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Fate and the fallen star

photo illustration of David Sabatini. photo by Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff

Biologist David Sabatini is hoping for a comeback after he was abruptly ousted amid allegations of sexual harassment. The case remains one of the most polarizing of its kind in science, and raises hard questions: Is there room for lesser penalties in such complex cases? Did Sabatini deserve a second chance?

Read part two of the Globe's investigation into the fall of David Sabatini

Duxbury father writes of deep love for family, forgives his wife in deaths of their three children
Patrick Clancy, the Duxbury father whose three children were allegedly killed by his wife at their home, on Saturday wrote about his achingly painful loss and the deep love and forgiveness he feels for his wife, Lindsay.

Yvonne Abraham: After Duxbury, conversations we need to have

Melissa Anne DuBois helped her children Asa, 6, and Pierce, 10, with their homework while her 3-year-old daughter, Marceline, looked on Friday at her Princeton home. DuBois, an RN, was diagnosed with postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder when Pierce was a baby.

It’s hard to be a new mom. For some, a lonely struggle can spiral into mental illness.

Dramatic hormonal shifts combined with life changes and lack of support can lead to postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD, and rarely psychosis.

Duxbury deaths put a spotlight on postpartum mood disorders. Here’s how to recognize them.

Two people in crisis shot dead by police, two years apart. Will Massachusetts rethink armed response to mental health emergencies?
The recent police killing of Sayed Faisal in Cambridge has reignited demands to rethink police response to mental health emergencies.

Jeneé Osterheldt

Black cops killed Tyre Nichols. Systemic racism is the death of us all.
The standard use of force in America has never been reasonable. Our split-second inclination often goes for the kill. We say this is not who we are, but we just keep on letting the violence sprawl, be it police killings or politicians policing our bodies, be it mass shootings or domestic violence, violence begets violence is our ebb and flow.

Memphis police disband unit whose officers beat Tyre Nichols Congress pressed to pass police reform after Tyre Nichols’s brutal beating

‘Shortness of breath’: How police first described what happened to Tyre Nichols

Brutal video footage released Friday, an hour’s worth of clips showing police pepper-spraying, punching, and kicking Nichols, underscores the disparity between what police first reported and what actually happened.

Gene therapy can transform life for people with hemophilia. But some patients don’t want it.

Hemgenix is the first approved gene therapy in the US for hemophilia — and at $3.5 million per patient, it’s also the world’s most expensive drug.

CELTICS 125, LAKERS 121 (OT)

Unpacking the Celtics’ wild and controversial win over the Lakers, from Jaylen Brown’s clutch moments to that Patrick Beverley incident
A day after one of the most memorable games of the year, there's still plenty to talk about.

Chaos with LeBron James and the Lakers in town, but the Celtics eked out a win in OT

Teenager fatally shot Sunday morning in Mattapan

Man fatally shot in Methuen early Sunday morning

Miles Sanders capped a pair of long Philadelphia drives in the first half with touchdowns, as the Eagles took advantage of a pair of San Francisco turnovers and an elbow injury to quarterback Brock Purdy to romp Sunday.

NFC CHAMPIONSHIP | EAGLES 31, 49ERS 7

Eagles run over 49ers, finally undone by a quarterback injury, to win NFC title

Philadelphia scored on its opening drive, San Francisco lost Brock Purdy to an elbow injury on its, and the NFC's best team is returning to the Super Bowl for the first time since beating the Patriots there five years ago.

AFC Championship Preview: The Bengals are powered by their three young stars: Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase, and Tee Higgins

Russell Wilson signed a five-year, $245 million contract extension, then led the Broncos to a 5-12 record.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Does paying big money to an NFL quarterback do more harm than good?

This year’s playoffs certainly raise the question of whether it’s better to keep drafting a quarterback every few years and spend the money elsewhere.

Michael B Jordan arrives at the world premiere of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" on Oct. 26 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

‘Saturday Night Live’ cast members get flirty with Michael B. Jordan in monologue

Ego Nwodim tried to make an impression in a wedding dress as Michael B. Jordan hosted "SNL" for the first time, while Lil Baby was the night's musical guest.

