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Study finds positive results for J&J vaccine against Omicron in South Africa

The data underscores the utility of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine against the new variant, which has concerned scientist and public health officials with its ability to potentially evade existing vaccines and treatments.

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Gary Washburn | On Basketball

It’s not just 3-pointers — something is clearly missing on the Celtics

The Celtics couldn’t handle the shorthanded Clippers at home, making the same mistakes that have plagued them all season.

Celtics 4 for 42 on 3-pointers in loss to Clippers

Roseta Carroll, who went first to show her 5-year-old daughter, Keziah Scarlett, that it wasn’t painful, received a COVID test at Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center’s site inside Prince Hall Grand Lodge in Grove Hall.

Long lines reflect continued coronavirus testing problems in Massachusetts

Throughout the state, Massachusetts residents have swarmed testing sites this week, some seeking assurance they aren’t infectious, others suffering from fever and coughs and looking for confirmation of their worst fears. And the chaotic scenes here are a snapshot of a larger nationwide problem.

These charts show how much COVID-19 is expected to surge in the US and Mass., according to projection models

COVID-19 cases are surging across the country and the state, largely driven by the rise in the highly transmissible Omicron variant. According to projection models, the situation is only expected to worsen.

As pandemic flares up, Mass. continues to lean on its National Guard

As the latest surge pushes COVID-19 infections to new highs in the state, Massachusetts is once again turning to the National Guard — as it has time and again during the nearly two-year pandemic.

‘Rubber stamp’ justice? In Mass., prison officials almost always deny prisoners’ claims of abuse behind bars

A Globe review of more than 1,500 prisoner grievances filed at the state’s six largest prisons found that incarcerated men seldom prevail when they allege they've been abused. Grievance investigators fully corroborated the prisoners’ accounts only nine times.

Our Beautiful Resistance

Behind the scenes of A Beautiful Resistance, Season 2 with Jeneé Osterheldt, Chaney Carlson-Bullock, Daymian Mejia, and Katherine Otuechere. ( Created and produced by Jeneé Osterheldt/Globe Staff, Directed and edited by Chaney Carlson-Bullock, First Assistant Director Mikayla Litevich, Supervising Producer Caitlin Healy/Globe Staff, Illustrations by Paula Champagne )

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Behind the scenes of Season 2

We didn't just feature Black folk in front of the camera. We teamed up with three local visual storytellers to help direct and film every episode.

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Opinion

Haitian migrants rest outside a shelter in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sept. 26, where they awaited their immigration resolution.

EDITORIAL

It’s past time for America to do right by Haiti

The Biden administration needs a new policy toward migrants fleeing violence and poverty and to get behind grassroots democratic reform.

Géralde Gabeau, executive director of Immigrant Family Services Institute, Inc., smiles outside of the JFK building in Boston in September to protest the treatment of Haitian migrants by the Biden administration.

Ruthzee Louijeune

Every level of government must do more for Haitian migrants

The human propensity for storytelling makes us particularly receptive to narratives of good vs. evil, as in the "Star Wars" series.

IDEAS | Jonathan Gottschall

Our fondness for narratives is driving us mad

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick speaks during a news conference in September in Foxboro.

Joan Vennochi

In praise of the reporter who asked Bill Belichick his New Year’s resolutions

Enes Kanter Freedom

The Boston Celtics, my political activism, and a call for greater freedom

Mac Jones was the 30th-ranked passer in the NFL (57.4) in December.

Ben Volin | On Football

Has Patriots quarterback Mac Jones hit the dreaded rookie wall?

In December, Jones completed just 52.5 percent of his passes as the Patriots went 1-2.

LOVE LETTERS

Flirting! Jealousy! Open marriages! Hiking! Here were 2021’s most popular Love Letters of the year

These 10 problems got the most attention from Love Letters readers.

A woman and her dog walked down the Neponset trail in Ashmont in February during a snow storm.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Where is winter?

The lack of cold and snow so far is not what people in Southern New Englanders are used to.

Police body camera examination behind schedule

A commission set up under the one-year-old police reform law has missed its deadline to propose regulations governing standards for the procurement of body-worn cameras and vehicle dashboard cameras by law enforcement.

Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls

Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts. She faces the likelihood of years in prison.

Report: Samsung in talks to acquire Biogen

Biogen is reportedly in talks to be acquired by Korea's Samsung Group in a deal that would value the Cambridge-based drugmaker at $42 billion.

Boston startup’s new drone explores inner space

Cleo Robotics' "Dronut" is a surveillance drone that’s designed to operate indoors, flying through dangerous or hard-to-reach places, like air ducts, oil pipelines, or perhaps a booby-trapped building

The Globe’s 10 most read stories of 2021

As the year comes to a close and we prepare to enter 2022, we’re taking a look back at the stories that resonated most with our readers.

