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A vaccine for the youngest children brings hope, confusion, concern

For some parents who have been confined by COVID precautions for two years, the shots could not come soon enough. Others are wary.
Voices on the street: Is it time to ease pandemic restrictions?

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

2,611 confirmed cases and 61 deaths. See today’s COVID-19 data from Mass.

Mass. reports 5,634 new coronavirus cases among public school students and 1,089 among staff
COVID-19: THE LATEST

Lynn drops mask mandate effective immediately; Masks no longer required at Mass as of Feb. 28, Archdiocese says

Shirley Leung
Sham interviews go way beyond the NFL
A "check the box" approach to diversity hiring — a la the NFL's Rooney Rule — is also prevalent in the business world.

MIT president L. Rafael Reif to resign

L. Rafael Reif announced on Thursday that he will resign at the end of 2022 after more than a decade leading the institution. He will take a sabbatical and then return as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Investigators find gaps in White House log of Trump’s Jan. 6 calls

Lander was a tough boss at the Broad Institute, but not sexist, say former colleagues

Your Home | Globe Magazine

Their home design brings a bit of Prague, and a dash of Delhi, to Revere new construction

New homeowners hailing from different parts of the world seek a designer’s help blending their unique points of view.

Bold paint, plus even bolder wallpaper, transform a humdrum house in Cambridge

Add in vintage furniture covered in luxe fabrics and one thing is clear: Greige decor is highly overrated.

Designer’s mission impossible: Make an antique-filled 1790 farmhouse family friendly

A couple nurture two children — and a chocolate business — from a Sudbury home that’s filled with antiques, but still works for the whole family.
Opinion
SCOT LEHIGH

Deterring Putin will test the mettle of the West

Russia’s strongman doesn’t care about morality or international law, only gain versus pain.
IDEAS | PATRICK COLE

What we lose when our cultural icons die

Katie Hitchcock-Smith

Navigating the Great Resignation as a jaded millennial

Katherine Clark

My miscarriage was crushing. Overturning Roe could make the ordeal even worse.

LETTERS

Brigham and Women’s is right to decline heart transplant to unvaccinated patient

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NOTE: Mass DPH releases data Monday-Friday. Fully vaccinated means Mass. residents with 2 doses of Moderna/Pfizer vaccine or a dose of J&J. Boosters include Pfizer or Moderna. Mass. population of 6,892,503 is used to calculate vaccination percentages. SOURCE: Mass. Dept. of Public Health

Threats, angry notes, slashed tires: the saga of parking space savers in Boston is unrelenting

Parking space savers were out in full force in Boston after the Jan. 29 blizzard, and even though most of the snow is long gone, they remain a contentious issue in some neighborhoods.

‘Frida,’ the latest immersive show to land in Boston, is a spectacle — but is it art?

‘This is a new thing, for new generations,’ says Mara De Anda, whose great-aunt was Frida Kahlo. ‘I think maybe this is the new museum — it’s not just about Frida’s paintings, but how she lived.’
KEVIN CULLEN

Preaching to everybody but the choir

As secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis is the British government’s top official there, and as such is used to bitter divisions.
Project Takeout

4 places we supported this week

Want to order from local, independent restaurants? Here are some suggestions from Globe staff.
Browse a map of reader-recommended takeout spots Explore the full project

More recent stories

Swastika, threat to Black people found at Curry College after rash of racist graffiti on campus

The messages included a swastika and a threat against Black members of the campus community that gave a date of Saturday, Feb. 12, according to a Thursday statement from the college.

T oversight board light on oversight, transit advocates warn

“If the members aren’t asking hard questions, particularly around things like safety and finances, then what is their purpose?” said Stacy Thompson, executive director of LivableStreets Alliance, a public transportation advocacy group. “You have an opportunity to do so much, what are you doing with that role?”

Dig into Needham’s Little Spoon for terrific Thai food
The chive dumplings are a revelation.

Maine man indicted in burning of Black church in Mass.
A Maine man charged with setting fire to a Massachusetts church with a predominantly Black congregation was driven by racial animus, according to court documents.

FBI offers $10,000 reward for information leading to capture of suspect in 11 bank robberies in four states including Mass.