Opinion

Demonstrators protest in Times Square on Saturday in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police during a traffic stop.

Peniel E. Joseph

Tyre Nichols and America’s systemic failure

Proposed reforms at the federal level would not have saved the life of Tyre Nichols. Only the fundamental transformation of systems of punishment that have been normalized in American society and culture can do that.

Moderna is planning to dramatically raise the price of its COVID vaccine. Biden shouldn’t let it.

As any economist can tell Mayor Wu, rent control never works

IDEAS | CRAIG FERHMAN

Are you too easily distracted? 19th-century Americans could relate.

Let Duxbury tragedy be a warning: Postpartum mental health care needs to be a priority

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The Emancipator

Community Health Equity Tour

Family, heritage, and community all play a powerful role in maintaining the health and wellness of a city’s residents. Our health equity tour of Chicago’s Little Village shows a neighborhood emblematic of these ideas. Next up: Durham, North Carolina.

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Special reports

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

The 2024 GOP presidential primary season is kicking off. Here’s the potential field.

Campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination kicked off in earnest on Saturday, with Donald Trump visiting New Hampshire and South Carolina. Here's a look at the potential field and the jockeying that is already underway.

Trump kicks off 2024 bid with an event in New Hampshire

Woburn teachers, school administrators resume contract talks Sunday
Both sides resumed negotiations at 10 a.m. at Woburn’s Joyce Middle School.

LOVE LETTERS

Am I ‘walking bad luck’ with love?
Men have sexted, ghosted, and asked me to be their “side piece.”

6 people are dead after small bus and box truck crash in upstate New York
Federal and state authorities are investigating a crash involving a small bus and box truck in snowy conditions that killed six people in upstate New York near the Canadian border.

Man shot, killed at Holyoke Mall was ‘innocent bystander,’ DA’s office says

Holyoke police went to the mall around 7 p.m. Saturday for a report of shots fired and found the victim, the Hampden district attorney’s office said in a statement. His identity was not released Saturday night.

Channel 4 tests a 6 p.m. newscast without a sports report
The decision is not totally shocking, but it is a significant break from tradition, particularly for an older demographic of Ch. 4 viewers

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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Stone has turned the Crimson into a national powerhouse, but 16 former players fault Harvard for keeping her on the job despite numerous complaints about her alleged abusive coaching practices.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A memorial outside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, Calif.

A dangerously armed nation at war with itself

The faculty at Hamline University in Minnesota is calling for its president, Fayneese Miller, to resign for her handling of a Muslim student's objection to a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad being shown in an ancient art course.

Academic freedom and adjunct instructors who aren’t so free to speak

Eric Lander on Jan. 16, 2021, when he was the nominee to be the director of the incoming White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy.

IDEAS | CAREY GOLDBERG

Eric Lander is getting uncanceled

Supporters of presidential candidate Ross Perot held signs during a rally at the Flemington Fairgrounds in Flemington, N.J., on Oct. 25, 1992.

Could 2024 be the year for an independent presidential candidate?

A Boston Police officer and his K-9 arrived at Boston Latin Academy in May 2022 to search the school after a bag of bullets was found inside.

Two schools of thought on student safety: police presence, behavioral health

Andrea Campbell during her run for mayor.

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Boston has never elected a Black mayor. A quiet experiment could change that.

Metro

Jeneé Osterheldt

Black cops killed Tyre Nichols. Systemic racism is the death of us all.

The standard use of force in America has never been reasonable. Our split-second inclination often goes for the kill. We say this is not who we are, but we just keep on letting the violence sprawl, be it police killings or politicians policing our bodies, be it mass shootings or domestic violence, violence begets violence is our ebb and flow.

‘Nobody’s ever ready for that.’ First responders to Duxbury tragedy offered support, assistance.

Services are available for the first responders in Duxbury and neighboring police and fire departments who rushed to the tragic scene on Summer Street Tuesday, officials said.

Gary Smith, producer of the Pixies and Juliana Hatfield, dies at 64

"He wasn’t like a producer. He was more like a coconspirator," musician Billy Bragg said of Mr. Smith.