The Sports Hub reaches new heights as it dominates Boston sports radio ratings again

All of The Sports Hub’s weekday programs finished first in their time slots in the fall Nielsen Audio ratings.

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In a record-breaking year of weather, signs of a changed world

The year 2021 was, for many people, the year in which climate change jumped from the part of our brains reserved for future-think — for worries not yet realized — and landed squarely in the now.

‘Is COVID-19 ever going to go away?’: Mass. surpassed 1 million cases … and counting

Massachusetts officially surpassed 1 million cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, a sobering milestone that would have seemed unimaginable in March 2020 but now strikes many experts as conservative in its scope.

Hospitals prepare for more children, but so far, few are getting very sick from Omicron

Boston Children’s Hospital, which cares for the region’s sickest children, had 17 children with COVID-19 in the hospital this week, up from six on Nov. 23.

RI NEWS

Rhode Island photographer races to capture the fading lighthouse lights

David Zapatka has photographed 182 of the nation’s 800 active lighthouses at night, but it’s a race against time: The Coast Guard is shutting down lighthouses and climate change is destroying them.

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COOKING

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Vanessa Hudgens appears in "The Princess Switch: Switched Again."

10 romantic-comedy movies that are perfect for the holiday

If there is one thing we love, it's a good whoopie pie.

Where to find the best whoopie pies around New England

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An older lobsterman passed by Tanner Lazaro as he hauled up his traps in his boat, Used N Abused, on Aug. 24. During the summer Tanner hauled his own traps on whatever days his mentor Frankie Thompson or another lobsterman didn't need his help.

The lobster trap

The plentiful catch that brought wealth to fishing families is at risk, as climate change warms the Gulf of Maine. A way of life is on the line, but lobstermen can't, or won't, imagine another.

The 2021 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

Is your employer among the 150 companies to make the list?

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A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | Lakshmi Ganapathi and Ramnath Subbaraman

The equity-enhancing power of mandates

In America, sheep have long been prized for their wool. Their meat? Not so much.

IDEAS | IKER SAITUA

The long history of Americans’ sheepishness about lamb

Richard Sackler, the former president of Purdue Pharma, appears in a 2015 deposition video.

EDITORIAL

Throwing out the $4.5 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma is the right call

If corporate greed is Senator Elizabeth Warren’s one-size-fits-all explanation for why prices go up, how does she explain why they go down?

JEFF JACOBY

Elizabeth Warren’s one-trick inflation pony

OPINION

Words of the Year

"I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t know how I’d pull it off." The author runs along a dilapidated street in Maracaibo.

IDEAS | ANTONIO MATHEUS

The lunacy of the long distance runner

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After 54 years, Bishop’s 4th Street Diner, a Newport mainstay, is looking to move

The modular dining room at Bishop’s 4th Street Diner has served tourists, locals, and Navy men in Newport since the 1960s. But come Jan. 31, 2022, that streak might end.

Coronavirus Live Updates

Massachusetts, US see another daily record for COVID-19 cases

The latest news and guidance on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England and beyond.

Podcast: Meet the Globe Rhode Island team

Earlier this year, the team came together for an event with Venture Cafe at CIC Providence to discuss the Globe’s expansion in Rhode Island, meet readers, and talk about the important work they’re doing every day.

Overwhelmed Connecticut testing site forced to close after gun threat

At the Bristol site, the size of the staff was increased to about eight employees the next day, and police cars were set up around the site to limit the size of the crowd to about 100 cars at a time.

Sports

Oregon quarterback Anthony Brown was on the turf after he was sacked by Oklahoma in the first half.

Alamo Bowl: Oklahoma 47, Oregon 32

Oklahoma rushes past Anthony Brown, Oregon in Alamo Bowl

Brown, the former Boston College quarterback, had 306 yards passing in a losing effort.

Jaylen Brown had a game-high 30 points, but the Celtics had no answer for the Clippers.

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

It’s not just 3-pointers; something is clearly missing on the Celtics

The Celtics couldn't handle the shorthanded Clippers at home, making the same mistakes that have plagued them all season.

Florian Kuechen (24) was front and center in Newton North's victory, despite the efforts of Catholic Memorial's Eoin Morrissey (33) and Ryan Higgins.

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Newton North offense finds the zone, tops Catholic Memorial for Garden City Classic title

Behind Florian Kuechen (16 points, 7 rebounds, 4 steals) and Will Davis (15 points, 6 rebounds, 4 blocks), the Tigers took control after a sluggish first quarter.

Clippers 91, Celtics 82

Celtics 4 for 42 on 3-pointers in loss to Clippers

SPORTS LOG

Kyrie Irving returns to Nets practice, moves step closer to playing

Ben Volin | On Football

Has Patriots quarterback Mac Jones hit the dreaded rookie wall?

Business

Study finds positive results for J&J vaccine against Omicron in South Africa

Left behind in pandemic, Africa aims for vaccine self-reliance

After the Ebola crisis ended in West Africa in 2016, Amadou Sall received a painting as a gift from his wife and children. On one side is a family shrouded in darkness, threatened by a looming virus. The other is filled with bright light, a symbol of the science that will save them.

