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A legacy of love, faith, and family: Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King

The love shared by Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King lives on through the family of their oldest son.
The beautiful resistance of Black love

SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP
New funding for controversial MIT and Whitehead Institute scientist David Sabatini draws divided reactions
Billionaire New York hedge fund manager Bill Ackman announced last week that he and an anonymous donor had pledged $25 million over five years toward a new research lab for Sabatini, who is accused of workplace misconduct and sexual harassment.

Read part 1 of the Spotlight report: Fate and the fallen star Read part 2: A broken bond, and a shaken citadel of science

‘Liar!’ The four moments Republicans heckled President Biden during his State of the Union address.

One moment in particular generated boos and hoots among GOP lawmakers: President Biden’s comment that some in the GOP were bent on cutting Social Security and Medicare.

Mitt Romney admonishes George Santos during tense exchange: ‘You don’t belong here’

“He shouldn’t be in Congress. And they’re going to go through the process and hopefully get him out. But he shouldn’t be there,” Romney said of Santos.
In SOTU rebuttal, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders slams Biden for ‘woke fantasies’
James Pindell | Analysis

Five takeaways from President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union
OPINION | Joan Vennochi

Biden had fun at the State of the Union. Republicans did not. What does that tell us about 2024?

Teenager shot in Lynn fast food drive-through; third retail worker shot in Mass. in less than two weeks
A 16-year-old boy working at the drive-through window at a Wendy’s Restaurant in Lynn was shot Tuesday night, making him the third retail employee shot in Massachusetts since Jan. 28.

Prosecutor says Lindsay Clancy planned killing of her children

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague alleged Clancy planned the slayings in advance by asking her husband to pick up food from a restaurant located farther from their home than from where they usually order takeout, so she’d have time to commit the murders.

KEVIN CULLEN
Whenever a war-weary world needed a hero, Pete Reed showed up
“Pete couldn’t sit still when he knew someone was suffering, no matter where in the world that was.”

General Electric picks smaller digs for its new headquarters
The once-grand conglomerate says it will move into one floor of an office tower near South Station.

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector
Dozens of companies have reduced their workforces, ranging from the regional offices of the tech giants to startups that have only been in a business a few years.

Hope fading as deaths in Turkey, Syria earthquake pass 11,000

 See Mass. organizations helping earthquake victims

Car slams into Revere apartment building, injuring two men and displacing tenants, police say

‘It’s kind of like shark CSI.’ Experts assess how frozen shark washed up on Cape Cod beach.
Bob Ryan

LeBron James has been an extraordinary gift to basketball and its fans

In addition to being the all-time NBA scoring leader, he is currently fourth in assists, and he has always been about T-E-A-M.
Reaction to LeBron becoming the NBA’s career scoring leader

Photos of the month: January 2023

In case you missed it: Here are some of the best photos from the Boston Globe staff photographers in January.
chad finn

Bruins at the break: They have time on their side, and other hockey thoughts

The time-on-ice numbers indicate that Jim Montgomery has been using his depth wisely to keep his stars from getting overextended.
Black History Month

Boston must work to address its role in disparities, Wu says

“I have the chance to be surrounded by Black excellence, Black joy, Black brilliance, Black persistence, every single day here working for the city of Boston,” Wu said.
Celebrate Black-owned restaurants in Boston and beyond
Opinion
Michael J. Moore

What we know — and don’t know — about offshore wind and whale deaths

The recent deaths show no relation to offshore wind development.
Arthur Caplan and Dominic Sisti

Asking incarcerated people for their organs is exploitative

JEFF JACOBY

Prisoners who donate a lifesaving organ ought to be rewarded
SCOT LEHIGH

From guns to climate, conservatives play Chicken Little
RENÉE GRAHAM

Kamala Harris will never be good enough, will she?
The Emancipator

Nashville’s historic Woolworth building is in trouble

The history of this site, where Rep. John Lewis’ first arrest in student-led sit-ins that helped lead to desegregation of restaurants across the country, is being erased by it’s new owners. These are stories that need to be preserved.
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Special reports

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

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

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

LOVE LETTERS

Can we compromise if I don’t want children, but my boyfriend does?

I have significant concerns about being a mom, but it’s equally devastating to think of losing the man I love very much.

Police take man into custody after he allegedly threatened to blow up a Citizens Bank in downtown Boston

Officers were called to the bank at 28 State St. at 11:44 a.m. for a report of a man inside who was “threatening to blow it up,” said Boston Police Officer Kim Tavares, a department spokesperson.

