fb-pixel Skip to main content
The Boston Globe
TRENDING:

Boston Globe Spotlight team

A broken bond, a shaken citadel of science

Kristin Knouse and David Sabatini had a relationship that bridged boundaries — she is young in her career, he is globally renowned — and broke rules at the Whitehead Institute. After Knouse alleged harassment and other complaints emerged, an investigation rocked Whitehead, forced out Sabatini and damaged all involved. Did it have to end this way?
Part one:

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

AFC CHAMPIONSHIP | CHIEFS 23, BENGALS 20
Last-second roughing call sets up Chiefs to win AFC title, deny Bengals repeat
Linebacker Joseph Ossai hit a hobbling Patrick Mahomes out of bounds, the 15-yard personal foul moving Kansas City into range for a 45-yard Harrison Butker field goal with three seconds left.

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

Patrick Mahomes boosts his legacy with gutsy win over Bengals in AFC Championship game

Playing on a right high ankle sprain suffered only eight days prior, and playing without several of his top receivers due to injury, Patrick Mahomes threw for 326 yards, two touchdowns, and no interceptions.

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

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.

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

Woburn teachers to strike Monday after contract talks fail to reach deal Sunday

More than 500 Woburn educators are expected to walk the picket line Monday morning, after a last-ditch effort by union and School Committee negotiators failed to broker a deal for a long-sought contract Sunday.

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.

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.

Protesters demand names of Cambridge officers who shot, killed 20-year-old Arif Sayed Faisal

Police continue search for Ware man missing ‘several days’

Jeffrey Allard, 57, was last “seen several days ago” after leaving a medical facility in Marlborough, officials said.

Teenager fatally shot Sunday morning in Mattapan

The cause of the shooting is under investigation and no arrests have been made as of Sunday afternoon, officials said.
Hurricanes 4, Bruins 1

Bruins fail to show any power in third straight loss, falling to the Hurricanes

The Bruins have lost to Tampa Bay, Florida, and Carolina on their current road trip.
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.

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.
Opinion
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.
EDITORIAL

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

As any economist can tell Mayor Wu, rent control never works
IDEAS | CRAIG FERHMAN

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

Let Duxbury tragedy be a warning: Postpartum mental health care needs to be a priority
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.
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
High Med. Low
.
Select a county:
COVID 19 community level from CDC:
.
Case Rate per 100,000 population:
.
New COVID-19 admissions per 100,000:
.
Cases and deaths
.
Total cases:
Total deaths:
Other resources:
NOTE: Data updated once per week. SOURCES: CDC, Mass. Dept. of Public Health

Special reports

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

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

The 2022 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

More recent News

Lion dancers celebrate Lunar New Year in Chinatown
The parade started at Phillips Square and progressed throughout Chinatown.

PHF All-Star Showcase
Boston Pride at the center of the action during Sunday’s PHF All-Star Showcase
Boston had nine players compete in the round-robin tournament, which was won by

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

54-year-old man wounded in Worcester shooting

At around 9:35 p.m. Saturday, Worcester police responded to a report of a gunshot victim at an address on Merrifield Street, officials said.

‘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.

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

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Send The Boston Globe a confidential news tip
Do you have a tip about something that needs to be investigated? Do you have documents or data we should dig into? We want to hear from you.

Recommended reads

‘A culture of complete fear’: Harvard women’s hockey coach Katey Stone under fire for alleged abusive behavior

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.

Former Cambridge mayor Alice Wolf, an advocate for refugees and LGBTQ equality, dies at 89
"I came to this country as a refugee," Ms. Wolf once said. "Without asylum, I would be dead."

