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Everett superintendent found surveillance cameras in her office, her lawyer says

Priya Tahiliani, who is Indian American and the city’s first superintendent of color, filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination on Jan. 17.

Newton teen still fighting for his life after he collapses during basketball game

Preston Settles turned to a Brooks School teammate during a basketball game last Saturday with an unusual complaint, especially for a 15-year-old boy whose athletic resume contains entries for hockey, football, soccer, and lacrosse. “My heart feels like it’s spasming,” Settles told his friend.

Fallout continues in Westford over racist taunts of Wayland girls’ basketball player

Racist taunts aimed at a Black Wayland High School girls’ basketball player during a recent game at Westford Academy have prompted Wayland officials to pull their teams from any spring games against Westford, according to letters sent by school leaders.

Putin, Biden plan high-stakes phone call in Ukraine crisis

President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are to hold a high-stakes telephone call on Saturday as tensions over a possibility imminent invasion of Ukraine escalated sharply, and the US announced plans to evacuate its embassy in the Ukrainian capital.

COVID-19: THE LATEST

FDA delays decision on vaccines for children under 5; Canadian judge orders end to blockade at border bridge

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Paris police thwart advance of virus protesters on capital
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Coronavirus spiked, then sputtered, at Winter Games

Johnathan Coucelos (second from left) with his parents and siblings.

Police seek charges against seven students after Woburn locker room incident

A hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Lowell Juvenile Court before a clerk magistrate to determine whether probable cause exists to issue criminal complaints against the seven students, said the family’s attorney, Peter Hahn.

Beijing Winter Olympics

John Powers | On Olympics

In defeating the Canadians, the US men’s hockey team can start dreaming of placing atop the podium

The team is too young to appreciate how hard it is to win a gold medal. And it probably isn’t old enough to know that beating the Canadians at the Winter Games is the key.

Here's today’s primetime TV schedule See more coverage of the Winter Olympics

Lindsey Jacobellis (bottom) reacts as Nick Baumgartner celebrates winning the snowboard mixed team cross big final on Saturday.

Vermont’s Lindsey Jacobellis golden again, wins mixed team snowboard cross in Beijing

Paired with 40-year-old Nick Baumgartner, the two oldest competitors in the competition won both halves of the final, claiming the event’s first-ever Olympic gold.

Hagen Kearney of Team United States performed a trick during the Men's Snowboard Cross Qualification on Day 6 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Genting Snow Park on Feb. 10, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China.

US snowboard coach, rider being investigated for misconduct

US Ski & Snowboard is investigating allegations that longtime Olympic coach Peter Foley took naked pictures of female athletes and that Olympic snowboard racer Hagen Kearney used racist language to provoke a teammate.

Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case to be heard Sunday at Olympics

In his first game with the Celtics, Derrick White scored 15 points and helped the team beat the Nuggets.

Gary Washburn | CELTICS 108, NUGGETS 102

After a performance like that in his Celtics debut, no need to defend the trade for Derrick White

White is in the first year of a four-year, $73 million deal he signed in December 2020, meaning he’ll be a Celtic for the long term.

Mac Jones (right) made the Pro Bowl as an alternate.

christopher l. gasper

The education of Mac Jones continues right through the NFL postseason

The precocious Patriots rookie got to pick the brains of elite QBs at the Pro Bowl, and now he’s in Los Angeles, getting a taste of the Super Bowl atmosphere.

Marshfield resident Catherine Graham won a trip to New Hampshire on "The Price is Right." (CBS)

A Marshfield woman hoped to win an exotic vacation on ‘The Price Is Right.’ She got a trip to New Hampshire instead.

“It was so funny. My face says it all,” said Catherine Graham, who for a brief moment on camera looked like someone who had just been pranked.

Opinion

Raising the veil on drug prices

A Massachusetts Senate bill aims for better access and a healthy dose of transparency.

IDEAS | GARRETT DASH NELSON

When Boston gave America some sugar

MARCELA GARCÍA

One clear answer to US labor shortages? Let more immigrants in.

Shira Doron, Westyn Branch-Elliman, and Elissa Perkins

A return to normal? Lifting school mask mandate is a start.

It’s too soon to lift the school-mask mandate

Masala Art's Gobhi Gulistan and Vegetable Samosa.

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

Will this be a big year for progressives, and other thoughts

Plus, could Boston shift away from an appointed School Committee?

Senators warn Mass. lacks the workers it needs for clean-energy transition

Massachusetts has an ambitious emission reduction goal for the coming decade, but the state will need a veritable army of blue-collar workers to pull it off.

Surveillance video shows BU professor climbing T stairs moments before his fatal fall

In newly released footage, David Jones can be seen jogging down the street, then climbing the badly damaged stairs, but the video cuts off before he falls.

Salem officials condemn ‘hateful, antisemitic messages and threats’ directed at city’s health department

Public health officials in Salem have been targeted by threats and antisemitic messages in recent weeks, which on Friday prompted community leaders to speak out and condemn the attacks.

