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Snow will start in the predawn hours on Friday.

Dave Epstein | Forecast

Southern New England can expect its first significant snow Friday morning

It’s coming a little later than usual, but we’ve never had a winter where it hasn’t snowed at least 6 inches and it’s not going to be this one.

MassDOT says it’s confident in staffing levels for snow removal ahead of winter storm A list of 20 movies, TV shows, and documentaries to stream during Friday’s snow storm

Expected snowfall on Friday.

These maps show how much snow is expected to fall in Mass. by Friday evening

Despite low snowfall totals across the state so far this winter, Massachusetts and other parts of Southern New England will see significant snowfall on Friday.

A snow covered school bus traveled in the early morning enroute in Milton the day after a snowstorm hit the Boston area.

See Mass. school closings for Friday’s snow storm

As Southern New England expects its first significant snowfall of the season, Massachusetts schools are announcing school closures on Friday.

The Capitol Insurrection: One Year Later

A day of truth in a divided nation

President Biden and other Democrats sought to use the searing memories of Jan. 6 to beat back Donald Trump’s lies about what happened a year ago.

‘I will defend this nation.’ Biden denounces Trump’s ‘web of lies’ as he remembers Jan. 6 insurrection Analysis: The Sept. 11 era has ended. The Jan. 6 era has just begun Baker says Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection will ‘stain this nation’s history forever’

Capitol Police officers stood outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

Republicans’ reactions to Jan. 6 anniversary ranged from somber to flippant. Here’s a look

Brian McCreary, of Springfield, with mask, next to Jacob Anthony Chansley (center), and other supporters of President Trump who swarmed the US Capitol,

Jan. 6 arrests included 11 from New England. A look at who they are

THE LATEST COVID-19 NEWS

Lifesaving treatments face rationing as coronavirus surges again; Biden administration urged to change its COVID strategy

‘It’s all hands on deck’: Hospitals scramble to staff the front lines as surge continues

Many facilities, struggling with worker absences, are already at or near capacity with critically sick patients.

24,570 confirmed cases and 43 deaths. See today’s COVID-19 data from Mass. Mass. schools return to class with highest COVID cases this academic year

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

Gloucester teenager dies from COVID-19 complications, family says

Kurt Ryan, a 15-year-old Gloucester High School sophomore, passed away on Jan. 4 due to complications from COVID-19.

‘True definition of soul mates’: A New Hampshire couple died of COVID-19 just seconds apart, holding hands as they took their last breaths

Canadian passengers stranded after party flight to Mexico

Wild 3, Bruins 2

Bruins lose a wild one to visiting Minnesota

Knicks 108, Celtics 105

Knicks’ RJ Barrett hits buzzer-beater as Celtics collapse in second half

Kevin Hayden, chair of the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board, spoke with Jim Braude, host of GBH News’ Greater Boston on Jan. 11, 2016 at the GBH Studios in Brighton, Mass.

Baker picks Kevin R. Hayden as Suffolk DA, with Rachael Rollins poised to become US attorney

Governor Charlie Baker has appointed Kevin Hayden to serve as Suffolk district attorney for the remainder of the term vacated by Rachael Rollins, who’ll be sworn in as US attorney for Massachusetts on Monday.

A crash of two Green Line trains in Boston in late July sent more than two dozen people to the hospital.

Suffolk District Attorney Rollins launches criminal probe into MBTA

Outgoing Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said the inquiry will look into a potential “lack of oversight or negligence” at the MBTA stemming from a July Green Line crash that sent 27 people to the hospital, among other safety incidents.

Harmony Montgomery.

Woman linked to missing N.H. girl arrested for allegedly collecting welfare benefits for child

The wife of a man charged in connection with his 7-year-old daughter’s 2019 disappearance in New Hampshire has been arrested herself, for allegedly collecting government assistance benefits meant for the missing child, authorities said Thursday.

Kevin Cullen: The silent screams of invisible children

Opinion

President Joe Biden speaks in Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, marking one year since the deadly assault on the Capitol. President Biden denounced former president Donald Trump for promoting lies and tearing down American democracy because he could not stand the fact that he lost an election, accusing his predecessor of putting his own interests ahead of the country’s.

Biden’s powerful warning about democracy

Will his wake-up call work?

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Confusion is also a COVID-19 variant. The CDC is spreading it.

Health care workers put in a dialysis line in a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester on Dec. 2.

Kevin Tabb, Kate Walsh, Anne Klibanski, and Michael Dandorph

Hospitals are doing their part on COVID-19; we ask the public to do theirs

Cornell William Brooks speaks outside the Justice Department in Washington in 2017.

