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A 15-year-old stayed in a hospital for 40 days. The reason? The state child welfare agency had no place to put him.
Massachusetts has had a child welfare crisis for years. But amid a shortage of beds in group and foster homes, the state is also holding children in hospitals for up to weeks or months on end, even when they’ve been medically cleared to leave.

US warplane shot down object over northern Canada, Trudeau says

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on his order a US fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” that was flying high over the Yukon.
US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast on orders from President Biden

She helped kids and teachers solve problems. Can she do the same for Boston Public Schools?
After leaving the helm of Somerville’s schools last fall to lead BPS, former teacher Mary Skipper is confronting the challenge of her career: turning around a school system that fails thousands of children every year.

Several Boston leaders offer support for longtime city official charged with money laundering, conspiracy in prison drug scheme

Freda Brasfield's supporters include a state lawmaker from Mattapan, the leader of the Greater Love Tabernacle Church in Dorchester, a former high-ranking aide to former mayor Thomas M. Menino, and some of her fellow volunteers from a Pop Warner football and cheerleading organization in Mattapan.

Saint Joseph Prep Boston will close this year, school officials say
Saint Joseph Prep Boston, a co-ed Catholic high school in Brighton formed a decade ago by the merger of two smaller schools, will shut down at the end of the school year, school officials said Friday.

POLITICS

Prohibition against urinals prompts student walkout as N.H. lawmakers weigh segregating bathrooms by sex

The school bathroom crackdown in Milford, N.H., comes as lawmakers in Concord push for statewide rules.

After the ride-hailing revolution, the taxi industry is reinventing itself

The Globe spent a day on the streets of Boston with a survivor of a brutal few years for the cab industry.
Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Here are the winners and losers of the baseball offseason

To at least some degree, every team feels good about its roster as camps open.
Five Red Sox story lines heading into spring training A first projection of who will be with the Red Sox on Opening Day, with analysis of the 26-man roster
Black History Month
Globe Magazine

The Twitterverse had its say about ‘The Embrace.’ Here’s what real visitors think.

We spent a weekend interviewing visitors to the monument to the Kings. This is what people from Boston and beyond had to say.
When Martin met Coretta in Boston, he found his match in more ways than one
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Seizing home equity over unpaid taxes is unfair to homeowners

Municipalities should not be allowed to reap huge profits from sales of foreclosed homes.
JEFF JACOBY

There’s only one way to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution
LETTERS

Pregnancy and childbirth: a wonder, a joy, and a minefield
MARCELA GARCÍA

Youth violence in Boston schools cries out for reforms
IDEAS

Where did all the workers go?
The Emancipator

Jefferson Street jams

The history of Nashville’s historic Club Baron is being saved by an unlikely multiracial collaboration. Located in what is now an Elks Lodge, the stage hosted iconic performers like Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, but had fallen into disrepair.
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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

Penguins superstar Crosby picks up his first game misconduct
There aren’t many occasions anymore when one can say Sidney Crosby did something in a game for the first time.

Earthquake in Turkey is only the latest tragedy for refugees
When war broke out in Ukraine, Aydin Sisman’s relatives there fled to the ancient city of Antakya, in a southeastern corner of Turkey that borders Syria. They may have escaped one disaster, but another found them in their new home.

Turkey arrests building contractors 6 days after quakes

Gus Bickford to step down as state Democratic Party chair
Bickford, who has led the party since 2016, announced his decision to step down at a State Committee meeting Saturday, and will remain chairman until its next meeting on April 24.

Two people taken to hospital with stab wounds in Jamaica Plain

Both victims were taken to local hospitals with life-threatening injuries, police said Saturday evening.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes
How the Nets’ attempt to build the latest super team went all wrong
The entire situation may serve as a warning against trying to build super teams, especially when the parties involved are drunk on player empowerment.

Flight cleared after bomb threat reported at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, officials say

A reported bomb threat against a Spirit Airlines flight bound for Tampa drew police and a bomb squad to Manchester-Boston Regional Airport on Saturday before the flight was eventually cleared and allowed to take off for Florida, officials said.
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Listen up, Boston. Montreal is ready to show you how to embrace winter, not shun it.