‘Why did you hurt my Chloe?’ Lawrence man gets up to 22 years in death, rape of 13-year-old girl

Prosecutors laid out chilling details of the case against 49-year-old Carlos Rivera on Friday after he pleaded guilty to 19 counts of various crimes stemming from the 2019 death of Chloe Ricard.

Salem police officer charged in alleged bank fraud scheme

Officer Iancy Gonzalez is charged with forgery, larceny by a single scheme over $1,200, and uttering false or forged records, Salem police said in a statement.

Recommended reads

Boston Ballet artist Tyson Ali Clark.

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The Black history I carry with me: Tyson Ali Clark

The Boston Ballet artist shares his beautiful resistance.

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Seeing the Bengals in the Super Bowl is special but bittersweet for Dan Ross’s family

The Northeastern star tight end, who had a record 11 receptions in Cincinnati's first Super Bowl appearance 40 years ago, died in 2006, but his close-knit family keeps his spirit alive.

The votes are in. This is the best sugar cereal, according to Globe readers.

Last week, Globe food critic Devra First gave us her definitive ranking of the best and worst sugar cereals, and we wanted to know: Do Globe readers agree? After more than 19,000 votes, we have a winner.

How neo-Nazi and antivaccine protesters collided at the Brigham

Brigham and Women’s Hospital has felt like a war zone of sorts to its employees, and the unrelated protests heightened the feelings of crisis.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Extra Cheesy Pepperoni Pizza Rolls: A perfect Super Bowl snack.

What to make for Super Bowl snacks this Sunday

Gordon Ramsay during an interview with the Boston Globe.

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

Visitors preview the "Frida: Immersive Dream" at the Saunders Castle at Park Plaza.

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

"Incredible Predators" debuts at the New England Aquarium.

PARENTING UNFILTERED

Your February vacation week solved

Special Projects

Into the Red illustration.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Vehicles drive along the Coquihalla Highway in British Columbia on Jan. 19.

From traffic to unpaid wages, Canadian truckers face real problems. Vaccine mandates are not one of them.

Katie Hitchcock-Smith

Navigating the Great Resignation as a jaded millennial

Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a joint press conference with Kazakhstan' President following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on Feb. 10.

The Russian hackers are coming. Are we ready?

US Marines burn their fortifications on front line positions in Fallujah, Iraq, on April 30, 2004, before pulling out of the city.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Facing history to avoid repeating it

The starting point of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, in Ust-Luga, Russia.

Deterring Putin will test the mettle of the West

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA

Loving sports can make you a better person

Metro

Coronavirus Live Updates

FDA delays decision on vaccines for children under 5; Canadian judge orders end to blockade at border bridge

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

Dracut police ask public to help identify 2 suspects in $12k robbery case

Authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying two men who allegedly forged a fraudulently obtained check and stole over $12,000 from a business in Dracut, police said Friday.

Black News Hour Episode 6

Black mental health professionals spotlight resources for locals looking for care.

Cellphone video shows IRS agent assaulting tenant in East Boston

The assault was captured on video by a resident watching from his window as one man tackled another on a busy street in East Boston.

Sports

Russia's Kamila Valieva attended a training session on Feb. 12, 2022 prior to the Figure Skating Event at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games.

Olympics | Figure skating

Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case to be heard Sunday at Olympics

Valieva will find out Monday if she can skate in the Winter Olympics women’s competition, which starts a day later.

Hagen Kearney of Team United States performed a trick during the Men's Snowboard Cross Qualification on Day 6 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Genting Snow Park on Feb. 10, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China.

US snowboard coach, rider being investigated for misconduct

US Ski & Snowboard is investigating allegations that longtime Olympic coach Peter Foley took naked pictures of female athletes and that Olympic snowboard racer Hagen Kearney used racist language to provoke a teammate.

Olympics | cross-country relay

Russians take Olympic gold in women’s cross-country relay

The Russian team took the lead at the start of the women’s four-person relay and held on at the end to win another Olympic gold medal in cross-country skiing on Saturday.

John Powers | On Olympics

In defeating the Canadians, the US men’s hockey team can start dreaming of placing atop the podium

Olympics | Hockey

US men’s hockey team beats Canada, young Americans start Olympics 2-0

Super Bowl notebook

This time, Rams are glad that Sony Michel is in the Super Bowl

Business

US ramps up Ukraine warning, says Russia may invade any day

As diplomatic options for averting war in Ukraine appeared to narrow, the White House said President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin would discuss the crisis by phone on Saturday.

FDA delays decision on vaccines for children under 5

The agency said it needed more time to review data from a third dose of the vaccine that Pfizer began testing in young children after getting mixed results from its trial of the original two-dose regimen.

Senators warn Mass. lacks the workers it needs for clean-energy transition

Two legislative leaders call for pause on collection of unemployment overpayments until end of July

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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

A copy of the discarded note the author found.