Deborah D. Douglas

Q&A: You know we’re at war, right?

Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, in Board Game Art Park across from Philadelphia City Hall, was one of few members of the GOP to publicly disavow the lie that President Donald Trump won the last election. As a result, Schmidt has been attacked and targeted by the base of the party such that he had to move his children away from home with a constant security detail.

Threats against election officials must be stopped

Special Project

UNDER THE WHEEL

This is the story of Anthony Pledger and his mother, of Anthony’s lives and deaths, of Anthony and me.

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Judge OKs marathon bomber’s COVID payment going to victims

A US District Court judge agreed to let federal prosecutors use convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s $1,400 COVID-19 stimulus payment, as well as other money held in his inmate trust account, to help pay the millions of dollars he was ordered to pay his victims, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Should Celtics’ big men be used more as playmakers? Jaylen Brown says yes

Brown said it would create better ball movement and prevent traps and blitzes of Brown and Jayson Tatum when they have the ball in isolation situations.

Ben Affleck talks about ‘The Tender Bar,’ sobriety, and what it’s like being ‘the guy from Boston’

With “The Tender Bar” starting to stream on Amazon Prime Jan. 7 — it opened in theaters last month — we asked the Cambridge native if he had a few minutes to chat. He said sure.

A 5-year-old playing with a lighter might have started fatal Philadelphia fire, according to a search warrant

Investigators are looking into whether a 5-year-old child playing with a lighter set a Christmas tree on fire, sparking a conflagration that killed 12 people in a Philadelphia rowhome, officials revealed Thursday.

TABLES

McGuirk’s Folly pops up at Middlesex Lounge; Salt + Stone comes to Somerville

Plus, a bar menu with spicy cheese dip, poutine, pigs in a blanket, maple-bourbon wings, and more.

THE FINE PRINT

You can return an ugly sweater. What about a gift card you don’t want?

Tens of billions of dollars’ worth of gift cards got handed out during the holidays. Here's everything you need to know.

THE GREAT DIVIDE ⟶

See the latest from our education team focused on race, class, and opportunity in schools.

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See the latest from Globe Rhode Island.

NEWTON ⟶

See the Globe’s expanded Newton coverage in partnership with Boston University.

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The Massachusetts National Guard was deployed early in the pandemic to help overwhelmed nursing homes test staff and residents. Now nursing homes are urging the Baker administration to call in the Guard again.

Nursing homes at a tipping point: Many are forced to freeze admissions, stranding patients in hospitals for weeks

Nursing home leaders are calling on the Baker administration to provide help from the National Guard.

This chart may tell us more about the Mass. COVID surge than any other. Here’s why

Waste water — or sewage — surveillance data may provide the clearest picture of just how widely COVID-19 is circulating in the population right now. The staggering numbers are raising alarms about where the state, and the nation, might be headed.

Massachusetts lawmakers look to outlaw ‘stealthing,’ or nonconsensual condom removal

The practice of nonconsensual condom removal is common, but most states’ laws are silent on it. Now, some Beacon Hill lawmakers are pushing a bill that would make Massachusetts the first state to create both civil and criminal penalties for “stealthing.”

What to do if you test positive for COVID

As the Omicron variant continues to rapidly spread across the United States, many Americans, including those who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, are bound to test positive for the disease at some point.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Khao soi (center), tonkotsu ramen (right), and pho tai at the Soup Shack in Jamaica Plain.

January is National Soup Month. Here are 16 must-stop spots for soup in the Boston area

Maurice Emmanuel Parent with "Mr. Parent" director Megan Sandberg-Zakian.

The team that put ‘Mr. Parent’ in a class, by himself

Lowell's St. Jean Baptiste Church could one day house the Jack Kerouac Museum and Performance Center.

Newly formed Jack Kerouac Foundation aims to build a museum and performance center in Lowell

SubSpace's 2022 winter and spring "headliner" Taraji P. Henson.

Actress and advocate Taraji P. Henson is part of the Museum of Science’s upcoming programming

Special Projects

Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, then president of Brigham Health, brought a Boston delegation in April 2018 to celebrate the opening of the Boao Evergrande International Hospital in China, constructed in a new medical tourism hub.

Spotlight team report

How Brigham Health helped create a Chinese hospital for elites — and almost nobody came

In a deal worth millions with Chinese developer Evergrande, a Harvard teaching hospital risked its reputation on what would become a near-empty shell.

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.

Jeneé Osterheldt

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

Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, in Board Game Art Park across from Philadelphia City Hall, was one of few members of the GOP to publicly disavow the lie that President Donald Trump won the last election. As a result, Schmidt has been attacked and targeted by the base of the party such that he had to move his children away from home with a constant security detail.

