marathon
The race sponsor, which already was in an unusual arrangement to recruit the high-level competitors, laid off approximately 160 employees Tuesday.

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Red Sox trade two pitchers to Rays in exchange for No. 13 prospect in Tampa system
Pitchers Jeffrey Springs and Chris Mazza are headed to Tampa in exchange for minor league catcher Ronaldo Hernández and another prospect.

Chad Finn: I’m intrigued to see what this team Chaim Bloom has put together can do

Former Trump casino where stars played is imploded after falling into disrepair
The former Trump Plaza casino was imploded after falling into such disrepair that chunks of the building began peeling off and crashing to the ground.

Opinion

EDITORIAL

Massachusetts needs to test students to diagnose COVID-19 learning slide

School districts won’t be able to chart a path forward without an accurate measurement of what’s been lost.
Mary Ann D'Urso

The Grocery Stories: America’s version of a caste system
Renée Graham

History won’t hold Trump accountable either
JEFF JACOBY

Don’t get hooked on executive orders
MARCELA GARCÍA

Boston’s dogs just wanna run free

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

3 restaurants we supported this week Learn more about Project Takeout

British queen’s husband, Prince Philip, admitted to hospital
Britain’s 99-year-old Prince Philip has been admitted to a London hospital after feeling unwell, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday.

NAMES
Berklee student leaves ‘American Idol’ judge Luke Bryan in tears with powerful performance
"This is the first time in four years that someone just singing made me cry."

Biden administration taps another Mass. energy expert, Phil Giudice
The Biden administration has turned to Massachusetts yet again to fill another important role.

Love Letters
He’s nice, but doesn’t feel like a soul mate
Should this 50-year-old move on or “settle”?

PROJECT TAKEOUT
Support Black-owned restaurants: Get takeout
Are you in the mood for island flavors, healthy smoothies, pizza and chill, or date-night romance? Here’s where to go.

A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt
The Black history I carry with me: Red Shaydez
Red Shaydez is a Boston hip-hop artist, mentor, educator, and multi-hyphenate creative.

Recommended reads

Boston’s Black women activists walk a historic path —and look toward the future

Contemporary activists say they proudly carry on the legacy of countless women who may not be as well known today as they ought to be, but who changed the history of Boston.

ADRIAN WALKER
Remembering Doris Bunte
Simply put, Doris Bunte was a warrior. From the time she arrived in Boston in the late 1950s, she was on a quest to make life better for working people, and she was fierce in that pursuit.

The new leader of the nation’s coronavirus fight has been battling diseases her whole career
Dr. Rochelle Walensky tackled the AIDS epidemic, rose through the ranks at Massachusetts General Hospital, and now heads the CDC.

metro

Baker announces residents over 65 to be eligible for vaccine
Gov. Charlie Baker announced residents over 65 and those with two health conditions will become eligible for COVID-19 beginning on Thursday.

Mass. Legislature to probe Baker’s COVID vaccine rollout
CORONAVIRUS

Rhode Island finally unveils a portal for appointments at its mass vaccination sites

Sports

dan shaughnessy
What I will miss about Red Sox spring training
Players are reporting to camp, but for the first time in 35 years, this columnist won't, and that is an unwelcome curveball in this pandemic world.

Red Sox

Red Sox trade two pitchers to Rays in exchange for No. 13 prospect in Tampa system
boston marathon

John Hancock layoffs prompt BAA to take over managing elite athletes for Boston Marathon

business

Biden administration taps another Mass. energy expert, Phil Giudice
The Biden administration has turned to Massachusetts yet again to fill another important role.

Locus Robotics raises $150 million, reaching ‘unicorn’ status amid boom in warehouse automation

Former Trump casino where stars played is imploded after falling into disrepair

politics

‘Sink or swim, it’s your choice!’: Texas mayor who recently resigned berates those affected by the storm
A now-former Texas mayor is under fire after he posted a series of comments on social media shaming residents for seeking out assistance amid an unusual — and disastrous — winter storm sweeping the state.

Texas Republicans mocked California power outages. With their state now facing a disastrous storm, Cruz and others are facing backlash
Analysis

Three key takeaways from Joe Biden’s town hall meeting in Wisconsin

lifestyle

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
You think you miss everything about travel. I’m here to remind you that it’s not always glamorous
In all of our longing to step out into the world again, we gloss over the annoyances. Here’s a refresher.

TRAVEL

Pop-up igloos at Ocean Edge Resort, a car rental app comes to Boston, and Club Med debuts in Canada
TRAVEL

Alitalia says his ticket is refundable — so why isn’t it?

arts

PHOTOGRAPHY
Abelardo Morell keeps sharing ‘tricks the camera can do’
The photographer's new "Vessels" series has a lot in common with his camera obscura pictures.

NAMES

Berklee student leaves ‘American Idol’ judge Luke Bryan in tears with powerful performance
TELEVISION

Toxic love triangle blunted by sticking point in ‘Behind Her Eyes’

rhode island

CORONAVIRUS
Rhode Island finally unveils a portal for appointments at its mass vaccination sites
The state is also setting up a website where everybody can sign up to be notified when they are eligible.

