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Allston still in limbo after feds reject $1.2 billion request to help fund Pike realignment

The US Department of Transportation denied the city-state request for a grant to fund a big re-do of the Mass. Turnpike’s Allston-Brighton interchange, leaving the project with a long road ahead.

Sam Trabucco, a Roxbury Latin and MIT grad, got rich trading crypto. Now he’s the odd man out in the FTX saga.
Trabucco got out soon before Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire imploded in November, in a saga that’s led to bankruptcy proceedings and criminal charges.

Don’t make the Medicare mistake that this couple made. It cost them dearly.

Alan Cregg turned 65 three years ago and signed up for Medicare Part A, which covers hospitalizations and costs nothing. But he didn’t sign up for Part B, which covers doctors appointments and outpatient care.

Baker tapped nearly 170 for state boards and panels during his final weeks in office

The slew of 11th-hour appointees Charlie Baker made include his former chief of staff, a high-ranking Republican Party official, and two former GOP state representatives whose terms were ending.

Daughter of Representative Katherine Clark arrested during Boston Common protest, charged with assaulting police officer

Search by divers for missing Brookfield woman postponed due to snow

California shooter kills 10 at Monterey Park dance studio; motive unclear

Sherri Covell, a supervisor for Ice Castles, walked through the structures, which are still under construction.

A dad, a hose, some snow, and the magic of taking a joke too far

What started with a dad trying to entertain his kids with some snow forts in the yard has become the Ice Castles, a winter blockbuster in New Hampshire that is about to unveil its latest addition: a bar.

Welcome to Malden, a ‘breakfast-scented’ city
In Malden, a unique blend of aromas from coffee, bread, and baked goods factories has led some to give it a nickname.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

New England braces for a stormy Monday
Low pressure will be moving up along the New England coastline and into the Gulf of Maine later Monday, bringing a mixed bag of precipitation through Monday evening.

Storm expected to bring rain, then snow to Eastern Mass. Live weather updates from Boston-area meteorologists

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Snow covered the ground in front of the Florida Baptist Church last fall.

Here's a look at snowfall totals

Josh Allen and the Bills' offense were far from their best on Sunday against the Bengals, setting a season low with 10 points while Cincinnati racked up a franchise-record 30 first downs.

ON FOOTBALL | BEN VOLIN

Bills in shock as their all-in season falls flat, and their Super Bowl window perhaps closes

Buffalo prepared for the season under a banner that read “Find a way,” and were Super Bowl favorites from the first day of training camp, but ended up wilting in the same round that felled them a year ago.

Natasha Lyonne in "Poker Face," premiering Thursday on Peacock.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: Natasha Lyonne solves crimes, Netflix cuts back on sharing, and ‘The 1619 Project’ comes to Hulu

Sharing is caring and all that. But I think some people are going to be swearing about the despairing news: Netflix is putting its subscribers on alert that it will be cracking down on account sharing in the coming months.

Like other Internet companies, Google routinely preserves and analyzes every interaction with its users.

After Brian Walshe, should Google warn police of an impending murder?

In theory, a search engine like Google might flag potentially scary search terms, just as social media companies like Facebook and Twitter flag threats of violence. But in practice, this just isn’t done.

See more coverage of the Ana Walshe case

Opinion

Will the Republican Party ever play a meaningful role in state government again?

Or will Republicans forever be relegated to holding cardboard signs outside the State House while Democrats govern inside? Take heart, voters.

Lizzy Guyton and Colin Reed

MassGOP is long overdue for a course correction

Patrick O'Connor

Why I’m still a Massachusetts Republican

IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

For one afternoon, lab-grown meat was the talk of the town

Noncompete agreements are costing workers billions in wages. Time to get rid of them.

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The Emancipator

Talking to your kids about race

What are we saying to our kids about race even when we don’t say anything? Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, explains how it is a false choice whether or not to teach your young child about race, because, either way, they’re picking up on your attitude about race.

