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He collapsed from cardiac arrest. The next four minutes would determine if he would live.

Experts say Massachusetts lags other states in how it responds to cardiac arrest, which comes with a 90 percent fatality rate outside of hospitals.

Michelle Wu promised ‘significant reform’ to police union contracts. Now comes the hard part.
The city’s largest police union is already trying to push contract talks off the bargaining table and into the hands of outside arbitrators, a move that has historically favored the unions.

Biden’s lawyers found more classified documents at his home than previously revealed, White House says

Lawyers who were looking for classified documents at President Biden's home in Delaware found five more pages than they revealed earlier this week, the White House said Saturday.

Workers building the new Orange and Red Line cars in Springfield describe a toxic, error-prone factory
Interviews with several former workers at the CRRC Corp. facility in Western Massachusetts describe a dysfunctional scene on the factory floor, showing a chaotic and often harrowing environment prone to mishaps and delays long before the pandemic began.

Melrose public school teachers plan to rally Sunday ahead of potential strike Tuesday

Mega Millions jackpot with $1.35B grand prize was sold in Maine

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‘Water is shooting out of the ground:’ Burst pipe causes massive flooding, street buckling in Jamaica Plain

Officials from the Boston Water and Sewer Commission are working in the area of Heath Street to investigate the break, the agency said.

Ana Walshe projected success and optimism. Behind the scenes, the missing 39-year-old had stress and uncertainty.
"It seemed like she was at a place where she achieved what she wanted family-wise [and] work-wise,” a longtime friend told the Globe. “And she kind of wanted to live life a little bit more freely.”

In the city where the Kings met, ‘The Embrace’ memorializes their love and struggle
The sculpture, revealed to the public for the first time Friday, depicts Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King.

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Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson will miss Sunday's wild-card game against the Bengals.

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When Jackson suffered a PCL sprain Dec. 4, Ravens coach John Harbaugh indicated it wouldn’t be a lengthy injury.

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Eileen Ryan held a sign that read “Stop The Guns Now” while attending the March for Our Lives rally in Christopher Columbus Park on June 11, 2022, in Boston.

With Democrats in control, Massachusetts legislators prepare for biggest push to tighten gun laws in years

Democratic legislators plan to submit at least two dozen bills to tighten the state's already strict gun laws, setting up the biggest push for gun reform in years.

Massachusetts confirmed hospitalization.

Charts: These are the COVID-19 metrics to watch now

As Massachusetts battles another COVID-19 surge, it’s a good time to look at the state of the coronavirus outbreak locally.

Opinion

A smattering of objects from the author's son's vast collection.

IDEAS | ASHLEY LEFRAK

The ‘main basic’ thing my son’s collections have taught me

His vast array of found objects reminds me and our family to see the beauty in the commonplace.

When ‘whataboutism’ is OK

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Why the controversy around the term ‘Latinx’ doesn’t matter

How not to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.

Biden owes the public some answers on classified documents

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On Reckonings, Reimagining, and The Third Reconstruction

Acclaimed historians Ibram X. Kendi and Peniel Joseph joined to discuss Joseph’s latest work, “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.”⁠

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John Kivlan, ‘the ultimate prosecutor,’ dies at 77
John Kivlan, a celebrated attorney and former prosecutor who garnered national attention for his conviction of a gunman who killed two women during a 1994 shooting rampage at Brookline abortion clinics, died Wednesday, according to authorities.

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She was quirky, intelligent, funny, and way too generous. She was troubled and struggling and trying to overcome. Amber’s life was complicated, and complicated lives make for complicated deaths.

Two men, one teenage girl arrested in connection with alleged string of violent robberies with crowbar on MBTA
A group of alleged attackers traveled from Harvard Square to Park Street to Kenmore station robbing and beating two victims, Transit Police said.

ManRay, legendary Cambridge nightclub that closed in 2005, will reopen Saturday
There will be a soft opening on Saturday, followed by a more official reopening on Wednesday, Jan. 18.

Mass. marijuana official says RMV ‘put politics over our youth’ in adopting stoned driving curriculum
The Cannabis Control Commission on Thursday voted to endorse the controversial lesson plans over strenuous objections from Commissioner Nurys Camargo.

Charlie Baker made nearly 2,200 public appearances as governor. See where he went and how often.
The Republican left office after more than 2,900 days as governor and nearly 2,200 public appearances that took him around the East Coast, and — in rare cases — beyond, according to a Globe analysis of eight years of his public schedules.

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Filippo Parri Gori, son of one of La Scuola del Cuoio's owners and the grandson of the school's co-founder, Marcello Gori, cuts lambskin for a handbag that, once completed entirely by hand, will sell for around 1,000 euros.