Upcoming book contains new details about Alex Cora’s involvement in Astros’ sign-stealing scandal

The entanglements of the Red Sox and Cora — who as Astros bench coach in 2017 played a central role in the wrongdoing — rank among the book's most revelatory anecdotes.

CVS agrees to buy Oak Street Health in $10.6 billion deal

It’s the drugstore chain’s second major patient primary care acquisition in the space in as many years.

More than 150 patients evacuated from Brockton Hospital after 10-alarm fire there Tuesday morning

The fire broke out around 7 a.m. in a basement transformer room, and there were no apparent injuries, officials said.

North End resident, 47, found dead on bench in Christopher Columbus Park in frigid temperatures

Melanie DiVasta was found unresponsive on a bench in the Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park at around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, the coldest night in Boston in decades.
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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Are gas stoves worse than fireplaces? Here’s how some other appliances can also pollute your home.

Cooking appliances aren’t the only household items that run on methane gas. The fossil fuel also commonly powers furnaces, water heaters, and fireplaces. And like gas stoves, these appliances release pollution that can harm your health, and the environment.
The gas stove culture war, explained

WBUR news anchor Jack Lepiarz signs off. His next act? Performing in the circus full time.
After more than a decade at WBUR, Lepiarz is stepping away from the news desk and his role as an anchor to take his act to the next level: performing as “Jack the Whipper” full time.

A housing development at South Shore Plaza seemed like a home run. Not so fast, residents say.
Residents have already begun to rally against a 495-unit apartment complex proposed at South Shore Plaza, highlighting the challenges state and local leaders face as they seek to dig out of the housing shortage.

Boston’s slavery ties deepened by findings at First Church in Roxbury
A 55-page report presented at the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry in Roxbury Monday night provides evidence of at least 58 Africans and Indigenous people enslaved by white parishioners of the First Church in Roxbury from 1631 to 1775, eight years before Massachusetts abolished slavery.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

10 classic, streamable Valentine’s Day episodes to fall in love with all over again

Lego Discovery Center Boston set to open April 14

Calling Tom Brady: This real-life ‘80 for Brady’ lady wants a photo with her favorite QB

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

LETTERS

It takes advocacy, vigilance to remove ‘R’-word from our midst
EDITORIAL

Mass. needs more voc-tech schools — and a fairer way for students to get into them
IDEAS | DAVE KINDY

What it takes to survive a disaster
IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Parody-worthy job titles
Brian Riedl

To my fellow conservatives: Don’t hold the debt limit hostage
IDEAS | KIM SAMUEL

A group of grandmothers in Zimbabwe is helping the world reimagine mental health care

Metro

COLUMN | DAN MCGOWAN

These grownups have real ideas to fix Providence schools. Will someone please call them?

It has been nearly a decade since Susan Lusi and Steve Smith worked in Providence schools, but their ideas could get the floundering state takeover back on track.

Salem’s So Sweet returns for annual Valentine’s Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival

More than 25 ice sculptures will adorn the streets of downtown Salem between Friday and Sunday.
Globe Magazine

A legacy of love, faith, and family: Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King

The love shared by Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King lives on through the family of their oldest son.

The beautiful resistance of Black love

Throughout Black History Month, A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Black love as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

Sports

Bob Ryan

LeBron James has been an extraordinary gift to basketball and its fans

In addition to being the all-time NBA scoring leader, he is currently fourth in assists, and he has always been about T-E-A-M.
Celtics

Will the Celtics make a deal at the deadline?

Boston could use some depth for its bigs and wings, but don't expect any seismic moves ahead of Thursday's deadline.
chad finn

Bruins at the break: They have time on their side, and other hockey thoughts

The time-on-ice numbers indicate that Jim Montgomery has been using his depth wisely to keep his stars from getting overextended.
MLB

Upcoming book contains new details about Alex Cora’s involvement in Astros’ sign-stealing scandal

Reaction to LeBron becoming the NBA’s career scoring leader
NBA

LeBron James passes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become NBA’s all-time leading scorer

Business

RI BUSINESS

CVS agrees to buy Oak Street Health in $10.6 billion deal

It’s the drugstore chain’s second major patient primary care acquisition in the space in as many years.

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector

Dozens of companies have reduced their workforces, ranging from the regional offices of the tech giants to startups that have only been in a business a few years.

