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A broken bond, a shaken citadel of science

Kristin Sabatini photo illustration

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?

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

Pond and lake skating are cherished New England traditions. So far, not this year.
The warm weather has kept Massachusetts ponds and lakes from freezing, and put beloved New England traditions on ice.

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.

Last-second roughing call sets up Chiefs to win AFC title, deny Bengals repeat Eagles run over 49ers, finally undone by a quarterback injury, to win NFC title

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

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.

Larry Edelman | The 2-minute drill

These six charts show we’ve never seen a Mass. job market quite like this one

With much of 2022′s labor market data in the books, here’s the picture that emerges in Massachusetts.

Woburn teachers to strike today 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.

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.

Video of Nichols beating raises questions about medical response

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

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.

Duxbury father writes of deep love for family, forgives his wife in deaths of their three children

Teenager fatally shot Sunday morning in Mattapan

Pamela Anderson in the Netflix documentary "Pamela, a love story."

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: Pamela Anderson tells all, the Grammys are back, and a new Connie Britton series debuts

Last year’s miniseries “Pam & Tommy” created a stir as it dramatized the story of Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee, and their infamous sex tape. Now Anderson is speaking for herself in the Netflix documentary “Pamela, a love story.”

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

Beat writer's notebook

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

There’s plenty to unpack after the Celtics’ bizarre, chaotic, and intense 125-121 overtime win over the Lakers on Saturday night.

Epic Renewal co-founder and operations director Tess Feigenbaum loads a spinning sifter with broken down compostable food products.

A R.I. startup diverts 1 ton of waste each month from landfills. They’re trying to get businesses to do the same.

Tess Feigenbaum co-founded Epic Renewal, which looks to provide low-cost composting services for homes, businesses, and events.

Opinion

Maura Healey toured a portion of the former Marriner Mill in Lawrence, which is being developed into mixed-income rental housing, on Aug. 11.

Maura Healey wants to solve the state’s housing crisis. Here’s step one.

On Tuesday, 175 Massachusetts cities and towns must submit plans to tell the state how they’ll comply with a new housing law. The new governor needs to make sure they’re stepping up.

Big Law’s cancel culture

Bina Venkataraman

Are you for real? The most urgent question with artificial intelligence as a new interlocutor.

Peniel E. Joseph

Tyre Nichols and America’s systemic failure

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

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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

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

AROUND THE HORN | STARTING ROTATION

Red Sox will start spring training with rotation depth, but reliability remains an issue
There are seven candidates — Chris Sale, James Paxton, Nick Pivetta, Tanner Houck, Brayan Bello, Garrett Whitlock, and Corey Kluber — for five spots in the starting rotation.

LOVE LETTERS

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

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.

Suicide bomber kills at least 28, wounds 150 at mosque in NW Pakistan

A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque within a police compound in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 28 people and wounding as many as 150 worshippers, most of them policemen, officials said.

Man fatally shot in Methuen early Sunday morning

Methuen police responded to a report of shots fired in the Haverhill Street area of the city at about 2:06 a.m., officials said.

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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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.

Yvonne Abraham: After Duxbury, conversations we need to have

‘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.

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.

Mass. is spending big to boost homeownership. What happens when the money dries up?
Both the state and Boston have poured COVID relief funds into homeownership programs to help tackle the rising costs of housing. Now some are wondering if the programs are sustainable.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Jethro Tull, led by Ian Anderson, was the choice of several readers.

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

Following the premiere of his "Concerto for Curved Space," composer Steven Mackey takes a bow with music director Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

At BSO, launching a new concerto into orbit

Valentine's Day is the perfect chance to enjoy a decadent meal with the person you love.

Where to celebrate love and food this Valentine’s Day

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’

Special Projects

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

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

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Moderna, the pharmaceutical and biotech company based in Cambridge, has proposed quadrupling the price of its COVID vaccine — from the $26 per dose it charged the federal government in their latest contract to somewhere between $110 and $130 per dose on the commercial market.

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

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

A statue of Henry David Thoreau in front of a reproduction of his cabin at the Walden Pond Reservation.

IDEAS | CRAIG FERHMAN

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

The backyard playground swing set with children's toys at the home where 32-year-old nurse Lindsay Clancy allegedly killed two of her children. Clancy wrote on Facebook that she had struggled with postpartum anxiety.

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

Andrea Campbell during her run for mayor.

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

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

Metro

RI FOOD & DINING NEWSLETTER

Retail therapy: New niche stores offer great grocery options

Independent markets and restaurants with packaged foods are staying popular even during the time of inflation.

A R.I. startup diverts 1 ton of waste each month from landfills. They’re trying to get businesses to do the same.

Tess Feigenbaum co-founded Epic Renewal, which looks to provide low-cost composting services for homes, businesses, and events.

Pond and lake skating are cherished New England traditions. So far, not this year.

The warm weather has kept Massachusetts ponds and lakes from freezing, and put beloved New England traditions on ice.

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.

Sports

Mahomes and the Chiefs are headed for the Super Bowl.

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.

Patrick Mahomes, playing with a high ankle sprain suffered last weekend against Jacksonville, piled up 326 passing yards and two touchdowns Sunday, but a 5-yard scramble in the game's final 20 seconds was its pivotal play.

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.

Frederic protects the puck from Carolina's Dylan Coghlan during the first period of Sunday's game in Raleigh.

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

A R.I. startup diverts 1 ton of waste each month from landfills. They’re trying to get businesses to do the same.

Tess Feigenbaum co-founded Epic Renewal, which looks to provide low-cost composting services for homes, businesses, and events.

Larry Edelman | The 2-minute drill

These six charts show we’ve never seen a Mass. job market quite like this one

With much of 2022′s labor market data in the books, here’s the picture that emerges in Massachusetts.

France braces for major transport woes from pension strikes

Automakers Renault, Nissan make cross-shareholdings equal

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

A lion dancer with Wah Lum carries his costume after taking part in a Lunar New Year celebration in Chinatown.

Lion dancers celebrate Lunar New Year in Chinatown

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

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

sports

The health of Chris Sale's pitching elbow will go a long way toward his helping or hurting the Red Sox rotation in 2023.

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

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Biden, McCarthy to discuss debt limit in talks on Wednesday

A child-size rifle with cartoon skulls, inspired by the AR-15, raises concerns

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

politics

An Amtrak train emerges from the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel in Baltimore, Sept. 15, 2015.

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

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Biden, McCarthy to discuss debt limit in talks on Wednesday

Video of Nichols beating raises questions about medical response

Pelosi attacker wanted to hurt more people, according to jailhouse call

World

Army soldiers and police officers clear the way for ambulances rushing toward a bomb explosion site, at the main entry gate of police offices, in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Jan. 30.

Suicide bomber kills at least 28, wounds 150 at mosque in NW Pakistan

Blinken urges Israel-Palestinian calm as violence soars

COVID still an emergency but nearing ‘inflection’ point, WHO says

opinion

A statue of Henry David Thoreau in front of a reproduction of his cabin at the Walden Pond Reservation.

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

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

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

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

Pamela Anderson in the Netflix documentary "Pamela, a love story."

This week’s TV: Pamela Anderson tells all, the Grammys are back, and a new Connie Britton series debuts

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

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

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

Annie Wersching in 2010.

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