Denver shootings suspect wrote books previewing attacks

Flight cancellations, delays continue Wednesday as airlines grapple with fallout from omicron, weather

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‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities

A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.

Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms

STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South

Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.

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The top 12 most popular Globe Magazine stories of 2021

Dave Barry looks back at the newsmakers of 2021.

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Dave Barry’s 2021 Year in Review: A variant of 2020, so to speak

Jonathan Way plays with two coyotes he helped raise at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham in 2004.

GLOBE MAGAZINE

Study finds positive results for J&J vaccine against Omicron in South Africa

Gary Washburn | On Basketball It’s not just 3-pointers — something is clearly missing on the Celtics The Celtics couldn’t handle the shorthanded Clippers at home, making the same mistakes that have plagued them all season.

Long lines reflect continued coronavirus testing problems in Massachusetts

These charts show how much COVID-19 is expected to surge in the US and Mass., according to projection models

As pandemic flares up, Mass. continues to lean on its National Guard As the latest surge pushes COVID-19 infections to new highs in the state, Massachusetts is once again turning to the National Guard — as it has time and again during the nearly two-year pandemic.

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Behind the scenes of Season 2

It’s past time for America to do right by Haiti

Every level of government must do more for Haitian migrants

Our fondness for narratives is driving us mad

In praise of the reporter who asked Bill Belichick his New Year’s resolutions

The Boston Celtics, my political activism, and a call for greater freedom

Has Patriots quarterback Mac Jones hit the dreaded rookie wall?

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Police body camera examination behind schedule A commission set up under the one-year-old police reform law has missed its deadline to propose regulations governing standards for the procurement of body-worn cameras and vehicle dashboard cameras by law enforcement.

Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts. She faces the likelihood of years in prison.

Report: Samsung in talks to acquire Biogen Biogen is reportedly in talks to be acquired by Korea's Samsung Group in a deal that would value the Cambridge-based drugmaker at $42 billion.

Boston startup’s new drone explores inner space Cleo Robotics' "Dronut" is a surveillance drone that’s designed to operate indoors, flying through dangerous or hard-to-reach places, like air ducts, oil pipelines, or perhaps a booby-trapped building

The Globe’s 10 most read stories of 2021 As the year comes to a close and we prepare to enter 2022, we’re taking a look back at the stories that resonated most with our readers.

The Sports Hub reaches new heights as it dominates Boston sports radio ratings again All of The Sports Hub’s weekday programs finished first in their time slots in the fall Nielsen Audio ratings.

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Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.

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Gary Washburn | On Basketball

It’s not just 3-pointers — something is clearly missing on the Celtics

The Celtics couldn’t handle the shorthanded Clippers at home, making the same mistakes that have plagued them all season.

As pandemic flares up, Mass. continues to lean on its National Guard

As the latest surge pushes COVID-19 infections to new highs in the state, Massachusetts is once again turning to the National Guard — as it has time and again during the nearly two-year pandemic.

Police body camera examination behind schedule

A commission set up under the one-year-old police reform law has missed its deadline to propose regulations governing standards for the procurement of body-worn cameras and vehicle dashboard cameras by law enforcement.

Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls

Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts. She faces the likelihood of years in prison.

Report: Samsung in talks to acquire Biogen

Biogen is reportedly in talks to be acquired by Korea's Samsung Group in a deal that would value the Cambridge-based drugmaker at $42 billion.

Boston startup’s new drone explores inner space

Cleo Robotics' "Dronut" is a surveillance drone that’s designed to operate indoors, flying through dangerous or hard-to-reach places, like air ducts, oil pipelines, or perhaps a booby-trapped building

The Globe’s 10 most read stories of 2021

As the year comes to a close and we prepare to enter 2022, we’re taking a look back at the stories that resonated most with our readers.

The Sports Hub reaches new heights as it dominates Boston sports radio ratings again

All of The Sports Hub’s weekday programs finished first in their time slots in the fall Nielsen Audio ratings.

‘Is COVID-19 ever going to go away?’: Mass. surpassed 1 million cases … and counting

Massachusetts officially surpassed 1 million cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, a sobering milestone that would have seemed unimaginable in March 2020 but now strikes many experts as conservative in its scope.

Hospitals prepare for more children, but so far, few are getting very sick from Omicron

Boston Children’s Hospital, which cares for the region’s sickest children, had 17 children with COVID-19 in the hospital this week, up from six on Nov. 23.

RI NEWS

Rhode Island photographer races to capture the fading lighthouse lights

David Zapatka has photographed 182 of the nation’s 800 active lighthouses at night, but it’s a race against time: The Coast Guard is shutting down lighthouses and climate change is destroying them.

‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities

A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.

Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms

STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South

Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.