The $1 trillion coin and the other (unrealistic) ways to avoid raising the debt limit
The desperate search for an escape hatch in the partisan standoff highlights the increasing fear that the Treasury is headed for its first-ever default in the next few months.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
A winter seaside love affair with Newport
The romance — and bargains — of visiting beach towns during the off-season is simply irresistible.

video

Culture & Lifestyle

We asked, you answered: Here are the acts you’d put in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

At BSO, launching a new concerto into orbit

Where to celebrate love and food this Valentine’s Day

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

Special Projects

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.
Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.
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

RENÉE GRAHAM

A dangerously armed nation at war with itself
Stephen Harrop

Academic freedom and adjunct instructors who aren’t so free to speak
IDEAS | CAREY GOLDBERG

Eric Lander is getting uncanceled
SCOT LEHIGH

Could 2024 be the year for an independent presidential candidate?
LETTERS

Two schools of thought on student safety: police presence, behavioral health
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

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

Metro

Annie Wersching, star of ‘Star Trek: Picard,’ dies at 45

Actress Annie Wersching, best known for her roles on the television series “Star Trek: Picard,” “24,” “Bosch” and “Timeless,” died Sunday morning in Los Angeles. She was 45.

Police continue search for Ware man missing ‘several days’

Jeffrey Allard, 57, was last “seen several days ago” after leaving a medical facility in Marlborough, officials said.

Lion dancers celebrate Lunar New Year in Chinatown

The parade started at Phillips Square and progressed throughout Chinatown.

Woburn teachers to strike Monday after contract talks fail to reach deal Sunday

More than 500 Woburn educators are expected to walk the picket line Monday morning, after a last-ditch effort by union and School Committee negotiators failed to broker a deal for a long-sought contract Sunday.

Sports

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

Patrick Mahomes boosts his legacy with gutsy win over Bengals in AFC Championship game

Playing on a right high ankle sprain suffered only eight days prior, and playing without several of his top receivers due to injury, Patrick Mahomes threw for 326 yards, two touchdowns, and no interceptions.
AFC CHAMPIONSHIP | CHIEFS 23, BENGALS 20

Last-second roughing call sets up Chiefs to win AFC title, deny Bengals repeat

Linebacker Joseph Ossai hit a hobbling Patrick Mahomes out of bounds, the 15-yard personal foul moving Kansas City into range for a 45-yard Harrison Butker field goal with three seconds left.
Bruins Notebook

Trent Frederic back in the lineup after a painful blocked shot vs. Florida

Coach Jim Montgomery said Frederic's status was a "pain tolerance thing."
PHF All-Star Showcase

Boston Pride at the center of the action during Sunday’s PHF All-Star Showcase
SUNDAY'S HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP

Down by six with 15 seconds left, freshman Keyona Raines caps incredible comeback for No. 12 Cathedral
ED BURNS TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP

Elite scorer Cam Fici changed tactics to help No. 5 Belmont knock off defending champion Marshfield in Ed Burns Tournament

Business

Biden, McCarthy to discuss debt limit in talks on Wednesday

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Sunday he is looking forward to discussing with President Biden a “reasonable and responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling” when the two meet Wednesday for their first sit-down at the White House since McCarthy was elected to the post.

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

Puerto Rico to privatize power generation amid outages
magazine
Globe Magazine

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

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

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

Three great chicken recipes for easy weeknight meals

metro

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

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

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

sports

Red Sox will start spring training with rotation depth, but reliability remains an issue

Chargers announce quarterback Justin Herbert underwent surgery on non-throwing shoulder

Bruins fail to show any power in third straight loss, falling to the Hurricanes

business

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

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

politics

Biden visit to Baltimore highlights rail tunnel project

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

Nation

Biden, McCarthy to discuss debt limit in talks on Wednesday

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

World

Israeli-Palestinian cauldron tests US as Blinken visits

UK prime minister ousts top party official

Russia and Ukraine battle for control of villages near Bakhmut

opinion

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

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

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

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

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

Annie Wersching, star of ‘Star Trek: Picard,’ dies at 45

‘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

music

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

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

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

Annie Wersching, star of ‘Star Trek: Picard,’ dies at 45

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