The weather is colder, the snow is deeper, and Montrealers are out on the town instead of running for bread and milk.
After a couple of pandemic-stalled winters, music is back in the mountains Weekend of romance on the blustery coast of Southern Maine

Kraft practically begged Brady to return. A romance writer and a breakup coach have thoughts.
It’s the cardinal rule of the dumped. Act like you don’t care. Pretend you’ve moved on. But there was Bob Kraft on CNN last week begging Tom Brady to return.

Hugh Auchincloss was Anthony Fauci’s longtime deputy. Now he’s taking his job as House Republicans probe the pandemic.
When Fauci retired at the end of last year, the director’s lab coat — and all the political heat that goes with it — went to Auchincloss as he became the agency’s acting head.

They once passed on hefty pay raises. Two years later, Galvin and Goldberg quietly took them
In addition to taking a two-year-old pay hike, state Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg also recently accepted a 20 percent pay raise her office determined she and other constitutional officers were due this year. Combined, her pay jumped by $49,200.

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Culture & Lifestyle

A native of China and an observer of America, Joe Wong brings a new edge to his stand-up act

It’s your turn to be the VIP

You like ‘Billions’? Then stick around for ‘Millions,’ ‘Trillions,’ and a wealth of other TV spinoffs

Love the arts? Then watch the Super Bowl.

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.

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

‘How could they kill this kid?’ A month later, no answers in Cambridge.
Elissa Ely

The kindness of misremembering strangers
Paul Sax and David Boulware

The best treatment for COVID-19 could be the one you can’t get
EDITORIAL

The White House wants to end the public health emergency. Is the country prepared?
Michael J. Moore

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

Where did all the workers go?

Metro

Saint Joseph Prep Boston will close this year, school officials say

Saint Joseph Prep Boston, a co-ed Catholic high school in Brighton formed a decade ago by the merger of two smaller schools, will shut down at the end of the school year, school officials said Friday.

Jean Anderson, exacting and encyclopedic cookbook author, dies at 93

Jean Anderson, the indefatigable and exacting Southern-born food writer and author of nearly 20 cookbooks, including “The Doubleday Cookbook”— a kitchen bible that rivaled “The Joy of Cooking” — and “The Food of Portugal,” which introduced American cooks to the lore, culture and food ways of her favorite country, died last month at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was 93.

Navy pilot from Waltham is part of historic, all-women team for Super Bowl flyover

Lt. Jacqueline Drew, a 2013 graduate of the US Naval Academy, will be part of an all-women team who will conduct a flyover during the national anthem to celebrate 50 years of women serving as Navy pilots.

She helped kids and teachers solve problems. Can she do the same for Boston Public Schools?

After leaving the helm of Somerville’s schools last fall to lead BPS, former teacher Mary Skipper is confronting the challenge of her career: turning around a school system that fails thousands of children every year.

Sports

Penguins superstar Crosby picks up his first game misconduct

There aren’t many occasions anymore when one can say Sidney Crosby did something in a game for the first time.
GIRLS' HS HOCKEY | PEABODY 1, NEWBURYPORT 0

Peabody coach Michelle Roach joins rarified air with 100th win coupled with the 100 points she scored at St. Mary’s

In its first eight years, Peabody tallied 19 wins. Since Roach took over the program eight years ago, it has emerged as a Division 1 threat.
MIAA NORTH GIRLS' SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP

With teamwork, perseverance, and a clutch relay, Concord-Carlisle girls’ swimming celebrates the program’s first North title

With their runner-up finish in the 4x400 freestyle relay, Beatrice Turrettini, Lilly Soillis, Tess Ward, and Arden Trudeau locked up sectional championship.
Golf Roundup

Scottie Scheffler holds WM Phoenix Open lead in bid to repeat
SATURDAY'S HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP

Ashlee Talbot’s 32 points earn Dracut its first back-to-back Merrimack Valley Conference 2 championships in 21 years
High schools

Girls’ hockey roundup: In elite Division 2 matchup, No. 8 Canton rallies on the road to earn tie with No. 2 Duxbury

Business

Fourth day of pension reform protests to hit France

Earlier this week, French lawmakers began a rowdy debate on the pension bill to raise the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64. It’s the flagship legislation of Macron’s second term.