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Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

The 2022 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

More recent News

‘It can get overwhelming’ — Damon Stoudamire describes how friend Ime Udoka is handling his Celtics suspension

To the Celtics assistant coach, Udoka's well-being is what matters most. “You’re talking about a relationship that dates back 30 years,” Stoudamire said.

Grant Williams is a prime example of how the Celtics are deep thinkers when it comes to shooting
The Celtics are on pace to take more than 3,400 3-pointers this season, which would be the third most attempts by a team in league history.

Boston women’s march marks Roe v. Wade anniversary: ‘For me, it’s very personal’
Organizers of the Women’s March movement dubbed Sunday a national day of action with rallies planned in 200 cities in 46 states.

DEVRA FIRST

Ashmont Grill in Dorchester is closing
Opened in 2005, the restaurant has been a gathering spot for the whole community.

‘It makes me feel at home’: Ethiopian diaspora celebrate the Epiphany at Worcester church
“The Epiphany brought us all together for one purpose, to worship God,” said Amanual Abate, 32, of Boston. “It makes me feel at home. I’m surrounded by my community.”

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The divergent tracks of Boston’s three downtowns — Back Bay, the Financial District, and the Seaport — highlight the ways that neighborhoods are evolving as the pandemic eases.

‘Holding on by its fingernails.’ The biotech industry in Massachusetts braces for another tough year.
Biotech acquisitions, funding, public offerings, and stock prices fell in 2022, sending small companies into survival mode — and hoping for an economic turnaround.

Kevin McCarthy, Ben Affleck, and the debt limit: how the 2011 showdown informs the latest fight
This time around, McCarthy moves to center stage as House speaker, a job he narrowly won by promising far-right lawmakers he would not agree to a debt limit increase unless it was paired with significant fiscal reforms.

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Pierre Jean Gonzalez portrays Alexander Hamilton in "Hamilton."

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Oscar nominations drop Jan. 24. Here’s who we think will get lucky.

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Jan. 19. The show featuring guest soloist violinist Nicola Benedetti repeats Saturday.

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis weaves clarity, control, and balance at the BSO

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and extremist Republicans are running a con game. They claim their plan to use the debt ceiling to trigger global economic chaos is about fiscal responsibility. It’s not.

Elizabeth Warren

The Republican con on the debt ceiling

Striking Haverhill public school teachers held a rally outside Haverhill City Hall in October.

For public school teachers, there can be no right to strike

The patch of a Cambridge police officer during a special Cambridge City Council meeting about the police killing of Sayed Faisal.

No more excuses. Cambridge police should use body cameras.

The campus of Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn. Art history lecturer Erika López Prater lost her job after she showed an image of the Prophet Muhammad in class. She had warned students the image would be shown and gave them an opportunity to leave.

IDEAS | STEPHEN ASMA

A way out of the campus free speech wars

In this Jan. 22, 2020, photo, David Xol-Cholom of Guatemala hugged his son, Byron, at Los Angeles International Airport as they reunited after being separated for about one-and-half years during the Trump administration's wide-scale separation of immigrant families.

MARCELA GARCÍA

The ongoing disgrace over the Trump-era family separation policy

Sidetrack students find a piece of machinery in an abandoned building on the Boston waterfront while exploring the city.

IDEAS | PETER THOMSON

The radical, forgotten experiment in educational integration that changed my life

Metro

Spinal taps on infants are grueling for parents and medical teams. This startup may have a solution.

Providence-based SmolTap has a new device, almost like a cradle or seat, that positions and holds the infant in place during a lumbar puncture.

chesto means business

Allston still in limbo after feds reject $1.2 billion request to help fund Pike realignment

The US Department of Transportation denied the city-state request for a grant to fund a big re-do of the Mass. Turnpike’s Allston-Brighton interchange, leaving the project with a long road ahead.

Welcome to Malden, a ‘breakfast-scented’ city

In Malden, a unique blend of aromas from coffee, bread, and baked goods factories has led some to give it a nickname.