I found a love note meant for someone else

A photo illustration of smoke coming from a gas stove.

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

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

Mustard-Braised Chicken With
Tarragon served on egg noodles.

Recipes: A Valentine’s Day menu with French inspiration

metro

Providence Police investigate a shooting on Carolina Avenue, late Thursday, May 13, 2021, in Providence, R.I.

Rhode Island crime news: February 2022

Newton teen still fighting for his life after he collapses during basketball game

Police seek charges against seven students after Woburn locker room incident

sports

The 34-year-old Northeastern coach Bridgette Mitchell, a 2010 Duke graduate, had a brief professional playing career before embarking on a coaching career.

Bentley, Northeastern, and BU women’s basketball coaches are having instant success with respective programs

After a performance like that in his Celtics debut, no need to defend the trade for Derrick White

Franklin girls’ basketball stays zeroed in on the task at hand as the wins continue to mount

business

Boston startup wants to rid disposable diapers of plastic

Founder of tech-diversity nonprofit Resilient Coders to resign

Boston’s first WeWork gets OK to change to lab space

politics

Security patrolled an area around the US Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 24, 2022.

US to evacuate Ukraine embassy amid Russian invasion fears

FDA delays public meeting for COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5 to review more data

Biden highlights plan to trim drug costs

Nation

Fiona Backes, 5, sat with her mother after her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, at a high school gym in Southfield, Mich., Nov. 9, 2021.

FDA delays decision on vaccines for children under 5; Canadian judge orders end to blockade at border bridge

US ramps up Ukraine warning, says Russia may invade any day

US to evacuate Ukraine embassy amid Russian invasion fears

World

President Biden spoke in the State Dining Room of the White House on Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington.

Putin, Biden plan high-stakes phone call in Ukraine crisis

US ramps up Ukraine warning, says Russia may invade any day

Ontario premier declares state of emergency, threatens fines, prison time for blocking highways and bridges

opinion

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: A pro-Trump mob breaks into the US Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, D.C. as Congress held a joint session to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump.

Legitimate political disconnect

Vote as if your Supreme Court depends on it

The Russian hackers are coming. Are we ready?

lifestyle

Screenwriter and producer Isaac Aptaker's first feature film, "I Want You Back," comes out Friday on Amazon Prime.

Arlington native and screenwriter Isaac Aptaker explains how ‘I Want You Back’ almost came home to Boston

The Youth America Grand Prix returns to Worcester

I haven’t made it past a first date in months

food & dining

Extra Cheesy Pepperoni Pizza Rolls: A perfect Super Bowl snack.

What to make for Super Bowl snacks this Sunday

The votes are in. This is the best sugar cereal, according to Globe readers.

Vegan vendors get ready for the return of RI VegFest

travel

Hadar Busia-Singleton in Brazil.

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

Visitors preview the "Frida: Immersive Dream" at the Saunders Castle at Park Plaza.

‘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

‘Moon Witch, Spider King’ turns African fantasy on its head

She follows her hunches for what to read next

The creation and the critique in ‘Pure Colour’

Movies

Fannie Lou Hamer spoke to Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sympathizers outside the US Capitol in 1965.

Two documentaries offer powerful 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

RuPaul (pictured at the 2020 Emmy Awards) will host the fourth US iteration of "Lingo," which premiered in 1987 and is currently a hit in the UK.

Puzzle game show ‘Lingo’ set for a comeback

Drag performer Milk to host free disco skating show in the Fenway on Saturday

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

music

Philippe Jordan conducts Borodin, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev featuring Yefim Bronfman, piano, at Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022.

Drama and distinction for conductor Philippe Jordan and pianist Yefim Bronfman at BSO

Betty Davis, raw funk innovator, is dead at 77

BMOP celebrates 25 years of searching for the new

Theater/Dance

Dancers rehearse on stage as hundreds of dancers auditioned for the Youth America Grand Prix on the stage of the Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts on March 20, 2021. The dancers performed before a group of judges in hopes of receiving scholarships to top dance academies.

The Youth America Grand Prix returns to Worcester

Drag performer Milk to host free disco skating show in the Fenway on Saturday

Chris Rock is coming to the Wilbur for five shows

globe local

Dracut police are looking to identify this man as part of an investigation into the theft of $12,000 from a business.

Dracut police ask public to help identify 2 suspects in $12k robbery case

Surveillance video shows BU professor climbing T stairs moments before his fatal fall

A dazzling spectacle of orchids will mesmerize at Tower Hill

Obituaries

An undated photo provided by WABC shows Gloria Rojas, who was billed as New York City's first Latina broadcast journalist when she was hired by WCBS-TV in 1968.

Gloria Rojas, trailblazing Latina broadcaster, dies at 82

Betty Davis, raw funk innovator, is dead at 77

John Wesley, an artist who couldn’t be pinned down, dies at 93