Threats against election officials must be stopped

Former president Donald Trump, along with his enablers in the White House, Congress, and beyond, tried to subvert democracy in order to stay in power. There must be a reckoning for them as perpetrators of the lie that instigated the Jan. 6 insurrection.

A year later, waiting for justice

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnel's long game may be to delegitimize Trump, via the findings of the Jan. 6 committee, to the point where the former president can retain his base of loyalists but not expand it enough to run again for president in 2024.

For once, what’s good for Mitch McConnell could also be good for the country

Members of the military band rehearse in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

China gives us a taste of our own medicine

A statue of John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland.

IDEAS | KATHRYN TANNER

The Protestant work ethic doesn’t demand devotion to your job

IDEAS | WENDY SYFRET

Try upbeat nihilism in 2022

Metro

Coronavirus Live Updates

Lifesaving treatments face rationing as coronavirus surges again; Biden administration urged to change its COVID strategy

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

Providence Councilors push McKee to have R.I. provide masks, testing resources in schools

In a letter, the councilors on Thursday asked the governor to implement the “Test to Stay” program at childcare facilities, and to send personal protective equipment to Providence public school students, teachers, and administrators.

‘It’s all hands on deck’: Hospitals scramble to staff the front lines as surge continues

Many facilities, struggling with worker absences, are already at or near capacity with critically sick patients.

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

The charts break down vaccination recipients by age, vaccination date, location, and race/ethnicity, while also outlining vaccination brand and administration site type.

Sports

Dracut's Cameron Watkins (left) plays hands-on defense against Andover's Mariissa Kobelski (right) in Thursday night's matchup of ranked Merrimack Valley Conference girls' basketball teams.

Thursday's schools roundup

Anna Foley helps Andover girls’ basketball ‘visualize success’ vs. Dracut

The impact junior led the third-ranked Warriors (4-0) to a 56-43 victory over No. 3 Dracut (4-1) with 20 points, 10 rebounds, 5 steals, 2 assists and 2 blocked shots.

Patrick Cantlay played the final six holes in 6 under, highlighted by 35-foot eagle putt on the par-5 15th hole.

PGA Sentry Tournament of Champions

Patrick Cantlay and Jon Rahm don’t miss a beat with good starts in Hawaii

Cantlay overcame a bogey start with flawless play for a 7-under-par 66 and Rahm had a 67 despite failing to capitalize on two of the par 5s.

Flyers goaltender Carter Hart denied the Penguins' Jake Guentzel here, but Guentzel scored two goals.

NHL: Penguins 6, Flyers 2

Penguins belt depleted Flyers for 10th straight victory

The Penguins won the second game of a back-to-back and haven’t lost since Dec. 1.

Knicks 108, Celtics 105

Knicks’ RJ Barrett hits buzzer-beater as Celtics collapse in second half

Wild 3, Bruins 2

Bruins lose a wild one to visiting Minnesota

Clinton Portis sentenced to six months in prison for role in defrauding NFL health-care fund

Business

Lancaster promoted to CEO of Stavis Seafoods

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

France fines Google, Facebook millions over tracking consent

Google and Facebook were fined the sum equivalent of over $200 million by French data investigators, who cited alleged failures to make refusing data tracking easier for platform users.

Corporate PACs bet on GOP takeover, hand cash to election deniers

US jobless claims rise by 7,000, but still low at 207,000

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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.

magazine

The roller-skating heroes who fought racism in Boston

What reformed extremists taught me about preventing another Capitol insurrection

This week's daters: Carol and Ed.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘The lobster was still in the shell. Not a very good choice for a first date’

My friend billed me after I attended her birthday party

metro

A crash of two Green Line trains in Boston in late July sent more than two dozen people to the hospital.

Suffolk District Attorney Rollins launches criminal probe into MBTA

Central Falls becoming a pandemic hot spot once again

Rhode Island lawyers were drinking in a hot tub on New Year’s Day. What could go wrong?

sports

Captain Steve Stricker and the US won the Ryder Cup in September.

Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker recovering from heart inflammation

Should Celtics’ big men be used more as playmakers? Jaylen Brown says yes

Novak Djokovic’s family, Serbian president slam Australia for COVID-19 deportation stance

business

People pass a sign that reads "Face Mask Required" in a mall as COVID-19 cases surge in the city on Dec. 21, 2021, in Washington, DC.