Storm expected to bring rain, then snow to Eastern Mass., with 1-3 inches predicted for Boston

Much of the state, aside from Southeastern Massachusetts and the Cape and Islands, is under a winter weather advisory calling for mixed precipitation, “snow accumulations of 3 to 6 inches and ice accumulations of a light glaze,” the National Weather Service said.

Sports

Grant Williams is shooting 3-pointers at a 40.9 percent clip this season, having made 70 of 171 attempts.

Grant Williams is a prime example of how the Celtics are deep thinkers when it comes to shooting

The Celtics are on pace to take more than 3,400 3-pointers this season, which would be the third most attempts by a team in league history.

Ben Shelton reacts during his fourth round match against J.J. Wolf at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 23.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN

Florida’s Ben Shelton in quarterfinals in Australian Open debut

The 20-year-old NCAA champion from the University of Florida extended his stay in his debut at Melbourne Park by pulling out a 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory over J.J. Wolf in an all-American matchup in John Cain Arena on Monday.

In his return to the lineup Sunday, Brandon Carlo didn't waste any time before he started mixing it up, going toe-to-toe here with San Jose's Timo Meier in the first period.

Bruins notebook

X-rays of his right foot were negative so Brandon Carlo rejoins Bruins

Prior to taking the ice at the Garden, Carlo said he was still experiencing pain when tugging on his skate, but not enough for the 26-year-old to miss his 445th career game in Black and Gold.

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Bruins shut out Sharks for fifth straight win

College basketball

A grand moment for Carolyn Swords: Her No. 30 soars to the rafters at Boston College

NFC DIVISIONAL ROUND | 49ERS 19, COWBOYS 12

San Francisco claws past Dallas for another title game trip as defenses dominate

Business

Spinal taps on infants are grueling for parents and medical teams. This startup may have a solution.

Providence-based SmolTap has a new device, almost like a cradle or seat, that positions and holds the infant in place during a lumbar puncture.

chesto means business

Allston still in limbo after feds reject $1.2 billion request to help fund Pike realignment

The US Department of Transportation denied the city-state request for a grant to fund a big re-do of the Mass. Turnpike’s Allston-Brighton interchange, leaving the project with a long road ahead.

Biden’s next climate hurdle: enticing Americans to buy green

Firms expect job cuts in ‘23 amid recession fears, survey says

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What I didn’t know about having a miscarriage

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The struggle to communicate with potential dates in text messages is real

Advice: My sister is messing up my relationship with my parents

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Three perfect omelet recipes to get your day started right

metro

From left: UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, Daniel Ellsberg, and his wife, Patricia Marx Ellsberg are seen during a ceremony in San Francisco where Ellsberg received an honorary degree from the university.

Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg receives honorary degree from UMass Amherst

‘It makes me feel at home’: Ethiopian diaspora celebrate the Epiphany at Worcester church

Search by divers for missing Brookfield woman postponed due to snow

sports

Josh Allen and the Bills' offense were far from their best on Sunday against the Bengals, setting a season low with 10 points while Cincinnati racked up a franchise-record 30 first downs.

Bills in shock as their all-in season falls flat, and their Super Bowl window perhaps closes

Jon Rahm makes it two straight with his win at AmEx

All eyes were on Anna McElhinney as she paced Billerica to the MSTCA Division 3 State Relays crown, while Burlington boys’ dominance continued

business

The Purdy family at home in Kapolei, Hawaii, on Dec. 14, 2022.

Native Hawaiians flock to Las Vegas for affordable living

Sam Trabucco, a Roxbury Latin and MIT grad, got rich trading crypto. Now he’s the odd man out in the FTX saga.

After Brian Walshe, should Google warn police of an impending murder?

politics

Republican National Committee chairman Ronna McDaniel.

Trump’s MAGA forces threaten to upend vote for RNC chair

Biden’s next climate hurdle: enticing Americans to buy green

Dems: Biden should be ‘embarrassed’ by classified docs case

Nation

Police officers stand outside a ballroom dance club in Monterey Park, Calif., on Jan. 22.