RHODE MAP

Here’s what Mayor Elorza is asking state leaders for this year
RI ARTS

‘Give yourself permission to be great’

Newton

Special Projects

A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Black History Month

A Beautiful Resistance, in a special collaboration with Reebok, celebrate Black History Month. Black Joy. Black Wellness. Black Futures.
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

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

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

COMFORT ZONE

The only typewriter shop in town has its hands full

A device that was once an office essential has been reborn as a creative tool embraced by young folks — which means Cambridge Typewriter owner Tom Furrier has been plenty busy.
ASK MATTHEW

10 reader-approved TV shows for parents and tweens

We asked for suggestions, and from "Sherlock" to "Green Acres," readers responded.
COMFORT ZONE

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on his new documentary and the role of the Black church in social justice

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on his newest work for PBS, "The Black Church," premiering Feb. 16.
COMFORT ZONE

Join a sea shanty sing-along with Gloucester’s David Coffin

The Revels artist-in-residence will lead the event on Facebook Live.
COMFORT ZONE

Everyone loves Dr. Rick from those Progressive ads. He’s the creation of a Boston ad agency

The self-help coach keeps homeowners from turning into their parents — and helps them pronounce "quinoa."
COMFORT ZONE

Meet the Jamaica Plain artist who put Black kings and queens on playing cards

Sharif Muhammad wanted his kids to see themselves “reflected in a beautiful light.”

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Lydia Edwards

Baker should seal eviction records and give residents a second chance
Ian Marcus Corbin

The plight of former NFL players
Joan Vennochi

The numbing of America
Joseph Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto

Boston: The Silicon Valley of longevity?
EDITORIAL

The ‘road ahead’ needs a plan
IDEAS | GABRIEL NICHOLAS

Our disinformation problem has been 70 years in the making

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

100 top restaurants for takeout in Boston and beyond
Perspective

Restaurants have 'exhausted every strategy in the playbook'
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We were both math nerds in high school’
Cooking

Recipes: Beets make a sweet starting point for winter salads

sports

I’ll admit it: I’m intrigued to see what this Red Sox team Chaim Bloom has put together can do

Emelia O’Gilvie, Boston Latin girls’ basketball zeroes in on berth in Dual County League championship

Brad Stevens gave the Celtics a day off. The result? A more complete game and a win over the Nuggets

metro

Abandoned Amazon boxes found near hill in Plympton

What we know about the South African coronavirus variant found in Mass.

Watch live at 12 p.m.: Baker gives an update on COVID-19 vaccinations

Nation

Rush Limbaugh, bombastic talk radio host who became voice of American conservatism, dies

Here’s who is eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine

What you need to know about qualifying medical conditions for the COVID vaccine

World

British queen’s husband, Prince Philip, admitted to hospital

Pfizer-BioNTech to get EU 200 million more COVID-19 shots

Stay or go? Biden, long a critic of Afghan deployments, faces a deadline

politics

Impeachment over, Congress shifts focus to security failures

Trump, in scorching attack on McConnell, urges GOP to replace him

Democrat’s lawsuit accuses Trump of inciting deadly Capitol riot

business

Black and Latino leaders file federal civil rights complaint against City of Boston alleging discrimination in public contracting

Tribune Publishing agrees to $430 million takeover by hedge fund

Penny stock craze at boiling point with SEC eyeing social media

lifestyle

Postcards from Mexico, pandemic edition

You don’t have to leave these little cities to ski

Support Black-owned restaurants: Get takeout

marijuana

Should psychedelic drugs be decriminalized in Mass.? Advocates see opening

Northampton drops controversial fees on marijuana companies

Marijuana trade group drops lawsuit against state after backlash

opinion

Massachusetts needs to test students to diagnose COVID-19 learning slide

The Grocery Stories: America’s version of a caste system

The second Trump impeachment trial: It’s all over but the outrage

food & dining

Support Black-owned restaurants: Get takeout

Recipe: Slow-Roasted Maple Pork on Buns

Your own toasted pita chips are identical to the ones you can buy

travel

You think you miss everything about travel. I’m here to remind you that it’s not always glamorous

Pop-up igloos at Ocean Edge Resort, a car rental app comes to Boston, and Club Med debuts in Canada

Alitalia says his ticket is refundable — so why isn’t it?

Books

Angst spreads in ‘The Lonely Century’

Ethan Hawke on comic books to and his many copies of ‘Godot’

Godly women and an ungodly scandal in ‘Doomed Romance’

Movies

‘Barb and Star’ land very few laughs on this Florida trip

‘Sweding’ turns Hollywood classics into DIY entertainment

12-year-old Reyn Doi plays a villain and steals scenes in “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar”

Television

Berklee student leaves ‘American Idol’ judge Luke Bryan in tears with powerful performance

Toxic love triangle blunted by sticking point in ‘Behind Her Eyes’

10 reader-approved TV shows for parents and tweens

music

Join a sea shanty sing-along with Gloucester’s David Coffin

A valentine from the Boston Pops in its first-ever livestream concert

Justin Timberlake apologizes to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson

Theater/Dance

A Strindberg adaptation unfolds before an all-seeing camera in ‘Julia’

It’s a golden age for actors in their golden years

Amazon project would deliver two new theaters to the Seaport

globe local

MBTA to hold Feb. 24 public meeting on transit changes due to COVID-19 pandemic

Newton’s Countryside school plan enters ‘senior study’ phase for state funding

Manchester, N.H., man killed in two-vehicle crash on Route 101 in Peterborough, N.H.

Obituaries

Bernard Lown, doctor at the vanguard of cardiac care, antiwar activist who shared Nobel Peace Prize, dies at 99

A groundbreaking Black woman in state and city government, Doris Bunte dies at 87

‘Everything an artist does is probably a metaphor,’ said Lois Tarlow, who died at 92