Two people in crisis shot dead by police, two years apart. Will Massachusetts rethink armed response to mental health emergencies?

The recent police killing of Sayed Faisal in Cambridge has reignited demands to rethink police response to mental health emergencies.

Sports

It wasn't a perfect skate, but Ilia Malinin did enough to win his first US figure skating championship.

US Figure Skating Championships

Ilia Malinin overcomes miscues to win his 1st US men’s figure skating championship

Malinin joins 15-year-old Isabeau Levito, the women's winner, as a first-time national champion, representing potentially the dawn of a new era in US singles skating.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick is serving in a supervisory role for the West squad as it prepares for Thursday's East-West Shrine Game.

EAST-WEST SHRINE BOWL NOTEBOOK

Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s hands-on approach pays dividends immediately in practice session

Belichick's quick tutorial with Pittsburgh defensive end Habakkuk Baldonado leads to a breakthrough moment on the next snap.

Miles Sanders capped a pair of long Philadelphia drives in the first half with touchdowns, as the Eagles took advantage of a pair of San Francisco turnovers and an elbow injury to quarterback Brock Purdy to romp Sunday.

NFC CHAMPIONSHIP | EAGLES 31, 49ERS 7

Eagles run over 49ers, finally undone by a quarterback injury, to win NFC title

Philadelphia scored on its opening drive, San Francisco lost Brock Purdy to an elbow injury on its, and the NFC's best team is returning to the Super Bowl for the first time since beating the Patriots there five years ago.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

With two Super Bowl trips and 200-plus wins, Stoneham’s Bob Almeida headlines 2023 Massachusetts high school football coaches Hall of Fame class

Rory McIlroy builds a three-stroke lead in Dubai

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Business

Gene therapy can transform life for people with hemophilia. But some patients don’t want it.

Hemgenix is the first approved gene therapy in the US for hemophilia — and at $3.5 million per patient, it’s also the world’s most expensive drug.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’ll meet with Biden for debt limit talks this week

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and President Biden have agreed to meet on Wednesday to discuss raising the US debt ceiling, reducing government spending and avoiding a sovereign default.

Puerto Rico to privatize power generation amid outages

T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach to leave ABC after revelations of the co-hosts being romantically involved

magazine

Roomba vs. SharkNinja: Two Mass. companies are fighting to dominate the robot vacuum market

Looking down at Crawford Notch from Mount Willard.

Why do hikers keep dying in N.H.'s White Mountains?

My friend experienced a tragedy. When I invite him to parties, I worry someone will ask about it.

Chicken Cutlets With Avocado-Poblano Sauce.

Three great chicken recipes for easy weeknight meals

metro

Crews battled a two-alarm fire at a building in South Boston on Saturday. The fire broke out at 141 P Street around 3 p.m. Crews were working to control the fire and to prevent it from spreading to the surrounding buildings, the Boston Fire Department said.

Firefighter injured in 2-alarm fire in South Boston

Vigil in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood honors victims of California shootings

Fate and the fallen star

sports

LeBron James probably should've been awarded a foul on this block attempt from Jayson Tatum (right).

Unpacking the Celtics’ wild and controversial win over the Lakers, from Jaylen Brown’s clutch moments to that Patrick Beverley incident

Novak Djokovic wins record 10th Australian Open, draws level with Rafael Nadal with 22nd Grand Slam

Czech pair wins Australian Open doubles for 7th major title

business

An Amazon Fresh grocery store stands in Warrington, Pa., on Feb. 4, 2022.

Amazon will start charging Prime members for US grocery orders of less than $150

Fed sees soft landing as silver lining of temp jobs decline

US inflation and consumer spending cooled in December

politics

One-ounce silver Liberty coins sit in a tray at the United States Mint. While a provision in a 1995 law allows the Treasury to mint collectible commemorative coins, some say a loophole allows for the minting of a $1 trillion coin to aid in the debt limit battle.

The $1 trillion coin and the other (unrealistic) ways to avoid raising the debt limit

Trump kicks off 2024 bid with an event in New Hampshire

McDaniel gets 4th term at top of Republican National Committee

Nation

Flags flown by supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump are shown ahead of a rally featuring Trump at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport November 5, 2022 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

The 2024 GOP presidential primary season is kicking off. Here’s the potential field.