One in three NYC small businesses have vaccination requirements

More than 1,700 flights canceled Thursday after two weeks of disruption

You can return an ugly sweater. What about a gift card you don’t want?

politics

President Biden spoke from Statuary Hall at the US Capitol to mark the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol by supporters loyal to then-president Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington.

A year later, Jan. 6 becomes just another wedge in a divided nation

A day of truth in a divided nation

‘I will defend this nation.’ Biden denounces Trump’s ‘web of lies’ as he remembers Jan. 6 insurrection

Nation

This undated combo of photos provided by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office shows James Crumbley, left, and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of Ethan Crumbley, a teen accused of killing four students in a shooting at Oxford High School, in Michigan.

Teen, parents returning to court in Michigan school shooting

Supreme Court weighs vaccine rules affecting more than 80 million

World surpasses 300 million known virus cases

World

A line of cars stretching several blocks waited to pull into an appointment-only COVID-19 testing center on Jan. 6, 2022, in Seattle.

World surpasses 300 million known virus cases

China’s latest lockdown shows stubborn resolve on zero-COVID

France hits another record for COVID infections

opinion

Cornell William Brooks speaks outside the Justice Department in Washington in 2017.

Q&A: You know we’re at war, right?

For once, what’s good for Mitch McConnell could also be good for the country

What happens to voting rights in the US doesn’t stay in the US

lifestyle

Green tea and mango ice creams at Toscanini's.

The scoop on Main Street: Toscanini’s returns

McGuirk’s Folly pops up at Middlesex Lounge; Salt + Stone comes to Somerville

January is National Soup Month. Here are 16 must-stop spots for soup in the Boston area

food & dining

Green tea and mango ice creams at Toscanini's.

The scoop on Main Street: Toscanini’s returns

McGuirk’s Folly pops up at Middlesex Lounge; Salt + Stone comes to Somerville

January is National Soup Month. Here are 16 must-stop spots for soup in the Boston area

travel

Seth Sikes at Fire Island Pines, N.Y.

Seth Sikes on beach massages, Judy and Liza, and his upcoming show at Club Café

Orbitz switched her Aruba vacation — but not her hotel in Tahiti

AutoCamp lands in Joshua Tree, Skyspace debuts in South America, and a new lodge opens in Stowe

Arts

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940), "Landscapes and Interiors: Through the Fields, 1899." Lithograph on paper.

‘Hue & Cry’ at the Clark explores controversy of color printmaking in 19th-century France

Mass. and Cass, cast in bronze and on canvas

Actress and advocate Taraji P. Henson is part of the Museum of Science’s upcoming programming

Books

Kathryn Schulz’s memoir traces life’s gifts and sorrows

Martín Espada: stacks of books, from poetry to photography

Hanya Yanagihara’s new novel ponders freedom and loneliness

Movies

Sly Stone performing at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, featured in the documentary "Summer of Soul."

A list of 20 movies, TV shows, and documentaries to stream during Friday’s snow storm

Ben Affleck talks about ‘The Tender Bar,’ sobriety, and what it’s like being ‘the guy from Boston’

Looking for intimations of immortality

Television

Sly Stone performing at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, featured in the documentary "Summer of Soul."

A list of 20 movies, TV shows, and documentaries to stream during Friday’s snow storm

Calm down: ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ has returned

50 years ago, ‘Zoom’ took over TV with Ubbi Dubbi, that ZIP code song, and 10,000 letters a week

music

GBH recording engineer Antonio Oliart Ros, who has been behind the console for dozens of virtual events throughout the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.

Antonio Oliart Ros brings artistry to sound recording at GBH and beyond

With every note, Ranky Tanky honors an ancestry

6 standouts in classical music on the changes they hope to see, and make, in the new year

Theater/Dance

Maurice Emmanuel Parent with "Mr. Parent" director Megan Sandberg-Zakian.

The team that put ‘Mr. Parent’ in a class, by himself

Rather than try to explain Lord Buckley, he becomes him onstage

Comedian Valerie Tosi knows her way around a joke — and Salisbury Beach’s Broadway Loop

globe local

Auto shop instructor Louis Beckwith talks about brakes with students during an adult education class at the Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School in Danvers.

Vocational schools offer adults a blueprint for success, with classes funded by the state

A runaway goat is apprehended in Norfolk

Jan. 6 arrests included 11 from New England. A look at who they are

Obituaries

Jim Corsi, left, pitched for the Red Sox from 1997 to 1999.

Jim Corsi, Newton native who pitched for the Red Sox, dies at 60

Mary Richardson, pioneering female anchor and ‘Chronicle’ cohost, dies at 76

Former NFL head coach Dan Reeves dies at 77