The FBI on Thursday announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man suspected of committing 11 bank robberies in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Vermont between September 2021 and last month.

Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for mixing up Gestapo and gazpacho
In an interview with One America News Network, Greene accused Pelosi’s “gazpacho police” — that should surely have been gestapo — of spying on lawmakers.

Recommended reads

Susan M. Collins becomes first woman of color to lead Boston Federal Reserve Bank

The economist will join the Fed in July from the University of Michigan, where she has been provost and executive vice president for academic affairs since 2020.

Beth Teitell
Wordle started as a sweet game. Then we got our hands on it.
No one can escape the long arm of Wordle. There are Wordle TikToks, Wordle spoilers, Wordle nerds, and, of course, Wordle rage.

Harvard professors drop support for colleague accused of sexual harassment
Many professors say they now regret signing a letter in support of John Comaroff without knowing more about the allegations against him. Multiple graduate students have accused him of sexual harassment, unwanted touching, and professional retaliation.

When will the Massachusetts State House reopen?
The Massachusetts State House is the last state capitol in the continental United States still closed to the public. But there is daylight between legislative leaders in the Massachusetts House and the Senate on the specifics of a reopening policy.

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Culture & Lifestyle

With love, Alyssa Limperis spoofs her mom, remembers her dad

ART

At SPOKE Gallery, L’Merchie Frazier’s quilts speak volumes

From the unemployment line to the small screen of ‘Power,’ Shane Johnson is paving his own lane

I spent time in a kitchen with Gordon Ramsay — and I survived

Special Projects

Into the Red: How the Globe will cover climate change

To report on the most pressing issue of our time, the Globe’s climate team is expanding and rethinking its coverage.

Under the wheel

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | PATRICK COLE

What we lose when our cultural icons die

Katherine Clark

My miscarriage was crushing. Overturning Roe could make the ordeal even worse.

Joan Vennochi

Boston will bounce back when office workers come back to Boston

Sharon E. Burke

Should the Defense Dept. be exempt from cutting greenhouse gas emissions?

Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut

Supreme Court shows its true colors by greenlighting Alabama’s racial gerrymander

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA

Loving sports can make you a better person

Metro

RI POLITICS

Despite criticism, Assembly committees vote for redistricting bill

'The obvious solution wasn’t to add more of Lincoln to District 22 –- it was to undo the gerrymander,' Common Cause’s John Marion said.
Black History Month

Lewis Temple invented a revolutionary harpooning tool

Despite never learning to read, Temple was a successful blacksmith and owned and operated a whale craft shop on the waterfront in New Bedford.

Bill allowing driver’s licenses for people without legal immigration status will advance to a vote in the Mass. House, speaker’s office says

If the bill becomes law, Massachusetts would become the 17th state to give undocumented immigrants the ability to obtain a license.

A dazzling spectacle of orchids will mesmerize at Tower Hill

Running Feb. 12 through March 20, “Prismatic, An Orchid Exhibition” combines living sculptures and green walls with rainbow-colored art installations at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston.

Sports

NBA notebook

Mavericks sending Kristaps Porzingis to Wizards

Dallas is getting Spencer Dinwiddie and Davis Bertans from Washington.
2022 WINTER OLYMPICS

2022 Winter Olympics: See tonight’s primetime schedule

View the official 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games event schedule. Find out how to watch your favorite Olympic winter sports.
BOYS' HOCKEY | PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

EMass boys’ hockey: Hingham’s Aiden Brazel headlines Players of the Week

The junior right wing had a hat trick in Sunday’s Ed Burns Hockey Classic semifinal win over Wellesley, then scored the overtime goal to beat Duxbury, 1-0.
JIM CLARK | BOYS' HOCKEY NOTEBOOK

Lynnfield boys’ hockey back on top of the Cape Ann League thanks to a coaching staff with a winning legacy at the school

Olympics

How to watch Shaun White’s final ride in the Olympics

bruins notebook

Don Sweeney says rehab stint in AHL wouldn’t have made a difference for Tuukka Rask

Business

Jobless claims fall again for third straight week

Jobless claims fell by 16,000 to 223,000 last week, from 239,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Senate passes bill to end forced arbitration in sexual assault, harassment cases

The bill would nullify agreements between employees and their employers in which the employees waive their rights to sue in the case of sexual assault or harassment.