Tom Verlaine, influential guitarist and songwriter for the group Television, dies at 73

Congress pressed to pass police reform after Tyre Nichols’s brutal beating

World

Nadhim Zahawi, the chair of Britain’s Conservative Party, was fired by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday over results from an ethics investigation of his personal tax affairs.

UK prime minister ousts top party official

Russia and Ukraine battle for control of villages near Bakhmut

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians across West Bank as escalation looms

opinion

A memorial outside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, Calif.

A dangerously armed nation at war with itself

The consultants on the bus go WTF?

Wu’s planning ‘redo’ puts process over results

lifestyle

Am I ‘walking bad luck’ with love?

Should I leave my husband for my best friend?

Jay Leno suffers broken bones in motorcycle accident, months after fire

food & dining

Mrs. Robert, with her husband, Lucien, at Maison Robert in 1996.

Martha Ann Robert, 91, Maison Robert restaurateur, mentor, dies

Where to celebrate love and food this Valentine’s Day

In the depths of a New England winter, Birds of Paradise whisks drinkers to other lands

travel

Welcome to Stowe, home of well-stocked general stores and some of the best chocolate in New England — right in this building at Laughing Moon Chocolates.

Are you a lover, not a skier? Best bets for romance in Stowe

Is this Maine’s most romantic town?

A winter seaside love affair with Newport

Arts

Boston City Hall.

What building could be uglier than Boston City Hall? These were deemed even worse.

Kin and kinship at the Griffin Museum of Photography

Shelburne Museum hires curator of Native American Art

Books

Aleksandar Hemon’s ‘The World and All That It Holds’ conscripts readers into the war torn life and love of a queer Jewish apothecary turned soldier and survivor

Andrea Wulf, author of ‘The Invention of Nature,’ on her love-hate relationship with her Kindle

‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ and other accounts of the oppression of women in Iran

Movies

Celtic fans . . . or are they? Movie magic at the Boston Garden during filming of the movie "Celtic Pride," as thousands of "extras" are actually cardboard photographs of people filling the seats of the Old Boston Garden to form the background for some of the scenes.

Nine movies that gave sports fans their due before ‘80 for Brady’

Bungle fever: ‘You People’ fails to get laughs out of interracial dating

‘Shotgun Wedding’: Something old, nothing new from J.Lo and Josh Duhamel

Television

Michael B Jordan arrives at the world premiere of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" on Oct. 26 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

‘Saturday Night Live’ cast members get flirty with Michael B. Jordan in monologue

So glad we had this time together: NBC readies Carol Burnett 90th birthday special

Matt Damon goes bonkers after being bumped from Jimmy Kimmel’s 20th Anniversary Show

music

Mr. Verlaine, performing at The Bowery Ballroom in New York in 2006.

Tom Verlaine, influential guitarist and songwriter for the group Television, dies at 73

At BSO, launching a new concerto into orbit

C’mon Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, let these artists in!

Theater/Dance

"Rome & Jewels" a hip-hop version of "Romeo and Juliet" by Rennie Harris's Puremovement American Street Dance Theater at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.

Rennie Harris’s ‘Rome and Jewels’ is a poignant tale of woe

More heat than light in The Huntington’s ‘The Art of Burning’

For comedian Taylor Tomlinson, stand-up success means having it all

globe local

Donor Michael Solomon, left, demonstrates the use of the chair topper to store a folding wheelchair to recipient Alan Mack of Quincy at Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School in Danvers.

The keys to success

Brookline health officials to study impacts of retail marijuana on community, youth

Poking around the lives of prickly porcupines among us

Obituaries

Gary Smith, owner of artist management company Fort Apache, in Bellows Falls, Vt. in 2003. Photo by Jan Sturmann for Boston Globe.

Gary Smith, producer of the Pixies and Juliana Hatfield, dies at 64

Tom Verlaine, influential guitarist and songwriter for the group Television, dies at 73

Yoshimitsu Yamada, who brought aikido to the US, dies at 84