California shooter kills 10 at Monterey Park dance studio; motive unclear

At least 10 killed in California shooting; police hunt for answers after massacre at suburban LA dance studio

Suspect in Monterey Park dance studio shooting has died by self-inflicted gunshot, sheriff says

World

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks to soldiers in front of a Leopard 2 main battle tank after the Army's training and instruction exercise in Ostenholz, Germany, Oct. 17, 2022.

Poland pushes for more tanks for Ukraine, asks for German OK

Trial against Hells Angels set to start in Spain

Lights out in Pakistan as energy-saving move backfires

opinion

Striking Haverhill public school teachers held a rally outside Haverhill City Hall in October.

For public school teachers, there can be no right to strike

The electric vehicle acid test

Italian leather may owe debt to Eisenhower, but Ike owes her dad his livelihood

lifestyle

Do we take a leap of faith?

Should I tell my friend how I feel — before her wedding?

Kim Kardashian speaks at Harvard Business School, checks out ‘The Embrace’ in Boston

food & dining

The cozy outdoor patio at the Ashmont Grill in Dorchester.

Ashmont Grill in Dorchester is closing

Times change, and restaurants should, too. So what does that mean for fine dining?

At El Peñol, an American dream realized

travel

Jeff and Jane model the dorky look.

New gear for new priorities

Traveling while old(er)*

With a hurricane on the way, are these tickets now worthless?

Arts

Victoria Sunnergren is the Shelburne Museum's first associate curator of Native American art.

Shelburne Museum hires curator of Native American Art

At the MFA, ‘Hear Me Now’ tells the story of enslaved Black potters

10-plus eye-catching art exhibitions from Boston to the Berkshires to Portland

Books

A fragile island community faces destruction in Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Harding’s ‘This Other Eden’

In Selby Wynn Schwartz’s ‘After Sappho,’ long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize, the Greek poet empowers women artists to push against traditional boundaries

Jayne Ann Krentz on her love of contemporary gothic and what was missing from Nancy Drew

Movies

Jennifer Coolidge, winner of the best supporting actress in a drama series for "The White Lotus," poses in the press room during the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on Jan. 15, 2023 in Los Angeles.

‘Hiiii.’ Jennifer Coolidge joins TikTok, recites JLo ‘poem’

Another Boston movie theater could soon turn off the projectors

The sins of ‘The Son’

Television

Natasha Lyonne in "Poker Face," premiering Thursday on Peacock.

This week’s TV: Natasha Lyonne solves crimes, Netflix cuts back on sharing, and ‘The 1619 Project’ comes to Hulu

Aubrey Plaza, Amy Poehler reprise ‘Parks and Recreation’ roles on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Adam Sandler tapped for Mark Twain Prize

music

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Jan. 19. The show featuring guest soloist violinist Nicola Benedetti repeats Saturday.

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis weaves clarity, control, and balance at the BSO

New England Philharmonic music director Tianhui Ng shares music through ‘human stories’

Aoife O’Donovan traverses the sparse terrain of Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’

Theater/Dance

Compagnie Hervé Koubi performing “Ce qui le jour doit à la nuit” (“What the Day Owes to the Night”) at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.

Hervé Koubi revisits his Algerian roots at the Majestic

LaTasha Barnes’s ‘The Jazz Continuum’ can’t stop moving

A creator of experimental theater steps anxiously into the spotlight with ‘Made in China 2.0’

globe local

Skiers take to the slopes at Ski Bradford as a snowmaker makes snow behind them.

Quick getaways to the slopes

The Argument: Should Massachusetts give public school teachers the right to strike?

Two little girls laughing until someone told us to stop

Obituaries

Dr. Allis received the Japan Prize in 2014 for his work on the "discovery of histone modifications as fundamental regulators of gene expression."

David Allis, researcher who explored ‘on-off’ switch in genes, dies at 71

Former All-Star third baseman Sal Bando dies at 78

Gwen Knapp, sports writer who looked at the big picture, dies at 61