A tech race begins as Microsoft adds AI to its search engine

Ex-Twitter execs to face GOP questioning on Hunter Biden
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Jeneé Osterheldt

A legacy of love, faith, and family: Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King

PERSPECTIVE

We’ve heard a lot about ‘commitment’ to DEI. Where’s the follow through?
YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, Feb. 6-Feb. 12

COOKING

Recipes: Show your valentine some love with homemade chocolate cake or pudding

metro

Gina Raimondo’s fingerprints were all over Biden’s State of the Union

New Hampshire considers mental health days for students

Black ice makes for slippery roads during Wednesday morning commute

sports

Brothers Jacob and Sam Gordon push each other, O’Bryant boys’ to repeat City League indoor track title; Latin Academy girls’ also repeat

Boston College women cruise by Harvard to reach Beanpot final thanks to a blue-line barrage

Derek Carr to visit the Saints on Wednesday

business

When it comes to rent control, Wu’s plan aims for a delicate balance

They loved the coffee, so they bought the shop

General Electric picks smaller digs for its new headquarters

politics

Mitt Romney admonishes George Santos during tense exchange: ‘You don’t belong here’

China says it was smeared in Biden State of the Union speech

Biden makes Wisconsin his 1st stop after State of the Union address

Nation

Ex-Twitter execs to face GOP questioning on Hunter Biden

President Biden says in State of Union address that US is ‘unbowed, unbroken’

President Biden acknowledges New Hampshire father whose daughter from fentanyl

World

Two children dead, six hospitalized after city bus crashes into day care near Montreal, police say

Hope fading as deaths in Turkey, Syria earthquake pass 11,000

In speech to UK Parliament, Zelensky says ‘freedom will win,’ pushes for warplanes

opinion

May I have a word: Parody-worthy job titles

Nashville’s historic Woolworth building is in trouble

To my fellow conservatives: Don’t hold the debt limit hostage

lifestyle

10 classic, streamable Valentine’s Day episodes to fall in love with all over again

Michigan woman began walking to work after her car died. One day on the walk, she found $15,000.

Should I continue these coffee dates?

food & dining

They loved the coffee, so they bought the shop

Recipe: Fudgy brownie filling in a flaky crust makes a sinfully delicious pie for your Val/Gal/Palentine

Recipe: Delight your Val/Gal/Palentine with these salted, ultra-crisp chocolate cookies

travel

If you go . . . Fort Myers

These are the most budget-friendly amusement parks

The multiple personalities of the Florida Keys

Arts

Mimi Bai plays ‘Hide and See’ at Boston Center for the Arts’s Mills Gallery

Wu Junyong’s exhibit at the MFA explores different cultural traditions

Abelardo Morell travels ‘In the Footsteps of van Gogh’ at Krakow Witkin Gallery

Books

Salman Rushdie’s ‘Victory City’ is a grand epic about a magical city — and a triumph over censorship

Leila Philip on flash fiction and beavers

Thomas Mallon’s ‘Up With the Sun’ is a fictional biography of real-life actor Dick Kallman, replete with murder and celebrities

Movies

Celebrating Viola Davis, a voice like no other

At AMC theaters, tickets will cost more for good seats

Melinda Dillon, actress who played crisis and comedy, dies at 83

Television

Here’s a look at the Sam Adams Super Bowl commercial — and others — ahead of Sunday’s game

‘Station Eleven’ should appeal to ‘The Last of Us’ fans

An AI-generated ‘Seinfeld’ parody was gaining popularity online — until it was banned for transphobic jokes

music

Charlie Thomas, a Drifter nearly all his life in song, dies at 85

Ben Affleck, looking miserable at the Grammys, becomes a meme yet again

‘Lovelace and Babbage’ opera is a sincerely funny alternate history

Theater/Dance

Norton Awards will return to a live ceremony after a three-year disruption

BalletX transports and transcends with ‘Become a Mountain,’ ‘Credo,’ and ‘Exalt’ at the Cutler Majestic

BalletX is out to prove that ballet is not an elitist artform

globe local

Salem’s So Sweet returns for annual Valentine’s Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival

Newton announces three finalists for school superintendent

Boston’s slavery ties deepened by findings at First Church in Roxbury

Obituaries

David Harris, leader of the Vietnam draft resistance movement, dies at 76

Charlie Thomas, a Drifter nearly all his life in song, dies at 85

A ‘larger-than-life figure,’ Trinity Rep’s founding artistic director Adrian Hall has died