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The leather school in Florence that owes a debt to America’s 34th president

A man helps a woman navigate past cars in the driveway and lines of people waiting to get COVID tests at Boston Medical Center in January 2022. COVID can no longer be used as a protective shield that excuses grossly ineffective responses by legislators, insurance companies, and health care administrators to the hospital crisis in America today.

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The deplorable conditions in the emergency department

Members of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment marched up Beacon Street in Boston for the rededication of the Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial, near the State House, on June 1.

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What does Boston owe descendants of the enslaved?

A portrait of former president Andrew Jackson behind President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in 2017.

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The tension between Trumpites and Trumpians

A tent sits idle beside the entrance to the Chelsea Soldier's Home on April 6, 2020, in Chelsea.

Healey cleans up Baker’s mess at Chelsea Soldiers’ Home

West Virginia guard Erik Stevenson fouled Kansas State guard Tykei Greene during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on Dec. 31,

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Melrose public school teachers plan to rally Sunday ahead of potential strike Tuesday

The teachers say they will demonstrate alongside families and students in the city’s Memorial Knoll Park Sunday afternoon after union negotiators spent most of Saturday in mediation to try and settle on a new contract, according to Lisa Donovan, president of the Melrose Education Association.

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Nearly 400 eighth-graders were selected this year to participate in a leadership and community service program sponsored by Project 351, a nonprofit organization.

Ana Walshe projected success and optimism. Behind the scenes, the missing 39-year-old had stress and uncertainty.

"It seemed like she was at a place where she achieved what she wanted family-wise [and] work-wise,” a longtime friend told the Globe. “And she kind of wanted to live life a little bit more freely.”

Casey Hayden, a force for civil rights and feminism, dies at 85

An important organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during its push for civil rights in the early 1960s , Casey Hayden was the co-author of two papers that called out sexism within that organization, and in society in general — documents that are credited with helping to inspire second-wave feminism.

Sports

Kentucky forward Oscar Tshiebwe drove past Tennessee counterpart Jonas Aidoo.

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Antonio Reeves scored 18 points, Oscar Tshiebwe had 15 points and 13 rebounds, and the Wildcats ended the Volunteers' 25-game home win streak.

Support for Damar Hamlin was on display in Buffalo for the Jan. 8 regular-season finale against the Patriots.

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Hamlin, who needed to be resuscitated during a Jan. 2 game in Cincinnati, was cleared to go home Wednesday after undergoing final tests at Buffalo General Medical Center.

The Patriots season ended with a loss in Buffalo, an 8-9 record, and no playoff spot.

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Business

Twitter workers forced to drop group lawsuit over severance

Twitter Inc. won a ruling forcing a group of laid-off workers fighting the company over their severance packages to pursue their claims in individual arbitration rather than through a class-action lawsuit.

In a tight labor market, nonprofits are losing out

Human services organizations cannot compete with rising wages at for-profit companies, leaving widespread staff shortages everywhere from food banks to homelessness prevention groups.

Treasury secretary tells Congress US expected to hit debt limit Thursday

‘More and more toxic’: Mayor Wu cuts back on Twitter following Musk chaos

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The untold story of roller-skating heroes who fought racism in Victorian-era Boston

In 1848, an enslaved couple fled to Boston in one of history’s most daring escapes

Warren Seavey (left) and some of the World War II veterans he admitted to Harvard Law.

A Harvard Law professor broke the rules to let in WWII vets. They made ‘the best class there ever was.’

Forget Wordle. Here are 5 secrets to living better, longer.

metro

Mayor Michelle Wu’s priorities include reducing “union release time,” when the city pays officers to attend collective bargaining and grievance sessions, and tightening the medical leave policy.

Michelle Wu promised ‘significant reform’ to police union contracts. Now comes the hard part.

The immense loss of Amber Buckner

He collapsed from cardiac arrest. The next four minutes would determine if he would live.

sports

Adam Jones is jumping from 98.5 The Sports Hub to host WEEI's afternoon-drive program.

WEEI’s afternoon shakeup unlikely to have any effect going against ratings monster ‘Felger and Mazz’

With superstar Kevin Durant sidelined, can the Nets keep pace in the East?

Bruins goalie Linus Ullmark is having an All-Star season thanks to plenty of behind-the-scenes work

business

People carried shopping bags last December in Downtown Crossing.

‘Twas a sluggish holiday season for Mass. retailers

Trump Organization fined $1.6 million for tax fraud, the maximum allowed by law

When you win Mega Millions, you can buy these homes

politics

The access road to President Biden's home in Wilmington, Del., was seen on Friday.

Biden’s lawyers found more classified documents at his home than previously revealed, White House says

US will hit debt limit Jan. 19, Yellen tells Congress

US nears new cooperation deals with Pacific Island nations

Nation

Elvis Presley’s home at Graceland, in Memphis, in 2006.

Lisa Marie Presley was rock ‘n’ roll royalty. Graceland was her castle.