Biden to propose 4.6 percent pay raise for federal employees, the biggest hike in 20 years

US buys 600K doses of new COVID antibody awaiting clearance

STAT

‘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
PERSPECTIVE

There’s an invisible air quality threat lurking inside our homes

MISS CONDUCT

I caught COVID from my boyfriend’s sister. And now she’s mad at me!

Love Letters

She broke things off, but can’t seem to move on

Cooking

Recipes: A Valentine’s Day menu with French inspiration

metro

Preaching to everybody but the choir

T oversight board light on oversight, transit advocates warn

Should Massachusetts adopt Election-Day voter registration?

sports

Celtics shake up roster at deadline, dealing Dennis Schröder, Josh Richardson, and getting Derrick White, Daniel Theis

The Bad Brad Marchand resurfaced, so the Good Brad Marchand disappears for six games

In blockbuster deal, Nets trade James Harden to 76ers for Ben Simmons

business

US buys 600K doses of new COVID antibody awaiting clearance

Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for mixing up Gestapo and gazpacho

Sham interviews go way beyond the NFL

politics

Biden highlights plan to trim drug costs

Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for mixing up Gestapo and gazpacho

Abortions in Texas fell 60 percent in first month under new limits

Nation

Palin says The Times lawsuit made her a ‘David’ vs. a ‘Goliath’

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

BSA reaches deal with official abuse claimants committee

World

With buildup on land and sea, Russia closes in on Ukraine

‘Contactless’ humanitarian aid presents triumphs, tribulations

Russia’s daily COVID-19 infections near 200,000 for 1st time

opinion

My miscarriage was crushing. Overturning Roe could make the ordeal even worse.

Brigham and Women’s is right to decline heart transplant to unvaccinated patient

Canadian truckers, the Greatest Generation, and service to others

lifestyle

Dig into Needham’s Little Spoon for terrific Thai food

Second-guessing a breakup one year later

Hadar Busia-Singleton on fresh pasta, her Nintendo Switch, and memories of Miffy

food & dining

Dig into Needham’s Little Spoon for terrific Thai food

Conan O’Brien raves about a new Newton restaurant — and a New Republik is founded in Inman Square

I spent time in a kitchen with Gordon Ramsay — and I survived

travel

Hadar Busia-Singleton on fresh pasta, her Nintendo Switch, and memories of Miffy

Historic Harris Hill Ski Jump celebrates 100 years with a winter carnival

A portable cinema, an Empire State proposal, and two weekends of live dance

Arts

‘Frida,’ the latest immersive show to land in Boston, is a spectacle — but is it art?

Remembering Todd McKie, a painter known for his bright palette, dark humor, and friendship

At SPOKE Gallery, L’Merchie Frazier’s quilts speak volumes

Books

Turning African fantasy on its head

She follows her hunches for what to read next

The creation and the critique in ‘Pure Colour’

Movies

Profiles of Black resistance

Flight patterns, the plight of the rights, class actions

Director Josephine Decker on adapting Jandy Nelson’s YA novel ‘The Sky Is Everywhere’

Television

You say you want miniseries that aren’t traumatizing? Here are some that stand out.

Will viewers stream toward CNN+?

From the unemployment line to the small screen of ‘Power,’ Shane Johnson is paving his own lane

music

BMOP celebrates 25 years of searching for the new

The ‘identity crisis’ that produced Lady Pills’ confident new sound

Angelique Kidjo’s music and her mission to empower women

Theater/Dance

In ‘People, Places & Things,’ a plunge into the depths of addiction

‘Sing Street’ to make a stop at the Huntington on its way back to Broadway

With love, Alyssa Limperis spoofs her mom, remembers her dad

globe local

A dazzling spectacle of orchids will mesmerize at Tower Hill

Should Massachusetts adopt Election-Day voter registration?

It was this loon’s lucky day

Obituaries

Luc Montagnier is dead; received Nobel for his work discovering HIV

Jon Appleton, pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music dies at 83

Former Red Sox player Jeremy Giambi dies in California at 47