IRS won’t tax most relief payments made by states last year

Many taxpayers in Georgia, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Virginia also avoid federal taxes on state payments if they meet certain requirements, the IRS said.

More labs aim for hot corner of the South End

After the ride-hailing revolution, the taxi industry is reinventing itself
magazine
Jeneé Osterheldt

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

CONNECTIONS

As a first-time bride at age 53, I knew my husband and I were starting our ‘forever’ late
Globe Magaizne

When Martin met Coretta in Boston, he found his match in more ways than one
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘It was hard to hear him with the live music’

metro

A 15-year-old stayed in a hospital for 40 days. The reason? The state child welfare agency had no place to put him.

Gus Bickford to step down as state Democratic Party chair

First Literacy of Boston seeks teams for annual spelling bee fund-raiser

sports

LeBron James sits out again, but scan on sore left foot shows no serious damage

No. 4 UConn women’s basketball upends Georgetown to avoid three-game slide

Maddy Siegrist scores 50 points, sets Big East women’s career record as Villanova routs Seton Hall

business

Another Boston firm sues Elon Musk for unpaid bills

Boston is paying landlords to house formerly homeless people. Will it help?

Here’s what it’s like to bet on the Super Bowl — in the Encore casino parking garage

politics

Trump’s former team of rivals returns to challenge him

Pence subpoena could set up fight over executive privilege

Schools become flashpoint for Republicans eyeing White House

Nation

Massachusetts lobster fishers sue to block closure meant to protect whales

Memphis police culture comes under scrutiny after Nichols beating

Migrants seeking US sponsors find questionable offers online

World

Iranian President Raisi to visit China to shore up ties

Russia continues to shell Ukraine amid grinding push in east

Earthquake in Turkey is only the latest tragedy for refugees

opinion

Keep the state’s authority to take over schools and districts

The kindness of misremembering strangers

Celebrating Black History Month as Black history is being erased

lifestyle

Jennifer Coolidge says she looks ‘like a baby dolphin’ in new Super Bowl ad

He saved videos of her

Your February school vacation guide

food & dining

What to make for Super Bowl snacks this Sunday

At Boston Kebab Waltham, everybody knows the chef

New York City icon Joe’s Pizza plans to take over Harvard Square’s Milk Bar space

travel

Musician Patrice Rushen on Maui, trail mix, and trying new things outside of her norm

Weekend of romance on the blustery coast of Southern Maine

After a couple of pandemic-stalled winters, music is back in the mountains

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

A young woman juggles the burdens of family and self in Jessica George’s engaging debut, ‘Maame’

Sick of clichés about love? Camonghne Felix’s powerful memoir ‘Dyscalculia’ captures searing miscalculations of the heart

How glitter and velvet made William Middleton, biographer of Karl Lagerfield, into a reader

Movies

Jennifer Coolidge says she looks ‘like a baby dolphin’ in new Super Bowl ad

‘Something’s brewing’: Dunkin’ teases Ben Affleck Super Bowl commercial

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s ‘No Bears’ tells two stories of entrapment

Television

Jennifer Coolidge says she looks ‘like a baby dolphin’ in new Super Bowl ad

‘Something’s brewing’: Dunkin’ teases Ben Affleck Super Bowl commercial

Can ‘Transatlantic’ revive slumping Netflix?

music

At BSO, four dances and a rhapsody

Where to start: An opera playlist for beginners

The New Bedford Folk Festival bids farewell

Theater/Dance

Worcester ballet auditions begin for Youth America Grand Prix

Circa takes Stravinsky’s ‘Sacre’ in a new direction

A native of China and an observer of America, Joe Wong brings a new edge to his stand-up act

globe local

Going all out on Valentine’s Day

The Argument: Should Massachusetts significantly expand construction of public housing?

Newton superintendent finalist withdraws, leaving two candidates to lead city’s public schools

Obituaries

Jean Anderson, exacting and encyclopedic cookbook author, dies at 93

Roslyn Pope, 84, dies; her manifesto helped fuel civil rights fight

Hugh Hudson, ‘Chariots of Fire’ director, dead at 86