8 miles over the Pacific, getting inside California’s wild weather

Claim of mammoth bones brings treasure hunters to NYC river

World

Patients waited on stretchers at Tongren hospital in Shanghai on Jan. 3.

China reports 60,000 COVID-related deaths, says peak passed

German village at center of a fight over coal and climate is cleared out

Iran hangs former defense ministry official over spy claim

opinion

Massachusetts House Speaker Ronald Mariano, shown on the steps of the State House in May 2022, decided on Jan. 3 to delay the swearing in of two Democratic representatives-elect in order to review challenges by their Republican opponents.

Delay in swearing in two Mass. lawmakers is decried

Ah, the Everett waterfront. Think of the possibilities.

Healey cleans up Baker’s mess at Chelsea Soldiers’ Home

lifestyle

A pair of Dallas police vehicles and officers sit at an entrance at the Dallas Zoo. A missing clouded leopard shut down the zoo on Friday as police helped search for the animal.

Police investigate after Dallas Zoo missing leopard was found. ‘It is our belief that this was an intentional act.’

I read a letter from his ex

Hulu fees, camp costs, and tracking every penny: Here’s one expert’s money advice for ordinary families

food & dining

Legal Sea Foods and the Boston City Council have proclaimed that Sunday, Jan. 15, is “Chowda Day.”

Jan. 15 proclaimed ‘Chowda Day’ in Boston. Celebrate with a cup and a cause for $1.

The Fenway’s wow!! tikka offers fresh, healthy, fast Indian dishes

Better suburban restaurants. Higher menu prices. More kelp. These are the predicted food trends for 2023.

travel

Discover the importance of Rome as a global hub for photography at Bowdoin College Museum of Art's new exhibit, "In Light of Rome: Early Photography in the Capital of the Art World, 1842-1871," which runs Dec. 8 through June 4.

A Rome exhibit in Maine, a dreamy eclipse escape, and a clever duffel backpack

After a ‘traumatic nightmare’ on Amtrak, can I get a refund?

Love ‘Hamilton’ the musical? Here’s where to walk (or sing and dance) in his footsteps in Nevis

Arts

Boston Common's new monument "The Embrace" memorializes Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott's love story and civil work in the city.

The history behind ‘The Embrace’: Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King’s Boston connection

‘The Embrace’: ‘The hug the city needs’

Cy Twombly, a misfit who left a mark, at the MFA

Books

Matthew Salesses’s ‘The Sense of Wonder’ takes on issues of being Asian American in the NBA. Plus: K-drama.

Henry Marsh, pioneering brain surgeon, navigates fear, powerlessness, and acceptance after a diagnosis of prostate cancer in his memoir ‘And Finally’

Martin Puchner on science fiction and speed reading

Movies

Film critic Odie Henderson explains his star-rating system.

The fault in his stars? The Globe’s film critic explains his rating system.

From Salem to Sundance: Meet film festival programmer Heidi Zwicker

Chris Evans goes Instagram official with actress Alba Baptista

Television

Jake Johnson and Ophelia Lovibond in "Minx."

After HBO Max cancellation, ‘Minx’ moves to Starz

This TV reporter’s Boston accent slipped out during an outtake

Latest immersive experience coming to Boston takes visitors to the world of Disney Animation

music

Following the premiere of his new piano concerto "Oceans Apart," composer Justin Dello Joio takes a bow on the stage of Symphony Hall, with soloist Garrick Ohlsson and conductor Alan Gilbert.

At BSO, Gilbert returns with ambitious, exploratory program

Robbie Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive dies

Boston guitarists pay homage to an idol, Jeff Beck

Theater/Dance

From left: Victoria Clark, Justin Cooley, and Steven Boyer in "Kimberly Akimbo." In the musical, Clark plays a 16-year-old who suffers from a genetic disorder that ages her physically four times faster than normal.

These outsiders have a place where they belong: on the stage

Moonbox Productions will anchor a new performance venue in Harvard Square

Outside of ‘The Daily Show,’ there’s another Dulcé Sloan

globe local

Natural gas and heating oil (top photos) warm about 75 percent of Massachusetts homes, with electric heat pumps and firewood (bottom row) barely making a dent in the market.

TAKING THE HEAT: As energy costs soar, homeowners are seeking ways to stay warm without breaking the bank.

The Argument: Is inclusionary zoning a good tool for cities and towns to expand affordable housing?

North Shore Workforce Board program aims to recruit and train more mental health counselors

Obituaries

A photo provided via Hayden family shows Casey Hayden at a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee reunion in Raleigh, N.C., in 2010 with Tom Hayden, her ex-husband and fellow activist.

Casey Hayden, a force for civil rights and feminism, dies at 85

Gerrie Coetzee, former WBA heavyweight champ, dies at 67

Robbie Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive dies